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Supervisors Approve Hike In County Officials' Salaries
December 22, 2013 by lmorgan · Comments Off
Adhering to state statutes, the Antelope County Board of Supervisors last week locked in salaries for county officials for a four-year period.
All seven supervisors voted to increase the salaries paid to county officials, beginning in 2015. At that time, the salaries for county assessor, county clerk, clerk of the district court and the county treasurer will be $47,964.20, up from $46,119 in 2014. As part of the four-year agreement, those county officials will receive a four percent increase, adjusted on the first day of January in the years 2016, 2017 and 2018.
For the complete story, see the print edition of The Elgin Review
Senior 'Sneak Day' To Change
December 22, 2013 by lmorgan · Comments Off
Juniors at Elgin High School will have an opportunity this summer to "expand their horizons" following action taken Wednesday night by the District #18 Board of Education.
The board approved a proposal put forth by the administration to allow juniors to participate in an educational field trip which would take them to Washington, D.C., and New York City. In approving the trip, the board eliminated the long-established 'senior sneak.'
Superintendent Dan Polk said he hopes to make the junior educational field trip an annual event which the students will look forward to in much the same way they have for 'senior sneak.'
Polk said he is in the process of putting together the trip, working with travel agencies to find the best deal. The plan would be for the trip to take place sometime after school lets out for the summer, but before events such as Boys/Girls State and the annual Vetch Days celebration.
For the complete story, see the print edition of The Elgin Review
Dean Jones
Dean Jones
1928 — 2013
Funeral Services for Dean Jones age 84, of Neligh, were at 10:00 a.m., December 9, 2013 at Church of Christ in Neligh, NE with Pastor Bob Dainton officiating.
Music was provided by Kay Stearns. Pianist and solists were Andrea Clements, Shirley Stearns, Christina Stearns and Benjamin Stearns.
Visitation was from 6-8 p.m. Sunday, December 8, 2013 at the Beyer Snider Memorial Funeral Home, in Neligh.
Burial was at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Neligh with Military Rites by Neligh American Legion Post #172.
Pallbearers were Dwaine Jones, Kenneth Dredge, Bob Dredge, Steven Dredge, Michael Dredge, David Dredge, and Jeremy Dredge. Arrangements are being conducted Beyer Snider Memorial Funeral Home in Neligh.
Dean passed away Thursday, December 5, 2013 at Faith Regional Hospital in Norfolk, NE.
Delano Dean Jones was born to Albert and Anna (Liddy) Jones in Elgin, NE on December 30, 1928. Dean attended country school near Elgin. On December 1, 1948 he enlisted in the United States Air Force in Norfolk, NE. He was discharged on September 5, 1953 at Charleston Air Force Base Charleston, South Carolina. He married Annabelle Edwards on November 1, 1952 at Miami, FL. He operated a TV/Sales Service shop there. They moved to Neligh, 1960 where he worked at the Neligh Hatchery, constructing building homes with his brother-in-law, and worked at the mobile home trailer factory from when it first opened until the factory closed. Annabelle passed away in 1993. Dean was the maintenance man at the Antelope County Court House for 22 years. He was united in marriage to Dorothy Loudenslager Dredge on June 1, 1996 in Oakdale, Ne. Dean loved fixing things that were broken or patching them back together. He enjoyed woodworking and made many things for the family. He was a member of Neligh American Legion Post #172, the Church of Christ, and was a church Deacon there.
Survivors are his wife, Dorothy. Children: Russell and Renee Mawson of Suwanee, GA, Shirley and David Stearns, of Norfolk, NE, Dwaine and Lisa Jones of Hickman, NE, Georgia and Richard Tournear of Quincy, IL, Kenny Dredge and Karen Walker of Lincoln, NE, Donna Sack of Hooper, NE, David and Alma Dredge of Phoenix, AZ, Bob and Joelene Dredge of Fremont, NE, Steven Dredge of Omaha, NE, Michael and Jamie Dredge of Lincoln, NE, Amy VanHoose of Hannibal, MO, Jeremy and Regina Dredge of Lewistown, MO and son-in-law, Robert Sharples. 35 grandchildren, 19 great grandchildren, and 30 great great grandchildren.
He is proceeded in death by his parents and his first wife, Annabelle. Daughter, Barbara Sharples and her first husband, Gene Henry. Brothers and sisters: Albert, Charles, Maurice, Donald, Kenneth, Ella, Lloyd, Dale, Lottie, Faye, and Betty Lou.
Condolences may be sent to the family at www.beyersnidermemorialfh.com
Four Wolfpack Wrestlers Bring Home Medals Saturday
HOWELLS — All four Wolfpack wrestlers brought home medals Saturday from the first big meet of the season. The team was on the road early to compete at the Howells-Dodge Pool Tournament and their efforts were rewarded with medals.
The Wolfpack's two returning state qualifiers, Andrew Fangman and Brett Kinney, competed at 145 pounds in the tournament. Fangman finished fourth and Kinney placed fifth. Geoffrey Carr placed eighth in the 113-pound class and Brody Hupp, competing at 170 pounds, finished seventh.
For the complete story, see the print edition of The Elgin Review
Wolfpack Boys Fall to N/V In Season Opener
VERDIGRE — Friday night was opening night for the Wolfpack boys basketball team. For their opponent, Niobrara-Verdigre it was their second game of the season. The Cougars capitalized on the experience gained from the extra game to claim a 58 to 38 victory over EPPJ.
In the third quarter, Niobrara-Verdigre took control of the game. The Cougars held the Wolfpack scoreless for the first 4:16 of the third quarter, outscoring the Wolfpack 12 to zero during that time span to break open the game.
Freshman Chad Bode ended the dry spell for the Wolfpack with a deuce at the 3:44 mark of the quarter. Jack Borer added a trey and Scott Moser added another basket to account for the Wolfpack's sum total of seven points in the quarter.
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Ridge coach Laurie Anthony saw no panic in her players' eyes as she called a timeout with a little more than three minutes left in the Somerset County Tournament championship game. Even though Hillsborough was making a late charge, Ridge knew what to do to. After all, it hoisted the trophy last season.
After the three minutes dwindled away, Ridge, No. 10 in The Star-Ledger Top 20, had the trophy once again, thanks to a 19-14 victory over Hillsborough in Bridgewater.
"They were fired up," Anthony said. "This is a team that I don't tell them they need to get fired up. They were fired up. I'm very confident that going into states they're going to fight. I told them to leave everything out there."
Ridge (14-2) scored the first two goals of the game early, but Hillsborough (12-6) battled right back and tied the score. Using an efficient offense to go with a swarming defense, Ridge made sure it never lost the lead.
A 7-0 run from Ridge made it 9-2, and it took a 10-4 lead into halftime. Though Hillsborough had several runs in the second half to cut into the lead, including a 3-0 and a 3-1 span, it was never enough to overcome Ridge's offense. Erika Cavallo scored five goals to lead Hillsborough.
With constant face-off wins, Ridge was able to rebuild the lead whenever it needed to. Accurate shooting helped it too, as all but three shots found the back of the net.
"I think one of the things we've been really trying to work on in practice is taking smart shots and smart decisions," Anthony said. "We're definitely becoming smarter within our shots and when we have possession of the ball. I've been telling them that if we have possession, we have control of the game."
Sam Brown was the focal point of Ridge's offense, scoring four goals while assisting on four others. Ellexa Thomas thrived on the defensive end, helping lock down Hillsborough's Kristina Dunphey, one of the top scorers in the state. Dunphey entered the game with 106 goals on the year, but was held to only one score on the night — her lowest output of the season.
"She did an outstanding job," Anthony said. "I told her yesterday she was face-guarding her, and she was like, 'Oh, okay!' with a smile on her face.' She had a huge game. She's just an amazing athlete."

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Configuring Jetty, Maven, and Eclipse together with Hot Swap
For over a year I've been developing a Java webapp in Hibernate with maven and Jetty. Recently I've figure out how to make them all play nice with each other. For too long I had to restart my application server, which takes upwards of 45 seconds, for any code changes to make it to my development server. This tutorial will show you how to setup Jetty in embedded mode, and using Eclipse, attach a debugger to enable True Hot Swap of code onto your Jetty server.
Environment Information:
Eclipse 3.4.0
maven 2.0.10
m2eclipse 0.9.7 (maven plugin for eclipse)
Jetty 6.1.10
Maven Jetty Configuration:
In your maven project's pomx.xml, in your <build> section, add the jetty plugin. An example can be found at the Jetty website here:
It is very important to keep <scanIntervalSeconds> set to zero. This setting tells Jetty how often (in seconds) to scan the webapp for changes and if changes are found, it re-cycles the web container. You don't want to do this and setting it to zero will disable it.
Configuring Jetty to start within Eclipse:
Next, create an easy way to launch your jetty server. I'm using Jetty through Maven and Eclipse. Here is how I setup an Eclipse External Tool to launch my Jetty server:
To make sure it is listening for a debugger, make sure that a MAVEN_OPTS environment variable is set with the following options:
-Xdebug -Xnoagent -Djava.compiler=NONE -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=4000,server=y,suspend=n
The address parameter is what port the jetty server will be listening on for the remote debugger.
Click 'Run' and your jetty server should start running in Eclipse's console window. It should look something like this (depending on your log4j config):
Listening for transport dt_socket at address: 4000
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'jetty'.
[INFO] Building myProject
[INFO] task-segment: [jetty:run]
[INFO] Preparing jetty:run
2010-05-27 15:39:25.733::INFO: Started email@example.com:8080
[INFO] Started Jetty Server
Attaching the Debugger:
Next, setup a debugger. In Eclipse open 'Debug Configurations', and create a new 'Remote Java Debugger'. Select your eclipse project, set the host to localhost, and set the port to 4000, or whatever you defined earlier.
Press the Debug Button and the remote debugger should attach to your jetty server.
Finally, make sure Build Automatically is enabled in eclipse (Project->Build Automatically).
At this point your environment is enabled for debugging code on your Jetty server through Eclipse. Breakpoints, watch variables, you name it.
Hot deploy is also enabled. If you modify some java code, the automatic builder should compile the .java file to a .class file. The remote debugger will see it and use it, all without restarting your jetty server or its web container. This will not work for things like adding static variables, new domain classes, or new injectable service methods that require the application to acknowledge them on startup.
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10 Responses to 'Configuring Jetty, Maven, and Eclipse together with Hot Swap'
Hi, really helped me.
it do not work when i change code in a spring controller class with @Controller annotation.can you tell me the reason.
Thanks a ton.
It helped where I struggled.
This is the easiest way available as compared to other resources on the net.
I have resolved my problem. My project use maven and aspectJ. I use AJDT and m2e plugin to develop in eclipse. In this case, i install AJDT configurator for m2e v1.0 to let hot-swap work. (http://www.eclipse.org/ajdt/).
When i want to share my hot-swap experience, i check this page again. i'm glad to see your reply. Thanks for your reply.
Thanks it really worked!!
I found RunJettyRun plugin, worked well: https://code.google.com/p/run-jetty-run/
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Tonight, National Geographic Channel is offering up a two hour "fact based drama" on one of the most famous moments in American history. Rob Lowe is playing Kennedy, with Ginnifer Goodwin appearing as Jackie. Michelle Trachtenberg is also in the show in a Russian-speaking role (we're told it's her first such part). Will Rothhaar is also in the movie playing Lee Harvey Oswald and the entire thing is based on Bill O'Reilly's book of the same name. This year, of course, also marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination.
Nov 12, 2013
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Wells Fargo Insurance - part of Wells Fargo & Company - announced that Madison-based Meredith Schnur, senior vice president with its Professional Risk Group, was named one of the Top 25 "Women to Watch" by Business Insurance®, a leading publication in the insurance industry.
The "Women to Watch" honor is awarded annually to recognize influential female leaders and executives who provide exemplary work in the fields of insurance, risk management and employee benefits. The honorees are selected based on evaluation by Business Insurance® editors and are judged based on recent achievements, influence in the field and contributions to the advancement of women in the workplace.
"On behalf of Wells Fargo Insurance, we are thrilled Meredith has been honored as one of The "Women to Watch" by Business Insurance," said Laura Schupbach, head of Wells Fargo Insurance. "Her continued leadership, industry expertise and knowledge of technology errors and omissions insurance and network risk coverage are invaluable resources to Wells Fargo Insurance and our customers."
In her role, Schnur specializes in professional liability, technology errors & omissions, media, network security and privacy related lines of coverage. She provides consultative services, market negotiations, policy analysis and placement, policy administration and claims advocacy services. Schnur established Wells Fargo Insurance's Technology, Privacy and Network Risk Practice group in 2007. She also helped organize the first NetDiligence Conference in 2010, co-chaired it during its second year and co-authored a network security and privacy claims study sponsored by the organization in 2012. Based in Madison, New Jersey, Schnur is a frequent speaker at various industry events relating to the topics of network security and privacy.


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Happiness at the U.N.
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I stood in the midst of the United Nations Headquarters as a room of 600 applauded me, barely grasping the reality of what had just happened.
It sounds like a dream I was rudely awoken from, but it wasn't. This past Monday I attended a meeting at the United Nations in New York convened by the Government of Bhutan entitled "Happiness and Wellbeing: Defining a New Economic Paradigm". I was excited enough since receiving a letter from the Honorable Prime Minister of Bhutan inviting me to participate in a global discussion on how the international economy can be redesigned to incorporate and value the social welfare and happiness of people around the world.
Monday began with a series of remarkable addresses by the likes of the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, the President of Costa Rica Mrs. Laura Chinchilla, the Prime Minister of Bhutan Mr. Jigmi Y. Thinley (see picture), and Ministers from France, China, Thailand, and countless others.
During a working lunch on Monday, I led a group of ten individuals on a discussion of Ecological Sustainability, one of the key pillars of Bhutan's Gross National Happiness Philosophy. We all agreed that sustainable agriculture must play a critical role, youth must be involved, and individuals need to change their patterns of consumption. It was the most lively and productive lunch I've ever had!
This is where the dream began. After the conference reconvened at the UN for our afternoon session, the Chair of the committee opened a series of great contributions from panel speakers, and input from the participants.
Without hesitation I raised my hand high amongst the crowd, and the Chairwoman called me to speak. I spent three precious minutes addressing the entire conference on the results from our lunch discussion, which allowed me to emphasize the importance of sustainable agriculture (please read and sign our petition here) and youth participation to the group. I think the room was a bit confused when I told them I was only 19.
As my speech winded down, the Chairwoman asked me to stand so I could be seen, and the entire room started to clap. There was never a greater need for that quintessential "pinch" to let me know this was really happening.
It was one of the best moments of my life.
"Happiness and well-being" – High level panel discussion (Part 2)
To listen to Chris's speech, scroll down to 1:23:45


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U2 Frontman wants to be a member of Girls Aloud
They wore sequined burlesque costumes, and were surrounded by male dancers in white top hats and tails. Before rehearsals, Bono jokingly said he wanted 'to be in Girls Aloud'.
"Seriously, I think Girls Aloud are at the cutting edge of pop music," the Sun quoted him as saying. "They are a great band and deserve to be centre stage. They have everything a pop band should have — songs, the look, its all there," he added.
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WESTLAKE, Ohio - Running back JaQuan Hardy scored seven touchdowns and the Demons defense stopped a two-point conversion in the final minute to hang on for a 56-55 win over Rocky River.
Hardy ran 20 times for 232 yards and scored from 5, 54, 9, 14, 49, 14, and 4 yards in the victory.
Rocky River quarterback Matt Lowry plunged in from 1 yard out with 30 seconds left before Westlake stopped the two-point try to give the Demons the win.
The Pirates opened the scoring when Lowry found Patrick Connors for a 24-yard touchdown and an early 7-0 lead. Lowry added touchdown runs of 21 and 30 yards for River.
Jimi Smith scored touchdowns of 3, 11, and 4 yards for the Pirates as the two teams combined for 14 touchdowns on the ground.
With the game tied at 28 at halftime, Derek Moore returned the second half kickoff 74 yards for a touchdown to give the Demons a 35-28 lead.


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Classes have been called off today at Emily C. Watkins Elementary School in LaPlace, which is near where two deputies were shot to death early this morning. St. John sheriff's deputies Brandon Nielsen, 34, and Jeremy Triche, 27, were killed at Riverview Trailer Park. Jason Triche, 30, was wounded there and later hospitalized.
The three were investigating the earlier shooting of deputy Michael Scott Boyington, 33, who was hospitalized with injuries.
Parents were notified via the district's EdConnect parent-notification system at about 6:30 a.m. that classes would not take place today, said Herbert Smith, interim superintendent for the St. John the Baptist Parish public school district.
"Due to the situation that happened in LaPlace and the close proximity of the incident, in talking with the Sheriff's Office we decided to close school today," he said.
The closure affects about 500 students who started classes last week and another 60 Head Start students who were scheduled to begin school today.
Smith said the Sheriff's Office notified the district this morning of the incident and school officials sprang into action to put provisions in place. "Everything else is fine. We've been checking on our other schools and everything is fine, normal," he said. Smith said he expects classes to resume at Watkins tomorrow.


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By Daren Mueller, Department of Plant Pathology
A new publication from Iowa State University and the Iowa Soybean Association is designed to help farmers more effectively manage soybean diseases when they appear.
The publication, "Soybean Diseases" (CSI 0004), is a comprehensive compilation of soybean disease and management information. The 36-page guide includes information on 24 soybean diseases and features an overview of the major causes of plant disease; several photos of each disease; a glossary; and quick visual cues indicating which diseases are seed-transmitted.
Copies can be ordered online free of charge through the ISU Extension Online Store at https://store.extension.iastate.edu/. There will be a charge for shipping and handling.
This is the first complete publication on soybean diseases Iowa State has produced. Iowa State has created other issue-specific publications, but this is the first to put all that information in one place. The new publication was developed to mesh with existing scouting resources.
The new publication offers more detailed disease information and outlines management options once the disease is identified using the scounting field guide.
The publication was written by Daren Mueller and ISU Extension colleagues Alison Robertson, plant pathologist; Greg Tylka, nematologist; and Adam Sisson with the ISU Corn and Soybean Initiative. Funding was supplied by the Iowa soybean checkoff, ISA and ISU Extension.
Daren Mueller is an extension specialist with responsibilities in the Corn and Soybean Initiative and ISU's IPM program. Mueller can be reached at (515) 460-8000 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Rakell Spencer's 20-point performance gave Cabrini the second-half surge it needed to defeat St. Joseph's 47-33 Saturday night. After going into the locker room at halftime leading by 4 points, Cabrini continued to knock down shots in the second half, scoring 11 points in the third quarter and 15 in the fourth. Katy Barnett added 12 points for the Crescents while Kyla Williams finished with 8.
St. Joseph's B. Favaloro finished the night with a team-high 17 points while C. Olivier and C. Hodson both recorded 6.


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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Beth Heinen Bell and her husband Christian are sick of renting.
They want more space. They'd like to host friends for dinner. And now, having seen the real estate market start to rebound, they want to turn housing payments into long-term equity.
So after a decade as someone else's tenant, the Bells, like a rising number of Americans, are finally ready to buy a home. Yet they're running into an obstacle that's keeping the national housing recovery in check: There aren't enough homes for sale.
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In this recent photo, Christian Bell and his wife Beth Heinen Bell view a home for sale with real estate agent Becky Dickenson, left, in Grand Rapids, Mich. (AP photo)
The housing shortage around Grand Rapids, Mich., a city known for its furniture industry and sleek downtown hospital complex, is fairly typical of what the country as a whole is facing this spring.
Some markets along the East and West coasts have grown red-hot. A handful of other cities remain depressed nearly four years after the Great Recession ended. But many more places are like Grand Rapids - a metro area of roughly 1 million that is strengthening slowly but steadily.
Like so many others, this Midwestern city 150 miles west of Detroit never experienced either the buyer frenzy or the price collapse that marked the boom and bust. Yet it, too, was affected. Prices fell. Homeowners lost equity. And now, many remain unable or unwilling to sell.
The shortage of homes is occurring just as ordinary Americans want to buy again. More of them feel confident about their job and retirement account. Mortgage rates are near historic lows. And prices are rising again, easing fears that new buyers might lose their investment in a home.
"The last four years have been rough," says Christian Bell, a 31-year-old Presbyterian minister. "But housing prices are starting to come back up."
A tight supply isn't the only factor slowing what is otherwise shaping up as the strongest spring buying season since the housing boom ended nearly seven years ago. Some Americans have grown to prefer renting. Others who would like to buy lack strong enough credit or a large enough down payment to meet the stricter standards banks now impose.
Part of the reason for the supply problem is that when the housing market collapsed in 2006, many people lost so much equity in their home that they were unable or unwilling to sell. Prices have started to rise, but not enough to restore what many lost. Some still owe more on their mortgage than their home is worth.
Even many who have enough equity to sell want to wait for further price increases.
"Every buyer wants to buy at the bottom, but no seller wants to sell at the bottom," says Stan Humphries, chief economist at real estate information site Zillow. "They've got this hypothetical price that they think the house is worth at the peak, and they don't want to sell below that."
Others don't want to leave. During the depths of the recession, they chose to renovate their house instead of finding a new one. After paying for renovations, they now feel more invested and comfortable in their home.
That leaves many first-time buyers like the Bells - a group that makes up about one-third of buyers - competing for a small number of homes.
Just a few years ago, the housing market was facing an oversupply of homes, one that eventually led prices to collapse. The bubble - and the bust - were worst in areas like Arizona, South Florida, Southern California and Las Vegas where developments kept popping up on vast tracts surrounding cities.
Banks offered absurdly low teaser rates to new homeowners who often bought with no money down. When their loan rates climbed after the introductory period, many were left unable to pay. Banks foreclosed, home values fell and those homes ended up being sold for a fraction of their cost.
In the past two years, hedge funds, banks and other investors entered those markets and helped soak up the supply and lift prices. Now, the country is facing a shortage of homes for sale.
In a few especially hot areas, such as around San Francisco and Seattle, some of the same kinds of bidding wars that inflated the housing bubble are back. Crowds of buyers are creating traffic jams outside open houses.
"People have been wanting to move for a very long time," says Glenn Kelman, CEO of online real estate broker Redfin. "Somebody rang a bell and said the boom is back, and nobody wants to be late to the party."
The market in Grand Rapids is more subdued but still driven by a supply shortage.
The Bells recently toured a 142-year-old home. Calling it a "fixer-up project" would be generous. Floors drooped. Doorways tilted. The master bathroom had a comically low ceiling. The only thing working in the living room was a mouse trap.
It was the only affordable house for sale in the small historic Heritage Hill neighborhood the Bells love. Within walking distance are shops and a church converted to a brewery. Restaurants are packed on weeknights with young professionals snacking on bacon cheddar meatballs, polenta fries and chicken fried livers.
The only thing harder than finding a seat at the bar during happy hour is finding a home for sale nearby.
Nationally, there were just 1.93 million homes on the market in March, down 16.8 percent from the prior year, according to the National Association of Realtors. In a healthy market, there's roughly a six month supply. This March, that number had fallen to 4.7 months - a situation stacked against buyers.
As more would-be buyers bid on fewer properties, prices are being forced up at a rate that might be overstating the market's health. Prices in the top 20 cities have risen 9.3 percent in the past year, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller home price index. That's the fastest year-over-year increase since May 2006.
Homes now sit on the market for just 62 days, down from a median of 91 days last year. Would-be buyers who like a home are being urged to act fast.
The tight supply is a key reason that Susan Wachter, a real estate and finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, estimates a full recovery is still three to five years away. Even so, Wachter calls this "a breakout spring." The public now recognizes, she says, that the housing recovery will last.
The Bells have already lost out on one house they liked.
"We wanted a day to think about it," says Beth Heinen Bell, 32, a communications coordinator for a writing festival. "We left the house, and our agent got a call that there was an offer in."
Diane Griffin, CEO of Griffin Properties, which has been helping the Bells search for a home, says a major problem is that many potential sellers aren't being realistic about price. She often has to explain that their property isn't worth what it was during the boom.
"This is the most difficult conversation I have with people," she says. "I have it multiple times a day."
Prices here bottomed in October 2011, after falling 24.5 percent during the prior 5 1/2 years. They have since risen 7.6 percent, to a median of $114,400, giving many buyers enough confidence to come into the market. Yet even so, home values remain 17.2 percent below the peak, according to Zillow. If prices continue to rise, they will eventually help more sellers come off the sidelines.
Some relief will also eventually come from faster construction. Builders broke ground on homes in March at the highest annual rate since June 2008. But construction firms aren't yet ready to return to the even greater levels of building needed to fill the housing shortage. They're worried about rising costs for materials and labor. And many have had trouble finding skilled workers.
The overall pace of homes under construction rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.04 million in March, the Commerce Department reported. March's pace was nearly 46 percent higher than in the same month in 2012.
Analysts say prices and sales still need to climb further before builders ramp up construction. The prices that new homes are selling for still don't match the cost of construction.
For now, that leaves would-be buyers with few options. Agents urge their clients to act fast, knowing how fierce the competition is. But often, it's not quick enough.


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Mhz Legacy Tracklist And Album Cover Revealed
Posted on August 31, 2012 by Jamie Slaughter
MHz Legacy is the first album to drop from the MHz crew for well over a decade. Via Man Bites Dog Records, the album will be released on October 30th, with the usual crew consisting of Tage Future, Copywrite, RJD2 and Jakki Da Motamouth. After Camu Tao's passing, the original MHz crew changed its name to MHz Legacy to honour their lost member.
The album will feature appearances from the likes of Blu, Ill Bill, Slug and Danny Brown with production from Marco Polo, Illmind, Harry Fraud and Stu Bangas.
MHz Legacy Official Tracklist
1. Accidentally On Purpose (Prod. By Rob Stern)
2. Hindsight (1998) Ft. Playdough (Prod. By RJD2)
3. Four Player Mode (Prod. By RJD2)
4. Out Of Room (Prod. By RJD2)
5. Spaceship Ft. Danny Brown (Prod. By Harry Fraud)
6. Soul Train (Of Thought) Ft. Oh No The Disrupt (Of Gangrene) (Prod. By !llmind)
7. Addictionary Ft. ILL BILL & Slaine (Of La Coka Nostra) (Prod. By Stu Bangas)
8. Gone! (Prod. By Surock)
9. Obituaries (Prod. By Marco Polo)
10. Columbus Diss Patch Ft. Dom (Prod. By J Rawls)
11. Mass Temple Ft. Steve From Middle Distance Runner (Prod. By Jason Rose)
12. Y'all Don't Know (Prod. By D1)
13. Yellow & Blue Ft. Blu (Prod. By Surock)
14. Satisfaction Ft. Slug (Of Atmosphere) (Prod. By RJD2)
15. Tero Smith Ft. Aaron Livingston (Of Icebird) (Prod. By RJD2)
16. Somewhere (2099) (Prod. By RJD2)
17. Mechanical Me (Prod. By Jason Rose)


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Albert Pesso • Friday Morning
Despite our best efforts, some traumatized clients seem unable to identify or try to change destructive or negative behavior patterns. Consequently, they return to treatment repeatedly complaining of old injustices and mistreatment often filled with anger and hostility. This workshop presents an innovative approach for helping them move forward by developing a different narrative enabling them to make an inner movie that reframes their traumatic past and creates a new vision of the future. You'll learn how to conjure a "Possibility Sphere" that provides an alternative narrative of what could or should have been in a client's life. You'll explore ways to juxtapose this story with the real-life one in which the client is stuck, using specific techniques (such as scripting an imaginary movie) that can begin to help overwrite old, dead-end stories. You'll come away with a toolkit of new techniques, including reversals, microtracking, and the "witness," for helping these clients tap into different core feelings and access positive emotions.
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Where in the Zoo? Discovery Forest!
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10 Teens with Bright Futures
Hopes for this group are as varied as the teens are, but all share a passion for learning and a committed ambition to achieve their goals. Meet Stamford's ten teens to watch. It won't be long before they're making headlines again.
DIANE YANG, Stamford High School and ALLEN LOUIS, Brunswick School
Rita Newman
Academy of Information Technology & Engineering
Fascinated by eco-friendly structures and sustainable designs, Rita Newman combines an artistic nature with talents in science and math, making the skyscraper the limit for this AITE senior. Rita won the Innovation Award in a 2011 design competition sponsored by the Home Builders Association of Connecticut for her model of a home with an unusual green roof that funneled rainwater. "But architecture's not the right fit for me," she explains. "I'm drawn to civil engineering. It connects better to my interest, which is solving problems. I figured out early on that I can catch on to difficult math and science concepts and explain them."
The National Honor Society member is in the top of her AITE class but also nurtures a creative side. She has spent the past several years teaching crafts to Stamford Hospital patients and started a business making and selling jewelry. She's also a talented writer who won a National History Day essay contest.
Rita is big on pushing her comfort zones too. A sixteen-day Outward Bound excursion through the Delaware Water Gap before her junior year was "not the kind of trip anyone who knows me well would expect me to go on. I hate bugs and I'm not big on nature." She would be much more comfortable in a well-designed house that was considerate of the environment. "If you build it well, it will last for years, so why not make it safe and green?"
Always on Her iPod: Alternative rock and indy artists like Augustana
Fashion Must-Have: Earrings are my favorite thing to make and wear with plaid flannels and jeans.
Favorite Junk Food: Sour Patch Kids
Jayant "Jay" Rao
Stamford High School
Jay Rao has so many interests and talents, it's hard to put a label on him and make it stick. Which suits the Stamford High senior just fine because he likes having options. "At this age, why say, 'I'm the science kid or the athlete kid?' I don't even have a favorite subject. I just like learning in general." Which explains why Jay boasts such a diversified portfolio of personal achievements: He's a leader in Junior Achievement, a dedicated community volunteer, an accomplished debater; he runs track and earns exceptional grades.
Jay is vice president of Stamford High's active chapter of buildOn, an international service organization that brings schools to rural areas in developing countries. He was so inspired by his spring buildOn trip to an impoverished Nicaraguan village that teaching just may be his career choice. "I'm from a family where an education is valued. Honestly, my good grades were really expected. When I was in Nicaragua I saw the impact education can have when access to good schools isn't a given. I saw it opening up lives and realized how it truly is an escape from poverty." Fitting in regular volunteer work at institutions ranging from Stamford Hospital to the Bruce Museum "is tough, and I get less sleep than my classmates, but I honestly don't mind. I like to do things that make me feel like I've made a difference." Now that's top of the class.
Celebrity Crush: Natalie Portman
Quirky Habit: All the stuff on my dresser has to be symmetrically arranged.
Favorite Musicians: I like really out there alternative rap music like Kid Cudi and Chiddy Bang and Lupe Fiasco.
Mackenzie Griffin
Trinity Catholic High School
She shoots. She scores. She aims high on and off the court. Though she insists she's the ultimate girly girl, Mackenzie Griffin is also tough stuff, arriving for her photo shoot with her wrist in a brace, and regaling us with stories of past sports injuries—herniated discs, torn ligaments and a broken leg. Ouch! Still, the Trinity Catholic basketball star always bounces back, proving she's one determined hotshot.
An honors student who averages nineteen points and ten rebounds per game, Mackenzie is a tenacious forward who hopes to follow mom Dorothy and big sister Cayleigh into the ranks of collegiate athletes. "I know it's really hard to play after high school, but I want the college sports experience very badly."
The demands of her sporting life are constant. She sticks with a healthy training diet, trains four times a week and plays for an elite AAU travel basketball team. The social sacrifices are worth it, she says. "The team becomes like a family. We fly on the same plane, stay at the same hotels. It's intense, but we're close."
In the classroom Mackenzie hits her mark in AP history and English. She has also interned for The Advocate sports desk and coaches little sister Riley's recreational basketball team. "It's hard to fit it in with my crazy schedule, but I love the girls. That was me once, looking up to the older girls who coached and mentored me."
Stress Buster: I like watching Jersey Shore. It's kind of embarrassing.
Lucky Charm: Grandpa Robert Tolan's plain gray TCHS sweatshirt. I wear it for good luck.
Just for Fun: I love to get my nails done and go shopping. I'm all about the girl stuff. I just leave it behind when I play.
Jonathan Berman
Westhill High School
When he was all of ten, Jonathan Berman and his older brother, Daniel, founded Connecticut Kids for Charity, a nonprofit that serves as an umbrella for their ambitious philanthropic endeavors. "From an early age, the message we got from our parents is that there are only two things in life that will make you happy: gratitude and charity," says the Westhill High senior, who turns seventeen this fall and approaches life with an infectious pay-it-forward spirit.
Jon founded Westhill's Unicef Club, which has raised $10,000 to bring children of the world clean food and water, medicines and educational supplies. He's also the webmaster for Westhill's Interact Club, which takes on charitable projects in school and around town. Jon has been recognized with several prestigious honors for his efforts, including the Prudential Spirit of Community Award, for being a top Connecticut high school volunteer.
His abundant charm and skills honed as a Westhill debater and mock trial champion had us peg him as a future charity fundraiser capable of coaxing the big bucks out of wealthy donors. Jon surprised us by explaining that his dreams involve chemistry. "Honestly, I'm a total science nerd," confesses the National Honor Society member, who hopes to become a chemical engineer. "I think my passion for it stems from the need to understand why things happen and [chemistry] is the best way to do that."
Favorite Take-Out: Kam Pei sushi
Favorite TV Show: Lost. And I did not cry at the end.
Dream Job: Chemical Engineer
Allen Louis
Brunswick School
Expect Allen Louis to reach for high notes during his freshman year at Boston's Suffolk University. The eighteen-year-old tenor was known on campus at Greenwich's Brunswick for his habit of spontaneously breaking into song—sometimes in class—as well as his infectious grin. "I'll sing just about anything," says Allen. "I don't really discriminate."
Allen gave constant testimony to his love of music in high school, where he sang in the school's a capella group and performed in Rapunzel, Les Misérables and Into the Woods. His center stage comfort zone was also blessed in the choir of his family's congregation, Christ Sanctified Church of the Haitian Ministry in Stamford, where his father, Franck, is pastor. Allen, a self-taught pianist, says, "if something in music is interesting to me, I just try it."
His parents, who are Haitian immigrants, "have sacrificed and worked really hard" to give their children the best possible education, says Allen, a leader in Brunswick's Diversity Club. Allen also excelled in language arts and is a talented writer. "I like things that have a creative side." While he dreams of a role in a Broadway musical, Allen's decision to attend Suffolk came from a desire to be well-rounded. "In a city like Boston, I can pursue music, but I also want a good liberal arts education. I don't want to limit myself." Bravo.
Favorite Broadway Musical: Wicked
Heroes: My Parents
Defining Habit: I smile constantly.
Diane Yang
Stamford High School
With her near-perfect SAT scores and abundant creative talents, Diane Yang is a study in the brilliance of versatility. "I like to consider myself wonderfully nerdy," she says, while detailing her passions for arts and sciences.
The Stamford High senior seems just a few clicks away from her professional ambition: a career in computer science. She's already attended an elite women's technology program at MIT and is intrigued by the possibility of being a rare woman in her field. "I know they say women are not supposed to excel in these things, but I never notice the gender gap. I'm too focused on solving problems."
A top-grade student, Diane also runs varsity track for the Black Knights and is an accomplished pianist who plays guitar to unwind. Already fluent in Mandarin Chinese, this first-generation American recently advanced her conversational Spanish while studying in Spain. And although her flair for art is "just for fun," she's turned her hobby into a side business by cofounding Portrait People, an online venture that transforms photographs into pencil drawings. "It's a creative outlet for me and makes me a better artist, but also a great way to earn pocket money." In her free time, she leads current events discussions with senior residents of Scofield Manor. "I love going so much, I'm hoping there's a retirement home near the college campus I end up on."
Favorite Artist: Norman Rockwell
Favorite Musicians: Alanis Morisette and Sara Bareilles
Pet Peeve: People Who Can't Spell
Daniel Rosenblum
King Low Heywood Thomas
It's hard not to flip for Daniel Rosenblum. This affable teen to watch is also a Freestyler to Watch according to the United States Olympic Team. The seventeen-year-old senior at King is the nation's No. 1 ranked men's halfpipe competitor, and he finished seventh in the 2011 Men's U.S. National Freestyle Skiing Championship (a fall in the finals ended his hopes of a win). "I just like to spend time in the air," he explains of his passion for daredevil aerial aptitude.
To be closer to snow, Daniel splits his time between King and Vermont's Killington Mountain School, where, between November and April, he trains five hours a day. Still, he manages to stay engaged in King campus life, where he's been a two-time recipient of its Outstanding Citizen Award. His freestyle agility serves him well on the school's varsity soccer team.
While he dreams of standing on an Olympic podium, Daniel seems completely down-to-earth. He excels in biology and English and hopes to work as a physical therapist someday. "I can't ski forever and I realize I have to take school seriously. And I do." For now, though, Daniel is completely dedicated to his sport; just a day after our photo shoot he jetted off to train with U.S. Olympic coaches at Mammoth Mountain, California. Keep soaring, Daniel!
Favorite Athlete: Simon Dumont, halfpipe pro
Pet Peeve: The sound of people chewing drives me crazy.
Favorite Junk Food: French Fries
Erica Nicokiris
King Low Heywood Thomas
Erica Nicokiris thinks globally but acts locally. Born in Paraguay, she was a frail, malnourished infant when her adoptive parents brought her home to Stamford. Her Greek and Jewish upbringing has given the senior a multicultural perspective and tolerance beyond her seventeen years. "People ask me, how can you be from Paraguay and be Greek and Jewish? And my response is that I am a reflection of the world we live in, which is very diverse." Erica brings her enlightened worldview to her role as copresident of King's Model United Nations. The vivacious King Scholar also hits plenty of high notes in school musicals and the King choir, where she's the lead alto. She's also a varsity golfer and volleyball player.
Despite a crammed schedule, Erica found time to mentor a minority student in King's lower school. "It's one of those things where you think, 'How do I possibly fit this in?' But when you do it, it's totally worth it." She hopes to parlay her academic talents in science into a medical career, possibly as a psychiatrist. "Being born in Paraguay and adopted was only a small part of my life, but those first few months have influenced me in so many ways. Ultimately, I think it can't help but influence the work I do."
Favorite Movie: Love and Other Drugs
Quirky Habit: Biting my cuticles. It drives my mother crazy.
Favorite Food: lomo salteado at Fiesta
Motto: "You must be the change you want to see in the world." Ghandi said that.
Pet Peeve: narrow-mindedness
Jane Lin
Academy of Information Technology & Engineering
The blue streak in Jane Lin's hair hints at a rebellious side, but she's all business when it comes to school. Jane's a top honors student who excels in math and science at AITE. She's also got some healthy ambitions—the seventeen-year-old senior is eyeing top-notch nursing schools. "People say, 'You could be a doctor,' but I think doctors tend to be more matter-of-fact about things. I want to connect with people with more warmth, and I see nursing as a caring, admirable profession."
Expect Jane to take flight with her Nightingale goal with the same boundless energy that has marked her diverse high school career. She excels in piano competitions, shares her "completely opinionated" views on the AITE debate team and volunteers as a Ferguson Library children's reader. She accomplished all that while working regular shifts as a waitress and cashier at Blue Ginger, her parents' recently shuttered Elm Street restaurant. Meanwhile, she's studied at a Brown University summer program and takes classes at Norwalk Community College just to "dabble and see what's out there."
Her schedule is intense, but Jane insists on regular doses of fun. "I see kids who are so academically focused that they miss what's out there. Once in a while, you've just got to go to the mall."
Favorite Haunts: Sephora. I don't pile makeup on myself but love to experiment on other people. To me it's a form of creative expression.
Stress Buster: I love reading to the kids at the library. They are so cute. And they get me out of my own head.
Dream Job: nurse practitioner, possibly in pediatrics
Kevin Epp
Trinity Catholic High School
To achieve his status as one of the very best students in Trinity Catholic's senior class, Kevin Epp had to juggle a lot of balls. He also caught a few. The seventeen-year-old is a varsity starter in three sports—football, basketball and his unabashed favorite, baseball. He also finished his junior year ranked second in his class.
How does he hit academic home runs when one sports season morphs into the next? "I'm very focused about everything I do. I find if I really listen to the teacher and take great notes, it's easier for me when I have to study, but I've got to admit there are a lot of late nights involved," he explains. Even his approach to sports is hyperfocused. "I love all the sports I play, but honestly, I play the others to stay in shape for baseball."
Kevin's strong arm puts him at third base for Trinity Catholic, the same position as his idol, the New York Mets' David Wright. "What I like about [Wright] is that he's an all-for-the-team player. He loves his job, but he's steady and quiet." Off the field Kevin excels in math and science and is considering top engineering schools. "If I have a chance to play in college, that would be amazing, but if it's not an option, I want to focus on getting the best engineering education possible."
Favorite Food: grilled bacon cheeseburger
Pet Peeve: drivers who don't use turn signals
Sports Superstition: When we have a winning streak during baseball season, I don't wash my pants.
Celebrity Crush: Megan Fox
Favorite Movie: Miracle
Favorite Musicians: Dave Matthews Band


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NORTH ROYALTON, Ohio -- Here are some positive events happening in North Royalton:
Partnership for a Healthy North Royalton plans to send up to 30 student leaders to this year's We Are the Majority youth rally from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday in downtown Cleveland. The Cuyahoga County Board of Health and Opiate Task Force of Cuyahoga County are organizing the event, meant to emphasize that most young people make healthy decisions and don't consume drugs and alcohol.
PHNR's High School Youth Committee and Students Together Against Negative Decisions will attend the rally, thanks to transportation from the North Royalton City Schools.
The North Royalton Board of Education has hired Melissa Vojta as the district's new director of curriculum and Patrick Farrell as its new director of personnel.
Vojta is currently the principal of North Royalton Middle School. She has been an administrator in the North Royalton City Schools since August 2006. Vojta will replace Bruce Bradley, who will retire in June, as curriculum director.
Farrell is coming to North Royalton from the Brecksville-Broadview Heights City District, where he has served as a teacher and administrator for 20 years. He will replace Gary Puntel, who was interim personnel director during the 2013-14 school year.
The fourth annual Our Community Salutes of Northeast Ohio recognition ceremony is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. May 7 at the Cleveland State University Center and Waetjen Auditorium, 2121 Euclid Avenue, in Cleveland. The event will honor graduating seniors who are entering the armed forces. Five of the students are from North Royalton. They are Mason Clay, who is entering the U.S. Army; Matthew Imburgia, John Osborne and Jeremiah Pare, who are joining the U.S. Marine Corps; and Thomas Kociuba, who is entering the U.S. National Guard. Call 216-642-0920.
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Authorities in Idaho and Washington are investigating an E. coli outbreak associated with sprouts.
So far, officials have identified 10 cases, including seven people in Washington, said Donn Moyer, spokesman for the Washington state Department of Health. Most of those sickened reported that they consumed clover sprouts in sandwiches purchased from restaurants in eastern Washington and northern Idaho.
Moyer said the sprouts all came from Evergreen Fresh Sprouts LLC in Idaho, which ships to restaurants and grocery stores throughout the Northwest.
"If you have these kind of sprouts, don't eat them," Moyer said.
The sprouts were contaminated with E. coli O121, a potentially deadly bacterium.
Five of the 10 have been hospitalized, Moyer said. No one has died. The first case popped up in Washington on May 1, with the latest case on May 13.
The sandwiches were purchased at Jimmy John's in Idaho and Washington. Patients also bought sandwiches from a Pita Pit and a deli, Moyer said.
In the past, Jimmy John's has been associated with five outbreaks, according to Bill Marler, a prominent food safety litigator in Seattle.
Sprouts are a high-risk food, causing repeated outbreaks. Health authorities caution against eating them. The problem is that they're grown in a warm, moist environment in which harmful pathogens thrive. Manufacturers often wash the seeds in an antimicrobial solution before sprouting but because the seeds have little pits on the surface, bacteria can lodge themselves there are survive. Then they multiply during the sprouting process.
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• Annual wake from hibernation has bears looking for easy prey in neighborhood
By Naomi Klouda
Homer Tribune
A brown bear is the suspected culprit of a chicken coup raid and of seriously damaging a spring garden after ripping into a high tunnel off Greer Road, nine miles East End Road in the Fritz Creek area. The bear has also wreaked havoc on Yukon Road before Greer.
Adam Green found all his plantings ruined – carrots, beats, potatoes, greens.
"All trampled," he said Monday. "The bear came along and put his paws on it and pushed in all the sides every four feet. He ripped open doors on each end – absolutely ripped it apart," Green said. The damage can be repaired but it's going to take some work.
The bear made off with one duck and three chickens, before all of them scattered into the trees and needed to be herded back.
"One of the chickens is injured. The bear just attacked them, chewed on them and left them there. He had already gotten into other chicken coups," he said. "Maybe he was full."
Since its established itself as a nuisance bear, neighbors on Greer were given permission to shoot it.
"We've had a lot of reports about that bear. It's obviously the time of year when the bears are waking up and they're a little mischievous and a lot hungry," said Wildlife Officer David Chaffin. "We're asking people to keep vigilant and an eye out. If it gets to be enough of an issue – we'll address it."
In the case of the Greer Road bear, officials received a lot of calls. But Fish and Game Wildlife Technician Larry Lewis said the department surprisingly hasn't received many spring calls about bear incidents. "There are a lot of moose carcasses. We're not getting very many calls around residential areas. They may be finding dead moose and that's easy pickings for them," he said.
Fish and Game estimates 135 moose, the majority calves or yearlings, died of starvation this year. That doesn't count the road-killed moose. "Some we highly suspect were starvation animals. We've been looking at the bone marrow, the condition of the bone taken from the femur, which is severely depleted of nutrition (in moose that starved). By the time they were eating spruce needles they weren't doing real well," Lewis said.
The deep snows this past winter impacted a number of animals, though the most noticeable sufferers were the moose. The owl populations are high right now, reports Kasilof resident Tom Baxter. That's largely due to an abundant food source in the snowshoe hare population. But he is warning people after his own painful experience that the Great Horned owl tends to like eating cats.
"An Anchor Point wildlife trooper told me he has never seen this many owls before. I lost a cat to a Great Horned owl, and I am sure many other missing small pets can be attributed to owl kills," he said. "Owls are not wise, they are viscous predators."
Baxter said he watched an owl make off with his cat last year. The Great Horned owls are nesting and populating heavily in the Kasilof-Anchor Point area, he said.
"A wildlife trooper said he went out one night and made owl calls. Within 45 minutes, he had 20 owls around him," Baxter said.
"The reason is because of the rabbits. But Great horned owls favor cats over rabbits. I was born and raised in eastern Washington where they eat barn cats," he said. "You can set them next to each other and the owl would chose the cat any day."
But laws are different for defending domestic animals from owls than they are in protecting from bears. "You can't legally kill an owl. Owls are federally protected."
As for protecting domestic animals from bears, Lewis recommends an electric fence.
"If there's anything you want to protect from a curious or hungry bear, portable electric fences for temporary camp situations are good," Lewis said. "A good quality hard-wired system is an excellent idea. We deal with an inordinate amount of calls pertaining to livestock."
While brown bears generally wake up earlier than black bears, there are a number of variables at work on when humans begin to encounter them more.
"Around Memorial Day weekend, you'll generally see black bear activity. It's also good to watch out in the late part of May and early June for moose calves. A No. 1 risk for humans is getting between a cow and a calf," Lewis said. "Be aware when you're out walking around to give moose a lot of room. Those animals will be very defensive of their young."
The yearling calves are getting chased away from their mothers, which also causes confusion.
"You'll see problems there, too. They are getting chased off from what they knew were safe and secure. You'll see them follow people. They'll chase people some times, come after people. Just respect them for the big animals that they are, and give them a lot of room," Lewis said.
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A credit union based at Picatinny Arsenal in Rockaway Township is suing Fannie Mae for the return of $14 million in loans and mortgages "fraudulently" sold to the federal mortgage agency by a now-bankrupt loan-servicing firm.
On Monday, the credit union filed a lawsuit in Superior Court in Morristown seeking to recoup its money from the Federal National Mortgage Association, known as Fannie Mae, but that agency is arguing it can't return the 58 loans in question because it, too, had been duped by the loan servicing firm CU National Mortgage.
CU was hired by Picatinny Federal Credit Union to service its loans. For a fee, CU collected and processed monthly payments from loans and mortgages, passing on the payments to the credit union.
The loan-servicing firm filed for bankruptcy last month and is under investigation by federal prosecutors. But not before it left a trail of angry loan officers and confusion about where their money had gone.
CU had recently become a division of U.S. Mortgage of Pine Brook, which sold 58 of Picatinny's loans and mortgages to Fannie Mae without the credit-union's approval or knowledge -- and without paying any proceeds to the credit union, according to the lawsuit.
Picatinny is one of some 20 credit unions nationwide that had loans and mortgages with a combined worth of $115 million fraudulently sold by U.S. Mortgage to Fannie Mae, said Picatinny attorney James Forte. The lawsuit describes the scheme as a "massive fraud" against the credit unions along with Fannie Mae.
A tentative settlement in the case was reached Monday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Newark, said Forte and Fannie Mae spokesman Brian Faith, who both declined to be more specific on that pact. Faith also declined to comment on the lawsuit.
Picatinny first learned of the fraud on Jan. 27, when one of its couriers arrived at the Pine Brook offices of U.S. Mortgage to pick up documents but found it surrounded by federal agents on a raid, the lawsuit said.
In a Feb. 12 letter to Picatinny, U.S. Mortgage acknowledged some of the fraud and said it was cooperating with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Newark and departments of banking in several states, the lawsuit added.
Forte said the credit union did not immediately recognize the fraud because U.S. Mortgage kept sending it payments "to keep us in the dark." U.S. Mortgage admitted sending bogus "duplicative" financial records to both Picatinny and Fannie Mae to mislead them, the company said in its letter.
"They were showing the loans as still being in the Picatinny portfolio," when they actually sold them to Fannie Mae, Forte said.
Individual members of the Picatinny credit union have not been harmed because their loans and mortgages are still being serviced and processed, Forte said.
But their payments are going to Fannie Mae via a different loan-serving company, and Picatinny is not getting any of the proceeds -- leaving the credit union out of $14 million, Forte said.
Picatinny argues in its lawsuit that Fannie Mae does not legally own the rights to the loans and mortgages, and wants the agency to either transfer them back to Picatinny or reimburse the credit union $14 million, he added. Fannie Mae takes the position that it paid for the loans and should continue to receive the monthly payments, Forte said.


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Shelburne Municipal Warden Roger Taylor says staff members are almost finished working on a report on the subject of amalgamation with the Town of Shelburne.
It has been months since an ad hoc amalgamation committee asked the two respective councils to commission an independent study into the possibility.
The Town of Shelburne has been in a holding pattern on the issue, waiting for the Municipality to complete a staff report before moving ahead on more discussion on the subject.
The warden says there is some opposition on his council to the idea. At last year's amalgamation committee meeting, several municipal councillors did not attend.
Despite that, he believes a majority of his council could support moving ahead with the independent study on amalgamation.
"The challenge will be to be fair while protecting municipal taxpayers so they don't get hit with increases in their bills," he said.
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Warden Taylor expects a draft copy of the staff report to be complete by the end of the month, to be discussed at the municipality's next APS meeting.
During last November's ad hoc amalgamation presentation, committee members in favor of the move argued that the municipality and town were more like a single community than they were different communities.
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Although Mayor Darian Huskilson attended last year's presentation, the Town of Lockeport has expressed no interest in amalgamation.


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MOBILE, Alabama - South Alabama head coach Joey Jones can't confirm that defensive coordinator Kevin Sherrer is leaving the Jaguars' program to join Jeremy Pruitt's University of Georgia defensive staff. But just in case all the reports that surfaced Wednesday morning and continued Thursday are true, Jones is taking measures to be prepared for that situation.
"I can't say that because I think they're waiting on all the paperwork and background checks and things like that,'' Jones said in a telephone interview with Alabama Media group on Thursday. "They're moving down the road, for sure. But I can't say it's a done deal because it's really not. I can't say that.''
But just in case, as is the situation with most head coaches, Jones is preparing a short list of candidates for the position, in case he has to begin a search for a new defensive coordinator.
"Right now one of the things that's real important is we want to keep our same defensive scheme,'' Jones said. "I feel really good about that. There are some great coaches that would fit there. We want to have someone in place at or around (national) signing day (Wed., Feb. 5). It could happen quicker and if it works out that way, fine. But I would like to have somebody in right around signing day.
"I've got a short list of about three or four people already but I haven't done anything yet.''
Sherrer just finished his first season as the Jags' defensive coordinator after three seasons as director of player personnel at Alabama. In his first (and it seems likely, only) season as the Jags' coordinator, South Alabama ranked No. 1 in the Sun Belt Conference in sacks (38), No. 2 in scoring defense (25.2), No. 2 in total defense (384.3) and No. 4 in interceptions (11). In league games only, the Jags ranked No. 1 in scoring defense (21.0), No. 1 in sacks (27), No. 2 in total defense (356.1) and tied for third in in interceptions (7).
If Sherrer, who worked alongside Pruitt at Hoover High School and Alabama, joins the Georgia staff as expected, Jones will have two positions to fill. He was already interviewing candidates for the vacant position of wide receivers coach. Jerry Mack, who held that position the past two seasons, was named head coach at North Carolina Central a few weeks ago.
"We're moving along,'' Jones said of hiring a coach for that position. "We should have that nailed down by the middle of next week. ''


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Jonathan Lemalu, a New Zealand born Samoan, is already at the very forefront of today's young generation of singers. He graduated from a Postgraduate Diploma Course in Advanced Performance on the London Royal Schools Opera Course at the Royal College of Music and was awarded the prestigious Tagore Gold Medal. He is a joint winner of the 2002 Kathleen Ferrier award and the recipient of the 2002 Royal Philharmonic Society's Award for Young Artist of the Year.
Jonathan's debut recital disc was awarded the Gramophone Magazine Debut Artist of the Year award. He subsequently released his first solo recording, with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and then a recital disc with Malcolm Martineau, also featuring the Belcea Quartet.
He has performed at the Tanglewood Festival with the Boston Symphony Orchestra (Mozart's 'Requiem'), at the Ravinia Festival with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Beethoven's Symphony No 9) under Conlon and with San Francisco Symphony in John Adams' 'El Nino'. At the Edinburgh Festival he has appeared in 'Les Troyens' under Runnicles, and 'Maria Stuarda' and 'Jeptha' under Mackerras. At the BBC Proms he has sung a programme of operatic arias with the Hallé Orchestra and Mahler's 'Das Knaben Wunderhorn' with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Other concert engagements include Mozart's Requiem with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, 'Elijah' with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, 'The Flowering Tree' with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, 'The Damnation of Faust' with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra under Dutoit, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Colin Davis and with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Dutoit, Mendelssohn's 'Elijah' with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Mozart arias with the Salzburg Camerata, Handel's 'Messiah' with the New York Philharmonic, 'Peter Grimes' with the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Colin Davis in London and New York, the world premiere of Harbison's 'Requiem' with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Bernard Haitink in Boston and New York, 'Orlando Paladino' with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the 'St Matthew Passion' with the Orquesta Nacional de Espana, Rachmaninov's 'The Bells' with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Mozart's 'Requiem' with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and performances of 'Messiah' in Brisbane and Melbourne.
Equally at home on the recital platform, he has given recitals throughout Europe and North America, taking him to Berlin, Cologne, Athens, Birmingham, Amsterdam, Salzburg, Brussels, Baden-Baden, Vienna, Montreal, Vancouver, Atlanta, San Francisco, Washington, New York's Carnegie Hall, London's Wigmore Hall and the Munich and Edinburgh Festivals.
His operatic engagements in the UK have included Figaro ('Le Nozze di Figaro') and Don Basilio ('The Barber of Seville') for English National Opera, Papageno ('The Magic Flute') for the Glyndebourne Festival and Zoroastro ('Orlando') and Colline ('La Boheme') at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In Europe, he has sung the title roles in 'Saul' and 'Le Nozze di Figaro', Argante ('Rinaldo') and Leporello ('Don Giovanni') for the Bayerische Staatsoper, Leporello for Hamburg Opera, Rodomonte ('Orlando Palladino'), Papageno and Collatinus ('The Rape of Lucretia') for the Theater an der Wien, Bottom for the Opera de Lyon and in Bari, Rocco ('Fidelio') under Gergiev at the Gergiev Festival in Rotterdam and Gobrias in Handel's 'Belshazzar' for the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse under Jacobs. He also recently sang his first Porgy for the Styriarte Festival with Harnoncourt. For Opera Australia he has sung Leporello ('Don Giovanni') and Mozart's Figaro and he reprised his portrayal of Queequeg for South Australia Opera. In the United States, he made his debuts for the Metropolitan Opera Company as Masetto ('Don Giovanni'), for the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Papageno, the title role in 'Le Nozze di Figaro' for the Cincinnati Opera, and Queegueg in Jake Heggie's world premiere based on 'Moby Dick' for Dallas Opera as well as for San Diego Opera, South Australia Opera and San Francisco Opera. His future engagements include concerts with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra; 'Don Giovanni' for Baden Baden and Le gazza ladra for Frankfurt Opera.


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MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- Birmingham-based BL Harbert International recently held a topping out ceremony on a new residence hall it is building at Auburn University Montgomery, the contractor announced. The project is part of a $30 million construction management contract for modernization of the school's campus.
The new residence hall is adjacent to the Taylor Road campus entrance, across from AUM's new $21 million Wellness Center, also built under Harbert management.


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An alumni reflection from Tammy Walhof: Justice! Not 'just us'
December 2, 2013
What does the Lord require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8
What do you think of when you hear the word "justice"? Do thoughts of fairness and equality enter your mind? Or do you think of injustice—oppression, exploitation, benefiting at the expense of someone else? Maybe "justice" produces for you an image of courts or the legal system. Maybe it is a vision of human rights in their most broadly defined terms—encompassing political and economic rights, but also basic respect and dignity for all humankind. While each of these descriptions for justice (or injustice) is correct, there is another description that can help guide us in our understanding of justice.
When I first started learning Spanish, I learned the word justicia. However, it appeared in many more places in my Spanish Bible then the word justice did in my English Bible. Could I have mislearned the word? It appeared frequently where I knew the word was supposed to be righteousness. Then it also popped up in all the passages I knew as justice passages. What was going on?
It turns out that in Spanish, justicia means both justice and righteousness. Many other languages use a single word for these English words as well, including the Hebrew of the Old Testament (tsedek). They actually refer to "right relationship." Righteousness (justicia/tzedek) = right relationship with God; justice (justicia/tzedek) = right relationship with others. In each case, the word is bigger than righteousness or justice. It means both. I find it helpful every time I read the word justice, to insert righteousness as well. And where I read righteousness, I insert justice. Notice how differently Matthew 6:25-34 reads with that addition.
When one of the Pharisees tried to test Jesus by asking, "Which is the greatest commandment?" Jesus supersized righteousness and justice into loving God and loving others. He said, "All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments" (Matt. 22:36-40).
All of the law and all of the messages from the prophets are based on righteousness and justice (right relationship with God and others)?
Look at the Old Testament law books, and skim through some of the chapters (Exodus 20-30, Deuteronomy 4-26, Leviticus 1-7, 11-15, 25). These passages either offer guidelines for right worship and right relationship with God, or they regulate and guide relationships between people, including even public health and the prevention of the spread of diseases in Leviticus.
What was the task of the prophets? They had the difficult and often frustrating job of calling the people and their leaders back into right relationship, both with God and with others. Try studying the prophets, identifying in each passage which type of broken relationship the prophet is addressing at that moment. Notice also how intertwined those relationships are.
God speaks through Isaiah about true worship. "Day after day they seek me out; they seem eager to know my ways, as if they were a nation that does right. 'Why have we fasted,' they say, 'and you have not seen it? Why have we humbled ourselves and you have not noticed?' Yet on the day of your fasting you do as you please and exploit all your workers" (Isaiah 58).
The people are going through the right actions, but their relationship with God is not right because their relationship with others is lacking. Instead, they are told that loosing the chains of injustice, setting the oppressed free, sharing their food with the hungry, and providing shelter for the homeless will cause their "light to break forth like the dawn." Then their righteousness [their right relationship with God] "will go before them and the Glory of the Lord will be [their] rear guard" (Isaiah 58).
How are we doing in our relationships? Are we spending time in worship and prayer, yet neglecting the needs of others? Or, are we expending energy addressing the needs of others while neglecting our relationship with God? Are we focusing on righteousness and on justice? Or are we focusing on just us?
Tammy Walhof's passion for justice has led her to volunteer with low income families in the U.S., work with her church's relief program in Latin America, and travel the world to understand hunger and poverty. She has helped shape public policy that addresses the causes of hunger and poverty through government, relief, and advocacy organizations.
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