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Polipundit counts the votes of 50-54 Senators in favor of Judge Alito's confirmation: "The roll call vote." But what about the votes on a cloture motion, Mr. Polipundit? How goes the gang of 14?
Pending his tabulation of votes on a putative cloture motion, Polipundit directs us to Ed Whelan's ringing endorsement of Judge Alito's nomination: "Congratulations, President Bush!" Whelan writes:
In selecting Third Circuit judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. for the Supreme Court, President Bush has made a truly outstanding nomination that deserves widespread acclaim. By any objective criteria, it is doubtful that there is anyone now or in recent decades (yes, not even Chief Justice Roberts) whose experience and qualifications better prepare him for the Supreme Court.
Judge Alitos entire career since graduating from Yale Law School in the mid-1970s has been devoted to public service in the law. His range of experience dealing with difficult questions of federal law is unmatched. After a prestigious clerkship on the Third Circuit, he worked as a federal prosecutor in New Jersey for four years. Then, as assistant to the Solicitor General, he briefed and argued cases before the U.S. Supreme Court for four years. He next served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Department of Justices Office of Legal Counselthe office that was previously headed by Rehnquist and Scalia and that advises the White House Counsels office and the entire executive branch on the proper meaning of the Constitution and other federal law. In 1987, Alito became United States Attorney in New Jersey. In that capacity, he was responsible for all federal prosecutions in New Jersey for three years (including the successful prosecution of a Libyan-sponsored terrorist who planned to attack various New York targets). And for the past 15 years, Alito has served with great distinction on the Third Circuit.
Just as the Left attacked Roberts, it will attack Alito. But President Bush has again selected an outstanding nominee whose intellect, character, experience, and, not least, proper understanding of the role of the courts will earn the deep respect of the American people and of all fair-minded observers.
JOHN adds: Alito is a solid choice. Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid have already come out against him; another good sign. I'm a little surprised to see that People for the American Way doesn't seem to have anything on Alito on their web site. PFAW has not yet reacted to the nomination.
UPDATE: PFAW has now sent out a press release attacking Alito:
Neas said that People For the American Way will mobilize its 750,000 members and activists to wage a massive national effort to defeat Alitos nomination and will work closely with its coalition partners to educate Americans about the threats posed by this nomination.
We're about to get the fight over Constitutional principles that conservatives have looked forward to for years.
ANOTHER UPDATE: PFAW has put out a "preliminary report" on Judge Alito which you can access here. PFAW approaches Judge Alito's record with its usual balance and nuance:
As the following summaries of his opinions reveal, the judicial philosophy of Samuel Alito is far to the right. In fact, he has been given the nickname Scalito by some who practice before him and liken him to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. … It is clear that Alitos confirmation would seriously jeopardize Americans rights.


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Mark Hayward's City Matters: Turkeys make Valley Cemetery their 'resting' placeBY MARK HAYWARD
New Hampshire Union Leader
November 27. 2013 7:44PM
I'M A big fan of "Looking Back," the column by Aurore Eaton about Manchester history, which appears in the New Hampshire Union Leader every Tuesday.
Of late, Aurore has written about Valley Cemetery. A master storyteller, she finds and weaves a tale behind nearly every headstone.
We all know about Valley Cemetery. The Victorian-era cemetery is on the National Register of Historic Places. At least two governors and five mayors rest there, along with wealthy businessmen, city founders and veterans from the Revolutionary and Civil wars.
Now, a different breed of newcomers has been stalking the cemetery.
For the past two years or so, a small flock of wild turkeys — counts vary from about seven to 10 — has made its home at the 20 acres of Valley Cemetery.
"They all just kind of wander their way around," said Pine Street resident Jacqui Berrios as she walked a small puggle (on a leash) through the cemetery a couple of weeks ago. "They don't do anything. They just keep to themselves and are kind of fun to watch."
She said she first spotted the flock in the spring. The city's Cemetery Division, however, said the turkeys have been around for about two years.
Photographer David Lane and I spotted them late last month as they prodded and pecked their way among gravestones on the southern edge of the cemetery.
The cemetery that may seem a little creepy — especially on a full-moon night or on Halloween — is very accommodating to the birds. Maybe it's the natural setting, with lots of mature trees and a valley to hide in. Or maybe its the relative quiet and lack of disturbance.
But it's odd that while most of us feast today on farm-fattened turkeys, the wild ones are safe and secure today — at least in cemeteries. (The state offers both a spring and fall hunting season for turkeys, but hunters can't fire weapons in the middle of the city.)
"This I've seen for 40 years, a predilection for the cemetery," said Ted Walski, head of the state's wild turkey restoration efforts and a biologist with the state Fish and Game Department. "I don't know if they like to read the inscriptions or what. It's always been a little mysterious how they like going through cemeteries."
He said turkeys live off insects, which are plentiful in the lawn of the cemetery. They like berries. They'll also eat seeds such as acorns from oak trees and seeds on grasses and weeds.
Walski estimates there are 35,000 to 40,000 wild turkeys in the state. He was on hand when 25 were trapped in the Allegheny Mountains in the mid-1970s and brought to New Hampshire. He thought they would thrive in western New Hampshire, where most of the state's farms are found.
But he said they are all over the state. Backyard bird feeders, it seems, are as reliable as the detritus from a hay field or cornfield.
"They're opportunistic," Walski said. "They see the squirrels and song birds getting nutritious food, and they adapt to that."
He said the Valley Cemetery flock is small. Most flocks are at least a couple of dozen. Although the birds do fly — they spend the night in trees — they need a safe place to nest, and it's questionable whether that can be found in Valley Cemetery.
Valley is not the city's oldest cemetery, nor its biggest. Like a tattered history book, it holds the story of our city. As the mills grew and wealth accumulated, you can see it played out in markers at the cemetery.
There is no doubt some one-upmanship went on. The 12-foot obelisk of the Page family is supplanted by the Wells family stone, with a half-draped goblet atop the granite marker, which is topped by the 20 foot-obelisk of the Francis family.
Then there are the mausoleums, the sleek, modern-styled Gale family mausoleum; the Blood mausoleum, with a dome and elaborate fleurs-de-lis so heavy that they threaten the integrity of the structure.
And then there is the Smyth mausoleum. Centered on the edge of a steep hillside, its Greek columns give it the look of the Parthenon. I expect clouds to part and a beam of sun to shine on it.
They hold Manchester's forebearers. All so affluent and prominent, they lie today among turkeys.
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On the Swift Language
Today, Apple announced a new programming language, Swift.
Swift is an OO language, with a scripting like syntax, static types, local type inference, value types, tuples and pattern matching. It's stateful, and pretty straight forward mix of features from JavaScript, Groovy, Scala, Java, and C#.
In good tradition with Apple (and NeXT), the language is extremely pragmatic and focusing on seamless integration with the existing platform. So it should be possible to mix Objective-C and Swift in the same application. This could turn out to be a major win for the language, just like Objective-C was great in that it let you mix Objective-C (the new language) with C (which had all the libraries).
Memory Management
It's ARC (Automatic Reference Counting) again. Granted, ARC is much nicer than the old new/free regime of Objective-C, but so far from what we're used to expect in a modern language.
Especially with complex structures that easily come from some GUI elements referring to model objects, which can easily lead to cycles in the object graph.
Value Types
Swift has value types of sorts. Whenever you assign a reference to an immutable variable using
let x = <expr> as opposed to
var x = <expr>, swift makes a semantic copy of the value being assigned, making the value immutable in the process. This copying recurses until the types (of generics and/or members) are of reference (a.k.a. mutable) type.
This provides a relatively smooth path to introduce more immutability in a codebase; because mutable and immutable things of the same type can coexist. What is yet to be proven is how this translates into reality ... perhaps someone from the OCaml world (which also has a mix of mutable and immutable) can shed light on that.
Surprisingly, the reference manual mentions nothing about threads or processes or the like. So from the outset there's not concurrency story.
IMHO, one of the hardest parts of writing apps is the concurrency which has many sources, but most notably concurrent GUI updates and network activity.
So initially, this looks a bit dissapointing, but maybe there is a way out. Swift's value types and pattern matching might be a good combo to provide passing things from one thread to another. But as long as there is a strong undercurrent to provide backwards compatability and integration with Objective-C as it is, this will be very hard to accomplish as far as I can see.
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Chellappa, Zheng and alumnus Ran awarded U.S. Patent # 8,179,440
ECE Minta Martin Professor of Engineering Rama Chellappa, his former advisee Dr. Yang Ran (Ph.D., '06), and Research Scientist Qinfen Zheng (UMIACS) have been awarded U.S. Patent # 8,179,440, titled, "Method and System for Object Surveillance and Real Time Activity Recognition." The patent was issued on May 15, 2012.
Method and system for objects surveillance and real-time activity recognition is based on analysis of spatio-temporal images of individuals under surveillance where a spatio-temporal volume occupied by each individual is decomposed by crossing the same at specific heights to form 2-dimensional slices, each containing representation of trajectory of the motion of corresponding portions of the individual body.
The symmetry of the trajectories is analyzed and classified to generate a decision indicative of a type of activity of the individual An effective occlusion handling ability is implemented which permits to then restore the occluded silhouette of an individual.
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Garry Rayno's State House Dome: They won the election, now for the hard partBy GARRY RAYNO
State House Bureau
November 24. 2012 10:44PM
The new House and Senate have yet to be sworn in, but lawmakers attending the Governor's Budget Hearings this week will get an idea of some of the most difficult decisions they will have to make during the next session.
The hearings kick off Monday with outgoing Gov. John Lynch likely telling budget writers they will need to keep a tight grip on the state's fiscal reins. He will be followed by Gov.-elect Maggie Hassan, who will have to make the difficult decisions on what to present to lawmakers in February as her budget for the next two fiscal years.
At the hearings, which will continue on Tuesday and Friday, agency heads will state how much money they will need to provide the same services they offer now - nothing more, nothing less. Because of anticipated inflation and population growth, the officials will almost certainly request more money than they received in the current fiscal 2013 budget.
The exercise is called developing the maintenance budget. You can argue with the word "maintenance,'' however, when the increase for maintaining current services is in double digits, as it is this year.
The agency directors will, with heads bowed, say they could live with the bare-bones increases, then explain why they really couldn't. That is when budget writers will hear the wish lists describing what departments could do if they had a little bit - or a lot - more money.
Some of the things can you count on being said this week:
University System of New Hampshire Board of Trustee Chairman Richard Galway will ask budget writers to restore the $100 million cut from the system's budget during the last cycle. He will promise a tuition freeze if the money is restored, but the problem for lawmakers will be finding the additional money without raising taxes or creating new ones, something Democrats may be reluctant to do this time.
A request will likely be made to restore the Children in Need of Services (CHINS) program. Funding for all but the most severe cases was eliminated in the last budget.
More money will be requested for the Department of Health and Human Services to pay for settlements with the federal Center for Medicaid Services dating back to 2004 for the misuse of federal funds and for a court order concerning nursing home reimbursement rates.
The Department of Corrections is likely to ask for more personnel so the agency can reduce overtime costs resulting from staffing cuts prompted by lawmakers.
The list goes on.
The University System will make its presentation at 1:45 p.m. Monday; Health and Human Services will appear at 3 p.m. Tuesday; and the Department of Corrections will be heard at 2 p.m. the same day.
For the first time, department heads this year will have to develop budgets with 10 percent less money than they received in the last two-year cycle.
The current Legislature approved the 10-percent reduction requirement last session. Although it was a good idea, what departments have done in the past when asked to make significant budget reductions is put up their most critical and popular programs for the ax knowing full well the programs will not cut.
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RECOUNTS DONE: The Secretary of State's Office wrapped up 23 recounts just before Thanksgiving.
House races accounted for 20 of the recounts, the Senate two and Cheshire County Sheriff the other.
In all but two of the races, there were no changes, although the Senate District 16 recount was called off by Democrat Kathleen Kelley after half the ballots had been counted and her prospects dimming.
Only one of the two House contests that changed winners affected the partisan makeup of the House, the Rockingham District 17 race. Republican incumbent Adam Schroadter of Newmarket picked up 24 votes to overtake Democrat William Hudson Connery III of Newmarket to claim the third and final seat in the district.
After the recount, Schroadter had 2,470 votes to Connery's 2,455. Before the recount, eight votes separated the two candidates, with Connery the winner.
The other change in winners was an intraparty contest between Lyle Bulis and Ralph Doolan Jr., both of Littleton. Only two votes separated Bulis, the apparent winner, from Doolan on election night for the second spot in the two-seat district.
After the recount, Doolan was the winner by four votes for a six-vote switch to represent the towns of Bethlehem and Littleton.
In the recount, Bulis received 1,658 votes, Doolan 1,662.
As of Wednesday, the last day the State House was open last week, no one had appealed the recount results to the Ballot Law Commission, said Deputy Secretary of State David Scanlan. So with the two changes, the partisan makeup of the House is 221 Democrats and 179 Republicans.
The State Senate has 13 Republicans and 11 Democrats.
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PROTECTING THE INVESTMENT: The Executive Council held a special meeting on Wednesday morning. Although the discussion was conducted by phone, you might ask what crisis would cause the council to meet the day before Thanksgiving.
At the last council meeting, Nov. 14, Councilors David Wheeler, R-Milford, and Chris Sununu, R-Newfields, refused to approve a $223,225 contract with Greene & Russell Inc. of Concord and instead tabled the request. The contract was for work to protect the foundation on the National Guard's new Pembroke training site and the materials stored there.
Last summer, with little but the foundation work done, state Administrative Services officials pulled the plug on a $26.6 million contract with TLT Construction Corp. of Wakefield, Mass., to construct the site. The department issued the stop-work and default-of-contract order, claiming the company falsely certified it had paid a concrete subcontractor.
Officials also said a significant portion of the concrete foundation poured to date failed stress testing.
Councilors had expressed concerns about the company before awarding the contract last year because of work it had done at the Nashua Community College. But the National Guard was facing a deadline to accept the money or lose it, and the council reluctantly went along.
Since work was stopped at the site, in May, Administrative Services and the attorney general have tried to determine how best to go forward with the project. However, the site sat there and sat there, and now winter is coming on.
At the Nov. 14 meeting, Wheeler said he wanted to wait until the next council meeting, Dec. 5, and wanted to inspect the site.
State Plant and Property Director Michael Connor told the council the work would protect the state's investment on the site, which he put at $3.5 million.
Department of Administrative Services Commissioner Linda Hodgdon told the council she had "very significant concerns because of the weather. That's why we brought this as a late item."
Sununu and Wheeler visited the site early last week, then asked Lynch to set up the special meeting Wednesday to approve the contract, which the council did.
However, just how the new facility will be built - given the legal issues - is still far from decided.
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Chicago Cubs Sign Ryan Rowland-Smith to a Minor League Contract
Buried amid the Gerardo Concepcion signing last evening, and the Matt Garza arbitration avoidance this morning, the Cubs actually signed someone else, too: lefty pitcher Ryan Rowland-Smith.
The deal is a minor league one, and may not even include an invite to big league Spring Training (the Cubs purportedly finalized their non-roster invites earlier in the week, though I'd be surprised if he's not there). Let's be frank: this isn't a particularly big move.
But, at the same time, it's always nice to squirrel away formerly-successful big league talent in the upper minor leagues, and that's what Rowland-Smith is. In his mid-20s, Rowland-Smith was quite good with the Mariners. He had modest success as a 24-year-old reliever in 2007 (112 ERA+ and 42 K in 38.2 innings), and then a part-time starter in 2008 and 2009 (124 and 115 ERA+).
But something went terribly wrong in 2010 for the native Australian, and Rowland-Smith's effectiveness fell off the map. After starting the season third in the M's rotation behind a couple guys named Felix Hernandez and Cliff Lee, Rowland-Smith was ousted from the rotation by mid-season (he was DL'd with the kind of back injury you associate with guys who are simply not pitching well enough to stay on the roster).
Last year, he was relegated to the Houston Astros' AAA club, where he never even got a chance to crack the terrible Astros' big league team. He had a 6.19 ERA and 1.643 WHIP in 104.2 innings, mostly as a starter, at AAA last year (which numbers actually aren't as atrocious as they look for the PCL – not that I'm excusing them).
Small sample size caveats apply, but it looks to me like Rowland-Smith, who just turned 29, was highly effective back when he was a reliever, and then trailed off in effectiveness as a starter (indeed, his K rate was almost halved when starting). Perhaps a move back to the pen could see him find some renewed value.
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The New York Red Bulls exacted a double dose of revenge in defeating archrivals D.C. United in front of a sold-out crowd of 25,187 at Red Bull Arena on Sunday night.
Red Bulls right back Brandon Barklage scored his first two career goals against his former club and teammate Jan Gunnar Solli scored the eventual game-winner as the Red Bulls erased an early 1-0 deficit and dished out payback for a 4-1 road loss suffered at the hands of United in April.
The result puts the Red Bulls even on points with United atop the Eastern Conference, with DC ahead on goal difference and New York having a game in hand.
United got off to a flying start in the match, taking a quick lead after 30 seconds when an unmarked Pontius headed home a cross from the right by Danny Cruz. Pontius got free of his mark and easily beat goalkeeper Ryan Meara from close range at the near post to quiet the record Red Bull Arena crowd.
The Red Bulls did not wither, however. With Thierry Henry on the bench to start the match, NYRB proceeded to dominate much of the possession after the early Pontius goal and created several quality looks of their own, forcing United goalkeeper Bill Hamid into several saves.
The equalizing goal finally came in the 20th minute. Joel Lindpere whipped in a quality ball from a corner kick on the left that an onrushing Barklage struck with an acrobatic flying kick to beat Hamid. The goal was Barklage's first MLS career goal.
The Red Bulls continued to push and kept United pinned deep in their own half for most of the opening 45 minutes. The visitors enjoyed success on the counter but New York managed to keep them off the board, which opened the door for Barklage's second goal just before halftime.
Barklage punished his former team again to make it 2-1 in favor of the hosts seconds before the intermission, hitting a right-footed volley from 19 yards out after a disputed free kick was momentarily cleared away by United.
The momentum from that finish carried over into the second half despite United subbing in Maicon Santos for Hamdi Salihi and New York added to their lead in the 55th minute.
A low cross from Lindpere was sent in from the left and found Solli, who fired a shot that Hamid saved. But the Norwegian was first to pounce on the rebound, knocking in a left-footed effort against the near post for his first MLS career goal.
United got themselves back into it 11 minutes later. Pontius scored his fifth of the season against the Red Bulls when Santos fed him a great through ball. Pontius rounded a rushing Meara and then easily tapped the ball home to trim New York's lead to 3-2 although replays showed that he may have been offside on the play.
That was as close as D.C. United got, however, with the Red Bulls holding onto their slim lead.
The Red Bulls and D.C. United return to league play next Saturday against Canadian opposition. New York visit BMO Field to take on Eastern Conference cellar dwellers Toronto FC on June 30, while United host the expansion Montreal Impact.
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Colombia beat Ivory Coast to take control of group
BRASILIA: Colombia seized control of World Cup Group C when goals from James Rodriguez and substitute Juan Quintero gave the South Americans a 2-1 win against Ivory Coast on Thursday.
The two nations, meeting for the first time, won their opening games against Greece and Japan respectively and Colombia's success in an entertaining contest puts them on six points at the top of the group, with Ivory Coast on three.
The match only really came to life in the second half and Rodriguez broke the deadlock in the 64th minute when he beat substitute Didier Drogba to the ball at a corner and sent it arrowing into the net off goalkeeper Boubacar Barry.
Rodriguez dispossessed Serey Die six minutes later and Teofilo Gutierrez sent Quintero clear to finish coolly past Barry and send the thousands of yellow-clad Colombia supporters thronging the national stadium in Brasilia into ecstasy.
Gervinho, who also scored against Japan, pulled one back for the Africans in the 73rd minute but Colombia held firm to put one foot firmly in the last 16.
After a cagey opening few minutes in the giant arena in the Brazilian capital, Colombia started to push forward, with midfielder Juan Cuadrado at the heart of their attacks.
It was Cuadrado's ball out to the left that released Rodriguez in the 28th minute but his fine cross was scuffed wide by striker Gutierrez unmarked in front of goal.
Ivory Coast had their first genuine chance three minutes later when lively fullback Serge Aurier cut inside his marker and his low shot forced a good save from Colombia goalkeeper David Ospina.
Ivory Coast talisman Drogba, who was introduced on the hour, was at fault for the opening goal and made little impact during the rest of the game.
After Colombia's quickfire double and Gervinho's response, Ivory Coast pressed hard for an equalizer, Salomon Kalou, another substitute, shooting straight at Ospina when well placed five minutes from time.-Reuters


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The Advocate: Why are you a photographer?
Roger Erickson: As a child I had a talent for drawing. I was really into graphic novels and comic book art. My father was an avid "shutterbug" while [I was] growing up. As children we always shot pictures, and my father was into the latest video and tech gadgets of the time. When I got into high school, I progressed from drawing to photography as an additional creative outlet, which later turned into a profession.
What catches your eye?
Moments so unique (coupled with the orchestration of light and mood) that they can't help but offer up an intimate glimpse into the nature of an individuals personality.
How do you choose your subjects?
I generally don't get to choose my subjects. They choose me. I find that each individual has their own unique take on life, and my task is to bring it out in the photograph.
How do you describe your work?
Spontaneous and timeless.
What makes a good photograph to you?
Composition, lighting, and the consistency of an artist's point of view. I enjoy many styles of photography, but the ones who stick out usually have elevated and mastered their point of view to an art form, whereas their unique style and vision consistently inspire and challenge the viewer without explanation.
Who are your favorite artists?
Javier Vallhonrat, Stephane Sednaoui, David LaChapelle, Stephen McCurry, Annie Leibovitz, Fabien Baron, and Richard Avedon.
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Billy Bob Thornton
Juliette Lewis
Dean and Dan Caten
Jared Leto
Mark Wahlberg
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Cory Benton and Jamal Brown
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Candis Cayne, Kimberly Peirce, Gregg Araki, Guillermo Diaz, Jason Dottley, Del Shores, and Joel Tan
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With summer fast approaching (- or due to make an appearance any time now) your look is not complete without a set of shades. With so many different styles to choose from and plenty of good High Street versions at a fraction of the cost, some of the coolest ones right now have got to be retro inspired ones. Sunglasses …
There's an urban myth that in London that you are never 8 feet away from a rat, it's clearly bullshit but you try to get 8 feet away from a pair of Wayfarers this summer- you won't. The number of companies ripping off the Ray Ban original is staggering with prices and quality ranging from £12 for a cheap pair from Topman up to £115 for a pair of Ray Ban's from ASOS.
Love the Look: Coral shirt and navy shorts
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Bit of a controversial choice this I'm sure, but for me this chap has got style in buckets. Coral was such a hit for women last year and the year before I hope it's as big in menswear this year. It looks great with my other favourite colour, grey and is a surefire winner with all the washed out pastels we're seeing at the moment.
Topman Classic Sunglasses range
It's almost but not quite spring, which means it's time to stock up on madras shirts, short shorts and sunglasses. Topman are on the case, they have launched a range of sunnies in conjunction with Linda Farrow called 'The Classic Sunglasses'.
Top Five: High street sunglasses
If you still own a pair of wrap-around shades throw them on the floor, them stamp on them.


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Welcome to our Screencasts page. Screencasts are narrated videos that explain how to do something with your computer and show the screens during the explanation. You can learn a lot here. So far we have 41 general screencasts, so go ahead and watch one, you'll get the idea.
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Michael Angelini is one of Worcester's most important people. And he is bullish on its future.
A graduate of Wesleyan University and Duke Law School, Mr. Angelini is a lawyer and a board member of many local institutions. He was Bowditch & Dewey's managing partner from 1990 to 1996, and has been its chairman since 1997. He is also a director of the Massachusetts Port Authority, chairman of the board of directors of the Hanover Insurance Group, a director of Commerce Bank and a director of the UMass Memorial Foundation.
In a Nov. 6 interview, I asked him how he achieved such leadership positions, and he answered elliptically.
"People do well at what they enjoy. I love being a lawyer and come in to work excited every day. I came to Worcester many years ago and was mentored by iconic people like Bob Bowditch and Harry Dewey." he said. "I learned by watching what people do, observing them. And Worcester is a place where it is easy to be involved and get something done. That creates a sense of satisfaction."
Mr. Angelini is bullish about Worcester's ability to overcome its economic challenges. As he said, "My assessment of the Worcester economy is opportunistic. Its significant (9.3 percent) unemployment rate is a concern. Economic development is our principal challenge and we are committed to it. We have the assets in place and we are poised to take advantage of them."
Mr. Angelini likened Worcester to a pair of financial statements � a balance sheet and operating statement. A balance sheet lists a company's resources or assets, such as cash, buildings and machines; and obligations � what it owes employees, suppliers and lenders � and net worth is what is left over for investors. An operating or income statement shows how much money a company earns in sales, and what is left over after it pays out the cost of what it sells and the payments it makes to employees, building owners, banks and so on.
As Mr. Angelini said, "I have an incredible sense of optimism. Worcester has great assets � local commuter rail and freight transportation; great companies that are community leaders like Hanover Insurance, Polar, Unum and UMass Medical; our urban schools are pretty good; we have a daily newspaper; our cultural institutions such as the Worcester Art Museum and entertainment venues such as the Palladium and the Hanover Theater; great vocational training and colleges and universities; a good government with an excellent city manager; and a low cost of doing business. We need to use Worcester's balance sheet to boost our operating statements. We need to execute."
By executing, Mr. Angelini means selling these assets to company executives so they will locate businesses in Worcester. He argued, "In my neighborhood, people can buy a house for $300,000 that would cost $1.5 million in Wellesley. The cost of operating a business in Worcester versus Boston is fractional. Now that we have Worcester's Chamber of Commerce and the Worcester Business Development Corp. on the same page, we can use the $1 million we raised to hire people who will execute. What would transform downtown Worcester is 2,500 to 3,000 white collar jobs. If we have someone who can convince businesses to locate here, I do not know why we would not be successful."
Mr. Angelini offered some examples. He said, "I would tell the back office operation of a financial institution in Boston, 'You're paying $65 a square foot for your office. We have a tremendous work force in Worcester. They can get to work easily. They live in a safe place.' And I would go to EMC and say, 'Worcester is ideal, it has high-end employees, it has educational institutions like WPI, and it has nice neighborhoods with lower real estate price, and you won't have to overpay people.' But we don't need to hit home runs, we need to attract smaller companies to locate here."
Mr. Angelini highlighted one of Worcester's balance sheet liabilities. "We have a higher tax on business property than we do on residential property. Unlike towns such as Shrewsbury or Auburn, we have an urban downtown and that costs more to support. But we should be trying to attract companies that hire our people. And to do that, Worcester should go to a single property tax rate that would raise the residential property tax rate and lower the business rate."
How can Worcester encourage more graduates from WPI and its other educational institutions to start businesses in the city instead of leaving town?
Mr. Angelini said, "I think the question is 'Why aren't they working here?' Many graduates of WPI, Holy Cross and Clark go into the Hanover management training program. Hanover CEO Fred Eppinger is trying to attract people from Worcester's schools. We really need to convert our assets to business opportunities."


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Snocross is the nastiest, noisiest, most high octane — and for many spectators, the most thrilling — snow sport out there.
Drivers on massive, powerful snowmobiles race around deeply rutted and moguled tracks at 60 mph-plus, launching repeatedly off jumps up to 100 feet tall, with spectacular passing moves and crashes punctuating the action.
Derek Ellis, 25, a pro snocross driver employed by the Westminster-based Jess Racing snocross team and one of the top drivers in the country, is competing in probably the biggest snocross race of all this week at the winter X Games in Aspen, Colo.
The nationally televised event (ESPN is the event's sponsor) starts today and runs through Sunday and features winter action sports, including freestyle snowboarding, skiing and snowmobiling. Catch the snocross qualifying heats and final Sunday from 2 to 6 p.m.
Carl Jess, the team's owner, started Jess Racing in 2006 basically as a format to allow his son, Montana, now a 16-year-old Montachusett Regional Vocational School student, to compete. In the fall, Jess, who runs CJ's Auto Body in Fitchburg, hired Ellis as his first pro driver.
Montana Jess competes on the Pro-Lite circuit, which features drivers ages 16 to 23 and allows only stock 600cc sleds. Last year, the younger Jess — like the top driver his age in Massachusetts — won three Sport class championships and finished on the podium at an event in Duluth, Minn.
Ellis is in the Pro Division, where drivers ride tricked out 600cc sleds that have been modified with massive suspensions, bigger handlebars and widely spaced front runners.
It is the first X Games for Ellis, an Idaho native who has been based out of Fargo, N.D. for the last three years, though, he has raced in many national events. This season he has been competing mostly in Eastern races.
Ellis has been racing since he was 10.
Since then, "I haven't worked a day in the winter in my life," he said. Ellis drives heavy equipment on a 4,800-acre soybean and corn farm in North Dakota during the summer.
In addition to a regular paycheck from Jess Racing, Ellis — who is living with the Jess family for the winter — gets periodic checks from the team's main equipment sponsor, Arctic Cat, depending on his finishes. He has received $4,000 and $5,000 payouts, not bad for a day's work.
Ellis works out in the gym year-round to prepare for his grueling sport and handling his 500-pound machine in the air and on the snow, and he has served as a role model and teacher for Montana. They train in Vermont and race in New York, New Hampshire and at national events in the Midwest.
His strength, he says, "is the competitive aspect and trying to make myself better and faster by putting in the effort in the gym and on the track."
"It's pretty exhausting," he said of the sport.
At the X Games, Ellis will be competing under the Arctic Cat factory team umbrella on a sled shipped to Aspen from Minnesota.
"My goal is to make the main event and make my friends and family watching on TV pumped," he said.
Ellis' parents and sister and her family will be there in person, but Carl Jess won't make the trek, though he'll be watching on ESPN.
"I hired Derek to work for us so I could teach my son how to go faster," Jess said.
The younger Jess, who Ellis said is faster at his age than he was, has a good future in the sport, his father and Ellis said.
"Snocross is one of the best-paying motor sports. It pays better than motocross or quad racing." Jess said.
Even though Ellis and Montana are both experienced drivers, Jess said he still can add value as a team owner, mentor and coach at times.
"He's been in the sport longer than I have," Jess said of the new X Games athlete. "But he's 25. He's still a kid."
It's not just about the snow.
Princeton's Wachusett Mountain Ski Area is more than a skiing and riding hub, as many ski areas are in winter when they essentially become entertainment venues.
The ski area features regular musical performances in the base lodge's Coppertop Lounge and an array of off-hill activities all winter, and summer for that matter.
Last Wednesday, the band Fun., which has been nominated for multiple Grammy Awards, hit Wachusett just before it played the White House for President Obama's inauguration earlier this week.
Fun. played a private show for 150 contest winners, sponsored by Wachusett and radio station WMJX-FM 104.1.
Wachusett and the radio station previously brought the popular ski-area touring band O.A.R. to the Central Massachusetts ski emporium.
Friday — Wachusett Mountain, Princeton, USSA Masters Racing Clinic, led by experienced racers Lisa Densmore, a former U.S. Ski Team member, and Doug Tucker and Nadine Price.
Friday-Sunday — Mount Snow, West Dover, Vt., airbag aerial training for skiers and riders.
Saturday — Ski Ward, Shrewsbury, Eastern Boarder and Boston Ski and Tennis Winter Rail Jam Series.
Saturday — Ski Ward, Eastern Boarder and Boston Ski and Tennis Winter Rail Jam Series, 5:30 p.m. registration, 6:30 start.
Saturday — Crotched Mountain, Bennington, N.H., USASA Night Rail Jam, 7:30 p.m. during weekend Midnight Madness skiing and riding until midnight, registration at 6 p.m.
Saturday — Waterville Valley, N.H., Mountain Dew Vertical Challenge, open family giant slalom racing competition with prizes for skiers and riders, 11 a.m.
Saturday — Loon Mountain, Lincoln, N.H., mogul competition on Lower Flume all day.
Saturday-Sunday — Stratton Mountain Resort, Vt., USASA skier and boardercross competition, 7:30-8:30 a.m. registration, events start at 9:45.
Sunday — Loon, slopestyle competition, time to be announced; USSA Macomber Cup GS race, 9:30 a.m. start.
Sunday — Crotched, USASA Snowboard Giant Slalom, 10 a.m. start.
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God particle back in hiding
Champagne cork back in bottle
Less than a month ago, Large Hadron Collider boffins thought they were closing in on the Higgs boson particle, but the results they had observed now look like a statistical quirk.
Nature is now reporting that a paper presented at the Lepton Photon conference in Mumbai, India, shows the "excess events" spotted at the LHC are fading – meaning that the physicists got worked up for nothing.
With more data gathered – about twice as much as was used in the previous analysis – the likelihood that the LHC tests had found the Higgs boson fell from 99% to 95% (in formal statistical language, the significance of the results dropped from 2.8 sigma to 2 sigma).
One aspect of the previous results remains intact: physicists remain confident that by focusing on the 120-140 GeV energy range, they are looking in the right place. Moreover, while the new results are disappointing in Higgs boson terms, the data analysis improves physicists' understanding of the workings of W bosons, said ATLAS deputy physics coordinator Richard Hawkings.
With any luck, the narrowing window for the Higgs boson's mass could lead to it being identified by the end of 2012. ®


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Apple and its manufacturing partner Foxconn Technology Group have faced criticism from labor- and worker-rights groups for the conditions at facilities where Apple products are made. Cook defended Apple's practices, including enlisting the Fair Labor Association to audit Foxconn's factories.
"We're doing a number of things that I think are really great, really different, and industry-leading," Cook said. "No one is looking at this as deeply as we are or going as deep in the supply chain."
Foxconn itself has operations in the U.S. The company, which has 1.5 million of its global 1.6 million workforce in China, runs facilities in California as well as Houston, said Louis Woo, a spokesman. U.S. factories mostly make servers while larger operations in Mexico assemble consumer electronics such as TVs, he said. Woo declined to comment on Apple's plans or specific clients and was unable to immediately say how many employees Foxconn has in the U.S.
Caterpillar, GE
Other companies that have said they'll shift production back to the U.S. from overseas include Caterpillar Inc. and General Electric Co. Google Inc. this year delayed a wireless media device that it had pledged to build in California.
Cook, in the interview, also addressed his recent decision to revamp Apple's management team to improve cooperation among groups. Senior Vice President Scott Forstall, a main architect of the iPhone software that's now on more than 400 million Apple devices, was fired in October amid complaints that he clashed with other senior executives.
"These moves take collaboration to a whole different level," Cook said, without discussing specific executives. "We already were -- to use an industry phrase that I don't like -- best of breed. But it takes us to a whole new level. So that's what it's all about."
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Dreams are like angelsThey keep bad at bay-bad at bay. Love is the light, scaring darkness away. I'm so in love with you. Purge the soul, make love your goal. The power of love, a force from above, cleaning my soul. © SIGNATURE BY ANAËLLE.
never say you can't When she was just a girl she expected the world but it flew away from het reach and the bullets catch in her teeth life goes on, gets so heavy the wheel breaks the butterfly every tear a waterfall In the night, the stormy night, she'd close her eyes In the night, the stormy night, away she'd fly ▲


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Building on decades of cell biology research, unravelling the mechanisms driving tumor growth.
Essential knowledge has been acquired on the role of signal transduction pathways in cancer growth, providing input for development of drugs targeting signaling pathways. Identification of the tumor-driving pathway and its causative defect is crucial for selecting the most effective therapy.


text: Though we never worked with Mickey Rooney, the late great actor from the Golden Age of Hollywood who passed away the other day at the age of 93, we did collaborate with his son Michael Rooney, who choreographed all the dance sequences that comprised the musical close to jackass number two (2006). And if we want to get even further into our close knit six degrees of separation, Michael also worked with Spike Jonze on the two award-winning music videos for Björk's "It's Oh So Quiet" and Fat Boy Slim's "Praise You" (in fact, that's probably how we came to work with him in the first place, via Spike's referral). In honor of Mickey's passing, here is Richard Koufey and the Torrance Community Dance Group in a performance of a lifetime:


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Today's video, just under 30 seconds in length, focuses on a simple comparison between the four words that many abortion advocates use to justify baby killing, and the four words that our Lord uses to bestow life on the world.
The video can be seen at http://youtu.be/UKhNrgV8JEA
"These are simple tools to raise awareness," said Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director. "We are asking our fellow citizens to use them, to spread them far and wide on You Tube, Facebook, Twitter, websites, email lists, and other means of communication. We are making this series of videos based on messages that have already been tested and that have brought about striking results in the way they give people insights into the number one issue of our day, abortion."
The first video in this series, released two weeks ago, forces the question of what disqualifies a candidate from public office, by making a dramatic and graphic comparison between a candidate's views on abortion and his/her views on terrorism.
Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit http://www.priestsforlife.org.


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Watch: VideoOut and Grey Advertising Celebrate Coming Out Day with Compilation Video
In honor of National Coming Out Day, New York-based advertising agency Grey teamed with VideoOut to produce and release a new special compilation film highlighting the unique journey and experiences facing members of the LGBTQ community in the world of advertising.
The objective of the partnership - in line with the Open Culture at the core of the agency's principles - is simple: to give employees a channel to connect and share their human stories, with full transparency, then promote them across the agency to improve conversations around how diversity feeds creativity.
The program was created by the agency's Grey Pride affinity group, part of its People's Council created to foster and grow all manner of diversity at the agency. The belief behind the initiative and the Open Culture is that talent across the agency, and industry, should feel they can be themselves and voice their beliefs without fear of backlash.


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There are no little jobs in the armed forcesBy APRIL GUILMET
Union Leader Correspondent
November 12. 2013 12:24AM
LONDONDERRY — Some served on battlefields while others kept watch on their native shore, but all veterans are worthy of our gratitude.
That was the message from William Graser of the Nevins Active Adult Community, who led his neighbors in an evening of remembrance and gratitude Monday night. About 70 or so residents, the majority of them veterans, attended a neighborhood Veterans Day ceremony inside the community clubhouse.
Held at 6 p.m. sharp, the ceremony commemorated "the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month" in 1918 when World War I officially ended.
Graser, a retired sergeant first class in the U.S. Army and a veteran of the Vietnam War, said when it comes to honoring those who served, there's no such thing as "a job too little."
"Veterans Day is a celebration of who we are as a nation and who we are as people," he said. "And each and every veteran, no matter where or when you served, has value."
Chaplain James Cavatis of the U. S. Marine Corps League, a Vietnam veteran, paused to salute the flag before a moving reading of "Unknown: A Chaplain's Prayer."
"At our feet the rows of wooden crosses show the toll of battles fought," read Cavatis, telling the tale of a fallen soldier whose name no one could recall but whose actions were fondly remembered by comrades and strangers alike.
"A simple word, a simple name," Cavatis read. "Proves to me no one really is an unknown soldier."
Audience members wiped away tears as Graser read the names of the seven Nevins residents who'd passed away this past year, the most recent one being Stanley Focht. An airman first class who served in the U.S. Air Force military police K-9 unit, died Oct. 21 at the age of 70.
Photographs of lost friends flashed across the television screen as the strains of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" piped through the room.
Serving as the evening's keynote speaker was retired Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Rice of the N.H. Army National Guard.
Rice, a resident of Nashua, served from 1966 to 2006.
"To all of the veterans in the audience, I have a simple but heartfelt message: Thank you," he said.
"You have defended America in the best of times and the worst of times, often with little fanfare," Rice said. "Today is a time to honor all who fought for our freedom, those who understand the meaning of hardship and the catastrophe of war. Yet you've all endured."


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Article source: Wahag Studio
Participation of wahag studio in the international ideas competition to establish a design for the busan opera house to start to construct in 2014 (expected). the opera house will include a variety of facilities that will foster a wide range of artistic activities all the while being accessible to the city's citizens. the grand scale of this project will be suitable for busan's status as an international city.
- Designed by: Wahag Studio
- Name of Project: Busan Opera House
- Location: Busan, South korea
- Type of competition: open international competition
- Site area: 35,000 m2
- Team work: wahag studio team
- Architects: m.mansour gebaly, wael hussein Mahmoud
- Software used: Rhino and grasshopper for developing the form and the final modeling; for the final render used 3ds Max and photoshop


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My first ever paying job in high school was working at my local public library. While many of my friends were at the local outlet stores or fast-food restaurants with the deep fryer I was a "page" at South Country Library on Long Island.
In Skywriting and on 845 Scene, we try to give you options and ideas as far as what to
experience in the Hudson Valley. This area is rich in culture and diversity, offering
something for most everyone. It is always a plus when there are activities and resources that are budget friendly, as well. This brings me to this week's topic: public libraries.
My first ever paying job in high school was working at my local public library. While many of my friends were at the local outlet stores or fast-food restaurants with the deep fryer I was a "page" at South Country Library on Long Island. A page is the person who puts away and shelves the books as they are returned or used. I was then promoted to circulation clerk and worked at the library for the next seven years while attending college.
Admittedly the library was a place that I would get into and out of rather quickly and was not my choice of hang out locations. But when I started working at the library I became aware of all the great resources available to me for free, or at a minor cost. While libraries are not 100 percent free – as they are a part of your property tax bill – they are a resource that is underutilized by its patrons and its communities, for the most part. Long gone are the days of the hair-in-the-bun librarian. Now technology is a huge part of a library's function and budget. Available at most library locations here in the Hudson Valley are:
- Free Internet usage
- DVD and game rentals (both education and entertainment)
- PC/Mac usage
- Computer training and office skill training
- Children's programs including story time, reading programs and arts and crafts
- Young adult and teen job and resume building resources
- Adult programs and speakers
- Defensive driving classes
- Literacy services
- Bus trips to museums, baseball games and other locations of interest
- Tutoring services
Along with the traditional services and research help from librarians, libraries are a great resource for the community as a whole. If your local branch does not have a particular book, magazine or document, it is still available to you via inter-library loan.
The Poughkeepsie Library offers cooking programs, teen programs, voter registration applications and more. Have you ever wanted to start your own business? On Oct. 22 there is a workshop on writing a business plan. More info can be found at http://www.poklib.org/programs/
The Middletown Thrall Library is offering book discussions and movie nights. In time for the haunting season, ghost hunter Linda Zimmerman will be showing you how to detect paranormal activity in your home on Oct. 30. More info at http://www.thrall.org/
The Orange Library Association is hosting Orange Reads this month. The topic is Pete Hamill's book "Forever." Visit http://www.orangereads.org/ for more information about the readings, workshops, activities and performances affiliated with this autumn program.
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John DiStaso's Granite Status: NHGOP threatens court action to remove senator's 'house guests' from checklistBY JOHN DISTASO
July 28. 2013 9:15PM
MONDAY, JULY 29: 'REMOVE FROM CHECKLIST.' The state Republican Party Monday told Democratic state Sen. Martha Fuller Clark it will go to court if she does not act to remove the names of four "out-of-state political operatives" from the Portsmouth voter checklist.
NHGOP Chair Jennifer Horn, in a letter to Fuller Clark, cites a little-known 1979 state law that says, "Any citizen of the state may, in term time or vacation, file a complaint with the superior court stating that his name is illegally kept from, or his name or that of some other citizen is illegally placed upon, the checklist of a town or ward, and the facts upon which the complaint is based."
Horn writes that if Clark does not contact the four "former temporary house guests and instruct them to contact the Portsmouth city clerk's office to strike their names from the voter rolls," the party is "prepared to take any appropriate action under the law including bringing it to the attention of the Superior Court."
Democrats called the move more evidence that the Republican Party "is becoming a sad joke."
Fuller Clark, who is vice chairman of the state Democratic Party in addition to a state Senator, has eight people registered to vote from her home in Portsmouth.
Three of them are her, her husband and son. The other five raised questions last week, although Fuller Clark told the Portsmouth Herald that one of the five is her goddaughter, who, she said, has been renting an apartment at her home since 2011.
The other four no longer live in the state.
The Republicans said that Andrea Marie Riccio, who voted using Fuller Clark's address in 2008, is now on the staff of Maryland U.S. Rep. Chris Van Hollen.
Fuller Clark said Riccio was her former campaign manager and moved to Washington, D.C. in 2009.
Another, she said, voted from her home in 2008 after working on the Obama campaign and also "moved out of state.
The senator told the Portsmouth Herald that two others, who voted in 2012, worked for the Obama campaign and stayed at her home from last summer through December.
The fourth, she said, also "moved out of state"
Last week, the Republicans asked Attorney General Joseph Foster to investigate what it considers voter fraud related to the campaign workers who temporarily resided at Fuller Clark's home.
Democrats fired back that several Republican operatives voted in New Hampshire while working on campaigns and then also moved out. The Republicans countered that their operatives rented apartments and established residence in the state while they worked on those campaigns.
NHDP spokesman Harrell Kirstein asked, "Has Jennifer Horn's political director (David Chesley) removed his own house guests from the voter rolls? Has Kelly Ayotte demanded her campaign manager be removed as well? How about Mitt Romney's state director who is now working for Republican Iowa Governor (Terry) Branstad?
"The NHGOP is becoming a sad joke," said Kirstein. "Even former elected officials from their own New Hampshire Republican Party have publicly criticized these misleading and bogus attacks. The legal action Jennifer Horn should be most concerned with the federal lean against her house stemming from the more then $90,000 she owes in unpaid back taxes."
Kirstein noted that former Republican state Rep. Jon Richardson of Allenstown last week posted on Twitter that the Republican strategy on the issue "backfired."
"Did no one think, 'Hey we should check to make sure we're not guilty of same fraud?" Richardson posted.
The Democratic operatives, the NHGOP said in its letter to Fuller Clark, "improperly influenced New Hampshire elections and cancelled out the votes of actual Granite Staters. It is outrageous that as a state senator" and Democratic Party vice chairman, "you would allow your home address to be used to facilitate illegal drive-through voting.
"You need to act immediately so that these individuals do not use your home address to continue voting in New Hampshire and further undermine public confidence in our elections," Horn wrote.
(The full July 29 Granite Status follows.)
MONDAY, JULY 29: NOW WHAT? IF out-of-staters have been abusing voting privileges by working for candidates, voting, and then leaving, can New Hampshire stop it?
It may not be easy.
The state can't get inside someone's head and know whether, when they vote, they truly intend to stay here and make the state their "domicile" or whether we are just a waypoint for a multi-state campaign worker.
It's doubtful that Vice President Joe Biden's niece intended to make New Hampshire home when she voted from a Manchester address last November, swearing that address was her "domicile."
The same probably goes for campaign workers staying at state Sen. Martha Fuller Clark's Portsmouth home during recent elections. Ditto for some Republican operatives.
How about requiring a voter to actually reside in the state for a definite time before being eligible?
Nope. The state supreme court nixed that in 1972. It killed a minimum residency requirement that had existed for a century, saying it violated the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause.
The law said, "No person shall be considered as dwelling or having his home in any town, for the purpose of voting or being voted for at any meeting, unless he shall have resided within such town six months next preceding the day of meeting."
Thirty-year-old William Chapman was denied the right to vote 20 days after moving to Concord. He challenged the law and, representing himself before the high court, he won. (That would be the same Bill Chapman who continues his distinguished law career with Orr and Reno today.)
Chief Justice Frank Rowe Kenison noted the law had been "assumed and accepted without question" for more than 100 years. But he wrote that courts had begun to question it, noting "The increasing mobility of the population has pointed up the deficiency of durational residency requirements."
In fact, Chapman recalls, the U.S. Supreme Court had invalidated a six-month residency requirement in Kentucky just six months before he filed his suit.
FAST FORWARD to 2012. After activists identifying themselves with the names of dead Granite Staters were offered ballots for the first-in-the-nation primary, the Republican-controlled Legislature acted.
The resulting registration law required new voters to fill out an affidavit declaring New Hampshire as "my domicile" and requiring them to register a motor vehicle and apply for a state driver's license within 60 days of becoming a resident.
The ACLU and League of Women's voters sued, contending the motive was to prevent college students from voting.
A superior court last September blocked the motor vehicle and drivers license requirements on the affidavit. The attorney general's request for an expedited appeal (in time for the November election) was denied by the supreme court. The full case remains with the lower court.
Secretary of State William Gardner had agreed with the requirements.
"It cannot be that non-residents can somehow claim domicile for voting purposes only and be able to change the foundation of New Hampshire and its government by voting for its lawmakers and proposed constitutional amendments on the ballot," he wrote in an affidavit.
He said there is no difference in other state laws between the terms "domicile" and "residence," and submitted to the court copies of laws passed in the early 1980s that made uniform terms such as "domicile," "residence," "resident" and "inhabitant."
"To suggest that there is a separate definition of 'domicile' for voting purposes is wrong," Gardner wrote.
With that court case still pending, this year's Legislature side-stepped the issue.
With Democrats now in control of the House, it killed a bill to include in the registration affidavit a statement that the voter recognizes that being "domiciled" means, "I am subject to the laws of the state of New Hampshire, including laws that may require a driver to register a motor vehicle and apply for a New Hampshire's driver's license within 60 days of becoming a resident."
Lawmakers also reversed the 2012 Legislature and re-established student IDs as valid.
That law was signed last week by Gov. Maggie Hassan. It continues a requirement that anyone not presenting one of the required ID forms must have a photo taken and fill out a "challenged voter" affidavit.
But the photo requirement is now delayed until 2015.
GOV. HASSAN wants the photo requirement removed.
She "believes we should fully repeal the misguided voter ID law passed by the last (2012) Legislature, which creates onerous roadblocks to voting that could disenfranchise many citizens, including the elderly and those who experience disabilities," spokesman Marc Goldberg told the Status.
That includes repeal of the requirement that "towns spend significant dollars on cameras at the polls."
Goldberg said, "Over the years, investigation after investigation has found little evidence of voter fraud in the State of New Hampshire."
FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER Bill O'Brien, R-Mont Vernon, led the 2012 efforts. He said last week the motive was common sense, not a wish to disenfranchise anyone.
"We have a constitutional provision that allows anyone with a domicile in New Hampshire to vote," he said, "and we said basically that a domicile would be the same thing as a residency.
"If you're going to be domiciled, you're going to be a resident and you're going to have to adopt all the rights and obligations of residency.
"And the judge vacated that," he said.
"So, whether it's the Vice President's niece making believe she's a resident here or five people living at Martha Fuller Clark's house and casting ballots, that takes away the rights of an equal number of New Hampshire citizens to choose who is going to represent them in government," O'Brien said. "There's something wrong about that. It challenges the fundamentals of our democracy."
Democrats Monday pointed out that O'Brien's son had dual registration in Maine and New Hampshire in 2010, just months before O'Brien spoke out against students from outside of New Hampshire but attend college in the state, being allowed to vote in New Hampshire college towns.
Brendan O'Brien was nominated by the Republican Party in June 2010 to run for a Maine state representative seat while he was attending Bates College. He withdrew his name from nomination the following month, and in November of that year returned to New Hampshire to vote in his hometown, Mont Vernon.
A Maine newspaper reported that the former speaker's son had dual registration in New Hampshire and Maine.
He ended up with dual registration when New Hampshire election officials did not notify Maine officials that he had voted in another state.
The Democratic Party filed a complaint but last summer the Attorney General's office said it found insufficient evidence to cite New Hampshire voting officials for any violations.
SULLIVAN: "NON-ISSUE." Like Hassan, Democratic National Committeewoman Kathy Sullivan says there is no problem.
"The heart of the issue is that people who are living in New Hampshire have a right to vote in New Hampshire. Period. And if someone moves to New Hampshire to work, they have the same right to vote as someone who moved here for school, to be with family or to be in the military."
She said that someone who knows he or she will leave the state a few weeks after an election has a right to vote here.
"The issue is: Where are you living on election day?" she said. "You have a right to vote where you are living.
TOM RATH, former Republican National Committeeman, said there is a problem. Since the adoption of same-day registration, "it exacerbates the potential for fraud because if you had to wait 10 days, for instance, to close the voter list out, it would potentially allow you to catch up on people.
"Without that option somebody can stand in front of a local voting official and say, 'I'll sign the affidavit. I intend to reside here.'"
Rath said it is possible for someone to vote elsewhere by absentee ballot 30 days before an election and then come to New Hampshire and vote here, and "there is no way of knowing that person cast a ballot in another state.
"The reason we ought to take a look at some of these issues is not to play 'gotcha' with the other party," Rath said.
He said a few fraudulent votes may not sway a presidential or other statewide election, but "can make a difference in local races. The idea that you should be part of a town and have a real stake in who your state representative is going to be, I think, is legitimate, but we haven't figured out how to address that."
John DiStaso is senior political reporter of the New Hampshire Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News. He can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter: @jdistaso.


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CINCINNATI (AP) — A federal civil rights lawsuit accuses a southern Ohio coroner of using deaths as political pawns in an ongoing feud with the local sheriff.
The lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in Cincinnati accuses Brown County Coroner Judith Varnau and her husband, Dennis Varnau, of disrespecting bodies and abandoning evidence.
The lawsuit says that as a result, the family of Hanson Jones Jr., of Ripley, will never know whether his August shooting death was a homicide or a suicide.
The lawsuit says the Varnaus left behind a shotgun and chunks of Jones' skull, later found by his sister, and never ordered an autopsy or tests to see whether there was gun residue on Jones' hands.
The Varnaus declined to comment, but Dennis Varnau defended his wife as responsible.


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Every three months I announce that the Claremont Review of Books is my favorite magazine — every three months because the magazine is a quarterly. CRB is the flagship publication of the Claremont Institute, the organization whose mission it is to restore the principles of the American Founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life. The magazine is also popular in the White House; 30 copies of each new issue are shipped out by overnight mail upon publication. If you don't subscribe, you should.
The summer issue of the CRB is at the printer. I think it's fair to say that the issue is the magazine's best yet; it is packed full of outstanding essays and thoughtful reviews of books on mostly political subjects. The editors have allowed us to peek at the page proofs and pick a few of the items from the summer issue to debut exclusively on Power Line. We begin today and will continue tomorrow, Friday and Tuesday.
Today we debut the review/essay by Doug Jeffrey on the serial novels of Charles McCarry, the newest one of which has just been released in paperback. American gentleman, scholar, poet, patriot, and spy — McCarry's hero Paul Christopher is all these things. And over thirty-four years, starring in five McCarry novels, he has time and again answered the call of duty, mounted his white steed, ridden off into the "wilderness of mirrors," fought the good fight, slain the dragons, and saved the damsel in distress.
Now, with the publication of Old Boys, it is Christopher himself who seems to need saving. A handful of his septuagenarian comrades in arms come out of retirement to answer duty's call. In this case, the dragons they face include all the usual 20th century suspects: Nazis, Communists, Islamic terrorists, Russian mobsters, you name it. The distressed damsel, who must be saved along with Christopher, is — as it always is — the damsel of the West, Western Civilization itself, saved by Paul Christopher more than once in the glory years of the "Outfit."
Read Doug Jeffrey's review of McCarry's oeuvre to find out why, as heroic as Christopher and his greatest generation are, our damsel needs greater heroes still: "Le morte de Christopher." I thought that Doug's marvelous essay might inspire you to pick up McCarry's new novel and take a crack at it over the long holiday weekend.
UPDATE: Professor Robert Maddock of Siera College dissents:
Should tell you that I have tried to read McCarry. He is simply not a good story teller or much of a writer. If you want great writing and historical story telling of a very high order, read the novels of Alan Furst. You might also take a look at John Gardner


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Unless is a collection of band compositions, experimental interludes and electro-pop songs. Mixed and re-worked by Jason Sweeney at his Adelaide studio during 2006 , the album has a moody, dreamy, cinematic quality that moves from angular guitar pop, shoegazer, a New Order-esque style. The was recorded with Chris Scallan and Jed Palmer at Sing Sing and Soft Centre studios in Melbourne in the latter part of 2005. The result is the debut album, Unless, also featuring the musicianship of Cailan Burns (other half of Pretty Boy Crossover), Emma Bortignon and Phil Collings.
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*"'Like a Vampire' and 'Gestapo' are songs that push buttons for me," says Giarruso, "because structurally they are very different. The words are some of the first lyrics I wrote post-Undies and they fulfil my criteria for song lyrics in that they are ironic, funny - I think anyhow - deeply personal and tell small stories all at the same time. The album as a whole is very different structurally, which I think is exciting… it's kinda broken into four sections, like four mini EPs, which resolve within themselves and as a whole."
"Golden," says Sweeney, "is probably the 'special' track for me. It just has that expansive feel I love in pop music. But the whole album I treat as a complete thing and try to listen to it that way, rather than skipping or isolating songs. And at a precise 35 minutes, it is an album that is suitable for busy people!"*


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The Yellow mongoose according to MammalMAP
The Yellow Mongoose (Cynictis penicillata), sometimes referred to as the red meerkat, is a small mammal averaging about 1-2 kg in weight and about 50 cm in length. A member of the mongoose family, Herpestidae, it lives in open country, from semi-desert scrubland to grasslands in Angola, Botswana, South Africa, Namibia, and Zimbabwe.
The yellow mongoose is the only member of its genus, but as many as twelve subspecies of yellow mongoose have been described. In general, the yellow mongoose has lighter highlights on the underbelly and chin, a bushy tail, and a complete lack of sexual dimorphism. Southern yellow mongooses are larger, have yellow or reddish fur, longer fur, and a longer tail with a characteristic white tip. Northern subspecies tend towards smaller size, grey colouration, a grey or darker grey tip to the tail, and shorter hair more appropriate to the hotter climate.
The yellow mongoose is carnivorous, consuming mostly arthropods but also other small mammals, lizards, snakes and eggs of all kinds. The yellow mongoose is primarily diurnal, though nocturnal activity has been observed. Living in colonies of up to 20 individuals in a permanent underground burrow complex, the yellow mongoose will often co-exist with Cape Ground Squirrels or Meerkats and share maintenance of the warren, adding new tunnels and burrows as necessary. The tunnel system has many entrances, nearby which the yellow mongoose makes its latrines.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. lowered its price forecasts for arabica coffee futures in New York, citing an improving production outlook in leading grower Brazil.
Prices will be at $1.45 a pound in three, six and 12 months, the bank said in a report e-mailed today. That is down from previous forecasts of $1.55 a pound, $1.65 a pound and $1.75 a pound, respectively, it said. Arabica futures for delivery in July fell 0.6% to $1.4225 a pound by 9:14 a.m. on the ICE Futures U.S. exchange in New York.
Brazil will harvest 47 million to 50.2 million bags of coffee this year, Conab, the government's crop-forecasting agency, estimates. That is down from 50.8 million bags a year earlier and may be a record for a year in which trees enter the lower-yielding half of a two-year cycle.
"Although 2013-14 is the low-yielding production year in Brazil's biennial cycle, favorable rains in March point to an even larger off-year crop, already forecast to reach record volumes," Damien Courvalin, an analyst at Goldman Sachs in New York, wrote in the report. "The arabica market will likely only be in a modest deficit or even remain balanced in 2013-14."
The improved outlook for the crop in Brazil means supplies there will compensate for production losses caused by coffee leaf rust disease in Central America, he said. The epidemic is the worst case since the disease appeared in the region in 1976, according to the International Coffee Organization in London.
Leftover Sales
While further cuts to production estimates in Central America may "provide modest support to prices," sales of leftover stockpiles from the last crop in Brazil may "weigh on prices in coming months," according to Goldman Sachs.
Brazilian growers sold 75% of the 2012-13 crop by March 31, down from 86% a year earlier, Gil Barabach, a market analyst at Safras & Mercado, estimates.
The global sugar market is heading for a third year of surpluses in the 2013-14 season that starts in October in most countries, the bank said. Excess supplies will result from a large sugar cane crop in Brazil's center south, the main growing region of the world's top producer, and as growers continue to replant.
"The increase in Brazil sugarcane crush will allow for both an increase in sugar and ethanol production," Courvalin said.
Sugar Prices
Sugar prices will be at 18.50 cents a pound in three and six months and at 19 cents a pound in 12 months, the bank forecasts. Delays to the start of the harvest in Brazil's center south because of rains were compensated by bigger-than-forecast harvests in Thailand and India, the second-biggest grower.
"A quick ramp up to the 2013-14 Brazil harvest creates downside risks to our forecast in the first half of 2013," Courvalin said. "In turn, potential support to prices could come either from a potential further hike in Brazil's gasoline prices or cut to ethanol taxes which would increase ethanol's relative profitability over sugar or potential weather, production disappointments in India, Russia and Ukraine later this year."
Raw sugar for July delivery fell 0.3% to 17.68 cents a pound in New York.
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Matthew Bagdanovich knows the price to make a business dream come true: everything he owned and saved.
Matthew Bagdanovich knows the price to make a business dream come true: everything he owned and saved.
The 52-year-old former insurance adjuster gave up his six-figure salary working in Mexico and England, his Hallandale condominium along Florida's intracoastal waterway, and his life's savings, and used it all to help fund his dream.
But the Daytona-born entrepreneur has no regrets about sinking nearly every dime into Marion County-based Fish Hawk Spirits, one of only 11 absinthe distilleries in the United States and the only one that makes a red absinthe liqueur, Absinthia Rubra.
The company, which Bagdanovich owns with Jim Brady and Chris Howard, also makes Marion Black, a citrus distilled brandy that incorporates locally grown tangerines during the fermenting process.
"You cannot win if you won't risk," Bagdanovich said, standing in front of his distillery operation, which fits into a backyard storage unit. "It's only going to work if you work at it. It's not going to succeed by magic. We've sunk everything into this. We need it to succeed."
The distillery is nestled off dusty dirt roads where most GPS units have no notion of direction. The property is lined with trees, and neighbors are rare in the sparsely populated area. Bagdanovich and Brady said it's not the area most customers picture when they think of a high-end alcoholic beverage.
Bagdanovich began the fledgling business after working several years overseas and five more years here. By 2004, he knew he wanted to go into business for himself. His only plan was that he wanted to make something he thought was recession proof and for which there was a business niche. He had limited experience drinking the high alcohol beverage absinthe, and only limited experience making a citrus brandy while living in Mexico.
But timing for a new absinthe business was on his side, he thought.
Absinthe is made from Artemisia absinthium, also known as wormwood, together with anise, fennel and other herbs. It originated in Switzerland in the late 18th century and became especially popular in 19th- and early 20th-century France.
Along with other spirits, absinthe was banned in the United States during prohibition, but also was kept illegal until 2007 because it has a trace amount of a hallucinogen called thujone.
Bagdanovich, Brady and Howard thought they could get in on the ground floor of the market once absinthe was again legal. The three have spent $250,000 thus far on the initial stages of the business.
Bagdanovich shook his head remembering how his wife, Cristina, allowed him to sink their savings in the new business.
"My wife went from being (the wife of) a insurance subsidiary CEO to living in a Jim Walter Home," he said.
To distinguish their absinthe from the green-hued drink associated with Europe, Bagdanovich and his partners created Absinthia Rubra, which has a red hue.
"We've established the American standard with this," Bagdanovich said.
The company, which employs only one person so far, also produces the Marion Black citrus distilled brandy that is a side product of Absinthe Rubra production.
Bagdanovich has a distributor and his first order, which will put the beverages in liquor stores and bars throughout the Tampa and Orlando areas, including Ocala and Gainesville. The Absinthia Rubra retails at about $65 a bottle; Marion Black for $25.
Bagdanovich and Brady said their beverages are priced at the high-end, but that was the niche they wanted to fill, given that profit margins for most other spirits were too lean.
For Brady, the challenge of starting a business from scratch was worth the risk and his financial stake in the company is almost as deep as Bagdanovich's.
The 65-year-old construction manager retired early and, with his wife Jacky, had a financially comfortable nest egg socked away to live from. That money is now gone, and the one-acre lot zoned for agricultural use he was renting and meant to later flip is now used to house the Fish Hawk Spirits facility. Bagdanovich and his wife now live in a small home on the property.
The company recently passed its distributor's taste test and is filling its first order. Bagdanovich is anticipating selling as many as 10,000 bottles of the two beverages this year.
The Absinthia Rubra is used with a sugared water to make a Sintini and Marion Black is used to make a Triple Sec and Vermouth alcoholic concoction.
"But no one is going to spend $10 to $20 for a Sintini if they don't know what it is," Brady said.
So, Bagdanovich and Brady spend much of their time meeting with bar managers and owners to set up marketing projects and offer free taste samples to bar patrons.
Bagdanovich said bar owners are usually impressed the manufacturers are willing to work so hard at marketing their products rather than leaving it to distributors to do the work.
The company's products are sold in Ocala at the Horse and Hounds Restaurants and Pi on Broadway.
"You have to educate people how to use it, and we do serve various drinks with it," said Horse and Hounds manager Leigh Gallups of the absinthe. "I like the product. I think they'll do relatively well."
Both Brady and Bagdanovich said they have no regrets — even if the business fails.
Bagdanovich said if that happened, he would likely have to go back to insurance work.
"But I won't be setting at my desk asking myself what would have happened," he said. "It a quintessential story, and I'm delighted to do this."
The only other local distillery is Florida Farm Distillers in Umatilla, which makes whiskey.
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