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Friday
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2012
Mostly sunny with a 10% chance of rain. WNW winds at 11 mph.
What's the weather, Jay?
Wednesday
HI: 63
LO: 44
Source: wunderground.com
HI: 57
L0: 33
Sunny with no chance of rain. SE winds at 10 mph.
Thursday
Put on your shades.
HI: 62
L0: 39
Mostly cloudy with not a drop of rain in sight. S winds at 16 mph.
A nice November day.
Unseasonably warm.
CALENDAR
Tuesday, Nov. 27
**WHAT:** Support Movember
**WHERE:** Anschutz Library
**WHEN:** 8 p.m.
**ABOUT:** Show off your Movember moustache by getting your photo taken for the KU Moustache Photo Gallery.
**WHAT:** KU School of Music Symphonic Band and University Band
**WHERE:** Lied Center
**WHEN:** 7:30 p.m.
**ABOUT:** Two of the University's musical groups perform together.
Wednesday, Nov. 28
WHAT: World Fashion Show
WHERE: Kansas Union Ballroom
WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m.
ABOUT: Check out traditional and modern fashions from countries across the world in this SUA sponsored fashion show.
WHAT: Full Student Senate
WHERE: Kansas Union, Alderson Auditorium
WHEN: 6:30 to 9 p.m.
ABOUT: Concerned about campus issues?
Voice your opinion at this meeting.
Thursday, Nov. 29
WHAT: Queervolution
WHERE: Sabatini Multicultural Resource Center, Room 116
WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m.
ABOUT: A panel of LGBT community members speak about their struggles and successes after college.
WHAT: Campus Movie Series: The Campaign
WHERE: Kansas Union, woodruff Auditorium
WHEN: 8 to 10 p.m.
ABOUT. The presidential campaign might be over, but you can still watch Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis battle for political supremacy.
Friday, Nov. 30
POLITICS
WHAT: KU's Got Talent
WHERE: Kansas Union, Ballroom
WHEN: 8 to 10 p.m.
ABOUT: Come enjoy the best student talent on campus at this SUA sponsored show.
**WHAT:** New Found Glory
**WHERE:** The Bottleneck
**WHEN:** 8 p.m.
**ABOUT:** Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the band's album, "Sticks and Stohes." The Story So Far and Seahaven will also perform.
NJ Gov. Christie seeks second term
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Chick Sorbello, right, of Lavalette, N.J., consoles Elizabeth Docimo of Brick, as she talks about damage to the shore with Gov. Chris Christie in Toms River, N.J., on Nov. 21, as Christie, his wife Mary Pat Christie and other volunteers handed out prepared Thanksgiving dinners to the needy near the shore area devastated by Hurricane Sandy.
TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey Gov Chris Christie has filed papers to seek re-election next year, while enjoying a popularity surge due to his hands-on response to Superstorm Sandy, the worst natural disaster in state history.
The 50-year-old Republican filed papers with election officials Monday cementing his intention to seek a second term, according to two people close to the governor. The technical step allows Christie to set up a campaign headquarters, hire staff and raise money toward his re-election, said the people, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak before the governor makes a formal announcement in a few weeks.
Christie carried the Democratic leaning state by 86,000 votes in 2009, an upset win over Democratic incumbent Ion Corzine.
About the only criticism directed his way since Superstorm
Christie, who has become a national figure during his first term, is riding an unprecedented wave of popularity because of how he handled the storm. Even Democrats have applauded his hands-on response. He appeared on "Saturday Night Live" in his trademark fleece pullover this month to lampoon his own nationally televised storm briefings.
Sandy attacked the coast in late October has come from fellow Republicans who have lambasted him for embracing President Barack Obama as the two toured New Jersey's ravaged coastline six days before the presidential election. Some even blame Christie for tipping a close election to the president.
Christie was the first governor to endorse Mitt Romney; he raised $18.2 million for the GOP nominee and crisscrossed the country as an in-demand surrogate for Republican candidates. Some are still questioning his party loyalty, however, as they did after Christie delivered the keynote address at the party's nominating convention in Tampa. Critics saw that August speech as too much about Christie and not enough about Romney.
Christie was courted by some Republican bigwigs to enter the presidential contest early on, but he spurned their overtures and later ruled himself out as vice presidential material as well. Buzz over a Christie 2016 run has become muted since the governor boarded Marine One with Obama.
So far, no one has stepped forward to challenge him as governor. Several Democrats, most prominently Newark Mayor Cory Booker, have been thinking aloud about running for their party's nomination.
Christie's reputation for
bluntness and penchant for confrontation have made him a YouTube sensation and sometimes obscured policy changes he has championed.
With the help of Democrats who control both houses of the state legislature, Christie took on public worker unions, enacting sweeping pension and health benefits changes that cost workers more and are
designed to shore up the underfunded public worker retirement and health care systems long-term. He also enacted a 2 percent property tax cap with few loopholes to try and slow the annual growth rate of property taxes, already the highest in the nation at an average of $7,519 when adjusted for rebates.
and Democrats have refused to budge on his signature issue for this year, a phased-in 10 percent tax cut. With tax collections underperforming the administration's projections and storm rebuilding threatening to eat further into revenues, Democrats are unlikely to waiver on their position that the state can't afford the cut.
Christie's education reforms have been slower to accomplish.
CRIME
Information based off the Douglas County Sheriff's Office booking recap.
POLICE REPORTS
- A 23-year-old female University student was arrested Monday at 1.09 a.m. on the 900 block of Iowa Street on suspicion of aggravated assault and domestic battery. Bond was not set.
- A 27-year-old Lawrence man was arrested Sunday at 11:21 p.m. on the 600 block Candy Lane on suspicion of
- A 62-year-old New Smyrna beach,
FL. man was arrested Sunday at 6:15
p.m. on the 1800 block of west Sixth
Street on suspicion of an out state
warrant. Bond was set at $100,000.
- A 24-year-old Lawrence woman was arrested Sunday at 3:44 p.m. on the 1700 block of west 24th Street on suspicion of attempting to elude and theft. Bond was set at $300. She was released.
criminal damage to property less than $1,000 and domestic battery. Bond was not set.
TECHNOLOGY
Fund established for commercial projects
Technologies invented at the University may soon be available on the marketplace.
The recently established Proof of Concept Fund will provide money to research projects that have the potential to be commercialized. The fund will award a total of $200,000 to projects this year, and applicants may apply for up to $50,000.
Proposals for funding are due by Jan. 2, and a panel with the KU Center for Technology Commercialization will choose the award recipients by
February 2013.
"We will look at how close it is to being ready to be licensed, and if there are people in the marketplace who would buy the technology," said Julie Goonewardene, associate vice chancellor for innovation and entrepreneurship and president of the KUCTC.
Goonewardene said she thinks the fund is a step toward promoting entrepreneurship, and that the University is emphasizing commercialization.
"It's very much part of our mission as a public institution in Kansas to move these inventions to the marketplace to benefit the people of Kansas and the rest of the country," she said.
Gov. Sam Brownback has pushed for universities to increase the amount of entrepreneurial activity, and Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little said that the University is answering this call. In an interview last week, Gray-Little said that the University has assisted in starting up about 20 companies in the last 25 years.
"It's something that we are interested in and involved in and have been for the last few years," Gray-Little said. "We can contribute to the economy by creating businesses and by creating jobs in other ways."
Nikki Wentling
SPACE
Experienced spacefliers to spend one year in space
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A former space shuttle commander whose twin brother is married to former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will attempt the longest spaceflight ever by an American.
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NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will spend an entire year aboard the International Space Station beginning in 2015.
Both countries' space agencies announced the names of the two veteran spacefellers on Monday. The extended mission was approved almost two months ago to provide a medical foundation for future missions around the moon, as well as far-flung trips to asteroids and Mars.
Both men already have lived aboard the space station for six months. NASA wanted experienced space station astronauts to
streamline the amount of training necessary for a one-year stint. Officials had said the list of candidates was very short. They will begin training next year.
"Their skills and previous experience aboard the space station align with the mission's requirements," Bill Gerstenmaier, head of human exploration for NASA, said in a statement. "The one-year increment will expand the bounds of how we live and
work in space and will increase our knowledge regarding the effects of microgravity on humans as we prepare for future missions beyond low-Earth orbit."
Kelly's identical twin brother, Mark Kelly, retired from the astronaut corps last year and moved to Tucson, Ariz., his wife hometown. The former congresswoman was critically wounded in an assassination attempt in January 2011, while
Scott Kelly was living aboard the space station.
Astronauts normally spend about four to six months aboard the space station. The longest an American lived there was seven months, several years back.
Russia, though, will continue to hold the world space endurance record.
Kelly and Kornienko will launch aboard a Russian rocket from Kazakhstan.