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Downside seen to drivers' use of less gasBy SHAWNE K. WICKHAM
New Hampshire Sunday News
September 07. 2013 10:55PM
Thousands of Granite Staters are driving hybrid, electric or alternative-fuel vehicles as a way to save money and protect the environment.
And new CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards are boosting fuel economy for gas-powered cars and light trucks.
But one unintended consequence is that the gas-tax revenues that fund the roads and bridges are decreasing, in New Hampshire and across the nation.
Now there's a growing consensus among state leaders that New Hampshire should find a way to ensure all drivers are paying their fair share.
Michael Pillsbury is deputy commissioner of the state Department of Transportation. He described the problem of highway maintenance: "It takes the same effort as it did a number of years ago, it costs more and revenues are stagnant."
In the New Hampshire Constitution, the state's gas tax is called the "road toll." The state collects 18 cents per gallon from distributors, and dealers add that cost to the price paid at the pump, Pillsbury said.
The system worked just fine for a long time, he said.
"The nice thing about a gas tax is it is a user fee," he said. "If you don't drive very much, you don't pay a tax. If you drive a lot, you pay more because you're using the roads more."
But what happens if your vehicle uses biodiesel, electricity or compressed natural gas (CNG) instead of gasoline? You still use roads and bridges; you're just not helping to pay for them.
According to the state Department of Environmental Services, there were 156 electric cars registered in New Hampshire last year. And there were about 14,000 hybrids, out of a total of 1.4 million vehicles, registered here in 2011.
A previous state law required "alternative energy" vehicles to "pre-pay road toll fees at the time of registration," an amount equal to twice the annual registration fee, Pillsbury noted. It was repealed in 2001.
The idea may get a second look.
No fee on CNG
Rep. Candace Bouchard, D-Concord, chairs the House Transportation Committee. She said the idea of capturing revenue from alternative-fuel vehicles has been discussed in Concord for years.
Her own interest in the issue was reawakened when she learned that a new CNG fueling station was being built in Pembroke. There are other CNG stations - at the state DOT, Nashua Public Works Department and the University of New Hampshire.
"And a lot of commercial fleets are now switching over to CNG," Bouchard said. However, she said, "There's no user fee on that fuel."
Bouchard has begun researching the issue for possible legislation in the upcoming session.
"I look at it as just being progressive. As we're all trying to be more fuel-efficient or looking for other fuel sources, we still have to keep our infrastructure workable," she said.
Sen. David Watters, D-Dover, said he expects to file legislation addressing the issue of hybrids and electric vehicles. He's considering proposing a surcharge on the registration fee for such vehicles.
And while he expects the owners of those vehicles may grumble, Watters noted they're still saving money on the gas tax.
He's also considering proposing that any funds raised by such a surcharge be dedicated to what's called "betterment," money that goes directly to local municipalities for their roads.
That would offset property taxes that would otherwise go to maintain those roads. "And maybe that makes it more palatable," he said.
Gasoline usage trend
In the early 2000s, the gasoline usage the road toll was based on was increasing each year. But that trend has reversed, and revenue from the road toll is projected to drop about a half-percent a year, according to Scott Bryer, road toll administrator at the Department of Safety.
In fiscal year 2005, when vehicles used 860,955,143 gallons of gas, the gas tax brought in nearly $155 million, according to figures provided by the department.
In 2009, the gallonage dropped to 815,353,404, which raised about $146.8 million in road tolls. And for 2013, that figure is projected at 801,737,916 gallons, or about $144.3 million.
Rebecca Ohler is transportation and energy program manager at the Department of Environmental Services' Air Resources Division. She said there have been ongoing discussions between the DES and the DOT about the effects of reducing petroleum use and improving vehicle efficiency.
Her division is tasked with protecting air quality, Ohler said, which includes reducing air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles.
"But in our opinion, every vehicle that's on the roadway should be paying their fair share for the support of the roadway network," she said. "Bridges that continue to stand are everybody's concern."
Some states are looking at systems that tax drivers based on how many miles they drive each year, Ohler noted. But here, she said, that would work best on a regional basis, since commuters and vacationers use roads and buy fuel across state lines.
"The solutions in theory are so simple, but in practice are very complex," she said.
"In theory, you just do a formula with the weight of the vehicle and the number of miles driven and you've got your solution. But then there are people that have privacy concerns about not wanting to have to divulge how many miles they drive in a year.
"And it would be very complex to implement because it would mean all of the states need to talk to each other."
Still, officials say the state's current dependence on a gas tax to maintain the roads isn't sustainable as more vehicles use alternative fuels or get better fuel economy.
"I think as we move closer and closer to crisis, there's going to be more impetus for people to keep the conversation going and really bring some solutions to the forefront for broader discussion," Ohler said.
Pillsbury expects some of the privacy and jurisdictional concerns will be worked out over the next decade.
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Gov. Chris Christie's vow to improve New Jersey's rank in an annual state business tax climate report came through, but an economist with the nonpartisan Tax Foundation said the governor has New York to thank for the improvement.
Though Tax Foundation economist Scott Drenkard said "New Jersey and New York have been sparring for the bottom spot for years, with New Jersey often placing below New York," the state outranked New York in terms of business-friendly tax policies for 2013 — securing the 49th spot, as New York placed last.
While Drenkard said the Christie administration's move to block the so-called "millionaire's tax" kept New Jersey out of 50th place for what would have been the second straight year, he said the state only moved up because New York's increase of top earners' personal income tax caused it to fall — since individual income tax had more weight in the results than corporate tax.
Christie spokesman Michael Drewniak said the report shows New Jersey is "moving in the right direction, and it's all up from here," but he said, more importantly, New York's slip serves as a warning to any legislative efforts to increase taxes.
"The study illustrates the absolute folly of increasing taxes, which New Jersey Democrats have been hell-bent on doing since we arrived in Trenton," Drewniak said. "Look where that got New York. Now, imagine where we'd be if the Democrats would just pay attention, get on board and approve the tax relief we continue to fight for."
Even accounting for New York's personal income tax increase, Drenkard said New Jersey only scored a few thousandths of a point above New York in terms of overall business tax climate, as New York outranked New Jersey in the corporate tax, sales tax and property tax brackets.
Drenkard said both states' scores included the same penalty for offering tax incentives, since he said the credits "drive up tax rates for companies that don't qualify for them, distort the market and often fail to achieve economic growth." But even if New Jersey had eliminated investment, job and research and development tax credits for 2013, Drenkard said the state "wouldn't improve its score enough to overcome California," which placed 48th despite not having an incentive program in place for companies investing in new properties.


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I'm amazed on a daily basis by the leaps he's making; after just 100-odd days of school, he's a full-fledged reader and emerging writer.
My son Benjamin had already misappropriated a few sheets of blank paper from the printer and dumped a bag of markers all over his bedroom floor when I tried to gain entry.
"No, Daddy!" he said, closing the door in my face. His muffled voice continued from inside: "Don't look at it until I'm done, OK, I'm writing rules, and everybody has to follow them, because it's my room, OK?"
Jeez. Give a kid the power to read and write, and what happens? He becomes power mad.
I'm amazed on a daily basis by the leaps he's making; after just 100-odd days of school, he's a full-fledged reader and emerging writer.
He opened up a fortune cookie earlier this week and started munching away, but when I asked him to tell me what the message was, he read it off without much hesitation: "Always listen to the wisdom of the old."
Hmm, I thought. My baby boy can read the word "wisdom"? I shook my head, told him how great he was doing, that I was proud of him "� and then went to go lie down for a spell in the fetal position, pondering the mysteries of existence.
That's fatherhood for you.
I was a precocious reader, at least according to family legend, reading headlines from the newspaper aloud when I was two and graduating to full-fledged books soon after. I looked for signs of this in Benjamin when he was about that age, but flash cards got blank stares — and that was OK with me.
Well, kind of OK. There were a series of ads running on his kid TV channels at the time, showing tiny, wobbly toddlers barking out words flashing on a screen: "Giraffe! The ball rolls downhill! Daguerreotype! Onomatopoeia!"
But in fact Benjamin was he was right on track with his age group, learning a bit at preschool every day and home at night.
The big leap, though, has happened since he started school full-time, and it's been exponential.
Even during the holidays, he had to ask Mom to spell out just about every entry on his gift list to Santa; now, just a couple of months later, he's writing out his own personal rulebook.
Of course, he's not a fully-formed wordsmith just yet, as his bedroom door manifesto proves:
1. Do not skare me
2. Do not make a big mes
3. Do not brake my toys
Earlier in the week, while waiting for his Uncle Jeff to come over, Benjamin had scattered marbles all over the entrance path as a prank. But, what if Uncle Jeff got hurt?
That's when a hand-written note in huge, wobbly letters, comes in handy "� even if it's more like an experimental poem than a functional thesis:
"Unkll Jeff "� there is marbles "� WARNING "� beep beep beep "� buzz buzz buzz "� hop hop hop rabit "� splatr splatr splatr "� biyt biyt biyt monster..."
Unkll Jeff was not harmed by the prank.
They say that kids should be able to read short books by the start of first grade, so I'm pleased that Benjamin is a little ahead of the curve in kindergarten — but I can't take much credit, other than for my half of his genetics.
It's Mom that's been sitting with him every night, more or less without fail, reading with him — first to him, and now with him, tracing her finger along the page, word by word, speaking softly and clearly in her sweet voice as Benjamin snuggles close before bed.
It's a beautiful thing.
So, Benjamin, if you're reading this, thank Mommy for all her hard work — you couldn't have done it without her.
And don't worry.
We promise we won't go in your room and brake any of your toys.
Jonathan Comey is sports and features editor for The Standard-Times.


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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations said Wednesday it has already positioned supplies for the first convoys that will deliver aid from several neighboring countries to rebel-held areas in Syria, and hopes to reach 2.9 million people.
U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos and the heads of the World Food Program and the U.N. children's agency said in a joint statement that a Security Council resolution adopted Saturday authorizing cross-border aid deliveries "represents a breakthrough in our efforts to get aid to Syrians in need."
The council, in rare agreement on Syria, authorized U.N. agencies and aid organizations that assist them to deliver humanitarian assistance across conflict lines between government and rebel forces and through four border crossings — two in Turkey, one in Iraq and one in Jordan — without government approval. It authorized the United Nations to monitor the loading of all aid shipments in the three countries before they cross the Syrian border.
Amos, WFP Executive Director Ertharin Cousin, and UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake said they are working with heads of other U.N. agencies and NGO partners "on how best to implement the resolution, as a matter of urgency."
WFP teams on the ground are proceeding immediately to put in place the monitoring system required by the resolution and UNICEF has already positioned supplies for the initial shipments including blankets, water purification materials, hygiene kits and syringes, the U.N. officials said.
"Hungry, homeless children don't know or care whether they are in a government-controlled area or an opposition-controlled area," they said. "They just want food and a safe place to live.
The officials urged all parties to the Syrian conflict and those with influence over them to enable unconditional humanitarian access to the nearly 11 million people in the country who need help, using the most direct routes, whether across borders or conflict lines. They also demanded an end to the "onerous administrative procedures before convoys are allowed to travel from one place to another."


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Interestingly enough, not all of the items they carry are plastic. There is a large selection of items — from Marimmeko umbrellas to recycled glasses etched with animals, a cardboard cat house and invitingly touchable wool coasters — that conform to the other definition of plastic as an item that is sculptural or adaptable. PLASTICA is a good source for some of our staple favorites: woven Chilewich rugs, large colorful TubTrugs, even a Rody big enough for adults to play on.
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A recent study conducted at the N.C. Research Campus in Kannapolis studied the effectiveness of the joint pain supplement Instaflex™ Joint Support. An eight-week clinical trial showed the supplement significantly reduced joint pain and stiffness in test volunteers after four weeks of use.
The study was funded by a grant from Digital Direct, distributors of the supplement. Digital Direct has offices in Charlotte and Boston.
Dr. David C. Nieman, director of the Appalachian State University College of Health Sciences Human Performance Lab located at the N.C. Research Campus, directed the double-blind, placebo-controlled community trial. The results were published Nov. 27 in Nutrition Journal.
"There has been a lot of research on some of the single components taken for joint pain, like glucosamine and chondroitin, but those studies have had mixed results with some indicating joint relief and some not," Nieman said. "Some joint remedies also use high amounts of a single component, which can cause gastrointestinal and cardiovascular side effects. I think the trend now in the diet supplement arena is to use a cocktail of ingredients."
The "cocktail" taken by those in the study was comprised of glucosamine sulfate, methylsufonlymethane, white willow bark extract, ginger root concentrate, boswellia serrata extract, turmeric root extract, cayenne and hyaluronic acid.
Digital Direct cofounder Brandon Adcock of Charlotte said the ingredients were selected based on existing research that showed their efficacy in reducing joint discomfort, however this was the first study to look at the effect of the combined ingredients.
Nieman and co-researchers Andrew Shanely, Beibei Luo, Dustin Dew, Mary Pat Meaney and Wei Sha, recruited 100 men and women between the ages of 50 and 75 and with a current history of joint pain for the eight-week study. Half of the study group took an Instaflex capsule three times a day for eight weeks, while the other half took a placebo.
Those taking the Instaflex reported a 37 percent reduction in joint pain. The placebo group reported a 16 percent reduction in pain. The decrease in joint pain and stiffness was comparable to or higher than pain reductions reported in other studies that used chondroprotective or anti-inflammatory dietary supplements in subjects with osteoarthritis, according to the research article.
"This is one of the few cocktails using cartilage protection and anti-inflammatory ingredients to be shown effective," Nieman said.
Nieman added that weight loss remains one of the best ways to reduce joint pain. "A 20-pound weight loss has been shown to decrease joint pain by 54 percent," he said. "Obviously, if a person lost weight and took the supplement, it's possible to have an even greater effect on joint pain."
While dietary supplements aren't subject to the same FDA approvals or disapprovals as the pharmaceutical industry, Adcock believes clinical studies are important to his health supplement business. "We have had years of anecdotal reports about the efficacy of our product, but wanted to substantiate that scientifically for our customers," he said.
Nieman's prior research has focused on the benefits of taking single supplements, but those studies have shown little effect. For instance, studies of the benefits of the flavonoid quercetin, and culinary levels of red pepper and turmeric found few beneficial health effects. "When the joint pain data emerged from our most recent study, I was impressed. I didn't really expect to see this magnitude of a difference given all the studies we have done that have failed to show effects," he said.
"In general, I think the data are very impressive," Nieman said. "This is a healthy supplement with no significant negative symptoms compared to placebo. It's a natural dietary supplement that works."


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There, was that so hard?
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- Jayne Martin on December 28, 2013 at 2:10 PM said...
I sooooooooo get it. Good for you. Uber impressed. May 2014 be the year of the published novel for you!
- Simply Suthern on December 28, 2013 at 2:22 PM said...
You were gone?? LOL
Doesn't matter why, Just great to see you.
I dont remember reading any books in middle school.
- Coffeypot on December 28, 2013 at 5:22 PM said...
Glad to see you back, and hows about you giving us a snippet of your book.
- Jane Droll on January 2, 2014 at 4:57 PM said...
fingers crossed that your book(s) get published!
i recently read a book called bird by bird. you might like it. lots of tips/suggestions for writers, and the author is pretty funny too!
- Timothy Hecht on January 5, 2014 at 9:47 AM said...
Hi! I'm the new guy, Agent 54. I write funny stuff. Please go to my blog and read all 123 posts and make comments for me. Thank you.
PS: There will be a test at the end of the year.
- Lauren Salkin on January 5, 2014 at 1:11 PM said...
Welcome back! Congratulations! You were sorely missed. It's difficult balancing a blog and a book, or other writing pursuits. I'll never be able to balance the two. So, I've only been posting once a week. The Internet is soooooooo distracting .. what was I saying?
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It's 3:10 p.m., and I am heading out to try and get coverage at four different sporting events, starting with AuSable Valley and Plattsburgh High girls soccer; then cross country with PHS hosting Seton Catholic and Saranac Lake; then PHS and Peru swimming at Stafford Middle School; and finally Peru at AuSable Valley football. Hopefully, I can be up to the task. Here we go...
4:10 p.m. and I am at the first event. AVCS is trying to keep their hold of second place in Division I against PHS, who beat the Patriots 2-0 in their first meeting. Six minutes in and the game is scoreless.
4:39 p.m. heading to cross country. Karlie Neale made two spctacular saves to keep the game scoreless in the 33rd minute.
4:45 p.m. AVCS scores just as I am leaving after three more great saves by Neale.
4:58 p.m. the action was fast at the cross country meet between PHS, Seton and Saranac Lake. It looks like Seton will sweep in both boys and girls. Off to swimming.
5:28 p.m. Got to the event to see the 200 freestyle (missed the first relay). Be here for a bit, then off to eat and on to football.
5:46 p.m. Peru is honoring their senior swimmers during the intermission.
5:56 p.m. As the PHS senior swimmers are honored, it's time to head to the fourth and final event of the night, Peru at AVCS football. Peru is the top seed in Class B, while AVCS is the two seed in Class C.
8:10 p.m. The football game is one quarter in, with Peru leading AVCS 21-0. The mission to make four sporting events is complete!
8:46 p.m. It appears that Peru wil finish off an undefeated season as they lead AVCS 42-0 at halftime.


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"Statistics released today in the FBI's Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report reveal declines in both the violent crime and the property crime reported in the first six months of 2013 when compared with figures for the first six months of 2012. The report is based on information from 12,723 law enforcement agencies that submitted three to six months of comparable data to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for the first six months of 2012 and 2013.
Violent Crime
- All of the offenses in the violent crime category—murder and non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, aggravated assault, and robbery—showed decreases when data from the first six months of 2013 were compared with data from the first six months of 2012. The number of murders declined 6.9 percent, the number of forcible rapes declined 10.6 percent, aggravated assaults decreased 6.6 percent, and robbery offenses decreased 1.8 percent.
- Violent crime decreased in all city groupings in the first six months of 2013 when compared to figures for the same period in 2012. The largest decrease, 9.2 percent, was noted in cities with fewer than 10,000 in population.
- Violent crime decreased 10.5 percent in nonmetropolitan counties and 3.6 percent in metropolitan counties.
- Violent crime decreased in each of the nation's four regions. The largest decrease, 7.4 percent, was noted in the Midwest, followed by 5.9 percent in the South, 4.3 percent in the Northeast, and 3.7 percent in the West."


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Yeah I'm not heading straight off into vicious land (despite today's run) My next goal is to start working through all those quest flags (and probably unlocking more dungeons as a side effect) My lowest priority quests are the Unlikely heroes ones (though I do enjoy them I think they just give you money). My highest priority is new dungeons and item unlocks. I definitely want to unlock the remaining race and classes and I need to use the tinker and figure him out soon.
As for vicious. . .well as a side thing I want to "complete" all the normal dungeons (classes and badges) and whenever I have one completed it might be time to try out that vicious token on it. That is what I did with the den of danger today and that is probably what I will continue to do.
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Deroy Murdock: Unraveling Obama's failed, miserable legacy programBy DEROY MURDOCK
September 21. 2017 6:53PM
THE LAST TRAIN is leaving Reconciliation Station.
Republican efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare — derailed just weeks ago — now seem back on track. GOP senators Lindsay Graham of South Carolina, Bill Cassidy M.D. of Louisiana, Dean Heller of Nevada, and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin seek 47 more votes to pass their legislation within the Senate's filibuster-proof reconciliation window. It closes Sept. 30. Having snored through August, Republicans are scrambling to keep the repeal/replacement pledges that secured them the House, Senate, and White House.
The GCHJ bill would convert Obamacare from an imploding, top-down, Washington-centric, mandate-entangled madhouse into something promising: federal dollars that governors and legislators could use to finance bespoke solutions that fit each state's priorities. While hardly the stuff of Adam Smith, this reflects the Founding Fathers' locally oriented federalist vision. Though still a government program, GCHJ would end Obamacare's individual and employer mandates, kill the absurd and cruel medical-device tax, and let states reject Obamacare's "essential health benefits." These surreal rules force teetotalers on Obamacare to purchase alcoholism-treatment coverage. Likewise, childless Obamacare policy holders must carry pediatric vision and dental benefits for kids who do not exist. Why not require gay men on Obamacare to buy vasectomy insurance? GCHJ would let states rescue their residents from such expensive and indefensible Obamite nonsense.
The reliably pro-market Senator Johnson's co-sponsorship should ease worries that GCHJ is just "Obamacare Lite," as Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., condemns it.
"Obamacare continues to collapse, and we have no choice but to address this problem head on," Johnson said last week. "Returning more health care decisions to the states…will allow local leaders to tailor their health care system to the needs of its citizens while maintaining protections for those with high-cost and pre-existing conditions."
GCHJ's prospects climbed Tuesday, when 15 Republican governors — including conservative reformers Matt Bevin of Kentucky, Eric Greitens of Missouri, and Scott Walker of Wisconsin — endorsed it.
"Welfare reform passed in the 1990s works because states were given maximum authority along with adequate funding," these executives wrote Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., "Adequately funded, flexible block grants to the states are the last, best hope to finally repeal and replace Obamacare."
Five GOP governors oppose GCHJ. These include New Jersey's Chris Christie, Ohio's John Kasich, and Nevada's Brian Sandoval — all of whom betrayed their initial, conservative billing. Kasich inhaled Obama's free samples of Medicaid-expansion money. Now, he craves it like a junkie.
Among conservative public-policy experts, reactions to GCHJ range from cold shoulder to warm embrace.
"It may pass and there are some good things in it, but the Medicaid expansion does not end till 2020," laments Pacific Research Institute President Sally Pipes. Further, she wrote in a Fortune piece, "Blue states are unlikely to ever request waivers. So their residents will be stuck dealing with Obamacare's high costs and limited choices in perpetuity."
"I generally like it (there are a lot of good provisions in the bill) with a guardrail: any person getting a federal subsidy under the legislation should have the option to enroll in a private plan — of their choice — in the private market," explains Heritage Foundation senior fellow Robert Moffit. "State officials often shove people into government-centric plans, a la CHIP or Medicaid managed-care plans. That should not be allowed to happen here. If that crucial protection can be established in the legislation, we have a down-payment on health reform."
So, will Republicans splinter anew or coalesce before Sept. 30? Only one thing is certain in coming days: Suspense will mount as debate and negotiations intensify.
Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News Contributor and a contributing editor with National Review Online. He has collaborated for decades with many of the organizations cited in this opinion piece.


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Just out of Reach!
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Game made my stomach turn.ReplyDelete
Turning point had to Bay striking out with two runners in scoring position. Hairston's HR dont count as a turning point, cus the game never turned!
Bay is looking all to much like last year (only his average is down 20 points, and OPS is down 100). In five full seasons before the mets he only hit less than 30 hrs ONCE. (he also hit 26 in 120 games as a rookie in '04).
6 HRs??? truly amazing
Yeah...Forgot about Bay. I try to put him out of my head. I wish they'd just send him down and let he kids play! They are Amazingly Frustrating!ReplyDelete
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ARTIST TALK, Matt Mullican will talk about the work of Hanne Darboven as part of Dias Artists on Artists lectures. Mon., March 13 at 6:30 pm. DIA ART FOUNDATION, 548 W. 22nd St., bet. 10th and 11th Aves. 212-989-5566. $6, $3 for members, students and seniors.
Basic boating course, A good beginning course for anyone interested in pleasure boating, either sail or power, and a good refresher course for those with experience. Offered by North River Sail and Power Squadron, a nonprofit boating organization. The eight week course begins March 28. Classes are Tuesdays from 6:30 - 8:30pm. Murry Bergtraum High School, 411 Pearl St. Register on the first or second night of classes. www.NorthRiverSquadron.org. 212-217-2900.
Downtown Annual Purim Carnival, Hosted by the Jewish Community Project of Lower Manhattan, Tribeca Hebrew, the Synagogue for the Arts and the Battery Park Synagogue to celebrate the Jewish festival of Purim. The carnival offers masquerade, a family brunch, arts and crafts projects for all ages, carnival games, giveaways, a concert by the Z Brothers, a Purim skit and a childrens costume parade. March 12 from 10:30am -1:30pm. PS 234, 292 Greenwich St., at the corner of Chambers St. Costumes encouraged. For reservations, contact email@example.com or 212-334-3522. $36 per family, $15 per person.
event Planning Lecture, From premieres to fundraisers and festivals, special events are bigger than ever. Hear party-planners inside tips on how they pull it all together. Mon., March 27 from 6:30 to 8pm. THE NEW SCHOOL, Lang Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 2nd Fl., 55 W. 13th St. Free. RSVP to email@example.com or call 212-686-5005.
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New Architecture in Spain, The King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at New York University will host an interdisciplinary colloquium held in conjunction with the MoMA exhibition of the same title (on display thru May 1.) Thurs., March 9 at 6:30pm. 53 Washington Square South. Free, but reservations required. 212-998-3650
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LENZERHEIDE, Switzerland (AP) -- Mikaela Shiffrin is ready online and ready on the slopes.
The American teenager takes another step Saturday in her remarkable season - a showdown with Tina Maze for the World Cup slalom title.
Shiffrin won the slalom gold medal at the world championships last month. Her Slovenian rival is having perhaps the greatest season in 47 years of World Cup racing. Maze marginally leads the slalom standings, but Shiffrin will take home the crystal trophy if she delivers a fourth World Cup victory.
Shiffrin set the stage with a Twitter message. On Monday, two days before her 18th birthday, she wrote: "Tina Maze, I challenge you to a slalom battle of the ages. Lets dance ;)"
When Shiffrin was last in the U.S. almost four months ago, she was flying under the radar of American sports. Then her career took off Dec. 20 in Are, Sweden with her first World Cup victory.
Now, as a world champion with star status in Alpine skiing's European heartland, the soon-to-be high school graduate will start the 2014 Olympics season as an expected medal contender.
Shiffrin acknowledges setting a "lofty" goal last year to become World Cup slalom champion.
"Now I'm in this position where I really have a chance. I've been managed so well this season to be at this point," she told The Associated Press on Friday.
Shiffrin has great admiration for Maze, whose 10 World Cup wins include each speed and technical discipline.
"Her season has been really inspiring to me so I have her to thank for a lot for the energy I have gotten," Shiffrin said. "Seeing her win so much makes me want to win more."
That challenge on Twitter revealed a respect that Shiffrin believes is shared.
"She's always been very supportive and a great competitor and so that tweet was like, `Come on, bring it on' because she's going to, that's the way she is," Shiffrin said. "I'm almost honored to be in the position where if I lose the slalom globe it goes to her."
They are separated by just seven points. Whoever wins their personal duel will take the title unless both finish outside the top five.
The potential for a dramatic finale almost demands it be decided around high noon Swiss time when the first-run leaders come down a second time.
"I mostly just want to feel in the finish like I skied the fastest I can," Shiffrin said. "That's just such an amazing feeling and I get it a lot in training but I haven't gotten it in a race yet this season. I ski best when I'm loose and fired up and ready to race."
Her U.S. team coach, Roland Pfeifer, believes whatever she achieves is a bonus after the gold medal.
"She has won the biggest race of the year in Schladming. She's feeling very comfortable," Pfeifer told the AP on Friday.
Shiffrin trained this week - and celebrated her birthday with her parents, Jeff and Eileen - at Pfeifer's hometown of Schruns, Austria.
"The hotel put on this really big nice birthday party," she said. "They got a band to come and play, and I didn't know any of this was happening. They brought in a cake for breakfast, a cake for lunch and a bigger cake for dinner. I had a great week."
The momentum kept rolling on Friday when Shiffrin collected a sponsor's check for $21,300 as the rising star of the women's World Cup circuit. Her season prize money is several times that sum.
Shiffrin's week can peak Saturday. Then there's a season-ending giant slalom Sunday before the flight home.
"I cannot wait," she said, anticipating home comforts again. "Just to enter the U.S. Even at customs, I'm going to kiss the floor at customs. I just can't wait to get back there."


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Common Core: They're the faces of pro and conBy DAVE SOLOMON
New Hampshire Union Leader
November 12. 2013 9:34PM
CONCORD — They are two of the most well-established experts on educational policy in the country and in many ways have come to represent the pro and the con when it comes to Common Core State Standards.
Marc Tucker, president and founder of the National Center on Education and the Economy, argued for the educational standards in an appearance before a roomful of New Hampshire lawmakers on Oct. 29.
A week later, on Nov. 4, Sandra Stotsky posted a blog on the conservative Pioneer Institute website titled, "On Marc Tucker's Credibility," in which she wrote: "In October, members of the New Hampshire Legislature heard Marc Tucker tell them more fibs than Pinocchio ever dreamed up. How many legislators will prove to be gullible Geppettos is another matter."
Stotsky then went on to provide what she called, "An analysis of just a few paragraphs of his fib-filled comments." The six "math experts" that Tucker claims supported the standards were not really mathematicians but professional educators, she wrote, adding, "Tucker doesn't know a mathematician from a mathematics educator, raising the question whether he knows what he is talking about at all."
The battle of words has been underway for months. Stotsky, a resident of Massachusetts, has appeared at several forums hosted by Common Core opponents in New Hampshire, which was one reason the state's Board of Education felt compelled to work with the House Education Committee to invite Tucker, a resident of Maine, to the State House.
Tucker began his presentation in Concord by referring to allegations that he is a socialist, an advocate for federal control and, "perhaps worst of all," he said, "a friend of Hillary Clinton."
Both Tucker and Stotsky have impressive resumes and a lifetime of accomplishments that would take pages to detail. Tucker has been researching the policies and practices of countries with the best educational outcomes in the world since the 1970s, when he served as associate director of the National Institute of Education. He was appointed by President Clinton to the National Skills Standards Board and has written several books on education reform.
Stotsky was a researcher in the School of Education at Northeastern University and served as senior associate commissioner at the Massachusetts Department of Education when the Bay State developed some of the most widely applauded educational standards in the country.
A political divide
If Stotsky and Tucker represent the two schools of thought on Common Core, they also represent the political divide at the core of the debate.
Tucker, a registered Democrat, was an adviser to the Clinton Administration. His opponents have made much of the fact that the Common Core initiative and Tucker's organization have been funded by the left-leaning Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has invested $160 million in Common Core and has pledged millions more for advocacy.
Stotsky served on the Common Core validation committee and refused to sign off on the standards. She is identified as a "non-staff member" on the website of the conservative Heritage Foundation and blogs regularly for the like-minded Pioneer Institute, which supports home-schooling and charter school initiatives.
Her work as endowed chair in teacher quality at the University of Arkansas has been supported by Walmart's Walton Family Foundation, which supports tax-funded vouchers for private schools, charter schools and increased teacher testing.
The author of "Losing Our Language: How Multicultural Classroom Instruction Is Undermining Our Children's Ability to Read, Write, and Reason," Stotsky was a prominent opponent of ethnic studies in the Tucson, Ariz., school district in 2011, when an administrative law judge ruled that the curriculum used in Tucson's Mexican American studies programs was biased against white email@example.com
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TROUT CREEK MOUNTAINS, Ore. (AP)
Stars sparkle like jewels in the night sky over the Oregon desert, the vast southeastern landscape that makes up a quarter of the state.
Jewels are evident by day, too, from Hart Mountains rich wildlife habitat to the Owyhee Rivers colorful canyons.
These special settings, rough on the edges but so rewarding for those who love them, soon may be connected by a trail.
And not just any trail.
The Oregon Desert Trail will be 750 miles long, a nonmotorized route for hikers, horseback riders and, in part, for cyclists. A mapped trail, with water holes, campsites and waypoints identified, will entice more visitors to learn about, to enjoy and to care for this expansive part of the state.
The trails route has been scouted the last two summers by staff and volunteers from the Bend-based Oregon Natural Desert Association.
When the project comes to fruition, perhaps within a year or two, Oregons desert jewels will be linked by a continuous corridor on public land. An actual trail, like one in a forest, need not be built because the route will link existing tracks with cross-country travel across open terrain.
The trail will extend from near Bend to near Idaho, with a southward dip almost to the Nevada border.
The route is not designed to be easy. It will have long sections where the only water is what a hiker has cached in advance or gets from prearranged meetings along the way. Many miles will be lonely and forlorn, though rewarding for anyone strong enough and possessing the right skills to cover the miles at an appropriate time of year.
All thats needed is the mapping.
Why would a place so remote, so far off well-traveled paths need a designated hiking corridor?
Some places along the Oregon Desert Trail will never be attractive to most human visitors. Those places will be hiked, biked or ridden on horseback by rare individuals or small groups bent on doing the entire route to fulfill a challenge.
Most visitors, however, will gravitate to the crown jewels the trail will connect, among them the Oregon Badlands Wilderness, Diablo Peak, Fremont National Forest, Steens Mountain, the Pueblo Mountains and the Trout Creek Mountains.
The proposed desert trail in Oregon is modeled after the 800-mile Hayduke Trail of Utah and Arizona, which connects North Americas string of desert jewels: Arches, Canyonlands, Capital Reef, Grand Staircase, Bryce Canyon, Grand Canyon and Zion.
Oregons trail wont be in that league, but it will provide a better respite from 21st-century life than those national parks with their million-plus visitors.
The idea for the Oregon Desert Trail originated with Brent Fenty, executive director of the Oregon Natural Desert Association. He dispatched his team, supplemented by volunteers who join the associations trips, to scout the route beginning last year.
The entire way was explored by the end of last month, leaving winter for mapping and writing a proposal to present to land managers. Formal approval is desired but not required because the route is on public land.
This trail will thread a lot of amazing places together, Fenty said, admitting that some of those places will always be a challenge to reach. The basic philosophy is for people to get to know these places, to love them and to work to protect them.
There is this treasure in Oregons backyard, but much of it is not protected for future generations.
Much of the land the trail will cross has either no protected status or is classified as wilderness study areas. Congress has resolved appropriate uses on only a small part of Oregons southeast desert, Steens Mountain in 2000 and the Oregon Badlands in 2009. More than 5 million acres await resolution.
Remnants of burned sagebrush stretch as far as the eye can see, to the crest of the closest hills and across the distant plains. Wildfires were especially vicious this summer in remote southeast Oregon, scarring much of the route of the desert trail.
Nearly 1 million acres burned in southern Harney and Malheur counties.
A month after the flames subsided, a half-dozen hikers traveled to the Trout Creek Mountains, site of the 460,000-acre Holloway Fire in August, to scout two sections of the trail where it will enter and leave the remote mountains that spill across the Nevada border.
One member of the group has been an off-and-on lifelong resident of the Oregon desert, having recently retired as state field veterinarian for eastern Oregon.
Fire out here is part of the natural system, said Julie Weikel, who lives 25 miles south of Burns at the Narrows. Its just too bad so much had to go up at once.
She said that walking through the desert is a lot easier now, with so much brush and woody debris burned to the roots by three major blazes.
Youre going to see some magnificent sights out here the next couple of years, she said. With enough rain, the spring wildflowers will be incredible.
New shoots of green were growing just weeks after the fire, even without rain, from willows, aspens and greasewood.
Fire is but one part of the desert experience, which includes solitude and quiet, sweet smells of sage after a rain, wildlife, daily cycles of the sun and sky, winds kicking up dust devils, night skies filled with stars.
And the hunt for water.
Members of the exploratory group had no trouble in that regard because they set up camp at Willow Creek Hot Springs, a small Bureau of Land Management campground that escaped the fires fury. The hot springs are a 450-mile drive from Portland, 30 miles from the nearest community of Fields and five miles from its closest neighbor, the landmark Whitehorse Ranch.
The hot springs twin warm and cool pools are the perfect soaking place to wash off dirt from a day in the desert.
One member of the team rose early one morning, walked a hundred yards from camp to the top of a small hill and peered down on five beavers in Willow Creek.
While driving to a hiking location, trip leader Jeremy Fox slowed to let a rattlesnake cross the dusty track. The 3-foot snake was going from the burned side of the road to the unburned side.
If ever there was a time to feel sympathy for a rattler, this was it, because the snake must have been hungry.
At the hiking destination, Fox explained to the team how and when to take digital photos, how to make and record global positioning data. The Oregon Natural Desert Association will use the results to map the trail and load waypoints onto a website to guide users to parking areas, hiking corridors, water holes and campsites.
We dont want to put someone in these places who is unprepared, Fox said. We have to make 100 percent sure our maps are accurate. We want trail users to safely experience the whole package, or at least as much as they want.
And as anyone who has been out there knows, the Oregon desert has much to offer those who seek the experience.


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JACKSON, Tenn. -- Sophomore Lee Whitehead finished with a 73+75+71=219 to tie for fourth place as the Tennessee Tech men's golf team finished seventh at the Grover Page Classic Tuesday.
The Knoxville, Tenn. native shot eleven birdies while competing individually over the three-round tournament. Whitehead's fourth-place finish is a career-best, while his third-round 71 ties his career high, set in September at the Mason Rudolph Championship.
As a team, the Golden Eagles carded a 915 on the week, just one stroke back of Ohio Valley Conference rival Morehead State. Freshman Adam Cunningham led the squad with a 75+74+76=225 and led the 75-player field in par-3 scoring, averaging 2.83 strokes/hole.
Cunningham was followed by fellow freshmen Bryce Kendrick and Mitchell Thomas, who each carded a 230, tying for 24th in the tournament. Senior Greg Kitts improved his first round score by 12 strokes and finished tied for 29th with an 83+78+71=232.
Tech's next challenge comes March 18-19 as it hosts the Bobby Nichols Intercollegiate in Sevierville, Tenn. More information will be posted on TTUSports.com before the tournament.


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Posted: Thu 18 Dec 2008, 15:58
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Could someone help us with creating a pet for lkl keylogger software (or any other keylogging software that would work under puppy 4.1
Or explain how to make it work, for we don't seem to get it working.
Kind regards,
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I tried this last night and could get it to log a few keystrokes. It then went into a seg. fault and quit.
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Posted: Fri 19 Dec 2008, 23:17
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Worked for me. No problems.
make install
lkl -l -k keymaps/en_km -o keydata.txt
I am not going to post a dot pet for a key logger on this forum.
Don't think anyone else should ether.
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well brad maybe you also shouldn't of displayed the configure code also, what a terrible idea of packaging a keylogger, especially with all the derivatives being produced, Something like that could bring everything to a end. This whole thread should be deleted.
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Posted: Sat 20 Dec 2008, 01:45
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If this thread is deleted then only a few people will be aware that there is a keylogger which can easily be installed in Puppy. Instead of deleting the thread, maybe we should try to find a way to tell if a keylogger is installed in
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If this thread is deleted then only a few people will be aware that there is a keylogger which can easily be installed in Puppy. Instead of deleting the thread, maybe we should try to find a way to tell if a keylogger is installed in
Well that could take sometime and then this could be spread, Why not delete the thread and figure it out in the background? Some keyloggers will report to a email address in the background and the current user will have no idea that his bank details/passwords have now be shipped to someone who he doesn't know, Keyloggers are the worst kind of spyware, every key stroke is recorded and sent over the net, This thread needs to be delete. Its a very large security hole that needs to be closed.
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Posted: Sat 20 Dec 2008, 07:04
Post subject: keylogger or any other parental control tool for Puppy
What we are looking for is some kind of parental control tool similar to the ones that you can find on a windoz machine - a keylogger seemed to us the only alternative to work with Puppy.
Thanks for any suggestions.
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Posted: Sat 20 Dec 2008, 10:13
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I'm not sure that this thread would provide any essential knowledge to
an actual bad guy. People who would use this kind of program for
nefarious purposes already either have this kind of knowledge or can
easily obtain it.
It may be worth leaving this thread in place just to show that
operating system can be made absolutely fail safe and that people
always need to be vigilant.
It also wouldn't hurt to discuss the parental control aspect of the
issue. I can see this as a feature that many people might want to
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Posted: Sat 20 Dec 2008, 11:53
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keylogger - yuk
I too favour deleting that part of the thread
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Posted: Sat 20 Dec 2008, 17:37
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augh.. all I showed was the standard config code and the example command line from the help file.
these things exist..
I vote for deletion just so we don't give anyone any ideas.
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Posted: Sat 20 Dec 2008, 18:21
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If you want it compiled or some other sort parental control tool, pm me and I'll work on it, But first edit your first post and change lkl keylogger pet title to "delete post" and delete all the info you placed on here. I would rather just help you as in one person then let these ideas run to others who might use them to destroy peoples lives.
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When you decide to use some random Puppy derivative created by some dude you've never met, how do you know he doesn't have anything nasty hidden inside?
You don't.
If you trust Barry, you can be reasonably sure there isn't anything nasty in the official releases, unless it managed to sneak past him. But for derivatives, you have to also trust the creator of that derivative. And for derivatives of derivatives you need to trust Barry and both people involved in the remaster.
This applies to all distros and operating systems. If you don't trust the people at Red Hat, you can't trust Red Hat Linux.
I don't trust the people at MS, so I don't trust any MS product.
As for deleting this, I don't really see much point. This particular software comes up at the top of a google search for "linux keylogger" and the compile instructions are as basic as it gets, so it's not like we'd be hiding any info. If merlin026 wants it deleted I'll do it, but not otherwise.
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I DO NOT see the need to advertise ideas for people to read and get the wheels spinning, It places ideas in peoples heads, Thats where it starts, then someone might debate on it, and finally give in. Sure it might be easy to find or compile, but why advertise it.
Its like Racist comments, Can we make a thread and start some crap like that? Or is it better not spread such bad ideas around?
If it isn't generally productive for puppy it should be deleted. This thread is 100% counter productive and could lead to crippling a lot of fun that users partake in.
Pizzagood and Flash, both of you can sit on your hands and play stupid all you want, But if issues arise from this, I hope you devote 100% of your spare time trying to fix this mess that the both of you let happen.
I've tried to do the right noble thing here. I'll sleep fine, Probably won't download anymore Variants. And just stick to the main stream now. Whats the sense of having admins to protect the general public if they pro-Spyware.
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@Flash..agreed there should be a method of detection for such a simple and malicious thing. MS virus scanners don't work well with a Linux structure.
@ttuuxxx....this has been attempted before in Puppy and it will continue to happen....alerts should be raised. Users need to know the software they download is clean...a tall task for any distro.
@PG...this is a tough one...it's all in the open so deletion will not make any difference...but there needs to be a way to help noobs to be safe.
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just a quick observation:
I know everyone is worried about keyloggers root kits, virus and the sort taking your personal info and sending it somewhere for evil purposes but how would the program send an email with the log of the keystrokes if puppy doesn't have a sendmail service or server running ? I don't even think there is one in the default dist. So I was wondering what is so bad about this ? I could see where someone would want a log for when others are using there computer. I might be wrong but I looked through the source code and couldn't find anything that would let it send an email out through Puppy. I'm no expert in programming and don't want to get anyone worked up but one of the benefits of puppy is that we don't have most of the normal services running like other distro.
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Regulators move to strip former LGC subsidiary HealthTrust of non-profit statusStaff Report
February 07. 2014 3:45PM
CONCORD — State regulators on Friday filed a motion to strip HealthTrust, a former New Hampshire Local Government Center subsidiary that runs the state's largest public insurance risk pool, of its non-profit status, a move that would subject the organization to insurance regulation and taxation.
A release from the Bureau of Securities Regulation said the move comes in response to HealthTrust and another former LGC subsidiary, Property-Liability Trust, reaching a secret agreement in October to transfer all of PLT's assets and liabilities to HealthTrust. The agreement became effective in January when the state Supreme Court upheld most of Secretary of State hearing officer Donald Mitchell's order, issued in August 2012, that LGC split its operations into separate entities and repay more than $50 million to member political subdivisions.
The agreement, which wasn't made public until after the Supreme Court released its decision Jan. 10, called for PLT to be absorbed into HealthTrust, which the BSR said violates the Mitchell order.
"This portion of the Mitchell order also expressly stated that a failure to reorganize into separate pools would result in the revocation of the pools' status as" non-profit risk pools, the release said. "This would subject the pools to insurance regulations and state taxes, from which they are currently exempt."
HealthTrust Executive Director Peter Bragdon, who is also a state senator, said HealthTrust believes its actions will be vindicated.
"An independent arbiter, I think, will find we are in full compliance," he said. "I think that when the theatrics are over, it will be shown that HealthTrust acted in full compliance with the order and in the best interests of our members."
HealthTrust and PLT reached the agreement because a portion of the order called for PLT to repay $17.1 million that Mitchell ruled, and the Supreme Court upheld, had been illegally transferred from HealthTrust to prop up a money-losing workers' compensation program for more than a decade.
Bragdon and attorneys for HealthTrust and PLT have said the agreement avoids having PLT, which does not have enough cash on hand to make the payment, go bankrupt. They have said bankruptcy would be more expensive and take longer to execute than the agreement. He said the agreement was kept secret because it would have undermined the ability of PLT to seek renewals from members late last year. Without that business, he said, the ultimate return of funds to HealthTrust would have been diminished.
"All that was done was in the best interests of maximizing those assets and returning them to (HealthTrust) members," he said.
The motion comes after a meeting Tuesday between LGC officials and lawyers and the BSR, at which LGC attorneys said they wanted an "open" and "honest" dialogue with the BSR and to provide more details of the agreement, which the BSR said it was never told about until it was made public in January.
According to HealthTrust meeting minutes, the HealthTrust board met Oct. 28 to vote on and sign the agreement. The meeting officially was held in the Londonderry School District office of HealthTrust board Chairman Peter Curro, who is the district's business administrator, rather than at the Triangle Park Drive office shared by HealthTrust and PLT. Other board members participated by phone. The PLT board voted to accept the agreement the following day.
BSR attorney Andru Volinsky said any agreement regarding the payment cannot be altered without Mitchell's approval.
"I was surprised they didn't think to consult a regulator before entering into an agreement that purports to cut off the requirements of an administrative order," he said. "If they wanted relief from that, they should have come to the Bureau and asked Mister Mitchell for some revision of the order."
The BSR release said it received complaints from several communities, including North Hampton and Stratham, both of which sent letters to Secretary of State William Gardner asking him to intervene over the secret agreement, saying they felt deceived into purchasing products from the entities, given that they were not told about the agreement.


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Scooping the Ocean Floor
Just as the amount of water in the oceans seems infinite, so too does the number of fish. But today, many ocean creatures are threatened, largely due to overfishing.
One of the most harmful fishing practices is bottom trawling, in which a ship drags a huge, weighted net across the ocean floor. The wide mouth of the net scoops up all the bottom-dwelling fish in its path, while the rig, weighing several tons, scrapes the bottom, destroying cold-water coral ecosystems. Efforts are needed to restrict bottom trawling, especially in international waters.
"Scientists studying deep-sea corals are in an unfortunate race with commercial fishermen, who are trawling these corals into oblivion." -Dr. Martin Willison, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Too Deep for Snorkeling
Most people think of coral as the reefs around tropical islands. Yet spectacular corals are also found thousands of feet below the surface, on the dark, frigid ocean floor. Cold-water coral species are different than tropical ones, but both feature beautiful branching forms and bright colors. Cold-water reefs create a protective home for a variety of other creatures, including rockfish, rabbitfish, cod, and many more.
Swept Away
When a bottom trawler drags its net across the ocean floor, the heavy framework that holds the net open breaks off many tons of living coral, which get scooped up along with the fish. Most of the remaining corals don't survive, and because some species grow as little as a millimeter per year it may take centuries for the reef to recover.
Deep Sea Discoveries
More than just beautiful hiding places for fish, cold-water coral reefs may also hold medicines of the future. Scientists have already discovered several promising anti-cancer chemicals in sponges from these reefs. Also, the hard skeletons of bamboo corals have a structure so similar to bone that they can serve as a framework for growing bone implants.
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A BLIND man tasered by a Lancashire police officer who mistook his white stick for a samurai sword has issued a claim for damages against the county's police force.
Colin Farmer has sent a letter to Lancashire Constabulary seeking damages for an incident on October 12, in which he tasered by a stun gun which delivers 50,000 volts.
The weapon was discharged by an officer in Peter Street, Chorley, as Mr Farmer made his way to a pub to meet friends.
In addition Mr Farmer, via McMillan Williams solicitors, will be seeking a declaration of incompatibility from the High Court in relation to the use of the taser on him.
Stroke victim Mr Farmer, 61, claimed he collapsed to the ground in shock after he was hit in the back with the gun while walking down the street.
Police had been responding to reports of a man walking through the town armed with the deadly martial arts sword and were searching the town centre for a suspect.
A statement from his solicitor, Sophie Khan, said: "Mr Farmer is claiming damages for assault, false imprisonment, breach of Article 3 under the European Convention of Human Rights and personal injury for the physical and psychological injuries he has suffered as a result of the incident."
The police force has already issued an apology saying they 'deeply regret' what has happened.


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So it turns out that the 2012 Padres hit three digits long before their 100th loss.
Andrew Cashner came out of the bullpen Sunday afternoon to make baseballs blurry. According to the radar readings of
MLB.com, Cashner threw 14 pitches that registered at least 100 miles per hour — 10 of them in succession — and that's a feat no other Padres' pitcher has approached in the first 43 years of the franchise.
This was worth noting, worth watching, worth water cooler conversation and probably worth promoting as a plausible reason to visit Petco Park this summer.
If you can't pretend to be chasing a championship — if your owner has put up a "For Sale" sign while operating on a shoestring barely long enough to be laced — you might as well attack public apathy with a carnival act. In the absence of a big-league lineup, a dazzling defense, a stingy starting rotation or the reliable comic relief of a mime dressed as poultry, the Padres present Andrew Cashner — the fastest gun they've ever owned.
Aim, presumably, comes later.
Cashner's two-out, eighth-inning, bases-loaded walk to Giancarlo Stanton lifted the Miami Marlins to a 6-3 win Sunday and three-game sweep of the undermanned Home Team. The good news from the Padres' perspective is that this season already seems so futile that Cashner's velocity brings the ballclub some buzz.
Clubhouse consensus said Cashner was probably the first Padres' pitcher to reach 100 miles per hour in a game, and certainly the club's pioneer at the 102-mph plateau. Pitching coach Darren Balsley said the only other Padres pitcher he could recall reaching 100 mph was Rusty Tucker, who did it for Double-A Mobile in 2003.
Here in baseball's island of misfit toys, Andrew Cashner might qualify as a decent drawing card if only short relief specialists made scheduled appearances.
"It's human nature," Padres' pitcher Joe Wieland said. "When you see something like that, you kind of are drawn to it, just like a guy who can hit a ball 450 feet in batting practice. Guys want to watch that. (Cashner's) that pitcher. When you can throw 100 miles per hour, you're definitely going to light up some eyes."
With three starting pitchers, bullpen closer Huston Street and locally grown slugger Carlos Quentin on the disabled list, the Padres look like a club better suited for the Pacific Coast League. Sunday's loss was their 20th in 29 games, a performance that projects as a 50-112 season.
Though it's hard to believe the Padres can be that bad for that long, it's also tough to imagine that they can soon be markedly better.
"Sometimes you have to go through rough times to get to where you want to go," manager Bud Black said before Sunday's game. "It's not always smooth sailing."
Smooth sailing? The Padres might as well be running the rapids on a refrigerator.
First baseman Yonder Alonso, the most immediate help obtained in the deal that sent Mat Latos to Cincinnati, has outlasted even Albert Pujols in pursuit of his first home run. (Latos struck out 11 Pirates in six innings on Sunday.)
Center fielder Cameron Maybin, two months after signing a $25 million contract extension, needed three hits Sunday to lift his batting average to .219.
Catcher Nick Hundley, locked up through at least 2014 at a cost of at least $9 million, dropped to .188 with his game-ending groundout Sunday.
"I think you'll see some batting averages pick up," Black said when asked to identify his basis for optimism. "I think that's one of the things we look at. I do think that our defense will improve based on a number of plays that happened in April that I don't think players will repeat moving forward. And I think we'll continue to pitch at this rate, which I think will be good enough to stay in games.
"When we do that, with the improved offense, some of those close games will turn our way."
Because the Padres' outgoing ownership is unlikely to invest in costly short-term patchwork, Black must bank on better health to improve the club's competitive posture. His hope is that Quentin, Street and starter Tim Stauffer can contribute soon enough to make a difference in his club's direction. His problem is that the Padres are barely competitive at full strength and virtually hopeless when major pieces are missing.
Management made a shrewd investment when it agreed to outfit more than 11,000 Little Leaguers with various Padre jerseys and caps, and Sunday's pregame parade was a triumph of branding and loyalty-building. Kids who might otherwise feel little connection to a last-place club whose broadcasts are still unavailable to many local viewers can credit the Padres for the shirts on their backs and the hats on their heads. Long-term, that looks like inspired product placement.
Short-term, the Padres look like a tougher sell than termites. Cory Luebke, the club's most promising pitcher, may need reconstructive elbow surgery. Cashner, the Padres' most spectacular arm, has so far produced as many walks as strikeouts (12).
The tiebreaking walk to Stanton was an eight-pitch at bat. Seven of them were clocked at 101 miles per hour; one at 102.
"If you're going to walk somebody — and he's had a few issues with the walks — that's how you walk them," Balsley said. "It's a battle all the way through — a guy throwing 101 against one of the best young hitters in baseball."
It was something to see, something to savor, something to distract fans from a dismal season.