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The newly anointed head coach at Penn State received a verbal commitment from 6-foot-3, 185-pound wing Akosa Maduegbunam. The Boston Globe confirmed the news.
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Maduegbunam played his sophomore season at Ashburnham (Mass.) Cushing Academy. Then he averaged 22.3 points a game at Charleston (Mass.) High as a junior. He will finish his high school career at Winchendon (Mass.) Academy.
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Williston Jones, the founder of Coe College, was a man of great conviction. His passion for education led him to Daniel Coe, a New York farmer, who donated the funds necessary to purchase the land that made Coe College a reality. From its inception in 1851, Coe College has admitted men and women on an equal basis. In addition, these founding fathers and other members of the original board of trustees were early advocates of equal rights and education for all individuals, regardless of gender, race or ethnicity.
The Williston Jones Scholarship Program seeks to further their legacy of enriching the educational experience by inclusion of a wide range of voices. Williston Jones Scholarships exist for a variety of our prospective student populations.
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Playwright: William Shakespeare
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Two sets of twins, ten tons of trouble—The Comedy of Errors is the ultimate in mistaken identity. Aaron Posner returns to Cal Shakes for the first time since directing one of the most-loved productions in our recent history, 2009's A Midsummer Night's Dream, to crank up the hilarity and uncover fresh truths in one of the master's cleverest comedies.Tickets and info: (510) 548-9666; calshakes.orgCaption: Danny Scheie. Photo courtesy California Shakespeare Theater.
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text: Overall gross margin increased to $2,051,000, or 19% of revenue, for this year's third quarter compared to $809,000, or 22% of revenue, for the third quarter of fiscal 2009, and $960,000, or 16% of revenue for the second quarter of 2010. "The gains in testing segment revenue and gross margin contributed significantly to the increase in overall gross margin. This increase was partially offset by low margins in our solar and fabrication businesses, as we compete to gain share in these new markets. This was the anticipated short-term consequence of our strategy to grow our company for the long term. We expect the profitability of our new businesses to improve over time," Yong said."Increased volume in our core semiconductor testing equipment and services businesses is a welcome development, and we are encouraged by the positive trends we see in the electronics industry worldwide. At the same time, our strategy to add new sources of revenue is beginning to generate the incremental growth we anticipated. We believe that PT SHI Indonesia is well positioned to benefit from growth in the Indonesian oil and gas industry and that TT Solar gives us a meaningful toe-hold in the emerging green energy business in Singapore," Yong said. For the nine months ended March 31, 2010, revenue increased 54% to $24,054,000 compared to $15,667,000 for the first nine months of fiscal 2009. The net loss from continuing operations for this year's first nine months was $1,231,000, or $0.38 per share. This compares to a net loss from continuing operations for the first nine months of fiscal 2009 of $843,000, or $0.27 per share. At March 31, 2010, Trio-Tech reported cash and cash equivalents, restricted term deposits and short-term deposits of $8,939,000 ($2.77 per outstanding share), working capital of $7,198,000, and shareholders' equity of $19,168,000 ($5.94 per outstanding share). At June 30, 2009, cash and cash equivalents, restricted term deposits and short-term deposits were $11,468,000 ($3.55 per outstanding share), working capital was $9,302,000, and shareholders' equity was $19,864,000 ($6.16 per outstanding share).


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Funeral services will be held 3 p.m. Sunday, April 13 in the Bryant Chapel of Lebanon's First United Methodist Church for Mr. Spencer, 84, of Lebanon. Born in Batesville, Arkansas, and a former pilot in the US Air Force, he died Tuesday, April 8, 2014.
A graduate of the University of Arkansas, he served as the chairman of the Southern Pulp and Paper Safety Association and was a Regional Vice President of the American Society of Safety Engineers.
Visitation will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, with service to follow. The family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Lebanon First United Methodist Church or to the St. Jude Children's Hospital.
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No, not the guy they call White Chocolate, and not the guy who lost his career to a motorcyle accident before it even started.Ā It's the guy who blasted his limo driver with a shotgun and then lied about it.
NEW YORK — Former NBA star Jayson Williams is set to answer drunken-driving charges from a hospital following the crash of his SUV into a tree near a New York City highway.
Williams was due to be arraigned Thursday via video link from Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital. He's being treated for a minor bone fracture in his neck and other injuries from Tuesday's wreck.
Police say Williams appeared to have been drinking but refused a breath test. They say he denied he was driving even though no one else was in the SUV.
Did you catch that last part?Ā Williams denied that he was driving even though there was no one else in the car.Ā I guess if you have experience obstructing justice in the past, you know that the first rule is to just deny everything.Ā If you can apply that method to shooting a guy, it should definitely work for some small-time shit like drunk driving.
Seriously, though, you would think that this guy would be a bit more careful after his prior run-ins with the law.Ā But I guess when you look like Sinbad or a genie summoned from a magic lamp, you expect that people are going to give you the benefit of the doubt.


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My email is firstname.lastname@example.com.
I recently had a problem with NSISdl, version 1.3, when downloading with a redirected file that has a space in the redirection. IIS does not escape the redirection, not sure about apache, it is up to NSISdl to escape the new url for any redirection. I have attached a new httpget.cpp file that has the corrected change surrounded by // ESCAPE REDIRECTION.
I apologize as I cannot give an example of mine for this. The idea is when www.whatever.com/folder/file%20test.txt is redirected to foo.whatever.com/folder/file test.txt, the download fails as a bad request because in the packet there is a space rather than %20 for the redirected url, next to "Location: ".
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Using InternetCanonicalizeUrl is not a good enough solution as it requires Internet Explorer to be installed in order to function and so will make NSISdl not work on all the versions of Windows it currently works on.
I understand why it is not a good enough solution. However, this is still a problem as redirection in this case doesn't work. Is anyone working to resolve this problem, even if it is canonicalized manually? I looked in the forums and couldn't find anyone with the same problem. For my purposes, I have switched InternetCanonicalizeUrl to UrlCanonicalize, which uses shlwapi. This again is not a universal solution, but I would definitely like to see a universal solution, so I don't have to check for changes in NSISdl.
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PUPILS from Stratton School in Cirencester will be busy decorating a special hare over the next few weeks, which has been sponsored by Stratton Post Office and Abbey Way Services, as part of the town's Hare Festival.
Led by local mosaic artist Jo Moreman, who has studios at Cirencester's New Brewery Arts, pupils from every year group at Stratton School have already been hard at work pulling their creative thoughts together ahead of the actual effort that will go into applying the mosaic itself.
Jo explains: "The pupils have done some lovely drawings of things that remind them of Stratton. I think this will be the first hare to truly tell a story of the local community."
Stratton church, post office, play group, horticultural society and the petrol station are all likely to feature on the finished hare mosaic.
So far the hare has green mosaic legs, which represent Stratton Meadows, and the school's Reception class have designed fish to 'swim' along an illustration of the River Churn which will meander from the base of the hare up around its belly. The head of the hare will feature bunting and blue sky.
Kim Lafford-Taylor, manageress of Stratton Post Office and Stores, said: "The children's designs are really lovely and I can't wait to see the hare when it's finished."
Mike Hughes, head of Stratton School, said: "It is super that the children have the chance to take part in this Cirencester team project and also come to see all the elements that make Stratton a very special community. Thank you to Abbey Road Garage and Stratton Stores for giving us the opportunity."
When complete the Stratton hare will sit proudly outside Stratton Post Office and Stores, visible to everyone who walks or drives along the Cheltenham Road throughout the summer months.
Festival organiser, Florence Beetlestone said: "The March Hare Festival is about the youth of today and it is great to have another local school involved. We now have over forty hares for families to go and find."


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This is what poverty sometimes looks like in the United States: parents here in Appalachian hill country pulling their children out of literacy classes. Moms and dads fear that if kids learn to read, they are less likely to qualify for a monthly check for having an intellectual disability.
Many people in hillside mobile homes here are poor and desperate, and a $698 monthly check per child from the Supplemental Security Income program goes a long way - and those checks continue until the child turns 18.
"The kids get taken out of the program because the parents are going to lose the check," said Billie Oaks, who runs a literacy program here in Breathitt County, a poor part of Kentucky. "It's heartbreaking."
This is painful for a liberal to admit, but conservatives have a point when they suggest that America's safety net can sometimes entangle people in a soul-crushing dependency. Our poverty programs do rescue many people, but other times they backfire.
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In the clutter of my partially underground room I ponder what it means to be a fan of Nintendo. Out of the corner of my eye I can see what once was: my old Nintendo Gamecube, with a couple of Dungeons and Dragons dice sitting on top of the dusty black box. Over my shoulder is what is today: my aging Nintendo Wii, which is not far from my brother's PS2, on the other side of the entertainment center. Being a poor, 21 year old college student, only the bulbous gray and black, sub-par definition television can portray my gaming needs, which have steadily strayed from the console to my PC, which has been slowly upgrading year by year. I can only think to myself of what will come next. I take the time to recall some of my fondest Nintendo moments.
Ever since my childhood, I have been fixed on Nintendo. Of course, being a youngster compared to many Nintendo gamers out there, who speak fondly of the first time they played the original Legend of Zelda, or Mario Bros.; my first experience, that I can recall, came on the Super Nintendo at family gatherings, where I fell in love with Super Mario World. I became obsessed with it--despite not being very good at it. I would always ask my relatives to pick the beaten file so I could go to star road and beat the level with the spinning blocks over and over again (hopefully you know what I'm talking about).
But my parents never owned a SNES, or if they did, they probably got rid of it out of frustration. So I was pretty much left to play Desktop Adventures on our old Dos machine--or seeing my dad work his way through a game of civilization I or the original Sim City. One faithful holiday season, I had impulsively asked my parents for Gameboy, without even knowing what it was. I had heard my brother mention it in passing, yet I had absolutely no idea how it worked, or if I would even like it. Luckily I kept this to myself, because on Christmas morning I unwrapped perhaps one of the best Christmas gifts I have ever received to this day. And the first game I had to play on it: Pocket Bomberman. Boy was that game hard! I played that game nonstop--which eventually worried my parents so much, I was limited to play only a single hour a day.
From that moment onward, I was officially hooked into Nintendo. One of my all time favorite franchises was born on the Gameboy: Pokemon. From there, after watching my friend running around in Super Mario 64, I was dead-set on buying an N64. I don't know how many times I walked the dog for pocket change; but I think that my parents were proud that I was working hard for a goal. Both me and my brother wanted that thing, and by golly, we were going to get it. It was on the N64 that I made bonds with Nintendo's storied characters--in a completely different light than what the Gameboy had to offer.Certainly, I spent plenty of time running around the magical world of Link's Awakening, or trying to catch 'em all in my Pokemon Blue version; but the N64 showed me, like so many others, the possibilities of it's 3d environments.
Some of my fondest moments of my childhood can be associated with playing a Nintendo game. Whether I was exploring the hidden secrets of Ocarina of Time, or racing my friends in Mario Kart, or dying horribly frustrating deaths thanks to Lakitu in Mario 64; Nintendo's 3rd console introduced me to their world, and I could only want more. I remember battling in Super Smash bros. for the first time, yes, that was a great time. I think I nearly pissed my pants every time someone picked up the hammer, and that catchy ditty would play as Link or Mario would run around like a madman trying to smash everyone else. Or feeling very sad at the end of Ocarina of Time as the credits began to roll.
After a while, the N64 era was coming to an end. The same was true for the Gameboy, though one of the greatest sequels of all time had come out for it in Pokemon Gold and Silver [I remember sitting in a Barnes and Noble, and stumbling across a guide for the game before it was even released! The screen shots were all in Japanese, and I remember lamely telling my brother "You can talk to trees!" and I have a very bad way of describing things]. I was going through middle school, and I didn't know much about the internet. The only time I'd know if a new console was coming out, or a new game, was if I saw someone playing it at school, or at home. Back then, I didn't know anything about reviews, if the box looked interesting, or if it was from a movie I would consider buying it [or in those days my Mom would buy it for me]. So during my early junior high days my friend had gotten a Gamecube. It looked absolutely incredible. I remember spending hours and hours at his house playing some of the greatest games of all time (in my opinion at least). Unlike the vast majority of Nintendo fans I've come across, or heard about, the Gamecube to me was by far the best console Nintendo has released to date.
How could anyone argue otherwise? Mini-discs might have prevented the Gamecube from recieving much from 3rd party developers; and with Microsoft entering the mix with it's own console in the Xbox, and Sony's legendary Ps2 peaking in that era, it can be easy to say from the outside looking in that Nintendo's Gamecube was a dark time. But for gamers like me, it was a dream come true. While the idea of spraying goop with a powered up squirt gun might seem quirky, Mario Sunshine was an absolute joy, and a wonderful iteration in the Mario Series. Though we'll never know what those Pianta's did to the water to make Yoshi disintegrate, the new environment was a welcome change. And while in my mind Pokemon Gold was the best sequel of all time, Super Smash Bros. Melee has to be a close second. I can't imagine playing a console game more than we did SSBM.
It was in this era of gaming, that with the Gameboy advance, and the Nintendo Gamecube, that I got behind my first Metroid game. It was also the first time I got into Fire Emblem (thanks to the inclusion of Roy and Marth in Super Smash Bros.). In fact, most of my top rated games of all time came on the Gamecube, such as Tales of Symphonia (though it was also released for the Play Station 2). I remember going to Target to buy our Gamecube. The cashier informed us that there was a special deal going on, and that if we bought the Gamecube, we could get a couple of games to go with it. Naturally we had to get Super Smash Bros., and then without knowing much about Metroid, we also got Prime to accompany it. There are so many great games, and great experiences that I had with the Gamecube and Gameboy Advance, I could fill an entire book on it.
While the N64 introduced to me Nintendo's possibilities, and the Gamecube followed it up brilliantly, I was quickly approaching the here and now. Of course, I never limited myself to just Nintendo games. Most of my friends played Xbox, and I had one for a while as well, in till I foolishly sold it to acquire a Super Nintendo (which later became obsolete with the Virtual console). But I played my fair share of Halo and Halo 2 via lan parties. But shooters were never to my liking; considering my obsession with Pokemon and Fire Emblem, I was an RPG/Adventure gamer, who was always eagerly awaiting the next Zelda game, or the next Metroid. I didn't think Nintendo could go wrong. When the next generation of consoles were on their way out, I knew that I was going to buy a Wii someday.
I had heard about the virtual console, and of course, I had heard about the motion controls, but I thought that it would be a great system. I was never big on good graphics, and I couldn't imagine myself playing a system that didn't have an upcoming Zelda, Mario, or Metroid. I had become obsessed with the media, watching E3 online, or checking websites for the latest news. I never cared for people who bashed Nintendo, calling it a system for kids. I didn't like the mentality that if you don't kill someone, (with a gun usually), then it's not really an adult game. I disliked shooters, and so I thought I would be content by getting a Wii, with the vague promise that the games wouldn't rely too heavily on motion controls.
Like most people who bought a Wii, I had a fine time playing Wii Sports with my friends. That lasted for a month at most. Almost all of the people I had enjoyed games with up to this point, had quickly jumped off, and were now busy playing Xbox360 (most of my friends didn't care about Ps3, whether it was because of the price, or the fact that most 3rd party content was shared with the 360). But I stayed true. I had become vehemently opposed to the Xbox. And while admittedly the prospect of the Ps3 interested me, I never got near enough money to play it. But the Wii was the first console I bought, that didn't supply me with the same zeal as it's predecessors. The Gamecube was amazing for it's sequel mania, and I was hoping that the Wii would naturally fulfill that role once more. I knew that Nintendo was expanding it's market to draw more people in. But in looking at the DS, which I loved, I didn't think that the Wii would be affected so much.
I didn't buy Mario 64 for the Ds, or Metroid Prime Hunters (due to the repetitiveness of the former, and the controls of the latter). But I reasoned with myself, trying my best to claim that the Wii would have a great lineup before the end. Metroid Prime 3 was a joy to play, though it took me a while to get used to the controls, by the end I was thoroughly excited to aim with the Wiimote pointing at the screen. I remember buying Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn on release, and playing through that incredibly long game filled the void for a while. It was sad that the game wasn't mentioned often in the top ten, while games like Super Mario Galaxy were roaring with high scores across the board. To this day, I still have yet to play Super Mario Galaxy, and many people may find that absolutely ridiculous. Though by this time I had a job, and was more than willing to buy games, I felt uneasy throwing money down on a game that people were saying was a bit too easy.
The only other game that I was highly anticipated for the Wii had to be Super Smash Bros. brawl. What I didn't realize at the time was, the hype for Brawl didn't last. The internet functionality was the opposite of competitive, and the style was slower than Melee. There weren't very many opprotunities for me to play Brawl with my friends because most of them were too busy playing Call of Duty, or other second rate fighting games. (I have had to defend Smash Bros. multiple times against those who claim it is childish compared to other games such as Soul Caliber or Street Fighter. The learning curve for Brawl, I've found, is much steeper than it is for Soul Caliber IV, for example. But that's a story for another blog).
According to many people, I am unfit to judge the Wii. To most Nintendo fans, I am just as villainous as the Sony Fan-boys when it comes to ridicule. I can only shake my head and say that the Wii did not deliver an outstanding experience. Yet I haven't touched either Mario Galaxies, nor have I played Donkey Kong Country Returns, or Skyward Sword; some of the Wii's highest rated and celebrated games, I haven't even played! How could I possibly say the Wii was a step backwards for Nintendo? When I sit down to play a game, what do I want? What is it that I'm hoping to obtain? I have more Virtual games than I do Wii games--and considering how much I spent playing Super Mario 64 (with almost four 120 star files), I am beginning to think that I have died inside as a gamer. I am only living in the shadow of what once. But it goes against reason. Why didn't I give other games a chance this time around?
You may hate me even more for this, but one of the biggest reasons my Nintendo faith began to falter was Metroid Other M. While I do like Samus having a voice, it fits her strong willed, pure of heart character perfectly, post-traumatic stress Samus does not make me happy. One could argue that the story telling element of Other M was a breath of fresh air, but to me the story was just a recycled prequel to Metroid Fusion. And it certainly didn't help that Samus was dancing around enemies like some kind of acrobatic ninja (thanks a lot Team Ninja). This greatly contrasted with Retro's vision of the silent heroine, not just in character, but also in style and execution. I was extremely pissed off during the parts in the game where I had to scan the most minute details (and playing on a low definition TV didn't help), to move the story along. The Deleter never did much after a while, and as tear provoking as Adam's departure was, I was too enraged that he didn't let me use my Varia Suit in the heated zone in till halfway through the area [because activating my Varia Suit was really going to endanger the habitat]. I personally gave it a 6/10, despite how much I disliked the game, I enjoyed the visual cut scenes and Samus should have a voice. And to the dismay of many fans, Kraid did not make a reappearance, as far as I can tell [yet Phantoon did. How many Phantoon fans are there anyway? How the hell did he get out there? I'll never know. Maybe it was him who put the toxic fertilizer in Delfino's water].
That was the first time that a flagship series from Nintendo disappointed me to the point where I became tepid in my game buying decisions. Should I buy the remade version of Golden Eye when Nintendo doesn't have a decent online network? Should I really get Donkey Kong Country Returns, even though the control scheme is suspect? Now that I am a college student, buying games can't be an impulse decision. I have to carefully plan my budget in order to get a game, and I like to own my games, not rent them. Perhaps someday, in the future, I will play some of the Wii's greatest, and then pass my unbiased judgment on the console.
But where do I go from here? Considering my stance on the Wii, I have to wonder if console gaming in the right path for me. With the advent of Steam, and my side love of PC games, I have to wonder if going solo on the computer is the way of my gaming future. I don't have a 3Ds, and I've all but given up on my Wii now that the Wii U is set to launch this holiday season. A lot of my favorite Nintendo franchises seem to be moving away from my favor. Just when I was about to pull the plug on Nintendo something at last year's E3 caught my attention. Naturally, it occurred during the presentation of the Wii U which I was cautiously curious about. Granted it was just a demo, that HD Zelda preview had got me thinking. Nintendo has always been a step behind, but a brilliant window of opportunity has suddenly appeared.
I was never a fan of gimmicky controls, but this iPad like controller has got me wondering. Are the hardcore games I've been seeking about to return? Ever since Tales of Symphonia II crushed my soul into many pieces, I've been waiting for a new Tales to come to North America. With the promise of an online network that will function like the PSN and Xbox live, I have become glued to the news ever since. But I will carefully tread along this path. The days of Pikmin sleepovers, hiding my Gameboy under my pillow from my parents, drinking excessive amounts of coffee while sprite collecting in Sunshine, are sadly over. It's no longer easy to round up a bunch of friends to race in Mario Kart, or to jump through a Mario game, but the future is bright.
After all this thinking, I have to nod in agreement. Yes, I am a fan of Nintendo. I am glad that I have stuck with them this far. My blood boils whenever I am confronted with a gamer of a different tribe, promoting their system over mine. I may not be the most devout, but in my opinion, Nintendo has been the best in the business, and in till the day they cease to exist, I think I will blindly, albeit critically, follow them to that end.


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Does spirituality help in coping with cancer?
- Question from Leigh W: Does spirituality/faith/religion, or whatever you want to call it, help people deal with cancer? Any research on that, or your own experience?
- Answers - David Spiegel I think I haven't seen many well-conducted studies that prove the point. It is pretty clear that people who feel socially supported do better. That people who are not hopeless, helpless and despairing do better, and to the extent that faith provides you support, I would think it would be helpful. I don't think faith and religion are medical interventions. They are personal choices people make and they should be respected for that alone, rather than evidence that they add to chemotherapy. Some people find the process of prayer itself comforting and relaxing. They enter into some kind of an altered state or find a way of containing their fears and anxiety by working their concerns into a period of prayer. I think like many other things, support groups, it's helpful to have a ceremony that helps to contain your distress because you deal with the distress during that period and can turn it off for awhile and concentrate on something else.
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Calcutta/Sydney: Swing bowling all-rounder Gary Gilmour, who played 15 Tests for Australia between 1973 and 1977 and was one of the stars of the inaugural World Cup in 1975, died on Tuesday at the age of 62.
Cricket officials said Gilmour battled health problems for several years and complications escalated after a recent fall.
The left-armed Gilmour had figures of 6/14 against England in the 1975 World Cup semi-final. The then 23-year-old also claimed 5/48 in the final, which Australia lost to the West Indies.
Gilmour underwent a liver transplant in 2005, when his former captain Ian Chappell led a number of former teammates in raising money for the operation.
He is survived by his wife, Helen, two sons and a daughter.
A Cricket Australia, in media release, paid tribute to Gilmour.
To highlight Gilmour's quality as an all-rounder, the media release included a quote from former captain Greg Chappell, who in the early 1980s had said: "Nobody had more talent than that bloke — as much as Garry Sobers."


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A $923 million solar farm will be built in the western NSW town of Moree with funding from the federal and NSW governments and industry after the tender for the national solar flagships program was announced on Saturday.
Building works on the project would begin in the second half of 2012, creating up to 400 full-time jobs over five years of construction, the NSW government said.
The completed 150-megawatt solar farm is expected to generate more than 400 gigawatt hours of electricity a year, enough to power 45,000 houses.
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Mr Humphries said the proposed solar farm would be " the largest of its type, I am advised, in the world".
The NSW government also announced yesterday a second solar summit would be held on July 1 to discuss a fair price for solar-generated electricity and ideal levels of solar investment. To be held at the Newcastle Institute for Energy and Resources, the summit will involve government, industry and energy experts, plus consumer and environment groups.
The first summit, held last month, heard evidence that the solar bonus scheme introduced by the previous NSW Labor government subsidised rich households at the expense of low-income earners.
The issue has dogged the O'Farrell government, which has grappled with how to wind back a popular scheme whose 60¢ a kilowatt hour rebate was found to be unsustainable.
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The summit will also consider peak load management to reduce costs and energy consumption, and renewable energy investment.
The government underlined the importance of working with industry and private investment on solar energy.
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