An architect's drawingshows a building planned in Southeastern University's latest expansion, which was approved Thursday.

LAKELAND | Southeastern University's board on Thursday unanimously approved plans for at least a $25 million expansion that will feature three new buildings, a track and field area, and a parking garage.

Executive Vice President Brian Carroll said the school has been growing exponentially, and it needs to build to accommodate that growth.

"We are just bursting at the seams," he said. "We have had to do all kinds of things to create space."

Student enrollment was about 2,500 in the fall of 2011, 3,400 last year and is now at 3,434. The school expects the student count to hit 4,200 next year, he said.

"This expansion is part of our master plan we have been working on for the last four years," Carroll said. "The first phase was the new stadium and the College of Natural and Health Sciences Building. This is phase two."

The $7.5 million SEU Fire football stadium is completed. The $6.5 million Natural and Health Sciences Building is well underway and is expected to be completed by spring.

The projected cost of the new plan ranges between $25 million and $50 million, depending on contributions and other factors.

The projects will be paid for partially with reserve funds, in part with loans and partly with contributions, Carroll said.

There will be expanded office space, new sports training areas and new dormitory rooms plus new sports teams.

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A new hotel was the cause for the single largest building permit in October.

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Valued at $8.4 million, the hotel was one of nine commercial and industrial permits the City of Moose Jaw issued last month with a total value of $10.68 million.

In total, the city issued 37 permits in October valued at $18.24 million compared to 32 permits valued at $8.01 million in October 2013.

One of the other commercial and industrial permits was for a new workshop valued at $650,000. There were two permits for new low-hazard workshops as well, valued at a combined $900,000.

There were two permits for alterations, repairs and additions to stores valued at a total $421,000. One permit was for a new salesroom and was valued at $250,000.

Also, there was a permit valued at $50,000 for alterations, repairs and additions to a storage room. The other commercial and industrial permit was for alterations, repairs and additions to a restaurant with a value of $10,000.

On the residential side, there were 28 permits valued at $7.56 million. Ten of those were for new storage garages, including open-air parking garages, valued at $156,400. One permit was for an alteration, repair and addition to a storage garage, including open air parking garages.

There were 11 permits as well for new houses with a combined value of $3.20 million. There were three permits for alterations, repairs and additions to houses, with a total value of $38,000. In October 2013 there were nine new houses valued at $3.10 million.

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Pronews 7's Palo Duro Canyon set will soon find a new home in the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum.

If you've been watching Pronews 7 lately, you may have noticed some new faces among many other new additions. These past few months, more reporters as well as anchors have joined our team along with new cameras, cars and an overhaul of the Canady Broadcast Center. Engineers from across the country are camped out now at the beacon of broadcasting excellence, preparing our signal, our building and our staff for..."The Upgrade."

We are proud to announce (and really excited about) "The Upgrade," the next step of our transition to reveal a whole new look. Friday, November 14th, will be the last day Pronews 7 will broadcast from our legendary Palo Duro Canyon set. It has been in existence for more than 20 years and will soon find a new home in the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum. This set has been a staple in our community. Hundreds of school groups, scout troops, friends and family have had their pictures taken in front it. And to wish it a proper farewell, we are opening our doors Friday, from 2pm-4pm, and inviting viewers to bring their cameras and have their picture taken with the piece of history before it finds a new home.

With the farewell of the set comes a new look. That will be revealed after the new year, so in the meantime you'll notice us working through "The Upgrade." It may be quite entertaining as we test out the new equipment, broadcast from our garage as the new set is installed (yes, a garage - no one said this was going to be easy) and smile a whole lot - I told you, we're REALLY excited.

We want you to be a part of "The Upgrade", follow the progress on Twitter #ABC7Upgrade and on our Facebook page as well as at connectamarillo.com

During this transformation, one thing will not change...our commitment to bringing you the best news coverage possible in The Panhandle Spirit.

Stay tuned and THANK YOU for watching!

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Quirky

In a sweeping announcement that included six other new products, Quirky announced a new, modular reinvention of the Spotter Multipurpose Sensor. Starting at just $30 and dubbed the Spotter Uniq, the new device allows users to pick up to four sensors or functions from an expanded variety of options.

Sensor options include what we saw in last year's Spotter (sound, motion, light, temperature, and humidity), along with several new additions, including air quality, carbon monoxide, barometric pressure, and moisture detectors. You'll also be able to add buttons, an LED screen, a lithium ion battery, a microphone, speakers, a gyroscope, or an accelerometer.

In addition to the sensors, you'll be able to customize the look of the device, too, with white, black, and green finishes available for each component, as well as the body of the device itself. Choose any of the finishes for a uniform design, or mix and match your colors -- it's up to you.

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Like the rest of the tech in the Quirky + GE family, you'll control the Spotter Uniq through the free Wink app for Android and iOS devices. Like the original Spotter, you'll be able to program the different sensors to trigger other connected gadgets in your Wink ecosystem. Motion detection could trigger a lamp to turn on, for instance.

In our tests, we've always come away impressed with the Wink app, though some of Quirky's products -- including last year's Spotter -- haven't performed up to our expectations. If the hardware in the Spotter Uniq is truly new and improved, then it looks to be an especially smart addition to Quirky's lineup.

With a starting price of $30 (or as much as $120, depending on the tech you choose), the Spotter Uniq can be ordered online starting today, along with Quirky's other new additions, which include a connected garage door opener, and the Norm, Quirky's stab at a smart thermostat. The Spotter Uniq will be built small batch at Quirky's new microfactory in San Francisco, CA. Units are expected to ship out in December of this year.

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Thousands travel yearly to the National World War II museum in New Orleans wanting a closer look at wartime life.

Staff at the museum said their new exhibit, "Road to Berlin," is scheduled to open next month. They said it will attract even more people when it does.

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Well we're in Tunisia at the Battle of Kasserine Pass where we got our hats handed to us, said Owen Glendening, the museums associate vice president of Education and Arts.

Glendening is referring to a replica of portions of North Africa, which is one of nine brand new displays at the Road to Berlin exhibit. Visitors start there and proceed through another eight rooms where they'll see different artifacts, equipment, terrains and even multimedia displays that allow them to follow along the journey.

It was a global effort. It was the good guys versus the bad guys," Glendening said. "In these galleries, we remember what was at stake, which was everything -- our way of life, our democracy and our freedom."

Senior vice president of Capital Programs Bob Farnsworth said this is a project that is several years in the making. He added its a part of the master plan for the museum that includes a parking garage, hotel and future additions to the war exhibits.

Everyone at the museum feels like it's a tremendous honor to be a part of what we're creating, Farnsworth said. Were building not just a history museum in the South, but one of the great museums in the world.

Glendening said this display, like those that will come in the future, is highly detailed and includes audience interaction technology. He said those touches set them apart from a regular war museum and draw in younger visitors

We all have a personal connection to World War II, Glendening said. Everybody can find one, but the more distant we get to that down through the generations, the more important it is to sustain that story. Thats what I think we're doing here.

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Memphis Real Estate Recap

387 S. Highland St. Memphis, TN 38111 Permit Amount: $6.7 million

Project Cost: $61 million Application Date: November 2014 Engineer: Jordan & Skala Engineers Details: Indianapolis-based developer Milhaus Ventures has applied for another building permit for the long-awaited Highland Row project near the University of Memphis.

387 S. Highland St. Memphis, TN 38111

The company has applied for a $6.7 million building permit through the city-county Office of Construction Code Enforcement for construction of a four-story apartment building at 387 S. Highland St., the first piece in the $61 million Highland Row project. In October, Milhaus applied for a $20 million permit for the project.

The mixed-use Highland Row development will include 354 apartments, 35 townhomes, a parking garage and 26,000 square feet of retail space. Memphis-based Poag Shopping Centers originally planned to develop Highland Row, but those plans were shelved following the recession.

2625 Thousand Oaks Blvd. Memphis, TN 38118 Sale Amount: $5 million

Sale Date: Oct. 29, 2014 Buyer: Jubilee Hotels Group LLCSeller: JPMCC 2007 CIBC19 Lodging 2625 LLC Loan Amount: $7.5 million Loan Date: Oct. 29, 2014 Lender: Texas Capital Bank N.A Details: An East Memphis hotel has sold for $5 million.

JPMCC 2007 CIBC19 Lodging 2625 LLC sold The Hotel Memphis at 2625 Thousand Oaks Blvd., near Perkins Road and Interstate 240, to Jubilee Hotels Group LLC, according to an Oct. 29 warranty deed.

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ETSU Dining Services caters to thousands of students daily. This makes it necessary for there to be diverse and nutritious restaurant choices on campus.

We survey students each semester and use their feedback across our operations, said Micah Wren, the marketing manager for Aramark Campus Dining services.

Dining Services sets a budget each year with the goal of enhancing the dining program with new concepts, brands and events, Wren said.

As well as cover operational costs, such as food, labor, utilities, building operations, equipment and renovations, Wren said.

The three latest restaurant additions include: Starbucks located in the Cave, Taco Bell on the second floor of the D.P. Culp University Center and Subway, adjacent to the parking garage in the Provisions on Demand Market.

These restaurants were brought to campus due to student-driven feedback and Aramarks partnership with the university, Wren said.

Along with promoting new restaurants, campus dining services strive to provide options for all students, faculty members and visitors.

Dining hall menus are designed to provide a diverse assortment of food options that easily allow students to select a healthy and well-balanced diet, Wren said.

A team of professional and certified chefs help to create menu items based on feedback from students, Wren said.

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By JUSTIN MUSZYNSKI STAFF WRITER

BRISTOL A local man who sets up an elaborate holiday light show at his home every year is using the occasion to raise money and toys for three children who lost both their parents in June to a murder-suicide.

Anything donated on the opening night of the 3rd annual Lights on Roswood Nov. 28 at 111 Rosewood Drive will go to Whitney, 4, Brody, 3, and Lincoln, 1, whose mother, Kyla Ryng, was murdered by her husband, Alex Ryng, on June 4.

Police have said that all three children were in the familys Henderson Street home when Kyla was killed. After the shooting, the two oldest children ran next door to tell their grandmother what had happened.

Rob Osenkowski, a father of three who creates the holiday light show on Rosewood Drive every year, said the story of the Ryng children tragically losing both their parents in June hit close to home with him.

I have three boys, so I cant even imagine that happening to my family, he said.

The Christmas light display at his home, Osenkowski said, usually raises canned food goods for the needy.

This year, however, the opening night ceremony which is normally among only close family and friends is open to the public to benefit Kyla Ryngs three children.

Starting at 6 p.m. on Nov. 28, Osenkowski will be collecting clothes, toys, books, money or gift cards for the Ryng kids.

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The demolition of historic homes in recent years have made headlines, with Four Winds, the Bermuda-style Maurice Fatio-designed home on Ocean Boulevard, and the Modern-style Alfred Browning Parker house on Wells Road among the structures that have been destroyed.

However, the towns preservation program has had far more successes than failures and is admired by preservationists throughout the state, Palm Beach architect Gene Pandula said Thursday.

Pandula, a former longtime chairman of the towns Landmarks Preservation Commission, spoke about the program during the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beachs ninth annual Historic Properties Workshop.

In 1977, while still in graduate school, Pandula became involved in Palm Beachs budding preservation movement.

A professor had referred him to the late Barbara Hoffstot, who crafted the towns landmarks preservation ordinance in 1978 and authored Landmark Architecture of Palm Beach. While some of the properties Hoffstot, Pandula and others wanted to save have been demolished, the landmarks program has protected 292 historic properties to date.

Today really should be a day of celebration, Pandula said. It is a highly, highly regarded program in the State of Florida. People with SHPO (the state historic preservation office) often look to us for all sorts of guidance. And what the town has been able to accomplish, for such a small community, is truly remarkable.

In the early 1980s, many structures worthy of landmark protection were in a state of disrepair, Pandula said. The preservation movement showed property owners the value of restoring those architectural gems, he said.

The renovation of The Palm Beach Biltmore condominium in the late 1970s and early 1980s, for example, was a catalyst for positive change in its neighborhood, Pandula said. (The building, at 150 Bradley Place, had opened in 1926 as the Alba Hotel.) Owners of other properties in the area soon redeveloped their parcels or restored architecture worthy of preservation, he said.

This was a hugely important project for the town given that it anchored the street. Somebody bit off a big amount of work in a time when people wanted to live in new buildings, Pandula said.

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From a 16th-century, Grade II-listed manor in East Sussex to a contemporary eco house in London.

Grafton Crescent, London NW1. A contemporary eco house featuring an open-plan living area with floor-to-ceiling glass doors and an indoor pool with gym and sauna. 6 beds, 2 baths, 2 receps, kitchen, self-contained flat. 3.95m John D Wood & Co 020-7586 9060. Nant Isa Farm, Abergele, Wales. A restored 17th-century farmhouse in a rural location with a heated outdoor pool. It has exposed beams, slate slab floors and inglenook fireplaces. 4 beds, 4 baths, 2 receps, office, breakfast kitchen, conservatory, stone barn, outbuildings, woodland, 30 acres. 795,000 Jackston-Stops & Staff 01244-328361. Socknersh Manor, Etchingham, East Sussex. A 16th-century, Grade II-listed manor with a heated pool, pool house and spa bath. It has beamed ceilings and wood floors. 6 beds, 5 baths, 3 receps, coach house with cinema, gym, flat, 4-bed cottage, tennis court, stable block, lake, wood, 56.3 acres. 5m Knight Frank 01892-515035. Spreakley Hollow, Frensham, Farnham, Surrey. A 17th-century house with later additions surrounded by landscaped gardens with a heated swimming pool. It has a part-vaulted kitchen, exposed timbers and flagstone floors. 6 beds, 3 baths, 4 receps, study, Edwardian greenhouse, summer house, stabling, tennis court, woodland, pasture, 13.5 acres. 3.25m Savills 01252-729002. The Bury House, Odiham, Hook, Hampshire. A Grade II-listed, renovated Georgian house with a walled garden and pool. It has period fireplaces, wood floors and a garage converted into a games room. 7 beds, 6 baths, 4 receps, study, 2-bed stable flat, 0.5 acres. 2.5m Strutt & Parker 01256-702892. Upper Swell Farm, Upper Swell, Gloucestershire. A Cotswold stone house surrounded by landscaped gardens with a contemporary pool house and granite mosaic swimming pool. 6 beds, 5 baths, dressing room, 3 receps, study, 2-bed long barn, coach house with studio flat, 5.2 acres. 4.5m Butler Sherborn 01451-830731. Upper Woodcote House, Webb Estate, Purley, Surrey. This house was built in 1903 and has a Moorish-inspired dining room and oak-panelled lounge, galleried landing and stained-glass windows. The landscaped gardens include a heated swimming pool and hot tub. 6 beds, 6 baths, dressing room, 4 receps, study, 1.6 acres. 2.95m Fine & Country 020-8660 6689. Wellsacks, The Green, Ashbocking, Ipswich. A 15th-century village house with a part-walled outdoor heated pool. The house has beamed wall and ceiling timbers, an inglenook fireplace and leaded-light windows. 6 beds, 3 baths, 2 receps, study, breakfast kitchen with Aga, 1-bed annexe, detached double garage, 1 acre. 695,000 Carter Jonas 01787-882881.

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