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As an artist, B. Lynch, has been working with the topic of folly for many years. Her theatrical installations of the Folly pantheon have been shown at many solo exhibitions in New England. Her new project: The Red and the Grey showed at two venues in 2013. Lynch has been combining digital and other media for several years, including "Tragical, Comical"... an installation with video and a site-specific labyrinth at the Grimshaw-Gudewicz Gallery in Fall River MA in 2008. She presented a mixed media and video installation, Truth & Folly at UMass Amherst November 2004. Chain of Fools: Hogarth Reinterpreted by B. Lynch, a mixed media and video installation at University of New Hampshire. January 2006 her project Just a Pack of Cards, with the Open Studio Program was on view at the Currier Museum in Manchester NH. Other shows of note are: the Throne Project 2003, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Fool's Progress, Eastern CT State University;The Game of Folly, The Art Complex Museum; and Plucked Fruit, Montserrat College of Art. Lynch has shown extensively in group shows, including The Chicken Show at the Boston Center for the Arts; as well as shows in Germany and the Midwest. Her popular lectures on the topic of Folly and art have been given at many universities and colleges. Nevada, California, Texas and Alaska have played host to her videos and sound projects from 2011-2012. Video projects were screened at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburg, University of California Chico State, Lexington Art League among others. The Artist Foundation, Boston, premiered her solo video project: The Lunar Cycle 1 in November 2009. Studio Green Gallery in Munich Germany premiered two videos in Fall 2009. Miss Kittikins... is included in Creatures Great & Small, a show originating at Murray State College in Kentucky, it has a catalog and traveled to Paducah and Lexington Ky. The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts awarded her a fellowship in 2008. She has won several awards for her projects, including a Puffin Grant and Ludwig Vogelstein award. She is a co-founder of the Hall Street Artist Collaborative, which produced two outdoor video screenings. Her bibliography includes reviews in Sculpture Magazine, ART New England, the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, the Patriot Ledge, the Wire and others, as well as several exhibition catalogues, and two cable TV presentations. She is included in the Springfield Ohio Museum of Art; The Boston Public Library, Boston; the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA; Eastern Connecticut State University Collection; University of NH Art Museum; Private collections in the USA, Germany and Sweden. Critics say of her work: "Created with compassion, originality and wit, Lynch's tableaux are metaphors for society."—Alicia Faxon Art New England. "Lynch has inspiration and intellect to spare. Her installation embraces the illogic of chance, double dealing, and rule breaking that too often define our lives. Her work also includes the overt nod to Dada and recalls Duchamp's passion for chess."—John Stomberg ART New England.
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I am delighted to be beginning my fifth year as a full time faculty member after 23 years as an adjunct here at Simmons School of Social Work. When then Professor Sophie Freud initially suggested that I teach the Psychopathology course (now Assessment and Diagnosis) while I was a doctoral candidate at Simmons, I told her that I had never really considered teaching and wasn't sure it was such a good idea. She countered with, "this is an offer you can't refuse" and her wisdom was clear as I quickly found that teaching became one of the greatest pleasures of my social work career.
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Originally, my idea was to just use a soundtrack i had used in a previous pico movie and try and do something totally different with it... which definately was challenging and im never doing again lol.
While I was at it I thought to myself why not mix interactive elements inside the movie, endurance type of 'games' where if you outlast it the movie continues if not then you are booted to a 'bad' ending. Thats where David aka TrueDarkness came into the mix and as a result you have this pseudo movie with game elements.. its an intruiging idea ill probably do in later movies at a grander scale. Major thanks to David for sharing in my vision and putting up with my crap.
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The auction initially started at $0.86, but has since caught fire. We assume the winner isn't actually going to pay hundreds of millions of dollars, but this is pretty fun nonetheless.
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Kendal Thompson announced Tuesday evening via Twitter his intention to graduate in May and transfer to another college football program, theoretically leaving him two years of eligibility because of special NCAA graduate transfer rules.
"Enjoyed the 3 years that I spent at OU and appreciate all the support and love that this program has shown me," Thompson tweeted. "But I believe that God has another path in store for me."
An OU spokesman declined to comment on Thompson's announcement.
Thompson, the son of former OU quarterback Charles Thompson, appeared in two games as a Sooner, both of which came during his just-completed redshirt sophomore season.
He competed with Knight and Blake Bell to become Oklahoma's starting quarterback last spring, but suffered a foot injury on the first day of fall camp. Knight initially won the job, but Bell took over after two games.
Bell started eight games, looking brilliant at times and struggling at others, leading many — Charles Thompson included — to publicly lobby for Kendal to get an opportunity.
When Bell left the Sooners' Nov. 16 home win over Iowa State with an early concussion, Knight took over the offense and led OU to a convincing victory. The Sooners led 41-10 with 6:42 remaining in the game when Thompson finally made his much-anticipated OU debut.
He completed a 44-yard pass to Lacoltan Bester, and four plays later, threw a 3-yard touchdown pass to Aaron Ripkowski.
Knight started the Sooners' season finale at Oklahoma State a few weeks later, but left with a shoulder injury late in the first half. Thompson replaced him to start the third quarter, but threw an ugly interception on the very first play from scrimmage.
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I think The Atlantic is the best publication around these days, and admire its thoughtful tackling of women's issues. Why Women Still Can't Have It All, that post by Anne-Marie Slaughter that got so many people talking? I loved it—so smart and well argued.
Of course, that post wasn't about me.
Not Wanting Kids Is Entirely Normal—the number-one post on Atlantic.com today—is about me. Except it's not.
When I saw the headline, I clicked right away. It's not every day that mainstream media publishes a positive story about being childfree. Though the first paragraphs put me off with horrible tales of child abandonment and comments by unhappy moms, soon came a statement I really loved:
American culture can't accept the reality of a woman who does not want to be a mother. It goes against everything we've been taught to think about women and how desperately they want babies. If we're to believe the media and pop culture, women—even teen girls—are forever desperate for a baby. It's our greatest desire.
Yes, I thought, yes. This needs to be said, over and over.
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The author, Jessica Valenti of Feministing, linked unwanted pregnancy to a lower quality of life in children, and concluded that we need better infrastructure—for parents:
If policymakers and people who care about children want to reduce the number of abandoned kids, they need to address the systemic issues: poverty, maternity leave, access to resources, and health care. We need to encourage women to demand more help from their partners, if they have them. In a way, that's the easier fix, because we know what we have to do there; the issues have been the same for years. The less-obvious hurdle is that of preparing parents emotionally and putting forward realistic images of parenthood and motherhood. There also needs to be some sort of acknowledgement that not everyone should parent—when parenting is a given, it's not fully considered or thought out, and it gives way too easily to parental ambivalence and unhappiness.
I agree with Valenti's point completely. I'm a pretty devoted advocate for better infrastructure for parents, and for realistic images of motherhood. One of the best things about working at BlogHer is the bloggers and parents writing their lives, showing motherhood in all its forms. It's truth-telling as game-changer; it's important, and it thrills me to be a part of it.
But this was suppposed to be a post about not wanting children.
I hit menopause at 25 years old. It's called premature ovarian failure (and believe me, there's nothing to make a woman feel like a woman like being called an "ovarian failure").
When I was diagnosed, I did my research, and came to the endocrinologist with medical concerns that ranged from the long-term effects of hormone replacement therapy to whether I was going to break a hip at Burning Man. My doctor came prepared to hold my hand while he broke the news that I couldn't bear children, refer me to a grief counselor, and tell me, "You never know: Miracles can happen with modern medicine."
Aside from spitting fury at my misogynist endocrinologist, I felt pretty lucky. This happened to me, and not to someone who expected to have kids. Tragedy averted. And aside from a few less-than-fabulous side effects of my condition (I likely spend on lube what I save on feminine hygiene), I rarely think about it.
I've never wanted children. I've known it forever. I'm an awesome aunt and a kick-ass babysitter. I would step up to raise the kids of my brother or best friend if something happened; I love them dearly and care about their well-being. And I'm sure I'd be decent at it. But that's not the life I choose for myself.
A woman's mid-20s is when people start getting nosy about when and how often and with whom she's planning to breed. "Do you have children?" and "How old are your kids?" become the icebreakers. And it's incredible what power the flat statement "I don't want children" can have to push buttons. I've seen it trigger everything from dismissiveness ("You'll change your mind when you're older") to defensiveness ("Don't you want the joys of motherhood?") to derisiveness ("I could never be so selfish!"). I've heard all of those, verbatim, from well-meaning friends and loved ones.
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EVERETT - As a young man, Paul Kenneth Keller volunteered through his church, visiting elderly shut-ins and comforting their families when they became ill or died.
As an adult, the same man pried off a window screen at a Seattle retirement home with 100 residents and set a $12,000 fire by holding a lighter to the empty bed of an 82-year-old resident.
These are the two sides of Paul Keller a Snohomish County judge will be asked to assess tomorrow. The sentencing of the confessed serial arsonist is expected to last two to three days.
County prosecutors say Keller is a terrorist who set at least 77 fires in four counties, indiscriminately burning down homes, churches and businesses in the worst serial-arson case in state history. They are asking for a 75-year prison sentence.
Keller's defense attorney, Royce Ferguson, is asking Judge Kathryn Trumbull to look into Keller's past to explain the crimes. He calls Keller a misunderstood man whose psychological problems, unleashed by alcohol and drug abuse, caused an upper middle-class professional to snap and destroy himself.
Keller's father, George, who turned his son in to investigators, now is organizing the drive to portray Paul Keller in a sympathetic light.
He mailed numerous letters to Keller's friends, family and clients, asking them to write to Trumbull and to a local newspaper to talk about their experience with Keller. Ferguson said the idea was to offset letters written by victims.
Access to Keller by the media has been controlled by Ferguson. He has allowed only two interviews, one with a free-lance producer who later sold hours of videotape to a Seattle television station and another with a local newspaper.
Keller won't do any more interviews because he doesn't want to appear to be "delighting in the limelight," Ferguson said.
With the focus on telling Keller's story, what's been lost is the impact of the fires on dozens of victims, some of whom are expected to speak tomorrow, prosecutors say.
"When somebody's house burns down and every single possession they had is gone, then to say it was only property does a real disservice to the victims," said Ellen Fair, one of two senior deputy prosecutors handling the case in Snohomish County.
"When we look at the videotapes (of Keller's confession), we don't see anything like remorse. At the very least he seems completely unfazed by it all," Fair said. "I think he's sorry he got caught."
But Ferguson said Keller "is not the Ted Bundy of arsons. He is not a sociopath."
Rather, Keller's life was marked by a series of traumatic episodes - from an untied umbilical cord at birth that nearly cost him his life to undiagnosed Attention Deficit Disorder - that Ferguson argues led to his later criminal activity.
Under the stress of bankruptcy and a failed marriage, Keller "disintegrated," Ferguson said.
Dr. Gary Grenell, a clinical psychologist who examined Keller, labeled him a pyromaniac. "Fire endowed the weak child, Paul Keller, with power," he wrote.
Keller told Grenell he did not enjoy setting the fires. "When I knew I had done them, I was sad, not excited. No joy. Just confusion or remorse. I thought, `There goes somebody's business.' "
Keller said in some cases he stayed behind to watch firefighters put out the fires because he was "interested in the methodology" of extinguishing them.
Keller said he was drunk and sometimes on drugs before setting each fire.
Fair said she questions whether alcohol or drugs played as much of a role as Keller claims. After his arrest, she said, he took investigators to many of the fire scenes, recalling in clear detail how and when he set each fire.
Another question Judge Trumbull will consider is whether Keller's condition is treatable. While prosecutors say he is too dangerous to be allowed back into society, Ferguson said a psychiatrist who examined Keller will testify during sentencing he could be successfully treated.
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"The question is whether he is an evil sociopath who should be put in (prison) forever or whether we should try to redeem him."
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Josephine Briggs, M.D., is the director of the NIH's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Jack Killen, M.D., is the center's deputy director.
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CME Group and GFI Group Terminate Merger Agreement
CME Group and GFI Group Terminate Merger Agreement
UPDATE: Why food prices won't fall as fast as gas prices
CME Group Announces the Launch of Cocoa Futures on CME Europe
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A faulty furnace is believed to be the cause of a fire in Plymouth Friday morning.The call came in around 7 a.m. from the Lower Detroit Road.The house was already up in flames when fire crews arrived.Assistant Fire Chief Arrin Farrar says they do not believe anyone was home at the time of the fire.Farrar says one firefighter was sent to the hospital, but he is unsure of the reason.He says the frigid temperatures always pose a challenge." Extremely cold conditions radios die. Hoses freeze up, water freezes. So we get many problems. The pumpers have froze up. They had to leave the scene and go back to the station."The Fire Marshal's Office is on scene investigating.
Folks gathered in Brewer Thursday night to light a special tree.In years past the Lights of Hope tree has stood outside Eastern Maine Medical Center.This year it's at the new Lafayette Family Cancer Center in Brewer.Each light is a tribute to loved ones whose lives have been touched by cancer.Family members and friends purchased the lights in their honor, with proceeds supporting patient services at the cancer center.Albert Messer and his late wife, Marge, both were treated at the old Cancer Care of Maine. He says the new facility gives everyone hope. "We talk about hope and goodness knows, we all have hope for something every day of our life," Albert told TV5 on Thursday. "If you give up hope, you've kind of given up. So, what a wonderful place to continue to have hope and once a year, I look forward to this."This year the Lights of Hope tree raised nearly $20,000 for technology and support services at Cancer Care of Maine.
Less than two weeks after Eaton Mountain owners announced they expected to open this month, plans have changed.David Beers and his wife bought Eaton Mountain ski area in Skowhegan a year ago with plans to redevelop it and open it for the 2009 – 2010 ski season.Beers says that won't happen now.He told TV5 that he recently found out that he wouldn't be able to use the existing electrical system for snowmaking and night skiing, and that bringing the mountain up to code would require a significant amount of money and time.
The Maine Center for Disease Control says four more people have died over the past week from swine flu, even as more vaccine became available.17 Mainers have died from the H1N1 virus since August. All had serious underlying health conditions.Doctor Dora Mills says the latest victims were from Androscoggin, Kennebec, Knox, and Oxford Counties.
Maine's Director of Health practiced what for months now she's been preaching: get the H1N1 vaccine if you're able to.On Thursday, Doctor Dora Mills was vaccinating people herself at a flu clinic in Augusta.The state now has more than five-hundred thousand doses of the H1N1 vaccine allowing anyone to walk into a public clinic like this one and get a shot.Some people have been waiting for months."For a real long time, matter of fact, I've been calling my doctor's office and they couldn't get it and I heard about this down here and came down here to get it," Said CDC Director Dr. Dora Mills. "It's nice to be able to get right in and get the shot done."For a list of upcoming public clinics, log on to www.maineflu.gov
The U.S. government announced Thursday the first 180-million dollars to be awarded in federal stimulus money to bring high speed Internet to rural areas across the country.Some of that money is coming to Maine. The U.S. Secretary of Commerce was at the University of Maine Thursday to spread the news. "Twenty-five and a half million dollars of that funding is coming right here to Maine."U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke says the stimulus funds are going to the Three-Ring Binder project, a plan to create a fiber optic network to bring high speed internet to rural and underserved areas of Maine."The project here in Maine is one of the signature projects. Because it is 1100 miles of fiber optic cable that's going to be installed. We know that results in jobs," Locke says.They say it will make broadband available to more than 110-thousand households, passing through 100 communities in the state, with impacts in business, education and healthcare."This collaborative project will level the playing field," says Rep. Mike Michaud.The 25 million dollar investment goes to a public-private partnership, led by Biddeford-based GWI and the University of Maine system."And you have all these internet companies who are lining up to then build out from this big ring, and branching out and connecting to individual doctor's offices, to businesses and homes. So everyone in the area is going to benefit," Locke says.The Secretary also visited Eastern Maine Medical Center, where they say broadband access is critical to their telemedicine program, since it connects them in real time to doctors in rural areas."We can look at the patient with them, while they're managing the patient, and contribute hopefully positively to the care of that patient," says Jonathan Wood, medical director of the pediatric intensive care unit. "This will make a difference. This is not fluff, this is real."Officials say they'll start building on the network this spring.The Three-Ring Binder project is one of 18 projects awarded money Thursday across the country. They're the first part of the government's 7.2 billion dollar plan to bring high-speed internet connections to rural areas throughout the country.
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The Maine Blood Center in Bangor is looking for some Holiday Heroes.Typically, the number of people who donate blood over the holidays goes down. so they're giving folks an extra incentive to give the gift of life this year.Folks who stop by Friday, December 18, will get either a Hannaford or Dunkin Donuts Gift Card.If you decide to donate Saturday, Monday or Tuesday, you can get all your gifts wrapped. Donor Recruiter, Heather Babcock says "They can bring in all their gifts and the Blood Center elves will wrap them up for them. No maximum amount of gifts, so bring a truckload.The Blood center is located at 992 Union Street in Bangor.Dunkin Donuts or Hannaford Gift CardFriday 8 AM – 2 PMFree Gift WrappingSaturday 8 AM – 2 PMMonday 11 AM – 7 PMTuesday 8 AM – 12 PM To be eligible for the gift card, make a blood donation tomorrow from eight in the morning until two in the afternoon.And if you want to get free gift wrapping, you can stop by Saturday 8 AM to 2 PM, Monday from 11 AM to 7 PM and Tuesday from 8 in the morning until noon.
It's cold right now, but that doesn't mean the ice is safe.The Maine Warden Service is urging people to stay off the ice on the state's waterways. They say there are no safe ice conditions anywhere in the state right now. The snow on the ice can act as an insulator slowing the freezing process.If you do venture out, make sure to check the thickness first, and go with a partner.
On Thursday parents, lawmakers, scientists, health professionals, as well as public health and environmental activists spoke out against toxic chemicals in consumer products and in favor of Maine's ground-breaking new law. They urged the BEP to adopt important new rules to get the law fully in place and underway, while offering warnings of chemical industry stall tactics designed to delay and derail the law from ever working as it was intended. In April 2008, the governor signed into law LD 2048, An Act to Protect Children's Health and the Environment from Toxic Chemicals in Toys and Children's Products. The bill requires Maine to adopt a list of chemicals of high concern already proven to be hazardous and name priority chemicals for immediate action, requires manufacturers to disclose use of priority chemicals in their products, and authorizes the state to require use of safer alternative chemicals whenever they are available and affordable.The American Chemistry Council says, "…replacing "priority chemicals" with so called "safer alternatives" is not always going to be feasible and not always the right choice." and that "…DEP's regulations present a "one size fits all" approach." Â
Eastern Maine Medical Center is being recognized for their continued support of employees who are also members of the National Guard and Reserve. At a ceremony this afternoon at their new Cancer Care facility in Brewer the hospital received the Pro Patria award.The award honors one business or organization per state who adopts policies that make things easier on for employees who are in the National Guard and Reserve.Major General Bill Libby was on hand at the ceremony and he says EMMC has gone above and beyond the call in helping their employees who serve their country. "They do the things that are required by law but as we said today this isn't about the law it's about what comes from here and I could talk to you about a thousand different things," says major General Libby, "it's just caring at the individual level about a fellow employee and caring in a manner that isn't required but caring in a manner that which isn't required but comes from the heart and comes from the spirit.Eastern Maine Medical Center had 11 employees that took extended leaves this past year to serve in the National Guard and Reserve.
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Its the last weekend before Christmas and already economists are predicting the worst shopping rush since 2004. According to a survey by the National Retail Federation the average person has done less then half of their Christmas shopping this year, and 19% of shoppers haven't even started. James McConnon Jr. Professor of Economics at the University of Maine says consumers hesitant about spending money. He says,"Consumers have been hesitant since the recessions has hit, and I think part of the reason why they are procrastinating is because they are waiting to get the best deals possible, and they're thinking that waiting till the last week or so that they'll get the best deal."But McConnon warns consumers should not wait too long. He says, "Get out there as early as you can and do your shopping, but realize that a lot of retailers out there have managed their inventories very carefully this season and they may be out of something that you had your eye on a couple of weeks ago."
A group of students at Eastern Maine Communnity College are getting a first hand look at what global manufacturing is all about. Charlie Whorton is an instructor at the Bangor based school and he wanted to give the students in his computer integrated machinery class a lesson in the real world of manufacturing. "The world of manufacturing is global so they need to work with people who don't understand the same language, the same jargon," says Whorton.Whorton's son teaches the same class only his classroom is in France. The Whorton's decided to have their students team up. "We did not want this effort to become the United States against France so we combined all of the students together and made 4 teams," says Wharton, "the teams are made up of American students and French students so we have red, white, blue, and black. Those are the common colors of our flags."The teams mission?. Design a tennis ball launcher. Team members in Bangor meet with their french teammates via video conference. Phillip Moulton is a student at EMCC. "It's a great experience," he says, "I've learned a lot about their culture. The different aspects of their lives and how they live it's very different from how we do things." Moulton will be heading to France in February for 10 weeks to study with his teammates while some French students will spend ten weeks here in Bangor. So when will the teams unveil their tennis ball launchers? "Probably the beginning of May at which time we're going to have a contest of which ball launcher launches the furthest and also an accuracy competition," says Wharton.Both instructors are hoping the students learn the value of global teamwork. Francois Ollier is one of the instructors who teaches engineering to the French students. She is here in Bangor visiting and says she hopes the students remain in touch after their project is over. "I hope they will keep the link the American teams," says ollier, "maybe visit them in America or maybe receive them in France. I think it would be interesting to see the link continue."
A 42-year-old former science teacher at Mount View Junior High in Thorndike is expected to go on trial on child pornography charges next month.Michael Douglas of Augusta is charged with two counts of possession of sexually explicit materials. Douglas allegedly viewed child porn on his school and home computers, resulting in charges in Waldo County and Kennebec County. Earlier this month, a judge agreed to hear both cases in one trial. Douglas has pleaded not guilty, though court paperwork says he admitted to police that he'd been downloading pornography on both computers for years.His case is set to be considered for trial the first week of January.
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The coat racks at Eastern Area Agency on Aging in Bangor are full – and staffers there hope people who are cold will take advantage of that. The agency collected dozens of gently used coats last month, cleaned them up and then offered them to folks in need. The coats are free to anyone who comes in.And we're told they still have plenty left to choose from. If you're interested in a coat or know someone who needs one, just stop by the agency on Essex Street, Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.The coats will be available in the front lobby until they're gone.
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Folks looking for a warm place to gather and a hot meal to enjoy on Christmas can head to Pittsfield. The Welcome Table – a program put on the First Universalist Church – will be serving lunch that day.Volunteers will also offer a bit of entertainment. The meal is free. It'll be served from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. You'll find the First Universalist Church at 6 Easy Street in Pittsfield.Volunteers will also be serving a similar meal on New Year's Day.
Nearly 500 soldiers from Maine scheduled to head to Iraq will now stay home. Major General John Libby, the head of the Maine National Guard, says the mission for the 133rd Engineer Combat Battalion has been canceled.He says the decision is based on the plan to draw down combat forces in Iraq.We're told the Department of Defense considered sending the unit to Afghanistan but there are already enough forces tagged for that mission.Libby is scheduled to talk more about the canceled deployment at a news conference this afternoon at Camp Keyes in Augusta.
On Thursday U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke is coming to the University of Maine to announce federal stimulus funding for the state.The Commerce Department says the stimulus money represents an investment to "improve economic opportunities in Maine's rural communities." The announcement comes on the heels of similar announcement of stimulus funding by Vice President Joe Biden in Georgia.It is expected to involve building broadband infastructure.
Maine's Attorney General is investigating allegations of price-fixing among some lobster dealers in the state.Spokeswoman Kate Simmons says the investigation is in the early stages and is expected to last several months.It was launched after the office received a letter signed by more than 50 lobstermen seeking a probe into the conduct of lobster dealers.Investigators are focusing on whether lobster dealers violated the state's commerce and trade laws.The probe comes as lobstermen continue to suffer from low prices brought on by the recession.
20 people will be losing their jobs after a business in Rockland announced it was shutting down.Oak Island Seafood has been around for 14 years, but now they've decided to close their doors.U.S. Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins say they are sad to hear the news.They add that representatives from their state offices have reached out to city officials to offer assistance.