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James Dean, left, president of the University of New Hampshire, listens to a presentation Wednesday by Jeromy Grimmett, CEO of Rogue Space Systems, during a tour of the company’s Laconia headquarters.
Dean has made nine stops in eight towns over the last two days, joined by UNH researchers, scientists and administrators. Each of the stops focused on “key land, sea and space grant missions, as well as state policy priority areas of health care, education, workforce and the environment,” UNH said.
The business, located in a former mill building on the east bank of the Winnipesaukee River in downtown Laconia, got off to an inauspicious start when it was founded in 2020, Grimmett said.
“We had super-cheap internet, and we couldn’t communicate with NASA,” he said.
Shortly thereafter, more good news arrived at Rogue’s Union Avenue headquarters, including up to $2.75 million in funding through the SpaceWERX Orbital Prime initiative of the U.S. Space Force. Rogue had 11 of its 13 proposals selected for funding, with funding for two others possible in the future.
“Having that kind of capability in your backyard is a pretty neat thing,” said Grimmett, who told Dean that Rogue is looking to create a local STEM (science, engineering, technology and math) center to “build a pipeline of students” who might become Rogue employees.
Grimmett urged the state to do more to fund new companies and improve the startup culture in New Hampshire.
“We’ve got to do more to keep our New Hampshire-trained people” in New Hampshire, he said.
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Laconia US Space Force contractor part of UNH president's statewide tour | Business | unionleader.com
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Lincoln Soldati
Lincoln Soldati, former Strafford County Attorney, mayor of Somersworth and U.S. Congressional candidate, died Sunday of stage 4 esophageal cancer.
Soldati placed himself in hospice after being diagnosed with stage 4 esophageal cancer at Mass General Hospital, a family member said in an email. He went to Hyder Family Hospice House, on the grounds of Strafford County Complex where he first made his name as Strafford County Attorney.
Soldati served nine successive terms as Strafford County Attorney, establishing Strafford County’s first Victim Assistance Program, and providing training on criminal justice for judges, attorneys, police, medical personnel and rape crisis counselors, and also educating college and high school students.
He was a frequent visitor to the Statehouse in Concord, testifying on various issues, famously initiating legislation to transfer the cost of the rape examination kit from the victim to the state.
He authored several sections of New Hampshire statutes related to sexual assault, child abuse and neglect, and domestic violence.
Soldati was the lone prosecutor to testify for the repeal of New Hampshire’s death penalty. When he left the Strafford County Attorney’s office after 18 years to enter private practice, he received accolades from the Strafford County Bar Association, the Hillsborough County Attorney’s office, the New Hampshire House of Representatives and Gov. John Lynch.
He served eight years on the Somersworth School Board, and in 2009 was elected Mayor of Somersworth.
In early 2016, he worked in Palestine mentoring young public defenders, and later that year, he drove to Standing Rock to help the Sioux Nation fight for its water rights in North Dakota, whose values reinforced his lifelong mission “to be of use.” When he returned to the state, he became an Uber driver in 2017, then was a candidate for U.S. Congress in the primary in the 1st District to replace Carol Shea Porter.
The Soldati family asks that in lieu of flowers, friends consider supporting his longtime favorite organization, HavenNH, which offers violence prevention and support services. www.havennh.org
Family members said for a final celebration, Lincoln asked to have loved ones gather to dance to his favorite music, break bread and share memories.
The family is hosting a potluck event, “The Party of Life for the Life of the Party, Lincoln Soldati” Sunday, Nov. 13, at 3 p.m. at the Somersworth VFW, 43 High St. in Somersworth.
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Former Strafford County Attorney, Somersworth Mayor Lincoln Soldati dies at 73 | Politics | unionleader.com
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Theodore Luckey sits with his attorney, Robin Melone, at his plea and sentencing hearing at Hillsborough County Superior Court in Manchester on Monday.
Brittany Hunt, Nathan Cashman's cousin, gives a victim impact statement at Theodore Luckey's plea and sentencing hearing at Hillsborough County Superior Court in Manchester on Monday.
Eileen Cashman, the grandmother of Nathan Cashman, returns to her seat after giving a victim impact statement at Theodore Luckey's plea and sentencing hearing at Hillsborough County Superior Court in Manchester on Monday.
Theodore Luckey watches as Eileen Cashman, the grandmother of Nathan Cashman, gives a victim impact statement at Luckey's plea and sentencing hearing at Hillsborough County Superior Court in Manchester on Monday.
Theodore Luckey drove to New Hampshire on Aug. 21, 2021, from New Jersey in hopes of making amends with a former boyfriend he met in prison, but he also had other plans, a prosecutor said.
Before leaving Asbury Park, N.J., Luckey, 44, went to a hardware store and bought a machete. He wanted to be “prepared for the worst” if things didn’t go as he wanted with Nathan Cashman of Manchester, said prosecutor Adam Woods during a plea and sentencing hearing Monday in Hillsborough Superior Court.
In New Jersey, Luckey became distraught and couldn’t function after finding out Cashman had gone back to his ex-girlfriend and no longer wanted to be with him, Woods said.
Luckey came to New Hampshire on the weekend of Aug. 15 and held a surprise birthday party for Cashman at the Puritan Backroom, complete with balloons and gifts. He had been released early after being transferred back to New Jersey as part of the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Luckey returned on Aug. 21 to where Cashman agreed to meet.
“Mr. Cashman can be heard screaming in the background to the defendant pleading with him to stop and telling the defendant he loved him,” Woods said. “But the defendant did not stop for approximately three and half to four minutes. He continued to attack Mr. Cashman with a machete, dropping it at one point and picking it back up to continue.”
Cashman’s family, including his 83-year-old grandmother, embraced each other and held their heads down as the details of the grisly murder were read by Woods. One collected a bunch of tissues from the front of the courtroom before the hearing began.
Sculimbrene and attorney Robin Malone said he changed over time and agreed not to contest reports that Luckey would be competent to face trial.
During her victim witness statement, Cashman’s grandmother, Eileen Cashman, pointed directly at the 6-foot-7 Luckey, who sat up straight in his chair.
“Who do you think you are?” she said to Luckey. “You chose who would live and who would die.
“It was more than murder, you chopped him to death,” Cashman said. “I could barely remember his service, I was in shock and disbelief.””
Nathan Cashman’s cousin, Brittany Hunt, called Luckey a “monster.”
Before the sentencing, Luckey requested that a phone conversation he had with Cashman be played in court. The two could be heard laughing and saying “I love you” multiple times.
Luckey spoke for nearly an hour during an allocution statement, in which he did not hold back on details. Earlier in court, he told Delker he had behavioral issues as a kid and was kicked out of at least three schools. He served in the military before being discharged in December 2005.
Luckey said he “self-destructed” after the breakup with Cashman. He said he was blindsided and never saw it coming. He took long pauses and swayed back and forth during his statement and showed the courtroom a picture of the night at the Puritan.
He compared the situation to the game Clue and said he was the murderer. He mentioned the TV show “Snapped,” a true crime television show, in which lovers are often murdered.
“When I figured out in my head that I was nothing but an ATM machine to him and he used me, those dark thoughts became real,” Luckey said. “Yes, I bought a machete. I wasn’t even looking for it, but when I walked into the store and saw it on the wall, I got it.”
He said he wished Cashman’s killing had happened behind closed doors, where families on vacation, including young children, couldn’t see it.
“I don’t regret doing what I did, whatsoever,” he said. “I never will. I can look in the mirror every day, every day and be OK with it. I can walk around and stand tall, ‘Yes, I did what I did.’ But Nathan Elliot Cashman ... If he didn’t lie, if he didn’t cheat, if he didn’t cheat, guess what? He would still be alive today.”
“The defendant stated, ‘I want to hurt him. I want him to feel the pain that I felt. That’s what I wanted,’” Woods said.
Delker said people are heartbroken and feel betrayed all the time, but they don’t kill. He called Luckey’s actions cruel.
“This case is the absolute worst example of domestic violence gone bad where you decided that were the judge, jury and executioner,” he said.
“Burn in hell,” Hunt yelled.
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New Jersey man pleads guilty to Bedford double murder | Courts | unionleader.com
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Provided by NH Fish & Game
PITTSBURG – At approximately 5:30 p.m. Fish & Game conservation officers were notified of a hunter who had been found deceased at the end of Coon Brook Bog Road.
Members of Pittsburg Fire & EMS were first on scene. The closest conservation officer was over an hour away, but a response was initiated.
After a conservation officer arrived on scene it was determined through interviews, witness statements and evidence at the scene that this was not a hunting-related incident.
The victim, a 53-year-old male from Massachusetts, had intended to go hunting with a group of friends, but was not feeling well so he stayed at the vehicle while his friends went out for a hunt.
When his companions came back a few hours later, they found him deceased.
The death does not appear suspicious and all indications point to an undetermined medical event.
The victim’s name is being withheld pending notification of family. No further information was available Monday night.
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2022-11-08T03:13:10Z
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Man found dead in car in Pittsburg, death does not appear suspicious | Public Safety | unionleader.com
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Rosario Barcelona, a 101-year-old Navy veteran of World War II from Salem, was honored during the annual Woodbury School Veterans Day Program. This year's event was held at Salem High School on Friday.
Members of the Air Force Junior ROTC conduct the POW/MIA "Missing Man" table ceremony during the annual Veterans Day Program held at Salem High School on Friday. Sixth graders at Woodbury School organize the annual event but it had to be moved this year to the high school because of construction.
The sixth grade chorus from Woodbury School in Salem surprises the crowd by using kazoos while performing World War II era songs during the school’s annual Veterans Day program on Nov. 4 held at Salem High School this year.
From left, Joe Byron, founder and executive director of Honor Flight New England, poses with Rosario Barcelona, a 101-year-old World War II Navy veteran, and his brother Louis, 91, also a veteran, during the annual Woodbury School Veterans Day program in Salem on Friday. Byron hopes to take the brothers on the next Honor Flight to Washington, D.C., in 2023, and gave them paperwork for the trip after the event.
Although Friday is Veterans Day, no ceremony is planned at the New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery in Boscawen.
Veterans say that’s a good thing.
Rather than visit the state cemetery, service organizations are asking folks to attend ceremonies in their communities that honor and celebrate their neighbors who have served.
Shawn Buck, director of the Boscawen cemetery, said statewide events were held on Veterans Day there for many years.
But a few years ago, some veterans organizations expressed concern that many of their members and their families had to skip local events to attend that ceremony. So, at the request of the State Veterans Advisory Council, the adjutant general directed the cemetery to discontinue the ceremony, Buck said.
Veterans Day won’t be ignored. A brief ceremony will be held at the state cemetery on Thursday, after which volunteers will place flags on the graves.
Buck said he has heard from some disappointed veterans, but he understands the rationale for the move.
Attending a local event offers an opportunity to meet your neighbors who are veterans, listen to their stories and thank them in person, Buck said.
“In your town, you’re very likely to see that veteran again, whether it be at the store or a school event or the town fair,” he said. “And maybe, just maybe, you start to develop a relationship, or at least a recognition.
“I think that’s why the push to be in your community makes a lot of sense,” he said.
While Memorial Day is about honoring those who died in service to their country, Buck said, “Veterans Day is to honor the living veterans in our communities.”
“Every town in New Hampshire has them,” he said. “Reach out and say thanks in some sort of way.”
Observances
New Hampshire’s biggest Veterans Day parade steps off in Manchester at 10:30 a.m. on Friday. Color guards, members of veterans service organizations, high school marching bands, historic military vehicles, scouts and antique cars are set to participate.
Marchers will pause at City Hall to play taps and observe a moment of silence, followed by a wreath-laying ceremony at Veterans Park.
Tim Searles, an Army veteran who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2009, said it means a lot to see people attend the parade.
“I think it’s a great thing for the community to show support for veterans,” said Searles, the adjutant of Manchester Veterans Council, which organizes the annual parade. “It’s a good way to get face-to-face interactions.”
“Veterans Day is for the living,” Searles said.
The American Legion Sweeney Post #2 in Manchester sponsors a free luncheon immediately after the parade.
On the Seacoast, American Legion Post 35 organizes four separate ceremonies on Veterans Day.
The first is held at the “Lady of the Sea” Marine Memorial on Hampton Beach at 8 a.m., followed by ceremonies at the town common in Hampton Falls at 9 a.m., at North Hampton Town Hall at 10 a.m., and at the Legion hall on High Street in Hampton.
John Barvenik, who has been a member of Post 35 for nearly 30 years, said each ceremony features a wreath-laying, the singing of the national anthem, a prayer, a guest speaker and the playing of taps.
Barvenik, a Vietnam combat veteran, said he’s glad to see the focus on local events that allow some older veterans to be honored close to home. At the Hampton area events, he said, all veterans are asked to raise their hands to be recognized.
“It’s also important for the youth, the younger people, to attend these things,” he said.
“It makes no difference the branch of the service, or what the individual did, whether they stayed here in this country or they were behind a desk, or were on the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan, or in the jungles of Vietnam or the snowy fields of Korea,” Barvenik said.
“They’re all veterans, and they all stepped up and served.”
Buck from the state veterans cemetery said veterans appreciate being thanked for their service, and getting discounts at restaurants and stores. “As a veteran myself, these are all tremendously appreciated,” he said.
“But I think Veterans Day is a time to kick it up a notch, do a little bit more,” he said.
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Bruins' Neely: Mitchell Miller signing “by far” his biggest regret in his tenure
At the age of 14, Miller was convicted in juvenile court of assaulting and bullying a Black classmate with developmental disabilities.
Neely or anyone in the organization still had not reached out to the family at the time of Monday’s press conference but he said he planned on doing so. Contacted on Monday morning, the victim’s mother, Joni Meyer-Crothers, said that while she still has a problem with some of the comments GM Don Sweeney had made in his Zoom conference at the time of the signing on Friday, she said “I would be happy to speak with (Neely).”
“It’s something I have to deal with this week and see where it takes me,” said Neely.
But the upper reaches of management did not go into this with blindfolds on. Neely himself met with Miller, his mother and his agent, Eustace King.
On Saturday, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, speaking in Finland, said that he did not know the signing was going to happen, but Neely said that Sweeney spoke with Bettman’s second-in-command Bill Daly last Wednesday, two days before the signing.
While Neely was very much a part of the vetting process, he feels that it was an organizational failure.
“I made it clear that we have to vet this out properly. When it first came to my attention in August, I said, ‘We have to vet this out properly. This is something that is a massive decision for the organization to make,” said Neely, who admitted there was some “trepidation” within the organization about the signing.
“From everything I had heard, he was working on himself, working in programs to better himself. I was under the impression he was a 14-year-old kid who made a really, really bad decision and did some horrible things. And he’s 20 years old now, and I was under the impression that in the last six years, he had done a lot to (better) himself.”
On Sunday, Miller’s agent released a statement explaining why he had taken on Miller as a client. In the statement, King — one of the few Black agents in the league — listed numerous agencies with which Miller planned to work. At least one, The Carnegie Initiative, felt the need to clarify that Miller, though he did indeed approach the group, had not worked with it.
Asked if he felt misled at all by Miller’s camp, Neely declined to answer, nor did he spell out the process for terminating the contract. He could be anticipating a legal battle over the canceling out of the deal. But it’s pretty clear that no matter how that plays out, Miller will not be a Boston Bruin.
Neely admitted that he did not expect the level of public blowback.
“Initially I thought it (would be) ‘OK, this kid deserves a second chance.’ I thought there would be some people that would be upset about it. But to the extent of this, I misread that,” said Neely, who also said the pushback from his own players was just a part of what led to his decision to part ways with the player.
Now the Bruins need to mend their hard-earned reputation as an organization that values character. How long that takes is anyone’s guess.
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Jake Crouthamel was the athletic director at Syracuse after playing and coaching football at Dartmouth.
Dartmouth legend Crouthamel dies at 84
Dartmouth Athletics
John “Jake” Crouthamel, a former star halfback and coach at Dartmouth College, died peacefully on Monday. He was 84 years old.
A native of Perkasie, Pennsylvania, Crouthamel was Dartmouth’s leading rusher for three seasons and the Ivy League rushing leader in 1958 when he set a Dartmouth single-season rushing record with 722 yards in 123 carries, a 5.89-yard average, earning second-team NEA All-America honors.
He was named to the All-Ivy League first team in each of his final two seasons, and his career rushing total of 1,763 yards (387 carries, 4.56 average, 12 touchdowns) was a Dartmouth record that stood for more than a decade and still ranks sixth all-time.
Crouthamel graduated from Dartmouth in 1960 and was selected by the Los Angeles Chargers in the first American Football League draft but signed with the Dallas Cowboys, an NFL expansion team. The last player cut in the preseason by the Cowboys, he then played with the AFL’s Boston Patriots during their inaugural season.
After three years in the U.S. Navy and a year as football coach at Mercersburg (Pa.) Academy, Crouthamel returned to Dartmouth as a member of Bob Blackman’s coaching staff in 1965. In six years as an assistant coach, he helped the Big Green earn four Ivy League championships, including two undefeated seasons (1965, 1970) when Dartmouth also won the Lambert Trophy as the outstanding team in the East.
When Blackman left Dartmouth after 16 years to become football coach at Illinois, Crouthamel was named his successor. From 1971-77, Crouthamel’s teams compiled a record of 41-20-2 (.667) and won or shared three Ivy League championships (1971-72-73).
After leading the Big Green to an unprecedented fifth straight Ivy title in 1973, he was recognized as the New England and NCAA District I Coach of the Year.
Crouthamel left coaching after the 1977 season to become the athletics director at Syracuse University.
He was instrumental in the creation of the Big East Conference in 1979 and led the Orange to great successes: a national title in men’s basketball, nine national titles in men’s lacrosse, 14 football bowl appearances and 22 overall Big East Conference championships in his 27 years at the helm.
He is survived by Carol, his wife of 61 years; two daughters and four grandsons. In retirement since 2005, Jake and Carol lived in Centerville, Mass., until moving to Hanover in 2013.
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2022-11-08T03:13:29Z
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Shortstop Xander Bogaerts
Xander Bogaerts opts out of contract, officially becoming a free agent
Xander Bogaerts made perhaps the easiest decision of his career on Monday when he officially opted out of his team-friendly contract with the Red Sox to become a free agent for the first time.
Bogaerts, 30, has been the most productive offensive shortstop in baseball for the last five years. Since 2018, his .880 OPS is far and away the best among qualified MLB shortstops, while he was also a Gold Glove finalist this year for his consistent work on defense.
The Red Sox had been enjoying his services at $20 million a year, at least 30% less than what other top-tier shortstops are paid, but Bogaerts on Monday swiftly opted out of the remaining three years at $60 million.
The Sox are expected to make him a qualifying offer worth $19.65 million for 2023.
Bogaerts will obviously reject that, which would give the Sox draft pick compensation should he sign with another club.
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2022-11-08T03:13:40Z
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Mom still blames Dad for every bad thing that has happened to her since the divorce, even though she chose to quit her job and go on disability, which severely limited her income and options. When Dad’s wife died, Mom was almost happy. She said she knew that same grief because of what she went through with the divorce. (It’s NOT the same thing.)
DEAR INCLUSIVE: Remember the adage, “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink”?
All these years, your mother has nursed her anger as though it was an infant. The only person who can help her “move on” is herself, which she is clearly unwilling to do.
Ask your father how he would feel about joining the family during the coming holidays. You may find that he would prefer to avoid her and socialize with friends he and his wife cultivated during their marriage.
But please do not allow your mother to dictate whom you can or cannot entertain in your home.
If she wishes to stay away, that will be her privilege and her punishment.
Our marriage has turned into one big fight. I have asked him to say, “I didn’t hear you. Could you repeat that?” when he doesn’t hear me, but that hasn’t worked.
He still flat-out denies that I said anything to him. If I don’t hear him clearly, I ask him to repeat what I didn’t hear. How can I convince him that he needs a hearing aid before these fights end our marriage?
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To the Editor: Our disabled veterans are grossly undercompensated. This travesty of justice is causing enlistments to dry up. That’s a danger.
In FY2023, a totally disabled veteran with no dependents is compensated at the ridiculous rate of $43,463.40 annually. The National Average Wage Index (NAWI) for 2021 was $60,575.07 dollars per annum and the median income for 2021 was $70,784. The per capita GDP in 2021 was $69,288 dollars, among the highest in the world.
Disabled veterans have been asking various administrations and Congresses for fair compensation since the end of World War I in November 1918. That was 104 years ago!
In my opinion, the reason for their gross under-compensation situation is because they are only compensated for projected loss of wages due to their disabilities. They are not compensated for their low quality of life, which is the norm now in personal injury cases in court. This is done to keep taxation low for the wealthy elites.
This means that people that had their assets and overseas business interests protected the most by our now broken former troops pay essentially nothing to support them in their brokenness. Congress must correct this.
DENNIS HAUGABROOK
Elm Street, Manchester
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2022-11-08T06:29:06Z
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To the Editor: Following the attacks of Sept 11, 2001, our nation became extremely concerned regarding possible anthrax attacks. I was involved in an incident involving what turned out to be an inactive microscope slide dropped in a local high school. This resulted in a full-scale lockdown and hazmat response from Nashua Fire Department to Wilton as they are the best equipped and trained to handle this type of incident.
Flash forward to today and fentanyl is coming into this country and readily available resulting in a huge number of overdoses to our most vulnerable population. First responders come in contact with it and need to be revived by Narcan. How come this is not being addressed with the same urgency as it comes over the border and made widely available? I would like some answers as to how folks plan to address this national security issue.
DOUGLAS WHITNEY
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2022-11-08T06:29:12Z
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Laura Simoes
It is said that President William McKinley received the first concession speech in the form of an 1896 telegram from William Jennings Bryant. While we consider these late-night announcements by losing politicians to be required, it is only since the advent of TV cameras, and Adlai Stevenson’s 1952 election night remarks, that the live-broadcast concession speech has become a marker of the closing of a campaign. Today, concession speeches in American politics are expected, even necessary acts, asking the defeated supporters to accept the loss and commit to a peaceful transition of power.
All concession speeches follow a script with common properties: the losing candidate calls an end to the fight (often without saying he or she “lost”); there is some acknowledgement of supremacy by the opponent (we were beaten by the better team, we were outspent, we were swept up in a trend); there is some talk of the bigger idea — democracy, freedom, civic engagement; there is gratitude for all who helped the candidate; and there is a pledge to continue to fight (in other places of power) for the campaign’s thematic ideals.
These public performances, at a time of personal grief, are marked by the same qualities found in novelized dramas, with the tropes of war and surrender. Each speech of defeat plays out like an epic of ancient battles. The bloodied and beaten contender steps forward to acknowledge loss and to congratulate the foe. The concession telegraphs to supporters that the time has come to stop fighting, even when the candidate may be positioning him or herself for a future run.
Concession speeches are predictable, nearly rote. That is, if they happen at all. Recall the loss of Governor Craig Benson to John Lynch in 2004. Popular lore has it that Benson was begged by campaign advisers and supporters to make a concession speech. He refused. He was ahead of his time. Americans are still waiting for President Donald Trump to concede the 2020 election. Trump neither phoned President-elect Biden to congratulate him, nor addressed his supporters that November.
Some concession speeches are forgotten as more pablum of campaign consultants. Others, though, are remembered for honest emotion and dignity. Senator John McCain used his remarks in 2008 to usher in a new President saying, “In a contest as long and difficult as this campaign has been, his success alone commands my respect for his ability and perseverance… This is an historic election, and I recognize the special significance it has for African-Americans, and for the special pride that must be theirs tonight.” In his “Straight Talk Express” style, McCain also accepted responsibility for the loss saying, “Though we fell short, the failure is mine, not yours.”
In 2016, Hillary Clinton used her speech to inspire for the future. It is the first concession to show up on T-shirts and coffee mugs, with this quote, “To all the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams.”
Others show unexpected grace and humility, even when the campaign was marked by savage remarks. Senator Bob Dole, in 1996, said of President-elect Bill Clinton, “[He] is my opponent, not my enemy, and I wish him well and I pledge my support in whatever advances the cause of a better America, because that’s what the race was about in the first place.”
Some candidates leave the stage with resolve and strength after a loss, signaling a future battle. This fall, we heard U.S. Representative Liz Cheney say, after losing her primary fight in Wyoming, “I have said since January 6, that I will do whatever it takes to make sure Donald Trump is never again anywhere near the Oval Office, and I mean it. This is a fight for all of us together. I’m a conservative Republican. I believe deeply in the principles and the ideals on which my party was founded. I love its history. And I love what our party has stood for. But I love my country more.”
Perhaps Hubert Humphrey’s 1968 concession after losing to Richard Nixon is best remembered, if at all, for how it came to an end with a kind of rambling personal reflection, expressing the feelings of many failed politicians. Humphrey said, “As a matter of fact, I feel a great sense of both release and relief, and I hope and pray that all of you will feel the same way. I want you to be of good cheer. I’d like to have you feel a little happy.”
This election night, watch for the concession speech script to be pulled out and customized by each candidate. After all, grace in defeat is the best predictor of future wins when humility takes the microphone in that hotel ballroom or restaurant, set to the chants of disappointed supporters.
Laura Simoes is a PhD candidate in linguistics and communications at Hellenic American University, based in Athens, Greece, and Nashua. She is the executive director of the Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications in Manchester.
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By Praveena Somasundaram The Washington Post
After seven years of playing the lottery, a Delaware woman had a lucky break last month when one of the Ultimate Cash Instant Game tickets she'd bought at a gas station won her $100,000.
The 70-year-old woman from Newark told her best friend the news, and the pair drove to the lottery headquarters to claim her prize a few days later. Little did they know, they'd be back soon.
"When I scratched the $300,000 winning SERIOUS MONEY ticket later in the day, we just sat there in disbelief," said the woman, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to the Delaware Lottery, which does not publish winners' names without consent.
Delaware is one of only a handful of states with laws that allow winners to remain anonymous, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association. In others, winners' names are public record.
Helene Keeley, acting director of the Delaware Lottery, congratulated the woman on her "double win."
"It's great to see our players bring home six-figure prizes," Keeley said in a statement.
Lottery players across the country have been frantically buying tickets in recent days as the Powerball - one of the largest jackpot lottery games in the United States - recently soared to a record $1.9 billion value, the second time it has reached a 10-digit number.
Saturday's Powerball drawing was the 40th consecutive one without a winner, and the next drawing is scheduled for Monday night. The jackpot's odds are 1 in 292.2 million.
Thomas decided to take the two lump sums - totaling $780,000, ($551,851 after taxes) - to pay bills, help his family and potentially buy a house, the state lottery said.
Before the Delaware woman's double win, the most recent person from the state to claim a six-figure victory was an 81-year-old who won $100,000 from an Oct. 10 Powerball drawing, according to the state's 2022 winners list.
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By Rick Noack The Washington Post
PARIS - Eight former French bishops have been accused of sexual abuse and 3 more of non-denunciation of abuse, the French bishops' conference said Monday, signaling that some high-level Catholic Church officials not only turned a blind eye for decades but may have been perpetrators themselves.
Among those under investigation was Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, a former head of the French bishops' conference, who has admitted to abusing a 14-year-old girl when he was a priest 35 years ago.
"I behaved in a reprehensible way," Ricard, 78, wrote in a confession letter read during a news conference by Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, the current president of the bishops' conference.
Monday's revelations - which came as church officials met for an annual conference - are "shocking, but not surprising," said Zach Hiner, executive director of SNAP, a network of church abuse victims.
Some of the accusations were already known, and wherever independent commissions or church officials have looked for evidence of sexual abuse over past decades, they have tended to find cases on a stunning scale.
Last year, a report from an independent French commission found that French Catholic clerics had abused more than 200,000 minors over the past 70 years. The report estimated the number of perpetrators to be at least 3,000.
"One doesn't get to those kinds of levels without there being significant problems at the very top," said Hiner, who said abuse accusations against "people at the highest levels of the Catholic Church" have proliferated.
Last year's independent commission report in France gathered more than 6,000 testimonies, including from victims and witnesses, and several cases were forwarded to law enforcement officials.
Moulins-Beaufort said Monday that at least some of the accused bishops will be or have been investigated by state authorities, along with parallel church investigations. But in cases where the window of prosecution has closed, internal probes are the only options.
"It can be rather opaque," said Hiner, criticizing cases in which bishops were punished by the church "but without much information given to parishioners and the public as to why."
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By Min Joo Kim The Washington Post
SEOUL - Two fluffy former "peace puppies," gifted in 2018 by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, are now at the center of a custody row between South Korea's former and current presidents.
Moon Jae-in, who stepped down from South Korea's top office in May, plans to give up the pair of dogs that Kim presented him to mark the two countries' growing friendship after a summit four years ago. Moon's office said Monday that he'd made the decision because of a lack of support from his successor, Yoon Suk-yeol.
The Pungsan hunting dogs - the beloved breed is indigenous to North Korea - are named Songgang and Gomi. They gave birth to seven puppies during Moon's presidency, and he took the parents and one offspring to his personal residence as he left office.
It was an unprecedented move since the trio, as official state property, was supposed to be returned to the presidential archives per requirements of the Presidential Records Act. But after negotiations with the archives and the interior ministry, Moon was entrusted with the dogs' care, according to his office. The ministry even pursued a legislative amendment to implement the move.
South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported Monday that the ministry proposed a monthly budget of 2.5 million won ($1,800) in government funds to cover the pets' food and veterinary care costs. The plan was derailed by "unexplained opposition" from Yoon's administration, Moon's office said.
"It seems that the presidential office is negative towards entrusting the management of the Pungsan dogs to former President Moon," it said in a statement. "If that's the case, we can be cool about it."
The statement cited Moon's "regrets" in having to return "companion animals he grew attached to."
The dogs' fate sparked an online outcry, with many South Koreans asking how they could be treated like standard property and offering to adopt the family themselves.
Moon's claim also prompted a denial from President Yoon's office, which said the relevant agencies are still discussing the situation. A lawmaker in the ruling People Power Party, Kweon Seong-dong, criticized the past president's action as "shameful."
"Is he giving up the dogs because he is no longer eligible to cover food and care cost with tax money?" Kweon asked on Facebook.
Neither side in this week's dispute offered full details on the pets' monthly expenses - which amount to $21,600 annually. Songgang and Gomi remained out of sight.
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Mary K. Brown had plans for a dying man's foot, according to a recently filed affidavit.
As the registered nurse amputated her patient's right foot on the afternoon of May 27, she told colleagues that her family owned a taxidermy shop, the affidavit alleges. Her co-workers recalled her saying that she planned to take the 62-year-old patient's foot from the nursing home in Spring Valley, Wis., and display it at the shop.
According to them, she said she wanted to put a sign next to it: "wear your boots kids."
Brown, 38, was charged Thursday with two felonies: mayhem and intentionally causing great bodily harm to an elderly person. The Pierce County district attorney has enhanced the possible punishment for each charge by up to six years because she's accused of victimizing someone 60 or older.
Kevin Larson, administrator and chief executive of the Spring Valley Health and Rehabilitation Center, said in a statement that he and his staff "will continue to fully cooperate with the investigation into this matter."
"The person identified is not employed with our community," Larson added.
The 62-year-old man wound up at Spring Valley in March, Pierce County District Attorney Halle Hatch wrote in the affidavit. He had fallen at his home and, when the heat went out, suffered severe frostbite on both of his feet. Several nursing home employees described his feet as "black like a mummy."
The man's ill health extended beyond the frostbite. In the weeks leading up to May 27, hospice nurses cycled in and out of his room, expecting that his death was imminent, the affidavit states.
A few days before the amputation, the man rolled out of bed, Tracy Reitz, the nursing home's director of nursing and clinical services, told Pierce County sheriff's investigator Pete Koch. His already severely damaged right foot was further mangled in the fall, requiring Reitz to wrap it.
The man, who was "slightly coherent," stared at his foot and apologized for the smell it was producing, Reitz told Koch.
Around this time, Brown asked Larson, the nursing home's administrator, for permission to amputate, the affidavit states. Larson said no, telling her to merely stabilize the foot instead because he thought the man would die within hours. Defying those expectations, the patient held on for several days, Larson said, prompting Brown to amputate the foot because she "believed it was the right thing to do," according to the affidavit.
Around 4:30 on the afternoon of May 27, Brown corralled and deputized her co-workers, identified only as Nurse 3 and Nurse 4 in court documents, to help her change the man's bandages, the affidavit states. When they went in, Nurse 3 stabilized his foot while Nurse 4 held his hand. Both nurses told investigators that, as Brown changed the bandages, she expressed disbelief that no one had amputated his foot, according to the affidavit.
Brown then did it herself, cutting the foot with gauze scissors, Nurse 3 told investigators. The man didn't seem to be in any pain, the nurse said.
Nurse 4 had a different perspective. She said she was busy holding the man's hand when, all of sudden, his foot had been cut off, the affidavit states. Only after realizing what had happened was she able to figure out why the man's grip was "extremely tight and he was moaning a little bit."
Two days after the amputation, the man told another unnamed nurse that he had "felt everything and it hurt very bad," according to the affidavit.
After amputating, Brown talked about taxidermy and mentioned the "wear your boots" sign, both nurses told the sheriff's investigator. Nurse 3 said Brown mentioned taking the foot home to epoxy it, among other things, the affidavit states.
"She thought it was weird that Brown wanted to bronze the foot," Koch wrote in the report.
Brown also talked to the sheriff's investigator, the affidavit states. She admitted to amputating the man's foot, even though the man never asked her to do so, conceding that the procedure was beyond the scope of her work as a nurse and she knew no doctor had approved it, according to the affidavit. She told the investigator that she suspected a doctor would deny her request, so she forged ahead without asking.
"He stated that he knows that the hospice doctor would have for sure," Koch wrote in his report.
Larson said that, after conducting his own investigation into what happened, he determined that Brown had amputated the foot for the man's "dignity and comfort" and because she "believed it was the right thing to do," not for any malicious motive or to mistreat the patient, the affidavit states.
After amputation, the foot was placed in a red biohazard bag and put in a freezer, although Brown pushed Nurse 4 to retrieve it so she "could take it home to preserve it," according to the affidavit. Reitz told investigators she nixed that idea, instructing Nurse 3 to monitor the 62-year-old man and make sure that, if he didn't make it, his foot stayed with him. When he died days later, his body and foot went to a funeral home, where a medical examiner, noticing what he described as "the unusual circumstances" of the man's foot not being attached to his body, alerted investigators.
"She stated she was trying to make the quality of life better for him," Koch, the sheriff's investigator, wrote in the report. "When she is thinking of herself in his condition, she would have wanted it off."
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By Tory Newmyer The Washington Post
The Justice Department recovered bitcoin once worth $3.4 billion, now valued around $1 billion, that a Georgia real estate developer stole a decade ago from the dark web marketplace Silk Road, the department announced Monday.
James Zhong, the 32-year-old behind the theft, pleaded guilty Friday to a single count of wire fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years. Federal agents tracked down the stolen digital loot a year ago, when they searched Zhong's house in Gainesville, Ga., and found devices storing the bitcoin in an underground floor safe and under blankets in a popcorn tin stashed in his bathroom closet, prosecutors said in an affidavit.
The haul of nearly 52,000 bitcoin, the world's most popular digital asset, has lost two-thirds of its value over the past year.
"Thanks to state-of-the-art cryptocurrency tracing and good old-fashioned police work, law enforcement located and recovered this impressive cache of crime proceeds," Damian Williams, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement. "This case shows that we won't stop following the money, no matter how expertly hidden, even to a circuit board in the bottom of a popcorn tin."
Michael Bachner, an attorney authorized to speak on Zhong's behalf, said in a statement that his client is "extremely remorseful for his conduct that occurred over 10 years ago when he was just 22 years old." He said Zhong returned "virtually all of the bitcoin" he stole. "Given the increase in bitcoin value over the past decade, the value of the bitcoin he returned exponentially exceeded the value of the bitcoin he took," Bachner said. Zhong did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Justice Department said its action ranks as its second-largest crypto seizure ever, behind the $3.6 billion in bitcoin it seized in February from a New York couple that allegedly stole the assets in a 2016 hack of crypto exchange Bitfinex.
Prosecutors said Zhong defrauded Silk Road by rapidly executing transactions that fooled the online marketplace's payment system into depositing bitcoin into his account. Silk Road launched in 2011 as a hub for people to transact in bitcoin for drugs and other illegal goods and services until federal authorities pulled the plug on it in 2013. Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht was convicted in 2015 of seven felony charges related to running the marketplace and sentenced to life in prison.
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By Patrick Marley The Washington Post
MADISON, Wis. - A judge declined Monday to issue an order that would have delayed or prevented the counting of military ballots in Wisconsin in a lawsuit that came after a disaffected election worker said she reached a "breaking point" and created three fake ballots to highlight flaws in the state's voting system.
Waukesha County Judge Michael Maxwell said he was refusing the request to block the immediate counting of military ballots because he considered the idea a "drastic remedy" that would have risked disenfranchising more than 1,000 service members.
The lawsuit was filed Friday by state Rep. Janel Brandtjen (R) and others after Brandtjen received three military ballots at her home under fictitious names. Kimberly Zapata, who at the time was Milwaukee's deputy elections director, told prosecutors that she ordered the fake ballots because she was frustrated by Brandtjen and other Republicans focusing on baseless claims instead of actual weaknesses in Wisconsin's voting procedures.
"I just came to a breaking point of all the harassment and the complaints and the criticism and even the death threats that our office receives regarding election administration and the mistrust in it. It's not what they're saying. It's not conspiracy theories. It's not satellites that are changing votes," she said in an interview Monday, referring to a false and far-fetched claim that satellites were used to manipulate voting machines. "But on the other hand, it's not nothing either."
"I understand what I did was wrong, and I understand that I need consequences for it," Zapata said. "But at the same time, I did this for the greater good. I did this for the American voters to believe in the election system again. But now I am struggling because even though what I did was wrong, it came from pure of heart. But now I'm facing financial ruin because of this."
Zapata said she sought to draw attention to what she saw as a problem in "the loudest and most attention-grabbing way."
State Rep. Mark Spreitzer (D), a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly's elections committee, said Zapata should have raised her concerns with lawmakers instead of creating fake ballots. He said she wasn't helping improve trust in the state's voting system.
"I think it did the exact opposite of improve voter confidence in the election," he said. "It undermined it by making people think that there might be some vulnerability here when that vulnerability, at least right now, seems to be entirely theoretical in that someone could do what she did but there's no evidence that anybody but her has actually done it."
Ann Jacobs, a Democrat on the state's bipartisan elections commission, said Zapata should have brought her concerns to local or state election authorities instead of ordering fake ballots.
"There's lots of different ways to address it. She chose none of them," she said.
Brandtjen, the chairwoman of the state Assembly's elections committee, frequently promotes false claims about elections. In response to receiving the fake ballots, she filed a lawsuit that sought to prevent the counting of military ballots unless local officials could show they were following a law requiring them to keep lists of all military voters. About 1,400 military ballots had been cast as of Friday.
"I think I made clear in my questioning that I felt that was a drastic remedy, that I felt that it was at least at a minimum a temporary disenfranchisement of our military voters," he said.
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Voters wait in line to cast their ballots at the Ward 6 Polls at the Henry J. McLaughlin Jr. Middle School in Manchester on Tuesday.
Julie Pellerin casts her ballot with her son, Carter, 2, at the Ward 6 Polls at the Henry J. McLaughlin Jr. Middle School in Manchester on Tuesday.
Deana Sweeney of Manchester said she voted for pro-choice candidates at her polling place at the Henry J. McLaughlin Jr. Middle School on Tuesday.
Bertrand Gosselin, 94, votes at the Carol Rines Center in Manchester on Tuesday. His top concerns were the economy and protecting the nation's borders.
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Lorraine Hartofelis, 88, a retired baker, votes at the Carol Rines Center in Manchester on Tuesday.
By Michael Cousineau and Jonathan Phelps Union Leader Staff
MANCHESTER – Inflation and the economy drove many voters’ decisions as they cast ballots Tuesday in several close contests for the U.S. House and Senate.
“The gas prices, oil for our home, I think it’s terrible,” said Linda Bowen, 75, a registered Republican who voted straight GOP in Ward 6. “A lot of people I’ve talked to are tired of the prices, especially for gas and groceries.”
Samantha Selimovic, 27, registered as a first-time voter Tuesday.
Her top concern: “Inflation, gas, food. Just the cost of living. It’s terrible,” Selimovic said.
For the most part, “I’m going to vote for the opposite party who caused this inflation,” she said.
Securing the nation’s borders against illegal immigration, concerns over preserving democracy and protecting the right to have an abortion were other chief concerns of some voters.
Deana Sweeney, 61, registered undeclared, said abortion was her top issue. She backed pro-choice candidates.
She wished the political climate was more welcoming for the two major parties to work together.
“I just wish there is a center, a center on all the issues, that they would talk to each other,” Sweeney said.
Ward 6 moderator Louise Gosselin called turnout “extremely busy” and higher than normal for a midterm election at the Henry J. McLaughlin Jr. Middle School. More than 1,200 people – more than 20% of registered voters – cast ballots in the first four hours of voting in a ward where there were only 15 more registered Republicans than Democrats heading into Tuesday's vote.
Over in Manchester’s Ward 3, despite being a registered Republican, Lorraine Hartofelis, 88, who is a retired baker, voted for Democrats Chris Pappas for Congress and Maggie Hassan for U.S. Senate after watching all the debates.
“I think Karoline (Leavitt) is too young,” Hartofelis said of Pappas’s GOP opponent.
“I think she has a lot to learn, and she is a little gung ho,” Hartofelis said outside the Ward 3 polls at the Carol Rines Center on Elm Street.
Social Security was the top issue for Hartofelis, who relies on the checks each month.
Although she cares about border security, she said Republican Senate nominee Don Bolduc contradicted himself too much. “I never would have voted for him. Hassan has a proven record,” she said.
A retired truck driver and World War II veteran, registered Republican Bertrand Gosselin, 94, went the other way and voted for Bolduc and Leavitt, citing the border and the economy.
“The border should have been closed a long time ago, and we wouldn’t have this problem that we have now. We have some people who want to keep it open, and oh God, and the people who are being let in have no idea as to what America is,” he said. “They are jumping the border, and they are coming in and they shouldn’t have been let in.”
As for Leavitt, “We need new blood. We need a new outlook.”
Back at Ward 6, Registered Republican John Kovacs, 65, a retired state corrections officer, voted all Republican.
The economy and policing the nation’s borders against illegal immigration were his top issues.
“We need to secure our borders,” Kovacs said.
Linda Jones, 67, who works at the Moore Center, said “democracy at risk” was her top motivation to vote.
Jones cited election “deniers” who claim President Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election. Bolduc initially said Trump won the 2020 election and later switched his position to say Biden had won the White House.
Jones, who voted straight Democratic, said the economy’s troubles are global.
“It’s throughout the whole planet,” she said. “It’s not any party’s fault. It’s all connected with the pandemic.”
Realtor Jen Bowles, 38, a Realtor, said she split her ticket.
Arthur Lawrence, in his 70s, said he voted for Bolduc at least partly because Sen. Maggie Hassan’s record "is completely contrary to her advertisements.”
“I look for character and I look for substance,” he said.
Michael Kapos, a hairdresser, is a registered Democrat. He did not want to reveal how he voted in Ward 3.
“I vote every time, and I vote for the best person who will do the job,” he said. “I vote for Republicans and Democrats. I vote for the person, not the party.”
He hates all the attack advertisements, calling them more feisty than normal.
“I am glad this is the last day,” he said. “I won’t have to see any more commercials.”
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By Michael Hirtzer and Elizabeth Elkin Bloomberg
Tyson, 32, in a memo to the company first reported by the Associated Press, said the conduct was "inconsistent with my personal values, the company's values and the high expectations we hold for each other."
Tyson was found asleep Sunday morning in a woman's bed in her home in northwestern Arkansas, according to a report on KNWA Fox 24. She didn't know who he was and called the police. He was booked early Sunday, according to the Washington County, Arkansas, sheriff's department. He was released later that day.
"I made a serious mistake and this has caused me to reflect deeply on the impact my actions can have on others," Tyson said in the memo.
"We're aware of the incident and as this is a personal matter, we have no additional comment," said Derek Burleson, a company spokesman, in an email.
Tyson Foods, the biggest U.S. meat company by sales, is the food industry's second company to see an executive arrested in the past few months in Arkansas.
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Signage for Porsche inside the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, operated by Deutsche Boerse, following the automaker's initial public offering (IPO) in Frankfurt, Germany, on Sept. 29, 2022.
The company's €9.4 billion ($9.4 billion) IPO, Europe's largest in more than a decade, injected fresh life into a listings market that has struggled amid rising inflation, hawkish central banks and the threat of global recession. The shares have surged more than 20% since the late September debut, with the company overtaking parent Volkswagen as Europe's most valuable carmaker last month.
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Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI gestures at the Munich Airport before his departure to Rome, June 22, 2020.
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BERLIN - Former Pope Benedict XVI plans to defend himself in a civil lawsuit lodged at a German court by a man who accuses him of helping to cover up historical abuse, a court spokesperson said on Tuesday.
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Former President Donald Trump suggested on Monday he would mount a 2024 presidential run as soon as next week, saying at a political rally in Ohio on Monday he would make a "big announcement" on Nov. 15.
"I'm going to be making a very big announcement on Tuesday, Nov. 15, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida," Trump told supporters at a rally for Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance ahead of the midterm elections.
On Tuesday, Americans cast their votes in elections that could change the balance of power in Congress.
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The North Country Environmental Services landfill in Bethlehem, which Casella Waste Management says is running out of capacity.
A state board last week reiterated an earlier rejection of plans to expand the Casella Waste Systems landfill in the town of Bethlehem.
The New Hampshire Waste Management Council rejected requests by Casella and the state Department of Environmental Services (DES) to reconsider a decision this past spring, which rejected the expansion.
In doing so, the Waste Management Council ruled that the DES did not follow state law when it granted permits for the expansion in 2020. At present, the landfill is scheduled to be capped and closed in four years.
“We’ll say it again: there is simply no need for this landfill,” said Conservation Law Foundation staff attorney Heidi Trimarco in a statement.
“The Waste Management Council has made it clear yet again that the state cannot permit new landfills that aren’t needed to satisfy New Hampshire’s disposal needs. It’s time for Casella to give up this fight and be a partner in reducing waste through recycling and composting," Trimarco said.
Vermont-based Casella operates the North Country Environmental Services landfill in Bethlehem and had sought expansion.
In an email, a Casella official said the company expected the case would end up in the New Hampshire Supreme Court ever since this past spring, and the company intends to appeal to the high court.
"It is premature for anyone, particularly opponents of the landfill’s future role in New Hampshire’s environmental infrastructure, to claim victory in this matter," said Jeff Weld, Casella director of engagement.
State law required the company to request a reconsideration by the Waste Management Council before appealing to the Supreme Court, he said.
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State board reaffirms its rejection of Bethlehem landfill expansion | Courts | unionleader.com
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By Michelle Nichols Reuters
NEW YORK -- Americans in key election battlegrounds on Tuesday decided who will run the 2024 presidential vote in their states, choosing from a slate of candidates that includes Republicans who back former President Donald Trump's false claim that he won in 2020.
In 30 of the country's 50 states, so-called "election deniers" are candidates for at least one of the state's positions overseeing elections -- governor, secretary of state or attorney general, according to nonprofit advocacy group States United Action.
According to States United Action, election deniers ran for secretary of state in 13 states, including in the key swing states of Arizona, Michigan and Nevada. Democratic President Joe Biden narrowly won all three states in 2020.
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Zuckerberg appeared downcast in Tuesday’s meeting and said he was accountable for the company’s missteps and his over-optimism about growth had led to overstaffing, the report added, citing people familiar with the matter.
He described broad cuts and specifically mentioned the recruiting and business teams as among those facing layoffs, the report said, adding an internal announcement of the company’s layoff plans is expected around 6 a.m. on Wednesday.
Meta’s head of human resources, Lori Goler, said employees who lose their jobs will be provided with at least four months of salary as severance, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Meta will begin laying off employees on Wednesday morning - WSJ | Business | unionleader.com
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By Brian Murphy The Washington Post
"I came along at the right time, in the right laboratory, with the right colleagues," said Katz, who died Oct. 31 at 95 at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Samuel Lawrence Katz was born May 29, 1927, in Manchester, New Hampshire, where his father began his workday commute to Boston as a railway executive. Katz started undergraduate studies at Dartmouth College in 1944 but left to enlist in the Navy the following year.
Katz's first marriage to Betsy Cohan ended in divorce. His second wife, Catherine Wilfert, a leader in the field of pediatric AIDS, died in 2020 after 49 years of marriage. Survivors include six children from his first marriage, John Katz, Deborah Miora, William Katz, Susan Calderon, Penelope Katz Facher and David L. Katz; two stepchildren, Rachel Wilfert and Katie Regen; and 17 grandchildren. A son from his first marriage, Samuel L. Katz Jr., died in 1980.
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Manchester, NH, native Samuel L. Katz, doctor who helped develop measles vaccine, dies at 95 | Health | unionleader.com
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By Linda Magoon Special to the Union Leader
After months of discussion about whether some of the property should be logged, it appears the Sutton Conservation Commission has fallen into a proverbial carbon rabbit hole.
A meeting initially planned as an opportunity for public comment on whether to log a portion of King Hill Reservation, as it is now known, has morphed into an educational meeting about how climate change is impacting local forests and the role trees play in reducing carbon dioxide, a major contributor to warming temperatures.
The commission will discuss “management of public forests in time of global climate change” on Nov. 17, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at Pillsbury Memorial Town Hall in the village of Sutton Mills.
In May, the commission, responsible for managing town-owned property at the former King Ridge Ski Area, was poised to carry out the goals stated in its forest management plan, one of which was to log certain segments of the property, an area popular with recreationists.
The commission held a second meeting to discuss the plan and to receive public comment on June 1.
Prior to that meeting, a commission member shared a recently published newspaper article arguing for leaving forests alone to manage themselves, contrary to traditional forest management methods, because of the ability of trees to store and remove carbon from the atmosphere.
At a second public meeting in August, the commission delayed discussion about logging King Hill Reservation until November.
The goal was to convene a panel of experts to speak and answer questions about carbon storage, carbon sequestration, and climate change within the context of timber harvesting at King Hill.
Commission Chairman Henry Howell pointed out at the meeting that the issue of carbon storage and sequestration and the role it plays in mitigating climate change is not included in their forest management plan.
“What we’re facing is a new wrinkle in forest management,” Howell said. “How do we best manage forests to increase carbon storage and forest resiliency?”
Sutton resident Pat Tivnan, who hikes the trails about four times a week, is opposed to timber harvesting at King Hill because of its steep slopes, water crossings, and its popularity for recreation by hikers, skiers and hunters.
She hopes people will attend the Nov. 17 meeting despite its focus on climate change rather than King Hill.
“I appreciate that Henry has done a lot of research,” Tivnan said. “My hope is that the commission and the public become educated on the science.”
At the December meeting, the commission will discuss how it wants to apply the principles of climate change to its public properties and whether it should amend its plan to include it. The informational session will conclude with questions and comments from the public.
The commission also plans a separate meeting in December on how best to manage the town’s 441-acre portion of the former ski area.
Frank Stewart of Northland Residential Corp. deeded 441 acres of what was once the ski area to the town of Sutton, according to the Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust, which holds the conservation easement. The gift came nearly two years after Stewart purchased the ski area and secured approval for a 36-lot luxury home development on 352 acres near the existing ski lodge road, according to the trust’s website.
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Celtics guard Marcus Smart reacts during the second half of Monday’s 109-106 wn over against the Memphis Grizzlies at FedExForum in Memphis, Tennessee.
Smart was locked in from the opening tip as he scored or assisted on the Celtics’ first 16 points of the game. He was making the right plays all game as he continued to shake off a less-than-ideal start to the season. Coupled with 11 assists in Saturday’s win over the Knicks, Smart has 23 assists to just three turnovers over his last two games.
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Celtics’ Marcus Smart motivated by courtside heckler in big performance in win over Grizzlies | Celtics | unionleader.com
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Ravens top NCAA men's soccer field; 3 from NH make NCAA women's soccer tourney.
For the second straight season, the Franklin Pierce University men’s soccer team is the top seed in Super Region 1 of the NCAA Championship, the NCAA announced Monday.
The Ravens, ranked No. 1 in the country in Division II men’s soccer, will host the first- and second-round contests, beginning with a first-round showdown between No. 8 Notre Dame College-Ohio (15-4-2) and No. 9 College of Saint Rose on Thursday at 6 p.m.
The Ravens, coming off of their second consecutive Northeast-10 title, received a first-round bye and are seeking their first national title since 2007. They will face the winner of the opening round on Saturday at 6 p.m.
This is the third straight trip to the NCAA Championship for Franklin Pierce, as well as the 22nd in program history.
Franklin Pierce, SNHU, St. Anselm women get bids
The Franklin Pierce University, Southern New Hampshire University and Saint Anselm College women’s soccer teams all earned bids to the Division II women’s soccer tournament.
All three are in the East Region. The games will take place at Franklin Pierce’s Sodexho Field in Rindge.
Second-seeded Franklin Pierce (14-3-2) will play No. 7 Southern New Hampshire (6-5-5) in a first-round match Friday at 6 p.m.
Saint Anselm (10-7-1), the sixth seed, takes on third-seeded Bridgeport (13-3-5) on Friday at 3 p.m.
The winners of those matches will meet in the second round Sunday at 2 p.m.
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On Wednesday, Bill Belichick agreed with the notion, saying he noticed Leonard getting to the ball quickly on two to three plays. The Patriots coach said it was similar the week before against the New York Jets with linebacker C.J. Mosley.
The Colts gave the Patriots all they could handle. Mac Jones threw for 147 yards and the team ran for just 70 yards as the offense gained 203 yards total. Leonard finished with five tackles Sunday. One play that stuck out was at 7:32 of the first quarter when the linebacker stopped J.J. Taylor on a 1-yard run, which went to the left end.
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Bill Belichick confirms Colts, Jets LBs were recognizing Patriots’ plays | Patriots | unionleader.com
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Plymouth State sophomore linebacker Evan Wilson, a Pinkerton Academy graduate from Derry, celebrates a tackle during the Panthers’ game against Husson University in Bangor, Maine, on Sept. 10. Plymouth State squares off with UMass-Dartmouth on Saturday to decide the MASCAC champion.
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Plymouth State senior defensive back Kayden Baillargeon, of Derry and Pinkerton Academy, came up with an interception in the Panthers’ opening win at Husson on Sept. 10.
State of Sports: Plymouth State rides league-leading defense into Saturday title game
TECHNICALLY, it’s a regular season game, but Saturday’s matchup between Plymouth State and visiting UMass-Dartmouth (noon) sure has the feel of a postseason contest.
Saturday’s winner will finish first in the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference and claim the MASCAC’s automatic berth to the NCAA Division III playoffs.
The loser of Saturday’s game will get an invite to the New England Bowl, a game for top New England teams that don’t make the NCAAs. Playing in the New England Bowl is a reward for a good season, but for these teams it would clearly be a consolation prize.
Plymouth State is 8-1 overall and 6-1 in the MASCAC. UMass-Dartmouth is 8-1 overall and 7-0 in the conference.
It would be an oversimplification to say this game matches great defense (Plymouth State) against great offense (UMass-Dartmouth), but those units are the strength of each team. UMass-Dartmouth is No. 1 among MASCAC teams in points per game (41.9) and yards per game (546.2), and Plymouth State is No. 1 in points allowed per game (15.7).
Junior quarterback Dante Aviles-Santos makes the UMass-Dartmouth offense go. He was the MASCAC Offensive Rookie of the Year last year, and is No. 1 in the conference passing yards per game this season (291.6).
“This is one of the most talented teams we’ve seen in a long time and obviously the QB is a threat with both his arms and his legs,” Plymouth State coach Paul Castonia said. “They have really good receivers, and they can run the ball, too. They average 243 yards a game on the ground. It’s a complete package.”
Dante-Aviles has completed 173 of 299 passes for 2,624 yards this season. He leads the MASCAC in TD passes with 23, and has been intercepted six times.
“He’s head and shoulders above the other QBs we’ve seen this year,” Castonia said. “As far as stopping him or slowing him down, everything has to be right. There is no margin for error on any level of the defense. The play is never dead. He’s a very accurate thrower. He can throw short stuff. He can throw deep balls and put it right on them, and if you do start to get a little pressure on him he can escape and keep plays alive. He can tuck it and run, too. Quarterback draw is one of their big plays.”
Of course having success running the ball would help slow down the UMass-Dartmouth offense as well. The Panthers have the MASCAC’s No. 4 rusher in Manny Sanchez, a senior running back who has run for 678 yards (84.7 ypg.) and nine touchdowns in eight games.
Pinkerton Academy graduate Evan Wilson, a sophomore inside linebacker, is among the leaders on the Plymouth State defense. Wilson, a Derry resident, is fourth among MASCAC players in tackles with 73. He’s recorded 44 solo tackles and eight tackles for loss.
“The biggest thing we have to focus on this week is stopping their big plays,” Wilson said. “The (key) for us is just players doing their job and not trying to be the superstar, trying to make all the plays themselves. All 11 of us working together every play is what makes it work.
“Everyone for sure is amped up for the game. We need to focus on playing our game and doing everything we can to win.”
Other New Hampshire residents who have contributed significantly on defense this season include senior defensive back Luc Normandeau (Dover), senior defensive back Kayden Baillargeon (Derry), junior defensive lineman Emmanuel Ughu (Milford), senior linebacker Cooper Varano (Manchester), senior defensive lineman Tracy Cristiano (Thornton) and junior defensive lineman Mike Terrazzano (Pelham).
“At times we’ve played pretty well,” Castonia said. “We’ve had some hiccups along the way. There’s a lot of experience in the secondary and linebacker level, so that certainly helps. They’ve seen things before. We’re certainly not winning any looks tests coming off the bus, but when we do it right we’re OK.”
Plymouth State last qualified for the NCAA Division III playoffs in 2017, but Castonia said the team hasn’t discussed the possibility of a postseason berth.
“Nope,” he said. “Just trying to go 1-0.”
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I’M THINKING I should get to work on a museum of the era before the internet and cellphones and streaming music so that people under 40 know what it was like to talk on a phone with a cord on the kitchen wall and gossip without your mother understanding what it was about. People wrote on stationery with a pen back then, not a stationary bike but paper, wrote letters in a cursive hand to their grandmas and Grandma told you what fine handwriting you had. Now Grandma is happy if you stick with your birth gender and don’t get tangled up with fentanyl.
I’m not nostalgic for those days, I simply feel that you young people need to know some history. When I was 20, 60 years ago, I walked into the Capitol in Washington one evening and there was one cop sitting at a table inside the door, reading a book. There was no metal detector. Nowadays, they put up metal detectors at the doors to elementary schools. I’m not kidding.
Back then, you could learn a lot about people by looking at what they were reading on the bus — the New York Times, Guns and Grenades, Christian Digest, whatever — and you could strike up a conversation with them, based on a perceived common interest — “I don’t know what to make of the House Ways and Means committee lately” or “I have a friend who owns a bazooka just like that one” or “I’ve gone back and started rereading Ephesians, there’s so much there” — and now they’re wearing headphones and you have utterly no idea. It could be Alex Jones, it could be Steve Bannon, it could be Franklin Graham. I go to my cousin’s for dinner, I don’t look at their bookshelf the way I used to: if I see Mein Kampf, I don’t want to hear him say, “I was only curious” or “It’s what our book club is reading.”
Back then, you had to pay money for sheet music to learn the words to songs and I couldn’t afford it so for years, listening to the radio, I thought it was “You make me feel like a rash on a woman” and “He’s got the whole world in his pants.” Imagine. Back then we said things like “He really shot himself in the foot” without stopping to think that many people actually have blasted a hole in their foot, whether accidentally or on purpose, and the damage that is done, the breakage of bones, infection, plus the embarrassment that follows you all your life, and it’s real and harmful.
And now I realize it is possibly offensive of me to imagine this is worth a museum, to honor a time when there was zero affirmative action and women were held back. Songs like Dylan’s “It Ain’t Me, Babe,” which infantilizes a woman and “Great Balls of Fire,” which glorifies testicles. And four Brits who hit the big time with “I Want to Hold Your Hand” — well, what does She want, the woman the song objectifies, does she want her hand to be held, does she feel happy when he touches her, why don’t we hear about that?
It’s wrong of me to say this, and I apologize, but it seems to me (wrongly, I’m sure) that we were a teeny bit less self-conscious back then. Not that that is a good thing, but it’s true. We tiptoe around these days, careful not to say the wrong thing, like say “gone viral” in front of someone who caught COVID or “hot spot” in front of a menopausal woman. Meanwhile, one of the most admired men in America lies like a rug, cheats, commits crimes openly and encourages treason and insurrection, and is ranked as Most Admired by about 20 percent of the American people. Is there any connection between the beginning of this paragraph and the Most Admired part? I’m only asking.
I’m glad I lived when I did. I saw the last living veteran of the Civil War, Albert Woolson, riding in a convertible in a parade. As a boy drummer, he played at Lincoln’s funeral parade in Washington. He looked at me; I could’ve reached out and touched him. I also saw the Rolling Stones play at a hockey rink on their first American tour. To you kids, they’re just billionaires but they were young and hot, they looked great on ice. I won’t lie to you — Albert Woolson wasn’t there but I think he would’ve been amazed at Charlie Watts’s drumming.
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Garrison Keillor: An idea, probably wrong, but it's an idea | Columnists | unionleader.com
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The two are often confused, which is why we were pleased to read Tuesday’s story about this Friday’s Veterans Day.
Sunday News reporter Shawne K. Wickham cited the change at the Veterans Cemetery in Boscawen. In the past, it has had a large ceremony on Nov. 11. That has ended because many veterans who felt obliged to attend are now free to attend their local Veterans Day ceremonies or parades instead. It also means they can hear “thank you for your service” from their neighbors and friends.
As pointed out in the op-ed featured on the next page, Memorial Day was originally Decoration Day, when widows would decorate with flowers the graves of loved ones who died in America’s Civil War.
Veterans Day was originally Armistice Day, reflecting the end of the first World War, with the guns falling silent on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918. It became a day to thank all vets for their service.
The meaning of both is something all Americans need to remember.
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Two holidays: Remembering both | Editorials | unionleader.com
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To the Editor: Inflation is a convenient scapegoat to rationalize exploding corporate profits. Profit rates for major corporations like Coca Cola are 15 to 20% higher this year than for the same period last year. Companies that control what we pay at the pump earned more than two-and-a-half times what they earned in the same six months of 2021. Before Russia invaded Ukraine, energy companies had already cut production to justify price hikes. In the last six months, the big energy companies (ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips, and TotalEnergy) earned over $100 billion more than they had all of last year! They raised prices at the pump to scare people into voting Republican.
The Federal Reserve interest rate increases are supposed to bring inflation down by raising prices and increasing unemployment. Who pays when we employ that strategy? Higher prices on gas, groceries, and services, only serve to punish the 99% of people in our country who depend on jobs to pay their bills. The ultra-wealthy remain unscathed.
The media need to report the whole story, not just what reinforces the GOP’s plan for a Republican-led Congress. Republicans are already talking about tax cuts for the wealthiest 1% and decreased Medicare and Social Security benefits. President Joe Biden has called on the energy companies to stop their “war profiteering” and invest instead in lower prices for gas and heating fuel. Let’s extend that to a federal strategy for enforcing fair pricing for all corporations.
LUCY LEHR
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Letter: Inflation scapegoat is corporate profits in disguise | Letters to the Editor | unionleader.com
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To the Editor: My favorite time of year is November. It’s a month to be grateful and give thanks, and time to celebrate National Homecare and Hospice Month. When I think about what it means to me, I think of our Visiting Nurses Association (VNA) employees. Without them, we would not be able to provide needed services to our community. Whether they are clinicians, staff members who support the functions of our organization, or part of leadership and governance, they play an integral part in ensuring patients and families receive the highest quality of care. Every day they bring a passion to their work, compassion to patients and colleagues, and a desire to learn and excel.
The home care and hospice community is critical to the future of healthcare and plays a central role in our health care system and in homes across the nation. With 10,000 Americans turning 65 every day, the need for health care will continue to rise. This is where home care and hospice come in to help. As the preferred choice for most patients, it offers the greatest cost savings and helps many seniors remain independent at home, enriching their lives, and keeping them in touch with those they love.
Please join me in recognizing the valuable service that home care and hospice staff provide to the greater Manchester community.
RACHEL CHADDOCK
Holt Avenue, Manchester
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Letter: VNA celebrates Home Care and Hospice Month | Letters to the Editor | unionleader.com
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Jim Adams
Photography for UNH Durham Campus Paul College of Business and Economics
Tom Kates
Roger Sevigny
Madeline Dreusicke
The observance of Veterans Day and Memorial Day has become less distinguishable in recent years, as if they are two holidays with the same intent. It is important to remember that Memorial Day honors those who died fighting for their country, and Veterans Day commemorates those among us who served in the armed forces.
Since 1919, America has set aside November 11 for its veterans. A year earlier, “on 11th day of the 11th month at the 11th hour,” the armistice that ended World War I took effect. Accordingly, it was called Armistice Day, until a 1954 law changed the federal holiday to recognize all veterans.
Half a century earlier, America began honoring the Union service-members who were killed during the Civil War on May 30, Decoration Day. After World War I, its name gradually changed to Memorial Day to honor all service-members “who gave the last full measure of devotion” to this nation.
Memorial Day observances are among our most solemn traditions, which are greatly appreciated and steadfastly commemorated by our veterans. In fact, when many veterans receive Memorial Day wishes, they are quick to point out that the holiday is for those who didn’t come home. Similarly, on Veterans Day, it’s important to recognize veterans who are still with us.
Fortunately, to help us honor the veterans in our communities and to celebrate Veterans Day as intended, the New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery decided not to hold a ceremony on Veterans Day this year.
For many years, the State Veterans Cemetery in Boscawen held a ceremony at 11 a.m. on Veterans Day. Veterans’ organizations had long requested that the cemetery change the time of the ceremony because they didn’t want to choose between it and Veterans Day events in their communities.
The State Veterans Cemetery listened. Last year, it did not hold a Veterans Day ceremony to allow the local veterans organizations to have events in their communities, as they did in the years before the State Veterans Cemetery. Local veterans organizations were grateful for the opportunity to celebrate Veterans Day locally, with the focus on veterans who are still with us in our communities. This year, once again thanks to the State Veterans Cemetery, veterans’ organizations will have events in their communities. The State Veterans Cemetery will have a brief ceremony on November 10 at 1 p.m. to honor those veterans who have passed on, followed by the flag placement at each grave marker. Local veterans’ organizations were very happy with the turnout of residents at their events last year, and expect even better local resident attendance this year.
As an unknown author penned years ago, “Veterans Day is a time to remember those who served as well as those still serving by a warm greeting of thank you for your service.” Those five words, “thank you for your service,” can be very meaningful to a veteran, and having a conversation about their service can be even more so.
The Adjutant General of New Hampshire, Major General David J. Mikolaities, stated numerous times that the men and women who served this great nation in the armed forces are veterans for life. The Union Leader and local newspapers list Veterans Day events in your town or city. Please attend these events and use them to teach your children and grandchildren that veterans are the reason we are able to enjoy our freedoms.
As a saying about combat goes, “All gave some, some gave all.” Memorial Day is for those who gave all. Veterans Day is for those who gave some. We are grateful to the State Veterans Cemetery for recognizing the distinction between the two holidays, and for giving local communities an opportunity to recognize their veterans. We hope you’ll take advantage of them.
In closing, we would like to recognize Madeline Dreusicke, the State Council’s Family representative, for her 3,000+ hours of volunteer work as an ambassador and escort at the Manchester VA Clinic. It is an honor and a privilege to serve with Madeline.
Vietnam veteran Jim Adams lives in Pittsfield. Marine Corps veteran Brendan Finn of Newfields served two tours in Afghanistan. U.S. Army veteran Roger Sevigny of Rochester served in Vietnam and attained the rank of colonel. All are members of the New Hampshire Veterans Council.
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Jim Adams, Brendan Finn & Roger Sevigny: All gave some, some gave all | Op-eds | unionleader.com
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Expect noise and light on Rockport line
By Sylvia Chen Daily Item, Lynn, Mass.
SWAMPSCOTT, Massachusetts — From now until March, the MBTA is testing its newly installed signal system upgrades. The project team would like to advise the community of ongoing testing within the right-of-way of the MBTA Rockport Commuter Rail Line.
The Rockport Commuter Rail Line has stops between Boston, MA-South Station with Rockport, MA, Danvers, MA and Dover, NH. Along the coastline, its wheels run through Revere, Lynn, Swampscott, and Salem.
To test PTC and ATC systems, work will occur as necessary for twenty-four hours, seven days a week. Lights and mild to moderate noise levels can be expected during testing. The daytime-scheduled signal testing will continue through December. Additionally nighttime testing will take place from December to March.
The new signal system upgrades called Automatic Train Control (ATC) is a part of Positive Train Control (PTC), a federally mandated safety control system that monitors a train's location, direction, and speed in real time and reduces speed when needed to help prevent collisions.
There are ongoing changes in operations at certain grade crossings along the Rockport Line. Specifically at Ashland Avenue, Beach Street, Sea Street, and Washington Street.
The MBTA acknowledges communities for their cooperation, "We appreciate your patience as the MBTA takes this important step in making the railways safer for customers with the implementation of the PTC program."
If there are any question, contact the PTC program at 617-721- 7506 or PTCProgram@mbta.com.
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Expect noise and light on Rockport line | Transportation | unionleader.com
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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends an exhibition marking the anniversary of a historical parade in 1941, when Soviet soldiers marched towards the front lines during World War Two, in Red Square in central Moscow, Russia, November 8, 2022.
The Kremlin spokesman also told reporters it was too early to talk about a dialog with the United States on extending the New START nuclear arms treaty.
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Kremlin: U.S. midterms won't change bad Moscow-Washington relations | Voters First | unionleader.com
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Children approach and sit with Pope Francis as he holds the weekly general audience in St Peter's Square at the Vatican, November 9, 2022.
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis on Wednesday condemned the use of mercenaries in Russia's war against Ukraine, saying they were inflicting "so much cruelty" on the population.
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Pope Francis condemns use of mercenaries in Ukraine | Religion | unionleader.com
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EAST KINGSTON – A passenger in a vehicle that crashed into a tree off Stumpfield Road Tuesday night was pronounced dead at the scene.
New Hampshire State Police responded to the accident near the intersection with North Road about 10 p.m. At the scene, troopers found a 2009 Scion had left northbound side of the road and collided with a tree.
The driver, Timothy Grundy, 30, of Exeter, sustained minor injuries and was taken to Exeter Hospital. Grundy's passenger sustained fatal injuries, state police said. The identity of the passenger is being withheld pending notification of next of kin, they said.
Stumpfield Road was closed for approximately four hours as the state police's Collision Analysis and Reconstruction (CAR) Unit investigated the scene. State police were assisted by the East Kingston Fire Department, East Kingston Police Department, Kensington Police Department and New England Truck Center.
The crash is under investigation and no charges have been filed at this time, state police said. Anyone who may have witnessed the crash can contact the investigating trooper, Trooper Tyler Dodds, at Tyler.M.Dodds@dos.nh.gov.
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East Kingston crash leaves passenger dead, driver injured | Public Safety | unionleader.com
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"We are also taking a number of additional steps to become a leaner and more efficient company by cutting discretionary spending and extending our hiring freeze through Q1," Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Wednesday statement, adding that the layoffs were "some of the most difficult changes we've made in Meta's history."
Zuckerberg added that everyone in the company will soon get an email "letting you know what this layoff means for you."
The company was set to begin laying off thousands of workers this week in an attempt to rein in costs and refocus its existing workforce on the company's priorities, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the company's strategy.
One of the biggest cullings happened at Twitter last week, where new owner Elon Musk cut roughly half of the company's 7,500-member staff - to the point that over the weekend, some workers were getting called and asked to come back.
The layoffs at Meta - which changed its name from Facebook a little over a year ago - are happening while the company is taking a big gamble on building the metaverse. Part of the hiring boom over the past few years has been focused on building immersive digital realms accessed through virtual reality, which chief executive Mark Zuckerberg says will be the next great computing platform after mobile phones and replace some in-person communication.
More than a month ago, Meta said it would stop making new offers to job candidates, sourcing candidates and approving internal transfers while the company reevaluated how best to prioritize its staffing resources, according to a memo posted to the company's internal message board viewed by The Washington Post.
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Facebook parent begins mass layoffs as tech industry slashes jobs | Science & Technology | unionleader.com
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YORK, England - A man was detained on Wednesday after eggs were thrown at King Charles and Camilla, his wife and queen consort, as they carried out an engagement in northern England.
Police officers rushed in to drag away a protester who was shouting slogans. Others in the crowd jeered him, and chanted "God save the king."
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Man detained after eggs thrown at King Charles | World | unionleader.com
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U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner appears on a screen via video link from the detention centre before a court hearing to consider an appeal against her prison sentence, in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region, Russia October 25, 2022.
By Victoria Bisset and Natalia Abbakumova The Washington Post
Brittney Griner, the WNBA star who has been detained in Russia since February, is being moved to a Russian penal colony - a type of prison facility known for its brutal living conditions - her legal team said Wednesday.
The 32-year-old was arrested at the Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow on Feb. 17 and accused of entering Russia with vape cartridges containing cannabis oil, which is illegal in Russia. She pleaded guilty to carrying the cartridges, saying it was an "honest mistake." She was sentenced to 9 1/2 years in prison in August, and a judge rejected her appeal late last month.
"We do not have any information on her exact current location or her final destination," her attorneys Maria Blagovolina and Alexander Boykov said in a statement. "In accordance with the standard Russian procedure the attorneys, as well as the U.S. Embassy, should be notified upon her arrival at her destination."
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who was jailed after recovering from a poisoning attack, described the notorious Penal Colony No. 2, where he was initially sent, as "our friendly concentration camp." He accused guards of denying him proper medical care or the chance to sleep and described dehumanizing surveillance.
The White House condemned the decision to move Griner into a penal colony, with press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre saying that "every minute that Brittney Griner must endure wrongful detention in Russia is a minute too long."
"As the Administration continues to work tirelessly to secure her release, the President has directed the Administration to prevail on her Russian captors to improve her treatment and the conditions she may be forced to endure in a penal colony," she said in a statement.
Jean-Pierre added that the U.S. government had made "a significant offer to resolve the current unacceptable and wrongful detentions of American citizens," as Washington seeks to negotiate a diplomatic solution to free Griner and Paul Whelan, an American former security consultant serving a 16-year sentence in Russia.
But Russia blamed Washington on Tuesday for the lack of progress, with Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova saying: "We have not seen any desire from the United States to resolve the specific problems of people."
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WNBA star Brittney Griner being transferred to Russian penal colony | World | unionleader.com
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Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and his attorney John A. Burlingame outside the Fairfax County courthouse Wednesday, after a judge ruled Gingrich must testify before a special grand jury in Georgia investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Tom Jackman/Washington Post
Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis sought Gingrich's testimony as an out-of-state witness for her special grand jury probe under the "Uniform Act," which allows one state to secure witnesses from another state. Fulton County Judge Robert C.I. McBurney then issued an order last month for Gingrich to appear before the special grand jury. A court in the state where the witness lives must then approve that order, known as a "certificate of material witness."
Gingrich's lawyer, John A. Burlingame, argued that the Uniform Act did not cover special grand juries such as the one in Georgia, which does not have the power to issue indictments or subpoena out-of-state witnesses. But Fairfax County Judge Robert J. Smith rejected that argument.
"What it comes down to is I have a statute before me … that refers to 'a grand jury investigation,'" Smith said. "It doesn't make the distinction between special grand jury or a regular grand jury. I think I have to read the statute as it's written … I think this falls within the statute. The summons will issue."
Burlingame asked Smith to stay his order so that Gingrich might appeal. "I'm not going to do that," the judge replied. "I'm going to sign it now and get things going."
Gingrich, 79, declined to comment on the ruling after the hearing. Burlingame said he had not decided whether to appeal the ruling, even without a stay. The certificate requires Gingrich "to be in attendance and testify" on Nov. 16.
Gingrich is one of several Trump supporters who have fought the summons to testify before the "special purpose grand jury" in Fulton County. Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows have also turned to the courts to block the grand jury summons, and have so far been unsuccessful. Former Trump attorney Rudolph Giuliani appeared before the special grand jury in August. The grand jury is expected to deliver its findings to Willis, who will then decide whether to pursue criminal charges against anyone.
Burlingame argued that having Gingrich also testify before the Georgia special grand jury was duplicative and onerous. "It's not like traveling across the Chain Bridge," Burlingame said of his client, who lives in McLean. "He's being asked to travel to Atlanta and back." Instead, Burlingame offered, Gingrich could provide his transcribed testimony before the Jan. 6 committee to Fulton County when it was done.
Fairfax Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Chaim Mandelbaum responded that the Fulton County investigation was "specifically looking at the question of whether or not Georgia law was violated, which is not necessarily the focus of the Jan. 6 committee's investigation. As a result, the court in Fulton County is likely to have specific questions and look at specific facts that the Jan. 6 committee may not."
The House committee's letter, signed by Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.), alleged that Gingrich urged top Trump advisers to rely on false claims about voter fraud in Georgia to create advertising which would outrage the public. "Among the numerous emails you exchanged regarding purported election fraud," Thompson wrote, Gingrich "suggested that the advertisements include a 'call-to-action' of pressuring state officials," to air nationally.
"The goal is to arouse the country's anger," Gingrich supposedly wrote to Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner and campaign adviser Jason Miller.
The letter also accused Gingrich of participating in "the fake elector scheme," in which slates of electors who had not been certified by their states would be submitted to Congress in an attempt to stop the electoral college certification on Jan. 6. Even after the Jan. 6 riot had ended, Thompson's letter states, Gingrich wrote to Meadows at 10:42 p.m. that night to ask if there were "letters from state legislators about decertifying electors?"
"Accordingly," Thompson wrote to Gingrich, "you appear to have been involved with President Trump's efforts to stop the certification of the election results, even after the attack on the Capitol."
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Gingrich ordered to appear before Georgia grand jury probing 2020 election | Courts | unionleader.com
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt -- UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres delivered an unexpected moment of levity at the COP27 climate conference on Wednesday, reading the beginning of the wrong speech before realizing, chuckling and starting again with a different opening line.
"There was a small confusion, I apologize." (Reporting by William James; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
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UN chief Guterres laughs off 'wrong speech' moment at COP27 | Back Page | unionleader.com
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Christopher Yniguez
Four people were arrested after a three-hour standoff with the Nashua Police Department’s SWAT team Wednesday.
The investigation began when police were called to a Nashua neighborhood just south of downtown last Sunday night for a report of an “undesirable” person, according to a news release. Officers recovered several stolen firearms in the area.
On Wednesday, the SWAT team was called in to arrest Yniguez at 6 Mountain View St., “due to the nature of the crime” and the location, police said. After a standoff, Yniguez surrendered and was taken into custody. He was charged with receiving stolen property (firearm), a Class A felony.
Police said there have been approximately 57 calls for service at that Mountain View Street address since 2018, and 25 arrests have been made, many involving the same offenders. “The home has been the target of large-scale drug investigations, both locally and federally, numerous property crime investigations, and several ongoing quality of life issues for the neighborhood,” the release said.
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SWAT team arrests four at Nashua house after standoff | Crime | unionleader.com
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A Fairfax County judge in Virginia rejected an attempt Wednesday by former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., to evade a summons for his grand jury testimony in Georgia, where a Fulton County prosecutor is investigating efforts by supporters of then-President Trump to overturn the 2020 election results in that state.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis sought Gingrich’s testimony as an out-of-state witness for her special grand jury probe under the “Uniform Act,” which allows one state to secure witnesses from another state.
Fulton County Judge Robert C.I. McBurney then issued an order last month for Gingrich to appear before the special grand jury. A court in the state where the witness lives must then approve that order, known as a “certificate of material witness.”
“What it comes down to is I have a statute before me … that refers to ‘a grand jury investigation,’” Smith said. “It doesn’t make the distinction between special grand jury or a regular grand jury. I think I have to read the statute as it’s written … I think this falls within the statute. The summons will issue.”
Gingrich is one of several Trump supporters who have fought the summons to testify before the “special purpose grand jury” in Fulton County.
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows have also turned to the courts to block the grand jury summons, and have so far been unsuccessful. Former Trump attorney Rudolph Giuliani appeared before the special grand jury in August. The grand jury is expected to deliver its findings to Willis, who will then decide whether to pursue criminal charges against anyone.
Burlingame argued that having Gingrich also testify before the Georgia special grand jury was duplicative and onerous. “It’s not like traveling across the Chain Bridge,” Burlingame said of his client, who lives in McLean, Virginia. “He’s being asked to travel to Atlanta and back.” Instead, Burlingame offered, Gingrich could provide his transcribed testimony before the Jan. 6 committee to Fulton County when it was done.
The House committee’s letter, signed by Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.), alleged that Gingrich urged top Trump advisers to rely on false claims about voter fraud in Georgia to create advertising which would outrage the public. “Among the numerous emails you exchanged regarding purported election fraud,” Thompson wrote, Gingrich “suggested that the advertisements include a ‘call-to-action’ of pressuring state officials,” to air nationally.
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LONDON — ‘Twas the month before Christmas.
While many assumed the orbs were giant Christmas baubles that had somehow come loose during Storm Claudio, which hit France and the United Kingdom last week, they were part of a temporary art installation set up in central London to promote a music duo’s new album.
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Bruins notebook: McAvoy return a possibility for Thursday
On Wednesday, the Bruins took the same careful approach that they did with Brad Marchand with regard to public comments in his lead-up to his first game back from double hip surgery. In that case, they declined to definitively say that the player was ready to play until the morning of his first game back on Oct. 27 against the Red Wings.
Whether those boxes are significant or something along the lines of “must eat a healthy breakfast,” McAvoy did look like a man preparing to play his first game. In practice at Warrior Ice Arena, he was the first man up to skate with Hampus Lindholm on the initial line rushes. He also was the man in the middle for the team’s end-of-practice stretch and got all sorts of hugs after it.
That mirrored Marchand’s last practice day before his first game. The only thing different was that McAvoy did not do what Marchand had done and skate on the first power-play unit. But the power play was not practiced on Wednesday, and Montgomery said later in his presser that he’d let McAvoy get his feet wet in 5-on-5 play before throwing him on the power play anyway.
Like Marchand, McAvoy was initially pegged for a late November/early December return and, whether he plays Thursday or not, it looks like he’ll beat that prognostication as well.
“I think it’s a testament to everyone, really, the docs, the trainers everybody and obviously working hard to get back early. And we’re getting close,” said McAvoy. “You obviously have to get to the point where the healing integrity of the (shoulder) is strong, you have to be sure of that. So that’s really the most important step and from there it’s feel, it’s listening to your body, it’s accomplishing things you need to in order to play.”
While there’s certainly some contact in a regular practice, there is not as much of it as there once was. “You try your best and that’s something continuing to do right now, getting into battles and lifting sticks hard and having guys try to rub you out, taking that contact and trying to feel good,” said McAvoy. “That’s something that’s big, especially as a defenseman, feeling confident when you’re going back on pucks that whatever position you’re in, you’re going to be able to make the play, you’re not going to be worrying about that contact.”
It’s hard to mimic the game (in practice) but I think we’ve done a good job of trying to.”
“(Lindholm) has been playing awesome hockey, as are all the defensemen, really. You don’t have the start we’ve had collectively without everyone pulling the rope,” said McAvoy. “To watch these guys every night has been amazing. And Lindy has certainly looked incredible and he’s been playing amazing. It’s been really fun to watch.
“And I think it’s important for everyone to take his share for where we are right now. If I do get to play with Lindy, that would be a blast. He’s a great defenseman and would definitely make my life easy.”
In a move to possibly clear up cap space for a McAvoy return, the Bruins placed Mike Reilly on waivers for a second time. He cleared waivers at the start of the season. ...
Zdeno Chara and Kevan Miller will be making their Bruins Alumni debut in the Nathan Hardy Memorial Game at Warrior Ice Arena on Dec. 3 (2 p.m.). Tickets are $20 for general admission and $150 for VIP reception meet & greet.
The Bruins alumni will be playing active duty and retired Navy SEALs. Nathan Hardy, of Durham, N.H., was a SEAL who was killed in action at the age of 29 during an assault on an Al Quaeda bomb cell in Iraq in 2008. Nathan’s father, Steve, will be dropping the puck….
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Planet Fitness CEO Chris Rondeau walks at the Planet Fitness in the West Side of Manchester in June during a launch event for “Teen Summer Challenge” in 2019.
Those working out at Planet Fitness might notice more of a crowd these days, even months before those New Year’s resolutions.
Other gym chains and higher-end health clubs are seeing an increased interest in fitness.
Planet Fitness reported in its third quarter earnings statements it now has 16.6 million members — an all-time record for the company founded in 1992 in Dover. The company is now based in Hampton.
“We continue our steady recovery from the pandemic,” CEO Chris Rondeau said during an earnings conference call Tuesday. “Members’ trends remained strong in the quarter with joins back to historical pre-pandemic seasonality.”
The frequency at which members go to the gym have increased and the company is seeing fewer cancellations as compared with 2019. Gyms were forced to shut down for a period of time in 2020 as part of precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rondeau said 25% of health and fitness centers have closed due to the coronavirus. No corporate or franchise locations of Planet Fitness have permanently closed, he said.
Planet Fitness opened 29 locations in the third quarter, bringing the number to 2,353.
“We emerged even stronger with tremendous opportunities for future growth,” he said.
Michael Benton, CEO of Genavix Corp., a national chain for wellness solutions as well as the owner of three fitness centers in New Hampshire, including Executive Health & Sports Center in Manchester, also reported strong membership.
He said larger clubs with pools and other amenities and larger “high volume, low price” gyms are doing well. Some smaller, studio-style centers have a much slower recovery, he said.
“People just want more space,” Benton said, or they just want to use fitness equipment without classes.
The economy has not prompted people to seek better bargains.
“If you want to stay at a Ritz Carlton, you stay at Ritz Carlton because you want that experience,” he said. “If you want to stay at a Holiday Inn Express, you stay at a Holiday Inn Express because that is what you can afford. You understand what you buy when you get there.”
Executive Health & Sports Center has indoor and outdoor tennis courts and pools.
“It is a different market altogether,” he said. “A lot of our members do both.”
The Zoo Health Club — which has seven locations and four on the way in New Hampshire — is also seeing its highest number of members, according to franchise owner Ed Baroody. The franchise business operates in 11 states. The first three locations in the Granite State opened in 2019.
“It is a sharp contrast to what we experienced during the shutdown and days after,” he said. “It was kind of a slow rollout.”
A new location is set to open in Seabrook next week and another location in Hooksett will open next month at the Kmart plaza. The two other new locations have not been announced, but will be in Southern New Hampshire and the northern part of the Seacoast region.
Baroody has noticed steady growth in both membership and usage. With more flexible schedules, the locations aren’t seeing as many rushes, such as after work.
At-home exercise trends have declined, he said.
“People want to get out of their homes to work out,” he said.
Benton said those in the fitness industry will continue to offer programs online. Maybe opt to do a hybrid approach to working out, sometimes at home, sometimes at the gym.
“I don’t think we’ll ever move away from that. We offer it as part of the overall membership. We aren’t charging any more for it,” he said. “It gives fitness people a 24/7 experience.”
Planet Fitness is planning the first quarter of 2023 being the first “uninterrupted by COVID” in years.
The chain is working on programs targeted toward Gen Z with its high school pass program.
“We continue to market to them and believe that when they are ready to join a gym Planet Fitness will be top of mind,” Rondeau said.
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Carol Pierce, far left, of the Laconia Human Relations Committee, waits to speak on Wednesday at Temple B’nai Israel’s observance on the 84th anniversary of the Nazi anti-Semitic riot known as Kristallnacht. Temple President Ira Keltz is addressing attendees, while Laconia Mayor Andrew Hosmer and Lois Kessin, an event organizer, listen.
Attendees at Kristallnacht observance.
Temple B’nai Israel Cantor Melody Funk sings at Kristallnacht observance on Wednesday.
LACONIA — The 84th anniversary of Kristallnacht, a Nazi anti-Semitic massacre that directly led to the murder of some six million Jews in the Holocaust, was remembered Wednesday at Temple B’nai Israel.
Some 70 people gathered on the temple’s Court Street lawn for an interfaith observance that included songs and prayers and the declaration by several speakers that what happened to Jews in Germany on the night of Nov. 9, 1938, would “never again” happen anywhere.
Among those pledging themselves to that effort was Laconia Mayor Andrew Hosmer, who said in preparing his remarks that he repeatedly kept coming back to why “The Night of Broken Glass,” which is a less flattering alternative name for Kristallnacht, no one stepped up to challenge Adolf Hitler’s order to inflict violence and destruction upon the Jews.
“Where were the people to stand up for those who were being abused?” he asked.
Hosmer warned that the conditions that made Kristallnacht possible more than 80 years ago — governments lying to their people and the people believing the lies — continues into the present day around the world.
The mayor pointed out that many of those who came out to Temple B’nai Israel on Wednesday had attended a vigil weeks earlier at the municipal Opechee Park, which along with the Laconia Public Library had been defaced by graffiti that included swastikas.
At both events, Jews and Christians, as well as Democrats and Republicans, came together, to stand shoulder-to-shoulder as “human beings.”
Carol Pierce, of the mayoral Laconia Human Relations Committee, said she is of German heritage and recalled how as a teenager growing up in Wisconsin during World War II she was advised by her mom not to make that fact widely known.
Later, Pierce said she learned about Nazi Germany’s role in World War II, and after that, thinking, “My people did this, too.”
Roger Andrews of the Universalist Unitarian Society of Laconia said Kristallnacht was a terrible thing for Jews in Germany “and after that, it got worse.”
The terror of Kristallnacht, he noted, was “initiated by nice people like us.”
“We stand with you, Temple B’nai Israel, praying that we will have the courage to never be silent, but to act,” Andrews concluded.
The Rev. Marc Drouin, pastor of St. Andre Bessette Parish, said he as a seminarian also wondered “how could hatred develop in such a way” as to seek to destroy an entire people.
Everyone who attended the observance at the temple did so as someone “formed and fashioned in the image of God,” said Drouin, thus “to hate another is to hate oneself” and God.
Jim Carroll, a retired district court judge in Laconia, said he as an Irish Catholic was forever grateful to the “role models” in Laconia’s Jewish community who helped him become a better person.
History doesn’t repeat itself, Carroll pointed out. Instead, “It is mankind that repeats history.”
He ended his remarks by quoting President Franklin Roosevelt’s famous four freedoms speech, observing that Wednesday’s observance “is our collective call to ensure those freedoms are granted.”
Ira Keltz, president of Temple B’nai Israel, welcomed attendees and said that after Kristallnacht, Jews in Germany understood that it was not a temporary situation but the start of something even worse.
Everyone who came to the temple for the observance of the 84th anniversary of Kristallnacht was there to say “never again,” said Keltz.
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“Miles Davis: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7, That’s What Happened 1982-1995” is a compilation of recordings that covers a transitional time in the jazz trumpeter’s life.
Music review: ‘Bootleg’ cherrypicks Miles Davis outtakes, live tracks from early ‘80s
By Mike Cote Union Leader Staff
MILES DAVIS “The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7, That’s What Happened 1982-1985” (Columbia /Legacy)
This bootleg is a different animal, which might have made Miles Davis smile.
The first six entries in the Miles Davis bootleg series featured live material from the jazz trumpeter, such as 2018’s “The Final Tour,” a four-CD set compiling sets recorded in Europe in 1960, when Davis fronted the quintet that featured tenor sax legend John Coltrane.
“That’s What Happened” is the first in the series to focus primarily on studio outtakes, offering another look at Davis’ final recordings for Columbia Records in the mid ‘80s, when he was re-emerging after a long hiatus.
Two of the three discs —housed in a slipcase rather than the digipacks of the previous, more expansive sets — focus on outtakes from “Star People,” “Decoy” and “You’re Under Arrest.” Davis’ collaborators at the time featured upstarts — and future jazz stars — bassist Marcus Miller, guitarists John Scofield and Mike Stern, and bassist Daryl Jones, now a longtime member of The Rolling Stones.
Ever the explorer, Davis was still searching for the next big thing, updating his sound to recognize the groove-heavy version of jazz fusion (the three-part Davis composition “Celestial Blues”) and interpreting ‘80s songs popularized by Cyndi Lauper (“Time After Time”), Michael Jackson (“Human Nature”) and Tina Turner (“What’s Love Got To Do With It”).
Disc 3 features nine tracks recorded live in Montreal in July 1983 when Davis’ band features Scofield and Jones, sax and flute player Bill Evans, drummer Al Foster and percussionist Mino Cinelu.
The set was released for the first time on vinyl only earlier this year as “What It Is: Montreal 7/7/83.”
In the liner notes, music journalist Michael J. Moore recognizes the collection asks fans to reassess a period of Davis’ career when the pioneering trumpet player was in transition.
“On ‘The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7,’ we get to play in the rubble of what would become yet another period of unprecedented innovation. Beauty resides in evolution.”
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Above and below, Emily Karel of Durham and Andrew Codispoti, who lives in the Monadnock Region, star in the U.S. premiere of Irish playwright Irene Kelleher’s play “A Safe Passage” at the Players’ Ring Theatre in Portsmouth from Friday through Sunday.
‘A Safe Passage’
THE PLAYERS’ RING THEATRE
Actor Andrew Codispoti stars in the Glass Dove Productions performances of Irish playwright Irene Kelleher’s play “A Safe Passage” this weekend at The Players’ Ring in Portsmouth.
Players' Ring braves rough waters for 'A Safe Passage'
Granite State actress and producer Emily Karel first met Irish playwright Irene Kelleher in 2010 when they were studying at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass.
“We bonded over our love of ‘Lady Macbeth’ and ‘Wuthering Heights,’ and have been friends ever since,” Karel said.
Kelleher in 2018 asked Karel, who lives in Durham and runs Glass Dove Productions, if she would star in and produce U.S. shows of the playwright’s arresting story “Mary and Me,” about a teenager in 1986 facing a difficult milestone and finding solace in an unlikely confidante — a statue of the Virgin Mary.
Two years after presenting that story at the Players’ Ring Theatre in Portsmouth, Karel is producing and co-starring in the U.S. premiere of another of Kelleher’s heartfelt journeys, “A Safe Passage,” there this weekend.
This tale takes place on New Year’s Eve in 1979, when a lonely lighthouse keeper, Christy, isn’t certain he wants to see 1980. He’s lost his wife and daughter, along with his will to go on. When he suddenly sees a young woman about to jump into the churning sea, he races to pull her back from the brink. But things aren’t quite what they seem.
“Irene is a master storyteller. Her plays often deal with complex societal issues, which she explores honestly, and often humorously,” Karel said. “It is a deeply personal story with a twist. Just when you believe you have it figured out, it surprises you.”
She hopes “A Safe Passage” also encourages show-goers to take their own leaps of faith.
“After the events of the past three years, we have all been given a small taste of what it is like to feel at sea. Isolation, grief, despair, loneliness — we have had to sit with all of them and in some ways, we have had to make peace with them,” she said. “As the world tries to find its footing, many of us are beginning to emerge from this protected state.”
Actor Andrew Codispoti, who lives in the Monadnock Region but considers the Seacoast his second home, said his portrayal of the lighthouse keeper’s light and dark moments changes the way he moves across the stage during the course of the show.
“For a lot of the on-stage time in this play I’m actually playing against the weight the character is under (when it comes to) his sense of duty, his playfulness and sense of humor. This is a character who’s actively trying to leave behind those dark things in his past, in multiple ways.”
Later, when a sense of heaviness does start to push down on the lighthouse keeper, Codispoti lets it sink in.
“I definitely draw from my own experiences of loss and grief, but only in the sense of knowing how they affected my body. For example, I don’t think of the specific people I’ve lost in my life. I … recall the physical sensations of those moments of loss, or what it feels like when I miss those people.
“A lot of performance is about breath to me — I breathe those moments of loss, breathing in the way I know I have breathed when overcome or nearly overcome by grief or any other emotion,” he said.
Like Karel and Kelleher, Codispoti has a deep fondness for Shakespeare’s celebrated poetry and prose.
“He truly seems to get inside of his characters, treat them as real people with virtues and flaws, and not judge them. His empathy for human beings is extraordinary,” Codispoti said. “I love to speak his words on a visceral level. When you’ve spent a lot of time with it, the rhythm gets into your body, heart and lungs, as well as into the mind.”
Catherine Stewart, a Scotland native who has lived in Portsmouth for 10 years, directs “A Safe Passage.” She considers the lighthouse setting itself a third character in the play, a kind of beacon of hope amidst the lashing rain and swirling sea.
“The play very cleverly tells the audience all they need to know from the very beginning, but like a good mystery the full narrative isn’t completely revealed until the final moments of the play,” Stewart said. That way, “the audience can have a real ‘Ah-ha!’ or ‘I knew it!’ moment as they are walking out of the theater.”
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To the Editor: I can no longer remain silent. I was raised by an honorably discharged Word War II veteran who became an educator and a councilor. He taught American history, government, civics, and was a leader in our church. A staunch Republican, he made donations to their colleges and causes.
I was taught about the equality and necessity of the three separate branches of our government. My whole family went to church every Sunday and learned the Golden Rule. We practiced the values of forgiveness and tolerance. Things have badly devolved.
Hitler had his term “luggenspresse”, which was the Nazi-era predecessor to Donald Trump’s “fake news” claim. His foundational premises for taking over Germany were based on bigotry, controlling education, creating enemies, and eliminating those who spoke out against him. Fast forward to today and many current Republicans are allowing themselves to duplicate the sins of the past. Those blind sycophants endorsing Nazi takeover tactics are removing the United State’s promise — all in the name of power.
Please pay no attention to obvious lies. We were raised better than this! You cannot be a Christian and support hate, intolerance, lies, and violence to endorse a future that will lead to the demise of the American Dream. Republicans striving for control now are willing to eliminate Social Security, Medicare, and all forms of the American Dream for us all. My late father would be appalled, and ashamed of the current Republican Party.
RICHARD GLASS
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To the Editor: Another farm here in the Monadnock region just went out of business. I’ve heard through the grapevine that another one lost access to the land they farmed. A third plans to cut production by 70% next year. If the New England Feeding New England Project (nefoodsystemplanners.org) is to succeed then we must develop more ways of producing the food we consume, growth through attrition is not the answer. Some of these farms went out because they weren’t profitable enough.
The amount one farms yields is a moot point as I have seen both small and larger farms bite the dust over the last 13 years. Agrochemical companies have methodically centered the public conversation around yields instead of profits, which mostly just serves them by allowing them to line their pockets with the farmers’ money. Yield is just one metric in farming. Environmental health, how workers and animals are treated and, most of all, profitability are just as important if not more important measurements one must consider when accessing a farm’s overall success. I would argue that the more profitable a farm is per acre, not how much they produce, is a better indicator of whether or not that farm has a good chance of staying in business.
Please do as much as you can to support local farms.
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Charlene Lovett
When I spoke with people on the campaign trail, one of the most frequent concerns is public education funding. How we fund public education in New Hampshire has put an incredible tax burden on local property owners, created inequities among school districts, and caused unnecessary division among communities. If we don’t resolve the funding issue, the outcomes will become worse each passing year.
According to the National Center of Education Statistics, New Hampshire is last in the nation in funding that a state contributes towards public education. Estimates show that the state contributes 28% of the cost while local taxpayers pay 72%. Because a municipality’s tax base or assessed valuation varies from community to community, funding public education becomes a much heavier burden for municipalities that are property poor. Communities with lower assessed valuations have higher tax rates.
Beyond the issue of whether a municipality is property rich or poor, there is also the economic factor. Mill-based cities and towns experienced economic downturns when manufacturers either closed or relocated. Others became prosperous with the growth of technology, health care and tourism industries. These transitions occur over decades and continue to evolve with shifts in the economy and changes in median income. In either case, the result is an increased or decreased financial ability to pay for public education at the municipal level. Additionally, there is also the individual taxpayer’s ability to pay property taxes. Even in wealthier communities, there are property owners who are on limited incomes, making it difficult to absorb the reliance of funding public education at the local level.
Municipal variations in property wealth and economic prosperity create disparities among communities regarding their ability to adequately fund public education. Property-poor cities and towns, and those with lower median incomes, have fewer financial resources to fund their schools, often resulting in lower-paid staff, reduced programming, and deferred building maintenance. Students living in wealthier municipalities have access to well-funded schools that can afford to pay staff higher wages, offer robust programming and better maintained infrastructure.
According to the education policy organization Reaching Higher, there is a 59% disparity in the starting salary of teachers between the highest and lowest paying school districts in our state.
Such inequities create division in property poor, less wealthy municipalities. Too often, local taxpayers want to support public education, but can’t afford to pay higher property taxes without the risk of losing their homes. Additionally, school districts are separate from municipal government in most communities. Given both entities draw from the same local taxpayers, tension often exists when deciding what should be funded. For example, a major school renovation project may delay needed road improvements.
We are seeing all these issues play out in Senate District 8 and throughout the state. Some school districts are unable to fill vacancies or are losing their teachers to other districts that pay better. In other cases, school districts have risked losing accreditation due to deferred maintenance. School boards are forced to choose between cutting staff or reducing programming.
In such circumstances, students lose and so do their communities.
Rather than resolving the issue of properly funding public education, the state has side stepped it by introducing Education Freedom Accounts (EFA). This effort, which is over budget and has cost taxpayers $14.7 million dollars, diverts funds from public education to private, religious and home-based schools. As a result, disparities continue to deepen among public school districts, affecting student outcomes, taxpayers, and economic growth.
The good news is that there are solutions to improve our current funding model. Ideas to be considered include a more equitable partnership in state and local funding, an equalized tax rate, and state-funded special education services. However, we need state elected officials that are committed to resolving public education funding before introducing alternatives such as EFAs. School choice cannot come at the sacrifice of public education. Elected leaders should commit to fulfilling New Hampshire’s constitutional responsibility that every student, regardless of ZIP code, has access to a quality education.
Charlene Lovett is the former mayor of Claremont and a past Claremont School Board member. She lives in the city.
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Chloe Ezzo
EARLIER this year, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen testified before the Senate that embracing an abortion culture across our nation will allow more women to enter the work force and increase the labor participation rate. It perpetuates the misleading idea that women need to have abortions in order to be successful, happy, and fulfilled.
America has crossed a bridge too far when a cabinet member values labor rate numbers above the lives of vulnerable children in the womb. Among the intellectual and political elite, a political viewpoint is cynically positioned as a compelling justification for ending human life. There’s a word for that: “inhumane.”
For having such blatantly misplaced priorities that directly threaten unborn lives, Secretary Yellen, along with so many of her fellow cabinet appointees, should not be serving the citizens of our country in a position of great public trust.
Many Americans have strong feelings about protecting the rights of marginalized groups in our country. They argue that marginalized groups are systematically discriminated against in society and have little power to defend their rights. Following this logic, the most maligned and marginalized group in our society today is an unborn baby in the womb, a baby who has no voice, no strength, and no one to advocate for his or her protection. Instead, these young lives are attacked at every turn as inconvenient, worthless, and disposable even just days away from being born.
Why don’t we treat the unborn, who are arguably the most vulnerable class of people, as we would other groups of individuals who face discrimination and condemnation?
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen herself has stood before the U.S. Senate and pleaded for the rights of women to be protected by enshrining the right to end preborn life at the sole discretion of the unborn child’s mother. She and Senator Maggie Hassan have been at the forefront of calling for federal intervention to guarantee unlimited abortion rights to women.
In New Hampshire, a woman can terminate the life of her unborn child up to 24 weeks. This is more than ample time to make this decision. Even this modest restriction is under relentless attack. Why do our leaders and lawmakers push for abortion up to the point of birth?
Since the original Roe v. Wade decision, more than 60 million preborn children have already lost their lives because of our permissive and increasingly open-ended abortion-on-demand culture. How many more unborn children do we need to lose before we acknowledge these precious lives have intrinsic dignity and worth outside job participation rates? Why should their value be a function of their perceived convenience?
When the rights of so many, even animals, are so vigorously fought for and defended, who will speak for the maligned and marginalized unborn? Certainly not our leaders and lawmakers.
Chloe Ezzo is a senior at Dartmouth College in Hanover where she lives.
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A man in military clothing gestures next to a Ukrainian flag in Kalynivske in Kherson region, Ukraine November 9, 2022 in this screen grab taken from a video. Video obtained by Reuters on Nov. 10, 2022.
"You're looking at well over 100,000 Russian soldiers killed and wounded," Milley told the Economic Club of New York on Wednesday, according to Agence France-Presse. "Same thing probably on the Ukrainian side."
Some 40,000 civilians have also been killed or injured in the war, Milley said. "There has been a tremendous amount of suffering, human suffering," he added. The Washington Post could not independently verify the figures.
Milley's figure is a sharp increase from the Pentagon's August estimate of 70,000 to 80,000 Russian casualties. For comparison, the Soviet Union said in 1988 that it lost more than 13,000 soldiers, and that more than 35,000 were injured, in Afghanistan during the war it fought there.
Officials in Kyiv say they are open to negotiating with Russia but have set preconditions, including the complete withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine's territory, an agreement on compensation from Russia for war damage and security guarantees from other countries.
As The Post has reported, the Biden administration's outreach to Ukraine on peace talks has included a request for officials there to drop their public refusal to negotiate with Russia's leader, President Vladimir Putin.
The Kremlin has also signaled it is open to talks, but its own preconditions appear to be at odds with those of Ukraine: After Russia illegally annexed four regions of Ukraine, Putin said that "the only way to peace" is for Ukraine and the West to recognize that the people of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia "have become our citizens, forever."
Despite the differences in demands between the two sides, Milley said the winter could create opportunities for peace negotiations, with Russia ordering its forces to withdraw from the strategic southern city of Kherson on Wednesday. But first, he said, both sides had to recognize that a complete military victory was "maybe not achievable" in this conflict, "and therefore you need to turn to other means."
Ukrainian officials have suggested that Russia could merely be pretending to withdraw from Kherson in a bid to trap Ukrainian troops into a fight over the city. Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, warned Wednesday that Ukraine saw "no signs" of a unilateral withdrawal.
U.S. officials have also signaled they are cautious about reports of a Russian withdrawal. "There's some indications that the Russians intend to withdraw to the east bank of the Dnieper River," Colin H. Kahl, the undersecretary of defense for policy, said Tuesday. "We'll have to see how that plays out."
But Milley on Wednesday said of the withdrawal: "The initial indicators are they are in fact doing it. They made the public announcement they're doing it."
He said it could take weeks for Russia to withdraw its troops - 20,000 to 30,000 in Kherson - and suggested the withdrawal could be a strategic move "to preserve their force to reestablish defensive lines south of the [Dnieper] river, but that remains to be seen."
In the meantime, Milley said, there is "a window of opportunity for negotiation."
"When peace can be achieved, seize it," he said. "Seize the moment."
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President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 9, 2022.
By Jenny Leonard and Sarah Zheng Bloomberg
U.S. President Joe Biden vowed to make no "fundamental concessions" in his first in-person summit with China's Xi Jinping, reinforcing already low expectations for any major breakthrough in strained ties between the world's two largest economies.
The two presidents are expected to meet next week on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Bali, Indonesia. Xi's last meeting with a U.S. leader came in June 2019, when he reached a truce with Donald Trump that led to a trade deal six months later -- right before relations fell into a downward spiral as Covid-19 spread around the globe.
Biden said he expects to discuss contentious issues such as trade and Taiwan, which China has put under increased military pressure since U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taipei in August. His administration also imposed sweeping curbs on the sale of advanced chips to China, a move designed to maintain the U.S.'s technological edge over Beijing.
"I'm not willing to make any fundamental concessions," Biden told a White House news conference Wednesday. "I'm looking for competition, not conflict."
The U.S. and China have veered toward confrontation over the past few years even as they face greater calls to cooperate on trade and pressing issues like climate change, Covid-19 and Russia's war in Ukraine. Both are increasingly suspicious of each other's intentions: The National Security Strategy released by Biden last month cast China as trying to supplant the U.S. as the world's dominant power, while a defiant Xi declared that the "rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is now on an irreversible historical course."
With relations between the two nations at their lowest point in decades, both presidents have put some domestic uncertainty behind them in recent weeks. Xi has secured a precedent-breaking third term as leader and stacked the Communist Party's leadership with proven loyalists. Biden emerged stronger than expected from U.S. midterm elections, telling reporters Wednesday that he plans to run for re-election in 2024, though he has yet to make a formal announcement.
Previous calls between the two presidents -- who met several times when Biden was vice president -- have helped steady relations during periods of discord. In recent days, Xi said he was willing to work with the U.S. while senior diplomats between the two sides have held calls and in-person meetings.
"The two sides don't want to normalize the bilateral relationship so much as stabilize it," said Richard McGregor, senior fellow for East Asia at the Lowy Institute in Sydney. "Whether that allows for any significant cooperation on issues like climate change and pandemics and the like is yet to be seen."
China so far hasn't confirmed the Xi-Biden meeting, with Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian saying Thursday that Beijing took the U.S. proposal "seriously" and the two sides were in communication.
Beijing was "committed to realizing mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation with the U.S.," he added.
If the Republicans secure control over the U.S. House, as now seems likely, that could set up another showdown between Washington and Beijing. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told reporters in July that he would "love to" lead a delegation to Taiwan if he replaces Pelosi as speaker.
The main outcome from the meeting could be reopening communication channels after Beijing cut off military talks and climate change cooperation in retaliation over Pelosi's becoming the first U.S. speaker to visit Taiwan in 25 years. They might seek to ease some of the pressures over issues including Beijing's military threats against Taiwan and Washington's curbs on Chinese chipmakers, although a truce on par with the one Xi reached with Trump at the G-20 summit in 2019 appears elusive.
As the pandemic shut down the world in a U.S. election year, Trump dubbed Covid the "China virus," the U.S. accused Beijing of carrying out genocide against Muslims in Xinjiang and both sides traded sanctions. China responded to Pelosi's recent trip with its most provocative military exercises near the island in decades, including firing ballistic missiles over Taipei.
"For three years, we have only had hawkish attacks on each other," said Henry Wang Huiyao, founder of the Center for China and Globalization, a policy research group in Beijing. "We need a bottom for this deterioration. I think at least that this meeting can probably find that and gradually stabilize, if not improve, the relationship."
Russian President Vladimir Putin's expected absence from the summits might help lower the temperature on differences between Washington and Beijing over the war in Ukraine. While Xi has refused to criticize Putin's invasion, he has recently expressed concerns about the conflict and reaffirmed his opposition to the use of nuclear weapons.
A good outcome for China would be for Biden "to show respect," said Yun Sun, a senior fellow and director of the China Program at the Washington-based Stimson Center.
"China will take it as a victory if Biden shows a few things that he wants China to cooperate on, because it implies that U.S. is willing to reciprocate on issues China sees as important," she said.
Taiwan is likely to loom large after Biden's previous assurances to defend the island in the event of a Chinese attack, despite the U.S.'s longstanding One China policy of maintaining "strategic ambiguity" about its commitment to intervene militarily. Biden said Wednesday he was "going to have that conversation" with Xi, adding that U.S. policy toward Taiwan "has not changed at all."
China considers democratically ruled Taiwan as part of its territory, even though it has never controlled the island, and has repeatedly reaffirmed its willingness to use force to prevent its formal independence. During Xi's previous calls with Biden, including their most recent one in July, he has warned the U.S. against "playing with fire" on Taiwan.
"What I want to do with him when we talk is lay out what each of our red lines are -- understand what he believes to be in the critical national interests of China, what I know to be the critical interests of the United States and determine whether or not they conflict with one another," Biden said. "And if they do, how to resolve, and how to work it out."
Bloomberg's Jennifer Jacobs, Justin Sink, Colum Murphy, Zibang Xiao, Rebecca Choong Wilkins, Philip Glamann and Dan Murtaugh contributed to this report.
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A general view shows the storm tides at Daytona Beach, before the expected arrival of tropical storm Nicole, in Volusia County, Florida, U.S. November 5, 2022, in this screen grab obtained from social media video.
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MIAMI - Hurricane Nicole weakened into a tropical storm on Thursday shortly after making landfall on Florida's east coast, barreling ashore with a brew of heavy downpours and fierce winds.
Some 215,000 homes and businesses across Florida's Atlantic coast were without power on Thursday morning, after the storm, packing 75 mph (120 kph) winds, made landfall at 3 a.m EST (0800 GMT) along the east coast north of Miami as a hurricane, the National Hurricane Center said.
Nicole was also the latest calendar year hurricane to make landfall on Florida's East Coast on record, breaking the old record of Nov. 4 set by the Yankee Hurricane in 1935, Klotzbach said.
(Reporting by Brian Ellsworth in Miami; Additional reporting by Jasper Ward in Nassau, Sandra Stojanovic in Daytona Beach, Fla. and Akriti Sharma in Bengaluru, Brendan O'Brien in Chicago and Rich McKay in Atlanta; Writing by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Editing by Mark Heinrich, Alison Williams and Angus MacSwan)
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General view shows the housing complex where three American tourists were found dead in an apartment last week due to carbon monoxide poisoning, as Mexican authorities confirmed to Reuters on Wednesday, in Mexico City, Mexico, November 9, 2022.
By Andrew Jeong The Washington Post
The trio went to Mexico to participate in the festivities marking the Day of the Dead, or Día de los Muertos. The holiday - which ran Oct. 31 to Nov. 2 - has its origins in ancient Aztec Indigenous traditions and commemorates death as an essential element of life.
The woman involved had told her boyfriend before her death that she felt like she had been drugged, according to El País, which viewed messages between the couple. "Like I've taken ecstasy, but I haven't," she reportedly wrote. She was also reportedly vomiting and said she was feeling fatigued.
The Washington Post's Robyn Huang and Bryan Pietsch contributed to this report.
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Two weeks ago, Sheriff Jody Greene of Columbus County, N.C., resigned following the release of a tape featuring his profanity-laced tirade about Black deputies. But he could be back in office soon - on Tuesday, he won his reelection bid by more than 1,500 votes, according to preliminary results from the State Board of Elections.
"I am so honored for your vote of confidence in me and the staff at the Sheriff's Office. I promise we will not let you down, I am the Sheriff for everyone no matter race, color, religion, sex orientation, or national origin," Greene, a Republican, posted Wednesday night on Facebook.
His victory follows a wave of criticism from advocacy groups and the North Carolina Sheriffs' Association, all of which called his comments offensive and unacceptable. Greene resigned late last month before a hearing seeking his removal from office.
In the tape, which was recorded in February 2019 but leaked more than three years later, Greene - who was the sheriff-elect of Columbus County at the time - can be heard disparaging Black sheriff's office employees, saying he was "sick" of them.
"Every Black that I know, you need to fire him to start with, he's a snake!" Greene said, according to court documents filed by Jon David, the district attorney for the area.
On the other end of the line was Jason Soles, who was acting as interim sheriff while election officials verified Greene's narrow 2018 victory. Soles was recording the conversation without Greene's knowledge.
Soles provided a 6 1/2-minute recording of the call to WECT-TV in late September, about a year after announcing he would run as a Democrat against Greene in the November 2022 sheriff's election. Soles said he had previously brought the matter to local and state departments but "everybody had deaf ears."
After the recording was made public, the North Carolina Sheriffs' Association deemed Greene's remarks "inflammatory, racially derogatory, insulting, and offensive," and the NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union released a joint statement calling for Greene to resign.
"Columbus County, and in particular its Black residents, deserve better," the groups said. "To restore dignity and confidence in the office of the Columbus County Sheriff, we demand a thorough investigation of all the activities conducted by his officers since the beginning of Sheriff Greene's tenure - by all relevant authorities - including the State Board of investigation and the federal government."
On Oct. 3, District Attorney Jon David (R) sent a letter to Greene, asking him to "recognize the harm that your statements have caused" and to "make the honorable decision to resign." Greene denied having any racial animosity or bias and said he would not be resigning - prompting David to file a petition seeking his removal from office.
Three weeks later, David was scheduled to present his arguments about Greene's alleged "willful misconduct and maladministration in office." However, the proceedings effectively ended before they could begin, as Greene's attorney, Michael Mills, announced just minutes into the trial that the sheriff had resigned.
Hours after his resignation, Greene took to Facebook to clarify that he was still running for office, apologizing for the recorded comments and adding that he had eschewed a trial because "I cannot afford to spend the next week fighting in a courtroom while we are in the middle of an election to preserve our freedom."
"It is appropriate, and necessary, to file a petition based on the current allegations, as well as any new allegations that may come to light," David said in a statement.
In the following weeks, Greene touted his 34 years of experience in law enforcement and track record as reasons to elect him. He appealed to voters with promises of "less politics, more service" and "a sheriff you can look in the eyes."
Though he seems set to be sworn-in in December, the probe by the State Bureau of Investigation is still ongoing, an agency spokesperson told The Washington Post. David was not available Wednesday to comment on Greene's reelection, according to an assistant.
Mills, Greene's attorney, told The Post that the sheriff regrets his comments from 2019.
"Jody is sorry for the disrespectful and insensitive words that have offended friends, colleagues and fellow citizens, and he has asked for their forgiveness," Mills told The Post.
However, Mills maintained that the allegations in the district attorney's petition "did not constitute willful misconduct and maladministration in office" - one of the statutes under which a sheriff could be removed from office, according to the state's constitution. Greene has broadly denied the allegations of misconduct and racism.
While it's rare for elected officials to be removed under that premise in North Carolina, it's not unheard of. There have been at least three such cases in the state's history, according to the Asheville Citizen Times.
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U.S. Rep. Val Demings waves a flag during the Come Out With Pride Parade in downtown Orlando, Florida, on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022. Thousands lined the streets for the yearly event supporting inclusion.
By Brooke Baitinger The Charlotte Observer
They “shatter(ed) lavender ceilings” in states such as Alaska, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Montana, according to the LGBTQ Victory Fund.
The organization describes itself as “the only national organization dedicated to electing openly LGBTQ people” with the goal of furthering “equality at all levels of government.”
A lavender ceiling is “a glass ceiling specifically imposed on LGBTQ people: an unofficial upper limit to their professional advancement,” according to an entry in the Gender & Sexuality section of dictionary.com.
“Lavender ceilings are the result of systemic bias and discrimination against LGBTQ people in the workplace and in society more broadly,” the entry says.
At least 340 openly LGBTQ candidates have won so far in the midterms, which is the most in U.S. history, Victory Fund said in a news release.
In many cases, they did so in the face of aggressive anti-LGBTQ — and especially anti-trans — campaigns, the organization said.
A report by the Human Rights Campaign found that in the final weeks of the election, extremist candidates and anti-LGBTQ organizations spent tens of millions of dollars on attack ads against transgender youth.
Trans rights were on the ballot more than ever this year, according to a national trans legislation tracker. It found that 171 anti-trans bills were introduced in 33 states, with 26 of those passing, 20 failing and 125 still active.
LGBTQ Victory Fund expects more wins in the coming days in races that haven’t been called yet. A “historic” 1,065 openly LGBTQ people ran for office this year, the organization said in the release.
The country would have to elect 35,000 more openly LGBTQ candidates to reach “equitable representation,” according to the Victory Fund’s Institute, which is “a census of LGBTQ elected officials nationwide.”
The institute keeps track of LGBTQ elected officials and candidates running for office and keeps tabs on representation compared with the rest of the U.S. population.
Mayor Annise Parker, president and CEO of LGBTQ Victory Fund, released a statement:
“Tonight’s Rainbow Wave is a clear rebuke to the increased homophobia and transphobia sweeping our communities — and proves voters want to elect qualified LGBTQ leaders,” Parker said. “With so much at stake this election, from the future of marriage equality to abortion, LGBTQ candidates’ grit and exceptional grassroots support is paying off.”
Who’s who among transgender midterm winners:
James Roesener became the first openly trans man to be elected to a state legislature in the U.S. He won New Hampshire’s 22nd State House District, Ward 8. Before his win, there were eight openly trans state legislators in the entire country, and none of them are trans men. There are six openly trans men serving in elected office in total.
Zooey Zephyr became Montana’s first openly trans woman in the state’s legislature. She won Montana’s 100th State House District.
SJ Howell became the first nonbinary person elected to the state legislature in Montana. Howell was leading with 73% of the vote for Montana’s 95th State House District, according to Missoula County election results.
Leigh Finke became the first trans person elected to the Minnesota state legislature. She won the state representative seat for House District 66A with 81% of the vote.
Mauree Turner was reelected to their Oklahoma House District 88 seat. They were the first nonbinary person elected to any state legislature.
Evelyn Rios Stafford was reelected to her post as justice of the peace in Arkansas with 79% of the vote. She was the first openly trans person elected to office in Arkansas history.
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FILE PHOTO: Sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich sits in a VIP lounge at Ben Gurion international airport in Lod near Tel Aviv, Israel, March 14, 2022.
Jersey police said the investigation was led by the Economic Crime and Confiscation Unit based in the Law Officers' Department, and that it was not appropriate to comment on "a live investigation." The Law Officers' Department did not reply to a request for comment.
According to the legal document, a Jersey police officer on secondment to the Economic Crime and Confiscation Unit made the search warrant applications.
The police also agreed to pay damages and costs, confirmed that all copies of documents seized in the searches had been destroyed and that the police would apologize to Abramovich, the document said.
A commodity trader who thrived in the post-Soviet disorder of the 1990s under then-President Boris Yeltsin, Abramovich acquired stakes in the Sibneft oil company, Rusal aluminum producer and Aeroflot airline that were later sold.
"Abramovich is associated with a person who has been, and is, involved in destabilizing Ukraine and undermining and threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, namely President Vladimir Putin," according to the UK Sanctions List.
Supporters of Abramovich, who never gives interviews, say that such assertions are unproven and fail to understand the business climate of post-Soviet Russia. (Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)
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Trump's comments -- including his claim that Carroll fabricated the assault in order to sell a book and that she'd "made this charge against others" -- are protected under federal law because he was acting within the scope of his employment, his lawyer Alina Habba said in a filing Wednesday.
"More than any other public official, the President is expected to respond to questions from the media that affect his ability to maintain the trust of the American people," Habba said in the filing. "Responding to accusations involving personal matters that may affect his ability to perform his job duties is clearly within the scope of such employment."
The case is moving toward a possible trial even as Trump, who was deposed last month, weighs a second run for the White House in 2024. The D.C. Court of Appeals, which agreed to expedite its narrow role in the case, will hold oral arguments on the matter on Jan. 10.
Carroll's lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, declined to comment on Trump's brief.
The Biden administration has sided with Trump on the case. On Wednesday, the Justice Department said in a brief with the court that similar cases back Trump's argument that his comments were made in his official capacity.
The court should hold "that an elected federal official's scope of employment includes communicating with the press and constituents on matters of public concern, including allegations bearing on the official's fitness for public office," the DOJ said.
The question of whether Trump's comments qualified as a government duty was referred to the D.C. court by the federal appeals court in Manhattan. That court sided with Trump on another key question: whether a president qualifies as a government employee under the Westfall Act, a federal law that protects US government workers from civil suits related to their jobs.
If Carroll prevails in D.C., the case will proceed to trial in federal court in Manhattan.
Trump has strenuously denied Carroll's claim that he raped her more than two decades ago in a department store dressing room in Manhattan. The argument that Trump's remarks about Carroll "were motivated by self-interest or malice" is inconsequential, Habba said, because Trump was doing his job.
In her Wednesday brief, Habba asked the appeals court to adopt a precedent set by a 2003 suit against the late North Carolina congressman Cass Ballenger over comments he made to a reporter comparing a Muslim nonprofit to the "fund-raising arm" of a terrorist group. In that case, the court held that Ballenger was protected by the Westfall Act and that his comments qualified as official duties. Habba argues Trump's case is no different.
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The restaurant chain said it's trying to "gain a better understanding on the direction of the platform under its new leadership," according to an email Thursday from a company spokeswoman.
Concerns include a potential rise in objectionable content amid operational changes, as well as the departure of top executives. Advertising mogul Martin Sorrell, chairman of S4 Capital, said earlier this month that his firm is advising clients to adopt a "wait-and-see" approach to the platform.
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Lea Kissner, Twitter’s former chief information security officer, made the announcement Thursday. Damien Kieran, the chief privacy officer, and Marianne Fogarty, chief compliance officer, also resigned from the company on Wednesday night, according to an internal message reviewed by Bloomberg News.
Under another tweet from Kissner said of being “fiercely proud of the privacy, security and IT teams at Twitter.
Kieran wrote, “There is nothing else to say.”
Kieran nor Kissner responded to requests for comment. Twitter also didn’t respond. Fogarty couldn’t immediately be reached; her LinkedIn account had disabled all communications.
Kissner, who previously held roles at Apple and Google, took over the job of CISO in January 2022, according to LinkedIn, ascending to the top information security role after Peiter Zatko, also known as Mudge, left the role after a little more than one year of working at the company.
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Manchester Superintendent of Schools Jenn Gillis
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The issuance of the RFQ represents the next step in the district’s planning process, after school board members in August approved Superintendent Jenn Gillis’ conceptual plans which reduce the number of city high schools and elementary schools.
“We are very excited to take this next step and eager to hear from the firms that can help us transform our physical school buildings, and, ultimately, the way we deliver education,” Gillis said in a statement. “This is a methodical process, but it is critical that as we envision the future of our schools, we are making decisions that are student-centered, informed by data and aligned with our strategic plan.
“Our goal remains the same: Creating spaces that meet the needs of our students for years to come. Today, we’re one step closer to achieving that goal.”
In August, Gillis received approval on her “3-4-12 model” -- three high schools, four middle schools and 12 elementary schools.
Manchester is currently home to four high schools, four middle schools and 13 elementary schools.
Gillis’ presentation did not include recommendations for any specific school closures.
School officials say the proposed “3-4-12” model is supported by information gathered through previous studies, including a 2018 Long-Range Facilities Plan, 2021 Capacity/Utilization Review and 2021 Davis Demographics Study.
The full request for qualifications document can be viewed at https://finance.mansd.org/request-for-proposals.
Manchester school board members previously authorized administrators to spend up to $50,000 to hire a project manager to oversee implementation of the district’s long-term facilities plan.
The 16-page plan includes three phases for work to be performed at schools across the district, but it lacks specific dates for completion of the phases.
The first phase of the plan calls for a project manager to be assigned to oversee facilities renovation and any potential construction or demolition.
The second phase will zero in on renovations at current schools, based on feedback received at community input sessions over the past year. All but one of the 13 elementary schools in the city will likely receive some sort of renovation, with the exception of Weston Elementary.
Wilson Elementary School could be in line for a complete renovation, according to the report.
Phase 2 also will include the completion of the city’s four public middle schools into grade 5-8 schools.
Plans for the city’s public high schools also will be discussed. Feedback received during the community input sessions showed residents didn’t support merging Manchester’s high schools into a “mega” high school, though they did back renovations or rebuilding the existing high schools.
The final phase is expected to examine the long-term viability of the elementary schools and finalize plans for the high schools.
Projected costs for any of the phases have yet to be determined, school officials said, because ongoing and impending housing projects could impact future enrollment figures.
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A child looks through a bus window as civilians evacuated from the Russian-controlled part of Kherson region of Ukraine arrive at a local railway station in the town of Dzhankoi, Crimea, on Thursday.
FRONTLINE NORTH OF KHERSON, Ukraine -- Ukrainian troops pushed forward and a battle-scarred stretch of the front fell silent on Thursday, after Moscow ordered one of the war's biggest retreats, though Kyiv warned that fleeing Russians could still turn Kherson into a "city of death."
A small group of Ukrainian soldiers was shown on Ukraine's state TV being greeted by joyous residents in the center of the village of Snihurivka, around 35 miles north of Kherson city, with a Ukrainian flag fluttering above the square behind them. Reuters verified the location of the video.
The frontline villagers were leery of Moscow's intentions. The Russians could be preparing a trap, said Nizarenko's daughter, Svitlana Lischeniuk, 63, as she unloaded cans and jugs filled with well water from a trailer hitched to the family car.
"We have relatives on the right bank of the Dnipro, in Kherson. We tried contacting them... but there was no connection. We don't even know what is going on there to know the fate of our relatives."
She said that she had learned from other Kherson evacuees in her shelter that, "the people left there try not to go out of their houses and stay home.
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky, said on Thursday Russia wanted to turn Kherson into a "city of death," mining everything from apartments to sewers and planning to shell the city from the other side of the river.
Zelensky himself mentioned Kherson just once in his daily overnight television address. Ukrainian forces were strengthening their positions "step-by-step" in the south, he said. "The enemy will make no gifts to us."
Asked about Kherson in an interview with CNN aired on Thursday, Zelensky said he could not give details, because "I really want to have an unpleasant surprise for the enemy and not something that they're prepared for."
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This map shows the route of the 2022 CMC Manchester City Marathon.
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A group finishes one of the races offered by Millenium Running Sunday afternoon in Manchester.
Nearly 2,000 runners are expected in downtown Manchester this weekend, descending on the Queen City for the 16th annual CMC Manchester City Marathon and shorter races.
Manchester police are warning motorists of anticipated delays getting in and around the city due to road closures associated with the running of the marathon on Sunday.
Nearly 2,000 registered runners from 48 states are expected in Manchester to run the marathon, half marathon, and relay race and 5K through the streets of the Queen City.
Race day headquarters and the common start and finish line for each distance race are located on Elm Street in front of Veterans Park.
The marathon, half marathon and the first leg of the relay are scheduled to begin at 8:50 a.m. Sunday, while the 5K will start 15 minutes later at 9:05 a.m..
The 26.2-mile marathon course will run through numerous neighborhoods including the downtown, North End, Derryfield Park, Rimmon Heights, Piscataquog River Rail Trail, and the Goffstown Rail Trail.
Organizers said this year’s course is highlighted by a loop inside Delta Dental Stadium, home to the New Hampshire Fisher Cats minor league baseball team.
Veterans Count is once again the official charity of the CMC Manchester City Marathon.
Organizers said race participants have raised more than $10,000 this year, and over $100,000 for Veterans Count since 2017.
Veterans Count, a program of Easterseals NH that supports military veterans and their families, will receive charitable donations directly from the event proceeds.
“With great running weather forecasted for Sunday and fantastic community support from dozens of charity partners, we are looking forward to highlighting the city of Manchester to thousands of runners with the 16th running of NH’s largest marathon,” said John Mortimer, owner of Millennium Running, in a statement. “To be able to support Veterans Count as our official charity makes it even more rewarding for Millennium Running and all of the participants and sponsors.”
Manchester police announced multiple road closures leading up to race time and throughout the weekend.
Road closures scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 13 include:
• Elm Street (between Bridge & Granite) -- 6 a.m.-5 p.m.
• McGregor Street (between Amory & Bremer) -- 8 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Eddy Road -- 8:35 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Bremer Street -- 8 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Electric Street -- 8 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Northbound Franklin Street – 6 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Bridge St. Bridge -- 8:50 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Coolidge Ave -- 8:35 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Granite St. (between Canal & Elm) -- 8:50 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Eastbound Granite St. (between Commercial & Canal) -- 8:50 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Manchester/Goffstown Rail Trail -- 9 a.m.-3:45 p.m.
• Riverwalk Trail -- 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Reservoir Ave/Circular Drive (by Derryfield Park) -- 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m.
• Hanover Street (between Union & Elm) – 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Race information and online registration for the marathon, half marathon, relay and 5K is available at www.millenniumrunning.com/marathon.
A map of the marathon course can be found online at https://www.millenniumrunning.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CMCMCM_Full_CourseMap_2022.png.
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A man suffered head and facial injuries when a seaplane he was piloting crashed in a parking lot behind a spa in Gilford Thursday afternoon, officials said.
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Around 4 p.m. Gilford Fire-Rescue crews responded to the Gateway Spay, 28 Weirs Road, for a report of a plane crash.
Upon arrival, crews found a sea plane on its roof in the rear parking lot of the spa, Gilford Fire Chief Stephen Carrier said in a statement.
One male occupant was still in the plane when crews arrived, unable to free himself from his safety equipment. He was the only occupant of the plane, Carrier said.
The man, whose name was not released, was reportedly suffering from head and facial injuries, officials said. The man was removed from his harness, placed on a backboard and transferred to the ambulance as the plane leaked fuel, Carrier said.
“A hose line was stretched and fire extinguishers were deployed as a precaution,” said Carrier in a statement. “There was no fire. The patient was transported to Concord Hospital.”
The cause of the crash is unknown at this time, but officials said the plane hit the roof of the spa building as the plane was descending. Firefighters covered a hole in the roof of the building using a tarp and lumber.
Gilford companies remained on scene as of 6 p.m. Thursday awaiting the arrival of New Hampshire Department of Transportation and federal aviation officials with the National Transportation Safety Board.
“We are very thankful that nobody in the building, or on the ground, was injured,” said Carrier in a statement. “The businesses in the building were all occupied. It is a busy area. We wish the best for the pilot.”
The aircraft’s registration number is registered to a 1958 Cessna 175 Fixed wing single engine, registered to Moosehead Enterprises, LLC., a company out of Estero, Florida.
No further information was available Thursday night.
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The Florida Atlantic University alum, 26, told Newsweek a python consuming a reptile of this size is not “a common occurrence” as pythons usually go after warm-blooded prey.
Burmese pythons were introduced into the environment in the 1970s and ’80s, likely as exotic pets released into the wild after growing too large. They are considered an invasive species and extremely disruptive to the state’s ecosystem.
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I hope when you’re his age you have the same get-up-and-go. There’s no reason not to, now that a study in JAMA Network Open explains a good way to accomplish that goal — build your muscle strength.
The researchers looked at info on 115,489 participants, ages 65 to 74 and did a follow-up around 7.9 years later. The goal was to determine how much muscle-strengthening activity is needed when you’re age 65-plus to extend your health and longevity.
The researchers found that doing muscle-strengthening on its own for two to three or four to six times weekly (not more!) reduced the risk of death from all causes by 83% and 79% respectively. That’s compared to doing it one or fewer times a week.
Doing moderate to vigorous aerobics on its own for 150-300 minutes or more than 300 minutes weekly reduced the risk of death over the same time period by 75% and 68% respectively. That’s compared to getting less than 10 minutes a week.
When two to three strength-training sessions were combined with more than 10 minutes of aerobics weekly, the risk of death was reduced by 91%.
Clearly, as you age, muscle strengthening is vital. It helps maintain a healthy metabolism, prevents falls and protects bones. So, don’t limit your workouts to aerobics. That way, at 90 you’ll be prepared to be the new 40 when the “Great Age Reboot” occurs.
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Late Space Shuttle Challenger teacher/astronaut Christa McAuliffe of Concord.
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Divers from a documentary crew looking for the wreckage of a World War II aircraft off the coast of Florida found a 20-foot section of the space shuttle Challenger, which exploded and broke apart shortly after its launch in 1986, NASA said Thursday.
The Challenger erupted into a ball of flame 73 seconds after lifting off from Kennedy Space Center on Jan. 28, 1986. All seven crew members were killed, including Concord, N.H., school teacher Christa McAuliffe.
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Autumn Kamal watches as New Hampshire Army National Guard Sgt. First Class Derek Dutcher of Bow plants an American flag in front of a grave Thursday at the New Hampshire Veterans Cemetery.
Autumn Kamal, with some help from her mother, Emily Paige Kamal, plants an American flag Thursday in front of a grave at the New Hampshire Veterans Cemetery. Emily Kamal is a lieutenant colonel in the New Hampshire Army National Guard.
Michelle Cammack of Weare on Thursday offers a kiss at the headstone of her father, Army Reserve Sgt. Paul G. Lambert of Manchester, at the New Hampshire Veterans Cemetery in Boscawen. The cemetery observed Veterans Day on Thursday with hundreds of people, Cammack among them, coming out for a brief ceremony that was followed by the planting of American flags at all graves and columbaria.
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Michelle Cammack came out Thursday to the New Hampshire Veterans Cemetery to plant a kiss on the headstone of her father, and to find peace.
Cammack, a registered nurse at Dartmouth Health, was among hundreds of family members, students and volunteers who observed Veterans Day at the cemetery with a brief ceremony and the placing of flags at all graves and columbaria.
The Weare resident recalled that her dad, U.S. Army Reserve Sgt. Paul G. Lambert, who died on March 4, 2020, was “very well-known at the East Side Club” in his native Manchester and at the Hannaford supermarket there, where he had worked for 50 years.
“It was really important for me to be here to demonstrate my pride for every single service member who is interred here,” Cammack said. “I feel powerlessness in our current world, and this gives me some control to provide recognition and gives me a sense of peace.”
“This is a very sacred place,” she added, and planting a flag and a kiss on her father’s headstone was “just another way to honor him.”
For 5-year-old Autumn Kamal of Derry, who used an implement to make holes in the ground near graves where the flags were planted, being at the cemetery was a way to learn about some of the people her mother, Emily Paige Kamal, a lieutenant colonel with the New Hampshire Army National Guard, had worked with.
Among those formerly in Kamal’s command and now lying in repose at the cemetery is Pamela Anne Usanase, a culinary specialist with the NHANG’s 3643rd Brigade Support Battalion. While assigned to the New Hampshire Food Bank for COVID-19 relief operations, Usanase, according to her obituary, drowned in the Merrimack River in Canterbury.
Kamal said the first flag she and her daughter planted was at Usanase’s headstone.
“It’s important that she (Autumn) knows what our service members do for our country,” said Kamal.
Peggy Carlson of Londonderry came to pay respects to both her parents — Walter J. Kearney and Adele Anderson Kearney. Her father, who served in the Navy during the Korean Conflict, died on Feb. 23, 2020. Her mother died on Aug. 19 of this year.
The Kearneys’ graves are in the same section of the cemetery but separated by several rows.
Carlson said she and her husband, Richard Carlson Jr., who is an Army veteran, have already made plans to eventually be interred along with her parents at the Cemetery.
Placing a flag on her parents’ graves, and on the graves of veterans, she said, “is all about your freedoms and rights” and the fact that many veterans at the cemetery died to preserve and protect them.
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Note: As of Thursday afternoon, three playoff game times had been changed from their original starting times. The Bedford at Nashua North game was rescheduled for Friday at 4 p.m.; the Bishop Guertin at Pinkerton game was rescheduled for Friday at 5 p.m., and the Bow at Pelham game was rescheduled for Saturday at 3 p.m.
Bedford at Nashua North (4 p.m.)
These are two of the top defenses in the state, so three touchdowns should be more than enough to prevail. The Titans get a scare. North, 17-14.
Bishop Guertin at Pinkerton (5 p.m.)
The pressure is going to be on each team’s defense. BG, 28-21.
Timberlane at Exeter (1 p.m.)
This Timberlane team is a handful, but Exeter coach Bill Ball is pretty good at devising a game plan when he faces a team the second time in the same season. Exeter, 24-21.
Merrimack at Londonderry (1 p.m.)
The layoff won’t bother the Lancers. Londonderry, 34-14.
Bow at Pelham (3 p.m.)
There’s not much room for error when you play the Pythons. Pelham, 28-14.
Souhegan at Gilford/Belmont (1 p.m.)
An unbeaten falls. Souhegan, 35-20.
Campbell vs. Trinity (1 p.m.)
Campbell had Trinity on the ropes when these teams met during the regular season. The Trinity offense will have to create big plays. Trinity, 26-20.
Newport vs. Somersworth (1 p.m.)
The Hilltoppers came away with a 28-point win when these teams met earlier this season. Expect a better effort from Newport, but not sure it will be good enough. Somersworth, 28-12.
Last week: 24-4; 2022: 211-38
TOP-SEEDED Trinity High School is 10-0 and enters Saturday’s Division III championship game against third-seeded Campbell as one of five unbea…
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Campbell’s Scott Hershberger reverses direction on his way to his fourth touchdown of the game earlier this season against Epping/Newmarket in Litchfield.
TOP-SEEDED Trinity High School is 10-0 and enters Saturday’s Division III championship game against third-seeded Campbell as one of five unbeaten NHIAA teams in the state. Trinity has outscored its 10 opponents 395-66, and beat Campbell 36-22 when the teams met in the regular season.
Before you concede the championship to the Pioneers, however, know this: The Cougars and Pioneers were tied, 22-22, early in the fourth quarter of that regular-season meeting and Campbell was on the Trinity 13-yard line threatening to take the lead. That’s when things started to go sideways for the Cougars.
First there was a bad snap on a third-and-3 play that resulted in a loss of 32 yards. Campbell (8-2) punted, and two plays later, Trinity quarterback Jack Service connected with DeVohn Ellis for a 79-yard touchdown pass with 10:56 to play. Trinity running back Anthony DiGiantommaso added a 14-yard run later in the fourth to extend the lead.
“We walked away from the Trinity game pretty confident,” Campbell coach Glen Costello said. “Not that we celebrate a loss by any means, but we hung with them for three-and-a-half quarters, more or less.”
Saturday’s rematch will take place at Souhegan High School and is scheduled to start at 1 p.m.
Ellis had two TD receptions in the first meeting. Both came on short passes that he turned into long gains. The Pioneers also received two TD runs from Service (1 and 2 yards) in the first half.
Scott Hershberger, Campbell’s go-to guy in its Single-Wing offense, carried the ball 35 times for 240 yards and two touchdowns that night. Jack Kidwell scored Campbell’s other TD on a 4-yard run.
Hershberger has run for 2,048 yards and 27 touchdowns this season.
“As simplistic as it sounds, if we can tackle 21 (Ellis) and if we can run number five (Hershberger) we’ll be in good shape,” Costello said.
What makes this matchup even more interesting is the fact that if Trinity is vulnerable in any area, it’s run defense.
“We’re not the biggest team and there have been a few teams that have had success running the ball between the tackles against us,” Trinity coach Rob Cathcart said. “We’re athletic and we’re fast, but we don’t have a lot of size, so that’s definitely a proven way of moving the ball on us.
“They have to stop big plays and we have to stop the running game is about what it comes down to.”
Trinity’s last title came in 2019, when it beat Lebanon in the Division III championship game. Campbell is seeking its first championship since 2017. The Cougars beat Monadnock 12-8 in the Division III championship game that year.
Trinity beat fourth-seeded Inter-Lakes/Moultonborough 38-14 in last weekend’s semifinals. Campbell went on the road and topped second-seeded Monadnock 37-14 in the semifinals, after the Huskies trounced the Cougars 52-8 during the regular season.
“Campbell has done a great job stepping up for playoff time,” Cathcart said. “The back they have (Hershberger) is a terrific player. We’ll have our work cut out stopping him.”
Top-seeded Gilford/Belmont’s 24-0 victory over eighth-seeded St. Thomas was the closest of last weekend’s four Division II quarterfinal games. Second-seeded Pelham beat seventh-seeded Plymouth 63-14; third-seeded Bow defeated sixth-seeded Hanover 32-0; and fourth-seeded Souhegan beat fifth-seeded Kennett 49-7.
Hanover played each of the four semifinal winners this season, and here’s what Hanover head coach Sam Cavallaro had to say about the semifinal matchups:
Bow at Pelham
Cavallaro: “To me, Pelham is, by far, better than anyone we’ve played. The biggest thing with Pelham is their defense has incredible speed. I think it’s a tough matchup for Bow because for (the Falcons) to be successful, they have to run the ball, and I just don’t see Bow being able to run the ball at all. That means they’re going to have to pass, which is not their strength. In order to stop Pelham, you’d have to stop their run game. I think the only team that can beat them is Souhegan because I don’t think Bow or Gilford’s defense is good enough to stop Pelham. Souhegan’s not going to stop it either, but they have an alternative where they can throw the ball 50 times and I think Pelham may have some holes in the passing game (defensively).”
Souhegan at Gilford/Belmont
Cavallaro: “I like Souhegan. I just don’t think Gilford has the speed on defense to keep up with them. With Souhegan, you have to stop two things: you have to stop Bright (running back JJ Bright), and if you stop him, you also have to make the quarterback (Romy Jain) uncomfortable. Both of those things are really hard to do, and I just don’t think Gilford has the athletes to match up with them. Souhegan’s safety (Madux McGrath), to me, might be the best player in (Division II) that I saw. I think he’ll shut down Reese (Gilford/Belmont quarterback Isaiah Reese).”
There will be major movement in the Union Leader Power Poll next week since all eight teams playing in this weekend’s Division I quarterfinals are in the Top 10. The matchups with poll position in parenthesis:
• Merrimack (No. 8) at Londonderry (No. 1)
• Bedford (No. 7) at Nashua North (No. 2)
• Bishop Guertin (No. 3) at Pinkerton (No. 4)
• Timberlane (No. 6) at Exeter (No. 5)
The Merrimack-Londonderry and BG-Pinkerton games feature teams that are meeting for the first time this season. North beat Bedford 19-7 at Stellos Stadium in Week 1, and Timberlane beat Exeter 27-23 in Plaistow in Week 5.
This year’s Division IV championship game will feature two tradition-rich programs in second-seeded Newport (7-1) and top-seeded Somersworth (8-0). Somersworth won its 15th championship last year. In the 2020 title game, Newport claimed its 10th championship by defeating Somersworth.
The teams would be meeting in the Division IV championship game for the third consecutive season had Fall Mountain not upset Newport in last year’s semifinals.
Somersworth running back Calvin Lambert rushed for 236 yards and two touchdowns when Somersworth beat Newport 35-7 during the regular season. The Hilltoppers had a 474-127 edge in total offense in that game.
Saturday’s championship game will be played at Laconia High School (1 p.m.).
Adding a fourth division has not produced the desired result of increasing the number of competitive games among the NHIAA schools with the smallest enrollments. So far this season, there have been two Division IV games decided by fewer than seven points. Last year, there were two Division IV games decided by seven points or fewer.
One benefit of having a larger division: There would be a greater number of teams with similar ability and (hopefully) more competitive contests. And if you merged Division IV into the current Division III, would playing top Division III teams like Campbell and Trinity be more challenging than playing top Division IV teams like Somersworth and Newport?
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University of New Hampshire coach Rick Santos signals to his team against Stony Brook during the first half of their game in Durham on Oct. 8.
UNH, URI football teams in similar, desperate situations
DURHAM — The University of New Hampshire football team, ranked No. 21 in the land, has already reached one goal this season.
The stakes get steeper on Saturday when UNH plays No. 22 Rhode Island at 1 p.m. at Wildcat Stadium.
“We’ve got to do everything we can to see these guys off the right way,” the coach said. “Obviously, in a perfect world, it’s not the last game the seniors have at home. But we have to think about it like it is and embrace that moment for these guys. They’ve put in a lot of work and there’s been a lot of things they’ve been through over the last five, six years to get our program back to where we’re playing meaningful games in November.”
UNH and URI are in the same boat. Both teams are 6-3 overall. The Wildcats and other teams have made the playoffs in the past with four losses, but things get dicey at that point and the decision put things squarely in the hands of a selection committee.
The Wildcats are still in the thick of the CAA championship race. They share the conference lead at 5-1 with William & Mary and Richmond. URI is a step back with Elon and Delaware with two league losses each.
UNH started slowly in its first November challenge last Saturday at Richmond — and paid for it with a loss.
Maurisseau got it and the spark led to a fierce second-half rally.
URI is hungry, too. Last year, the Rans knocked off UNH 28-3 on the next-to-last weekend of the season to move to 7-3. They were eyeing the playoffs for the first time since 1985, but dropped their finale at Elon and were left home at 7-4.
The Wildcats will need to contend again with Kasim Hill, who had four TD passes against them last season, two to Jaylen Smith, including an 81-yarder on the third play of the game.
“They’re certainly going to have a game plan for Josiah,” Santos said. “I’m sure they’re going to dictate and slide the protection to him all day.”
Senior linebacker Jake Fire leads the Rams with 80 tackles. Henry Yianakopolos, a senior safety/linebacker out of Hopkinton, has 39 tackles and leads the team with 8.5 tackles for loss.
For UNH, Brosmer has completed 179 of his 284 passes (63 percent) for 2,001 yards with 17 touchdowns and five interceptions. Laube has carried 155 times for 749 yards, a 4.8-yard per carry average with eight rushing touchdowns. He leads FCS at 171.7 all-purpose yards a game.
Corcoran leads UNH receivers with 38 catches for 466 yards and three scores. Junior tight end Kyle Lepkowski has 26 catches for 344 yards and Laube has 33 for 269 yards and a score.
Grad student safety Pop Bush leads the defense with 40 tackles, junior safety Max Oxendine has 39 and junior linebacker Ryan Toscano of Bedford has 38.
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Whereas in the intervening years the United States has been involved in two other great military conflicts, which have added millions of veterans living and dead to the honor rolls of this Nation; and
Whereas the Congress passed a concurrent resolution on June 4, 1926 (44 Stat. 1982), calling for the observance of November 11 with appropriate ceremonies, and later provided in an act approved May 13, 1938 (52 Stat. 351), that the eleventh of November should be a legal holiday and should be known as Armistice Day; and
Whereas, in order to expand the significance of that commemoration and in order that a grateful Nation might pay appropriate homage to the veterans of all its wars who have contributed so much to the preservation of this Nation, the Congress, by an act approved June 1, 1954 (68 Stat. 168), changed the name of the holiday to Veterans Day:
Now, Therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon all of our citizens to observe Thursday, November 11, 1954, as Veterans Day. On that day let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain. I also direct the appropriate officials of the Government to arrange for the display of the flag of the United States on all public buildings on Veterans Day.
In order to insure proper and widespread observance of this anniversary, all veterans, all veterans’ organizations, and the entire citizenry will wish to join hands in the common purpose. Toward this end, I am designating the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs as Chairman of a Veterans Day National Committee, which shall include such other persons as the Chairman may select, and which will coordinate at the national level necessary planning for the observance. I am also requesting the heads of all departments and agencies of the Executive branch of the Government to assist the National Committee in every way possible.
DONE at the City of Washington this eighth day of October in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-ninth.
DWIGHT D.
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To the Editor: I’m no fan of Karoline Leavitt and would not have voted for her had I lived in her district but she deserves a great deal of praise for having the decency to concede to Rep. Chris Pappas. It’s the sign of a good American who believes in our country and constitution. Too bad she’s one of the few Republicans who do.
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By Lauren Kaori Gurley The Washington Post
"Federal laws were established decades ago to prevent employers from profiting by putting children in harm's way," Michael Lazzeri, a Labor Department official in Chicago, said in a statement. "Taking advantage of children, exposing them to workplace dangers -- and interfering with a federal investigation -- demonstrates Packers Sanitation Services Inc.'s flagrant disregard for the law and for the well-being of young workers."
Packer Sanitation Services interfered with the Labor Department's investigation by intimidating the children from cooperating with investigators, the agency alleged in a complaint filed Wednesday. The company also deleted and manipulated employment records, the Department said.
A federal judge on Thursday granted a preliminary injunction ordering the company to immediately stop using "oppressive child labor" and comply with the Labor Department's demands for information.
Gina Swenson, a spokesperson for Packer Sanitation Services, said the company prohibits the employment of anyone under the age of 18 and does not tolerate any violation of that policy, noting that the company has "industry-leaning" procedures for confirming the identities of its employees, including the government's E-Verify system.
"While rogue individuals could of course seek to engage in fraud or identity theft, we are confident in our company's strict compliance policies and will defend ourselves vigorously against these claims," Swenson said.
The children employed by Packer Sanitation Services worked at meatpacking plants owned JBS USA, a subsidiary of JBS Foods, the world's largest meat processor, in Grand Island, Nebraska and Worthington, Minnesota, and Marshall, Minnesota, according to court records. Packer Sanitation Services has sanitation contracts with JBS USA in each of those facilities.
Michael Koenig, the chief ethics and compliance officer at JBS, said the meat processor is "taking seriously the allegations" against its contractor, which if true, are a clear violation of its ethics policies. "We are immediately launching an independent, third-party audit at all of our facilities to thoroughly evaluate this situation."
The Labor Department's wage and hour division began its investigation on Aug. 24, when the division received "credible information" alleging that the company employed children in hazardous occupations.
In Grand Island, Nebraska, a 17-year-old who said they had worked for several weeks on the cleaning floor told investigators that "many other" students worked for Packer at the JBS facility.
Packer made numerous attempts to block the investigation, the complaint alleges. Managers repeatedly told Labor Department investigators not to take photos or video. An interviewee said "someone" had instructed them to only stay for five minutes during the interview, and spent the interview texting on their phone. An investigator also witnessed a supervisor who said they used their work phone to delete and archive WhatsApp messages on their phone.
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A Target store is seen on Aug. 19, 2020, in Miami.
The size of these newer larger stores harken back to the 175,000-square foot stores that many consumers associated as "Super Targets," a term the retailer no longer uses, before Target kicked off a more small-format approach to stores in 2015.
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A blue Honda CRV driven by a 54-year-old woman from Goffstown struck the Manchester man around 5 p.m. in the area of Gold Street and Ross Avenue, police said.
The accident’s cause was under investigation.
Anyone with information is urged to call the Manchester Police Department Traffic Unit at 668-8711.
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'The English' channels epic Westerns
STREAMING ON Prime Video, the limited series “The English” reminds us just how visually powerful and austere Westerns could be. At their height, or at least before their decline, they blended the grandeur of American myth with the minimalist and surreal experimentation of filmmakers playing with vast scenery and sudden violence. It’s no coincidence that the midcentury heyday of Westerns like “The Searcher” was also the era of Chuck Jones’ surreal “Roadrunner” cartoons.
Almost everything about “The English” is pared down to the essentials. An aristocratic Englishwoman, Lady Cornelia Locke (Emily Blunt), has traveled to the barren plains of the Midwest with the all-consuming desire to kill the man who murdered her child. There she runs into any number of bad hombres, some in the employ of her intended target. She also encounters the taciturn Eli Whipp (Chaske Spencer), a Pawnee ex-Cavalry scout, loner and exile, despised by his own people for collaborating with the White man, or “the English,” as the Pawnees have come to call all encroaching settlers. Their journey together allows for a meditation on the American landscape, gruesome genocidal racism and violence — along with a growing bond that transcends race, culture and history.
Some may suggest that any contemporary Western must be compared to the very popular “Yellowstone,” but as its cinematography makes the most of stunning emptiness, I was more stuck by this film’s similarities to “The Mandalorian,” another deceptively simple story that never gets in the way of its alluring canvas.
Just as “The Mandalorian” offers nods to the “Star Wars” universe, “The English” plays with the tropes and cliches of the Western movie. Look for Toby Jones (“The Detectorists”) in the first episode as a sly and diminutive stagecoach driver who would not be out of place on an episode of “Wagon Train.”
“The English” is directed by Hugo Blick (“The Honourable Woman”).
• There are probably worse ideas than casting James Corden as a romantic lead, but I can’t think of many. Also streaming on Prime, the six-episode series “Mammals” stars Corden as Jamie, an award-winning chef whose life is upended when he discovers that his sultry French wife Amandine (Melia Kreiling) has been unfaithful — and rather enthusiastically so. It’s not surprising how this might be devastating, but it takes a real leap of faith to imagine that they would be a couple in the first place.
The puppy-dog overenthusiasm that serves Corden so well in “Carpool Karaoke” segments is unbearable here. At one point, he interrupts a hospital bedside vigil with an awkward observation about the size of a whale’s penis.
It’s not all Corden’s fault. The show announces its cuteness in the opening moments, when we hear Louis Armstrong’s version of “La Vie en Rose,” a sentimental number heard in countless romcoms. At another moment, Jamie shouts when he sees a whale from his seaside cottage. At the same time, he spots singer Tom Jones — yes, Tom Jones — sitting in a chair next door. Why? Just because.
Help yourself.
• “Mythic Quest” returns for a third season on Apple TV+.
• Luke Bryan joins Cedric the Entertainer on a Veterans Day episode of “The Greatest @Home Videos” (8 p.m., CBS, TV-PG).
• A pop singer returns to her quaint hometown and meets her ex in the 2022 romance “In Merry Measure” (9 p.m., Hallmark).
• Psychic hotlines on “Blue Bloods” (10 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14).
• Sports talk goes “Back on the Record With Bob Costas” (11 p.m., HBO, TV-14).
Facing a family crisis, a boy (Woody Norman) and his uncle (Joaquin Phoenix) embark on a road trip in the 2021 drama “C’Mon C’Mon” (8 p.m., TMC), directed by Mike Mills.
An anti-anxiety elixir on “Lopez vs. Lopez” (8 p.m., NBC, TV-PG) ... “WWE Friday Night SmackDown” (8 p.m., Fox, TV-PG) ... “Shark Tank” (8 p.m., ABC, TV-PG) ... A 1997 bout marks a return to the ring on “Young Rock” (8:30 p.m., NBC, TV-14).
Bode requests a transfer on the eve of an epic blaze on “Fire Country” (9 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14) ... “Dateline” (9 p.m., NBC) ... “20/20” (9 p.m., ABC).
Jimmy Fallon welcomes Sylvester Stallone, Linda Cardellini and Louis Tomlinson on “The Tonight Show” (11:35 p.m., NBC) ... Daniel Radcliffe, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Kerry Condon, Kurt Vile and the Violators and Dena Tauriello visit “Late Night With Seth Meyers” (12:35 a.m., NBC, r) ... Tyra Banks, Yvonne Orji and David Blaine appear on “The Late Late Show With James Corden” (12:35 a.m., CBS, r).
DEAR HELOISE: With the holidays upon us, I love having a big dinner at my home for my family and friends. We have the adult’s table and the children’s table. For the children’s table, I cover it with thick white paper that comes on a roll and tape it down under the edges of the table. Then, …
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By Lana Cohen Portland Press Herald, Maine
Jacob Rideout knew he wanted to join the military long before he set foot in a U.S. Marine Corps recruiting center as a 19-year-old new high school graduate.
In Rideout's New Hampshire family, serving in the military is seen as a rite of passage. Many of his older cousins had served and he grew up watching war movies with his grandfather, who was drafted during the Korean War.
With his father mostly out of the picture, his grandfather, cousins and the characters he saw fighting for their country in those war movies became his main male role models. Rideout, who is now 28, saw joining the military as a way to give back to his country while also finding direction and purpose in his life.
He says he found what he was looking for in the U.S. Navy.
He fulfilled what he saw as a duty to serve his country in three submarine deployments in the North Atlantic.
He also credits his time in the Navy with guiding him toward a career in public service.
After his service, Rideout moved back to New Hampshire. Soon after, he met the woman who would become his wife. She was living in Maine and he moved over the state line to be closer to her. Today the two of them live in Richmond with their 6-month-old-son. Rideout is a firefighter in Scarborough and is studying emergency medical services and fire sciences at Southern Maine Community College.
Rideout says the military taught him about himself and about the world. He met people with a wide range of viewpoints and backgrounds and had the time and space to see things from other perspectives and build relationships with those who thought differently, something that is rare in our politicized society.
He grew up in Deerfield, N.H., a town of around 4,900 people that is 97% white. Before joining the military, he hadn't been exposed to a wide range of viewpoints, people of different races or different cultures or diverse political and religious beliefs.
But when he stepped off the plane from New Hampshire to begin Navy boot camp at Naval Station Great Lakes in Illinois, he met people from all over the country and other parts of the world, some of whom were serving in the military to try to get U.S. citizenship or improve their English.
"The military to me is a little bit like how people describe New York City," said Rideout. "It's a melting pot. I met people of all different races, sexual orientations, cultures and political and religious ideologies. I've met people that come from so many different nationalities, I probably couldn't count them."
On submarines, Rideout spent months at a time confined with about 150 others in a 400-foot-long boat, 500 feet below the surface of the ocean.
It felt a little bit like being in a big family, he said. People picked on each other and sometimes bickered, but at the end of the day everyone worked together in support of one another.
"In the Navy, we're taught that we all have to figure out a way to get along," said Rideout, "Being in such a small space for such a long period of time, you can't make a big deal out of everything or ignore people. You have to work together and maintain connections even if you disagree about certain things."
He uses those skills in civilian life.
"I'm conservative, but I try to take in everyone's perspective," he said. "The military helped me with that. It made me aware of all the different experiences and viewpoints out there."
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A Ukrainian soldier waves the national flag in Klapaya village, Kherson Region, Ukraine in this screen grab obtained from a video released on November 11, 2022.
Ukrainian soldiers are seen next to captured Russian mortar shells in the village of Blahodatne, retaken by the Ukrainian Armed Forces a day ago, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kherson region, Ukraine November 11, 2022.
Crowd cheer and shake hands of Ukrainian soldiers in a car at Kherson Freedom Square, Ukraine in this screen grab obtained from a video released on November 11, 2022.
Antonina Ustymenko, 64, reacts as she speaks about Russian occupation in the village of Blahodatne, retaken by the Ukrainian Armed Forces a day ago, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kherson region, Ukraine November 11, 2022.
By Ellen Francis, Victoria Bisset, Natalia Abbakumova and David L. Stern The Washington Post
The announcement came soon after Russia said Friday that its troops had finished withdrawing from the west bank of the Dnieper River in Kherson. Moscow claimed that no Russian soldiers or military equipment were left behind.
"Kherson is returning under the control of Ukraine. Units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are entering the city," the intelligence directorate of Ukraine's Defense Ministry said in a statement. It said the retreat routes of Russian forces were within the Ukrainian army's firing range and that "any attempts to oppose the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be stopped."
Losing Kherson would mark a major military setback for the Kremlin in Ukraine and a blow to its efforts to consolidate its grip over swaths of the country's south.
Friday's withdrawal came sooner than Western officials had forecast. U.S. Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, predicted Tuesday that a Russian pullout from the city in southern Ukraine would take "days and maybe even weeks." Ukrainian officials had also expressed skepticism that Russia could withdraw quickly from Kherson.
"At 5 a.m. Moscow time, the redeployment of Russian troops to the left bank of the Dnieper River was completed," Russia's Defense Ministry said Friday. "Not a single piece of military equipment and weaponry was left . . . and there were no losses of personnel, weapons, equipment," the statement said.
On Friday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to comment on Kherson, describing it as a matter for the Russian Defense Ministry. But he said the "Kherson region is a subject of the Russian Federation. This status is fixed."
A Ukrainian official, who was not authorized to speak to the media and spoke on the condition of anonymity, said earlier Friday that Ukrainian forces had entered three parts of Kherson city, including the central Suvorovsky region.
Officials in Kyiv voiced concern this week about whether some Russian forces could be hiding in the city and accused departing troops of destroying infrastructure.
Videos and photographs posted Friday and verified by The Post showed that sections of the Antonovsky Bridge, which links Kherson to territory in southern Ukraine controlled by Russian forces, has collapsed.
The bridge was previously targeted by rocket attacks. But satellite imagery captured by Planet Labs on Thursday afternoon showed that it was not missing major sections, indicating that new structural damage occurred in the last day. A Ukrainian government adviser blamed Russian troops, accusing them of blowing it up while retreating.
The Washington Post's Samuel Oakford contributed to this report.
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IBy rene Rotondo masslive.com
Roesener, 26, was elected representative of New Hampshire’s 22nd State House District, Merrimack Ward 8. According to his bio on the site, Roesener lives in Concord, New Hampshire with his wife and cat.
Roesener initially chose to run for office following a “parental rights” bill that was introduced in the House that would have required schools to notify parents of their children’s developments, which would include their gender identity and gender expression, the Associated Press reported.
Though the bill didn’t pass, it was just by a slim margin, and Roesener said, “I don’t really see that as a fight that’s over,” the AP reported.
“We need a leadership that is invested in defending the freedom all people by taking away barriers to shelter, education, healthcare, voting, and other basic necessities for a quality life,” Roesner stated in his bio.
“I will be supporting legislation that promotes the wellbeing of all by defending our right to safety, security, and self-determination, regardless of age, race, immigration status, occupation, income, gender identity, sexual orientation, health, or ability,” he added.
Roesener is part of what the LGBTQ Victory Fund is calling a “rainbow wave” of LGBTQ individuals taking office, with at least 340 out LGBTQ candidates winning their races so far.
Massachusetts’ new governor, Maura Healey, is also part of that rainbow wave.
Democrat Healey, 51, is the first openly lesbian person to be elected governor in U.S. history. She is also the commonwealth’s first female governor, and expected to continue advocating for women’s rights, economic development in marginalized communities, invest in climate-resilient infrastructure and transportation and more.
“Tonight, I want to say something to every little girl and every young LGBTQ person out there: I hope tonight shows you that you can be whatever, whoever you want to be,” Healey said at the Democrats’ election night party in downtown Boston Tuesday night.
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Since making landfall on Florida’s eastern coast around 3 a.m. on Thursday, Nicole has weakened to a tropical depression — meaning it has sustained winds topping out at 38 miles per hour. The storm is soaking much of the Eastern Seaboard Thursday and Friday as it cruises north, with its sights ultimately set on New England.
When Nicole arrives Friday afternoon, it is expected to deliver potent wind and rain to much of the region.
In Southern New England — Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut — the National Weather Service expects many areas to see between 1 and 1.5 inches of rain between Friday and Saturday. But the primary effect of Nicole by the time it reaches the area will be gusty winds reaching up to 50 or 55 miles per hour by the coast and 40 miles per hour further inland.
Nicole made landfall about 60 miles north of West Palm Beach, Florida as a Category 1 hurricane, with sustained winds of 75 miles per hour. It weakened quickly and was downgraded to a tropical storm within an hour. The storm caused at least two deaths, the collapse of several homes and widespread power outages, according to NBC News.
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Gallagher is seen leaving the Howard Stern Show on Aug. 29, 2000.
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Gallagher was born July 24, 1946, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and grew up in Ohio and Florida.
He received a degree in chemical engineering from the University of South Florida in 1970 and worked as the road manager for singer-songwriter Jim Stafford before turning to stand-up comedy in the late ‘70s.
The impish comic with the wild fringe of long hair and a mustache always had new firepower up his colorful sleeve.
“People think it’s about watermelons,” he told the Idaho Statesman before an appearance in 2000. “But wait till they see three dozen eggs in a wok frying pan with miniature marshmallows. The 45-degree angle of a wok makes the marshmallows and eggs go out the furthest they can.
“The eggs are the explosions and the marshmallows are like shrapnel. Some things explode, and some things have aerodynamics.”
Gallagher also was known to invite audience members onstage to get into his food-smashing act.
At one point in the 1980s, Gallagher’s act included an enormous couch with a built-in trampoline on which he did some impressive jumping. And digging into the couch’s cushion crack, the comedian turned up an oversized potato chip and other “lost” items.
Gallagher’s prop boxes also contained unusual things such as a “handgun” (a pistol that fired plastic hands) and a “baby on board” (a doll nailed to a wooden plank.)
But his act wasn’t only props and a flying-food finale.
He’d riff on cultural trends, politics, relationships and other topics, as well as offer food for thought:
“What makes Teflon stick to the pan?”
“If your knees bent the other way, what would a chair look like?”
“Did Superman’s mom bother to wrap his presents?”
As he said in a 1993 Times interview: “It’s the child in you I’m trying to entertain.”
Gallagher also brought a bit of humor to the 2003 California gubernatorial recall election when he joined a field of 135 candidates that included former child star Gary Coleman, Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt, adult-film actress Mary Carey — and front-running winner Arnold Schwarzenegger.
“I was the first ‘not really serious about being governor’ guy to go down there and be a celebrity that wanted publicity from the race,” Gallagher said in an interview with Scripps Howard News Service a month after he finished in 16th place, with 5, 466 votes.
In the early 1990s, when he was performing in theaters and other large venues, Gallagher allowed his younger brother, Ron, to perform a replica of his act in comedy clubs.
Ron Gallagher was billed as Gallagher II: The Living Sequel.
But in 1999, Gallagher filed a suit in federal court that said Ron was “violating Gallagher’s right of publicity and trademark rights and was engaging in false advertising and unfair competition, thereby creating consumer confusion.”
In 2000, a federal judge issued a permanent injunction against Ron Gallagher that prohibited him from performing an imitation of his famous brother’s act.
In more recent years, Gallagher received criticism for making racist, sexist and homophobic remarks onstage against French and Mexican people, feminists and members of the LGBTQ community.
When the accusations were mentioned during a podcast taping with comedian Marc Maron in 2011, the comic responded by walking out.
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CBS will broadcast a TV special featuring singer Mariah Carey's New York City Christmas concerts. Here, she is shown in a previous show, "Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special."
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Mariah Carey’s December Madison Square Garden concerts will be packaged into a two-hour primetime holiday special called “Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas to All!” airing Dec. 20 at 8 p.m. Eastern on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. MTV will also air the special in the days leading up to Christmas.
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A man who fell into the Merrimack River on Thursday night was rescued by Hooksett first responders.
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Hooksett authorities were able to rescue a man who fell into the Merrimack River late Thursday.
The man, who wasn’t identified, sustained only cuts and bruises from his fall and was transported by boat to Lamberts Park, where he was further evaluated and declined a ride to the hospital.
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A view shows a collapsed terrace of a beachfront building, after Hurricane Nicole made landfall on Florida's east coast, in Daytona Beach Shores, Florida, U.S., November 11, 2022. REUTERS/Marco Bello
Storm leaves 'unprecedented' building damage along part of Florida coast
"I opened the front door and the rest of the house is just gone into the sea," said Goodrich, 44, adding that it was like the "hand of God" took the home. She said she cried for a half hour before calling the owners of that house.
She said that Hurricane Ian, which hit in September, took down a seawall and 30 feet of that home's backyard. "Nicole took the rest and the house."
The storm's sustained winds of 75 miles per hour also pulled down power lines on Thursday, knocking out service to more than 300,000 homes and businesses. Some 22,800 homes and businesses remained without power on Friday afternoon, PowerOutages.us reported.
As cleanup efforts began in Florida, Nicole moved out of northern Georgia and into western North Carolina and the Appalachians on Friday afternoon after being downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone. It was still producing heavy rains but winds dropped to about 20 mph.
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Clearing skies after some morning rain. Potential for heavy rainfall. High 71F. Winds WSW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 100%..
By Teddy Amenabar The Washington Post
While the study didn't investigate whether crosswords benefit younger adults who are not dealing with cognitive decline, it suggests that keeping your mind active as you age may benefit your brain. And the research offers hope to those diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment that they may be able to stave off further declines in the memory, language problems and decision-making that are the hallmark of the condition.
The research, which was funded by the National Institute on Aging, recruited 107 adults ages 55 to 95 with mild cognitive impairment. For 12 weeks, they were all asked to play one of two types of games, four times a week - spending either 30 minutes on Lumosity, a popular cognitive training platform, or 30 minutes attempting a digital crossword. After 12 weeks, the participants were reevaluated and given "booster" doses of game play six more times during the 78-week experiment.
Researchers found that in key measurements - cognitive decline scores, functional skills and brain volume changes - the regular crossword players fared better than the game players.
"Our study shows fairly conclusively that in people with mild cognitive impairment, crossword puzzles beat the computerized games on multiple metrics," said Murali Doraiswamy, a professor at Duke University and a co-author of the study. "So, if you have mild cognitive impairment, which is different from normal aging, then the recommendation would be to keep your brain active with crossword puzzles."
The study has limitations. Some of the participants may have just been more familiar with crosswords and that's why they responded better to the puzzles than to Lumosity's computer games. More years of follow-up also are needed to determine whether interventions such as crossword puzzles can "truly prevent dementia," Doraiswamy said.
"We've known for almost 30, 40 years that keeping yourself mentally active is really important," Doraiswamy said. "But we've not really translated that into an intervention that is a medical-grade intervention."
D.P. Devanand, a professor at Columbia University and the lead researcher on the study, said the finding needs to be replicated in a larger study with more participants and a control group that isn't playing any game.
"We can't say beyond a certain point why people do better on crosswords, but it does suggest that doing crosswords helps you," Devanand said.
Some researchers remained skeptical. Zach Hambrick, a professor of cognition and neuroscience at Michigan State University, said the study doesn't investigate why the crossword might offer more benefit than a computer game.
Hambrick said completing a crossword puzzle, which requires the ability to remember words and esoteric knowledge gathered through experience, tests a person's "crystallized cognitive abilities." He said that people with mild cognitive impairment have the most trouble with "fluid cognitive abilities" such as remembering a list of words or solving a logic problem. Crosswords don't challenge the type of abilities associated with mild cognitive impairment, Hambrick said.
Laurie Ryan, the chief of clinical interventions at the National Institute on Aging, said the agency funded the research because it's important to find treatments that reduce the risk for Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia.
"We're likely going to need multiple interventions for different people," Ryan said. "We're trying to fund as many things as we can."
Most researchers agree that keeping your body and your mind active as you age probably benefits your brain. Ronald C. Petersen, the director of the Mayo Clinic's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, said that in addition to regular exercise, he recommends that patients spend time on challenging intellectual tasks such as watching a documentary or attending a lecture.
Look for activities that "bring you out of your comfort zone," said Sylvie Belleville, a professor of neuropsychology at the University of Montreal. Try out different "stimulating" tasks or increase the difficulty of a certain task over time. "If you're very good at crossword puzzles and you keep doing only that, you're still in your zone of comfort and you don't adopt new strategies, new brain networks," Belleville said.
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By Lori Valigra Bangor Daily News, Maine
Charlie Martin, who has several decades of experience in the forestry industries in the U.S. and Canada, plans to get the factory, called Maine Plywood USA, operational by next spring. The goal is to use Maine's abundant supply of poplar and red maple trees to provide the country with plywood to lay under flooring.
Martin himself had been importing foreign plywood and selling it before he saw an opportunity in Maine's supply of poplar, which is used in paper pulp. He reached out to economic development agencies throughout the state, and the Somerset Economic Development Corp. thought his idea might work in Bingham.
"He was already selling the plywood, and that perked up my ears," Christian Savage, executive director of the development agency, said. "He was looking to replace foreign imports with Maine-made products and to create a new market for poplar."
Savage said the potential for 100 direct jobs at the mill is important, because it could support another 500 indirect jobs for Somerset County, which generally has an unemployment rate about 2 percentage points higher than the state's average. The town, which had 866 people in 2020, also has lost population, down 6 percent from the previous decade. A new employer could help attract workers, he said.
"This project will have a significant impact," Savage said.
"We'll be the only company in New England making this plywood product," he said.
He managed to get some good breaks in the process. He was able to buy a machine that another company couldn't use but had paid $1.5 million for and sold to him for $500,000. It will cost another $150,000 to assemble it, but that still is less than half the original price.
With a new boiler, electrical system, roof and equipment assembly, Martin said he'll need about $5 million total to get the mill started. He has invested 20 percent of that himself. Somerset County has granted the company $50,000. The Future Forest Economy initiative made a $369,000 grant to the Somerset Economic Development Corp. to buy dryer equipment that it will in turn lease to Maine Plywood.
"Charlie has his work cut out for him," said Dana Doran, executive director of the Professional Logging Contractors of Maine. "But hats off to him for taking the initiative and having the courage to come to a state that he's not from and trying to make a go of it. We'd like to see more people do that."
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By Megan Gray Portland Press Herald, Maine
"It's about $20 an hour," said Smith. "It will probably go up, but it's a great opportunity to get started."
"OK," said Macmillan, nodding.
Smith was manning this information booth Wednesday as part of a regional hiring event across Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. The Postal Service has more than 1,000 open positions in the three states, from carriers to clerks, and the busy holiday season is approaching.
Portland Postmaster Patty Svoleantopoulos said the Forest Avenue location has only 21 of its 50 city carrier positions filled right now and has no substitute carriers for rural routes, which means many employees are working extra hours. She said the problem is widespread, although a USPS spokesperson did not say Wednesday how many openings are in Maine alone or respond to other questions about the staffing shortage.
"It's been over the course of two years," Svoleantopoulos said. "Our hiring started to slow down. We have a lot of competition, too. There's 'Help Wanted' signs everywhere."
Mainers in other parts of the state have reported delays and delivery issues in recent months. On Wednesday, customers in Portland weren't voicing complaints about the holiday crunch, but then again, the season has barely begun.
Svoleantopoulos recommended that customers mail their holiday packages and cards as early as possible — "I've already starting shipping mine," she said. But employees will do their best to make deliveries on time.
The Postal Service set a cutoff date of Dec. 17 for timely arrival before Dec. 25 in the lower 48 states, with tighter deadlines for Alaska, Hawaii and international destinations.
"We have a really good workforce," she said. "They don't want to see their customers not get their mail."
Macmillan said he cannot work full-time because he is disabled, but he was interested in picking up some hours as a driver for rural routes. He talked to Smith about the application process, which involves a behavioral assessment and a background check.
"With Christmas coming up, I know they'll be looking for help," said Macmillan, 52. "It would give me some income."
Alex Long also stopped by the table Wednesday. He applied for a clerk position in September and is still working his way through the hiring process. Long, 33, lives in Portland and works as a manager at a local grocery store. The pay would be an improvement, he said, but he also is interested in the stability. His grandfather was a longtime mail carrier on Cape Cod.
"It's a career," said Long. "It's like a life job."
Flyers on the table advertised pay ranging from $17.32 an hour (mail handler assistant) to $19.50 (rural carrier associate) to $27.52 (tractor-trailer operator). Smith and Svoleantopoulos emphasized the pension plan and other benefits. They attributed the staffing shortage to multiple factors: waves of retirements, the outdoor elements for carriers, the low unemployment rate. More information about open jobs at the Postal Service can be found as usps.com/careers.
Smith told interested people that he had part-time, full-time and career positions available.
"There is literally something for everyone," he said.
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The serious business of being jolly: HBO Max's 'Santa Camp'
WHO KNEW PEOPLE had so many opinions about the big fat guy? Streaming on HBO Max Saturday, the 2022 documentary “Santa Camp” travels to New Hampshire, where the New England Santa Society has established a summer training camp for town and mall Santas. And along the way, they encounter people who have very different ideas about the big guy behind so many Christmas memories.
At first, “Camp” has a jolly vibe. The New England society consists mostly of retired white guys who grow their own beards and don’t need a pillow to fatten up. They share stories about crying children and tiny tots who’ve had little accidents on their lap.
But along the way, they also confront the reality that in many American neighborhoods, Santa may be the only White face some children see. Some of the guys will have no truck with talk of “diversity.” The legend of Santa, reindeer and the North Pole are Northern European in origin, they contend. So, there’s no “controversy” and no need to get “woke” about it.
But others want change. We meet a feisty Mrs. Claus portrayed by a retired engineer. She’s been working in a male-dominated industry her entire life, so she’s not going to sit back and just bake cookies in her retirement. There are several amusing scenes of her arguing with a Santa before an arena event. He doesn’t think she deserves equal pay or equal billing. He’s Santa at a Santa show, and she’s “pissing him off.”
In addition to stepping on the delicate bunions of her male counterparts, this rogue Mrs. Claus delights in lying to children about tales of the North Pole. She adds a few whoppers of her own, such as the close relationship between North Pole reindeer and unicorns.
Just north of Little Rock, Arkansas, a Black father and Christmas buff receives hate mail from neighbors when he puts a Black inflatable Santa on his lawn. He decides to attend the New Hampshire camp to learn some lessons in “ho-ho-hoing” from the pros. And he’s delighted to learn that his neighbors have decided to counter the backlash by putting up Black Santas of their own.
Things get decidedly dicey when a church hosts a meeting with a trans Santa. It brings a group of quiet kids who have yet to discuss their feelings about gender with their family. But it also attracts the attention of religious zealots, threats of violence and even a visit from the local Proud Boys militia contingent. To the most vociferous critics, the notion of a trans Santa is not necessarily about gender, but about “Marxism,” a take that left me confused.
• Putting a box-office star in a genre series has certainly worked well for “Yellowstone” (8 p.m. Sunday, CMT, Comedy Central, MTV, Paramount, Pop, TVLand, VH1, TV-MA), the Kevin Costner vehicle now entering its fifth season.
Paramount+ launches a streaming variation on the same with “Tulsa King.” Sylvester Stallone (“Rocky,” “Rambo”) stars as a New York mob wise guy released from a long prison stretch to a world he only dimly understands. When he asks the powers-that-be for a job and a reward for his long silence, he’s shuttled off to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where his dated notions and heavy-handed ways ruffle local feathers.
Best enjoyed by those who believe that Stallone hasn’t gotten a tad long in the tooth for this sort of action.
• The new series “Rogue Heroes” (9 p.m. Sunday, Epix, TV-MA) recalls the battle for Tobruk in North Africa during World War II, when an embattled Britain faced Rommel’s armies bent on cutting off the empire from access to the Suez Canal.
• College football action includes Washington at Oregon (7 p.m., Fox) and TCU at Texas (7:30 p.m., ABC).
• A charity event unleashes Cupid’s arrow in the 2022 holiday romance “Reindeer Games Homecoming” (8 p.m., Lifetime, TV-PG).
• An agent poses as domestic help to provide a security detail for the royal family in the 2022 holiday romance “The Royal Nanny” (8 p.m., Hallmark, TV-G).
• Efforts to resolve a family dispute end in gunfire on “The First 48” (9 p.m., A&E, TV-14).
• Dave Chappelle hosts “Saturday Night Live” (11:30 p.m., NBC, TV-14), featuring musical guest Black Star.
• Scheduled on “60 Minutes” (7 p.m., CBS): Florida’s Surfside condo collapse, which claimed 12 lives; Sona Jobarteh, master of the kora, a centuries-old West African string instrument; archivists and resistance fighters who saved rare treasures and documents during the Holocaust.
• A swarm approaches on “The Walking Dead” (8 p.m., AMC, TV-MA).
• Camille’s revenge schemes come into focus on “Dangerous Liaisons” (8 p.m., Starz, TV-MA).
• The 49ers and Chargers meet in NFL action (8:15 p.m., NBC).
• Inspired by new construction techniques, the Gilbert Company launches the Erector Set on “The Toys That Built America” (9 p.m., History, TV-PG).
• The docuseries “Spector” (9 p.m., Showtime, TV-MA) explores the music producer’s history of paranoia and gunplay.
• A child’s drowning explained on “Magpie Murders” on “Masterpiece” (9 p.m., PBS, TV-14, check local listings).
• The wives’ departure brings drama on “The White Lotus” (9 p.m., HBO, TV-MA).
• An ABC News Interview Special (10 p.m., ABC).
• The “family” throws a lavish ball before leaving New Orleans on the season finale of “Interview With the Vampire” (10 p.m., AMC, TV-MA).
Frustrated artists are at the center of two horror classics. A thwarted actor (John Cassavetes) arranges for his wife (Mia Farrow) to carry Satan’s spawn in the 1968 shocker “Rosemary’s Baby” (6:30 p.m. Saturday, TMC), directed by Roman Polanski. Writer’s block bedevils a failed novelist (Jack Nicholson) in director Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Shining” (8 p.m. Saturday, Sundance, TV-14).
A busload of faith on “NCIS: Los Angeles” (8 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14) ... “Password” (8 p.m., NBC, r, TV-PG) ... Stolen art on “The Equalizer” (9 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14) ... “Dateline” (9 p.m., NBC, r) ... “48 Hours” (10 p.m., CBS, r) ... A vintage helping of “Saturday Night Live” (10 p.m., NBC, r, TV-14).
A dangerous prisoner transfer on “The Equalizer” (8 p.m., CBS, TV-14) ... A revealing road trip on “The Simpsons” (8 p.m., Fox, TV-14) ... “Celebrity Jeopardy!” (8 p.m., ABC, TV-PG) ... Stuck between the covers on “The Great North” (8:30 p.m., Fox, TV-14).
Lost in VR on “Bob’s Burgers” (9 p.m., Fox, TV-14) ... “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune” (9 p.m., ABC, TV-PG) ... A supermarket spree on “East New York” (9:30 p.m., CBS, TV-14) ... Stewie is transported on “Family Guy” (9:30 p.m., Fox, TV-14) ... An admiral’s abduction on “NCIS: Los Angeles” (10 p.m., CBS, TV-14).
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays because it's primarily about food. But its rising cost will make this year's meal particularly fraught for those struggling financially. With that in mind, I took on a challenge: coming up with a budget-friendly Thanksgiving meal that's still celeb…
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The New Hampshire Institute of Politics backed out of hosting another organization's election panel after the institute's director was informed Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and attorney who represented former President Donald Trump in lawsuits aimed at overturning the 2020 election, would be on the panel.
Giuliani had been invited to participate in a panel on elections organized by the New Hampshire Journal, a conservative website, which was to be held at Saint Anselm College's Institute of Politics.
On hearing Giuliani would be on the panel, Institute of Politics Director Neil Levesque said he refused to host or participate in the panel.
"The New Hampshire Institute of Politics is in the democracy business," said Levesque in an emailed statement. "When I was informed that Mayor Giuliani was intending to participate in a panel on elections, I refused to host or participate in the panel. We chose not to provide a platform for an individual who has actively worked to undermine the integrity of our elections."
The Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College often serves as a venue for political events from book talks to televised debates.
Former Vice President Mike Pence spoke at one of the institute's regular "Politics and Eggs" events in August. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke at the series in September, and Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan was the speaker last month.
The New Hampshire Journal did not respond to an emailed inquiry about the event.
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Crisis counselor Megan Cain talks with a regular caller at the Headrest center in Lebanon.
Al Carbonneau, hotline coordinator at Headrest in Lebanon, discusses the new 988 crisis lifeline.
Megan Cain, crisis counselor at Headrest in Lebanon, listens to a caller talk about his struggles.
Al Carbonneau is the hotline coordinator at Headrest in Lebanon, which has run a crisis line since 1971 and now handles calls for the 988 crisis line.
A crisis counselor’s notes on each call are logged into the system at Headrest, with the individual’s reason for calling and a counselor’s recommendations. Counselors follow up with a phone call a few days later if an individual gives permission.
Crisis counselor Megan Cain takes a call at the Headrest facility in Lebanon, which has operated a crisis line for more than 50 years and now answers calls to 988.
Al Carbonneau is the hotline coordinator at Headrest in Lebanon, one of two agencies answering calls from New Hampshire residents to the new 988 Suicide & Crisis Line.
Crisis counselors: "You are not alone"
The girl was calling from her bedroom. Her parents were downstairs, unaware of the crisis unfolding above their heads.
Distraught over things that were happening at school, the 13-year-old had taken pills. But she also called 988.
Megan Cain, a crisis counselor at Headrest in Lebanon, answered the call.
On July 16, the new 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (formerly the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline) went live nationwide. People thinking about suicide or having a mental health crisis now have options at their fingertips 24/7: They can call, text or chat with a trained counselor, someone who cares.
Two agencies, Headrest and Beacon Health Options, have contracts with the state to answer 988 calls in New Hampshire.
Headrest’s Cain brings a powerful combination of professional expertise and heartfelt empathy to this critical work. She has a background in nursing, previously working in hospice care and at a children’s psychiatric hospital.
She also has had her own struggles with loss and depression.
Cain listened to the girl’s anguish and convinced her to bring her parents into the conversation. They took their daughter to an emergency room and called back a few days later to let Cain know the girl is seeing a therapist.
“It made me feel like she got the help that she needed,” Cain said.
If someone is experiencing a mental health crisis, they may not need — or want — a police officer or EMS to respond, which means 911 may not be the answer. Sometimes what they need is just a caring person on the other end of the line. That’s where 988 comes in.
Jennifer O’Higgins, senior policy analyst for behavioral health at the Department of Health and Human Services, said the goal is to treat behavioral health crises as the emergencies they are.
“Mental health care is as important as physical health care, and it impacts our outcomes for our bodies and our minds,” she said. “If I had a broken arm, would I sit with it by myself or would I go in and get care?”
“If we have crisis response for our physical health conditions, why don’t we for our mental health conditions?” she asked.
Last January, seven months before the 988 lifeline went live nationally, DHHS created the Rapid Response Access Point lifeline (833-710-6477), which offers immediate, 24/7 access to mental health and/or substance use crisis support via telephone, text and chat services.
That line is still available for New Hampshire residents. But now you also can just call 988 to get help.
“There is no wrong number to call, and you will be helped by the person who answers,” O’Higgins said.
Pointing the way
Headrest has operated a crisis line in the Upper Valley for more than 50 years, according to Al Carbonneau, the hotline manager. The job still involves helping people through whatever crisis they’re in, but now Headrest is connected to a wider system of care that includes mobile crisis teams, 211 operators and local health centers, he said.
“It’s not our job on the hotline to fix somebody,” Carbonneau said. “Our job is to get them to a point where they have options, and we point them in the right direction.”
Carbonneau, a kindly man with a fondness for Hawaiian shirts, has worked at Headrest for the better part of 20 years. “There’s nothing better than when you answer the phone and you have somebody crying and by the end of the call, they’re laughing with you,” he said.
“There is no instant fix,” he said. “But there is help, and there is hope. That’s what we try to do, is instill hope in people.”
In addition to the counselors who answer calls, Headrest has two staff members working remotely who handle chats and texts. Most of those come from youngsters: the average age is 11 to 15, Carbonneau said.
Beacon Health Options has 20 counselors working remotely who answer New Hampshire calls made to both 988 and the state’s Rapid Response line.
Eric Eason, Beacon’s representative for the state’s crisis program, came to New Hampshire in December from Georgia, where a 24/7 crisis lifeline was created in response to 2005’s Hurricane Katrina.
Eason said there’s a clear advantage to dialing 988: “It’s very difficult to remember a 10-digit number when you’re in a moment of crisis.”
The system is designed so that “crisis” is defined by the caller, he said. “It essentially means if you call us and say you need help, we accept that is the case and we’ll do everything we can to help you,” he said.
Doing this work involves a sort of “triage,” to first determine a person’s level of safety, Eason said. “We do an assessment not only of their state of mind and their current symptoms, we also do an assessment of their current level of coping skills,” he said.
Eason, who used to work on a mobile response team, said he’s found what most people in crisis need is “connection and understanding.”
Three-quarters of those who call a crisis line, Eason said, “feel that their situation has been resolved and they feel essentially improved at the end of engaging with our staff.”
For the other 25%, he said, resources are available, such as mobile crisis teams, drug treatment programs and urgent care.
Preventing the worst
Headrest’s Al Carbonneau said many callers are hesitant at first, insisting that they’re not suicidal. “It’s the national suicide prevention lifeline,” Carbonneau tells them. “If I can stop you from getting there, so much the better.”
The hotline is now called the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline to underscore that point.
Carbonneau said he’s been there himself, and he shares that with those who call. “This is how I know that it can change,” he says. “This is how I know it can get better.”
“It doesn’t happen overnight, and it’s hard. It takes effort and energy, and as long as you’re willing to do that, it’s going to change for you,” he tells his callers.
Sometimes helping someone means calling first responders, Carbonneau said, “When the person, no matter what you say, still wants to die.
“They have access to whatever means, they have a plan, the intent is there, and nothing you say is changing it,” he said.
The counselors speak with affection about the “regulars” who call in. One woman, Carbonneau said, tells him she just needs to “vent.”
If a counselor tries to interject with advice, he said, “She will get upset with them and say, ‘I just need you to listen.’”
“We have become part of their coping skills,” Carbonneau said. “We’ve become one of the things they can do when they’re feeling that way.”
O’Higgins from DHHS said there’s a link between suicide and loneliness.
“Connection is prevention,” O’Higgins said. “So if they’re calling and they’re getting Al and they’re talking to him every day, he may be saving their lives. It may not feel like this active rescue and yet he absolutely may be saving their lives.”
Cain said she knows what it’s like to feel hopeless and alone.
“I tried to commit suicide on the night of my mom’s funeral,” she said.
She didn’t know about the suicide prevention hotline at the time, but she wishes she had.
“I felt very isolated,” she said. “It probably would have helped a lot. I could have been steered to therapy or a bereavement class.”
How strong is she feeling now? She smiles and rolls up her sleeve to show the tattoo on her left arm: “Unbreakable.”
“But it took a lot of work and a lot of time,” she said.
Listening for support
When the Federal Communications Commission established rules for the new 988 system, it decided not to require the kind of geo-location that enables the 911 system to see a caller’s address. Some mental health advocates worried that people might not call if their location was identified and they couldn’t remain anonymous, O’Higgins from DHHS said.
So the 988 system routes calls according to area codes, to more than 200 local crisis call centers in a nationwide network. That’s why many calls that come in to New Hampshire counselors are from out of state, from people who used to live here and still have 603 phone numbers. Counselors are trained to connect people with resources in their local area.
Calls even come in from overseas. In recent weeks, Headrest counselors have talked with people in Germany, South Korea, France and Austria. Carbonneau figures the callers look up crisis centers online and find Headrest.
Cain recently got a call from a young woman from Ukraine who was a refugee in another country. “She was having all kinds of issues,” Cain said. “She called for support.”
A woman who called from Germany was trapped in a marriage with domestic violence and alcoholism, Carbonneau said, but she resisted his efforts to connect her with services in her community. “She just wanted to talk, so that’s what I did,” he said. “I listened.”
At the Headrest office, the phone rings, and Cain recognizes the number. It’s one of her regulars, calling from Seattle.
The young man had called earlier, telling Cain he had just used heroin.
But this time he tells her he has an appointment with a therapist, he’s found a place to live, and he’s feeling good about things. “I’m going through a transformation,” he says.
Cain reminds him that he’s been talking about getting sober.
“I think that’s going to happen,” he says. “I haven’t been sober for so long, I know I’ll be a better me.”
She promises to check in with him the next day, and they hang up.
Minutes later, he calls back. “I just want to say thank you. Thank you for being here,” he tells her.
It’s the fifth time he’s called today, and she ends the call sooner this time. “I will talk to you tomorrow,” she says, gently but firmly.
Cain looks pensive after she hangs up. “I hope that he does get a place and he does get sober,” she says.
O’Higgins from DHHS has a message for people who are struggling: “You’re not alone.”
“Many people have dark thoughts and feelings,” she said. “People go on to get well, so you don’t have to feel like this forever.”
Her advice: “Call early; call often. Call every day if that’s what you need.
“But never worry alone.”
If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988, or chat at: 988lifeline.org.
To reach a mobile crisis team or find inpatient treatment options through New Hampshire’s Rapid Response Access Point, call/text 833-710-6477 or visit: nh988.com.
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Timberlane quarterback Dom Coppeta celebrates after he scored on a two-point conversion to give the Owls a 29-28 lead with 37.8 seconds left in regulation in Saturday’s Division I quarterfinal against Exeter.
High school football playoffs: Timberlane rallies past Exeter
EXETER — With his team trailing by seven points late in the fourth quarter of Saturday’s Division I quarterfinal against Exeter, Timberlane High football coach Kevin Fitzgerald had already decided that if his team scored a touchdown, the Owls would go for the 2-point conversion and the win. He didn’t want to challenge the Blue Hawks on a shortened field in overtime.
After Timberlane senior quarterback Dom Coppeta scored on a 1-yard keeper with 37.8 seconds remaining, Fitzgerald stuck with his decision, and it was Coppeta who got the call again to finish off a comeback.
Coppeta converted the two-point conversion run, and Nikolas Langlois effectively ended the game with a sack of Exeter quarterback Evan Pafford to preserve a wild 29-28 victory for No. 6 Timberlane over third-seeded Exeter at William Ball Stadium. The Owls overcame a 28-14 fourth-quarter deficit.
“We made the decision with a couple minutes left, we didn’t want a 10-yard game with those guys. With four plays, they would’ve had a pretty good shot of cracking one in,” Fitzgerald said. “The biggest thing is that we had a two-point play that we liked. There was no confusion when he scored (the touchdown).”
Reigning Division II champion Timberlane (9-2) advanced to next week’s semifinals in its first year back in Division I. The Owls will host No. 10 Bedford (8-3), after the Bulldogs advanced with a 7-0 upset victory over Nashua North on Friday night.
Saturday marked the second game between the teams that went down to the end. Timberlane also came back to win in Plaistow during the regular season, 27-23.
“We’ve got a lot of seniors who’ve played a lot of varsity football and they didn’t get rattled,” Fitzgerald said. “They’re a confident group and even though we were down, we were going to find something that works and we made some big plays offensively.”
Exeter (7-3) broke a 14-14 tie on Aidan McGinley’s 2-yard touchdown run early in the fourth quarter.
The Blue Hawks got the ball back on the ensuing drive after Ethan Moss’ interception set up Exeter at Timberlane’s 44-yard line. Pafford (six carries, 56 yards) finished the drive by bowling his way through defenders for a 27-yard touchdown to give Exeter a 28-14 lead with 8:05 left in regulation.
With his team needing points, Coppeta followed a 26-yard completion to Ed Digiulio with a 45-yard touchdown pass to Jaden Mwangi to bring Timberlane to within 28-21 with 7:03 left in the fourth quarter. Mwangi finished with four catches for 132 yards and two touchdowns, as he also hauled in a 36-yard score in the second quarter.
Timberlane freshman running back Liam Corman scampered 68 yards for a score to tie the game at 14-14 with 8:09 left in the third quarter.
“Going into halftime ... we talked to each other and said, ‘This is our game, and we don’t want to go home,’” Mwangi said. “The first game against Exeter was a fight, and to come back against them again in the playoffs is definitely something to remember for our senior year.”
After Exeter went three-and-out on its next drive, Coppeta dialed up Mwangi’s number again for a 45-yard gain down to Exeter’s 4. Coppeta completed eight of 11 passes for 189 yards to go with 43 rushing yards on 13 carries.
“(Mwangi) is really good and we rely on him a lot,” Coppeta said. “He was always there today.”
Coppetta finished off the 12-play, 86 yard drive with his 1-yard keeper on third down to bring Timberlane within 28-27 to set up a play with everything on the line. Coppeta took the snap out of the shotgun and followed his offensive line into the end zone to give Timberlane the lead for good.
“The two-point (conversion), we ran that play all week and (Fitzgerald) was confident in me and I was confident I could get it,” Coppeta said.
Exeter jumped out to a 14-0 lead in the first quarter after Pafford threw touchdown passes of 5 and 7 yards to Moss (97 scrimmage yards). Pafford completed 9 of 14 passes for 74 yards. Desmond Rugg led Exeter’s 237-yard rushing attack with 85 yards on 13 carries.
“We gave it everything we had and I’m proud of them,” said Exeter coach Bill Ball. “I thought we played well on offense, but Timberlane came up with some big plays.”
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