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NSA chief: European agencies gave us data
WASHINGTON - The director of the National Security Agency on Tuesday dismissed as "completely false" reports that his agency swept up millions of phone records of European citizens, and he revealed that data collected by NATO allies were shared with the United States.
Gen. Keith Alexander said foreign intelligence services collected phone records in war zones and other areas outside their borders and provided them to the spy agency - an operation that was misunderstood by French and Spanish newspapers that reported that the NSA was conducting surveillance in their countries.
"This is not information that we collected on European citizens," Alexander told the House Intelligence Committee. "It represents information that we and our NATO allies have collected in defense of our countries and in support of military operations."
Alexander made the comments in response to questions from the panel's chairman, Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., about reports that the NSA collected more than 70 million French phone records in a one-month period late last year and early this year and intercepted more than 60 million phone calls in Spain during the same time frame.
The reports, based on revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, stirred public anger and prompted a diplomatic protest from France.
Apparently referring to a slide outlining the information, Alexander said the leaker and reporters "did not understand what they were looking at." The sources of the data on the slide included information the NSA collected under its various authorities, as well as data that foreign partners provided to the agency, he said.
Separately, several current and former officials on Tuesday described a 2008 incident in which Germany's BND intelligence service inadvertently turned over a list of 300 phone numbers of U.S. citizens and residents, raising suspicion that Germany was conducting surveillance here. Germany and the United states also cooperate on intelligence matters, officials said.
The disclosure apparently was intended to deflect some of the criticism Washington has faced over revelations that the NSA had for years tapped the cellphone of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, which set off a furor last week.
The German Embassy in Washington declined to comment.
Alexander appeared alongside Director of National Intelligence James Clapper Jr. and two other top administration officials at a hearing called to discuss reforms to NSA surveillance programs that were overtaken by the allegations of spying against European allies and debate about the proper scope of such surveillance.
The French and Spanish intelligence agencies have had extensive, long-running programs to share millions of phone records with the United States for counterterrorism and defense purposes, according to current and former officials familiar with the effort.
The information was not phone calls' content but records of phone calls or "metadata'' collected "by French intelligence agencies and provided to us," said a senior Obama administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters. "We share information with many countries."
The information focused on Afghanistan and "elsewhere outside of France," the official said. The official described a similar arrangement with Spain, whose intelligence agencies shared information it collected overseas with its U.S. counterparts.
The failure of the French government to challenge a report in Le Monde that accused the NSA of conducting a widespread surveillance effort on French soil has vexed the Obama administration, which has felt hamstrung to respond, the official said. "We have wrestled with how you correct a story that's wrong about classified operations - particularly operations that are not yours."
The situation with France is "very delicate, diplomatically," the official said. "You can feel free to ask them why they didn't explain this" when media reports first surfaced, the official said.
The French Embassy in Washington, on behalf of the government, declined to comment.
French President Francois Hollande, after a telephone call last week with President Barack Obama, voiced deep disapproval, saying that such practices "are unacceptable between allies and friends, because they violate the privacy of French citizens."
At the hearing, Clapper said European policymakers often are not aware of everything their intelligence agencies are up to and "may not have familiarity with exactly how their intelligence operations work." He added that "there is no other country on this planet" that exercises oversight of intelligence activities to the extent that the United States does.
Administration officials have said Obama was not aware until late summer that the NSA had tapped Merkel's cellphone, and he ordered it stopped. And Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said that her panel was not "satisfactorily informed" of the collection effort against allied heads of state and that she is "totally opposed" to such actions.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., a member of the House panel, also chastised the intelligence community for failing, he said, to keep the committee informed of its surveillance of foreign allies. "If you're tapping the phone line of a foreign leader or ally, I think it is a significant intelligence activity that should be reported to the committee." He said such acts have potential for "the kind of blowback" being seen today, and thus should be put to policymakers. "Is it worth the risk of that blowback in light of the information we gather?" he said.
Rogers, clearly peeved about the perception that the NSA was overstepping bounds, asked Clapper whether eavesdropping on foreign leaders was standard practice. "As long as I've been in the intelligence business, 50 years, leadership intentions in whatever form that's expressed is a basic tenet of what we are to collect and analyze," Clapper said.
He also said flatly that U.S. allies, including European Union members, have engaged in espionage targeted at the United States.
Nonetheless, Hollande and Merkel said they will head an effort by the European Union to force the United States to adopt new overseas surveillance rules.
In their testimony, Alexander and Clapper broadly defended the NSA's monitoring of telephone records and email traffic under existing law, arguing that the programs have helped prevent terrorist attacks.
The House intelligence panel is considering possible changes to the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as part of what it called an effort to "increase transparency and rebuild Americans' confidence" in NSA programs. The law is intended to allow electronic surveillance of people allegedly involved in espionage or terrorism on behalf of foreign powers.
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New Rt. 66 Arcade Museum to open Thursday
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[April 29, 2014]
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ATLANTA — The village of Atlanta has a
new Route 66-era tourist attraction that is interactive and will take
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The pinball machine was an
all-time favorite in bars, eateries, even gas stations back in the
day. Depending on how good you were at it, you could play for
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No childhood in New England is complete without a sampling of maple sugar candy sold in the shape of maple leaves. While it resembles the syrup poured on pancakes and waffles, the candy is even sweeter and a New England tradition. This week, Joanne Gonsalves submitted a picture of what I suspect is a man returning from the forest with two buckets of maple sap.
Maple sugaring is a labor-intensive process that can be done only in certain conditions. Bruce Bascom of Bascom's Maple Farm in Alstead, N.H., says the ideal conditions are temperatures around 40 degrees Fahrenheit during the day and 20 to 25 degrees at night. In western Massachusetts, the season runs from late February to early April as long as the temperatures remain steady. The leaf-less trees in the background and the lack of heavy overcoats on the people in this picture suggest early spring.
Originally, Native Americans and early colonists gathered the sap in wooden buckets and boiled it to make maple sugar, which could be stored through the year. Today, sap is collected in metal buckets or with plastic tubing, but maple syrup production still requires time to boil the sap into syrup. The results can be discouraging with approximately 45 gallons of sap yielding only a gallon of syrup. The Massachusetts Maple Sugar Producers, a non-profit organization that promotes the history and production of maple syrup and sugar, has additional information online.
When conditions were right, individuals would travel into the forest, cutting holes in maple trees and attaching containers to collect the sap. Periodically, they would check the containers, empty sap into buckets and carry them back for the final process of boiling and refining. Generally, men carried two buckets at a time to balance their load; otherwise travel through the snowy fields could be difficult. The gentleman in this picture is carrying two buckets—one overhand, one underhand. While the design of buckets varied, his are unusually shaped.
Gonsalves thinks this picture was taken in either Massachusetts or New Hampshire. The specific location is a mystery. The house has a distinctive shape and style, suggesting it was designed by an architect for a wealthy family. The man in the picture could be the owner, but is probably one of the men employed to work the estate. At the turn of the century, many affluent families bought or built country estates in New England to work as "gentlemen farmers."
The style of the children's clothing suggests the turn of the century to 1920, but there is no particular detail in the image that helps pinpoint a year. The boys are wearing knickers with short jackets. The one on the left has a coat with a double row of brass buttons. The little girl is dressed for play with a short skirt, heavy stockings and short boots.
The camera angle in this candid photograph suggests it was taken by either someone at about the same height as the children, perhaps another child, or a kneeling adult. In either case, it was taken using one of the amateur cameras on the market during the early 20th century and pasted into a family album. The mottling visible in the picture is a result of the glue used to attach the thin paper print to the surface of the album.
Gonsalves may discover who is in the picture, or at least who took it, by examining the album for clues. If one person is absent from several candid family photographs, he or she might have been the family photographer. Since this picture is part of a larger family collection, the answer may be in one of the other pictures.
If anyone recognizes the house in this photograph, please contact me. Thank you for your help.


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Myanmar Struggles to Prevent Industrial Pollution
Activists are trying to stop Thailand from building a giant industrial hub in Dawei, across the border in southeastern Myanmar. WSJ's James Hookway reports.
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Have you ever been riding down a wet, leaf covered road, approach a corner and think "Ooh, I better be easy on this corner, it's slippery." You gently apply the rear brake and before you can think "I'm falling", your backside is being grated like swiss cheese on the asphalt at 20 mph? In today's modern litigious society, nothing is our fault anymore. We have to blame something or someone. So who's to blame for you running out of talent on that slippery corner? How about that archaic caliper braking system on your bike?
All your friends are enamored with your new carbon fiber wheelset that you just dumped more coin on than your used Toyota Corolla. They look mighty fine, but hey, unless you want to try and pull a Fred Flintstone heel braking technique with your crotch on the top tube, don't dare ride them in the rain. Oh, and if you damage the braking track on those spendy carbon hoops, you might as well make some stylish earrings out of them, because that's about all they'll be good for. Again, it wouldn't be a problem without those blasted brake calipers.
These types of sleep depriving issues used to be the woes of even the hairy-legged caveman counterpart to the road biker; the mountain biker. But in the late 1990s, hydraulic disc brakes became all the rage, and have since become one of the greatest technological innovations in mountain biking history. Ask any mountain biker who's been riding disc brakes if they would ever go back to V-brakes or cantilevers, and the response would be a unanimous and deafening "Hell no!"
So why are we still riding brake technology on our road bikes that can be dated back to the days when Orville and Wilbur Wright were busy inventing flight? Much of it has to do with tradition. Roadies are hardcore about die-hard rituals, even when they seem absolutely ridiculous; just take wearing a bicycle helmet as an example.
It took nearly a century for the UCI to mandate helmet use in professional bike racing. Throw in leg shaving, embrocation, frame waxing, sleeping in an altitude tent and using a scale to weigh dinner as well as every part bolted to a bike, and you quickly begin to understand the mentality of the road world.
The hardcore traditional roadie will scoff at the though of disc brakes on a road bike, not only because they add weight and wind resistance, but also because they simply don't work. But what do they know? Have they ever even ridden a road bike with an adequately engineered disc braking system?
Detractors of the disc brake system say that one of the biggest issues is heat dissipation. Continued braking to slow a road bike from 50 mph to 15 mph down something like the Tourmalet or Ventoux causes enough heat to boil the hydraulic system. Well, I guess if you are riding your brakes all the way down a mountain, this might be a possible scenario. But if you were riding your brakes that way on a caliper system, you'd either blow an inner tube or run your brake pads down to metal.
A boiling disc brake system is not the fault of a properly engineered brake, it's the fault of the knucklehead riding his brakes all the way down a mountain. And when you have the added braking power of a disc system, you can stop much faster in a far shorter distance, using the system less. There are numerous tour guides in Europe who have been riding disc brake road and cyclocross bikes down the biggest mountains in the Alps with no ill effects because they know how to properly use a disc braking system.
Additionally, many of the most vocal naysayers have never even ridden a disc brake road bike in the first place. Commonly known as "forum trolls", these people spend more time behind their keyboard pecking buttons and criticizing everyone than actually getting out and riding their bike. And if they have ridden a disc brake road bike and had a bad experience, it's probably because they ran some aftermarket, weight weenie system using rotors from some garage fabricator far too thin and small for the required conditions.
Other people say disc brakes on a road bike answer a question that's never been asked. Really? For those people…you either ride in the flattest portion of the entire universe or you simply don't ride enough. Now before you haul off on me in the comments section with a superfluous list of slander, not all naysayers of disc brakes are trolls. A few of them have valid points. Perhaps the biggest potential issue of disc brakes on the road is with wheel changes, particularly in a race where you receive neutral support.
Nothing is more irritating than having the rotor rub on your caliper, making that godawful shing….shing…shing over and over and over. It's more rage inducing than a Nicki Minaj song on infinite repeat. But for 99.9999 percent of cyclists who don't do bike races with neutral support, this is really a non-issue. Let the hardcore club racers and UCI license holders deal with that problem. So long as you use a post mount surfacing tool on your frame and fork, and you have two sets of wheels with the same exact rotors, rotor rub is completely avoidable.


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Severe Storms Hit Midwest with Snow, Ice, Winds
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Storms packing rain, snow and dangerous winds raked the Midwest and spawned a possible tornado near St. Louis that prompted an emergency declaration from Missouri's governor.
To the north, ice and snow Wednesday left thousands of homes and businesses in Minnesota and South Dakota without power. Forecasters said more heavy wet snow was to come Thursday.
The most violent weather was centered near the St. Louis suburb of Hazelwood late Wednesday. Downed trees crushed several homes. Street signs lay scattered across rainy streets in the aftermath of the storm.
Hazelwood Mayor Mike Robinson told The Associated Press that about two dozen homes were damaged and that trees were down throughout the city. He said emergency workers had checked all the homes and that no serious injuries had been reported.
Hazelwood resident Ellen Knop said her home was badly hit.
"The garage is gone and I'm pretty sure the front porch is in the family room," Knop told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Butch Dye, a hydrometeorological technician with the National Weather Service in St. Louis, Mo., said crews would assess the damage Thursday.
"We won't be able to confirm whether it was a tornado until teams get out there," Dye said.
Ameren Missouri said about 27,000 customers in the St. Louis area were without power early Thursday morning. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency.
A tornado was reported to have touched down near Botkinburg in north-central Arkansas, said John Robinson, the warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in North Little Rock. Four people were injured.
In Minnesota, Gov. Mark Dayton said the weather was taxing the resources of local and county governments, and he issued an executive order activating the National Guard.
The town of Worthington was using backup diesel generators to power sections of the city at a time, public utilities manager Scott Hain told Minnesota Public Radio. Roughly a quarter to a third of the city of about 13,000 people was without power at any given time, he said.
"With the generation that we have available, we are conducting rolling blackouts through the community," Hain said. "From what we're hearing from the folks that own the transmission that's down right now, is we expect that we'll be operating under this same scenario at least through the rest of today and possibly into tomorrow as well."
The National Weather Service forecast another 8 or 9 inches of snow in southeastern Minnesota on Thursday, with up to 14 inches across the south of the state, including the Twin Cities, St. Cloud, Willmar and Mankato.
Utilities in South Dakota were struggling to restore power to more than 20,000 customers still in the dark after the first wave of heavy snow hit the state early Wednesday.
Emergency crews meanwhile tried to reach isolated tribal members after deep snow blocked roads to rural communities on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Tribal official Toni Red Cloud told the Rapid City Journal that the crews were focusing on reaching those with pressing medical needs such as dialysis patients.
More snow and strong winds were forecast for Thursday.
The weather service said the challenging weather could extend into flood-prone southeastern North Dakota, where about 3 to 5 inches of snow is expected through late Thursday.
One weather service meteorologist said the snow would not change the current flood forecast.
"Any additional precipitation at this stage in the game is not necessarily a good thing," said Peter Rogers in Grand Forks. "But we're not expecting that to have an immediate impact on the rivers either."
In Wisconsin, rain, ice and snow caused minor flooding Wednesday in areas including the Rock River at Afton and Newville, Crawfish River at Milford, Sheboygan River at Sheboygan, and Manitowoc River at Manitowoc.
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Competitive Linking: Nine Simple Steps for Sucking Your Competitors Link Profiles Dry
What do you think of when you hear the term "competitive link building"? Do you grin with excitement at the thought of poaching linking opportunities from your competitors? Or do you shudder at the thought of picking through hundreds of low quality links for that one needle in the haystack? For too many SEOs, competitive link analysis is worse than simply not productive, it is a tedious, soul-sucking task that can derail your linking campaign, waste your time, and even get your site sent to Penguin jail. How do you keep this from happening?February 19, 2013 48 65


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by Mike Todd
"Oh, pooch, I'm so sorry," I said to my dog Memphis as she pressed against my shins, cowering as if she had done something wrong. We'd just strolled out into the street for our nightly walk, an event that we usually both enjoy, or at least we do when we aren't wearing shock collars that should have been removed 20 feet ago.
While I once had some misgivings about hooking up our dog to a system that is designed to treat her like a bug zapper treats a moth, I'm now a huge fan. Memphis has freedom that she'd never otherwise have, and she never tests the boundaries. The system works perfectly, if operated by a non-moron. At least I assumed that it would.
I'd take full blame for not snapping off the collar for her invisible fence before taking her off our property, but really, if we're being honest, the dog should never have trusted me. She knows that my brains are slowly turning into strained carrots.
Our normal routine had been shaken up minutes earlier, as I'd made several trips back to the house to drag appliance-sized boxes out beside the trash can, boxes that once contained the gigantic plastic monstrosities that now inhabit our living room.
One of the worst symptoms of baby-having syndrome, besides thinking that everyone wants to hear stories, see pictures, watch YouTube clips and read newspaper columns about your baby, is that every square inch of floor space in your house gets occupied by things that end in "-eroo." Bounceroos, jumperoos, this-cost-$150-but-your-kid-would-rather-play-with-empty-Doritos-bageroos, those kinds of things.
Our seven-month-old son, Evan, now has more furniture than we do. Admittedly, my memory from that era is a little spotty, but I'm pretty sure I didn't have nearly this many gigantic plastic monstrosities when I was his age. Back then, kids just stared at the wall, waiting for Super Mario Brothers to be invented.
Last year, my buddy Josh called to complain after he'd spent all afternoon assembling a huge plastic activity center for his son. "Dude, this stupid thing came in 700 pieces. I had to bust out a screwdriver and everything," he said.
"You have a screwdriver?" I asked. Josh is a computer whiz, but he has less experience using tools than your average chimpanzee.
"Go ahead and make fun, but you'll understand someday," he said.
Someday is here, and while it might take all day to put one of these things together, if you want respect, you'd be better off playing guitar in Times Square in your underpants. Nobody is ever going to say, "Oh, man, you built that Fischer-Price jumperoo all by yourself? I had no idea you were such a stud!"
Whether or not getting distracted by the baby stuff was a sufficient excuse for getting the dog shocked is a matter for debate, one that I'd lose, but it does go to show that there's hardly anything for which having a baby doesn't at least supply a plausible excuse.
When the dental hygienist gives you a hard time about your lack of flossing, you just say, "Flossing? I have a baby. I'm lucky my shoes match."
When you show up an hour late for dinner with your friends, you just point at the 30-pound car seat that you're lugging through the door, and they immediately understand. I mean, they would hypothetically understand, if you ever saw your friends anymore.
As far as Memphis was concerned, no excuses were necessary. One Milk-Bone and several apologies later, all was forgiven. I'll have to be on my toes from here on out, though. You mess up with a dog, it costs you a biscuit. You mess up with a kid, you just might have to build a plastic castle where your dining room table used to be.


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EQT to Sell Gas Utility for $720 Million Cash -- Plus Marcellus Midstream Assets
EQT to Sell Gas Utility for $720 Million Cash -- Plus Marcellus Midstream Assets
PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- EQT Corporation (NYS: EQT) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement for the transfer of its natural gas distribution business, Equitable Gas Company, LLC, to Peoples Natural Gas. As part of the transaction, EQT will receive cash proceeds of $720 million, subject to certain purchase price adjustments, and select midstream assets and commercial arrangements, which are expected to generate at least $40 million in EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) per year.
Concurrent with this announcement, EQT will also reduce its annual dividend, effective January 2013. The new dividend rate of $0.12 per share reflects the blend of EQT's two remaining core businesses - a dividend-supporting midstream business, and a capital-intensive, rapidly growing production business.
"Today's announcement allows us to focus on and reinvest in our rapidly growing natural gas production and midstream businesses. The proposed transaction provides capital to accelerate the monetization of our reserves beyond 2013 and also adds to our Marcellus midstream assets," stated David Porges, Chief Executive Officer of EQT Corporation.
As part of the transaction, EQT will receive approximately 200 miles of regulated transmission pipelines, as well as four storage pools that have a total of 15.1 Bcf working gas capacity. These assets are strategically located across multiple counties in Pennsylvania and connect to EQT's existing transmission assets, which will increase the Company's transportation and storage capabilities.
Peoples Gas has also agreed to enter long-term contracts for gas transmission, supply, and storage services with EQT. These agreements will secure supply of local, Marcellus gas of approximately 35 Bcf per year to Peoples.
Morgan O'Brien, President and CEO of Peoples Natural Gas states, "The combined utility will yield substantial benefits to the Western Pennsylvania community by creating significant operational efficiencies, relative to the pipeline systems; promoting greater competition for gas marketers; and continuing to support local gas producers." O'Brien continues, "Combining the companies' respective pipeline systems will result in a more streamlined and efficient operating system for customers. Furthermore, the greater aggregation of customers will be more attractive to marketers and is expected to attract more marketers that will create greater competition for customers' supply needs."
Equitable Gas provides natural gas distribution services to approximately 275,000 customers in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Kentucky; and owns approximately 4,000 miles of pipeline.
The transaction requires regulatory approvals from the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, West Virginia Public Service Commission, Kentucky Public Service Commission, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; and is also subject to review under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act. EQT expects to receive the required approvals by the end of 2013. Therefore, this transaction will not impact EQT's previously announced 2013 capital program.
EQT will host a brief teleconference with security analysts beginning at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time today. EQT's teleconference with security analysts will be webcast live via www.eqt.com, and will be available for replay on the website for seven days.
Lazard Freres & Co. LLC acted as a financial advisor to EQT on this transaction. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP; Baker Botts L.L.P.; and Bracewell & Giuliani LLP were counsel to EQT on the transaction.
About EQT Corporation:
EQT Corporation is an integrated energy company with emphasis on Appalachian area natural gas production, gathering, transmission, and distribution. EQT is the general partner and majority equity owner of EQT Midstream Partners, LP. With more than 120 years of experience, EQT is a technology-driven leader in the integration of air and horizontal drilling. Through safe and responsible operations, the Company is committed to meeting the country's growing demand for clean-burning energy, while continuing to provide a rewarding workplace and enrich the communities where its employees live and work. Company shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange as EQT.
Visit EQT Corporation on the Internet at www.EQT.com.
About Peoples Natural Gas:
Peoples Natural Gas is a subsidiary of SteelRiver Infrastructure Fund of North America. SteelRiver Infrastructure Fund acquired Peoples Natural Gas from Dominion Resources in 2010. In 2011, the company purchased Peoples TWP, formerly T.W. Phillips Gas and Oil Company. Peoples Natural Gas and its sister company, Peoples TWP, currently provide safe and reliable service to approximately 420,000 homes and businesses in 18 western Pennsylvania counties.
Cautionary Statements
Disclosures in this press release contain certain forward looking statements. Words such as "may," "will," "anticipate," "estimate," "expect," "project," "intend," "plan," "believe," "target," "forecast," and words and terms of similar substance used in connection with any discussion of future plans, actions, or events identify forward-looking statements. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, forward-looking statements contained in this press release specifically include, but are not limited to, statements regarding: plans, strategies, and objectives of the transaction; guidance regarding the expected form and amount of assets to be exchanged for Equitable Gas Company, LLC; the expected EBITDA to be generated from the midstream assets and commercial arrangements transferred by or entered into with Peoples Natural Gas; uses of capital provided by the transaction, including the impact to EQT's 2013 capital program; the timing of receipt of required approvals; and the expected amount and timing of the reduction to EQT's dividend. EQT has based these forward-looking statements on current expectations and assumptions about future events. These statements are not guaranties of future performance or events and are subject to significant business, economic, competitive, regulatory and other risks and uncertainties, most of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond EQT's control; that could cause actual results to differ materially from projected results. With respect to the proposed transaction, these risks and uncertainties include, among others, the ability to obtain regulatory approvals for the transaction on the proposed terms and schedule; disruption to EQT's business, including customer, employee and supplier relationships resulting from the transaction; risks that the conditions to closing may not be satisfied; and impact of the transaction on EQT's future operating income, 2013 capital program and dividend. Additional risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those set forth under Item 1A, "Risk Factors" of EQT's Form 10-K filed for the year ended December 31, 2011, as updated by any subsequent Form 10-Qs.
EQT is unable to provide a reconciliation of projected EBITDA to projected net income, the most comparable financial measure calculated in accordance with GAAP, due to the unknown effect, timing and potential significance of certain income statement items.
EBITDA is defined as operating income (loss) plus depreciation and amortization expense less gains on dispositions; and is not a financial measure calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). EBITDA is a non-GAAP supplemental financial measure that Company management and external users of the Company's financial statements, such as industry analysts, investors, lenders and rating agencies, may use to assess: (i) the Company's performance versus prior periods; (ii) the Company's operating performance as compared to other companies in its industry; (iii) the ability of the Company's assets to generate sufficient cash flow to make distributions to its investors; (iv) the Company's ability to incur and service debt and fund capital expenditures; and (v) the viability of acquisitions and other capital expenditure projects and the returns on investment of various investment opportunities.
Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which such statement is made and EQT undertakes no obligation to correct or update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Analyst inquiries please contact:
EQT Corporation
Patrick Kane, 412-553-7833
Chief Investor Relations Officer
Nate Tetlow, 412-553-5834
Manager, Investor Relations
Media inquiries please contact:
EQT Corporation
Natalie Cox, 412-395-3941
Corporate Director, Communications
Peoples Natural Gas
Barry Kukovich, 412-232-6715
Manager, Communication and Community Affairs
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Man, Woman of the Year campaign sets record for Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Right from the start, Kelly Bar-Or and Marc Paolicelli were in it to win it, and sure enough they were crowned Woman of the Year and Man of the Year at the Grand Finale Gala put on by Rocky Mountain chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS).
Bar-Or, a Greenwood Village resident and owner of an online toy store, raised $56,968 over the course of the 10-week campaign; she dedicated her effort to her mother, who was diagnosed with leukemia two years ago. Paolicelli, a blood cancer survivor and member of the Rocky Mountain chapter board of directors, raised $51,896.


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46-Year-Old Mom
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Belinda Slaughter, who is now 47, gave birth to her first baby last September. She is the oldest woman in the U.S. to give birth via IVF using her own fresh eggs, and may indeed be the oldest woman in the world to have such a distinction.
Fresh egg IVF
It's not unusual to have a successful pregnancy at advanced maternal age using IVF, but that usually takes place with donated or frozen eggs. Slaughter's pregnancy was record-setting because she used her own fresh eggs. She also beat the odds of having a baby with no chromosomal abnormalities, the risks of which increase with age.
Many IVF programs won't accept women over a certain age, and experts warn that Slaughter's case should be considered rare.
Advanced maternal age
During my last pregnancy, I was technically considered "advanced maternal age" as I was 35 when my baby was born. As such, I was offered the opportunity to get an amniocentesis and other types of prenatal diagnostic tests. I did decline these as I didn't want to risk the pregnancy (I had tried to get pregnant for three years before I was successful). My baby was born healthy and chromosomally normal.
I'm amazed that a 46-year-old woman was able to have a baby using her own eggs, but honestly it's not all that surprising — Halle Berry announced her second pregnancy at age 46 and delivered her little boy at age 47. Her pregnancy was completely spontaneous and she didn't use any sort of assistive technology at all.
Cool news, regardless of whether this sort of scenario can or will play out for other women hoping to become moms.
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Spring 2009 Academic All-Ivy Team
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Ten Harvard student-athletes are among those honored as members of the spring 2009 Academic All-Ivy League team, announced Tuesday by the league office.
The honorees are starters or key reserves on officially recognized varsity teams who have cumulative grade-point averages of at least 3.0. Five men and five women are honored from each of the eight Ivy League schools, based on the quality of their academic records and their athletic performance.
Each of Harvard's 10 selections was an All-Ivy or All-New England pick—or both—in 2009. They have combined for 26 All-Ivy and All-New England selections and four All-America honors in their careers. Eight have competed or will compete in their sport's national championship event this year.
Half of the Harvard selections come from water sports, with three representing the nationally ranked Harvard and Radcliffe crews and two coming from the coed sailing squad. Women's track and field joined sailing as the only teams with multiple honorees. Five Academic All-Ivy choices are seniors, while four are sophomores and one is a junior.
The list is perhaps headlined by three-time All-America selection Becky Christensen, a six-time Heptagonal champion the women's track and field team. A winter and spring student-athlete, Christensen is being honored for the fifth time in her career. Christensen won her fourth straight outdoor Heps title and her second straight indoor Heps crown this season. The psychology concentrator from Celina, Texas placed third at the NCAA East Regional to earn a berth in the NCAA Championships.
Sophomore distance runner Claire Richardson is the other Academic All-Ivy selection from women's track. She is a four-time All-Ivy honoree, earning first-team honors with her fourth-place Heptagonal finish in cross country and her wins in the 3,000 meters at indoor Heps and in the 5,000 at outdoor Heps. Richardson, a neurobiology concentrator and St. Paul, Minn., native, competed in the NCAA Cross Country Championships in the fall and was a provisional NCAA qualifier in the 3,000.
Christensen and Richardson are both two two-time all-academic selections of the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
Both honored sailors are competing this week at the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association Spring National Championships in San Francisco. Sophomore Alan Palmer and senior Lauren Brants sail together in the Crimson's A-division boat. Both earned All-New England honors and contributed to two national-qualifying performances, including a second-place finish at the New England Team Race Championship.
Palmer concentrates in applied mathematics and hails from Yarmouth, Maine, while Brants is a history and literature concentrator from Forth Worth, Texas. They teamed up to place third in their division at the New England Dinghy Championship.
Oarsmen Noah Bruegmann and Jared Dourdeville are also competing for national championships this week, at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championships in Sacramento, Calif. Bruegmann is a junior in the Harvard heavyweight crew and occupies the stroke seat in the third-ranked Crimson varsity eight. The chemistry and physics concentrator from Lafayette, Calif., was named to the All-Ivy second team after helping the Crimson varsity to a runner-up finish at Eastern Sprints. He has helped the boat to a 6-0 dual record so far.
Dourdeville helped the lightweight varsity eight go 8-1 in dual races and finish second at Sprints. He earned second-team All-Ivy distinction and helped the Crimson win the Jope Cup as lightweight team champion at Sprints. The engineering sciences concentrator and Marion, Mass., native is part of a boat that takes a No. 2 national ranking into the IRA regatta.
Senior captain Anna Kendrick, a history and literature concentrator from Boston, helped lead the Radcliffe heavyweight crew to its third straight appearance at the NCAA Championships this season. An All-America pick last year, Kendrick recently received her second All-New England and Scholar-Athlete honors and earned second-team All-Ivy status with the varsity eight's runner-up Sprints finish. She helped the Black and White reach No. 5 in the national rankings this season.
Senior Emily Balmert is Harvard's only four-time first-team All-Ivy golfer and has helped lead the Crimson to its first two Ivy championships the past two seasons. A biology concentrator from El Cajon, Calif., Balmert was the Ivy League Player of the Year in 2006 and has won four tournaments during her career.
Sophomore Alexei Chijoff-Evans of the Harvard men's tennis team was a unanimous first-team All-Ivy selection in singles and garnered second-team honors in doubles. In singles, he carried a 14-5 dual record, including 12-2 at the No. 2 position and went undefeated (7-0) during league play. The anthropology concentrator from Plano, Texas went 21-14 in doubles and teamed up with senior Chris Clayton to win the ITA Northeast Regional in the fall.
Sam Slaughter is a senior captain on the Harvard men's lacrosse team, which climbed as high as No. 11 in the national rankings this season. The Wilton, Conn., native studies economics and was a part of a Crimson defense that ranked third in the nation. He was selected to the All-Ivy second team, the All-New England first team and the roster for the U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association North-South All-Star game.
Spring 2009 Academic All-Ivy League Team
Harvard Selections
Noah Bruegmann, Men's Heavyweight Crew (Jr.; Chemistry & Physics; Lafayette, Calif.)
Alexei Chijoff-Evans, Men's Tennis (So.; Anthropology; Plano, Texas)
Jared Dourdeville, Men's Lightweight Crew (So.; Engineering Sciences; Marion, Mass.)
Alan Palmer, Coed Sailing (So.; Applied Mathematics; Yarmouth, Maine)
Sam Slaughter, Men's Lacrosse (Sr.; Economics; Wilton, Conn.)
Emily Balmert, Women's Golf (Sr.; Biology; El Cajon, Calif.)
Lauren Brants, Coed Sailing (Sr.; History & Literature; Fort Worth, Texas)
Becky Christensen, Women's Track and Field (Sr.; Psychology; Celina, Texas)
Anna Kendrick, Women's Heavyweight Crew (Sr.; History & Literature; Boston, Mass.)
Claire Richardson, Women's Track and Field (So.; Neurobiology; St. Paul, Minn.)


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Think of how many online accounts you have each, with a username and password that most likely, only you know.
Even if you're anti-Facebook or choose not to hop aboard the Twitter train, chances are you have an email account, or maybe you follow your finances online.
But what if you have an accident, fall into a coma, or worse -- you die, without sharing the secrets that would unlock your personal life online? What happens to all that information? Unless you've passed all your passwords along, chances are your information will be buried in a virtual graveyard.
Now there's a site aimed at solving your post-life password problem.
San Francicso-based Legacy Locker is digital safe-deposit box of sorts, holding the virtual keys to your online accounts.
Jeremy Toeman came up with Legacy Locker after his grandmother died and he couldn't unlock her online information to contact her friends and help manage her affairs.
"In the old days, we'd write letters and leave them with our family or in a safe deposit box." Toeman said, "Today, nobody writes. We only type, or text or whatever."
The site also allows you to upload legal documents like your will, the deed to your house or even a copy of all the cards you carry in your wallet.
The service runs from $30 to $300, depending on what plan you choose.
It sounds a bit morbid, yes, but very necessary. Another service borrows the mood for their name. Slightly Morbid allows you to consolidate all your personal online contacts and should you die or fall into a coma, the service will contact your nearest and dearest with a personal message from you.
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Whether it's a death notice or a digital safe keeping vault, the emergence of these sites highlight a new need, forged by our new lives -- online and beyond.
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SANTA CRUZ — A 39-year-old man was arrested Sunday after he threatened a police officer with sharpened sticks at a homeless camp.
About 12:20 p.m., an officer tried to stop probationer Brian David Zier in the parking lot of 650 River St. near Highway 1, said Santa Cruz Deputy Police Chief Steve Clark.
Zier ran to an illegal camp near the San Lorenzo River levee, Clark said. He brandished sharpened sticks at the officer and said that he was not going to be arrested again, police said.
The officer started to pull out his pistol and Zier dropped the sticks, said Clark.
Zier threatened the officer again, prompting the officer to pull out a Taser gun. Zier was then arrested on suspicion of brandishing a weapon, threatening a police officer and a probation violation, according to police. He was also arrested on suspicion of vandalism after he kicked and dented a patrol car during his arrest, police said.
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Among the nine siblings in their family, Rose Bakaysa and her younger sister Theresa Sokaitis shared a special bond.
As they hit their 70s and 80s, their dream of jackpot riches became a central part of that connection, fueling road trips three or four times a week to Foxwoods Resort Casino and countless lottery tickets that yielded a few bucks here and there, but no major money.
That was until June 2005. Bakaysa and her brother won a $500,000 Powerball jackpot and, it would seem, the sisters' dreams finally had come true.
But that is not the case, which is why the sisters were in court on Tuesday.
The sisters haven't spoken since Sokaitis sued Bakaysa in 2005 but faced each other in New Britain Superior Court.
Sokaitis, 84, says Bakaysa, 87, violated a written, notarized contract to split all winnings.
Bakaysa says Sokaitis had broken off the deal during a 2004 fight over a few hundred dollars. Sokaitis acknowledges they had a tiff, but believes the contract was still in place.
"I love my sister. There was no reason not to be partners," Sokaitis testified Tuesday.
Sokaitis said Bakaysa often helped her pay rent while she was raising her six children, helped her get back her car when it was repossessed and paid for one of her daughters' Catholic school tuition.
It was that daughter who informed Sokaitis of Bakaysa's $500,000 Powerball jackpot, which Bakaysa split with their brother instead of Sokaitis.
Bakaysa testified Tuesday that she started gambling with her brother instead of Sokaitis after their 2004 fight, which came not long after Bakaysa stayed with Sokaitis for a few weeks while recovering from heart surgery.
"She was shouting, 'I don't want to be your partner anymore.' I said all right, that was it, I tore up my contract," Bakaysa testified, sitting about 25 feet from Sokaitis as her sister hung her cane on the courtroom railing.
When Sokaitis learned of her sister's lottery win the next year, she asked for her share.
"I told her I felt I deserved a share of the money and she told me I wasn't going to get a dime," Sokaitis testified. "I said, 'I have a contract.' She said, 'I tore mine up.' I said, 'I didn't."'
The brother, Joseph Troy Sr., was scheduled to testify Tuesday afternoon. A ruling was not immediately expected.
A judge had dismissed Sokaitis' lawsuit under a Connecticut law that makes gambling contracts illegal. But the state Supreme Court, in a ruling that took effect in August, said the sisters' agreement wasn't covered by that law because it involves legal activities. It said the case could go to trial.


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Students initiate an inquiry byAsking relevant and focusing questions based on what they have seen, what they have read, what they have listened to, and/or what they have researched (e.g., Why was the soda machine taken out of the school? Why is the number of family farms in Vermont growing smaller?).
Students show understanding of past, present, and future time byGrouping historical events in the history of the local community and state by broadly defined eras. Constructing timelines of significant historical developments in the community and state, and identifying the dates at which each occurred. Interpreting data presented in time lines. I Measuring calendar time by days, weeks, months, years, decades, and centuries (e.g., How old is your town?). Making predictions and/or decisions based on an understanding of the past and the present (e.g., What was farming in Vermont like in the past? What is it like now? What will it be like in the future?). i Identifying an important event in their communities and/or Vermont, and describing a cause and an effect of that event (e.g., Excessive rain caused the flood of 1927, and as a result communication systems have changed to warn people.).
Students interpret geography and solve geographic problems byIdentifying characteristics of surrounding towns and the state of Vermont using resources such as road signs, landmarks, models, maps, photographs and mental mapping. I Observing, comparing, and analyzing patterns of local and state land use (e.g., agriculture, forestry, industry) to understand why particular locations are used for certain human activities. I Locating the physical and political regions of Vermont (e.g., six regions, towns, counties). Locating countries and major cities in North America. Locating major global physical divisions, such as continents, oceans, poles, equator, tropics, Arctic and Antarctic Circles, tropical, midlatitude and polar regions. Creating effective geographic representations using appropriate elements to demonstrate an understanding of relative location, location, size, and shape of the local community, Vermont, the U.S., and locations worldwide (e.g., create a representation of a globe, including continents, oceans, and major parallels). Identifying and using basic elements of the map (e.g., cardinal directions and key). Using grid systems to locate places on maps and globes (e.g., longitude and latitude). Asking appropriate geographic questions and using geographic resources to answer them (e.g., what product is produced in a region and why; atlas, globe, wall maps, reference books). i (e.g., longitude and latitude). Using appropriate geographic resources to answer geographic questions and to analyze patterns of spatial variation (e.g., Why do more people live in Chittenden County
Students show understanding of human interaction with the environment over time by Describing how people have changed the environment in Vermont for specific purposes (e.g., clearcutting, sheep raising, interstate highways, farming, ski resorts). I Identifying and participating in ways they can contribute to preserving natural resources (e.g., creating a class or school recycling center). I Describing a community or state environmental issue (e.g., creating a slide show describing the environmental issues surrounding Lake Champlain). Describing how patterns of human activities (for example, housing, transportation, food consumption, or employment) relate to natural resource distribution (e.g., how population concentrations in Vermont developed around fertile lowlands, French/English/Indian conflict for furs in northern Vermont.) I Recognizing patterns of voluntary and involuntary migration in Vermont (e.g., use maps and place names to hypothesize about movements of people). i
Students analyze how and why cultures continue and change over time byIdentifying expressions of culture in Vermont and the U.S. , such as language, social institutions, beliefs and customs, economic activities, behaviors, material goods, food, clothing, buildings, tools, and machines (e.g., discovering how Abenaki oral tradition reflects and influences their society). i Describing the contributions of various cultural groups to Vermont and the U.S. (e.g., describing French cultural diffusion in Vermont). i Identifying ways in which culture in Vermont has changed (e.g., Colonists learning maple sugaring from the Indians, Indians acquiring metal tools in exchange for furs). i
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Students examine how different societies address issues of human interdependence byExplaining how a community promotes human rights. Identifying and describing ways regional, ethnic, and national cultures influence individuals daily lives (e.g., reading myths and legends to learn about the origins of culture). I Defining their own rights and needs and the rights and needs of others in the classroom, school, and community (e.g., establishing a clothing drive/swap for the needy; creating a park for roller blades). Giving examples of ways that she or he is similar to and different from others (e.g. gender, race, religion, ethnicity.). Citing examples, both past and present, of how diversity has led to change (e.g., Native Americans moving to reservations). Identifying examples of interdependence among individuals and groups. (e.g., buyers and sellers; performers and audience). Identifying behaviors that foster cooperation among individuals. Identifying different types of conflict among individuals and groups (e.g., girls and boys, religion, material goods). Explaining different ways in which conflict has been resolved, and different ways in which conflicts and their resolutions have affected people (e.g., reservations and Indian schools; Green Mountain Boys; treaties).
Students examine how access to various institutions affects justice, reward, and power byDescribing ways in which local institutions promote the common good (e.g., state police, library, recreation programs).
Students show an understanding of the interaction/ interdependence between humans, the environment, and the economy byTracing the production, distribution, and consumption of goods in Vermont (e.g., after visiting a sugar house, tracing the distribution of locally produced maple syrup). I Describing how producers in Vermont have used natural, human, and capital resources to produce goods and services (e.g., describing the natural, human, and capital resources needed to produce maple syrup). Describing the causes and effects of economic activities on the environment in Vermont (e.g., granite industry). i
Students show understanding of the interconnectedness between government and the economy byIdentifying goods and services provided by local and state governments (e.g., firefighters, highways, museums). Explaining the relationship between taxation and governmental goods and services in Vermont (e.g., town taxes provide for road upkeep). Describing and discussing the advantages and disadvantages of using currency vs. bartering in the exchange of goods and services (e.g., an advantage of bartering is that one doesnt need money, a disadvantage is determining fairness).
Students develop a hypothesis, thesis, or research statement by...Using prior knowledge to predict results or proposing a choice about a possible action (e.g., using experience from a field trip to the nature center, propose a way to preserve Vermonts natural habitats).
Students make economic decisions as a consumer, producer, saver, investor, and citizen byExamining factors that influence supply and demand (e.g., Why is Vermont considering investing in wind energy?). i Explaining ways people meet their basic needs and wants (e.g., people buy oil because they need heat; people buy video games because they want entertainment). Comparing prices of goods and services. Explaining how people save (e.g., by giving up something you want, by saving your allowance, by putting money in the bank).
Students design research by...Identifying resources for finding answers to their questions (e.g., books, videos, people, and the Internet). Identifying tasks and how they will be completed, including a plan for citing sources (e.g., I will interview the principal about why the soda machine was taken out of the school); planning how to organize information so it can be shared.
Students conduct research byReferring to and following a plan for an inquiry. Locating relevant materials such as print, electronic, and human resources. Describing evidence and recording observations using notecards, videotape, tape recorders, journals, or databases (e.g., taking notes while interviewing the principal). Citing sources .
Students develop reasonable explanations that support the research statement byOrganizing and displaying information in a manner appropriate to the research statement through tables, graphs, maps, dioramas, charts, narratives, and/or posters. Classifying information and justifying groupings based upon observations, prior knowledge, and/or research. Using appropriate methods for interpreting information such as comparing and contrasting.
Students make connections to research by Explaining the relevance of their findings to the research question. Proposing solutions to problems and asking other questions. Identifying what was easy or difficult about following the research plan.
Students communicate their findings byGiving an oral, written, or visual presentation that summarizes their findings .
Students connect the past with the present by...Explaining differences between historic and present day objects in Vermont, and identifying how the use of the object and the object itself changed over time (e.g., evaluating how the change from taps and buckets to pipelines has changed the maple sugaring industry). Describing ways that life in the community and Vermont has both changed and stayed the same over time (e.g., general stores and shopping centers).Examining how events, people, problems and ideas have shaped the community and Vermont (e.g., Ann Storys role in the American Revolution).
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