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Arkansas State University System trustees unanimously agreed Friday to raise room and board rates at its Jonesboro campus.

Folded into that vote, the trustees also raised board rates for its Beebe campus. The vote came a week after the University of Central Arkansas increased its room and board rates, citing an increase in its food vendor contract and maintenance needs. The University of Arkansas System has not yet set 2015-16 rates for its campuses.

ASU Jonesboro's 4.2 percent increase will help with general maintenance costs at the university's residence halls and with increasing food prices, said Rick Stripling, vice chancellor for student affairs. The rates have increased every year at the Jonesboro campus because the cost of living has increased and items aren't the same price as they were a year ago, he said.

"We start this process in November," Stripling said. "We try to be as conservative as we possibly can in determining this amount. We work with our constituents on campus and with our student government to help them understand why we need this increase."

The new rates -- which vary depending on a student's choices on a number of meals and living situation -- will take effect during the first summer term this year.

The university's Student Government Association supported the measure, association President Logan Mustain said Friday. Mustain said he met with Stripling and Craig Johnson, associate vice chancellor for student affairs, during a 90-minute meeting about the new rates.

"They wanted to remain competitive with other universities and keep our facilities where they wanted it to be," said Mustain, 21, a third-year student from Benton. "We did remain competitive."

The meal plans alone will increase by 5.4 percent, Stripling said, but 1 percent of the meal-plan hike will go toward food costs while the rest will go toward a student's flex plan -- a new addition. The flex plan allows students to spend at other on-campus eateries, such as Godfather Pizza or Chick-fil-A.

Mustain said he liked that students could have more money for their flex plans.

Most students who live on the 13,144-student campus have some form of an unlimited board plan, which allows students to eat cafeteria meals either each day of the week or Monday through Friday. The cheapest seven-day unlimited access plan will go from $1,450 to $1,520 per semester. In that scenario, the student will get $50 more in his flex plan.

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The very best use has been made of the south-facing position of this converted barn, particularly with the addition, in 2007, of a stunning garden room.

Made with a hardwood frame and double glazed roof, the garden room also has the luxury of under-floor heating. Two pairs of double glazed French doors lead to a paved terrace and frame the view of the garden and fields beyond, while an internal set of French doors connects to the kitchen, so there's a real sense of bringing the outside in.

As well as the lovely garden at Rose Cottage, which is one of three dwellings in a period barn conversion, there is a gravelled driveway which leads to a parking area and detached garage, plus a paddock and a small copse totalling 1.25 acres.

The interior is the epitome of "country cottage", with the pale walls set against exposed stone walls and ceiling beams, some oak flooring and an impressive stone fireplace in the living room, from where French doors open to the terrace. Elsewhere on the ground floor is a hallway, cloakroom/wc and a combined kitchen and dining room.

Cream kitchen units are fitted under contrasting granite work surfaces, while integrated appliances include a dishwasher, fridge, freezer, washing machine and gas range cooker.

Above are three bedrooms, the master with built-in wardrobes and an en suite bathroom, and another with wardrobes and a dressing table/desk. There is also a shower room.

The terrace and garden is to the front of the cottage, with a lawn, well stocked borders, a magnolia tree, beech hedge and a rockery centrepiece with water feature. A pathway edged with lavender leads to the parking area.

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Now that he has someone else to worry about, George Clooney isnt leaving anything to chance.

The Gravity star, 53, and his wife,Amal,are having a panic room installed in their Berkshire, England, mansion, reports Us Weekly.

Itll be fireproof, bomb-proof and attack-resistant, a source close to the couple told the magazine.

The addition is just one part of the renovations to the 17th-century manor, where thecoupleoptedto spend their first two weeks as husband and wifeinstead of going ona traditional honeymoon.

And no, its not his rabid fans Clooney is worried about, but rather the people whomight come after his wife, a famed human rights lawyer and activistwho hasrepresented controversial clientsincludingWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Amal has high-profile clients in controversial cases, the insider explains of the need for Mrs. Clooney, 37, to have protection. She needs to be secure.

Panic rooms are secure locations within residences meant for protectionin case of a home invasion or attack.

A fortified, residential bunker was the focal point of David Finchers 2002 movie Panic Room, which starred Jodie Foster and a young Kristen Stewart.

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Two board game connoisseurs are offering a new type of entertainment in which participants are locked in a room for an hour, working together to escape.

On Feb. 12, Ethan Rodriguez-Torrent 13 and Max Sutter 11 opened Escape New Haven on 111 Whitney Ave. The room escape challenge has teams of two to nine people who attempt to solve a series of brain teasers in order to break out of the room as Sutter and Rodriguez-Torrent monitor the team and administer clues via a computer from a separate control room. Puzzles and hints can include anything within the room: Furniture, books, coded messages and locks could all be the key to escaping or a red herring.

We take a team of people, we stick them in a scenario, we close the door behind them and say, You have 60 minutes to escape. Go, said Rodriguez-Torrent.

Room escape games have been surfacing in the past year across the country, opening in Washington, D.C., New Jersey and New York City over the past few months. They derive from a sub-genre of video games, exemplified by the online escape game, Crimson Room, in which players find items in a room that provide clues on how to escape.

Non-virtual escape gaming began in Japan in 2007, and the trend began spreading to the east coast of the U.S. in early 2014. Rodriguez-Torrent first had the idea to bring the concept to New Haven after playing at a room escape venue in New York City.

I liked the concept, said Rodriguez-Torrent. I started brainstorming about how to do it better.

Sutter and Rodriguez-Torrent started a prototype of the game last summer and found that their friends enjoyed the challenge. They subsequently decided to expand it into a business. Since opening the escape room, the duo has had to add new weekend time slots to accommodate growing demand. Slots often fill up weeks in advance, said Rodriguez-Torrent.

According to one team of Yale graduates, Escape New Havens scenarios are mental challenges.

It makes you paranoid, said Alexandra Nasser 12 after semi-successfully completing the puzzle with her friends. And you learn to let go of your ideas.

Nasser said her team escaped the room but broke an object in the room in the process.

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Air-conditioning and refrigeration major Blue Star Ltd is planning to nearly treble its installed annual capacity for room air conditioners in the next two years. It currently stands at three lakh units per annum.

For this, it is setting up a new plant, its eighth in the country that will have an added capacity to make around half-a-million air conditioners, in addition to freezers and components for backward integration.

By 2018, we expect nearly half of our air conditioning and refrigeration business to come from room air-conditioners, B Thiagarajan, Executive Director and President, AC&R Products Business, said. The current share stands at around 33 per cent.

Blue Star will invest approximately Rs 150 crore in the new plant, and the location near a port in the southern part of India will be firmed up by October. The new plant is scheduled to go on stream in two years.

Thiagarajan said that the new factory will enable raising the level of localisation from 50-60 per cent currently to 75 per cent.

The company, which entered the residential room air conditioner segment in 2011, has seen this segment now contributing to 70 per cent of overall room AC sales. Also, over half of these sales currently come from the non-tier-I towns and cities.

(This article was published on February 17, 2015)

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LAS CRUCES >> Parts and tools sat strewn across the surface of a pool table in Munson Senior Center late last week, as workers furiously disassembled its components.

Their activity sparked curiosity among the dozens of patrons who streamed in and out of the facility during the lunch hour for the city's senior meals program.

The mystery was soon solved, however, when seniors learned the billiards tables were being taken apart in preparation to be relocated to the building's newest addition: a 1,260-square-foot room on the building's north side. With the exception of a power generator that has yet to be installed outdoors, the room's construction marks the end of a $1.28 million renovation project that solved major problems in the building, located at 975 S. Mesquite St., city officials said.

ESA Construction superintendent Charlie Garcia looks over the project plans for the new addition in the Munson Center on Friday. (Robin Zielinski/ Sun-News)

Wayne Falcone, an oil painting instructor who teaches classes at Munson Senior Center, said he doesn't play pool himself. But it is a popular activity.

"This side of the building is always crowded; most people are waiting to play pool," he said. "It's going to be nice all the renovations once they get them set up."

Charlie Garcia, superintendent with ESA Construction, which carried out the renovation project, said city officials did a final "walk-through" for the room addition on Friday, making sure the last details were all finished.

"We're all done," he said. "Everything is working fine. They like what they see."

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St. Augustine, FL (PRWEB) February 17, 2015

The Bayfront Marin House, an award-winning bed and breakfast located in St. Augustine, Florida, has recently renovated one of their waterfront rooms. The new room, located on the inn's second floor, offers guests a tailored elegance that's "man-approved."

"We have found that it's oftentimes a woman who wants to spend time at a bed and breakfast," says inn owner Sandy Wieber. "We have designed our rooms to be comfortable for both women and men--men can have the privacy and style of a boutique hotel, and women can enjoy the intimate and romantic setting of our luxurious rooms."

The Governor White room is an elegant room, yet very man-friendly, with a 42" television, romantic wall-mounted fireplace, and impressive stone wall. In addition, the luxury bathroom includes a lovely shower with stone and glass tile, seamless glass doors, and multiple body jets.

"We have made a big investment in our rooms," says Wieber. "Luxurious, comfortable rooms that blend wonderful heritage features--like hardwood floors, very high ceilings, and interesting architectural features--with modern amenities like high end baths, the most comfortable mattresses, and current technology. We are committed to having the best rooms in St. Augustine, and our new Governor White room is a great addition to our roster."

Prices for the new room start at $209/night. Guests of the bed and breakfast are invited to the inn's daily hot southern breakfast, as well as their two-hour happy hour each night. In addition, the hotel offers the following complimentary amenities: free parking, wifi, bicycles, beach umbrellas, beach chairs, and a homemade dessert each night.

The Bayfront Marin House is an award-winning, waterfront bed and breakfast, with 15 rooms located in the historic district. They offer hot southern breakfasts daily, as well as a two-hour happy hour each night. Reservations can be made at http://www.bayfrontmarinhouse.com, or by calling 904.824.4301.

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For 13-year-old Layne Cole, who likes science, and above all math, a recent expansion to St. Marys Junior-Senior High School means a chance to do experiments in class and collaborate better with fellow students.

In January, Kaw Valley Unified School District 321 finished construction at this school, a project that cost together with an addition to St Marys Grade School completed in August about $2.4 million.

On a recent evening, Cole and her classmates offered guided tours for the public to view the changes to their school, which took about four years from the initial planning phases to completion.

We got these new desks that will improve our groups, the eighth-grader explained as she showed the room where she takes Algebra I, taught by Shannon Kent.

The desks in this room and others are wedge-shaped, rather than square, allowing the teachers to cluster them as needed into half circles that allow the students to face each other and the front of the classroom at the same time.

According to superintendent Kerry Lacock, the district completed the grade school and junior-senior high expansions with a bank loan the district is repaying over a three-year period with local tax dollars reserved for capital construction and maintenance costs.

USD 321, a district of about 1,200 students, has one of the highest per-pupil property valuations in the state, related largely to a coal plant located within its boundaries. That means it doesnt qualify for state aid for construction expenditures.

The district added about 6,400 square feet to the grade school four first and second-grade classrooms, a teacher workroom and extra bathrooms. To the junior-senior high, it added about 12,400 square feet, including new special education facilities for the seventh through 12th grades, a science lab, three junior high classrooms, a junior high commons area, bathrooms, and a canopy-covered drive-up entrance.

The special education facilities include small rooms for breakout sessions, a sensory room to help students, including those with diagnoses on the autism spectrum, calm down a living area, a classroom, and a kitchen, laundry room and bathroom, all designed to be accessible for people with disabilities.

Cori Hare, a special education teacher, said the suite of special education rooms has improved the daily experiences of her students, and, she believes, is helping reduce absences and behavioral issues.

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DUNMORE To solve a space crunch at the boroughs firehouse, officials are mulling a two-story addition to the back of the building.

The proposal would expand the firehouse into part of the employee parking lot shared with the Police Department and Borough Building, and the addition would overtake the former Department of Public Works garage, Dunmore officials said during a recent tour for The Sunday Times.

Firefighters see the proposed new design, paired with the nearly $1 million firetruck the borough will get within a year, as a more efficient setup that could slightly improve response times.

Hemmler & Camayd Architects developed some other renovation scenarios, but Councilman Salvatore Verrastro saw the addition as the option the borough could most likely afford with a $345,000 gaming grant awarded to Dunmore in January 2013.

Were waiting for pricing on it, Mr. Verrastro said. Its a big guess right now, but I think were going to be close.

If Dunmore can afford it, the addition would allow the Fire Department to reorganize its existing cramped headquarters shared by five firefighters and two medics during a typical shift, Assistant Chief Robert Dee said.

The Blakely Street building now features two garages, sleeping quarters where five beds are each spaced inches apart, a cramped day room where firefighters knees sometimes knock together when a group sits on two opposing couches, a single bathroom, a kitchen and a small office.

During middle-of-the-night emergencies, two firefighters typically exit the bedroom through a back door outside, race down stairs and a short path which both need to be repeatedly cleared throughout the night during poor winter weather to the garage.

Another pair of firefighters normally leave the bedroom from the indoor side toward the other garage to get supplementary emergency vehicles.

Dunmores new firetruck will be a combined pumper/vehicle rescue/ladder truck, and the plan for the addition calls for sleeping quarters that connect directly to the remodeled garage housing the three-in-one truck potentially cutting response times.

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