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Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Connecticut has a central energy plant which provides electricity, heating and cooling for the main passenger terminals at the airport. The facility has been in operation since 2002 and features four Waukesha engine-generators. The engines were supplied by Dresser Waukesha's distributor Kraft Power Corporation of Woburn, Mass. Byproduct waste heat is used for heating and to power a 500-ton Trane single-stage hot water absorption chiller, which supplies chilled water year round for the airport. Two years ago the facility started the process to add the fourth engine, a Waukesha APG2000, rated at 1.9 MWe output natural gas-fired internal combustion engine (IC) and heat recovery hot water boiler. 800°F exhaust from the new engine and 1200°F exhaust heat from the existing IC engines is used to generate 220°F hot water used by the airport. This cogeneration plant was constructed in one year, within an existing building originally used for food preparation by the airlines. (Download Brochure: PDF)
A reliable power supply is critical to the Bristol-Myers Squibb facility in Wallingford, Connecticut. The pharmaceutical research and development conducted in this facility requires a consistent environment. Temperature, humidity, and ventilation must be closely controlled, so any interruptions in utility service can be harmful and costly. Energy consumption is significant at this one million square foot facility, which operates 24 hours a day.
In 1998, a combined heat and power system with a 4.7 MW natural gas-fired turbine was installed to generate energy on-site. This system is now operated continuously and provides most of the facility's electricity and thermal energy.
Using the CHP system along with supplemental electricity from the utility and on-site boilers and backup generators has provided the high power quality necessary for this facility. (Download Brochure: PDF)
Several years ago the 294-acre campus of Central Connecticut State University was experiencing problems with its aging infrastructure. The University's steam heating system, installed in 1950s-60s, was outdated and inefficient, as well as undersized for a campus that has seen significant growth and is continuing to expand. Buried steam pipes often ruptured, requiring costly repairs and disrupting pedestrian traffic. Few buildings on campus had air conditioning, and most that did had trouble with noise from the equipment. (Download Brochure: PDF)
Colby, a liberal arts college in Maine, was chartered in 1813, making it the 12th-oldest independent liberal arts college in the nation. In 1998, an ice storm that knocked out power at several other Maine colleges spared Colby, but gave the people at Colby's steam plant pause.
In the winter of 1996, Colby performed a feasibility study that predicted a 560 kW turbine would carry a simple payback of 2.3 years at a cost of $353,000. Colby could generate its own electricity, reduce its demand and consumption from the local electric utility, and be able to keep running in a power outage. Libby said the college also hoped to reduce its electric rates. (Download Brochure: PDF)
Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, MA is a 600,000 square-foot hospital with 140 in-patient beds that has been in operation for 125 years. The facility has a central energy plant which provides electricity, heat and cooling for the hospital campus. The hospital facility has a 12 month consistent heat load for heating, absorption chilled water, food preparation and centralized sterilization. Cooley Dickinson has operated a Zurn - 550 HP biomass boiler with wet scrubber emissions control since 1984. In 2006, an AFS - 600 HP Water/Fire Tube high pressure boiler was installed. To take advantage of the higher pressure steam supply, two 250KW Carrier Energent Micro Steam Turbines and a 680 Ton Absorption Chiller were added to the energy plant in 2009. One of the turbines reduces the steam pressure from 250 psig to 75 psig for distribution thought the hospital. The second turbine reduces the steam pressure from 75 psig to 15 psig for use in the absorption chiller. (Download Brochure: PDF)
Until 2003, the Essex Junction wastewater treatment facility used half the waste methane gas produced by its anaerobic digester to fire the boiler that heated the digester. (Anaerobic digestion stabilizes wastewater sludge, reduces sludge volume, and eliminates pathogens.) The remaining waste methane gas was flared, because methane is a greenhouse gas that is 20 times as effective at trapping heat as carbon dioxide, the gas produced when methane is burned.
Although facility officials had been interested in combined heat and power since 1992, high initial costs failed to satisfy the requirement of the facility's governing board, that all projects have a simple payback of no more than seven years. Furthermore, it was unclear whether sufficient digester temperatures could be maintained when methane was used to fire a CHP system. The system was also required to emit no more pollutants than flaring methane did. (Download Brochure: PDF)
The two major components of PepsiCo's Frito-Lay Killingly, Connecticut manufacturing facility's CHP system consists of a Solar Centaur® 50 gas turbine and a supplementary-fired heat-recovery steam-generator (HRSG) from Rentech Boiler Systems, Inc., of Abilene, Texas. The Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) uses the exhaust heat from the gas turbine to produce 325 psig steam used to heat the oil in the chip fryers, through a shell and tube heat exchanger. The two fryers use 24,000 #/hr steam each. The heat exhausted by the fryers is captured and used for space heating. The HRSG produces up to 60,000 lb/hr steam at peak firing capability. The GT's SoLo NOx dry, low-emissions combustion system, together with the SCR incorporated into the HRSG, limit NOx emissions to 2.5 ppm. The HRSG is capable of producing. (Download Brochure: PDF)
Coffee roasting is an energy intensive process in which reliable power is critical. The coffee beans are brought to a very high temperature approaching flash point, and if power is lost during that process they can go exothermic and cause a fire. To ensure a reliable electricity supply, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters installed a CHP system in 1999 at their corporate headquarters and main processing facility in Waterbury, VT. They were particularly motivated by the possibility of power outages associated with Y2K.
Then in 2003, when the larger roasting equipment was being upgraded, a new, larger CHP system was installed. This 280 kW 480 volt system uses a Waukesha engine to provide approximately 25% of the electricity and most of the heat and hot water required by the facility. (Download Brochure: PDF)
Harbec Plastics, founded by Bob Bechtold in 1977, is a custom-injection molder that services customers from a wide range of industries including original equipment manufacturers in the automotive, medical, office products and sporting goods sectors.
Faced with rising energy costs in the 1990s and frequent energy problems like power outages and surges, which had cost the company over fifteen thousand dollars in damaged equipment in one month alone, Bechtold had to make a choice: run more efficiently or pack up and leave New York like many of his industrial neighbors. He chose to stay and in doing so he found a way to thrive. He hired Bruce Keeley of Energy Concepts Engineering and went to work re-vamping his entire facility. (Download Brochure: PDF)
Late in 2003, Carol Smith, the Facilities Director at the Notre Dame Long Term Care Center, had just noticed how high the electricity bills were getting when marketing information from Sustainable Energy Solutions Inc. caught her eye. She responded to learn more about how combined heat and power could reduce their energy costs.
By March 2004, a CHP system had been installed in the 123-bed long-term care facility. That was followed in May 2004 by another system in the adjoining assisted living facility, which houses 200 people.
Each building has a 75 kW natural gasfired engine that is run continuously. These provide 75% of the electricity used on site, and the hot water output is enough to satisfy all of the facility's domestic hot water demand and much of the space heating. (Download Brochure: PDF)
Greater Rochester International Airport (GRIA) is located four miles southwest of Rochester, NY on the west side of the city and operated by Monroe County. The terminal totals 380,000 sq. ft., with 22 passenger gates. The county strives to maximize the benefits it provides local taxpayers. Reducing energy costs is one of many ways the county seeks to fulfill that goal. At GRIA this was achieved by installing two 750 kW engine-generators that produce about 90% of the site's electricity. (Download Brochure: PDF)
The Seaman Paper Company of Massachusetts is a historic mill complex originally constructed in the late 1800s. The numerous connected buildings contain a gross floor space of 80,000 ft2. The facility operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with shutdowns only on major holidays. The facility uses two paper machines with a capacity of up to 100 tons per day to produce a variety of flat tissue papers. Most are used for decorative purposes, but some are waxed and used for food handling. At the time of the project the mill was using an average of 1.7 million gallons of #6 fuel oil and 25.5 MWh of electricity per year. (Download Brochure: PDF)
Simonds International's facility in Fitchburg, Massachusetts was constructed in 1935 and primarily manufactures metal blades for band saws from steel coils. Simonds is the third-largest metal cutting manufacturer in the world. Simonds installed combined heat and power (CHP) in 2011 for a project cost of $6.5 million and an estimated 4.5-year payback. Construction was completed in 15 months.
"The installation of the CHP co-generation system at our Fitchburg, MA plant has changed our competitive cost position dramatically enabling the company to retain energy intensive manufacturing operations and to consider adding new operations in the future. The project is a win-win as it is good for the company, our employees and the economic health of North Central Massachusetts." Ray Martino President & CEO Simonds International (Download Brochure: PDF)
The new Smith College Cogeneration Plant is housed in an existing central power plant. Its power process systems include a Solar Centaur® 40 combustion gas turbine, a Rentech heat recovery steam generator, a 65,000-lb/hr low-emissions packaged boiler, new control room and auxiliary equipment. The Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) uses the exhaust heat from the gas turbine to produce steam for campus heating in the winter and chilled water production in the summer using steam absorption in addition to existing electrically driven chillers. Two existing 55,000-lb/hr, oil/gasfired, packaged Keystone boilers, provide backup and additional steam capacity to meet campus demand. A 10- inch main steam transmission line connects the plant to the 110 buildings on campus through 5 miles of underground piping. When the gas turbine is generating power at its full 3.5 MW capacity, the HRSG is capable of producing 20,000 lb/hr of 125 psig steam. (Download Brochure: PDF)
Smithfield Gardens, a 56-unit affordable assisted-living facility in Seymour, CT, installed a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) system in the boiler room during the construction phase of the building. The energy-saving cogeneration system consists of a 75 kW Aegen 75LE CHP module, supplied and installed by Aegis Energy Services, of Holyoke, MA. The highly efficient Aegen 75LE module employs an oil cooler, engine jacket, exhaust gas manifolds and heat exchangers, in order to recover otherwise wasted heat. (Download Brochure: PDF)
South Oaks Hospital on Long Island installed a combined heat and power system in 1990 to reduce energy costs. The system had a simple payback of less than five years, and continues to generate almost all of their energy needs. The current operating cost is just 6 to 8 cents per kWh, compared to the cost of approximately 12 cents per kWh for electricity purchased from the utility.
This 350,000 square foot hospital contains a psychiatric hospital, a nursing home, and an assisted living facility. The system generates up to 100% of the hospital's electricity, with the utility providing backup power and on-site boilers providing supplemental steam. Steam output from the system is used for space heating, space cooling, domestic hot water, laundry, and the kitchen. (Download Brochure: PDF)
Located in upstate New York, Syracuse University was chartered in 1870 as a private, coeducational institution of higher education.
The University's $12.4 million, 12,000-square-foot Green Data Center facility consists of 6,000 square feet infrastructure space for mechanical and electrical equipment to run the building, and 6,000 square feet of primary raised-floor data center space for computers system. In 2009 Syracuse University installed twelve 65 kW Capstone micro-turbines and one 300 ton absorption chiller.
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The new UMASS Central Heating Plant is housed in a 45,000 square foot building. Its power systems include a 10 MW Solar combustion gas turbine, 4 MW and 2 MW steam turbines, a heat recovery steam generator, three package boilers and various auxiliary equipment. A 100,000 lb/hr Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) uses the exhaust heat from the gas turbine to produce steam for campus heating and cooling year-round. Three package boilers, each rated up to 125,000 pounds per hour steam, provide additional steam capacity to meet campus demand in the spring, fall, and winter months. Two 20-inch main steam transmission lines connect the new plant to the campus. When the gas turbine is generating power at its full 10 MW capacity, the HRSG is capable of producing 37,000 lb/hr without any additional firing. Additional duct burners increase the capacity to the full 100,000 lbs/hr rating. (Download Brochure: PDF)
Waldbaum's Supermarket (a subsidiary of A&P Foods) is located in Hauppauge, NY on Long Island. This supermarket was originally a 35,000-sq. ft. retail facility. It was gutted to the block walls, expanded, and totally rebuilt into a 57,000-sq. ft. supermarket which opened in July 2002. The store uses energy-efficient T5 light fixtures, so the load in the sales area is about 1.2 watts per square foot. The facility electric demand is never expected to drop below 200 kW in this store. The 480-volt power generated by the microturbine is wired directly into the store's 480-volt main panel. This Capstone 60 kW microturbine CHP system was integrated in July 2002 with a 20,000-cfm Munters Drycool air-handling unit previously installed at Waldbaum's in order to use the available heat from the generator. The Munters unit provides cooling and heating to the main sales areas of the store. The unit also includes a desiccant section to provide dehumidification. (Download Brochure: PDF)
Williams College, located in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, was established in 1793 and now has 2,000 students. The college's central heating plant operates throughout the school year to provide space heating and domestic hot water for the 450 acre campus and process heat for the dining hall.
In 2000, the college began planning to upgrade the heating plant with the addition of a new boiler. Motivated by predictions of increasing electric rates, they decided to incorporate the boiler into a combined heat and power system that would generate electricity as well as steam. Installation of the new boiler and CHP system was completed in 2004. (Download Brochure: PDF)
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Orthodox Christian Social Action, Abp. Iakovos & Martin Luther King, Jr.
By Charles Ajalat
Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be commemorated, January 18, the day of our first FOCUS North America Board of Directors meeting for 2010. It is a good time to remember the role the Orthodox Church has played in society from the beginning, including American society through today. It is a role that must increase dramatically as we act out the mission of Christ's Church.
The Orthodox Church, in imitation of its Lord, has been involved in social action from the very beginning, helping the poor, the sick and those in need and trying to bring justice to those who suffered injustice. Our Lord taught us: "A new commandment I give unto you: that you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another" (John 13:34-35; cf. James 4:11). This command has always been followed by faithful Christians, whether in the first, third, fourth or twentieth or twenty-first centuries. In the third century, for example, Christians earned respect and admiration as they, at the risk of their own lives, consoled the dying and buried the dead from the pestilences that struck Carthage and Alexandria even while the pagans abandoned their friends to their terrible fate. In the fourth century, St. Basil the Great created charitable institutions while following the commands of our Lord and teaching his faithful how critical it is to love all our neighbors, particularly those in need.
Fast forwarding to the 20th century, we see the Orthodox Church, even in the United States where Orthodox Christianity has not yet come to be widely seen as indigenous ,stand with the poor and those to whom justice has been denied. Perhaps the most graphic image of this role of the Orthodox Church in the past century is the March 26, 1965, Life Magazine cover showing Archbishop Iakovos marching with Martin Luther King and others in bereavement of the martyred white man, Reverend James Reeb, in Selma, Alabama. As the Life Magazine Cover headlined the event: Selma was a "Historic Turning Point for the Negro's cause." The Orthodox Church, through our friend and dynamic leader, Archbishop Iakovos, was there at this historic juncture.
Archbishop Iakovos, I am proud to say, was a friend of mine and one with whom I worked together with in founding IOCC, in making the Mission Center into OCMC, in the work of SCOBA, in organizing the first conference of bishops in Ligonier, Pennsylvania; in creating a SCOBA Task Force to create a Common English Translation of the Liturgy and in many other activities. I visited His Eminence in his home in New York after his retirement and before his death on April 10, 2005. He was a visionary, dynamic leader of Orthodox Christians. He was also courageous in the face of wrong, as the story of Selma reveals.
Our friend, Al Raboteau (he and his wife Julia as part of Emmaus House in New York City were part of the formation of FOCUS North America), described what happened in Selma (Dallas County, Alabama) in a lecture at Fordham University on April 4, 2006. The issue was the denial, in effect, of the right to vote by African-Americans. Wikipedia (which may or may not be reliable) reports that of the 15000 blacks in Dallas County of an age eligible to vote (57% of the voting population), there were only 130 registered African-American voters. Wikipedia also reports that 80% of African-Americans in the County lived below the poverty line.
On February 17, Alabama state troopers attacked marchers, and shot and killed 26 year old African-American, Jimmie Lee Jackson. In response Southern Christian Leadership Conference leaders planned a march from Selma to Montgomery, a distance of fifty-four miles. They were met by a large contingent of Alabama State troopers and local police with tear gas and billy clubs in what became known as "Bloody Sunday," causing outrage across the nation. A nation-wide call for religious and civic leaders to participate in another March was called.
In that March, the marchers retreated when the state troopers and police forces again confronted them. They waited at Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church until the courts decided the legality of the march to Montgomery. That night Reeb, a 38- year -old white Unitarian minister, and two other Unitarian ministers were attacked by three white men outside a Klu Klux Klan hangout. Reeb suffered a massive concussion and died, causing a national uproar, whose death President Lyndon Johnson called an "American tragedy." Archbishop Iakovos, after linking arms with other religious leaders and singing, "We shall overcome" spoke in Selma as part of the group of religious and civic leaders that had come to support Martin Luther King. He said, in part, "Our [Orthodox] Church has never hesitated to fight, when it felt it must, for the rights of mankind; and many of our Churchmen have been in the forefront of these battles time and again….Let [Reeb's] martyrdom be an inspiration and a reminder to us that there are times when we must risk everything, including life itself, for those basic American ideals of freedom, justice and equality."
As reported by Raboteau, Archbishop Iakovos told King's biographer, Taylor Branch, that he had decided to go to Selma "against the advice of his clergy and staff, who worried correctly that he would be called traitor to the quest of marginalized Greeks for full acceptance as Americans. Not a single member of the Orthodox community, he reported, appeared for scheduled events at his next stop, and he found himself alone in a Charleston hotel room."
As Archbishop Iakovos felt the need to be present to protest the injustice of not having all Americans be able to vote, we too as North Americans need to be present and with the 6 million people (not to mention their families) who have become unemployed in the last 12 months;, the 1 in 50 children that experience homelessness and the tens of millions of North Americans who do not have enough food, while the rest of us have plenty.
Please join us through FOCUS North America, in the tradition of the Orthodox Church, to help those of our neighbors in need, whether facing poverty, unemployment, sickness, homelessness or injustice. Serve, Volunteer, Donate. May God bless you and say to you for your faith witnessed by your actions, "Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." (Matt 25: 34)

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By: Brittany Paris
If you want to go to the P!NK concert at the new Pinnacle Bank Arena, but haven't gotten your ticket yet, you might be out of luck.
The concert is essentially sold out, with only single tickets remaining. And it only took ten minutes.
The good news is this likely means bigger names will be coming to Lincoln.
Tom Lorenz, General Manager, said this shows the arena belongs in Lincoln, and shows artists they belong here too.
"It shows that the town is supportive," Lorenz said. "It talks back to the promoters and artists that Lincoln is a terrific town to bring their shows to."
By the time all tickets are sold, just over 14,000 people will be at the concert. Lorenz said by looking at zip codes, he knows people all over Nebraska and surrounding states bought tickets.
But he also said there is no magic secret to scoring one. Lorenz said when on TicketMaster, keep refreshing the site. And if you're on the phone, don't hang up.
Even though the arena is unfinished, it's still on track to be done by late August, early September.
And on November 9th, P!NK will be here for our entertainment, bringing 15 to 20 trucks worth of production.
"It's really a performance, more of a spectacular," Lorenz said. "There was some question of would people come here and buy the tickets and I think we put some of that to rest today."
The first official concert at the arena is scheduled for September 13th. The new Haymarket arena will announce the artist of that show in April. And another show will be announced in May.
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The Jets forgot to pack their 'A' game with them to Denver, as turnovers and sloppy play had them trailing 17-10 to the Broncos heading into the fourth quarter. Their leaders on both sides of the ball, QB Mark Sanchez and CB Darrelle Revis, had poor afternoons, as one threw two interceptions and the other was beaten for a long touchdown. After their Monday-night win in Week Five and a cross-country flight to the Rockies, this had all the makings of a letdown game.
Thankfully for Gang Green, LaDainian Tomlinson had no letdown. The star running back, who has re-emerged as an elite player since coming to the Jets in the offseason, scored two fourth-quarter touchdowns, the second one coming with just 1:13 remaining. The Broncos had one final chance to come back, but an errant snap gave the ball back to the Jets, who took a knee and escaped with a 24-20 win to improve to 5-1.
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Rex Ryan has the reputation of being a player's coach, and the title is well-deserved. In training camp, Ryan held daily competitions to see which non-QB could throw the farthest pass, which non-kicker could boot the longest field goal, which non-skill position player could catch the most punts, etc. He tells reporters all the time how good his players are, putting a bulls eye on their back that the coach knows can be backed up on the field. Ryan is even giving his players an entire week off for their bye — no practice or meetings until Oct. 25.
In exchange for the fun, the hype and the rest comes hard work. Jets players seem to want to win for their head coach, a compliment that can't be given to every team. A lot of squads would have given up if they had been in the same situation New York was, trailing in the fourth quarter in a tough road environment on a short week. It's understandable. But the Jets kept fighting and pulled out another win, one that could make the difference between an AFC wild-card game and another bye come playoff time.
Ryan's father, Buddy, was the same way when he coached. As coordinator and then as head coach of the Eagles and Cardinals, players swore by Buddy Ryan. When Chicago won the Super Bowl following the 1985 season, a group of players carried head coach Mike Ditka on their shoulders, while a separate group carried Ryan. No assistant before or since has received that honor.
The Jets' 5-1 record comes from a lot of hard work from a group of really talented players. But that hard work and talent is magnified when the players are giving maximum effort. Rex Ryan has sold his players on the theory that they can beat anybody in the league and that they are worthy of being champions. On Sunday in Denver, the team showed the coach that statement is true.


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By James Niedzinski
Staff Writer
---- — MANCHESTER — Voters in Manchester will no longer have to choose between "paper or plastic" after July 1.
Residents approved a ban on markets' and other stores' distribution of single-use plastic bags Tuesday night during a busy second and final night of Manchester's Annual Town Meeting at Memorial Elementary School.
Article 25, which passed by acclamation and without a roll call vote, effectively bans the use of thin filmed plastic bags, commonly found at convenience stores, grocery stores and pharmacies.
Proponents of the article who spoke Tuesday night had cited the negative effect bags have on the environment, marine life and the significant amount of barrels of oil used to make the bags. Opponents noted the cost to local businesses — most notably Crosby's supermarket — as well as the significant amount of trees used to make paper bags, one alternative to the plastic bag.
Crosby officials had previously said costs would likely go up if the ban passed and may also remove the recycling area from the Manchester store.
Officials from Crosby's Marketplace did not return calls placed by the Times on Wednesday.
Residents on both sides of the ban were vocal Tuesday night.
Jim Starkey, a Tucks Point Road resident and former member of the town's Harbor Advisory Committee, said he had conducted informal research and found that plastic bags were not a significant source of pollution on town beaches, though there was littering on Singing Beach.
Others disputed the exact amount of marine life that dies from plastic bag ingestion.
Thomas Kehoe, the only member of the Board of Selectmen who voted not to recommend the article, said environmental concerns were valid, but a ban on plastic bags is a step in the wrong direction.
"I agree with the proponents, but I disagree with the method that is being used," he said.
Opponents have said they would have preferred to work with supporters to lessen the number of bags, rather than ban them altogether.
Supporters of the article said the ban would help marine life as well as Manchester for generations to come.
"It's 2013, it's time to get serious about environmentalism," Susan Purser said Tuesday night.
Around town on Wednesday, resident Peter Canny said he recognizes the harmful affects bags have on the environment and that the ban is a positive step.
Diana Moloney, originally from England, said the ban was a good move.
Jessica Lamothe, Chairman of the Manchester Coastal Stream Team and supporter of the ban, said she recognizes that the ban is not a cure all for environmental problems, but a step in the right direction.
In other Town Meeting action, voters Tuesday night also chose to revise the town's bylaw regarding what has long been a polarizing issue — the dates for which dogs should be allowed on beaches throughout town.
The initial article as written, would have allowed dogs on beaches for seven months instead of five months, with the current law banning dogs from Manchester's sands from April 1 to Oct. 31.
But Susan Thorne, chairing the Board of Selectmen, proposed an amendment to the article recommending that the ban be eased to a six-month time frame, from April 15 to Oct. 15, and voters gave the amended version their approval on a vote of 184-96. The revised bylaw also takes effect July 1.
Thorne noted this was the third time a bylaw change was proposed within 10 years. Opponents of allowing dogs on the beach longer cited waste left behind by dogs as a health concern; the article was not recommended by the Board of Health.
Hope Watt-Bucci, who also sits on the Animal Control Board, said there have been several incidences where dogs have attacked other dogs, while unrestrained dogs have also bitten people on town beaches, she added. She said the discussion should be moved away from the amount of time dogs are on the beach and instead focus on how dogs can be better controlled while there.
Selectmen Paul Barclay said the issue is only about what is fair.
"Nobody gets more than anyone else," he said. "I don't want to see this back here in two years."
Among other approved articles, residents also approved a feasibility study of the Central Street Culvert, and a study of space utilization and energy efficiency for the fire station.
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Federal prosecutors say Aracoma Contracting LLC structured hundreds of cash withdrawals from the Bank of Mingo to avoid bank reporting requirements and avoid paying employment taxes, an Aug. 14 information states.
The information filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia accused Aracoma of structuring transactions in increments of $10,000 or less to evade reporting requirements.
Prosecutors say from January 2009 through April 2012, Aracoma — which is an employee-leasing company providing contract labor services to West Virginia coal mining operations — would contact Bank of Mingo employees before withdrawing money, telling employees how much they wanted to withdraw and who would be coming to the Williamson location to get the money.
The information continues, asserting Bank of Mingo employees would provide Aracoma cash in the amount that had been requested, which sometimes totaled more than $10,000.
Prosecutors say Bank of Mingo employees failed to file a currency transaction report, which violated U.S. Code, "allowing defendant Aracoma's pattern of structuring activity to not be reported to the Internal Revenue Service, as required by law," the information states.
The information asserts Aracoma used the money to pay employees in cash to avoid employment taxes and also used the money to bribe a BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Company employee.
The information sought Aracoma Contracting to forfeit $405,000 to the government.


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Three Suns land on NBA All-Star ballot
A trio of Phoenix Suns are on the ballot for the 2013 NBA All-Star Game, which will be played in Houston, TX on February 17, 2013.
Goran Dragic, Luis Scola and Marcin Gortat are three of 120 players -- 60 from each conference -- who are on the ballot.
Fans will be able to vote via social networking sites Twitter and Facebook, as well as through text messaging and turning in ballots at NBA games.
The top vote getters will start the game.
Balloting is scheduled to conclude on January 14, and the game's starters will be announced live on TNT on January 17.
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The Sinclair Broadcast Group is hosting a Michigan-wide Town Hall regarding Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. We will explore the causes, symptoms, who it effects and treatment. The Town Hall will be held at Milliken Auditorium on the campus of Northwestern Michigan College on Thursday, August 28th at 8pm. Seats are first come, first serve. Doors open at 7pm. The 90 minute Town Hall will be streamed live on Upnorthlive.com and our Sinclair sister stations in Flint, Kalamazoo/Grand Rapids and Marquette.
Dr. Jonathan Shay
For 20 years Jonathan Shay was a staff psychiatrist at the Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic, Boston, where his only patients were combat veterans with severe psychological injuries. He retired from clinical work in May, 2008 to devote himself full time to preventive psychiatry in military organizations"what he calls his "missionary work." He is the author of Achilles in Vietnam: Combating Trauma and the Undoing of Character (1994) and of Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming (2002). He has been a MacArthur Fellow since January. He has written and lectured on a variety of topics relating to veterans for decades and held a variety of positions with US military institutions.
Linda Fletcher
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The Defra consultation on metering in areas of serious water stress will certainly raise the awareness of compulsory metering as a water resource management tool. It is a welcome step forward.
It is difficult to think of a less efficient or sensible basis for water companies to extend metering than the current arrangements which include sneaking into homes on completion day, or waiting to be informed by a householder who has installed a swimming pool!
A more streamlined and strategic process is a good thing. The fundamental test of cost-effectiveness will still need to be met. Metering Consultation pdf
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed SB 736, the so-called "Student Success Act" on March 24, 2011, at a school in Jacksonville. See how Scott's first bill-signing aligns with the 59 campaign promises we're tracking on the Scott-O-Meter.
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Richmond, VA—The Colonial Heights community is rallying behind a little girl who's been in and out of the hospital since undergoing a liver transplant at the age of four.
Mya Santini, 7, is an active little girl with big hopes and dreams of conquering the odds and becoming a singer.
And little Mya has already conquered big odds, successfully undergoing a liver transplant after being diagnosed with acute live failure.
"She needed the transplant and needed it very quickly because most of her liver was gone at that point," said Bridget Santini, Mya's mother.
Mya's mother was a perfect match, so on her 35th birthday, she gave her daughter the give of life.
"My husband Roger had to stay with her the first day after the transplant, and to me that was probably the hardest thing ever— not being able to be there, and he was alone," said Bridget Santini.
After successfully undergoing a live transplant, Mya still has numerous doctors' visits, which can be costly.
That's where the Colonial Heights community is stepping in, coming together to help pay Mya's medical expenses by hosting benefits.
A benefit, called The Homerun Derby, will be held April 5 at 7 p.m. at Colonial Height High School. A fundraiser and softball tournament will be held April 6th and 7th at Lakeview Fields and Colonial Heights High School field.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Taking sides in a cultural battle, some of the nation's top artists -- including Mandy Moore, the Dixie Chicks and Dolly Parton -- have contributed to a CD that benefits the nation's largest homosexual activist organization.
All of the proceeds from the CD, "Love Rocks," will go to the Human Rights Campaign -- a homosexual activist organization that has figured prominently in the push to legalize same-sex "marriage" nationwide and works to promote "lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights."
The two-disk CD set -- which is being released just in time for Valentine's Day -- features some 30 artists, including Yoko Ono, who sings "Every Man Has a Man." Other top artists are Christina Aguilera, Emmylou Harris, Pink and Carole King.
An HRC press release called the CD "groundbreaking." It was produced in a partnership between HRC and Centaur Entertainment.
Moore, who in 2002 starred in a movie ("A Walk to Remember") targeted to Christian teens, said she is glad to be a part of the project.
Humankind has its problems, but love isnt one of them, Moore, who sings "I Feel the Earth Move," said in a statement.
When two people -- regardless of gender -- long to care for each other, to protect each other, to treasure each other, we should do everything we can to foster that. Im proud to be part of this album, which does just that.
A statement by the Human Rights Campaign said the artists came together to "celebrate love and commitment regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity."
But Focus on the Family's Melissa Fryrear, a former lesbian, said the CD's use of the word "love" is deceptive.
"'Love' is one of the Trojan horses for the acceptance of homosexuality," Fryrear, a gender issues analyst, said in an e-mail to Baptist Press. "Gay activists are trying to find an argument that carries emotional weight: 'love,' after all, sounds good to everyone.
"The problem, though, is their definition of 'love' is carefully camouflaged to mean more than Cupid ever meant it to mean. Their definition is meant to mean the acceptance and the celebration of homosexuality."
Apparently, the battle over same-sex "marriage" influenced at least some of the artists.
"My generation knows that if two people are fortunate enough to fall in love, they should be protected equally under the law," Moore told Rolling Stone.
Ono agreed.
I just think its a human rights issue, Ono told Rolling Stone. The Constitution of this country is based on human rights and justice and freedom.... For [politicians] to say, OK, were going to change the Constitution so the gays cant get married, I think it is outrageous.... I just immediately started to feel that it was important to send that message out that anybody can fall in love regardless of the difference of religion, or race, or sex, or age. Love is love. Its beautiful.
Fryrear said that Christians should take note of the policies the Human Rights Campaign promotes.
"HRC is about more than simply promoting "love," Fryrear said. "As the most aggressive pro-gay lobby organization today, HRC is about accepting, promoting, and encouraging homosexuality combined with silencing any disagreeing opinion."
The artists that participated, Fryrear, deserve criticism.
"This is another example of celebrities using their platforms to promote the liberal ideological agenda that equates homosexuality with heterosexuality," she said.
The complete lineup of artists contributing to the CD follows: Christina Aguilera, Pink, Simply Red, Dixie Chicks, Nada Surf, Dido, Jen Foster, the Bootlickers, L.P., Sophie B. Hawkins, Keaton Simons, Rachael Yamagata, Matt Alber, Kinnie Starr, Eric Hinman, Carole King, Mandy Moore, Melissa Etheridge, the B-52's, Cyndi Lauper, Kimberley Locke, Yoko Ono, BT, Dave Koz, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Garrin Benfield, Ari Gold, Jason and deMarco, Randi Driscoll, Billy Porter and Oleta Adams.
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Ohio Department of Education asks students to submit video about education experience
Every student wishes they had a say in the learning process. From what's taught to how it's taught to why it's taught -- young minds want to play a role in their own education.
A new video project promoted by the Ohio Department of Education is giving our best and brightest, the future of our country, a chance to do just that.
The education department's Office of Race to the Top wants every student to submit a video sharing their unique school experiences. Students are asked to create a 55-second video that responds to one of the following questions (or series of questions):
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5. How has a teacher helped you understand the connection between what you are learning in school and the job you want to have when you grow up?
Officials from the Ohio Department of Education are encouraging teachers and parents to support student participation.
"The videos will be used to celebrate the voice of our students – our most precious resource!" according to a statement from the department.
More than 2,300 educators from around that state will have a chance to hear the "voice of our students" at Ohio's Annual Statewide Education Conference , which will be held Oct. 28-29 in Columbus, Ohio.
The videos are part of the conference's goal to teach various innovative models and promising practices to teachers across the state, according to a release from the conference. Many of those techniques and styles are being used in some of Ohio's Race to the Top districts and community schools.
The goal of the Race to the Top program is to help mold the transformation of Ohio's education system, according to the Ohio Department of Education's website .
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Here are updated Trint Jenkins football highlights from his senior season at Victory Christian in Tulsa. Trint is, of course, The 6'9 UTEP offensive tackle commit. Note that the highlights I posted previously were from his junior season. Also, If you have a son or daughter who needs a highlight video made, I'd be sure to check out Silver Light Productions- heck of a job on this one. Trint Jenkins (UTEP Football Commit) Senior Highlights (courtesy of Street Light Productions) (via MinerRush10)
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The Tulsa World is reporting that UTEP is the first FBS school to offer Tulsa (OK) Victory Christian offensive tackle prospect Trint Jenkins. Jenkins is a 6'9, 317 pound prospect who is starting to receive heightened interest from FBS programs as signing day approaches. Here is a link to Jenkins Rivals Page.
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The Dead Space 2 Competition
"In Dead Space 2 gamers take on the identity of Engineer Isaac Clarke as they battle a terrifying Necromorph alien infestation in "The Sprawl", a new massive city consumed by extraterrestrial parasites. Players must do whatever it takes to survive the city and its new inhabitants by dismembering each of the infested standing in their way. In their arsenal of defenses players can create devastating explosions, turn limbs into deadly weapons of destruction, set off trip mines, and unleash the power of telekinesis against their enemies. Players can also spread the outbreak online for the first time, destroying friends and unlocking new weapons as a human, or a Necromorph in an all-new multiplayer mode."Thanks to Electronic Arts Australia, AusGamers has five copies of the PC version of Dead Space 2 to give away and if that's not enough, the first four winners will also receive a replica model of the game's Plasma Cutter weapon that has been personally autographed by Visceral Games Producer Shereif Fattouh.
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On the back of a mixed bag of results in Bishopscourt where the sun shined, the rain poured and I unfortunately witnessed a beautiful Lancia roll at an arms distance from me in the pit lane which put my head in a bad place for race 2, I was rather tentative as the Abrakebabra Formula Ford Festival rolled into town for the weekend. We had done some... [Read more...]


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In city emails obtained through an open records request, KCTV5 News discovered former Grandview Mayor Steve Dennis writing about his need to resign and concerns about spending a year in prison.
One portion of the email from Dennis to an architect he was corresponding with about a development project said, "Didn't go well at all on Monday....I will need to resign as Mayor as soon as tomorrow..."
In another section, Dennis wrote, "Please pray for the family...I'm not sure how we're going to make it financially when I'm gone for a year to PRISON (never thought I'd be saying that about myself). I'm just hoping to wake up from this 'nightmare!'"
The emails were written on Jan. 9. Dennis submitted his letter of resignation on Jan. 10.
"What I read in the emails was news to me, so I'm learning about it as you learn about it apparently," said John Gall, the special council for the city of Grandview.
It is unknown exactly why the mayor quit his job. However, at least two different aldermen said they'd been questioned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation about Dennis' charity.
"Being sort of understanding of what's happened in the last week, it gives a little more explanation of why he's resigned," said Brent Steeno, Ward 1 alderman, who was one of the members questioned by the FBI.
Steeno and another alderman claim they were wrongly listed as officers on the board of Dennis' charity. Last year they wrote letters to the Secretary of State's Office against Dennis, saying they were not involved, leading to the federal investigation.
"From my standpoint and Alderman [John] Maloney's standpoint, I feel very confident going forward," Steeno said.
It's the same expression used by the newly appointed Interim Mayor Leonard Jones Jr., who declined comment on Dennis' emails.
"We've got a great board of aldermen, great city staff, so it's time to just move forward and start doing the things that should be done," Jones said.
During a Jan. 14 board of Aldermen meeting, former alderman Tony Preyer spoke up in defense of Dennis during public comment.
"The story is a political witch hunt which has destroyed an awesome man," he said. "Unfortunately, federal law enforcement was used, and they are happy to nail a politician because it is great for advancement in the agency."
Dennis has served more than 13 years in elected office, the last three as Grandview's mayor. In order to keep his mayoral position, Jones will have to run for his seat in a special election that will be held in April.
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After hosting a handful of inspiring speakers, the Mary L. Seifert Cultural Series "The Realities of Race" is getting a bit more interactive with The Neighborhood Game, scheduled for 7 to 8:30 p.m. March 26 in the multi-purpose room of Gemmell Student Complex. The Neighborhood Game is a simulation designed to get participants talking about issues of race. This event is free and open to the public.
Led by Clarion sociology professor Jane Walsh and members of her fall 2012 Race and Ethnic Relations course, The Neighborhood Game is designed to expose color-blind racism, with a specific focus on the concepts of inequality and privilege. Color-blindness promotes the invisibility of race, relying on the notion that the world is free of race issues. Detractors of color-blindness state, however, that this notion is a myth, and that not "seeing" race in today's world can lead to more covert forms of racism.
The Neighborhood Game invites those attending to take part in a 45-minute construction phase, followed by a 30-minute debrief. The activity was designed by Kathleen Bulger Gray, assistant professor of sociology at Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina. Walsh was trained as a Neighborhood Game facilitator and has led the game at Duquesne University, the University of Pittsburgh, Carlow University, and most recently at Clarion University with students in two of her fall 2012 courses.
"One of the biggest challenges for both faculty and students in the classroom is to engage in critical and thoughtful discussions about race," Walsh said. The Neighborhood Game, she indicated, is a way of advancing that conversation.
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It is almost impossible to just listen to the Red Sox.
If it is not Johnny Pesky night, it is a celebration of a past winning team.
Knee-jerk applause greets lumbering memories as everything is made golden with a sort of saint-halo religious tint.
A kind of self-adoration takes over from 'just play ball.'
A game played for money is doused with sprays of holiness by high-priest announcers.
A double-play is divine, a home run proof of the presence of God.
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From Captain Lawrence Brewing Company to Kykuit, from Playland to the Pleasantville Farmers' Market—Westchester County is looking to promote its popular destinations as tourist attractions this fall.
"In Westchester County, the tourism industry is $1.7 billion," Westchester County Executive Astorino revealed at a press conference today. "It is very significant to the economy of Westchester County—24,000 jobs are supported by tourism here in Westchester."
Speaking to a crowd at non-profit farm Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture, Astorino and Westchester County Director of Tourism and Film Natasha Caputo unveiled "Falltastic Favorite Escapes" compiled by the County Executive, Stone Barns, resident and Desperate Housewives' Vanessa Williams, the Headless Horseman and other "notable" county residents.
"Who better to act as tour guides than those who know the best places and the hidden gems in each of our towns?" Astorino said of the campaign that is meant to "tell people about all the great things there are to see and do in Westchester County.
"And fall may be really one of the best times to visit Westchester," he added.
The initiative is part of the "Meet Me in Westchester" campaign and allows visitors to view and compile their own Westchester-based itineraries online.
Astorino's family-friendly itinerary includes destinations like Playland, the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, Muscott Farm in Katonah and the Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze in Croton.
Vanessa Williams picks featured Le Jardin Du Roi in Chappaqua, Pleasantville's Fox Hill Farms and Blue Hill at Stone Barns.
"There is a lot to love about this county, so it was not an easy task for us to whittle it down to a one-day itinerary," said Mara Flanagan, Stone Barns' marketing and communications manager.
She recommended visitors check out the Pleasantville Farmers' Market to pick up some fresh snacks to enjoy before a hike at Rockefeller State Park Preserve.
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When he took office, Senator Brown promised that he would be an independent thinker and that he would protect Massachusetts.
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Katy Koontz was 38 and the mother of an active 4-year-old girl when her doctor delivered some upsetting news. The Knoxville, Tennessee, mom -- whose period inexplicably never came back after the birth of her daughter -- was in early menopause. Concerned about the rapid bone loss that occurs when a woman's period stops, her doctor referred Koontz for a bone-density test. "I thought it was weird that I was in menopause, but I didn't expect anything unusual because I had always been healthy," says Koontz, who regularly walked five miles per day. When she learned a few days later that she had severe osteoporosis -- bones so brittle that they could easily fracture -- she was horrified. "My doctor said she had last seen bones like mine in an 83-year-old," recalls Koontz, now 46. Overnight Koontz's life changed dramatically. A lifelong skier, she had to give up the sport for fear of having a bone-shattering fall. Ditto for ice-skating and sledding with her daughter, Sam. "I suddenly felt old and fragile," says Koontz.
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