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Hello. I'm Allison McNair. Welcome to NH Outlook. |
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This week, the House Finance Committee began the final stage of preparing the state budget before sending it to the Senate. The largest area of the budget is Health and Human Services, which has over 140 programs and services. We'll be discussing the tough choices posed by the budget in a moment. But first, a look at some of the hard choices posed by the budget debate. Richard Ager profiles one program that is slated to lose half its funding. |
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Joining us to to discuss this week's happenings at the state house. Representatives from both sides of the aisle, Representative Rogers Johnson a member of the house finance committee and Representative Marjorie Smith also a member of the house finance committee. Thank you both for joining us this week. |
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As we saw in the piece, peer support is a very small part of the state budget, but it is an example of how tough the choices are when it comes to making cuts - particularly in areas like Health and Human Services. Rep. Johnson - what has been the toughest choice for you in voting on the budget? Rep. Smith? The budget now has two versions - what chairman Neil Kurk calls the 'core' budget and the 'add-on' budget. The add-on literally adds on about $170 million in further spending - what sort of things are in it? Do you expect it to be vetoed by Gov. Benson? |
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Even the statehouse had "wildcat fever" Thursday. House Speaker Gene Chandler had to apologize to members for a procedural error because the hockey game was on his mind. In the first game of the frozen four the UNH Hockey team defeated Cornell University three to two. Here a few of the highlights. |
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Montage of the three goals and the game winning celebration. |
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You can catch the championship game on ESPN Saturday at 7 pm. |
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Another competition underway this winter has been the FIRST Robotics competitions. F.I.R.S.T means For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology and each year FIRST holds regional and nationwide high-school competitions. There are 16 teams in New Hampshire. This year, Celene Ramadan followed the team from Pembroke Academy. |
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Nat sound of tools. You can't explain it to people because it's they just think it's just watching people play with robots and we think it's the greatest thing in the world. It may be the greatest thing in the world but it is also a lot of hard work. The teams have only 6 weeks to transform a kit full of parts into a fully functioning robot. But strong leadership from the team's coach, David Kelly, helps to build this team into a well oiled-machine. David My opening statement for the year is they're all reaching a transition where they have to go from somebody doing stuff for them to doing stuff for themselves. David A lot of times I'm not doing the instruction. Not everyone is building the robot, though. There's a lot more that needs to be done. Sub-groups take care of things like programming, marketing and animation. The broad scope of FIRST opens doors to possible careers. Lindsey I want to be an engineer - that's what I'm really interested in and this has made me actually think about going for it in college and it's made me want to actually pursue my dream of becoming an engineer. Perhaps the most valuable knowledge gained from FIRST is how to work as a team. Lindsey Well, we all have to listen to each other and we have to respect other people's idea and if one person has one idea well try that and we'll take another person's idea and we'll pretty much all have to agree on the same thing it's got to be unanimous. Bruce I learn a lot from the kids and a lot of it is how to work with other people. I kind of used to have the idea of 'oh this has gotta be the way that we gotta do it'. And what I'm learning is to be flexible enough to give the other person's idea a chance. The sense of teamwork has also permeated throughout the community. Keeping the Pembroke FIRST team afloat has been a challenge. But the team has survived thanks to the generosity from local small businesses. David Several times we've been really close to um not making the registration fee. And two years in a row, an anonymous donor came out kind of out of the blue and came out with an extra thousand dollars for our registration fee. BRUCE - It grows more and more you get more parents involved and more and more people are seeing what a great thing first is. David Okay and here's this years robot! The robot is called spartech. It is designed for this year's game, Stack Attack. It can pick up boxes, throw them and move around the ramp. After a few finishing touches, team 134 is ready for the regionals. Bruce Until you've gone to a competition and see the stands and everything come alive you just can't describe to somebody what FIRST is. Nat sound from the regionals - sparring matches. THE FIRST REGIONALS ARE DEFINITELY A SIGHT TO BE SEEN. IT'S TWO DAYS OF SCIENCE, MUSIC AND FUN. IT'S GOT EVERYTHING…AND EVERYONE - EVEN FIRST FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT DEAN KAMEN Dean Kamen This is the hardest fun they'll ever have. It's great to be here. You know, the news is mostly bad things being done by bad people. This rejuvinates you and it gives you confidence that there are enormous, enormous numbers of good people and great corporations willing to go and adopt these schools and they're enormously enthusiastic kids ready to be open minded about learning new things. Craig Benson It's amazing what people can do on limited resources with creativity. No two robots look the same, yet they're accomplishing the exact same task or trying to accomplish the same task - so it's amazing how many different ways you can solve a problem. How many different ideas you can come up with. How intense the competition is, how excited everybody is to be here and it's just a fantastic event. There are 44 totally unique robots - each of them with their own set of tactics and strategies. STANDUP - Innovation is definitely the name of the game here at the regionals. Let's see how the Pembroke team stacks up against the competition. NAT of sparring match. PEMBROKE'S TEAM EXPERIENCED SOME PROBLEMS ON THE FIRST DAY OF COMPETITION. THIS COST THEM IN POINTS. AT THE END OF THE DAY, PEMBROKE NEEDED TO WORK OUT SOME OF THE KINKS. BUT BY DAY 2, SPARTECH WAS READY TO ROLL. Exterior. David - Last night it was really disappointing to see our standing at 44 out of 44 teams. WE have a much stronger robot than what that indicates and I'm hoping these three matches today will watch us climb fairly quickly. I don't really feel like we're losing at this point we're just in 44th place out of the 44. You know, it's not that crucial that the win or losing, it's the whole processs we've been through. THE EXTRA WORK PAID OFF AS THE TEAM WON THE VERY FIRST MATCH OF THE DAY. Pat -We competed really well today. Yesterday we had a rough day but today we had a really good day. So it kind of made us feel a lot better EVEN THOUGH THE TEAM DIDN'T MAKE IT TO THE FINALS, THEY STILL HAD BLAST AND TOOK AWAY SOME IMPORTANT LESSONS. Ryan Cummings- I think one of the lessons we are going to take from this is just to try to think just a little bit ahead. David I said let's have fun, if we can't win, then lets have fun. And you know, that's the whole idea. It's a celebration of technology. So, if things don't go your way - they don't go your way. it's just a win/win situation. Chris I've learned to be flexible with new changes and new things that come up because there's a lot of stuff that you can't see that you have to react to. I've learned to deal with anything that's thrown at me. |
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The Pembroke FIRST team went on to compete at the Chesapeake Regional competition. The team won the Chesapeake which qualified them for the nationwide championship. The championship is taking place this weekend in Houston, Texas. You can log on to u-s-first-dot-org to view the results. |
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That's it for this edition of our program. For all of us here at New Hampshire Public Television, I'm Ally McNair. Thanks for joining us. We'll see you next time on New Hampshire Outlook. |
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Tonight on New Hampshire Outlook. It's our Friday Edition as journalist from around the granite state discuss the week's top stories. Tonight at 10pm on New Hampshire Public Television. |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 4/10/03 22:00 HOST: Allison McNair Length: 17:30 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, it's our weekly legislative wrap up. This week, the House Finance Committee began the final stage of preparing the state budget before sending it to the Senate. The largest area of the budget is Health and Human Services, which has over 140 programs and services. We'll be discussing the tough choices posed by the budget in a moment. But first, a look at some of the hard choices posed by the budget debate. Richard Ager profiles one program that is slated to lose half its funding. Joining us to to discuss this week's happenings at the state house. Representatives from both sides of the aisle, Representative Rogers Johnson a member of the house finance committee and Representative Marjorie Smith also a member of the house finance committee. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Richard Ager NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Charlotte Duquette\Seacoast Consumer Alliance, Hazel Savage\Concord, Kathleen Weeks\Cornerbridge Mental Health Center, Geoff Souther\HHS, Div of Behavioral Health, Ken Braiterman \Chair, NH Mental Health Council, Michael Smith\Greenland, Vicki-Jean Chojnicki, Rep. Rogers Johnson\R - District 83, Rep. Marjorie Smith\D - District 72 |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 4/10/03 22:00 HOST: Allison McNair Length: 1:00 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, even the statehouse had "wildcat fever" Thursday. House Speaker Gene Chandler had to apologize to members for a procedural error because the hockey game was on his mind. In the first game of the frozen four the UNH Hockey team defeated Cornell University three to two. Here a few of the highlights. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Jennifer Ellis NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 4/10/03 22:00 HOST: Allison McNair Length: 8:00 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, Another competition underway this winter has been the FIRST Robotics competitions. F.I.R.S.T means For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology and each year FIRST holds regional and nationwide high-school competitions. There are 16 teams in New Hampshire. This year, Celene Ramadan followed the team from Pembroke Academy. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Celene Ramadan NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: David Kelly\Coach, Lindsey Bean\Sophomore, Bruce Lacaillade\Engineer, Dean Kamen\FIRST Founder & President, Craig Benson\NH Governor, Pat Roche\Junior, Ryan Cumings\Junior, Chris Lacaillade\Junior |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 4/10/03 22:00 HOST: Allison McNair Length: 8:00 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, Another competition underway this winter has been the FIRST Robotics competitions. F.I.R.S.T means For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology and each year FIRST holds regional and nationwide high-school competitions. There are 16 teams in New Hampshire. This year, Celene Ramadan followed the team from Pembroke Academy. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Celene Ramadan NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: David Kelly\Coach, Lindsey Bean\Sophomore, Bruce Lacaillade\Engineer, Dean Kamen\FIRST Founder & President, Craig Benson\NH Governor, Pat Roche\Junior, Ryan Cumings\Junior, Chris Lacaillade\Junior |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 4/10/03 22:00 HOST: Allison McNair Length: 8:00 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, Another competition underway this winter has been the FIRST Robotics competitions. F.I.R.S.T means For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology and each year FIRST holds regional and nationwide high-school competitions. There are 16 teams in New Hampshire. This year, Celene Ramadan followed the team from Pembroke Academy. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Celene Ramadan NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: David Kelly\Coach, Lindsey Bean\Sophomore, Bruce Lacaillade\Engineer, Dean Kamen\FIRST Founder & President, Craig Benson\NH Governor, Pat Roche\Junior, Ryan Cumings\Junior, Chris Lacaillade\Junior |
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