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iPhone sales grow abroad as Apple carries 38% of mobile traffic
With the iPhone and iPod touch on track to sell 40 million units this year, most of the growth from 2009 has come from outside of North America.
With the iPhone and iPod touch on track to sell 40 million units this year, most of the growth from 2009 has come from outside of North America.
Demand for the iPhone 3GS has helped Taiwanese suppliers see a 31 percent increase in orders for components, as Apple's handset is projected to have a record quarter.
With only 5,000 new iPhone customers signed up at launch, Apple's official debut in China has been viewed as a disappointment. But one Wall Street analyst still believes the handset will still sell 36 million globally in 2010.
Global handset leader Nokia announced Thursday it has filed a lawsuit against rival Apple, alleging that the iPhone infringes on GSM and wireless LAN related patents owned by the Finnish company.
Apple's fourth quarter of 2009 was the company's most profitable ever, riding high on record Mac and iPhone sales. The company on Monday conducted a financial conference call with analysts and the press. Notes of interest for Apple's results and the now concluded call follow.
Due to its presence on multiple manufacturers' devices, Android will overtake Apple's iPhone in terms of market share by 2012, an analyst has predicted.
Apple is expected to have exceptional sales this holiday season to cap off an excellent 2009, but a new report predicts that 2010 will be even better based on anticipated iPhone sales.
Foxconn, the Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer who has partnered with Apple on numerous products, is now rumored to have secured the production of Apple's anticipated tablet device.
The worldwide PC market began a slow rebound from the recession last quarter with overall home sales surging, and strong Mac sales with business buyers.
New reports forecast that Apple will sell 50 million phones in 2011, and more than 80 million in 2012, as worldwide expansion and popularity of the iPhone continues to grow.
A new report predicts that demand for NAND flash memory in cell phones will more than triple by 2013, with a majority of that need being driven by Apple and its iPhone.
Analysts are again bullish on Apple stock after the company reported a record third quarter in Tuesday's earnings report, and provided higher-than-expected guidance in some aspects of its fourth quarter.
Once again, Apple has had the best non-holiday quarter in its history, selling more Macs and iPhones than it ever has in spring, albeit with fewer iPods sold. The company has conducted a financial conference call with analysts and the press. Notes of interest for Apple's results and the now concluded call follow.
Apple on Tuesday is likely to announce its best-ever June quarter for Mac sales, as new market data implies the company sold approximately 2.6 million systems during its third fiscal quarter.
Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer ridiculed Google's browser-based PC operating system which is slated for shipment next year, using a tone remarkably similar to that used to blow off the potential of the iPhone two years ago.
Residents of major US cities that have had near-unusable 3G since the iPhone 3G's launch should finally get relief in the months ahead, AT&T says. Meanwhile, Palm is getting its own relief via breakthrough sales of its Pre smartphone, but Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is getting no break frp, Warren Buffett, who says the executive violated good business principles by keeping his liver transplant a secret.
Psystar's hopes of stalling Apple's lawsuit have crumbled as the Mac maker has successfully overturned the court stay on its case. At the same time, Apple's legal hammer has been falling on iTunes gift card fraud, and the Palm Pre continues to sell out even with the iPhone 3GS threatening to pull customers away.
Although some of its retail stores on the east coast have already run dry of their initial allotment of iPhone 3G Ss, Apple's exclusive U.S. wireless provider AT&T tells AppleInsider that it sold "hundreds of thousands" of the new touch-screen handset during its online pre-order process.
Research in Motion put pressure on Apple Thursday with word that about 7.8 million BlackBerries had shipped during its latest fiscal quarter, again setting a new record -- and dismissing the likelihood of new and cheaper iPhones as immediate threats.
Apple has asked that package delivery service UPS hold back stateside shipments of its new iPhone 3G S handset that may have otherwise arrived early, just as the company prepares for an early afternoon launch of iPhone Software 3.0.
Arguing that the market is underestimating demand for iPhones over the next two calendar years, investment bank Morgan Stanley on Tuesday upgraded shares of Apple to Overweight from Equal-weight, saying success of the touchscreen handset should offset any growth risks in the company's core Mac and iPod businesses.
Apple saw its share of global smartphone market more than double on a year-over-year basis during the first quarter of the year but still has much work to do before catching BlackBerry maker Research in Motion and market leader Nokia.
Sales of Apple's iPod touch, once discounted as a pricey niche product, have more than doubled over the past 12 months to rates nearly in line with the iPhone, fueled by an explosion of attractive gaming titles on the App Store that are boosting overall multi-touch device shipments into Nintendo DS territory.
Apple on Wednesday announced a mixed second quarter, providing its best-ever earnings and iPhone sales for a March quarter but relatively weak Mac numbers. It just concluded a financial conference call with analysts and members of the media. Several notes of interest from the call follow:
AT&T said Wednesday that although first quarter profits slipped 9 percent, its wireless data revenues grew nearly 40 percent as it was able to achieve its third consecutive quarter of double-digit postpaid net subscriber additions on the back of 1.6 million new iPhone 3G activations.


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Im a student at Cortez Middle School and Mr. McHenry is my science teacher. He is the best teacher Ive ever had.
I think people should put themselves in Mr. McHenrys situation and how scary it would be to have your animals and house being threatened to be burned. I dont think that Mr. McHenry should not be able to teach not just because I want him to be my teacher this year but so other kids can have Mr McHenry too. I dont think something like this should ruin someones life just because he was trying to save his animals.
I thought cops were suppose to be peace officers and be there to help you, not ruin your life.
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May 25. 2013 11:55PM
Garry Rayno's State House Dome: Will House, Senate continue the feud?
By GARRY RAYNO
State House Bureau
The next two weeks are critical for this legislative session as the House and Senate prepare to enter negotiations over the different versions of bills they passed this session.
The negotiations look to be fierce and ugly this year, foremost because the House is controlled by Democrats and the Senate by Republicans.
The Republicans' hold on the Senate is by the slimmest of margins - 13-11 - but that makes it easier for the GOP members to stay together to block Democrats' attempts to undo many of the measures the last Republican-dominated Legislature passed, including laws on photo ID requirements for voters, stand-your-ground defense and education tax credits for private and religious school scholarships.
The Senate budget writers have also adopted the last Legislature's mantra of no new taxes and fees to balance the budget that goes into effect July 1.
The Senate last Thursday killed two bills the House passed to increase revenue, a 20 cent tobacco tax increase and a 12 cent increase in the gas tax over three years.
If the manner in which the Senate killed the gas tax is a sign of what's to come, we're in for a very rough ride for the next five weeks. Not only did it reject the Ways and Means Committee recommendation to send the bill back to committee to be brought back next year, it also voted to indefinitely postpone it, which is like sticking two stakes in its heart.
The move was payback to the House for killing the Senate's casino gambling bill and then voting to reconsider it and turning that down, which means it cannot be brought back this session.
Some key House and Senate players had worked out a deal that if gambling passed the House, the Senate would go along with a 4 or 5 cent increase in the gas tax to raise money for road and bridge projects. That increase would at least pay for finishing the Interstate 93 expansion from Salem to Manchester and avoid layoffs at the Department of Transportation.
Senate Transportation Committee Chairman Jim Rausch, R-Derry, was a co-sponsor of the gambling bill. He had wanted to keep the gas tax bill alive by re-referring it to Ways and Means, but his view did not prevail in the Republican caucus.
On the Senate floor, Rausch let his colleagues know something had to be done. "We're sent up here to solve problems," he said, asserting casino gambling was the "non-tax solution to roads and bridges" that Granite Staters preferred.
The end result of all this is the preferred new funding sources of the Senate - gambling - and the House - gas tax - are both dead for this session. That leaves budget writers in a precarious position.
The House will have an opportunity for payback this week with two bills sponsored by Senate President Peter Bragdon, R-Milford.
Senate Bill 153
would require legislative approval for any collective bargaining agreement reached between the executive branch and the state employee unions.
The House Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Committee voted to kill the bill, 11-9. Here's betting the bill fails by a very large majority Wednesday afternoon.
The House Public Works and Highways Committee will also decide on Bragdon's pet project,
Senate Bill 3
, to eliminate one of the three ramp tolls off the F.E. Everett Turnpike in Merrimack, the largest town in his Senate district.
The chairman of the committee is Rep. David Campbell, D-Nashua, prime sponsor of
House Bill 617
, which is the 12 cent gas tax increase the Senate killed Wednesday.
Here's betting the gas tax may show up on this bill.
All this is just the preliminary.

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The Next Big Fight: Now that each body's preferred revenue source has been killed, all eyes are likely to turn to Medicaid expansion for the next big battle between the House and the Senate.
The House and Hassan favor expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare.'' While the Senate has yet to decide, the Senate Finance Committee is not including expansion in its budget proposal.
Expansion would add about 60,000 uninsured residents to the state's Medicaid rolls by increasing eligibility to 138 percent of the federal poverty level.
Expansion would also provide state health care providers with an estimated $2.5 billion over the next seven years when the federal government pays from 100 to 90 percent of the cost of the new Medicaid recipients.
The state would have to spend an estimated $27 million, or possibly nothing, according to state Health and Human Services officials.
But GOP senators have balked at expanding the program, saying the federal government has not lived up to its promises, using special education as an example.
Last week, Bragdon said he wasn't willing to take the risk and proposed a commission study expansion for a year and a half.
He and Morse say they want more information before expanding the program, a frequent refrain from critics.
Supporters - including the Senate Democrats and Hassan - say waiting would mean the state would leave a lot of federal money on the table that otherwise would be going to health care providers, which in turn would cut down on uncompensated care costs for hospitals, which in turn would save both the state and private insurers money.
Friday, it was clear Morse has no intentions of revisiting the issue before the Senate votes on its version of the budget June 6.
The Senate Finance Committee is expected to add its weight to the fight Tuesday when it decides on a bill concerning the state and federal partnership for the state's health insurance exchange required under the Affordable Care Act.
Last week, a subdivision of the House Finance Committee heard testimony on accepting a federal grant to fully fund efforts to provide residents with information and assistance in using the health insurance exchange.
This is setting up to be almost as big a fight as the casino-versus-gas tax battle.
Medicaid expansion will be one of the major sticking points during budget negotiations between the House and Senate.

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Social Media Passwords: The Senate takes up a bill this week that would prevent employers from requiring an employee or prospective employee to divulge his or her password to social media or email accounts.
House Bill 414
would prohibit employers from requesting or requiring that passwords be given them to social media or personal electronic accounts such as email unless they were established through the employer's equipment and accessed using that equipment.
The bill would also prohibit employers from requiring an employee to add anyone to his or her account or from taking disciplinary action against an employee who refuses to divulge his or her password.
The bill would not limit an employer's right to adopt and enforce workplace policies on equipment or Internet use or to monitor an employee's use of company equipment.
A violation of the law would be subject to a civil penalty administered by the Department of Labor.
The 21st century comes to the New Hampshire General Court.


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Manchester man faces felony charge for allegedly firing a shotgun out window
March 18. 2013 9:35PM
MANCHESTER - A city man convicted of reckless conduct and first degree assault in connection with 2009 shooting incidents was arraigned Monday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division on a felony charge of reckless conduct that alleges he fired a shotgun at his residence Friday.
Marsalis Johnson, 21, of 215 Wilson St., is accused of firing the shotgun out a window about 4:30 Friday morning in a congested area without regard for possible injury.
Police responding to the gunshot report caught Johnson crawling out a third floor window. Police said witnesses reported Johnson and his roommate were fighting when Johnson discharged a shotgun.
After obtaining a search warrant, police recovered a shotgun shell from the floor inside the apartment, along with a box of loaded shells, but did not recover a shotgun.
Bail was set at $75,000 cash/surety, but there is a 72-hour probation/parole hold on Johnson. Because no plea can be entered to a felony in Circuit Court, a probable cause hearing was set for April 2.
Prior forgery conviction
Reginald Cadichon, 28, of 743 Douglas St., objected Monday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division to a proposed $10,000 cash/surety bail on three forgery charges, two of them felonies and one a misdemeanor.
Cadichon is accused of using six counterfeit $20 bills at one location and two counterfeit $20 bills at another location Feb. 12.
Cadichon told Judge William Lyons: "I'm employed full time. I have a 2-year-old daughter."
Lyons said Cadichon has a prior forgery conviction, so personal recognizance bail is not appropriate, but he set bail at $6,000 cash/surety, with conditions that bar Cadichon from either location where the bills were passed.
A probable cause hearing on the felonies was set for April 2 and trial for the misdemeanor was set for April 23.
'A misunderstanding'
A Merrimack man, charged with felony second degree assault and misdemeanor simple assault, insisted Monday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division that it was "a misunderstanding."
Kyle Pozzetta, 27, of 87 Bean Road, said: "I've never hurt my girlfriend. I never did."
Pozzetta was arraigned on a felony charge of second degree assault that alleges he put arms around his girlfriend's neck in a choke hold Saturday and struck her on the side of the face.
A police prosecutor requested $15,000 cash/surety bail, but Judge William Lyons set bail at a total of $11,000 cash/surety, with conditions barring contact with the alleged victim and barring him from an Orange Street address.
New stalking charges
A city man who has 11 stalking and two witness tampering charges pending in Hillsborough County Superior Court was arraigned Monday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division on three new felony stalking charges and a misdemeanor of possession of a controlled drug.
Juan Rivera Ortis, 29, of 421 Manchester St., could enter no plea to the felony charges which allege he called the woman's cell phone and left a message March 4, called and spoke with her March 9 and was with her March 15 at a South Willow Street location.
He's accused of having marijuana in his possession when arrested.
Police prosecutors sought $50,000 cash/surety bail for Rivera Ortis, whose stalking charges are felonies because he was convicted of stalking in Nashua District Court in February 2011.
His criminal history includes assaults and criminal threatening of the same woman, who at Rivera Ortiz' arraignment Jan. 31 on another stalking charge told a judge: "I cannot stay away from the man." Robin Boutin said: "I love him that much. I have a 6-month-old son with him. I'm in recovery with him."
Bail was set at $50,000 cash/surety, with conditions barring contact with the alleged victim and barring Rivera Ortiz from the alleged victim's address.
A probable cause hearing on the felonies was set for April 2 and trial on the misdemeanor was set for April 23.
Says he can't leave
The alleged victim of a city woman charged with second degree assault and resisting arrest Monday said he will be homeless if he moves out of the shared residence at 118 Pearl St., but Tammy Jean Tucker can move in with her mother.
Tucker, 40, told Circuit Court-Manchester District Division Judge William Lyons: "I want to go home."
Tucker is accused of throwing a glass at the man, hitting him in the head and causing a cut on the back of his head. Tucker, who relies on a cochlear implant to hear, told the judge: "I'm not guilty."
Tucker was also charged with resisting arrest for struggling with officers trying to handcuff her.
Tucker, who has a court-appointed guardian, initially declined to apply for a lawyer, saying: "I don't have a job right now." But because that meant she was eligible for a court-appointed lawyer, she agreed to apply.
A probable cause hearing on the felony was set for April 3 and trial on the misdemeanor was set for April 25. Bail was set at $1,000 cash/surety with conditions barring contact with the alleged victim and barring Tucker from the Pearl Street residence.
Neighbor called police
Police who responded Friday afternoon to a report of a burglary in progress at a Union Street address spotted a man running from the area who matched the description provided by a neighbor of a man walking around the building and being up on the front porch.
Frank Ryan, 28, whose stated Goffstown address is a mix of two street names, was charged with criminal mischief, for allegedly breaking a window pane in a door; loitering/ prowling, for checking doors at the Union Street address; possession of a controlled drug, for allegedly having 31 grams of marijuana in his possession, and possession of a prescription drug, for allegedly having three Xanax pills.
Ryan pleaded innocent Monday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division to the mischief, controlled drug and loitering charges and trial was set for April 23. He could enter no plea to the felony drug charge, so a probable cause hearing was set for April 23. Bail was set at $10,000 cash/surety, with conditions that bar contact with a specific person and bar Ryan from the Union Street address.
Parking officer struck
A parking control officer reported being struck by a vehicle Friday as she attempted to issue a parking ticket for a vehicle parked in violation of a one-hour only zone on Beech Street.
The parking control officer had started to issue the ticket to a Ford Econoline van parked in front of a Beech Street address when a woman came out of the building, telling the parking officer she would move the van and correct the violation.
The parking officer said she was still going to issue the ticket and positioned herself behind the van to complete the process.
The parking officer said the woman then got into the van and proceeded to back up about two feet, striking the parking officer in the leg and prompting her to yell at the driver to stop.
The driver stopped, got out of the van and went back into the building, not checking on the parking officer's condition.
A police officer responding to the call located the driver inside the Beech Street address, identifying her as Brittney Flagg, 26, of 190 Grove St.
Flagg was charged with felony reckless conduct and conduct after an accident. She was also charged with operating after suspension.


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Kent County Levy Court passed an ordinance in regards to HOA's.
Kent County Levy Court chambers hosted a packed house during its business meeting Tuesday night, with many county residents attending to offer feedback on a proposed ordinance that would help property owners create their own homeowners associations.
The ordinance, which the Levy Court commissioners unanimously passed, would deem that any money that residents pay upfront to a builder for a future HOA is put into an escrow account and could not be touched by the builder. At a certain point, the governance of the HOA is transferred from the builder and their board to the homeowners.
It also holds builders accountable for providing recreational spaces that they promised homebuyers and helps HOAs maintain those spaces by making those areas exempt from property taxes.
Councilmembers were quite frank about the fact that this ordinance is a work in progress and that it is something that they will be revisiting.
"This is not a final solution, this is our first step to resolving those problems that continue to come to the Levy Court," said Commissioner George Sweeney.
This ordinance came about at the behest of residents like Theodora Butler, who says amenities in her community, Noble's Pond, have yet to be built.
"There are people out there that are paying for amenities that have not even been built," Butler said.
Levy Court has a provision in the ordinance that would require that all amenities be in place by the time that 80 percent of the development is built, but Butler requested that they go a step further and add a time limit, so that the ordinance would give the builder until 80 percent completion or four years. This would keep residents from having to pay for something year after year that doesn't even exist, she said.
The commissioners made it clear that this ordinance is not retroactive; it will not affect any existing homeowners associations or developments. It also will not apply to every new development that comes in, Sweeney said.
"I want to make sure people know that the ordinance we are proposing tonight affects those developments that have not begun yet, that are in the unincorporated areas. It's only in areas outside of municipal boundaries," he said.
Sweeney went onto suggest that anyone who agreed with the ordinance and wanted to apply it to an incorporated area should reach out to their own town councils.


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DENVER The state government has badly flubbed its attempt to regulate medical marijuana, according to an audit released Tuesday.
The audit came out just as legislators are preparing a bill that would use medical marijuana regulations as a model for what is expected to be a much bigger recreational pot industry.
The Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division nearly ran out of money last spring and had to lay off a majority of its staff. It has been slow to license marijuana businesses and often grants licenses to people who might not be eligible because of criminal records, the State Auditors Office found.
Auditors also said a strict seed-to-sale tracking system of marijuana plants that the Legislature set up is not working.
We found the seed-to-sale regulation that Colorado is widely thought to have does not exist, said Nina Frant of the State Auditors Office.
And were not sure that it should exist, she said.
Such micro-level monitoring might not be appropriate after the passage of Amendment 64, which legalized marijuana for adults, the audit said.
Regulators ran out of money to pay the contractor they hired to set up software for the seed-to-sale tracking, and they do not have a video-monitoring system in place to let inspectors watch grow houses and retail stores.
A better approach would be to focus their inspections on businesses with a poor record of following the rules, the auditors recommended.
Barbara Brohl, director of the Department of Revenue, oversees the medical marijuana division. She agreed with most of the criticisms by the auditors.
We agree that theres some lessons to be learned with the implementation of the medical marijuana enforcement. The entire leadership of that division has been changed, Brohl said.
But state legislators, who designed the system just three years ago, were livid.
It just seems like a pattern that whenever things occur that are not up to snuff, its an excuse that we had a change in personnel. Its not an excuse, said Sen. Lois Tochtrop, D-Thornton.
At the same moment that the Legislative Audit Committee was listening to the takedown of the states medical marijuana regulations, other legislators on a separate committee were drafting a bill to give the task of recreational marijuana regulation to the Department of Revenue.
Legislators are considering hefty taxes on recreational pot in order to pay for the regulatory structure. Experts of Gov. John Hickenloopers pot task force have warned that its hard to predict the size of the marijuana market.
Thats exactly the problem that trapped medical marijuana regulators.
After an initial rush of application fees, the divisions revenue dried up, and it is down to 15 staff members after being budgeted for 55.
The remaining staff has a large backlog of licenses to approve and makes mistakes on the licenses it has managed to approve.
About 2,400 businesses applied for a medical marijuana license, but more than 900 withdrew their applications or were denied. The state has approved just 478 licenses, but another 960 businesses were operating because they were grandfathered in while they wait for the state to issue a license.
The division licenses both businesses and employees in an attempt to keep criminals out of the industry. But auditors found that it often gave out employee licenses without waiting for the results of a fingerprint-based criminal background check. It granted one license to a person with felony arrests for aggravated robbery and menacing with a deadly weapon.
Despite the cash crunch, the audit uncovered frivolous expenses. The division paid $250,000 for furniture, including $4,200 for four office chairs. It also bought more Blackberry phones and tablet computers than it needed.


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City Matters: Market Basket workers' outlook challenges the skeptics among usMARK HAYWARD
July 30. 2014 11:36PM
SINCERITY. It's the one thing that weirds me out as a newsman.
That's because we in the news business see so much insincerity — the politician who promises to fight for us, the defense lawyer who insists on his client's innocence, the silver-tongued PR type who whitewashes his company's nefarious actions.
So I felt a little weird this week when I walked the Elm Street sidewalk in front of Market Basket and spoke to workers.
Sincerity thrives here. It's as loud as the car horns that toot their support for sign-toting workers.
It's melded into the stories of people like Jake Lutsko, a 24-year-old meat cutter who might not even be alive if not for Market Basket. His mother and father met while working at Market Basket.
"What we had here with Artie T. running the place was truly family," Lutsko said. "We're not asking anything for ourselves, just (return) Artie T. and everyone else who was unjustly fired."
There, in a nutshell, is why motorists honk their horns and why loyal Market Basket customers have honored a boycott. What could be more sincere than a person making $10 or $20 an hour risking his job so a millionaire can get his job back?
Also on the sidewalk was Maria Deltrecco, a retail clerk who stocks shelves. She has been with Market Basket for 10 years, starting as a part timer shortly after she turned 14.
She's read notices from the new CEOs, telling everyone to be at work or face the consequences. And she's seen the cars, occupied by what the workers call goons, drive by and videotape the crowd.
What if she's fired?
"I'm not worried, I'm not scared because once Artie does come back, we'll get our jobs back," said Deltrecco, a mother of two. Deltrecco, who went full time six years ago, said she earns $12.50 an hour. She gets two weeks paid vacation and a flexibility that basically lets her set her work schedule around day care.
Lutsko, a meat cutter, earns $19 an hour. He said his salary almost doubled when he left Stop & Shop for Market Basket. The Hudson resident said he is not worried about losing his job.
"The way I look at it, we already lost the best part of our jobs when they fired Artie T," he said.
Not only is the protest sincere, it's otherworldly at times. Most are vague about whether they are on the clock, and it's obvious that Market Basket has been paying people to stand outside and urge customers to shop elsewhere.
After about a half-hour, a co-worker walked up to them and told them the manager wanted them back on the job. Most walked across the parking lot, back to so-called work.
They returned to a store bereft of green produce. An empty meat cooler sat under the sign "Best selection of well-trimmed meats." Shelves had dry goods and milk, but bakery stocks were depleted.
"That's right, no hot bread. Bring back ATD," read a hand-lettered sign. The emptiness amplified the background music — the pop 1970's song "Amie" — to an annoying volume.
A customer or two moved through one of the three registers that were open. Clerks passed out free bread that was going out of date.
"We're going crazy," said Peter Louis, whose normal job involves preparing sandwiches, pizzas and other ready-to-go food in the Market Kitchen. He said his last shipment arrived July 11, and he has nothing to cook.
"We're cleaning. We're doing customer service, helping customers find stuff if we have it," he said.
Louis, who is 40 and lives in Manchester, said he makes more than the $12.15 an hour he was making when he left Shaw's Supermarkets for Market Basket nearly two years ago.
Yet, that is not the only compensation. He's received six bonuses. The lowest was $80 when he worked part time. The highest, a customer service bonus that Artie T. approved shortly before his termination, was $1,000.
It makes you wonder if the lovable Artie T. doesn't have a strategic side to him. If he knew a fight was coming, what better way to generate sympathy than by giving workers a generous bonus and customers a well-promoted 4 percent discount?
Or am I just looking for insincerity, anywhere?
The Market Basket wage seems to stack up well against others, at least for long-timers. Here's a rundown of average hourly Manchester wages for 2013 — the latest figures available from the state Department of Employment Security.
• Stock clerk. Deltrecco's $12.50 compares to a median hourly wage of $11.58.
• Meat cutter. Lutsko's $19 compares to $15.69.
• Food prep. Louis' "more than $12.15" compares to $13.24.
• Cashier. Two-year employee Jayson Craig said he makes $9. That compares to an average of $9.42.
Louis and Craig, who worked at other supermarkets before Market Basket, predicted their pay will eventually exceed that of their previous employer. And they said the bonuses, which come four times a year, are an extra.
"Basically, it comes down to Market Basket takes care of their employees," Louis said. "We work our butts off, but we get compensated for it."
Out on the sidewalk, Market Basket workers waved signs and discussed the latest news: Boston media speculate that the company is losing $10 million a day; "scabs" are working at the warehouse; the board blames Arthur T. for the upheaval.
They were paid last week, and today is payday. Even though their tasks have been scarce, they said they expect to get a paycheck. And then it's likely they will be out on the street, waving signs and urging a boycott until their beloved CEO returns.
"I'm willing to say we have the support of the country right now," Louis said. "Their eyes are on us."
Mark Hayward's City Matters appears Thursdays in the New Hampshire Union Leader and UnionLeader.com. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Switzerland's franc fell to the weakest level in more than a year against the euro after a government report showed consumer prices extended their longest slump in at least four decades.
The Swiss currency declined for a second day after Zuercher Kantonalbank said yesterday it reserved the right to set negative interest rates on franc deposits for its retail customers. The Swiss National Bank imposed a ceiling for the franc of 1.20 versus the euro in September 2011 to combat the threat of deflation.
"If traders needed any other reason to go long on the euro versus the franc, they got it today with the release of Swiss CPI," Peter Rosenstreich, chief foreign-exchange strategist at Swissquote Bank SA in Geneva, wrote today in a note to clients. A long position is a bet an asset will gain.
The franc declined 0.4 percent to 1.2183 per euro as of 2:51 p.m. in London after depreciating to 1.2201, the weakest level since December 2011. The Swiss currency slipped 0.1 percent to 91.32 centimes per dollar.
Consumer prices dropped 0.4 percent from a year earlier after falling 0.4 percent in November, the Federal Statistics Office said in a statement. That's the 15th month of annual declines, the longest stretch since at least 1971, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Prices fell 0.2 percent from the previous month. Economists forecast an annual drop of 0.3 percent, according to a Bloomberg News survey.
The statistics office said prices fell 0.7 percent last year, and it estimates inflation will be 0.2 percent in both 2013 and 2014.
'High' Franc
While the Swiss currency has weakened since the European Central Bank pledged in August to purchase government bonds of distressed nations to cap borrowing costs, the SNB has said the franc remains "high" and weighs on companies in Switzerland.
"The euro-franc minimum exchange rate of 1.20 has not staved off deflation threats and has fueled speculation that further SNB action can be expected," Rosenstreich wrote in the note. "Under normal circumstance we should have shrugged off such market chatter -- in line with our view that additional policy adjustment is unlikely -- but with the euro currently in high demand this would be a prime opening to act," he said, adding this may be done by raising the cap or with negative interest rates.
The franc has slumped 0.7 percent this week versus the euro, the biggest drop since the period ended Sept. 7.
Switzerland's currency has strengthened 1.3 percent over the past month, according to Bloomberg Correlation-Weighted Indexes which track performance among 10 developed-nation currencies. The euro rose 1.7 percent over the same period and the dollar fell 0.6 percent, the indexes show.
The cost of Swiss imported consumer goods dropped 2 percent from a year ago and 1.2 percent from the previous month, today's report showed. Prices of domestic goods increased 0.1 percent in the year and the month. Under a European Union harmonized method, consumer prices fell 0.3 percent from a year earlier.
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NH Supreme Court: Protecting police from liability more important than rights of man wrongly accused of rapeBy PAT GROSSMITH
New Hampshire Union Leader
March 14. 2014 1:38PM
CONCORD - Police are not obligated to conduct a reasonable investigation in addition to probable cause in order to arrest someone, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled Friday.
The decision comes in a civil lawsuit filed by Kenneth Lahm, who sued the town of Tilton and Tilton Police Officer Michael Farrington, for arresting him in 2008 on a charge of second-degree assault, a charge prosecutors later dropped.
The case had harrowing allegations, that Lahm had drugged a Concord woman he met at a Capital City bar and took her to his home where she woke up three days later, naked in his bed with burns and bruises on her body.
Lahm dropped the woman off at Concord Hospital that third day as he was heading to work. She told medical personnel she believed she had been sexually assaulted. She had four beers at the bar, said Lahm gave her two drinks containing Red Bull at his home, that she "passed out" and did not remember anything until waking three days later in his bed, nude and injured. A urinalysis test detected the presence of multiple drugs in her system.
A justice of the peace found probable cause for police to arrest Lahm and, that same day, a district court judge issued a search warrant after finding probable cause that evidence of aggravated felonious sexual assault may be found at Lahm's home.
The SWAT team arrested Lahm at his home in the middle of the night on March 1, 2008, taking him out of his home in his underwear on what was a cold winter night, according to his appeal of Belknap County Superior Court Judge James D. O'Neill's decision tossing his civil suit.
Lahm argued the woman never said he assaulted her and that Farrington failed to discover any information to show how Lahm allegedly caused the burns on the woman's body.
Lahm hired investigators who talked with two employees at the Concord bar who saw both the woman and Lahm. They said, as always, Lahm had no alcohol to drink and the woman was not intoxicated. A clerk at a convenience store where they stopped before going to Lahm's house said both entered the store, were obviously comfortable with each other and that the woman bought condoms and said she and Lahm were going to have a "good night" or something similar.
Lahm's neighbors saw the woman outside the house at least twice during the three days she was allegedly unconscious, once when Lahm and her set off fireworks, which the neighbors watched, and once when the woman went to the neighbor's house to retrieve Lahm's dog that had got loose.
A medical doctor friend of Lahm's said he spoke with the woman by phone about her injuries and she told him she had accidentally fallen onto a wood stove.
And the woman's prior boyfriend of two years described a volatile relationship that involved Concord police five or six times, and said the woman was "an habitual liar" who "tried to get him arrested, in Concord, several times."
Lahm contended once the prosecutor received the information his investigators gathered and other "exculpatory information" the charge was dropped.
He argued had Farrington conducted any investigation beyond just taking the woman's statement, he would have discovered those same facts.
Lahm spent a weekend in jail, accumulated fees and costs for his defense and was subjected to publicity, all harms his defense attorney Michael J. Sheehan wrote cannot be put back into Pandora's box
"They are real and they are devastating," Sheehan wrote. "And if those harms could have been avoided, if that actual innocence could have been uncovered simply through a phone call or two, an interview or two, or by simply questioning the truthfulness of the victim's otherwise uncorroborated story then Lahm should have recourse."
The Supreme Court, however, disagreed. The jurists concluded that immunizing police officers from "extended liability" is an interest that outweighs Lahm's claimed interest in requiring a "reasonable investigation beyond just finding probable cause" prior to arrest.
Lahm argued that Farrington was not under pressure to make a quick decision in the investigation, because the woman was away from Lahm and any crime had occurred days earlier, and he could have spent a day or two learning the facts Lahm's investigators turned up.
The court said if it were to extend the scope of a police officer's duty to investigate beyond establishing probable cause prior to arrest, liability would be unduly and indefinitely extended for police officers. "Such an extension of liability is at odds with the well-established doctrines of probable cause and official immunity," the court said.
The court said the U.S. Supreme Court has noted the standard of probable cause to arrest "like those for searches and seizures, represents a necessary accommodation between the individual's right to liberty and the state's duty to control crime."
The court, citing Everitt vs. General Electric Co., said the public cannot afford for law enforcement personnel to have their judgment shaded out of fear of subsequent lawsuits or to have their energies otherwise deflected by litigation.
"Because many situations which confront officers in the course of executing their duties are more or less ambiguous, room must be allowed for some mistakes on their part. But the mistakes must be those of reasonable men, acting on facts leading sensibly to their conclusions of probability. The rule of probable cause is a practical, nontechnical conception affording the best compromise that has been found for accommodating these often opposing interests. Requiring more would unduly hamper law enforcement. To allow less would be to leave law-abiding citizens at the mercy of the officers' whim or caprice," the court said.


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As the kick-off earnings report after the bell yesterday was neutral to positive (Alcoa matched EPS expectations but beat expectations on sales), the U.S. equity index futures are off to a positive start this morning. MAR13 E-mini S&P 500 futures are trading up 4.5 points, or .33%. The Dow Jones E-mini futures are trading up 76 points, or +.57%. The U.S. 30-year Treasury bond futures are having a quiet day, trading at unchanged levels from yesterday. The driving story now is corporate earnings. It feels like, to us, that the stock market is ripe for a big rally. It is still below 2012 highs and if we continue to see bullish earnings announcements, we will look for 1500 to be approached in Q1 for the S&P 500. This would likely, we believe, portend a bear move for the bond market.
The U.S. Dollar Index is in interesting territory at this point. Technically, we see the key support level of 79 holding up strongly. The FOMC minutes sentiment that QE3 may end this year has caused the currency markets to trade strongly around this news. We would not be surprised to see the U.S. dollar continue to rally off of the 79 level, and our next upside target is 82.50. If this scenario were to develop, we would look for the Euro currency futures to sell off to at least the 1.29 level.
In other commodities news, sugar futures have broken down below the key $0.19 level once again. Currently, sugar futures are trading at around $0.1856, and we believe they could head lower. Our longer term target is $0.1650.
Gold and silver futures are both down today. Silver futures are down .85%, or $0.26, while gold futures are down almost $5, or .28%. As we have noted previously, we believe gold will hold in a short-term trading range between $1,630 and $1,690. Technically, we believe silver is susceptible to another bear move down to the $27 level. If the U.S. dollar rallies to our target, we believe this will be a bearish force for the precious metals market.
We focus more on natural gas futures today. Natural gas is known to be a very volatile market. With warm winter temperatures not abating yet, the natural gas market has experienced some heavy selling over the past few sessions. It has recently broken through key support at $3.31, and is now down another $0.11 this morning, trading at $3.11. Our next technical target is $3.05. The $3.30 level has been key support for the FEB13 contract since March 2012, and the market has now broken that level. If this market keeps selling off, we see a potential congestion area at $2.75.


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Search to start over for Manchester superintendentBy MICHAEL COUSINEAU
New Hampshire Union Leader
March 27. 2013 11:28PM
MANCHESTER - The school board's search for a new superintendent will "start over" after one candidate withdrew at the last minute and the other two failed to gain a majority backing Tuesday evening.
Mayor Ted Gatsas said the search firm will be asked "to find out what the candidate pool would look like" if the $140,000 to $170,000 salary range was raised.
During the closed-door meeting, the board was split almost equally between the two remaining finalists and beginning another round of searching.
"We shouldn't settle for somebody," said Mayor Ted Gatsas, who chairs the school board. "We should make sure we have selected the right person ..."
Nearly 80 people applied to replace Thomas Brennan, who is paid $165,500 a year and is leaving June 30 after four years. Brennan said Wednesday that several people, including some administrators and school board members, asked him to reconsider his decision to leave his post, but he said "it's time for me" to go.
Mark Toback, superintendent of schools in Hoboken, N.J., said he withdrew his name from consideration Tuesday evening before the school board interviewed him. Toback, who said Manchester treated him fairly, declined to give a reason.
"That's something I prefer to keep confidential, personal," Toback said in a phone interview from Hoboken.
The other two finalists - Geoffrey Gordon, former superintendent of Port Washington, N.Y., and Vincent Cotter, retired superintendent of the Colonial School District in Pennsylvania - failed to win over a majority of school board members. Gordon didn't return a phone message and Cotter couldn't be reached.
"I think the general consensus was we should keep on looking," Ward 7 school board member Dave Gelinas said.
"We're looking for the best candidate, the best person and the best superintendent," Gelinas said. "I believe we were all prepared to vote for a candidate (Tuesday) night and that candidate hasn't arrived."
Gelinas said he was told a new superintendent could be named by the end of April, but others were skeptical of that timetable.
"If we get this done by the end of June, we'll be lucky," said Ward 9 school board member Arthur Beaudry, a member of the search committee.
Beaudry said he was ready to vote for one of the two finalists
"I'm very discouraged we didn't pick out a candidate," he said. "Literally hundreds of hours some of us have put into this search. It seems all for naught."
"The two finalists would have done a good job here," Beaudry said. "They were both no-nonsense individuals. They weren't going to put up with the politicians, at least that's what I got out of it. ... That scared some people."
Brennan is the highest-paid district chief in the state. According to a 2010 national survey by the Educational Research Service, the average salary for a district with 10,000 to 25,000 students was $178,786. (Manchester has slightly more than 15,000 students.)
Brennan said he has kept out of the search process but suggested a bump in salary would attract better candidates.
"I know people don't want to hear that," he said. "If they were able to come to some consensus on a higher salary, you would see more applicants who have urban experience in medium to large school districts."
Search Committee Chairman Ted Rokas, school board member from Ward 5, released a statement on the search process.
"We are committed to the process and committed to getting it right," he said. "Simply put, we are unwilling to settle for anything less than the very best. We will work with the search firm the committee has engaged to find the right fit for the district."
Rokas said the search committee among other things was going to "review the feedback from the various community groups and stakeholders and start over."
He said "all of the gentlemen we interviewed were competent and brought something new and different to the table. This decision is by no means a reflection on them personally."
Union Leader Staff Writer Ted Siefer contributed to this story.


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Colorado Parks and Wildlife is asking antler collectors scouring the backcountry for fresh sheds to refrain from putting stress on deer, moose and elk that still struggle with limited forage and cold weather.
Collectors use antlers to make furniture and works of art. While collecting antlers is legal, some collectors chase animals in vehicles in hopes of finding fresh antlers. This conduct is unethical and illegal, which can result in significant fines.
"We caution everyone to be respectful of animals still dealing with tough conditions," Lyle Sidener, area wildlife manager in Hot Sulphur Springs, said in a statement. "Loud noise, fast-moving vehicles and other disruptive human activity is a serious concern because it can stress the animals."
A slow approach can result in better luck finding antlers and it will be less stressful for wildlife, the Colorado Parks and Wildlife statement said.


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By Bobby Abplanalp
Journal Sports Editor
Cyclocross racing goes against the elements of weather.
The cycling sport certainly didnt have that Saturday and Sunday in Cortez.
A balmy November weekend made for nice racing.
Although, there was no snow, mud or running water, the cyclists couldnt complain about the race course at Parque de Vida.
True (cyclo) crossers hope for a real muddy, sleeting sideways, 38 degree (weather) race, said Dave Hagen, whos the director of operations of the Fort Lewis College cycling team, who is in the midst of the USA Cycling collegiate cyclocross season. But, a race like this, is great, too. You just never know the weather. Its great to race in all elements.
FLC graduate and German native Ben Sonntag, 32, won Sundays mens A race on his Cannondale bike. The Durango resident traveled to Cortez from Canyon, Texas, after racing in the Palo Duro Canyon Mountain Bike Marathon on Saturday.
The long drive didnt faze Sonntag, who also won in Dolores on Nov. 10.
You guys have an awesome venue, he said. It was really fun to race in today.
The course weaved through Parque de Vida, across Roger Smith Avenue to the Cortez BMX track and back to the park.
Sand pits and water hazards force cyclists to stop peddling and trek on foot in portions of the race. Tough course conditions is the norm for the racers. But there wasnt much of that this weekend.
Sometimes you just wish for nasty weather. But in dry conditions, it keeps this course fun. So, no complaints, said Sonntag, who is a former member of the FLC cycling team.
The BMX track presented the most challenging obstacles for the riders.
Remaining focused was key.
Remind yourself, if it goes around turns and stuff, dont stress, because you have to use those as a recovery, Sonntag said. Go smooth through the turns and then you can open it up in this race.
Cyclocross racing provides great competition for the nationally prominent FLC cycling team.
Were trying to prime our kids for nationals in Madison, said Hagen about the 2013 USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships in Madison, Wis., Jan. 9-13. Its just good for training. This series gives training to all my college kids. Its good for them to get out there and dice it up with some strong people.
The success and growth of the Cortez race has bloomed from a one-day race into a two-day event.
Hagen sees the weekend race only getter stronger.
A lot of (cyclo) cross racing in Europe, they are racing two days. A lot of these people like being able to race two days in a row, he said. We have great terrain here. I just want to say Thanks to Cortez Parks and Recreation and Kokopelli Bike and Board for their support.
The Cortez and Dolores races are part of the Stans NoTubes 4 Corners CX Series. Up next in the series is a race Sunday, Dec. 2, at FLC Stadium in Durango.


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Gettysburg took one more step toward a Mid-Penn Capital Division championship on Monday.
WAYNESBORO — Gettysburg took one more step toward a Mid-Penn Capital Division championship on Monday.
The Warriors remained perfect this season after notching a four-set victory against Waynesboro in a division match. Gettysburg won 25-22, 25-17, 21-25, 25-14, improving its record to 13-0 overall and 11-0 in the division with five matches remaining.
Gettysburg holds a 1 1/2-match lead over the Polar Bears (13-2, 10-2 MPC).
Waynesboro (11-4, 8-3 MPC) has to forget about it pretty quickly as the Maidens have to get on the bus later today and make the trip to Dillsburg to face Northern — a team Waynesboro beat in four sets at home earlier in the season.
"The opportunity was there but we couldn't get it done," said Waynesboro coach Kim Saunders, whose team saw its eight-match win streak snapped last night. "We never got on our game with our tempo. Passing struggled early and that prohibited us from running our middles effectively."
The match had a college atmosphere to it, with a large contingent of enthusiastic, vocal students from both schools in attendance. The match also was a Dig Pink event in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness month.
Gettysburg coach Travis Meckley credits his eight seniors for their leadership in putting together a memorable season so far. The Warriors played without one of their best players, senior outside hitter Erika Green.
"They've been playing together a long time," Meckley said. "We got a great effort from Maddie Weikert. She's one of our big hitters.
"It was a great match. It's great for the girls. It gives me a heart attack."
Gettysburg outlasted Waynesboro in five sets in the first meeting between the two teams in Gettysburg.
But after winning the first two sets, including a dramatic 25-22 win in the first set, it looked as though the Warriors might leave town with a clean sweep — until the third set.
"In the third game we let down our energy," Meckley said. "We were trying to work on position for our block setup. (Waynesboro) was doing a good job getting their hitters in the game."
Waynesboro's Big Three — Hannah Kauffman Zoe Harris and Rachel Eyler — got into a nice rhythm that was made possible by a much more fluid effort from defensive digs to setup passes by Megan Biesecker (41 assists).
All three hitters finished with double-digit kills, led by Kauffman with 15. Eyler had 14 kills and Harris followed with 13 kills and four blocks.
Waynesboro won the junior varsity match 25-22, 18-25, 15-8.
Ciara Rosenberger had nine kills and 16 digs. Hailey Stum contributed with six kills, while Olivia Gardenhour had 16 digs and Kaylie Yarnell had 10 assists.


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Wherever you go, go with all of your heart.
One of the main features in the oil complex this week has been the ongoing widening of the Brent/WTI spread. Ever since the announcement that the flow through the Seaway pipeline would be constrained WTI's discount to Brent has been growing with the rest of the complex once again moving much more in sync with Brent rather than WTI as the surplus of crude oil in the mid-west does not look like it is going to dissipate anytime soon. The March Brent/WTI spread is trading solidly above the last resistance level of $19.50/bbl (now support) and seems clearly headed to test the November high of around $20.90/bbl. Further supporting the bullish side of the spread is the start of the spring refinery maintenance season which will result in a decline in demand for crude oil in the mid-west (and elsewhere in the U.S.) and thus further delay the surplus of crude oil in PADD2 and Cushing, Ok from dissipating. For the moment both the fundamentals and the technicals are bullish for the spread.
As I have been discussing in the newsletter, geopolitics are acting as a price floor for the oil complex even as the West and Iran and are scheduled to meet on Feb. 25 in Kazakhstan. Today the U.S. will tighten sanction on Iran by blocking buyers of Iranian crude oil from paying in U.S. dollars. Under penalty of expulsion from the U.S. banking system buyers of Iranian oil will now be restricted to using their own currencies and keeping their payments in escrow. Iran will thus only be able to use the funds for locally sourced goods and services... sort of a barter transaction.
On the macroeconomic front most of the data from the main regions of the world have been relatively positive coming in better than expected and thus suggesting that the global economic recovery may have turned the corner and may be now growing at a faster pace. There is no question that the U.S. economy (for example) is in a growth pattern. The main problem is the pattern is still much too slow to result in a significant change to areas of the economy like employment and consumer spending (which represents about 70% of the U.S. GDP). Much like in the U.S., many of the developed world countries are flooding their economies with liquidity in the form of very low short term interest rates and large amounts of quantitative easing. Although the global economy is in a growth pattern the very accommodative monetary policies in play around the world are still very much the reason why the economy is growing at all. Another example the Japanese yen hit a three year low in overnight trading in anticipation that the Bank of Japan may ease even further and in larger increments (QE).
As long as many major central banks continue to operate in a very accommodative manner the downside for most risk asset markets like equities, oil and most other traditional commodities will be limited. That does not mean values will only go higher. I still see most risk asset markets as being overbought and very susceptible to further rounds of profit taking selling as we experienced on Monday. What I do not see is a major collapse in values and the start of a sustained downtrend in the short to even medium term. With money continuing to move into the global equity and commodity markets I would expect that most of the future rounds of profit taking selling will likely be met with bottom picking buying thus limiting the downside moves to increments of 1% to 2% at any time (equities).


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September 23. 2013 9:38PM
Lawyer: Lisbon hunter thought he hit doe
By BOB HOOKWAY
Special to the Union Leader
HAVERHILL — The lawyer for a Lisbon man accused of shooting and killing a Massachusetts man on opening day of the 2011 New Hampshire deer season insisted Wade A. Holmes believed he had shot a doe.
Fish and Game officer Gregory Jellison testified Monday that Holmes thought the deer was down, and that he "had made a good shot." But as Holmes moved in to view the kill, he made a horrific discovery — he had hit Kenneth L. Brunelle, 31, of Marlborough, Mass., a 31-year-old father of two young boys. Brunelle died from a shot to the neck from the 30-06 Winchester rifle Holmes was carrying.
Holmes, 48 at the time, lives on Mt. Eustis Road in Lisbon, not far from where he was hunting on Nov. 9, 2011. He's on trial in Grafton County Superior Court in North Haverhill, charged with negligent homicide and reckless conduct with a deadly weapon.
Holmes is accused of "failing to identify with certainty the target at which he was shooting," according to the indictments.
Each of the Class B felonies carries a potential sentence of 3 1/2 to seven years in state prison.
Under questioning by Assistant Grafton County Attorney Jack Bell, Jellison described the questioning of Holmes the day of the shooting, in a cruiser and at the Lisbon police station.
As the 13 jury members — five men and eight women, including an alternate — listened, defense attorney Leonard Harden of Lancaster asked Jellison, "Wade was consistent that he saw a deer."
Jellison replied that he had been.
Harden criticized authorities' handling of the scene that day in the woods, specifically the large number of people he said were allowed to "walk around" there.
"Would it surprise you if there were more than 20 people up there?" Harden asked.
"No, it would not surprise me," Jellison said.
Authorities said Brunelle was not hunting that day, but was wearing camouflage in a hunting party that included his father and brother, and was filming them as they hunted.
New Hampshire State Police detective Nathan Hamilton said Holmes was calm and cooperative throughout his questioning.
"He said this was something he would have to live with the rest of his life," Hamilton testified.
Brunelle's family members sat in a row on one side of the gallery, while Holmes' family and other supporters sat on the opposite side.
In what's scheduled to be a five-day trial before Judge Peter H. Bornstein, jurors traveled to view the shooting scene last week. They're expected to get the case late this week.


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With regard to Catherine Spencers letter in Readers Write, Nov. 27:
I know I am not the smartest kid on the block, but I am certainly not stupid. Catherine Spencer would do well to research her talking points a little better and skip her offensive remarks. I would be happy to go through her letter line by line to point out her fallacies.
Dr. Alan Schafer
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Leading vs. following: Ayotte, Shaheen and the polls
May 15. 2013 8:54PM
Sen. Kelly Ayotte is not up for election for three more years. And yet somehow a poll out last week is supposed to spell doom for New Hampshire's junior (though highest-profile) senator. The New England College poll showed that Sen. Jeanne Shaheen enjoys a 61 percent job approval rating, with ony 27 percent of respondents disapproving. Ayotte's approval-disapproval figures, by contrast, were 48-43. The doomsayers banged their drums, shook their trinkets and pronounced Ayotte in trouble. Nonsense.
There is a simple and obvious reason why Shaheen enjoys such numbers. She does nothing. We were going to write that she "does nothing to anger anyone," but the prepositional phrase seems unnecessary. She simply doesn't do anything at all.
Sure, Shaheen will sign a letter here, tour a factory there, and co-sponsor an innocuous, non-controversial bill every now and then. In the U.S. Senate, that amounts to doing nothing. Shaheen is never a leader, never a risk taker. She is a wallflower who sometimes gets asked to dance, but then slinks back to the safety of the wall when the next song begins.
Ayotte? There is not a controversial issue she avoids. Taxes? Terrorist interrogations? Guns? Abortion? You name it, she'll take a position on it. Often she is among the first senators to speak on major national issues, and she is only a freshman.
We did not see this coming. In the Republican Senate primary in 2010, Ayotte was careful. We went with the bolder Ovide Lamontagne. Ayotte has pleasantly surprised us. She is becoming a forceful leader in Washington. Leaders make enemies. Wallflowers don't.


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NCLB waived: Now about that innovation
June 27. 2013 10:41PM
New Hampshire finally has a federal waiver that allows the state to wriggle out from under the regulations of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Now that state officials have seen how constricting and counter-productive inflexible, bureaucratic dictates can be, New Hampshire's approach to education reform should be clear.
NCLB was one in a long line of well-meaning but hopelessly flawed federal laws that tried to improve outcomes by dictating procedures. That it flopped is no surprise. That it remains on the books is disappointing. The Obama administration is granting waivers to let states meet many of the law's goals without having to jump through its hoops. After neglecting to apply for a waiver for far too long, New Hampshire finally did last September. Now we are one of 38 states granted greater flexibility in how to achieve broad educational improvements.
"New Hampshire is now free to pursue more effective and innovative ways to address the needs of all our students and prepare them for the jobs of the 21st century economy," Gov. Maggie Hassan said of the ruling.
Those are welcome words from the governor. And that is not only because the previous governor dragged his feet in applying for the waiver.
New Hampshire has many excellent public schools. It has many schools that struggle. And it has many students who fall behind no matter how good their school is. The challenge in public education is to turn every capable student into a productive, educated, self-sufficient member of society. Few people think this is done in our current industrial, assembly-line system.
If New Hampshire's students are to reach their potential, each will need to learn in the way that best suits his or her own mind. That means more freedom for teachers and parents. It means better curricula but also a school system that has incentives to respond to each student's own needs. That would be what true freedom and innovation produce. If the governor and legislators pursue that, then we can show the rest of the nation how education reform is done.


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The four black and white programs included are:
- The Gift (1953): Starring Charles Boyer and Maureen O'Sullivan. Business owner Carl Baxter, a modern day scrooge who has abandoned Christmas the same way he believes his son has abandoned him, learns a lesson in love and humility. Directed by Robert Aldrich.
- The Blessed Midnight (1956): Starring Maureen O'Sullivan and Francis Bavier. Teddy O'Hara has a reputation as a bad kid and his theft of a cake from a bakery seems to confirm it. Only his friend Billy knows the truth about him, and with the help of Sister Mary Benedict, the Christmas spirit of forgiveness affords Teddy a second chance. Directed by Laslo Beredek.
- A Christmas Carol (1949): Vincent Price hosts this early TV adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," the ghostly story of the original humbug himself, Ebenezer Scrooge. Directed by Arthur Pierson.
- A Star Shall Rise (1952): Raymond Burr stars as Balthazar, one of three Babylonian wise men who witness a mysterious star rising in the west. His companions are sure they are witnessing the unfolding of prophecy, but Balthazar remains a skeptic until he arrives at the manger and looks into the eyes of the blessed virgin mother. Directerd by John Brahm.


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University of Toledo press releases, January 7 to November 16 1951. Speaking dead, widows, and time travel.
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HEALTH bosses have pledged to investigate new data showing alarming levels of malnutrition in primary school children in Blackburn and Darwen.
Childhood obesity has repeatedly been highlighted as a serious concern in the borough, and health chiefs stressed obesity remains a major problem, but the new statistics reveal a significant number of children at the opposite end of the scale.
It comes as thousands of families find themselves relying on emergency food parcels, with many youngsters at risk of going hungry in the holidays without their free school meals.
Data obtained from the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), which looked at the Body Mass Index (BMI) of Year 6 children, showed 3.5 per cent were clinically underweight in Blackburn with Darwen in 2012/13, which equated to 66 pupils.
Assuming the figures are similar for other year groups, there will be about 400 children in the borough who are now at risk of malnutrition.
Dominic Harrison, the borough council's director of public health, said his team would be looking closely at the issue in the next few weeks to 'understand the full range of causes'.
- Tributes to father-of-one killed in horror road crash
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- Harassed woman had to chose between school job and kids or relationship with sex offender
- 'He needed a new wardrobe after putting on five stone due to steroids'
He added that malnutrition in children was 'particularly concerning' as it could have lifelong effects, increasing the risk of cardiovascular and other chronic diseases. Access to an adequate supply of food is the 'most basic of human needs and rights', he said.
Just 1.3 per cent of pupils across the North West and England were classed as underweight, which shows the extent of the problem in Blackburn with Darwen.
The only other boroughs in East Lancashire which were above the national average were Hyndburn and Pendle, with 1.4 per cent.
Burnley was 1.2 per cent, Ribble Valley 0.6 per cent, Chorley 1 per cent and Rossendale 1.1 per cent.
Mr Harrison said: "The fact that 3.5 per cent of Blackburn with Darwen's Year 6 children are underweight is shocking, as in large part this should be preventable.
"I have no doubt that for some of these children the cause will simply be that they are not getting enough calories.
"Food poverty will be the prime cause and this is unfair, unjust and avoidable.
"Local authority areas with similar demographics such as Oldham and Bradford do have rates higher than the English average, but they are all much lower than Blackburn with Darwen, which now appears to have the highest percentage of underweight children in England."
Unlike adults, a child's BMI is classified using thresholds that vary to take into account the child's age and sex.
Those in the bottom two per cent compared to a large reference population are classed as underweight.
Dr Javed Iqbal, clinical director for paediatrics at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, said underweight children often suffer from anaemia and Vitamin D deficiency, which impair the development of their brain and reduce their ability to maintain normal levels of activity.
Blackburn Foodbank, which has been backed by a Lancashire Telegraph campaign, has provided emergency food to more than 3,250 children since being launched in November 2012.
Project manager Ros Duerden said demand for the charity's food parcels soars during the schools holidays, when they see a near 60 per cent increase in demand.
She said: "These figures don't surprise me as we've seen a lot of kids who look like they could do with three square meals. We seem to be experiencing the effects of deprivation much quicker than other areas and I think we're really on a knife edge here.
"We've lost a lot of semi-skilled jobs in this area, because the type of industry we've had has disappeared."
She added: "There's now a groundswell of people who don't have the skills needed to access the kind of jobs that are available at the moment."
Ron O'Keeffe, chairman of the council's health scrutiny committee, called for more investment to create jobs, and suggested more help could be given to the food banks.
He said: "We know that many parents are feeding their kids junk food which is leading to high obesity rates, but these figures suggest there are many children who aren't even getting that.
"There's such a divide between the north and the south and the government has got to step in and do something about the deprivation here.
"It needs a major investment to create jobs.
"Many families are short of finance at the moment and can't give their children a proper meal.
"There are lots of school breakfast clubs now, and of course free school meals, but some kids are missing out in the evenings and during holidays.
"Let's look at what the Foodbank is doing and try and give them more support."


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We were deeply touched by the phone calls, food, cards, flowers and donations received after our loss. Mere words do not seem enough to express how sincerely thankful and forever grateful we are for the extended families and friends who have been there for support and comfort. Thank you to all!
With warmest regards,
The Family of Loyola Martinez


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I was born in 1966 so I missed the musclecar era but my love affair of Pontiacs (particularly GTO's) started at a very young age. I was brought home from the hospital in a brand new 1966 GTO. But this is not about me. This is about the 1970 GTO that I own.
I've always wanted a GTO but either they were sold before I could go and look, were to much money, or were way past my ability to bring back to life (You know the phone conversation "just needs paint" yeah bring boxes and a truck). In 1991, I had to sell my 1986 Buick Grandnational because of financial reasons (Bills before toys). So I had to get another car to drive to work and I decided to get a Pontiac.
I was looking through the local paper and found a 1970 GTO for $3,500. I found a dark green 1970 GTO (350hp 400, auto) with dark green interior and dark green vinyl top. What really interested me about the car was it was fully loaded (posi, pwr steering, pwr disc brakes, pwr windows, pwr locks, pwr trunk release, ac, am/fm radio, rally gauges, cruise control, tail light indicator, map lights). It was rough but not as bad as some that I looked at so I decide to take it for a test drive I thought if it runs I could work on the looks a little at a time. Well, it had no power at all. So with a heavy heart I drove away thinking will I ever own a GTO?
In 1996 I was driving home from work and in the front yard of a house was a beautiful palisade green with dark green interior and dark green vinyl top 1970 GTO for sale. I drove home and got the wife to look at the car (I probably broke a few traffic laws). The GTO was 90% done it was everything I was looking for. The lady came out and said her husband had done all the work. I asked how much she said $11,500 I thought I was going to cry the same old story dejected again I went home.
A year later I saw someone local was starting a GTO club so I called him and told him that I didn't own a car but that I was interested in joining he said that was fine and to come out to the meeting at the local Pontiac dealership. They were having the meeting in the service bay and some of the members drove their cars. Sitting there was that palisade green GTO and it belonged to the president of the club. Him and me became good friends and I became newsletter editor for the club.
About a year later I was meeting with him to discuss what to put in the newsletter and he told me he was going to sell the GTO because he needed the money. After trying to talk him out of it I asked how much he was going to sell it for. My jaw probably hit the floor I said you know you can sell it for twice what your asking and he said yeah but I need the money. I told him give me Monday or Tuesday because I'm buying the car.
It took me all day Monday to find a bank that would loan money on a 1970 GTO. When we signed the title over he had some pictures of the car and gave them to me. Looking through them there was that dark green 1970 GTO that I had test-drove. I asked him if this was the same car and he said yes that was before it was restored.
So now I own the car that have looked at three times for sale (third times a charm). In 1998, my son was born and I went home and got the GTO and brought him home from the hospital. I figure like father like son.
This is my 71 lemans. It is 95% original with 69,000 miles. It has a 350 in it.
Exterior - Palisade Green
Interior - Dark Green
Cordova Top - Dark Green (CO8)
400/350hp (YS)
Automatic (M40)
3.23 Safe-T-Track Diff (G80)
No specifications listed.
Radio AM/FM Stereo (U58)
Mirror Visor Vanity (D34)
Mirror - DS Remote Control (D33)
Belts - Custom (AK1)
Steering Wheel - Custom Sport (N34)
Wheels - Rally II (N98)
Cruise Control (K30)
Rally Gauge Cluster - Clock (W63)
Console (D55)
Power Steering (N41)
Power Brakes - Disc Front (JL2)
Steering Wheel Tilt (N33)
Mats - Front Floor (B32)
Glass - Soft Ray - All Windows (AO1)
Power Windows (A31)
Deck Lid - Remote Control (A90)
Air Conditioning (C60)
Springs, Shocks - Ride Handling (Y96)
Rear Light Monitor (U46)
Lamp - Luggage (U25)
Dome Reading Lamp (C89)
Lamp - Underhood (U26)
Guards - Door Edge (B93)
Battery - Heavy Duty (UA1)
Mouldings - Wheel House Opening (B96)
Air Cleaner - Heavy Duty (K45)
Power Door Locks (AU3)
Rally II wheels
Sport Steering wheel
Hurst 4-sp
Cordova Top
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Hogs: Considering Russia came out and said they may put in place some type of ban on U.S. and Canadian pork and beef Wednesday, this market did a great job holding its ground. The Russian health agency indicated unacceptable levels of lean growth hog feed additives, marketed as Paylean, would prompt them to take this action. Russia is our sixth largest pork buyer. In 2012 they accounted for around 5% of our exports.
Today's action in cash hogs and cash pork (higher) was a pleasant surprise considering this move. Perhaps the trade is getting realistic about the mis-pricing in this market. February futures typically need a little premium to cash hog prices right now. Slaughter numbers typically drop a little going into February.
Let's wait and see what exactly Russia does in the coming weeks before getting too excited. For pricing, we suggest a slight bounce in February and April futures is warranted. Selling options, both calls and puts, is our focus…Rich Nelson
Cattle: Like the hogs, cattle traded much better than you would expect. the Russian meat dispute is a slap in the face on top of the recent spate of negative beef news.
Cash cattle traded in Texas at $122. That was $3 lower than last week's trade. It was $1 lower than the Kansas trade. Essentially, cattle traded $1 lower than where most of last week's cattle move. That sounds pretty bearish. This marks the fourth week in a row of lower cash cattle prices.
For now, the average Joe looking at this market would say it is a clear sell based on this negative news. Russia is our sixth largest customer and bought 6% of our exports last year. Now let's straighten out some facts here. Japan used to buy 1 billion lbs. of beef from us each year before our BSE problem in 2003. Last year's purchase was 450,000 lbs. Russia last year accounted for a minor 144 million lbs. No matter what you plug in, any potential export announcement from Japan far outweighs the on again/off again problem with Russia…Rich Nelson


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December 28. 2012 2:09PM
Authorities confirm death of man with gunshot wound found in car
By DOUG ALDEN and TIM BUCKLAND
New Hampshire Union Leader
Daniel Langlois is seen with his daughter, Mariah, in this family photo. (COURTESY)
Driver found with gunshot wound after hit-and-run call
MANCHESTER - The state Attorney General's Office says the man found behind the wheel of his car with a gunshot wound to his head has died.
Daniel Langlois, 25, died Thursday night at Elliot Hospital, according to a release on the attorney general's web site.
Langlois was found behind the wheel of a sport-utility vehicle around 3 a.m. Thursday near the intersection of Jane and Nashua streets.
An autopsy performed Friday confirmed the cause of death was a single gunshot wound to the head. The death is being treated as a homicide.
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Family says man was shot as he left city bar
MANCHESTER - Police are investigating the shooting of a 25-year-old man discovered critically wounded in the driver's seat of a sport-utility vehicle Thursday.
Linda Schmidt said her grandson, Daniel Langlois, was the man police found shot in the head.
"His family is devastated by this," said Schmidt, who lives in Washington state. "My heart has broken into a million pieces."
Schmidt described her grandson as a hard worker who was heading home from work as a bouncer at a Manchester nightclub when he was shot.
"I don't want people getting the idea that this was some punk kid who had shot his mouth off and got popped for it," she said. "Somebody shot him in the back of the head? He didn't deserve that."
She said Langlois, who lives in Manchester, has a 3-year-old daughter and another child on the way.
"Daniel was my firstborn grandson," she said. "He was an avid bike rider. He was a father first, a son, a grandson, a cousin, a nephew, an uncle and a friend to all people.
"He was a golden child," she said. "He was just a super, fantastic kid."
Police said they responded to a hit-and-run call around 3 a.m. Thursday. Officers found the wounded driver inside a Toyota SUV that had collided with a smaller vehicle near the intersection of Jane and Nashua streets, Capt. Nick Willard said.
"We're trying to piece together the events that led up to that," Willard said.
Police do not believe the shooting was random and are investigating whether it was connected to something that happened earlier, Willard said.
Residents in the area told officers they believed they had heard gunshots; the back window of the SUV was shattered.
Police would not release the name of the shooting victim, but said he was in critical condition at Elliot Hospital. Willard referred all other questions to Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeffery Strelzin.
Strelzin said at 9:40 p.m. Thursday that the man was still in the intensive care unit in critical condition.
Strelzin said investigators are still checking out leads and speaking to witnesses.
"We know the general area where the shooting took place, but the exact spot is still under investigation," Strelzin said.
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After the election today of three councilors, the next Durango City Council could finally adopt a new Land Use Development Code and settle the contentious issue of accessory dwellings.
The council also could decide on a nominal fee for plastic bags at the supermarket, but councilors might also turn away from environmental and social issues to focus attention on the citys aging infrastructure.
Given the controversies, it is difficult to predict where the next council will wind up, but the voters today will determine which three of the six candidates on the ballot are best suited to deal with the issues.
The candidates are Christina Rinderle, the only incumbent and a Realtor at the Wells Group; Dean Brookie, an architect; Keith Brant, the owner of Durango Premier Vacation Rentals; Jordan Golson, a technology journalist; Floyd Patterson, a former 9-R Durango District school-board member and roofing company owner; and Kristen Smith, an artist and server at Ska Brewing Co..
The top three vote-getters would then join incumbent Councilors Dick White and Sweetie Marbury after the swearing-in ceremony April 16. Mayor Doug Lyon is term-limited and Councilor Paul Broderick decided against seeking another term.
City Clerk Amy Phillips anticipates a final voter turn out of 35 percent. As of Monday, 2,596 ballots had been returned for a voter turnout of 27 percent.
According to campaign-finance reports for March 13-29 that were due Friday, Brookie was the biggest campaign spender at $4,609.96.
Brookie also took in $1,871 in new contributions, including $50 from former Mayor Leigh Meigs, $50 from former Mayor Maxine Peterson and husband Carroll Peterson, $111 from Katrina Blair of Turtle Lake Refuge and $50 from Julie Westendorff, a La Plata County Commissioner.
Bobby Lieb, the chairman of the county commission, gave $50 to Brant, who reported spending $2,127.24. He took in new contributions of $1,803.47.
County Commissioner Gwen Lachelt gave $50 to Rinderle, who reported spending $784.20. Rinderle reported contributions of $1,325.
Rinderle also reported spending $550 on a campaign event at Brew Pub, 117 W. College Drive, on March 15. She also received an in-kind contribution of $100 worth of cookies from Bread.
Smith reported spending the least on campaign expenses, or $411.66, leaving a balance of $3,753.34 in her campaign account. She reported two new contributions of $50 from David McHenry, a landscape architect, and $40 from Ward Travis, a retiree.
Patterson, the roofing company owner, is largely self-funding his campaign with $2,000. He reported total contributions of $2,300.
Golson did not return a campaign report by late afternoon on Monday. Phillips, the city clerk, said Golson was confused about the filing dates and wont be fined $50 a day, the maximum fine, because Golson has been in contact with city officials about eventually filing a report.
The final campaign-finance reports are due May 2.