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Next on New Hampshire Outlook tonight. Bridges of learning.We'll meet an organization dedicated to bringing books to Afghan refugees and the student hoping to educate granite staters about her homeland. Plus, We'll take you to the 8th annual Contemporary Outdoor Sculpture Show. And, One of the joys of summer in New England - a trip to the farmers market. |
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Good Evening. I'm Allison McNair. Welcome to New Hampshire Outlook. |
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The opressive heat and humidity has set another record for power use in New England. And tonight I-S-O New England has declared a power watch. The operators of the region's power grid are urging consumers to conserve electricity by shutting off unnecessary lights and appliances and lowering their air conditioners. The watch is in effect for all New England states except Maine. In addition to the heat and humidity - the EPA says air quality is unhealthy in much of New England throughout the day. Those with respiratory problems should limit exposure and exertion outdoors. |
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The heat takes its toll especially on the very young and the old. Last night I spoke with Dr. Cathleen Ammann of Dover about heat related problems. |
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Is there any relief in sight? To find out we checked in earlier with Katie Koster of the Mount Washington Observatory. |
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CG:WEATHER\Mount Washington Observatory\Today on the Summit\Temperature:66 degrees\Wind: West 28 mph\Mostly sunny\Visibility: 40 miles CG:WEATHER\Tonight\North\Partly cloudy\Chance of showers\Winds: SW 10 mph\Lows: 60s CG:WEATHER\Tonight\South\Partly cloudy\Chance of showers\ Winds: SW 10 mph\Lows: 70 - 75 CG:WEATHER\Tomorrow\Statewide\Showers and t-storms\Chance of gusts and hail\ Highs: 80 - 90 \Winds:W 10 - 15 mph |
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Well even if the heat gets to us, it's great weather for the growing season. And this is the time of year a lot of us head to the farmers market for fresh produce. As a matter of fact this week is National Farmers' Market Week. In New Hampshire there are 28 Farmers Market locations throughout the state.Earlier tonight Autumn Allen joined me in the stuido to talk about the Farmers Market Nutrition Program. |
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To locate a famers market in your area go to the state website http:/www.state.nh.us/agric/farmmkt.html |
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Here's a look at other news making headlines this Thursday. |
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Now a follow-up to our report earlier this week on stem cell research. Tonight - in one of the most closely watched announcments of his young presidency - President Bush will make known his decision on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. The President is scheduled to deliver a nationally televised address at 9 p-m eastern time from his Crawford, Texas ranch. White House sources say the President is expected to allow federal funds for LIMITED stem cell research. It is not known exactly how much research would be permitted. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle has said that if the President's decision does not satisfy a "bipartisan majority" that's in favor of the funding, stem cell research legislation could be introduced in the fall. |
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More states are following New Hampshire's example of banding together to try to cut prescription drug costs. A network of a dozen states called the Pharmacy Workgroup will meet today in Atlanta to continue talks on a purchasing pool that would cover state employees and Medicaid recipients. Late last month, a coalition of lawmakers from eight northeastern states, including New Hampshire, met to work on a similar plan. |
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Can we still use the phrase "as constant as the sea"? A New Hampshire expert on global climate change says we can expect some changes including a two-foot rise in the water level along our seacoast in the next 50 years. The study also suggests an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and a resulting decrease in the ozone layer could significantly alter the sea level. The researcher says seacoast communities should plan for the rise when they make improvements to their harbor areas. |
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When you hear the word education - what do you think of? Maybe higher education - education funding.But imagine not being able to have access to an education of any kind.being denied the right to learn how to read, or attend school.That's the experience of women living in Afghanistan.But there is an organization in New Hampshire that's dedicated to providing books for the people of Afghanistan and others in need. |
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-- Track Children of Afghan refugees in Pakistan are given a rare treasure - books. They are books that have come all the way from Greenland New Hampshire. They've been gathered up and sent by the non profit organzization - Bridges of Learning.Thomas Brackett describes his role in the process. -- sot Thomas Brackett Bridges of Learning 1:55:43My goal is to make these boxes full. When they arrive in Pakistan the Phillipines wherever that - a teacher will undo it and get a teachers edition, a resource book, enough books for a typical emerging country classroom - that's about 40 students. I'll also try to put in paper, pencils if there is room. Someone said my gosh there's no sunlight coming though the box it's packed so tightly and that's my goal. 1:56:20 -- Bridges of Learning was started by the Brackett family after they took a family vacation. -- sot Alison Brackett Bridges of Learning 1:01:00 We went to visit friends in Jamaica and the girls went to a mountain school and saw they had no books or one book, fifty years old shared among everone. so we went home collected books and brought them back it was a real joy. -- track For four years, the Bracketts and Bridges of Learning have donated books to places like the Phillipines, Belize, the Dominican Republic. And now, Bridges of Learning is focused on providing books for Afghan refugees. -- sot Nargis Usman Afghan Refugee 1:41:14 We have one set in the library hostel. We have set of encyclopedias. It gives you general information about the world. 1:41:42 -- track Nargis Usman is an Aghan refugee, who's spending time with the Brackett family this summer. Nargis' father was killed in a rocket attack when she was 4. Her mother died when she was 8. She was taken in by Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, also known as RAWA. It's an organization that works for peace and women's rights. Afghanistan is under the control of the Taliban regime. And there are strict Islamic rules against women.Nargis explains. -- sot 1:34:09 They do not have basic rights. They are deprivced of an education. Not allowed outside without a man. The Taliban do not accept women as members of society. They must cover themselves from head to toe or they will be stoned to death. 1:34:50 -- track Many people have fled Afghanistan to refugee camps like this one in Pakistan. This camp is said to be home to some 70 thousand refugees. Conditions are poor. -- sot Nargis 1:38:-02 They live in tents in very large failies in one tent its very bad conditions over there. -- -- sot Alison Brackett 1:06:51 Pakistan is very cold in the winter hot in the summer. In the winter its 0 - 10 degrees out 1:01:02 -- track And so, Bridges to Learning has made sure blankets were delivered to refugee camps. The Brackett family does even more. Lydia Brackett, soon to be senior at Portsmouth High school explains. -- Lydia Brackett Bridges/Linens for Learning sot 1:26:41 We're working for fair wage and dignity. The way we're doing that is through Linens for Learning. Women make these scarves and they are paid for there work for the product and the rest of the money goes to RAWA for medical treatment, healthcare, sanitation and to teachers. 1:27:04 -- track Other supplies are sent too. Like paper and crayons. -- sot Thomas Brackett Bridges to Learning 2:00:33 This gets such great excitement. We got a call from an Exeter school saying we want a doable project. So I said we could use some crayons 100 boxes of 12 - 16 crayon boxes. Well they came up with 200 boxes. -- 1:17:06 sot Alison Brackett This is a child's artwork.They watched books being burned that are not the koran.A teacher being killed. Then here's another drawing.Child with books over the last year, women attending the school, things look better in this picture. 1:17:39 -- track Some of the books sent to the Afghan refugees in Pakistan are smuggled into Afghanistan. They are used by teachers in underground schools. -- sot Nargis 1:38:39 It's very dangerous and for those women its very dangerous some of the women they run underground schools for girls and boys most of them are illiterate. 1:39:10 -- sot Thomas Brackett 1:58:26 My job is procurement for those in the front lines. They're the brave heros. This work is an absoute joy to put a book in a box and have a brave teacher open the box in Kabul.The school teacher is getting three to 400 dollars a year and the value of these books as a unit is worth 1 thousand to 15 hundred dollars. Its a gift from the people of America for the sake of education. 1:59:24 -- sot, Allison 1:11:42 It tugs at my hear string to know there's more to do. I feel I can't stop these kids need us. 1:11:59 --- |
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If you're interested in having Nargis come speak to your organization - you can call Bridges of Learning at 431-2270. |
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Retail sales reports released today show consumers aren't spending at a pace likely to recharge the economy. The major stock market averages bounced off their lows of the day and ended mixed and little changed. |
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The Dow was up just over 5 points. The Nasdaq composite fell 3 points. And the S-and-P 500 was down less than a point. |
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Here's a look at stocks of interest to New Hampshire investors. Autodesk closed up a dollar and eleven cents. Fisher Scientific slipped 49 cents a share. MBNA was off 53 cents. Pennichuck ended the day down a dollar fifty cents a share. Texas Instruments was up up 54 cents a share. |
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New Hampshire's unemployment rate rose one-half of a point from June to July, according to preliminary figures released today. The Department of Employment Security says the rate is three-point-four percent. Nationally, the unemployment rate was unchanged from June at four-point-five percent. |
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OnCam:Ally Finally tonight. we visit the 8th annual Contemporary Outdoor Sculpture Show on the grounds of the Moses Kent House Museum in Exeter. On display are the works of 17 New England artists. Some of whom were there to explain their sculptures and to answer the most obvious question - what is sculpture? |
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Stop by and check out the show yourself it runs through Labor Day. If you go this Sunday the artists will be there as well. For more information, log on to www.sculpture.org. |
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Wondering what to do this weekend? Here's our calendar of special events going on around the state. |
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Tomorrow on New Hampshire Outlook - We'll look at the stories behind the headlines with our weekly roundtable discussion with journalists from around the state. |
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That's it for this edition of New Hampshire Outlook. For all of us here at New Hampshire Public Television, thanks for joining us. Stay tuned for Anne of Green Gables. We'll be back tomorrow at 7:30. Good night. |
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Thanks to our founding sponsors who have provided major funding for the production of New Hampshire Outlook: New Hampshire Charitable Foundadtion Public Service of New Hampshire Alice J. Reen Charitable Trust Putnam Foundation Stratford Foundation |
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DATE:8/9/01 TOPIC:we visit the 8th annual Contemporary Outdoor Sculpture Show on the grounds of the Moses Kent House Museum in Exeter. On display are the works of 17 New England artists. Some of whom were there to explain their sculptures and to answer the most obvious question - what is sculpture? SEGMENT LENGTH: 5:08 NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Nick Dawson\Sculptor John Weidman\Sculptor Antoinette Prien Schultz\Sculptor David Raymond\Sculptor John Knapp\Sculptor & Curator Joyce Audy Zarriss\Sculptor Andrew Chulyk\Sculptor |
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DATE:8/9/01 TOPIC: Well even if the heat gets to us, it's great weather for the growing season. And this is the time of year a lot of us head to the farmers market for fresh produce. As a matter of fact this week is National Farmers' Market Week. In New Hampshire there are 28 Farmers Market locations throughout the state.Earlier tonight Autumn Allen joined me in the stuido to talk about the Farmers Market Nutrition Program. SEGMENT LENGTH: 3:42 NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Autumn Allen joined me in the stuido to talk about the Farmers Market Nutrition Program. |
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DATE: 8/9/01 TOPIC:When you hear the word education - what do you think of? Maybe higher education - education funding.But imagine not being able to have access to an education of any kind.being denied the right to learn how to read, or attend school.That's the experience of women living in Afghanistan.But there is an organization in New Hampshire that's dedicated to providing books for the people of Afghanistan and others in need. SEGMENT LENGTH: 7:12 NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Thomas Brackett\Bridges to Learning Alison Brackett\Bridges to Learning Nargis Usman\Afghan Refugee Lydia Brackett\Bridges to Learning |
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Tonight on New Hampshire Outlook. Here at 11:30 only on New Hampshire Outlook. |
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P-NH--Subaru Suits nmlap Federal judge allows expanded class action suit in Subaru case -- A federal judge in New Hampshire has partly allowed a class action suit by current and former New England Subaru dealers against their distributor to expand to about 75 dealers. Seven dealers originally filed the suit against Subaru of New England and its sole shareholder and president, Ernest Boch, and its executive vice president and general manager, Joseph Appelbe. All Subaru dealers in New England get their vehicles through Boch's company, and dealers finance their inventory through Subaru Acceptance Corporation. The dealers accused the company of pading cars with unwanted options to boost profits at their expense. Judge Paul Barbadoro said the issues of liability and damages should be separated, and he allowed the proposed class action on the issue of liability only. He said if the defendants are found liable, damage claims could be resolved in individual trials. AP-N |
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Tonight on New Hampshire Outlook. Journalists share the stories behind the headlines from the ongoing trials of the mll in Berlin to remembering a battle against a seacoast refinery. Join us tonight at 7:30 only on New Hampshire Outlook. |
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Monday on New Hampshire Outlook. From Graceland to the Granite State. we'll share the story of a special car that belonged to the King. Join us tonight at 7:30 only on New Hampshire Outlook. |
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Though the gubernatorial primary is more than a year away, campaign 2002 continues to make headlines. Governor Jeanne Shaheen has sent supporters a letter asking for advice on her future. Many speculate that she will not seek another term but instead run for a seat in the Senate. In related news, David Carney, a veteran political consultant is switching allegiance from Gordon Humphrey to Republican Bruce Keough. Carney sees Keough as the right person to unite the GOP if Shaheen bows out of the gubernatorial picture. |