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Lake Winnipesaukee New Hampshire
Peaceful and picturesque views from a lakefront cottage in Meredith
Skiing at Loon Mountain Ski Resort in Lincoln
Bridal Veil Falls in the White Mountain National Forest
Boating in Paugus Bay near the village of Weirs Beach
Reflections of autumn foliage color the lake in Meredith
Canterbury Shaker Village, historic community turned into a museum
Endicott Rock State Historic Site along the Weirs Beach shore
Ready to take in relaxing scenery from a porch overlook
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Lakeside beaches, shopping, skiing and hiking
Of the 273 bodies of water in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, the most majestic is Lake Winnipesaukee. The areas surrounding this 186-square-kilometer lake that sits at the foot of the White Mountains offer a range of pastimes, from tax-free shopping and exploring quaint villages, to sunning at a public beach. Visit in autumn to see the stunning fall foliage, in winter for skiing and ice fishing, in spring for maple sugar tasting and in summer for water sports.
Over 40 communities surround the lake. Among the highlights are the boardwalk and waterslide at Weirs Beach, the stunning homes and croquet club in elegant Wolfeboro, the galleries and boutiques in the restored mill village of Meredith and the antique center in Laconia. There's a zip line in Gilford, a Shaker village in Canterbury and the Castle in the Clouds Estate in Moultonborough. The 150-kilometer Lakes Region Tour Scenic Drive circumnavigates the lake and passes through most of the towns.
Out on the Water
Take a dinner cruise and see why this lake is called the most scenic in New England, or charter a boat and head out to one of the larger islands on the lake for hiking or picnicking. Swimming is also possible in summer, when the water temperature hovers between 20 and 26 degrees Celsius. Fishermen can find salmon, trout, bass, pickerel, perch and several other species. The lake is also a family recreation spot in winter, when ice fishing and ice boating are both popular.
Adventure on Dry Land
Nature and the outdoors can be enjoyed in cold or warm weather. When it's nice out, head to one of the three major nature preserves in the area: Loon Preservation Center and Markus Wildlife Sanctuary, Stonedam Island or Knights Pond. Learn about the flora and fauna of the Lakes Region at the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center in Holderness. Visit the beach at Ellacoya State Park in Gilford. Go hiking and catch a great view of the lake at Belknap Mountain, Mount Major, West Rattlesnake Mountain, Red Hill or Abenaki Tower. When the snow starts piling up, go snowmobiling, ice skating or cross-country skiing. Some of the top downhill ski areas include Gunstock, Loon and Attitash mountain resorts.
What's in a name? Depending on who you talk to, Winnipesaukee means "smile of the great spirit" or "beautiful water in a high place."
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This August, I was fortunate enough to take a trip to the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., through the Bliss Institute and my Campaign Battleground class at the University of Akron.
From the start, the trip was an interesting one. It kicked off Tuesday morning with my confrontation of my rather strong fear of flying and taking two relatively short flights (though they felt pretty long to me) to arrive in Sarasota. After taking the lengthy drive from our hotel in Bradenton to the Tampa area, you could feel the excitement around the area.
The political buzz started on the route in, with signs for every candidate — whether they were national or local — adorning the billboards along the interstate. Heading into the convention as an undecided voter who formally sided with Ron Paul, I was unsure what to expect from my experience.
While in Tampa, we spent a great deal of time among the Ohio Republican Party. We participated in a fundraising event at an aquarium featuring Mitt Romney's son Matt, a quasi-rally for Ohio Supreme Court Justices up for re-election featuring Ohio Republican Party Chairman Bob Bennett and Political Strategist Karl Rove, and a National Journal brunch involving several big names in news media and politics. We were even invited to an event from the Foreign Policy Initiative where the topic was American presence overseas, and the speaker was former governor of Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty.
Unfortunately, we weren't able to attend the convention itself because the St. Pete Times Forum was surrounded by a mile-wide secure perimeter patrolled by sheriffs from various Florida counties, state troopers and the National Guard. It was slightly disappointing but not a huge issue. Watching the events on PBS at the hotel with some good people I met while on the trip proved to be a very lively and entertaining alternative.
In conclusion, the trip turned out to be an extremely fun and interesting one. I survived my flights, met some interesting, famous and influential people and ate a lot of free food courtesy of the Ohio Republican Party. I heard a lot of speakers I agreed with, and an equal amount of speakers with whom I didn't necessarily see eye-to-eye.
I left the convention with a wealth of knowledge on the stances of the Republican Party, which will certainly help when it comes time to make my decision in November. I appreciate the experience provided to me by the university and the Ohio Republican Party, and I feel it was an event I will remember for the rest of my life.
/ Jacob Altman is a junior political science major at The University of Akron. He hails from Brunswick.
In 2008 I watched President Obama give a soaring speech from a packed Invesco Field in Denver and decided when he ran for re-election in 2012, I would be there with him at his convention to add my energy to history. Thanks to the Bliss Institute of Applied Politics, at the University of Akron, I went to Charlotte with 20 other students, and our experience was complicated as well as life-changing.
First, we learned that the president wouldn't be speaking from the Bank of America Stadium on Thursday night, the only event our delegation had assured tickets. Now that he was coming inside to avoid a possible thunderstorm, our entry was revoked, along with much of our promised access from the Ohio Democratic Party. We made the most of it.
On Wednesday my fiancée Mackenzie Justice, her mother Mary Catherine Justice, a few other determined friends and I attended the Ohio Delegation breakfast, and after hearing speakers Senator Sherrod Brown and Organizing for America Director Jim Messina, we attended the reception at the Hilton.
That night, we met political journalists Anderson Cooper, David Corn and my cable news hero Lawrence O'Donnell, as well as Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur and Senator Charles Schumer. Wandering the epicenter of Charlotte-turned-"MSNBC-wonderland" was a left-leaning political junkie paradise!
Thanks to our good and loyal friend, Rep. Bob Hagan, we received two tickets into the hall that night, when Bill Clinton would deliver what many have called the finest speech of his life. The young man in our group who knew Hagan would use one ticket, but the second was a toss-up.
Now, Mary Catherine is a lifelong Democrat, and although she loves her family, she likely adores Bill Clinton more. The group resoundingly agreed that the second ticket was hers, and with a tear in her eye, she said, "What am I supposed to wear?" And then off she went to see one of the most powerful, impactful speeches a lover of liberalism would ever witness.
The next day I met famous types from Eva Longoria to Chris Matthews, Al Sharpton to Michael Steele; that's quite a mix of individuals, and they were all so cool. But even better was meeting the random believers who haven't yet had their brush with fame; people like us who just felt the need to represent. Everyone was kind and willing to shake your hand, look you in the eye, and remind each other that we were all here to take part in a symbol to our nation.
At this convention, when tens of thousands who had made the journey to spend one hour with the president got short-changed, we stayed strong, assembled and lifted our collective soul for the country.
We went to Charlotte with an itinerary and created our own. We traveled home with pictures on our phones, inspiration on our minds and smiles on our faces. The energy at that convention means more than any debates, advertising and punditry. It was a revival, and November is when this party will get behind and re-elect President Barack Obama, a commander who will lead this nation out of stagnation.
/ Ian Schwarber is a senior at The University of Akron, majoring in political science and minoring in homeland security and philosophy of religions. He plans to get his master's and JD from the Bliss Institute starting next fall.


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Star Parker: Government the Problem, Not Solution, on College Costs
No sooner had President Joe Biden announced his plan for student loan debt forgiveness — $10,000 for non-Pell grant recipients and $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients — the president of the NAACP was complaining that it should be more than twice as much. At least $50,000.
Brookings Institution scholar Andre M. Perry echoed the sentiment.
The plan, according to Perry, "does not go far enough in addressing the root of the problem: a postsecondary education system that has seen tuition rise three-fold in the last 30 years. That same system will put future borrowers in peril."
We have a problem here known popularly as the chicken and the egg.
Do we need to pump a lot of tax money into higher education so students can afford to deal with runaway tuition costs? Or do we have runaway tuition costs because we're pumping billions of taxpayer funds into higher education?
A picture of the stark reality of way-out-of-line tuition costs is provided by blogger/economist Mark Perry where he shows relative price increases of various goods and services from 2000 to 2022.
From January 2000 to June 2022 the overall rate of price increases — the average of all goods and services — was 74.4%.
But over the same period, the increase in the costs of college tuition and fees was 178%, and the increase in prices of college textbooks was 162%. More than twice the average rate of inflation.
The prices of new cars, household furnishings and clothing were unchanged over this period, and the price of cellphone service was down 41% and computer software was down 70.5%.
Whereas the price of college textbooks increased 162%, over the same time period the price of recreational books, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, declined slightly.
The only area that exceeded college tuition increases was hospital services, which were up in price 220%.
The distinguishing factor between areas with large price increases, well above the general rate of inflation, and areas with no change and drops in prices, is government involvement.
Areas with a lot of government in their business — health care, higher education, child care and nurseries — had price increases over time well above the general rate of inflation. Business operating freely without government supports overall were unchanged or dramatically lower in prices.
So, our scholarly friend at the Brookings Institution may well have things backward. Government is not the solution to escalating costs of college tuition and books, but to a large extent the cause.
Universities are free to bloat their bureaucracies and offer programs that are of little practical use, such as various ethnic studies programs and other programs structured to appeal to politically correct themes that are popular with youth. They do it because they know that government programs and supports will bear the costs.
Of course, universities should be free to do what they want. But not on my dime.
What is being called loan forgiveness is not loan forgiveness. It is debt transfer.
How many reading this column would be glad to pay tuition for their neighbor's children? This is what is going on. But it's really worse. At least if your neighbor asks you to foot the bill for their child's tuition, you can refuse.
But now we have a smiling president buying the love of Americans who are happy to see their debts disappear, while those debts are transferred, by presidential fiat, to American taxpayers.
Is this really the way to build a nation of strong character and a thriving, efficient economy?
Regarding the NAACP, I wrote a book called "Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and what We Can Do About It".
NAACP is doing its part making college too expensive and getting government more involved to make things worse.
Star Parker
Star Parker is president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education and host of the new weekly news talk show "Cure America with Star Parker." To find out more about Star Parker and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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The European Union found the organization IMI to fight the decreased competitiveness – most prominent in the field of research and development - of the European pharmaceutical Industry. IMI has 43 registered members, the divers of them are the greatest European pharmaceutical manufacturers. The European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industry Association and its member organizations created a task force in cooperation with the IMI to reveal the factors preventing the European pharmaceutical industry from regaining its world leading position in the area of research and development. As a conclusion the task force named four areas, that need urgent intervention to increase the competitiveness of the research and development achievements of the European pharmaceutical industry. The most important operation is to increase the capacity of testing new molecules in the aspect of safety and effectiveness. Knowledge management and knowledge bases are also important issues, to provide access to the most recent results of the industry for the research organizations. Finally, the newel and up-to date scientific technologies and method should be implemented in the training.
Joining the EU's IMI inchoation the National Office for Research and technology (NKTH) announced a calling for tender to facilitate formation of Nemzeti Technológiai Platformok (National Technological Platforms). The Hungarian Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association gained grant with its Project for Formation of Innovative Platform. During the realization of the project - by the end of March 2009 - five meetings will be organized to discuss bottlenecks of the pharmaceutical development.
University of PĂŠcs and its seven industrial partners in 2006 begot South Transdanubian Redional Knowledge Centre (RET). The aim of the Knowledge Centre was to establish a R&D centre and economic pole to concentrate the means of pharmaceutical development and manufacturing in order to promote the registration of patent rights and fast and easy utilization of scientific results, thus empowering the leading position of the region. The project ended on 31. d ecember 2008.


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The Bounty Hunter (PG-13)
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Teaming popular light entertainment stars Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler with hit rom-com vet Andy Tennant at the helm, The Bounty Hunter appears to be an easy win situation--but the seemingly right ingredients mean nothing if they don't ignite a spark, and that's the sad case here. It's one thing for the leads to not share believable romantic chemistry, and then there's the rather sad and lazy display Aniston and Butler put on here, not even striking believable negative vibes as a divorced couple reunited when he, a bounty hunter, is dispatched to nab her, a reporter, after a potential big story makes her jump bail. The two, of course, eventually bicker their way back into each other's affections, but that seems to be more of a script mandate than any sort of believable relationship development as Aniston and Butler's connection doesn't extend beyond occupying the same screen space. When there is no discernible rapport between the leads, all the other problems (and are there ever others--an unfunny, go-nowhere diversion with Jason Sudeikis; co-stars such as Christine Baranski and Dorian Missick given nothing to do; a bloated 111 minute run time) are beside the point.
Chloe (R)
A wife strongly suspects a husband of cheating, so she does what any intelligent woman of her station would do: hire a hooker to tempt the husband in order to get proof--only to get a bit, shall we say, excited herself. Yes, remake of Anne Fontaine's 2003 French-language film Nathalie... is a throwback to the erotic thrillers that hit theatres, crowded video shelves, and helped Cinemax earn the nickname "Skinemax" back in the 1990s, but giving this film an especially perverse interest are the players involved: no less than Serious Actors Julianne Moore and Liam Neeson as the wife and husband; rising superstar-in-the-making Amanda Seyfried as the title prostitute; and even Canadian arthouse fave Atom Egoyan in the director's chair. But all that talent on board should have added up to more than just a novelty, for the very game leads are at the mercy of the ultimately routine thriller arc of Erin Cressida Wilson's script, not to mention Egoyan's interest seems to flag beyond the set-up, as the film goes shockingly flat when the more conventional thriller elements--what should be the film's bread and butter--kick in.


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