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Conn. nuke plant to seek higher hot water limit
Feb. 18, 2013
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut's nuclear plant is preparing to ask federal regulators for permission to use water that's even warmer than the temperature that forced it to shut a unit last August.
Regulators were cool to at least two other suggestions by Millstone Power Station in Waterford to operate with rising water temperatures, according to emails among Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials obtained by The Associated Press through an open records request.
One of the plant's two operating units was forced to shut down for nearly two weeks last year because the water in the Long Island Sound was warmer than the limit of 75 degrees that's in place to keep the plant operating safely. The partial shutdown at Millstone was the first in the United States to be caused by rising water temperatures, and the head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has asked for a review of climate change impacts on nuclear plants nationwide.
Nuclear plants require large amounts of water to cool equipment and buildings, and federal regulators impose water temperature limits so plants are safely cooled even with water temperatures that are warmer than normal.
Millstone provides half of all power in Connecticut and 12 percent in New England. Its two units produce 2,100 megawatts of electricity, which shrunk 40 percent with its unit down.
As the temperatures rose in the hottest July on record, Millstone, a subsidiary of Dominion Resources Inc., proposed a number of options to get around the temperature requirement. The other Millstone unit, which reaches deeper into the sound, remained open.
The NRC gave Millstone permission to use an average of readings, which brought the measurement down but not enough to avoid the shutdown. Temperatures in the sound were on average 1.7 degrees above the limit.
Millstone also discussed with regulators the possibility of using equipment that more precisely measures water temperature to push the margins out by a few tenths of a degree, according to emails. NRC said that was not a long-term solution.
The plant also discussed whether it could use the average temperature method the entire summer. Regulators "seemed less than enthusiastic" about that prospect, wrote Josephine Ambrosini, an NRC inspector.
"We were pursuing several different avenues at that time," Millstone spokesman Ken Holt said. "We really started to see the ramp-up in temperature and recognized there was the potential to take the unit offline."
Millstone is preparing to ask to operate with water at 80 degrees. Holt did not have details on the data being gathered, but Ambrosini told colleagues in an email that the request is expected in the spring at the earliest.
Other nuclear plants have received permission to operate at higher water temperatures, said Diane Screnci, a spokeswoman at the NRC. Millstone will have to "provide a lot of calculations" demonstrating that safety-related equipment could operate with water at higher temperatures, she said.
Weather patterns such as the mild winter in 2011-2012 and little wind that keeps heat in on Long Island Sound were to blame for the unusually warm water, Robert Wilson, a professor at Stony Brook University's School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, said over the summer.
James O'Donnell, a professor of marine sciences at the University of Connecticut, said Long Island Sound water temperatures in the winter of 2012 ranged from nearly 48 degrees in January to about 40 degrees at the end of February.
In contrast, water temperatures this winter have been cooler, ranging from about 44 degrees in January to about 36 degrees this month. O'Donnell characterized it as a normal winter, which could lead to a cooler Long Island Sound this summer than in 2012.
The timing of the shutdown couldn't have been worse, because demand for power is typically highest in summer as businesses and homes rely on air conditioning.
"You want to be there providing electricity when people are using it the most," Holt said.
The partial nuclear plant shutdown due to excessively warm water was a first, said NRC spokesman Neil Sheehan. Chairwoman Allison Macfarlane has asked the agency's staff to look at impacts of climate change on nuclear plants, though it's focusing on plant changes following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdowns in Japan, he said.
Major impacts from weather included an alert at a New Jersey nuclear plant in October as water from Superstorm Sandy rose outside the plant and threatened cooling equipment.
"We have seen some conditions that did not exist previously and we expect to learn from that going forward," Sheehan said.
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About SeanFromIT
Congrats and be sure to post the final ebook on http://www.OokaBooka.com!
We're out here. But it now costs ridiculous amounts of money to win an election, and with companies doing most of the donating, 'principled' is a dirty word. Step up and donate to your local principled politicians and you might see one move up for once!
And those percentages were much lower just a couple years ago. Many of the authors referenced have probably been in the ebook game for a long time, so their early sales didn't net as much.
Many indie ebook markets pay out higher royalties. OokaBooka.com for example offers:
$1 and above: ~71%
$1 and below: ~65-69%
No ASIN nonsense. If people like the free version of the ebook well enough, they'll vote it up and it will stay towards the top of the list.
This does sound incredibly wasteful. Authors should just post their DRM-free books to OokaBooka where people could vote their work upward if it's good.

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Jackett celebrates landmark with a win
Kenny Jackett celebrated five years as Millwall manager in style after seeing his side extend their unbeaten run to seven npower Championship matches with an impressive 4-1 win at Nottingham Forest.
Liam Trotter gave the Lions a third-minute lead but Billy Sharp struck to send the teams into half-time all square.
Second-half goals from Darius Henderson, Chris Wood and substitute Andy Keogh duly ensured Millwall won away for the first time since August.
Both managers were forced to change a winning team because of suspension.
On-loan Norwich defender Elliott Ward made his full debut for Forest after Greg Halford received his fifth yellow card of the season during the 4-1 victory at Barnsley.
Alan Dunne missed out for Millwall for the same reason, reaching the threshold in his side's 4-0 home win over Huddersfield. On-loan Tottenham right-back Adam Smith came into the team to make his Lions bow after joining Jackett's side on Thursday.
Forest, minus Jermaine Jenas despite the Tottenham midfielder this week extending his loan spell at his hometown club until the new year, suffered an awful start to the game.
Trotter cut infield from the left and after going past a couple of defenders curled a shot into the top right-hand corner of the net.
Reds boss Sean O'Driscoll was then forced to make a change after 15 minutes following an injury to Radoslaw Majewski. Adlene Guedioura, back from suspension, replaced the Pole in midfield.
As the hosts tried to reorganise themselves Chris Taylor forced Lee Camp into action. The Forest goalkeeper spilled Taylor's 20-yard shot but gathered the ball at the second attempt.
It was against the run of play when Sharp equalised in the 22nd minute.
After an intricate passing move involving his strike partner Simon Cox, Sharp finished confidently from 12 yards out for his fourth Forest goal since moving to the City Ground on loan from Southampton.
O'Driscoll's side improved thereafter and finished the first half on top but failed to add a second goal.
Millwall managed to do so though after an hour.
Forest had struggled with crosses into the box since the break, with Wood and James Henry heading over, before Henderson nodded past Camp from close range from Henry's delivery.
The hosts became more direct and Dexter Blackstock was introduced from the bench as they sought another equalising goal.
But it was Millwall who struck next after 76 minutes and put the game beyond doubt.
After Chris Cohen's shot was blocked, the Lions hit Forest on the counter attack and Wood's shot took a huge deflection off Danny Collins and went past the helpless Camp.
The Reds were caught out again six minutes from time when Taylor's cross was volleyed home by Keogh, on as a 81st-minute replacement for Henderson, from close range.
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U.S. equities opened higher this morning and are setting up for a sharp pullback based on technical analysis using trends, cycles, momentum, volume, market breadth and key resistance zones.
Take a look at the charts below for a quick flash of what I think.
Barchart Market Momentum Index
This chart I look at daily. In short if its price is at 101 or higher I expect the broad market to pause or pullback within the next day. It tells me if stocks have moved too far in one direction on a daily basis and if so sellers (big money players) are likely to re-align stocks by taking profits or shorting during these times.
Stock Trading Above the 50-Day Moving Average
Here we can see that while the S&P 500 has been rising over the past six months, fewer stocks are trading above their 50-day moving average. This means a smaller group of stocks is holding the market up and it's just a matter of time before those stocks burn out and roll over also.


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|Please copy/paste "{{Translationlist | xx | origlang=en | translated={{{translated}}}}}" (where xx is ISO 639 language code for your translation) to Chat/translations
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Description & Goals
The Chat activity provides a simple interface for collaborative discussion, be it between two individuals or among a group as large as an entire classroom. While a lightweight and "impermanent" chat is an integral part of Sugar as a layer above all activities and the various mesh levels, this activity devoted to textual communication keeps detailed records of the conversation within the journal and provides a means of searching through the conversation to locate important comments.
Many of these goals have not yet been implemented
Text & Image
The Chat activity will take advantage of both the keyboard and the resistive trackpad technology on the laptops, allowing the conversation to evolve with both text and image.
Interactive Chat
In addition to supporting both text and drawing, the Chat activity will encourage conversation and iterative process by providing a "pull" button for each entry. When a child clicks this button the content of the chat bubble - both image and text - get pulled into the input region, allowing her to alter or append both text and image. When the modified drawing or text becomes part of the conversation, it enters the stream as a new bubble, preserving the previous comments and drawing iterations.
When pulling text into the editing region, it is "pasted" into the region in the normal fashion: over a selection or at the cursor location. Images, on the other hand, will be pasted in place above any currently existing drawing.
File Sharing
The Chat activity doesn't explicitly expose a means for file sharing. This results from the fact that the entire Sugar UI is designed around the idea of collaboration, providing a layer above every activity for sharing images, links, and documents. This layer can be used in Chat, or in any activity, to share documents with the activity participants.
The edit toolbar should provide an easy method to search for a string of text within the conversation, quickly jumping to chat bubbles that pertain to the search. Optionally we could have a filtering system which allows one to view only bubbles containing images, or all bubbles for a specific individual.
Chat is a naturally collaborative activity. As such, no specific discussion is really needed beyond the overall goals for the activity.
Visual Design
|Activity Mockup (216KB) history
|Adobe Illustrator file containing mockups for each toolbar
Feature Requests
- Video/Audio conversations - User:Atodorov
- Some way for children to be able to connect to remote buddies (Internet), not only ones in their Mesh network - User:Atodorov
Implementation Discussion
Version History
- http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/chat
- http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Chat/ tarballs
- none available
Functional Test
Open the Chat activity.
Ensure that you can send and receive text messages with another XO in the local mesh.
Close the activity; ensure that it closes properly.
Activity Summary
|Chat, Mail, Talk
|Activity group:
|Short description:
|A chat program.
|A program that allows multiple XO's to communicate with each other via a mesh network or jabber server.
|Repository URL:
|Available languages:
|Afrikaans, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, (Taiwan), Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Kinyarwanda, Kreyol, Mongolian, Nepali, Papiamento, Sinhala, Slovenian, Spanish, Telugu, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese
|Available languages (codes):
|af, am, ar, ay, bg, bn, ca, de, dz, el, en, es, fa, ff, fr, gu, ha, hi, ht, ig, is, it, ja, km, ko, mk, ml, mn, mr, ne, ps, pt, qu, ro, ru, rw, sd, si, sl, te, th, tr, ur, vi, yo, zh
|Pootle URL:
|Related projects:
|URL from which to download the latest .xo bundle
|Last tested version number:
|The releases with which this version of the activity has been tested.
|Development status:
|3. Alpha
|Ready for testing (development has progressed to the point where testers should try it out):
|smoke tested :
|test plan available :
|test plan executed :
|developer response to testing :
|URL from which to download the last .xo bundle that works with old releases
|Activity version number:
|The releases with which this version of the activity has been tested.
|8.1.1 (708)
|Development status:
|5. Production-stable
|URL from which to download the last .xo bundle that works with old releases
|Activity version number:
|The releases with which this version of the activity has been tested.
|8.2.0 (767)
|Development status:
|5. Production-stable


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Cat stuck in tree for a week
Cat rescued from tree but escapes; cat feared injured
Cat stuck in tree for a week
Cat rescued from tree but escapes; cat feared injured
ROCHESTER, Mass. —
A cat that spent at least seven days stuck 80 feet up a tree in Rochester is back on solid ground, but animal welfare activists are still looking for it because it ran away and is probably hurt.
The cat fell to the ground and ran off after firefighters cut the branch it was perched on Sunday.
Pam Robinson, founder of a cat shelter in town, tells The Standard Times of New Bedford she and other volunteers will look for the cat Monday. She says the animal probably has frostbite and is hungry.
The cat was first spotted on Christmas Eve by someone who lives in the area, who heard it crying.
Local fire departments, as well as a tree-cutting service, made several attempts to rescue the cat before Sunday's success.


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Featured News - Current News - Archived News - News Categories
The following is a sampling of calls received by the Town of Niagara Police between March 26 and April 8. During that time period, patrols answered 259 calls.
Tuesday, March 26
•6700 block of Woodside Place, harassment. Complainant said over the past several months a woman has been posting online what she terms as offensive material that could affect her job and reputation. Patrol contacted the woman, who denied that the postings were offensive.
•1400 block of Elderberry Drive, EMS. A 73-year-old female having trouble breathing was reported. Rural Metro Ambulance was on the scene for transport.
•4300 block of Jackson Drive, suspicious person. Caller reported that an intoxicated male came to her door and said he was lost and wanted to harm himself. Patrol checked area with negative results.
•3000 block of Norman St., fire. Large open burn reported. Homeowner advised.
Wednesday, March 27
•Lewiston Road, aid assist. Patrol assisted Lewiston Police in an attempted vehicle stop. The elderly driver was stopped at Irving Drive, and everything was reported OK.
•Military Road, Witmer Road, Porter Road, Lockport Road, Haseley Drive, Tuscarora Road and Saunders Settlement Road, traffic stops. Patrols issued traffic tickets in 15 traffic stops involving offenses including speeding, lack of proof of insurance, suspended license, no seatbelt, unlicensed driver and expired inspection.
Thursday, March 28
•8400 block of Homestead Avenue, assist citizen. Complainant reported having issues with her ex-husband over a Social Security check. She reported issue resolved prior to officer's arrival.
•7100 block of Lockport Road, warrant. A 35-year-old Tuscarora Road man turned himself in at Town Hall and was arraigned on third degree assault, second degree harassment and endangering the welfare of a child.
Friday, March 29
•7700 block of Third Avenue, check situation. Patrol returned to the location in regards to a report of two suspicious males on the caller's property. Patrol was in the area at the time of call and observed no such activity. Patrol observed the caller inside the residence walk into another part of the home and did not come to the door. Patrol unable to make contact with the caller.
•1900 block of Military Road, disorderly conduct. A 41-year-old woman was arrested after causing a disturbance at the mall in front of her two young children. Patrol reported the woman was intoxicated and belligerent, shouting obscenities and yelling at officers. She was arrested for disorderly conduct and endangering the welfare of a child. During transport to jail, she was reportedly yelling and swearing uncontrollably and kicking the shield in the patrol car.
•8800 block of Quarry Road, larceny. Business reported tools and work clothing stolen from a truck overnight.
Saturday, March 30
•1900 block of Military Road, larceny. A 16-year-old Buffalo youth was arrested for shoplifting a $299.90 pair of sunglasses. About six youths were involved in the incident.
•1900 block of Military Road, disorderly conduct. Patrol responded to area in front of a restaurant to find a highly agitated male who complained that the mall was too busy and he was angry because he got pushed. A witness said the man almost punched somebody in the face and was acting irrationally.
•1900 block of Military Road, assist citizen. Woman was scared because she couldn't find her husband.
•1900 block of Military Road, hit and run. Witness reported he saw a black Infiniti strike another car in the parking lot. Driver got out and put the license plate she had knocked off on the hood of the vehicle, then drove away. Witness took a picture on his cell phone.
•3100 block of Sadlo Drive, loud party. Patrols called more than once to address for loud music, but resident refused to answer door.
Sunday, March 31
•Military Road, DWI. A 32-year-old Lewiston man was arrested for driving while intoxicated. He said he had been drinking vodka and Red Bull at a Niagara Falls bar.
•Savannah Street and Lockport Road, juvenile problem. Caller reported juveniles riding a go-kart in the roadway without helmets.
•4700 block of Tuscarora Road, assist citizen. A woman reported her friend stole her wallet from her bedroom on Thursday night and when she confronted the friend, the wallet was returned, but $60 was missing.
Monday, April 1
•3000 block of Petroleum Street, domestic. Couple was arguing about who should move out after a breakup.
•2700 block of Military Road, larceny. Business manager told patrol he observed an employee removing cash from the drive-through cash drawer on two occasions. The Niagara Falls Boulevard resident was arrested.
Tuesday, April 2
•1700 block of Military Road, larceny. Mall store business manager reported a male shoplifted a purse valued at $819. A surveillance tape was given to patrol to follow up.
•7800 block of Fourth Avenue, EMS. Patrol responded for a 16-year-old male feeling ill. Victim said he was feeling sick after smoking a cigarette filled with marijuana.
•3100 block of Sadlo Drive, noise complaint. Patrols responded on a complaint of extremely loud music disrupting the neighborhood. Resident was highly agitated and uncooperative. He was charged with one count of disorderly conduct. Patrols also secured four knives on a table next to the living room door.
Wednesday, April 3
•1300 block of Elderberry Place, burglary. Man reported that he returned from being incarcerated to find items valued at $1,900 missing from his residence, including a vacuum cleaner, television, DVD player, air conditioning unit, a replica pistol and musket and a guitar. He said he believes his daughter and her boyfriend were involved.
•2500 block of Military Road, larceny. Business' loss prevention officer reported a male in a gray Chevy Cavalier came into the store and stole two PlayStation controllers valued at $59.99 each. The man is believed to be involved in a previous incident at the store.
Thursday, April 4
•5800 block of Divide Road, burglary. Complainant reported that when she returned home from work, she found pry marks near the front door handle.
•8500 block of Porter Road, neighbor problem. Complainant reported a neighbor yelled at her for walking her dogs too close to the neighbor's apartment.
•Steele Circle, EMS. Cab driver reported he picked up an elderly woman at Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Health Center. She didn't look well and he was concerned when she went inside to get money, but didn't return. Patrol found the woman slumped face down at her kitchen table.
•2500 block of Military Road, disorderly conduct. Complainant reported that a man operating a green Jeep spit on him and punched him in a business parking lot after a road rage incident on Military Road. Patrol interviewed both men and found that each claimed they acted out of self-defense and the other was the aggressor.
Friday, April 5
•400 block of A Street, burglary. An Ontario man who owns a trailer in Cayuga Village reported that someone broke a window, cracked another window, and smashed a storm door on the trailer. He estimated damage at $1,050.
•3100 block of Dell Drive, EMS. Elderly male fell and needed lift assistance. Rural Metro Ambulance transported the man.
•2400 block of Military Road, animal complaint. Dog running loose in parking lot. Gone on arrival.
Saturday, April 6
•4700 block of Fox Street, juvenile problem. Patrol investigated a call on an underage drinking party and fight. Occupant reported her kids had a few friends over listening to music and that a neighbor calls the police whenever her kids' friends come over.
•8800 block of Disney Drive, false alarm. Patrol responded for a kitchen motion alarm. Home secure.
•Lockport Road and Mayle Court, dog bite. Complainant reported she was out walking when she spotted a dog running loose and caught its leash. She called the number on its tag. When the owner arrived, the dog became excited and jumped up and bit her ear and scratched her face.
Sunday, April 7
•1900 block of Military Road, fire. Mulch fire handled by Niagara Active Hose Volunteer Fire Co.
•Expressway Village, suspicious person. Complainant reported a suspicious person behind a residence. It was the occupant of that address.
Monday, April 8
•2100 block of Roberts Drive, check 911 hang up. Juveniles playing with phone.
•2200 block of Saunders Settlement Road, disturbance. Patrol called to a business for a disturbance involving a male described as possibly intoxicated and with mental health issues who had jumped onto the teller counter. The suspect and his mother were detained in the parking lot. Suspect physically resisted search by patrol and mother refused to stay back. Both were taken into custody.
•1800 block of Military Road, shoplifting. Loss prevention employee reported a large male wearing a hooded sweatshirt came in the rear entrance of the business, grabbed three tuxedos from a rack and left. The tuxedos were valued at $1,499.97. Video showed him as a known shoplifter. Charges were filed.


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Ruth Magoon, 76 - January 12, 2011
Ruth Yvonne Magoon, 76, of Lexington passed away Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011, at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney.
Services will take place Thursday, Jan. 13, at 11 a.m. at the Evangelical Free Church of Lexington with the Rev. Duane Russell officiating. Burial will be at 2 p.m. at Fort McPherson National Cemetery at Maxwell.
She was preceded in death by: her parents, Clifford and Leota Martin; her husband, Sidney Magoon in October of 2010; a brother, Clifford Martin; brothers-in-law—Keith, Don and Ken Eggleston and Jim Davis; sister-in-law, Pearl Martin; nephews—Rodger and Travis Eggleston, Joey Davis and Randy Messbarger; niece, Regina Araujo.
Survivors include: her sons—Randy (Debra) Adams of Cozad, and Mike (fiance' Kathleen) Adams of Lexington; a brother, Roger (Sharon) Martin of Oconto; five sisters—Darlene (Verlouis) Forster of Smithfield, Violet "Vi" Eggleston, Wanda (Bonnie) Eggleston and Beulah Eggleston, all of Oconto, and Virginia (Virgil) Coryell of Lexington; four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. - King College had a Top-100 NCAA Division II Softball stat ranking and three Top-25 NCCAA Softball stat ranking in the newest reports from the respective national offices.
Samantha Watts (Nashville, Tenn.) was No. 94 along with others with one save so far this season in the NCAA Division II stat report. The highest team ranking in the NCAA Division II report was No. 106 with 0.26 double plays per game.
In the NCCAA report Stephanie Mueller (Mt. Washington, Ky.) was tied for sixth with 0.22 hit by pitch per game. Tiffany Harris (Radford, Va.) was also ranked No. 22 in the same category with 0.13.
The Lady Tornado was No.1 4 in the NCCAA fielding percentage category with a .945 mark. King moved up two spots in the ranking.


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A textbook for undergraduate capstone courses in recreation; a resource
for students or professionals preparing for professional certification.
Also a professional reference for those working in public park and
recreation agencies.
Amy R. Hurd, PhD, is an associate professor in the School of
Kinesiology and Recreation at Illinois State University in Normal, where
she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in recreation management,
leadership, and marketing. Hurd received her PhD in leisure behavior
from Indiana University in 2001. Her research interests focus on
management in parks and recreation with specific regard to management
Hurd has worked in public-sector parks and recreation as a marketing
director for the Champaign Park District in Champaign, Illinois. She has
also served on the National Recreation and Park Association's American
Park and Recreation Society board. She has coauthored Kraus'
Recreation and Lesiure in Modern Society, the Official Study Guide
for the Certified Park and Recreation Professional Examination, and
Leisure Services Management.
In her free time, Hurd enjoys biking, kayaking, and hiking. She lives in
Normal, Illinois.
Denise M. Anderson, PhD, recevied her PhD from the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. Anderson is currently an associate
professor in the department of parks, recreation, and tourism management
at Clemson University in South Carolina, where she teaches courses in
community recreation and youth development. She also serves as
curriculum coordinator for community recreation, sport, and camp
management and as chair of the graduate student committee. In 2008 she
was named Clemson's Outstanding Woman Faculty Member.
Anderson worked for four years at the Champaign Park District in
Champaign, Illinois. She has also served on the board of the National
Recreation and Park Association's Society of Park and Recreation
Anderson lives in Clemson, South Carolina, with her husband, Dan, and
her son, Hayden. She enjoys baking, hiking, and boating with her family.
Brent A. Beggs, PhD, is an associate professor and director of
the recreation and park administration program at Illinois State
University, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in
facility design, management of sport and recreation agencies, research
methods, and trends. Beggs earned his BS and MS in recreation from
Southern Illinois University and completed his PhD in leisure behavior
at Indiana University.
Before teaching at Illinois State, Beggs served as a lecturer and
internship coordinator for the department of recreation, park, and
tourism studies at Indiana University and worked for public recreation
agencies in the states of Illinois and Missouri. He serves on multiple
editorial boards and coauthored Recreation Facility Management
and Mastering the Job Search Process in Recreation and Leisure
Beggs resides in Bloomington, Illinois, with his wife, Jeri, and
children Brendan and Sydney. He enjoys coaching youth sports and playing
golf in his free time.
Deborah A. Garrahy, PhD, has been teaching since 1986. Her
professional background includes teaching elementary and adapted
physical education in the public schools of Ohio and serving as a
faculty member in physical education teacher education at Indiana
University. Garrahy is an associate professor in the school of
kinesiology and recreation at Illinois State University in Normal,
specializing in physical education teacher education. She teaches
courses in motor development, adapted physical education, and elementary
physical education methods.
Garrahy earned her BS degree from Queens College of the City University
of New York (physical education, 1985) and both her MS (adapted physical
education, 1986) and PhD (curriculum and instruction, 1998) from Indiana
University. In her free time she enjoys hiking, kayaking, and biking.
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SOUTHLAKE, TX --A North Texas man who in 2011 became the nation's first full face transplant recipient has thanked a service group for helping him get a guide dog.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports Dallas Wiens had the golden retriever named Charley with him Tuesday night at the Southlake City Council meeting. Members recognized the Southlake Lions Club for raising money to help the Fort Worth man get the dog last June.
Wiens was painting a church in 2008 when he touched a power line. He suffered extensive facial injuries and was left blind.
Wiens was joined Tuesday night by fiancee Jamie Nash of Garland. She suffered burns during a 2010 wreck. They met last year at a support group for burn victims and plan to marry in March.


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SXSW: Karen Civil, Nick Cannon, Nipsey Hussle And Victor Cruz Brunch With Project C.A.N.V.A.S
During the buzzing SXSW, Karen Civil and Nick Cannon teamed up with Project C.A.N.V.A.S. (CAN Visually Achieve Success) for a rather artsy brunch. As guests channelled their inner Picassos by painting and decorated shoes, shirts and t-shirts, they enjoyed tacos and drinks at Wahoo's Restaurant as well as jammed to the sounds of DJ TJ Mizzel and DJ Hardy Indigo. Other big names in the room included Nipsey Hussle, Victor Cruz and DJ Steph Floss.
Flip through for pictures of the festivities.
Photo Credit: PROJECT C.A.N.V.A.S. and Karen Civil's Instagram


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Are You Ready to Become a Saint?
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LCneiny wrote:My day just took a huge nose dive. All of a sudden I'm anxious and stressed out and almost feel like I have to cry. Ugghhh WTF. It was in response to 2 different people in the workplace, and maybe I misinterpreted their actions/words but I'm feeling so uncomfortable and all I want to do is go home and crawl into bed.
I hate being a perfectionist and always wanting to make people happy without disappointing anyone.
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As most of the United States enjoyed an expanding economy over the past five years, the Midwest has suffered devastating job losses — more than 500,000 manufacturing jobs compounded by a mass exodus of more than 300,000 residents in search of warmer weather year-round. The Rust Belt states of Michigan and Ohio also weighed down Midwestern states including Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
However, there are a few cities across the Midwest boasting healthy economies: Chicago, Minneapolis and Columbus, Ohio, recorded robust job and population growth. Economy.com forecasts the cyclical manufacturing downturn in the Midwest may be nearing its end.
"Unless another sizable round of layoffs hits the auto industry, the Midwest will be buoyed by vibrant export markets and a rebuilding of inventories for industrial equipment and machinery," says Steve Cochrane, an economist with Economy.com. "Investment in ethanol production capacity and rising commodity prices add further support for the Midwest economy."
But first, the Midwest still has to work its way through the housing slump. New home starts have slowed to a trickle and default and foreclosure pains are especially acute in Indiana, Michigan and Ohio according to the Mortgage Bankers Associates (MBA) and Foreclosures.com. Indiana, Michigan and Ohio have experienced less home price appreciation than other parts of the Midwest, exacerbated by their lackluster labor markets. And, sales of existing homes in Michigan have been declining for two years, according to the Michigan Association of Realtors.
Existing home sales in the state fell 11 percent for the 12 months ended June 2007 compared with the same period a year ago. Similarly, the Ohio Association of Realtors reported 136,300 existing home sales for the year ended June 2007, 6 percent below the 145,600 homes sold during the 12 months ended June 2006.
In response, retailers have scaled back their expansion plans in the Midwest, which has made it more difficult for developers and owners to secure tenants.
Michigan's pull
Over the past decade, the Midwest economy has trailed the nation's with Michigan and Ohio at or near the bottom. "Michigan is having the worst performance of any state in the country," says Bill Strauss, an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. "If what is happening in Michigan spread to the rest of the nation, we would be in a very severe recession." While the U.S. economy experienced 47 consecutive months of job growth, Michigan lost 423,000 jobs during the period; about one of every 11 jobs. "That's not a trivial loss," says Strauss.
Of the worst performing metro markets in the U.S., seven of the ten are in Michigan or Ohio, illustrative of the weakness in the industrial Midwest economy, according to Economy.com. The Detroit metro area, along with Dayton, Ohio, and Cleveland are at the bottom, and conditions have deteriorated during the past year.
Manufacturing activity in August throughout the Midwest was relatively unchanged, at 53.8 compared with the 53.4 in July, according to the Chicago Purchasing Managers Index. (A reading of 50 or higher is considered to reflect expansion.) The slight improvement is encouraging since it suggests businesses are not retrenching in the wake of tighter financial conditions and increased equity-market volatility. Economists predict improvement during the fourth quarter.
The Federal Reserve Beige Book says foreclosures grew in every state in the Midwest except Illinois. During the second quarter, one percent of all mortgages in Michigan had foreclosure actions started, according to MBA's National Delinquency Survey.
Michigan has the highest number of homes taken by foreclosure with 9.4 foreclosures for every 1,000 households. Indiana's foreclosure rate is 7.8 for every 1,000 households. In Ohio, the percentage of mortgages 90 days or more past due or in foreclosure is more than twice the national average; 9 foreclosures per every 1,000 households, according to Foreclosures.com.
Despite the somber housing environment, the Michigan Retail Index, a joint project of Michigan Retailers Association (MRA) and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, showed the retail industry posted its first three-month period ended July 2007 of positive sales performance since early 2004. The index reported 46 percent of retailers realized increased sales over the same period last year while 32 percent recorded a decline and 13 percent saw no change.
While Michigan's prognosis doesn't look good, it's not on life support.
"Are things great? No, they're not," says Jim Fielder, vice president of Robert B. Aikens & Associates LLC, a Birmingham, Mich.-based retail developer. "But they're a heck of a lot better than you would think given how much negative press we've received. If Michigan's retail market is such a disaster, you'd think that people would just be cutting things off right now."
Instead, Fielder points to ongoing retail development that features major retailers such as Target, Wal-Mart and JCPenney.
Aikens is developing a lifestyle center project in Grand Rapids, Mich. And, this month Taubman Centers Inc. plans to open the Mall at Partridge Creek in Clinton Township, Mich., a 640,000-square-foot open-air center anchored by Nordstrom, Parisian, and a 14-screen movie theater.
Chicago winds
Michigan aside, many Midwestern states saw robust employment, says Strauss. The employment level in the Midwest was stable during the second quarter of 2007; nonfarm employment grew by 41,000 jobs in July 2007, up 0.1 percent from the same period a year ago, according to Economy.com. During that same 12-month period, Michigan's job rate grew a bit more — 0.6 percent — with 165,000 jobs created.
Over the past year, every state in the Midwest recorded job growth except Michigan and Ohio. Despite the gains, the unemployment rate for the region rose to 5.6 percent from 5.1 percent. Unemployment in Midwestern states varied from 4.5 percent in Minnesota to 7.2 percent in Michigan.
Average nonagricultural employment in the Chicago area was up 0.9 percent year-over-year in June, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate for the metro area was 5.5 percent in July, up from 4.7 percent a year ago.
The area's strong housing market has fueled retailers over the past four years as they follow rooftops. Every year, the market added an average of 33,000 new units, says John C. Melaniphy III, vice president of Mid-America Development Partners LLC, an Oak Brook, Ill.-based retail developer and owner. Suburban communities including: Plainfield, Joliet, Yorkville, Oswego, Lockport, New Lenox, Naperville, North Aurora, Huntley, Elgin, Pingree Grove and Woodstock have experienced significant growth in both housing and retail.
Wal-Mart is expanding in these communities with its Supercenter format, while conventional supermarkets like Jewel-Osco are developing stores alongside home improvement retailers Home Depot and Lowe's. This year alone, more than 12 million square feet of retail space is slated to break ground, according to Melaniphy. Another 12.9 million square feet is to come on-line in 2008. That's a huge jump over the past 10 years when the metro area added between 4 million and 6 million square feet annually.
All this new retail has pushed retail sales in Chicagoland to more than $100 billion per year, according to the Illinois Department of Revenue. Mid-America Development Partners, in partnership with Chicago, Ill.-based Harlem-Irving Companies, is developing Kendall Marketplace in Yorkville, Ill., a 800,000-square-foot power center.
"Yorkville has witnessed significant housing growth in recent years and Kendall County is the third fastest-growing county in the nation," says Melaniphy, adding 12,000 new residences are to be built within a three-mile radius of Kendall Marketplace.
However, in July, building permits fell 25 percent to 19,400 and the Chicago Association of Realtors reported existing home sales in Chicagoland dropped 19 percent to 108,000 houses in June 2007
"Retailers are telling us they're worried about the household forecasts, and big-box retailers indicate they're going to hold off on [greenfield] locations and are really turning inward to more densely populated areas in Chicago," Melaniphy says.
Chicago stats
Neighborhood center nonanchor asking rent: $17.96
Asking rent growth in 2007: 0.8%
Vacancy rate: 8.7%
Community center nonanchor asking rent: $20.19
Asking rent growth in 2007: 0.8%
Vacancy rate: 6.8%
Source: REIS
Detroit stats
Neighborhood center nonanchor asking rent: $16.04
Asking rent growth in 2007: 0.3%
Vacancy rate: 10.7%
Community center nonanchor asking rent: $18.27
Asking rent growth in 2007: 0.5%
Vacancy rate: 8.4%
Source: REIS
Projects under development
THE SHOPS AT THE POLO CLUB in Plainfield, Ill., is a 610,000-square-foot lifestyle center being developed by Poag & McEwen, headquartered in Memphis, Tenn. The project will be anchored by Von Maur department store and a collection of lifestyle shops and specialty retailers. The announced tenants include Chico's, Coldwater Creek, Ann Taylor, Talbots, Restoration Hardware, Williams-Sonoma, and J Jill, among many others. The project is expected to open in 2009 at the northeast corner of Route 59 and 119th Street. The Plainfield Village Board approved a $16.5 million incentive agreement, which will help pay for infrastructure around the site. Plainfield is the oldest and fastest growing community in Will County.
THE VILLAGE GREEN is a 447,000-square-foot mixed-use development consisting of lifestyle retailers and multistory residences located on 190 acres at Routes 45 and 132 in Lindenhurst, Ill. The $130 million project is being developed by OliverMcMillian, based in San Diego, Calif., and is scheduled to open in spring 2009. Lindenhurst's population is expected to grow to 19,843 by 2030 up from 12,539 in 2000. There are approximately 200,000 residents within a 15-minute drive who are not served by an upscale regional shopping center.
Proposed projects
FOREST CITY, based in Cleveland, Ohio, has a 2-million-square-foot regional mall/lifestyle center/power town proposed for 225 acres at I-355 and Route 6 in New Lenox, Ill. It also has a one-million -square-foot lifestyle center planned in Sugar Grove at Route 47 and Galena Road. Zaremba has a 500,000-square-foot power center planned on the south side of Route 6 at Interstate 355.


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Cellmate now a player in Nashua murder caseBy KIMBERLY HOUGHTON
Union Leader Correspondent
February 03. 2013 9:19PM
NASHUA - Defense attorneys for Matthew Packer, the man accused of killing a local EMT in 2011, are asking the court's permission to interview one of Packer's former cellmates.
Packer, 20, is charged with first-degree murder and two alternative counts of second-degree murder alleging he knowingly and recklessly killed Paul Frontiero III on Oct. 9, 2011, during a fight on Spruce Street.
Since Packer's arrest, prosecutors have filed nearly 2,000 pages of discovery following depositions with multiple individuals, including one of Packer's former cellmates, according to court documents. Representatives from the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office interviewed Robert Ryan, who bunked with Packer during the summer of 2012 at the Hillsborough County House of Corrections. Now, Packer's defense team has filed a motion to depose Ryan as well, questioning his motive for sharing information with police. A court hearing has been scheduled for Feb. 21 at the Hillsborough County Superior Court to discuss the request, which is being opposed by the state.
Packer previously told authorities he took out a six-inch pocket knife, but only after being punched in the ear by strangers in the fall of 2011. During a probable cause hearing, the lead detective in the murder case told a judge that Frontiero died after allegedly being stabbed by Packer 16 times, including one puncture to the heart.
Other vital organs, including Frontiero's lung, left kidney, diaphragm and spleen were damaged from the knife wounds, according to Detective Daniel Mederos.
While serving time since his arrest, Packer allegedly spoke to his cellmate, Ryan, about the stabbing.
After Ryan's release from prison, he was again arrested by Nashua police in September 2012 on a larceny charge. During his time in the holding cell at the Nashua Police Department, Ryan told Mederos that he wanted to talk to authorities about Packer's case. An hour-long interview was conducted and a summary of Ryan's comments were recorded, according to court documents. In addition, prosecutors filed more than 100 pages of discovery from their deposition of Ryan, which are now sealed in court.
"Mr. Ryan said Matthew seemed to want to 'get things off his chest,' yet also said that 'he was not remorseful,'" according to court records.
Defense attorneys Julia Nye and Cynthia Robinson are questioning Ryan's mental state at the time he spoke to police, noting authorities seized a hypodermic needle and a knife at the time of Ryan's arrest.
They are also questioning Ryan's criminal history, "which is relevant to his motive to cooperate with police," court documents said.
Ryan has been incarcerated 17 times in the past decade, with convictions for disorderly conduct, criminal trespassing, simple assault, theft and more.
"A deposition would allow defense counsel to review his contacts with the police," says the motion seeking deposition.
The motion was originally granted by Judge Diane Nicolosi before the state filed a separate motion objecting to the request.
Now, a hearing on the matter will be held later this month. The defense plans to introduce evidence that Packer was suffering from post traumatic stress disorder at the time of the attack and has filed a notice of defense claiming Packer was legally insane during the stabbing, according to court records. Frontiero was reportedly trying to protect two females when the stabbing took place.
Jill Arnold and Kathryn Libby, both of Nashua, were injured in the attack, as Packer is also accused of assaulting them.
He has been indicted on related charges of first-degree assault, second-degree assault and attempted murder. Frontiero worked for EasCare Ambulance Service out of Dorchester, Mass., and was training to become a paramedic.
He planned to leave for the Dominican Republic for his second medical mission trip just days after his murder.
Frontiero's mother, Cathy Frontiero of Gloucester, Mass., said previously that her son died a hero, and that he was trying to save the two women from possibly being killed.
Packer's trial has been tentatively scheduled for May.


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pampasjudas wrote:capullo wrote:also a very good album. not a dj showcase album but well worth checking.
Bim Sherman meets Horace Andy and U Black in a Rub-A-Dub Style.
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indeed! beautiful album!!!
+1, this album is perfection imo, another of my favourite LP's in the vocal-dj-dub fashion is 'More Vibes' by Barry Brown ls Stamma Ranks on King Culture


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The call for speakers is still open and will close April 6th, there's still from for a few more sessions. it's coming up on May 2, 2009, at The University of North Florida Campus, 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, FL 32224 (same location as last year). I've submitted two sessions and will definitely be attending, it was a great event last year and I'm hoping for the same this year.
I know it's a short time frame between the end of the call for speakers and the main event - chalk that up to my biz partner and event owner Brian Knight getting hit with the double whammy of an Outlook crash and a crush at work. Announcements on the final schedule should go out by Apr 13th.


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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Representatives of rebels attending peace talks with the Congolese government dodged a crucial meeting Monday at which the government delegation was to respond to earlier criticism, a development that could jeopardize negotiations to end the crisis in eastern Congo.
The talks, which are being held in the Ugandan capital Kampala, got off to a tense start Sunday, when Francois Rucogoza, leader of the M23 delegation, accused the Congolese government of lacking "visionary leadership" and of corruption and incompetence.
The Congolese government delegation on Monday refused to give its rebuttal as earlier planned, saying they can do so only if the M23 delegation is present to hear their side.
If the rebels dig in and refuse to listen to the rebuttal by the Congolese government, it could end the talks before they even start. Raymond Tshibanda, the Congolese foreign minister, told Ugandan mediators and reporters that peace talks would not proceed if there is "bad faith" on the part of the rebels.
"It is important that both sides accept to listen to your wisdom," Tshibanda told Defense Minister Crispus Kiyonga, the Ugandan official picked by Uganda's president to mediate the talks.
Of the rebels Tshibanda said: "They are not ready to listen."
Kiyonga said he had been informed by an M23 representative earlier on Monday that they had no interest in hearing what the Congolese delegation had to say.
"I personally rang the leader of the M23 and appealed to him to turn up for this meeting," Kiyonga said of Rucogoza, the executive secretary of M23. "He indicated that he was under instructions not to attend this meeting."
Although Ugandan military officials are accused in a recent United Nations report of backing the rebels, the East African country has been mediating talks between the rebels and the Congolese government. A deal struck in Kampala led to the rebels' withdrawal from the eastern provincial city of Goma, which the rebels had taken last month in the face of a Congolese army in disarray.
M23 is made up of hundreds of soldiers who deserted the Congolese army in April. The rebels accuse Congo's government of failing to honor the terms of a 2009 peace deal that incorporated them into the national army. The U.N. report also charged Rwanda with backing the M23, a charge Rwanda denies. Regional leaders under the banner of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, a regional bloc of which Congo is a member, last month urged the Congolese government to listen to M23's "legitimate grievances."
It remains unclear if the talks will proceed Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the African Union on Monday welcomed a pledge by the Southern African Development Community, a regional bloc, to send troops to stabilize eastern Congo. The AU's Peace and Security Council reiterated its condemnation of the rebellion by M23 and said it is working for the deployment of "a neutral international force" in the region. The Southern African bloc has vowed to provide 4,000 troops for the envisaged neutral force.
The AU statement said the Congolese government has decided to contribute $20 million "to facilitate the early operationalization" of the neutral force. The force's total budget, size and make-up has not yet been determined.
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How do I build a multiplexing circuit with two 74HC257 chips in order to use the 27C322 as a V rom?
How do I build a multiplexing circuit with two 74HC257 chips in order to use the 27C322 as a V rom?
Hi XX,
You can use macronix, I know that they are eeproms, but they work at 16 bit.
Un saludo
Hi XX,
Yes they work at 8 bit.
Un saludo
Last edited by fremen; 08-28-2012 at 04:20 PM.
Oh those. I thought it was a DIP IC.
I still need the circuit though.
Yes, they are sop instead dip socket.
But there are adaptors to convert sop to dip, and you need an adaptor for the programmer also
Last edited by fremen; 08-28-2012 at 05:23 PM.
Should do the trick but it's going to be a big adapter.
Checked 257, simpler design indeed, no inverter required.
What you want should looks like this
Last edited by Pedrobear; 08-29-2012 at 06:56 PM. Reason: MOAR
Do the adaptors lower the voltage to 3.3v or is there something else required?
Hi mate,
Last edited by fremen; 01-10-2013 at 09:22 AM. Reason: clarifications
So it would be easier to split up the V ROMs and use 27C160 instead?
How is that done?
Is there any other 32Mbit chip that can run in 8bit mode?
Can a 27C320 be used on those adaptors?
Last edited by NEO-GEO man; 01-10-2013 at 09:13 AM.
32mb V1=V1+V2
32mb V2=V3+V4
I have a Pulstar MVS cart that needs a new V1 ROM.
I've seen the 320 datasheet and it is equal to the 3211, so you can use the same adaptor (not the programmer adaptor) and swap the same pins in order to work like a 322. Beside, you have the advantage that it doesn't need to lower the voltage and it is supported by top3000 (only the SO 44 format). The main problem is to find them and to know the price.
Last edited by fremen; 01-10-2013 at 10:21 AM.
Thanks! So it wouldnt be direct solder to the adaptor? Would i need to swap some pins around?
First solder the eeprom to the adaptor, then burn it and finally swap pins.
About the MX23C3210, the 42 DIP format is equal to M27C322 so it doesn't need an adaptor but it is not supported by top3000.
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Tips Sought In Unsolved Murder
ST. MARYS — Auglaize County Sheriff Al Solomon is looking for the public's help to put the rest an unsolved homicide that dates back almost four decades.
Investigators, with the assistance of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine's newly created unsolved homicide unit, are re-examining the murder and robbery of Roger L. Parent. Parent was shot and killed on Dec. 29, 1978, at the P and S Carryout — which is near the former location of Villa Nova Carryout on Ohio 703 — in St. Marys. According to published media reports, Parent was transported to Joint Township District Memorial Hospital in St. Marys, where he was pronounced dead.
"This investigation has never went away," Solomon told The Evening Leader this morning. "It was always on our minds over the years. Different detectives have taken shots at it ... When Mike DeWine offered the unsolved crimes unit, we jumped on it because we want to solve this."
Solomon declined to release any further information regarding details of Parent's murder. He noted that through the years, different sheriffs and deputies placed an emphasis on solving the murder.
"There are still family members around here and we want to solve it for them," Solomon said. "It would mean a lot to the people here, too — past and present — who put in a lot of time into the investigation. I can tell you that Sheriff (James) Knoch and Sheriff (Larry) Longsworth, if he were still here with us, would say the same thing that the family is the main concern. Some of the family have been in contact and naturally we want them to know this case has never been forgotten."
Investigators recently met to brainstorm about the case. They reviewed past leads and information, and it was during these sessions that Solomon said he decided to ask for DeWine's assistance.
"I think there's always a frustration for the fact that the family has to live with this," Solomon said. "Over the years, detectives and deputies, as well as officers from the St. Marys Police Department, have talked about it. Everyone who has had a stake has been frustrated it hasn't been solved because of the family element."
Anyone with information is encouraged to call 419-739-6555. Callers can remain anonymous.
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Check out this cute new New Year's Eve-themed poster for Mr. Peabody and Sherman!
The movie's summary: Mr. Peabody (Ty Burrell), the most accomplished dog in the world, and his mischievous boy Sherman (Max Charles), use their time machine�the Wabac�to go on the most outrageous adventures known to man or dog.
But when Sherman takes the Wabac out for a joyride to impress his friend Penny (Ariel Winter), they accidently rip a hole in the universe, wreaking havoc on the most important events in world history.
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UNH to host college fair for high school seniors
Fair set for Thursday and Friday
The University of New Hampshire will host a two-day college fair featuring more than 230 colleges and universities.
University officials say this week's fair is an opportunity for prospective students and their parents to speak with representatives from colleges throughout New England. Representatives from state and federal education funding sources will also be on hand.
The fair runs from 7-9 p.m. Thursday and from 9-11 a.m. Friday. It will be held at the Field House in Durham.
University officials say they expect more than 2,000 students to attend.
State universities of the six New England states will be represented as well as small liberal arts colleges. Boston University, Northeastern and Maine Maritime Academy will also be represented.


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So I love hockey, but never played and can't say I dig in to all the nitty-gritty.
But I know sports and I know and understand the less finer things about hockey and sports in general. Positioning, defense, etc.
But I've been following the trades, etc and I noticed alot of the 'loud' boisterous Pens fans are pushing to get rid of Kennedy.
Is there a reason for this?
I like watching him play. He's not the most skilled but he brings such energy that he seems like a real and cheap asset to me.
What am I missing for a third line guy?


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When John Krasinski sits down at a table full of people who all want his attention, he manages to speak to all them-- sometimes simultaneously, which is a real feat. He answers questions that seem inane with answers that sound profound. He tells personal stories, about trying to break into the business or about meeting the Coen Brothers, like he's your brother home from college. He's nicer to the wait staff than anyone else at the table. He is, in other words, a movie star. Though the world might not know that yet.
Though both Matt Damon and Krasinski say they never would have gotten the roles they have in Promised Land if they hadn't written the script themselves, it seems to be more true for Krasinski, who has so perfected the role of wry Jim Halpert on The Office that it's sometimes hard to see him as anyone else. In Promised Land Krasinski starts off a little like Jim, an affable and disarming guy who arrives in the same small town where Damon's character, representing the gas company, is trying to convince local people to sign their farmland over to natural gas drilling. Krasinski, with his wide smile and plain facts about the dangers of gas drilling, a.k.a. "fracking," becomes an immediate antagonist for Damon's character, even when both men are convinced they have the best interest of this rural town at heart. Can the town save itself economically by signing these lucrative gas drilling deals? Or will they doom themselves with the environmental catastrophes fracking can bring?
Promised Land very deliberately doesn't take a side on that debate, and as directed by Gus van Sant, it's more interested in the tiny details of small-town life than taking any stand on an issue that's only now gaining traction in the public conversation. As for Krasinski and Damon, they're careful to talk about how much research they've done into the areas where fracking is happening, how many conversations they had with locals, and how much they each fall in the middle between a potential financial windfall for strapped communities and the environmental damage it could cause.
After meeting Krasinski at that lunch, I spoke to him on the phone over a week later, and you can see that conversation below. Later that day, while I was waiting to talk to Matt Damon, Krasinski walked by me in the hallway; he had no real reason to remember me, but he cocked his head and said hello anyway, making small talk even as he was making what must have been a long-awaited escape from a day of interviews. It was the classy mark of a real movie star. Which Krasinski is a now whole lot closer to becoming.
You started out writing this script with Dave Eggers. How did you come to him with the idea, and how did you wind up bringing it to Matt Damon?
I had the idea about two years ago to do a movie about American identity. Probably subconsciously based on my dad. He grew up in a small town outside Pittsburgh. His dad had 3 jobs, and they didn't have a lot. I remember being a little kid and talking about my dad's childhood, and he said "It was great, and we always had faith that tomorrow would be a better day." I have always wanted to write a movie about people like that. With the geopolitical landscape heading where it was heading it was an interesting time to tell that story. Natural gas was an amazing backdoor for that, it's kind of like high stakes poker. I brought the idea to Dave-- I knew him from working on Away We Go, and I'd known him for a while from 826 events [826 is the literacy and education group that Eggers co-founded]. These issues are very close to his heart as well. At the time I didn't think I had the guts to write it, so I went to him and we started hammering out basic ideas. That's when I brought it to Matt, these ideas.
Why didn't you think you had the guts to write it?
There was something daunting about it being an original script. Weirdly, I jump in headfirst on most things in my life. On this one I was terrified. I'd heard all about the blank white page. Sure enough, when you get there it is really terrifying. I thought maybe I wasn't going to be up to the challenge. When I started writing with Matt, we did just jump in. I learned pretty quickly that it was doable.
You first met Matt socially, because he was working with your wife [Emily Blunt] on The Adjustment Bureau. How did that morph into a friendship and partnership?
We hit it off right at the beginning. He and Emily got along so well, so he had a head start as far as being liked in my book. As far as me to him, I think we laughed a lot, we went out on a lot of double dates. It really did feel like a friendship, even though he and Emily were working together. I think the Boston connection is real. I think there's something about being from a place together, there's a lot of nuance there.
How easy was it once you started writing together?
The first version of the script came pretty quickly, it was like 6-8 weeks. It was still an untamed beast, but we were figuring it out. That's actually the draft we sent to Frances McDormand. We figured we should keep writing until we figured out if she would do it, because we were writing for her. We were working pretty much every weekend. We went to his house because he had 4 girls. I was basically the one writing it on the computer, the typing of it all. From then on, it was revision after revision after revision. It was one of those things where you figure out an idea and you retrofit it to the script.


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HONOLULU (AP) — A judge has ordered some online travel sites to pay the state roughly $150 million for a decade's worth of back taxes and interest.
The state attorney general's office says the judge on Friday ruled that Hawaii's general excise tax applies to the sale of hotel rooms by online travel companies. A press release says the ruling could bring further tax collections of $20 million a year.
The release says the sites, which include Expedia, Hotels.com and Travelocity, have made sales of more than $2.7 billion in Hawaii hotel rooms since 2000.
Gov. Neil Abercrombie called it a "significant ruling" for Hawaii.
Expedia spokeswoman Mallory Seubert said by email Saturday that the company "strongly" disagrees with the decision and is considering all of its options.


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(TELEGRAPH) — Oskar Lafontaine, the German finance minister who launched the euro, has called for a break-up of the single currency to let southern Europe recover, warning that the current course is "leading to disaster."
"The economic situation is worsening from month to month, and unemployment has reached a level that puts democratic structures ever more in doubt," he said.
"The Germans have not yet realised that southern Europe, including France, will be forced by their current misery to fight back against German hegemony sooner or later," he said, blaming much of the crisis on Germany's wage squeeze to gain export share.
Mr Lafontaine said on the parliamentary website of Germany's Left Party that Chancellor Angela Merkel will "awake from her self-righteous slumber" once the countries in trouble unite to force a change in crisis policy at Germany's expense.


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I know this may come as a surprise, but it would seem that years of Socialist rule (no, really!) in Greece has resulted in a government so completely in debt that there's now literally zero chance that any of that country's massive debt will ever be repaid.
I saw Zero Hedge (my newest favorite blog) mention this morning that Greek bonds were approaching a pricing point at which their bonds become essentially worthless as compared to the rest of Europe, and notice that my good friend Richard North over at EUReferendum has confirmed that this point has been reached. (ZH is down right now, no doubt innundated by scores of angry Greek politicians.)
I know I don't understand all of the discussions that have gone into the entire Greek saga, but the basic underlying principals are clear as day:—Governments that promise endless services to their citizens (this is Socialism, by the way) cause a dramatic shift in the public mind towards redistributionist policies and away from self-reliance. This attitude breeds ever more spending, as the Government continues to increase the services "offered" in exchange for popular votes. As this spending increases, the Government finds that it is increasingly difficult to pay with taxes, so it begins borrowing heavily ("issuing bonds") to pay for today's socialist policies with tomorrow's money.
And when this spending spirals completely out of control, it all falls apart.
Please notice that California has begun to enter a phase in this exact process where the same is about to happen—and that California, like Greece, has so far shown a complete refusal to scale back the "services" it offers its citizens, who like their Greek counterparts, are accustomed to the largesse.
Also notice that our Federal Government, via the horrendously wrongheaded new healthcare legislation, is beginning to develop the same entitled sense in the rest of our nation.
If we continue down this path, don't be surprised to see our country go the exact same way Greece has.
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SYDNEY (AP) — Gotye has taken home album of the year at Australia's Aria music awards for his internationally acclaimed "Making Mirrors."
The album features the Belgian-born, Australian-raised singer's multiplatinum hit "Somebody That I Used to Know," which was the top song of the year on digital music service Spotify.
Gotye won three other awards at Thursday night's Arias, including best pop release, best Australian live act and best male artist.
The annual awards show is Australia's version of the Grammys. This year's gala featured appearances by Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj and Russell Brand.
Fans shrieked with glee when British pop group One Direction was dubbed best international artist. The quintet thanked their Aussie supporters via video link.


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SAP and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) Decode and Analyze Human Proteome in ProteomicsDB With the Help of SAP HANA
WALLDORF, Germany — SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) and Technical University Munich (TUM) today announced ProteomicsDB, a new offering based on the SAP HANA platform that stores protein and peptide identifications from mass spectrometry-based experiments. The proteomic data assembled in the new offering resulted in the identification of proteins mapping to over 18,000 human genes. This represents 90 percent coverage of the human proteome. Data stored and analyzed within ProteomicsDB can be used in basic and biomedical research for discovering therapeutic targets and developing new drugs as well as enhanced diagnosis methods.
As personalized medicine is on the rise, the healthcare field is discovering the opportunities of big data analysis. The result of a joint project between the TUM Chair of Proteomics and Bioanalytics, SAP and the SAP Innovation Center, ProteomicsDB is a major step forward in human proteomics. It currently contains more than 11,000 datasets from human cancer cell lines, tissues and body fluids and enables real-time analysis of this highly dimensional data and creates instant value by allowing to test analytical hypothesis.
ProteomicsDB will be available free of charge. The database will be a valuable asset for researchers in the field of life sciences as well as for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. Insights from analyzing the inherent datasets can be used in biomedical research and for example in developing new drugs that operate in a more targeted way without adversely influencing other cellular processes, helping to reduce side effects.
"The vast amounts of molecular data generated in biomedical research increasingly challenge the ability of scientists to see 'the forest for the trees," said Prof. Dr. Bernhard Kuster of TUM. "ProteomicsDB is a significant step ahead in our research aiming at a better understanding of human disease and more informed future treatments. The software helps us and others to store, integrate and analyze experimental data in real time, allowing us to study more complex biological systems at greater depth than previously possible."
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Applicants who have completed all or part of their university studies in a non-US institution and/or require student visas must submit their applications no later than February 1 to be considered for Fall admission and September 15 to be considered for Spring admission.
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A bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited institution comparable in standard and content to a bachelor's degree from Hunter College.
Minimum undergraduate grade point average of 2.8 and 3.0 in music.
Completed an undergraduate concentration in music, with at least 24 credits or their equivalent, which must include: three semesters of music history, four semesters of music theory and four semesters of musicianship (sight singing, ear training, and keyboard studies).
- Also, must have at least elementary facility at the keyboard and a reasonable mastery of an instrument (which may be a keyboard instrument) or voice.
In addition, you must submit to the department a sample of work in the area in which you plan to concentrate: an audition for performers; a portfolio of compositions for composers; or a research paper on a musical subject for music historians and ethnomusicologists. Students who plan to pursue mixed programs must submit a sample work in their strongest area. For more information on how to schedule an audition or submit your sample of work, please visit the Music Department website.
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U.S. Rep. Karen Bass Addresses Housing Crisis in Town Hall, One-on-One Counseling, Workshop for Homeowners
LOS ANGELES -- With thousands of California homeowners facing foreclosure, U.S. Rep. Karen Bass held a community town hall and consumer rights workshop to provide residents with one-on-one foreclosure counseling, financial guidance, as well as brief attendees on current legislation in Congress to help homeowners who are facing foreclosure stay in their homes.
At Thursday's event, guests received private consultations with bank representatives from JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citibank, GMAC/Alley Bank or a HUD-approved housing counselor. Representatives provided homeowners guidance on ways to work with mortgage servicers to avoid foreclosure, organize financial matters and understand mortgage options that may be available to them.
"I'm pleased to have the opportunity to offer constituents of the 33rd District access to important resources that could potentially save one of life's biggest investments," said Bass. "I believe bringing the federal and state policy experts as well as the banks together in one place is an extremely important tool to help families who are threatened by the possibility of foreclosure stay safe in their homes."
Special Assistant to the California Attorney General Brian Nelson also updated participants on new state-level policies including the California Homeowner Bill of Rights, an effort to bring fairness, accountability and transparency to the state's mortgage foreclosure processes. Rep. Bass also briefed constituents on the status of her bipartisan legislation, the Homeownership Preservations Education (HOPE) Act. The HOPE Act would provide a mortgage reduction on the FHA upfront mortgage insurance premium for first-time homebuyers who complete a HUD-approved housing counseling program. Studies show that counseling has a positive effect on successful homeownership for first-time homebuyers. If passed, the HOPE Act would create additional progress toward preventing another foreclosure crisis of this magnitude.