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Next on New Hampshire Outlook. A New Hampshire Company leads the way in high tech security. A look inside the Granite State's new New Hampshire Institute of Politics. And University researchers learn about the earth's climate by digging deep into the icy core of the Yukon. |
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Hello. I'm Allison McNair. Welcome to NH Outlook. |
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Imagine a truck with built-in surveillance cameras, or a pair of eyeglasses linked to a camera and a computer, to help spot terrorists at an airport. Those exhibits were on display at a first-of-its kind expo at the nation's capitol Wedesday. Across town, President Bush tried to rally support for his proposal for a new homeland security department. Elaine Quijano has more from Washington. |
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TRACK IN THE DOMESTIC FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM. THESE COULD ONE DAY BE AMERICA'S NEWEST WEAPONS. TECHNOLOGY FROM 50 SMALL BUSINESSES.DISPLAYED ON CAPITOL HILL. SOME PRODUCTS ARE STILL IN DEVELOPMENT LIKE THE HIGH-TECH "SMART-TRUCK" OUTFITTED WITH MULTIPLE CAMERAS. NIGHT VISION. AND EQUIPMENT TO CREATE OIL SLICKS AND SMOKE SCREENS. SEN. KIT BOND R Missouri BOND SOT Everyone should have the opportunity to test drive. kick tires and learn about these products. ELAINE QUIJANO Reporting STANDUP Among the items on display here is this $750,000 gyroplane. It's equipped with both infrared and video technology and was used for surveillance during the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. JAY GROEN Groen Bros. GROEN SOT Because we can fly low and slow safely and inexpensive.inexpensively, it's a perfect aircraft for border patrol, for all sorts of pipeline patrol. TRACK MEANWHILE. ACROSS TOWN. PRESIDENT BUSH ADDRESSED THOUSANDS OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEES, THANKING SOME SPECIFICALLY FOR THEIR WORK IN FIGHTING TERRORISM. AND MR. BUSH CONTINUED TO PUSH HIS PROPOSAL FOR A NEW HOMELAND SECURITY DEPARTMENT. A MOVE HE SAYS WILL STREAMLINE THE GOVERNMENT'S DOMESTIC DEFENSE EFFORTS. O SUPER: BUSH SOT BUSH SOT The Department of Homeland Security will foster a new culture in the nation's capital and it will be a culture of cooperation. TRACK THE PLAN IS STILL A SUBJECT OF CONTROVERSY IN CONGRESS BUT SOME SAY IT'S CLEAR THAT HOMELAND SECURITY IS GOING TO NEED THE SKILLS OF BOTH GOVERNMENT AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO SUCCEED. IN WASHINGTON, I'M ELAINE QUIJANO. |
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Wednesday's New York Times reported that the September eleventh hijackers opened 35 American bank accounts without having legitimate social security numbers. According to the FBI some of those accounts had numbers that were never checked or questioned by bank officials, allowing terrorists to transfer thousands of dollars. Joining me now is Paul Bakhit with Bedford based 'Imaging Automation'- one of the companies presenting a product at the Washington expo. |
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What technology is your company implementing at airports? Who are you clients? Why were you asked to participate in this security expo? Has your demand increased since 9/11? What other security challenges are you involved with? How can technology make our US Canadian border safer? How can technology increase security at our seaports? How can security interests be balanced with economic interests? time is money and security seems to take time. What do you envision the future of security technology will look like? Does your company get any criticism for the products they make? civil liberties. Why do your company decide to base operations in New Hampshire? |
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Briefly in the news. The US House has voted overwhelmingly to let airline pilots carry guns in the cockpit. While the measure was approved by a nearly three-to-one margin it is not expected to make it past the Senate -- and the White House is opposed to it as well. The plan would allow guns for more than 70-thousand pilots if they agree to undergo training. |
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Stocks continued to slide Wednesday as the Dow Industrials closed below the nine-thousand mark for the first time since last October. The Nasdaq and the S and P 500 hit new five-year lows as the market endured a third straight day of heavy selling.According to analysts there wasn't any single reason for the slide, just the accumulated weight of accounting scandals and worries about corporate earnings. |
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Officials may consider posting multi-lingual "beach closed" signs at Weirs Beach in Laconia. Last week a spanish speaking teen almost drowned. Authorities think the boy may not have understood the sign. The city manager says people come to the beach from all over the world, so it would be hard to decide what languages to include. |
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The Portsmouth Police Department is receiving another large grant from the US Department of Justice. The department's Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force will use the a $295 - thousand dollars in the purchase and training of specialized equipment, education programs and the operation of an online case management system. |
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Here's a quiz. What small liberal-arts college in New Hampshire has received millions of dollars in federal aid to study a subject that is widely regarded as disreputable? The answer: St. Anselm College in Manchester which is still putting the finishing touches on its new Institute of Politics. Producer Richard Ager takes us on a tour. |
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Track: Reverend Dale Kuehne is upfront about the problem that has inspired the creation of this new institute. Bite: St. A's tape 1 28:30 We live in a nation where politics is not respected for many good reasons, but we think politics is really important, we think politics needs to be redeemed, we think politics needs to be elevated. So what you see here is a facility that hopefully can do that. Soundup: IOP tape 05:59;35 "Thank you senator Gregg." Track: At last September's dedication, the institute's founders began by thanking Sen. Judd Gregg for the $9 million in federal funding that made it all possible. Bite: IOP tape 05:58;39 When finished, this 20,000 square foot facility will contain classrooms, faculty offices, on on-line learning research center with state of the art technology, an archives, a research center, a television studio and an auditorium. Soundup: IOP tape 06:13:04 On big screen - "today I'm honored to join in the dedication of this institute."… Bite: IOP tape 04:56:23 Students will learn that public service is a noble calling, and that good citizenship is an essential virtue. Bite: St. A's tape 1 00:30:10 This facility helps to send a signal to everybody on our campus - our students, our faculty, the community that we take politics, we take civic life seriously. And this particular room represents all different aspects of what it is we're about. We've got the fact that our NH primary heritage is on the walls with the old campaign posters - THE NEWS CHANNELS BEHIND HERE - exactly, connecting with American politics today. Track: The institute occupies a former Army Reserve building which is now protected by the NH Historical Commission as an example of Cold War architecture. It is a reminder of the ultimate importance of politics. Bite: St. A's tape 1 35:00 We can't for example change the window sizes. As you go through the building, you'll notice a lot of narrow windows that were designed to protect us from nuclear fallout in the event of a nuclear war. Track: The college has integrated other disciplines into the institute of politics by establishing four centers that focus on how politics intersects with different aspects of society. Track: Melissa Surawski is a graduate student in psychology. Bite: St. A's tape 1 49:53 My research here is focusing on the role of the politician's voice and appearance and how he is perceived as competent and credible. We're also looking at why people are not voting as much as they previously had in years past, so right here, we're looking at it a lot from a psychology point of view. And the research centers are all looking at it from their perspectives. Standup: St. A tape 3 00:15:19 The NH Institute of Politics intends to be a player in its own area of study. Leading up to the September primary, it will hold a series of three debates here, featuring candidates for the U.S. Congress, Senate, and Governor. Track: The Institute has also brought in political leaders and commentators to speak to and listen to the students. Bite; IOP tape 05:19:55 Right now I think we have an opportunity to create a whole lot more confidence in the political system through our public schools. How do you think we should do that? Bite: IOP tape 05:20:57 We need some of you to go into politics and public service, or civil service as I describe it, working for the govt. Most obviously in places like teaching, but a whole host of other opportunities. Bite: St. A's tape 1 33:23 Welcome to our learning resource center. This is basically our library, and it's an unusual library because it has no books. But the reality is that for the study of politics in contemporary life, the internet has almost all the resource that you could possibly want. Bite: St. A's tape 1 37:45 WHAT ABOUT THE ALIENATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE FROM POLITICS. YOU'RE OBVIOUSLY ATTRACTING STUDENTS INTO POLITICS AND POLITICAL STUDIES HERE, BUT ARE THEY THE EXCEPTION? What we're finding is that young people at St. Anselm reflect young people across the nation - and that is, when it comes to politics, they are very discouraged about it. 18-24 year olds - nearly every study shows that on almost every measure of civic engagement including voting, political participation, they are very low. But in the area of volunteerism, they are very high. And what I'm finding is, this group of young people cares, they're not cynical, they want to make a difference in this world, they're willing to do everything they can to make a difference. But what they don't understand, and they don't see, is how political involvement will make a difference. Soundup: Primary History tape 06:55 The United States today is the great defender of freedom. Track: If there is a single most compelling reason to study politics here, it is having a front-row seat on the Presidential primary. Bite: St. A's tape 1 42:55 Bernard Shaw told us that the NH primary was the second largest media event in the world because everyone is so concerned with who the next president of the United States will be. And so the whole world is watching, and we want our students and our community to realize that while on the one hand, campaigns can be difficult to deal with, and you might get frustrated with it, it's an amazing resource and it's something very significant and important. Track: Of course, NH politics is about more than the primary. Professor Dante Scala says the Institute will be focusing on changes in the state's demographics and voting patterns, and on some things that don't seem to change. Bite; St. A's tape 2 34:08 I wrote my thesis in graduate school a long time ago on state taxes - and we in NH are repeating a debate that took place in other states three quarters of a century ago about whether you should convert from the property tax to an income tax or a sales tax. So it was interesting to come here to NH from my studies in Chicago and see a debate unfolding today that I had been studying that had unfolded 7 or 8 decades earlier. SO IT'S BACK TO THE FUTURE FOR YOU. Yes, exactly. Bite: St. A's tape 2 43:20 My experience with NH politics thus far is that NH politics is fought on a town by town, city ward by city ward. It's not fought from the top down with a few leaders issuing commands to people and that makes NH notoriously unpredictable, which is just great for a political scientist. We love when the unforeseen happens. Bite: Bush HQ tape 08:21:55 NH has long been known as a bump in the road for frontrunners. And this year is no exception. Soundup: McCain HQ tape 08:47:29 My friends, a wonderful NH campaign has come to an end, but a great national crusade has just begun. Track: Whether it is witnessing the making of world leaders or understanding why politics alienates so many citizens, the NH Institute of Politics has a serious job to do - and looks forward to doing it. Bite: St. A's tape 2 54:42 Politics is fun. Academia is fun. The whole pursuit of ideas is fun. Track: For NH Outlook, I'm Richard Ager. Soundup: Primary History tape 04:35 Gary Hart - "I love NH" |
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From family fun with bicycles to exploring at the Planetarium, there's something for everyone in this week's community calendar. |
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Family Fun with bicycles\July 11\Concord\603 228-6688 Anita Shreve reads from "Sea Grass"\July 11\Dover\603 742-6743 Gardening Tips\July 12\Hancock\603 525-4728 Wolfman Weekend\July 13\Lincoln\603 745-8913 Old Home Days\July 14\Swanzey\Info: longee@cheshire.net Little Explorers at the Planetarium\July 17\Concord\603 271-7827 |
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Finally. imagine taking a look into the past to get an idea of what the future may hold. That's just what a group of people from UNH did last month. They took a trip to the Yukon to take ice core samples and study climate changes. Producer Tai Freligh has the story. |
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Script: NATS 27:05 Shot of plane on ground with propellers slowing down and nats of Crowe "Alright, we've arrived. Eclipse Ice Field." SOT 1:00:52 Cameron Wake We went up to the St. Elias Range in SW Yukon territory up to a glacier called the eclipse ice field to drill ice core. It's about ten thousand feet. We're up there with a crew of about six folks for a little over a month drilling ice core and doing a bunch of studies to support the ice core work. TRACK University of New Hampshire Professor Cameron Wake and his group went to the Canadian Yukon to learn more about what the earth's climate was like hundreds of years ago. SOT 1:06:58 Understanding what's gone on in the past is no guarantee for figuring out what's going on in the future. But, in order to really model climate and understand climate, to predict it we have to understand how the climate system has operated in the past. One of the axioms in geology is the past is the key to the future. So what we can do is determine how climate has changed in the past and then one of the major things we want to do once we gain that information is try to determine why it's changed. SOT 1:01:23 We lived on the glacier for a month. We had a camp set up on the ice and we had a kitchen tent and we all had our own personal sleeping tent. We were living on the snow. One of the big chores each day was to melt our own water and make sure we had enough water coming in to cook our food and stay somewhat clean. The actual drill site was about a hundred meters away. How far is that? About a football field away. We had to commute to work each day by walking up the summit. TRACK Despite 25 to 30 mile an hour winds, life was pretty good, especially what was on the menu. SOT 1:22:44 A lot of soup, a lot of hot cereal, a lot of hot drinks pretty much makes up our diet. This year we brought up a little barbeque so we had steaks and ribs sometimes. Boy, better eating up there than back home Yeah, that's what the undergraduate students said. TRACK Not to mention that old expression, "location, location, location." SOT 1:14:56 It's just beautiful country it's beautiful light, very different from what we get here beautiful scenery. It's harsh in some senses having to cook for yourself, having to melt all your water is difficult but you know the peace and tranquility and solitude is worth it. As well as a place, it's unique in the fact that we can get really good ice core records, I love it. TRACK Of course, getting ice samples was the main attraction. NATS 5:46:10 Nats "What are ya putting up?".men assembling solar panels for drill.nats "the solar panels to power the drill" SOT 1:09:25 So we use two types of drills. One is sort of the old standard drill made of steel, but we also had a new drill that we borrowed from the geological survey of Canada that's completely built of titanium, so made specially to collect core for trace metal analysis. The inner barrel is titanium, the outer barrel is titanium, the head is titanium and the drill actually collects core right into a precleaned plastic sleeve that we pull out of the core and we just cap the ends and put it into a plastic bag. STANDUP Back here at the University of New Hampshire, the samples are processed and stored here in this large outdoor refrigerator. SOT 1:05:35 We'll date the core, get a record of volcanoes and then we'll actually go back and do another set of sampling to look at trace metals and once we get the trace metal data as well as the major ion data, then we'll begin to look at pollutant deposition and what we thought probably ten years ago was a relatively pristine part of the arctic is now relatively polluted. TRACK The ice samples will be used to help better understand the global climate. SOT 1:23:23 This type of research is important because we really need to develop climate records from around the globe to really understand the entire climate system. Just like no one meteorological station tells you how global climate is changing, no one paleo climate record will tell you how climate has changed around the globe. So there's a large effort now with a number of different scientists around the globe working at collecting these paleo climate records from a number of different archives, tree rings, ice cores, lake sediment, chorals, etc. in order to build this sort of global composite of change. TRACK For NH Outlook, this is Tai Freligh. |
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Professor Wake expects to have the results of the analysis by next summer. He says they will then spend the next year analyzing the data and writing up the results into a series of papers. |
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On the next New Hampshire Outlook - Cuisine from the South of France with author and Chef Jim Haller |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time:7/10/02 / 2200 HOST: Allison McNair Length: 9:34 In addition to a summary of the day's top New Hampshire stories, this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, included a report on the Homeland Security Expo in Washington DC and one New Hampshire Companies featured Security technology product. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Allison McNair NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Paul Bakhit\Imaging Automation |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time:7/10/02 / 2200 HOST: Allison McNair Length: 7:00 In addition to a summary of the day's top New Hampshire stories, this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, included a report on Saint Anselm College in Manchester which is still putting the finishing touches on its new Institute of Politics. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Richard Ager NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Paul Manuel\Institute Co-founder Rev Dale Kuehne\Director, NH Institute of Politics Melissa Surawski\St Anselm Graduate Student Sen Joseph Lieberman\Vice Presidential Candidate - 2000 Professor Dante Scala\NH Institute of Politics |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time:7/10/02 / 2200 HOST: Allison McNair Length: 7:00 In addition to a summary of the day's top New Hampshire stories, this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, included a report on ice core sampling at UNH. researchers are taking a look into the past to get an idea of what the future may hold. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Tai Freligh NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Professor Cameron Wake\UNH EOS Program |
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