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|Smith was 45 of 51 for 656 yards with 8 TDs and no INTs vs. Baylor on Saturday. (US Presswire)
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- One hour after Geno Smith crafted arguably the most prolific passing performance in major college football history, his teammates celebrated with their families and friends in the bustling halls of the West Virginia football complex. The Mountaineers had won their inaugural Big 12 game. Recruits, along with their high school coaches, lapped up the scene after marveling at the 70-63 fireworks display that was WVU's win over No. 25 Baylor.
Smith's mom was in town from South Florida, but their visit would have to wait for a bit longer. He handed her a box of pizza and retreated to the Mountaineers' offensive staff room for the next hour to examine the game film with quarterbacks coach Jake Spavital.
This is how the Heisman frontrunner enjoyed his record-setting afternoon, by looking for the flaws from a day where he went 45 of 51 for 656 yards with eight touchdowns and no interceptions. When you have more TD passes than incompletions, you had a special day. The Mountaineers rolled up 807 yards of total offense, and that was without its big bruising back Shawne Alston.
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Smith's lament to the media was that he could have completed those other six passes and that he didn't lead the team to any points on its opening drive. Oh, and he probably forced a pass or two, rather than tucking the ball away and using his legs to pick up some yards.
One of the other things the film showed, which other WVU staffers later observed, was that on one of Smith's TD passes he actually checked to a play the Mountaineers didn't even have in the game plan this week. The senior QB had spotted something he could exploit in the Bears' coverage.
"He's really amazing," Spavital said. "He is just so competitive."
Away from football, Smith is a gifted visual artist, and not surprisingly carries that perfectionist sense and attention to detail and creativity over to the field. In less than two years, he has developed a keen understanding of Dana Holgorsen's up-tempo scheme. The results since late last season have been jaw-dropping. Skeptics can dismiss the ridiculous stats but should not be shrugging their shoulders at the caliber of defenses he's carving up. Just seeing him make the reads and throws he's making in itself is something to behold. He has thrown 26 TD passes since his last interception. In the process, he and Holgorsen have elevated WVU into a national brand, a team that has college football fans intrigued, even buzzing.
I recall being in the WVU quarterback meeting room about a year ago when Smith and backup QB Paul Millard were asking Spavital about all of the rumors over which conference the Mountaineers might end up in. Would the ACC take them? Were they staying in the Big East? Was the Big 12 an option? The question no one around the WVU football complex wanted to talk about? What if no other league wanted them? The truth was that the ACC didn't want West Virginia; also, the program's long-time home, the Big East, was being pushed off the college football map by the sport's power brokers. It was an odd bit of reality that crept into a game week as they prepped for mighty LSU.
Fast forward to Saturday and the Mountaineers are thriving as one of the most entertaining teams in the country, while their star and his spectacularly unpretentious head coach get comfy in their new home -- in the big time.
Holgorsen has been around more than his share of prodigious passers. He admitted after the game he worries about Smith's dogged pursuit of perfection and the toll it can take.
"He expects perfection -- and in the game of football, perfection is impossible," Holgorsen said.
|Most Passing Yards per Game: Div. I
|Player, School (Year)
|Taylor Heinicke, Old Dominion (2012)
|David Klingler, Houston (1990)
|Matt Vogler, TCU (1990)
|B.J. Symons, Texas Tech (2003)
|Geno Smith, West Virginia (2012)
|Graham Harrell, Texas Tech (2007)
|Cody Hodges, Texas Tech (2005)
But Smith came pretty close on Saturday, and with the way his counterpart, Baylor QB Nick Florence, was lighting up the WVU defense, he needed to. Florence was 29 of 47 for 581 yards and five TDs.
Asked what Smith can do to get better, a bemused Holgorsen said, "He was 45 of 51 for 656 yards with eight touchdowns and zero interceptions. Can you please explain to me how you can improve on that?"
About his Heisman prospects, Smith said he couldn't care less -- he just wants to lead this team to more wins and to keep improving. That means continuing to hone his focus of defenses and his ability to manipulate them, both pre- and post-snap.
If the Mountaineers are going to make a run at a BCS title, though, their defense is going to have to improve a lot, starting next week at Texas. You can't allow a team to gain 700 yards of total offense or go 11 of 16 on third-down conversions and expect to run the table in a league loaded with top-25 caliber teams. They are clearly not in the Big East anymore.
The final score Saturday looked like something you'd expect from a quadruple-overtime game. We used to be wowed to see two 300-yard passing performances. This game had two 300-yard receiving performances.
Holgorsen reminded his team in the locker room after the game that the team they had just beaten came into Morgantown riding a nine-game winning streak. He also sounded genuinely impressed with the Bears' resolve and grit in how Art Briles' team kept battling back.
Holgorsen said after the game he'd be OK if his team had won 6-3. In reality, it's a lot more interesting at 70-63. The Mountaineers are getting people talking, offensive recruits especially. Their AD, former WVU star QB Oliver Luck, knows it's never a bad thing to have such a buzzworthy brand. He even joked at the halftime of the then 35-35 game that there was a hidden positive to this wild contest: "This'll be great for beer sales in the second half -- for our fans dealing with stress."
On Saturday, the best thing for dealing with that stress was having an elite QB and some talented receivers locked in like few college offenses ever have been.
The whole vibe all seems to fit very nicely together. Just like the sign on the road to Morgantown proclaims: "Welcome to West Virginia -- Wild and Wonderful."
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• Isaiah who? So much for Mark Richt's search to find a tailback. The Dawgs have two big-time backs in true freshmen Todd Gurley and Keith Marshall, who combined for almost 300 yards rushing and five TDs in a shootout win over Tennessee in Athens. I realize some people are probably wondering what happened to the vaunted Georgia D, but give credit to the Vols. They have a lot of firepower and plenty of experience.
• Geno Smith wasn't the only QB playing a variation of the Air-Raid system who had an epic day Saturday. Texas A&M thrashed Arkansas, 58-10 behind redshirt freshman Johnny Manziel's SEC record of 557 total yards of offense. As I wrote earlier this month, the Aggies have a special young talent and it is going to be a lot of fun watching him develop. In his past three games (since making his college debut), Manziel is averaging 102 rushing yards per game; 307 passing yards and the Aggies are scoring 59 points per game. The loss drops John L. Smith to 2-12 in his past 14 games as a head coach and the nightmare in Arkansas keeps getting worse.
|A miserable offensive day didn't stop TCU's D, which picked SMU five times to help get a win. (Getty Images)
• Duke coach David Cutcliffe hasn't been shy about predicting big things from his Blue Devil program. In February of 2010, he guaranteed me that the Blue Devils would win an ACC football title in the "next 5-6 years." Quite frankly, it's been easy for folks to laugh off those comments. After all, the Blue Devils have been dismal over the years in football, but his staff has worked very hard to upgrade the talent base and now that's translating into success on the field. After Saturday's win over Wake Forest, Duke is 4-1, its best start in 18 seasons. Yeah, that ACC title call still sounds far-fetched and the Blue Devils toughest games are in the second half of their schedule, but there is finally reason for optimism about this school's football program.
• We expected the Sun Belt to notch another win over an FBS conference opponent, but figured it'd be Louisiana-Monroe over Tulane. The SBC got that, but also had Middle Tennessee thumping Georgia Tech 49-28.
• Texas QB David Ash has really blossomed. The big sophomore has handled crunch time well as he showed in the win at Oklahoma State. Beyond just leading UT on a late scoring drive, he helped the 'Horns to 9 for 17 on third downs and 3 of 3 on fourth downs.
• Going into this season, you had to wonder about the experience of the TCU D especially after some off-field issues cost Gary Patterson some key defenders. The Horned Frogs, though, appear just fine. Their nation's longest winning streak went up to 12 games after they beat SMU 24-16. TCU has allowed only three TDs in its first four games. Patterson also has another emerging big-play man on D in true freshman DE Devonte Fields, a former blue-chip recruit who led the Horned Frogs in tackles with seven, four were TFLs and he had 2.5 sacks. The 6-4, 240-pound Fields now has five sacks in his first four college games.
• Another week, another trip to In-N-Out Burger for Mike Riley's Oregon State squad after a solid road win in Pac-12 play. Time the rest of the country got to hear more about sophomore Sean Mannion, who threw for a career-high 433 yards and led a last-minute, winning TD drive in a 38-35 win at Arizona.
• For all of the jokes the Big East gets, Virginia Tech fans probably won't be making any. The Hokies, who lost to Cincinnati, are 0-2 this season against teams from their old league.
• Impressive work by Bill O'Brien and his staff rallying Penn State after the Nittany Lions 0-2 start. In the three games since, PSU is 3-0 and outscored its opponents 31-9. Up next: a 5-0 Northwestern squad led by do-everything Kain Colter.
• Fresno State leads the nation in picks with 11, which is more than double than what the Bulldogs had in all of 2011 (five to rank No. 112) and it's only two less than they had in the previous two seasons combined. FSU also has returned four interceptions for TDs already. That's more than 12 teams have receiving touchdowns this year.
• Boise State is really struggling, at least by Bronco standards. BSU barely hung on to beat New Mexico Saturday night. Worth noting: the Broncos are 0 for 7 in fourth down tries this season. Last year, they were 15-24.
• The five most penalized teams in the country -- La. Tech, Utah State, Nevada, UCLA and Oregon State -- are a combined 19-3.
• Stat of the Day: Six of the eight top-ranked passing offenses in the country have either played for Dana Holgorsen or have played against him this year: No. 1 WVU; No. 2 Baylor; No. 3 Marshall; No. 6 Oklahoma State; No. 7 Texas Tech; No. 8 Houston.


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Saturday, October 5, 2013
The effort from both sides was phenomenal Friday as Stratford extended its winning streak with a victory over Summerville.
The Knights (6-0) earned a 28-26 win over the Green Wave (4-2) in a game that featured several momentum shifts and came down to the final play. In football, normally the team that wins the turnover battle comes out on top but that was not the case in this game as Stratford turned the ball over six times to Summerville's three turnovers and still prevailed.
"What a great game and atmosphere," Stratford coach Ray Stackley said. "This was just a typical Summerville/Stratford game."
Stratford, which is ranked as the No. 8 Class AAAA team in the state, got on the scoreboard first with an 80-yard touchdown pass from University of Georgia commit Jacob Park to fellow senior Thad Thompson. The receiver gained approximately 20 of the yards after the catch.
But the rest of the first half belonged largely to the Green Wave, which scored 20 unanswered points to take a 20-7 lead into the half. After Chad Wood picked off a Park pass, Summerville drove 15 yards to score on an 8-yard pass from Sawyer Bridges to tight end Sean Smith. Later in the opening quarter, Kevin Dickinson recovered a Stratford fumble to set up the first of two 23-yard field goals by David Kennedy.
Late in the half, Summerville capped a 70-yard drive with a 14-yard TD pass from Bridges to Johnston McCurry.
But Knights scored 21 points in the first five minutes of the third quarter to take a 28-20 lead.
"We played good but we didn't do what we had to do to win," Summerville coach John McKissick said. "Stratford did."
The Knights started their second drive of the third quarter on their own 1-yard line after being pinned down by a Kennedy punt. But on third-and-long, Summerville was penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct and the 15-yard penalty gave the Knights a first down.
After another penalty was called on Stratford, Park threw a pass to Thompson and the receiver out jumped a Summerville defender and then dashed to the end zone to complete a scoring play that covered 89 yards.
The Knights then capitalized on two fumble recoveries.
T.J. Deveaux recovered a fumble and returned it 23 yards for a touchdown and a 21-20 Stratford lead once Tyler Tekac added the extra-point kick.
On Summerville's next possession, linebacker Ty'reik Faulks forced a fumble and Deveaux recovered the ball for the Knights. That led to a 16-yard TD run by Tryee Scroggins and an eight-point Stratford lead.
In the fourth quarter, the Knights tried to cushion their lead with a field goal but the snap was bobbled and Summerville defensive back Daniel Smith rushed in and grabbed the ball to return possession to the Green Wave.
Summerville then drove 83 yards to score on 6-yard run by sophomore Chris Felder. Bridges handed off to Felder again on the two-point conversion attempt, but the Stratford D stopped him short of the end zone so the score remained 28-26.
Summerville's Michael Murray recovered the ensuing on-side kick to give the Wave one last chance. Summerville decided to go with a ground attack in an effort to either break a run or get a more favorable field goal attempt.
The Wave moved the ball to the Stratford 30, but with no time remaining a field goal attempt from the 37 was blocked.
My hat goes off to them," Stackley said. "They had a great game plan and they are so quick on defense. They got us discombobulated in the first half, but I thought our defense really played hard the whole game. Park didn't have a great first half, which is very not typical of him, but he played a great second half. He put the ball on the money when we needed him to."
Park completed 16 of 41 pass attempts for 319 yards and two TDs. Thompson had six receptions for 221 yards, including the two TD catches.
Bridges completed 12 of 43 pass attempts for 190 yards and two TDs. McCurry led the Green Wave receivers with four receptions for 99 yards, including the 37-yard TD catch.
Summerville 10 10 0 6—26
Stratford 7 0 21 0—28
Strat – Thad Thompson 80 pass from Jacob Park (Tyler Tekac kick)
Sum – Sean Smith 8 pass from Sawyer Bridges (David Kennedy kick)
Sum – Kennedy 23 field goal
Sum – Kennedy 23 field goal
Sum – Johnston McCurry 37 pass from Bridges (Kennedy kick)
Strat – Thompson 89 pass from Park (Tekac kick)
Strat – T.J. Deveaux 23 fumble return (Tekac kick)
Strat – Tryee Scroggins 16 run (Tekac kick)
Sum – Chris Felder 6 run (run failed)
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Power Authority Takes Heat for Its Response to Sandy
As superstorm Sandy menaced the East Coast, officials at Long Island's biggest power company asked other utilities to lend it 700 workers to help get the electricity flowing again. But the utility says it has needed 10,000 extra workers to handle the job, many of which it got only after line crews finished work for other electric companies.
This miscalculation by LIPA was only the latest problem at the Long Island Power Authority, the government-owned utility that covers some of New York City's most densely packed suburbs. Many of the utility's failures stem from long-standing issues that have been detailed for years in reports commissioned by many levels of government, including the agency itself.
Among them: a physical system ravaged by years of neglect, a reliance on archaic, labor-intensive methods to gather information on outages and assign repair crews, and inadequate communications with customers, reports have shown.
LIPA declined to respond to detailed questions. But Paul DeCotis, vice president of power markets for LIPA, acknowledged the company let its customers down. "We had a Katrina moment," he said, referring to the hurricane that devastated New Orleans in 2005.
On Friday, U.S. Rep. Peter King, a Republican from Long Island, called on the White House to send the Army Corps of Engineers to help restore power on Long Island. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said 87% of LIPA's 1.1 million customers had lost power, far more than those at other New York utilities, including Consolidated Edison Inc., ED -0.22 % where the roughly 25% that went dark were all projected to be restored by Sunday.
Not so at LIPA, where a quarter of all customers—165,000—remained in the dark as of Friday, including almost all of those in the New York City beachfront neighborhood known as the Rockaways.
Customers, who pay among the highest utility rates in the nation, say they can't get through to LIPA to find out when their power will be restored. President Barack Obama is set to visit the area on Thursday.
Long Islanders, many of whom lack heat, have turned their wrath on LIPA, posting thousands of complaints and pleas for help on its Facebook FB -1.63 % page. Hundreds staged an angry protest on Friday in Oceanside, just east of New York City.
"Still no power, still no answers," said Danny Nelson, a 28-year-old who grew up in Oceanside. "I haven't seen a single LIPA truck. I haven't seen a single truck from another company."
The company's performance has been repeatedly investigated by state agencies, including last year after Irene hit Long Island as a tropical storm, knocking out power to about half its customers for as long as nine days.
A state probe of the Irene response faulted LIPA for poor communication with crews and customers, and a system that "lacks the ability to manage large scale outages." Unlike more automated utilities, LIPA relies on eyewitness reports from inspectors collected via phones, radios and, sometimes, couriers to update a database kept on a 25-year-old mainframe computer. LIPA has said it plans to replace the system but hasn't yet done so.
Other deficiencies, according to the probe, included poor tree-trimming and deferred maintenance on thousands of utility poles.
In 2006, LIPA said it would start spending $20 million a year on making its system storm-resistant, but it repeatedly fell short, spending just $7.6 million that year and an average of $12.5 million annually from 2007 through 2010, according to state investigators.
Peter Schlussler, a member of a LIPA oversight committee, said the weather-strengthening that was done was "just putting a band-aid on an already broken system."
Many of LIPA's woes flow from the $6 billion debt it inherited from Long Island Lighting Co., an investor-owned utility felled by cost overruns at the Shoreham nuclear plant, which was shut down in 1989.
LIPA customers are on the hook to pay for Shoreham until 2033; the company spends $2 on debt service for every dollar it spends maintaining and improving its electric system—about 10 times the industry norm.
The agency, which has been without a CEO for more than two years, functions much like a holding company. For the past five years, National Grid NGG -1.58 % PLC has handled all of LIPA's actual field work with about 2,000 workers; another company, Public Service Enterprise Group, PEG 0.30 % is taking over the contract in 2014.
Members of LIPA's governing board, which approves budgets and utility rates, are appointed by the governor and legislature. Many of the trustees are lawyers, real-estate developers and local officials. Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, didn't respond to requests for comment. But last week he said that the utility "has failed." And he has ordered another study.
That is unlikely to satisfy customers like David Kramer of Merrick, who lost power for 12 days, forcing him, his wife, their toddler daughter and newborn son to seek refuge with Mr. Kramer's 82-year-old grandmother, who gave up her bedroom and slept on the foldout couch.
"People say this has to be the end of LIPA," he said Friday, "because a failure this large can't be excused."
—Will James contributed to this article.
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The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board's chief executive officer has announced plans to step down after six years in the position.
A statement released Saturday says Joe Conti will retire Feb. 2 "to pursue future opportunities in higher education and the private sector."
Conti was appointed to the position in December 2006. During his tenure, the statement said, the agency reorganized, launched a major rebranding initiative, upgraded business technology systems and instituted professional development opportunities for staff to assist wine and spirit consumers.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Bishop England
The Bishop England girls basketball team advanced to the SCHSL 2A state championship game after defeating Kingstree, 55-41, in the Lower State final, this past Saturday night.
Michele Boykin led the Battling Bishops with 21 points, Mary Harriet Moore added 13 and Ellie James chipped in 11 for the 2A defending champions. Bishop England led 28-19 after halftime and outscored Kingstree in every quarter, except for a 13-13 third period.
The Bishops (23-3) will play Keenan (16-6), Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Colonial Center in Columbia.
Like Bishop England, Keenan hasn't had much difficuly reaching the title game. The Raiders have won its preceding state tournament games by an average margin of victory of 23.25 points. The Bishops' mark is a 32.5 margin.
Palmetto Christian Academy
The Palmetto Christian Academy girls basketball team lost to Marlboro Academy, 57-55, this past Thursday night in the SCISA 2A state semifinals. The Eagles finished their season 23-6.
Corey Caulder led Palmetto Christian in scoring with 17 points. Lizzie Wilson added 14, and Haley Hester chipped in 10. Malboro Academy's Katie McLauren led all scorers with 23.
Marlboro gained its edge in the third quarter by outscoring the Eagles 15-10. Palmetto Christian entered the game on a 16-game winning streak, in which it outscored opponents by an average margin of 20.4 points.
The Palmetto Christian Academy boys basketball team lost in the SCISA 2A state semifinals to top-ranked Spartanburg Christian, 83-58, this past Thursday night.
The Eagles wrapped up their first season in the 2A ranks with a 20-7 record.
Like its female counterparts, Palmetto Christian steamrolled through the region schedule, winning the regular season and conference tournament. The Eagles had a 15-game winning streak halted by the season-ending loss.
The South Carolina Basketball Coaches Association released its all-state teams, and Bishop England's Mary Harriet Moore earned a spot on the 2A roster.
Region 7-4A basketball coaches also announced their selections for the all-conference team. On the girls side, Wando's Rachel Torlay and Kearsten Duvernay earned nods, and Richie Alston and Trey Price represented the Warriors boys team.
It was business as usual for the Mount Pleasant Swim Club, two weekends ago, at the Short Course State Championships in Greenville. The team grabbed second place, led by three girl standouts.
Megan Kingsley won eight individual events – 1000 freestyle, 100 backstroke, 200 backstroke, 200 breaststroke, 100 fly, 200 fly, 200 IM and 400 IM. "Gabi Reed and Kaitlin Healy finished as the top two 9/10 (year-old) girls in the state," coach Doug Fetchen added.
Kingsley was also the high-point winner for the 15-18 age division.
The Wando boys lacrosse team won 11-1 over Porter Gaud in its regular season and home opener, this past Thursday night. Tucker Dodson and Carson Horner scored four and three goals, respectively.
The Warriors' much-anticipated game against Benedictine Military scheduled for Saturday was cancelled. Coach Lance Renes said the two schools are working on a make-up date.
The Wando girls lacrosse team beat Hilton Head 15-5 in its first game of the season, this past Wednesday night. Allie Buchnam and Jessie Bunting scored four goals apiece.
The Warriors' game against Bluffton Monday night was cancelled due to weather.
Bishop England
The Bishop England girls lacrosse team has raced out to a 2-0 start this season. The Battling Bishops defeated Academic Magnet, 22-9, and Ashley Hall, 18-2, this past week.
Elena Bosco scored eight goals and had six assists in both contests. Cora Petyak also had eight goals.
Jordan Mitchell is the early leader in goals scored with nine. Fellow sophomore Taylor Kennington dished out five assists and has eight goals.
Their Saturday match against Bluffton was rained out.
The Bishop England boys lacrosse team's season opener was delayed with a rain-out Saturday against Bluffton.
The Wando rugby club team moved to 3-0 this season, after a 12-7 win over No. 21 nationally ranked Greenville, two weeks ago in Columbia. Greenville was coming off a 107-0 victory over Sandhills.
Coach Todd Shepard said the gameplan was to "play for territory, play solid defense, limit their chances to score and capitalize on their mistakes."
Greenville put Wando in a 7-0 hole, but the Warriors narrowed their deficit after halftime to 7-5 with a successful try but unsuccessful conversion. Wando scored again with about four minutes remaining and added the conversion to go up 12-7. Furious comeback attempts by Greenville were thwarted.
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June 11, 2012
Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 26/2012
This is a critical notice of Amartya Sen's 2009 book The Idea of Justice. As well as conveying the flavor of the book, I try to untangle two different interpretations of Sen's central contrast between 'transcendental institutionalists' and 'realization-focused comparativists'. I also raise some doubts about Sen's conceptualization of his project: is the book really about justice at all?
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MIFFLINTOWN - The Juniata County Food Pantry is celebrating 30 years of operation and service to families throughout the county.
Since opening it's doors for the first time in 1982, the pantry has grown in size, support, food options and community donations, said Kathy Queitzsch, executive director for the Juniata County Food Pantry.
"To meet the 40-fold increase in service since 1982, the food pantry has grown accordingly from its modest start in the basement of a church," Queitzsch said. "I am incredibly proud and exceedingly humble to have been a part of ... the Juniata County Food Pantry (and) its history."
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Todd Olnick, left, of New Life Church; and Makenzie Bishop, of the Juniata High School Key Club, volunteer their time to stock the shelves Wednesday at the Juniata County Food Pantry.
The Food Pantry was originally operated by volunteers from four churches of the Mifflintown and Mifflin boroughs, serving an average of 7.5 families a month, Queitzsch said. Now, more than 70 churches support the pantry with more than 400 hours of service a month while providing for 300 local families, she said.
"It seems miraculous to me ... that with the help of this community, the Juniata County Food Pantry has been able to rise to meet the challenges dealt by an unstable economy and still offer a hand of help and hope to the hundreds of poverty stricken folks who come to us for aid each month," Queitzsch said.
In the early years, based on a yearly budget, the food pantry was serving an average of 136 people at a cost of $20 per person. With the help of community donations and an increase in state funding, the food pantry is now serving 850 individuals a month at a cost of less than $16 each, Queitzsch said.
Originally, meals were provided in pre-packed boxes, but families that come to the Food Pantry now have a choice of groceries which creates less waste and meets special dietary requirements, Queitzsch said.
"We were blessed to obtain a permanent home in 2009, centrally located, with plenty of room for growth and storage," Queitzsch said. "In 2011, the acquisition of a 16-foot box truck enabled us to pick-up large donations of food and supplies, as well as truck food to the needy at far ends of the county."
One thing, however, has remained the same since 1982, Queitzsch said. People in Juniata County are still struggling to make a living and many, over 2,500 according to the 2010 census, are living below the poverty level, unable to afford food, clothing and shelter, she said.
"But there are (also) people who still care," Queitzsch said. "In the past year, the generous people of Juniata County have blessed the food pantry with $143,500 in monetary donations, 110,600 pounds of food and non-food donations and 5,500 hours of service."
The Juniata County Food Pantry is now collecting donations for Thanksgiving and Christmas meals, including turkeys, hams, cranberry sauce, stuffing, canned sweet potatoes, instant mashed potatoes, gravy mix packets and dessert mixes. However, The pantry is always looking for non-perishable foods like baby care, personal care, cleaning and paper supplies, Queitzsch said.
The food pantry, located at 114 N. Main St, Mifflintown, will be accepting food donations during the operating hours of 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. each Monday and Wednesday and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. each Saturday. Non-perishable donations may be left at any time. Cash, check or gift card donations can be mailed to P.O. Box 44, Mifflintown, 17059. For more information, contact the Juniata County Food Pantry at 436-9718.


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Some homes were briefly evacuated after a gas line was hit north of the Missouri River.
The Kansas City Fire Department said that a construction crew hit a gas line about 10:30 a.m. in the 5700 block of Northwest Raintree Drive.
Authorities evacuated homes within a block of the incident as a precaution.
No injuries were reported.
Fire department officials said a Missouri Gas Energy crew was working to repair the gas line.


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Six longtime faculty members in the UB Law School have been elevated to new academic ranks, in recognition, says Dean Makau W. Mutua, of "outstanding scholarship and notable records of teaching and service."
The new designations were made possible by generous gifts from distinguished law school alumni, with several coming as leadership gifts to the school's seven-year fundraising campaign.
A major goal of the $30-million campaign, which is especially targeted toward the school's 10,500-plus alumni, is endowed support for faculty research.
"In the last five years alone, we have raised money for four completely new endowed ranks," Mutua says. "We expect many more of these gifts—to support our faculty—before the campaign is over."
The faculty members and their new academic designations are:
James A. Gardner, Bridget and Thomas Black Professor. A well-regarded constitutional law scholar who also holds the rank of SUNY Distinguished Professor, Gardner joined the UB faculty in 2001. A prolific scholar, his most recent book is "Election Law in the American Political System" (Aspen, 2013). Thomas E. Black, '79, and his wife, Bridget, are Western New York natives who now live in Texas, where Black is managing partner of the highly successful mortgage servicing firm Black, Mann & Graham. A former vice dean of the law school, Gardner serves as chair of the school's Dean's Advisory Council, a trustee of the UB Foundation and co-chair of the law school's capital campaign steering committee.
Errol E. Meidinger, Margaret W. Wong Professor. Meidinger, who teaches and conducts research in environmental law, directs the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, a research institute that advances the university's role in cutting-edge research on law and legal institutions. His most recent article, co-authored with four other scholars, is "Transnational Business Governance Interactions: Conceptualizing a Terrain," published in Regulation and Governance. Margaret W. Wong, '76, serves as co-chair of the law school's capital campaign steering committee and as a longtime member of the Dean's Advisory Council. The successful immigration law practice she founded in Cleveland now has offices in six U.S. cities. She also is a published author and one of the law school's most generous alumni.
Athena D. Mutua, Floyd H. and Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar. Mutua studies and writes in the areas of critical race and feminist legal theory. Her work includes the edited collection Progressive Black Masculinities (Routledge, 2006). Her article "Introducing ClassCrits: From Class Blindness to a Critical Legal Analysis of Economic Inequality" (Buffalo Law Review, 2008) explores issues of race and gender as they relate to class structures and introduces the concepts and boundaries of ClassCrits, a project she helped found. She's also the author of "Gender Equality and Women's Solidarity Across Religious, Ethnic, and Class Difference in the Kenya Constitutional Review Process" in the William and Mary Journal of Women and Law (2006), which involved activism and research for which she received the UB Exceptional Scholars Young Investigator's Award. The late Floyd H. Hurst, '31, was a founding partner of the law firm Hurst & Brothman (later Hurst, Brothman & Yusick).
John Henry Schlegel, Floyd H. and Hilda L. Hurst Faculty
Scholar. Schlegel, a UB Law faculty member since 1973, has
primarily studied legal history and the history of legal education.
For more than 20 years his scholarship was focused on the history
of legal education and the activities in the 1920s and '30s
of a group of scholars at Columbia, Yale and Johns Hopkins
universities known as the American Legal Realists. He is part of
the faculty group that offers the financial transactions
concentration, teaching both acquisition transactions and in the
concentration's program in finance in New York City. He also
teaches a two-semester seminar on regional economic development.
His forthcoming book is titled "While Waiting for Magic: Community,
Economy and Law in a Time of Change."
Robert J. Steinfeld, Joseph W. Belluck and Laura L. Aswad Professor of Civil Justice. A scholar of constitutional history, legal history and property law, Steinfeld has a forthcoming book titled "The People or the Courts?: Conflicting Vision of Constitutional Order, Customary Constitutionalism and the Emergence of American Judicial Review." He also is the author of "Coercion, Contract and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century" (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and "The Invention of Free Labor" (University of North Carolina Press, 1991). Joseph W. Belluck, '94, is a founding partner of the New York City law firm Belluck & Fox, and serves on the SUNY Board of Trustees. He and his wife, Laura L. Aswad, live in New York City and Woodstock, N.Y.
David A. Westbrook, Louis A. Del Cotto Professor. Westbrook thinks and writes about the social and intellectual consequences of contemporary political economy. His work touches on numerous disciplines, including law, economics, finance, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies and design. He also serves as the law school's director for global strategic initiatives. Among his books is "Deploying Ourselves: Islamist Violence and the Responsible Projection of U.S. Force" (Paradigm Publishers, 2010). This professorship was endowed by a major donation from Brian Baird, '83, and other former students of the late Professor Louis A. Del Cotto, '51, who taught tax at the law school for more than 40 years. Baird, who is of counsel with the Buffalo law firm Kavinoky & Cook LLP, serves on the Dean's Advisory Council and on the campaign committee of the Law School, and is a trustee of the charitable Cameron and Jane Baird Foundation.
Seven other UB Law faculty members also hold named scholar designations.


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Sony invites press for September 4th event: is the Honami coming?
0. phoneArena 11 Jul 2013, 02:58 posted on
Sony's upcoming Honami aka Sony i1 flagship is drool-worthy stuff. Said to be packing a 20-megapixel camera, it has the ambition to become the best Android cameraphone…
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1. UrbanPhantom (Posts: 949; Member since: 30 Oct 2012)
Good for Sony, and I like their sensor technology. Howevever, 20MP is still half of what the Nokia Lumia 1020 is packing ;o)
3. kobainez (Posts: 429; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
Camera is not the only thing that makes a great smartphone
4. juandante (Posts: 463; Member since: 23 Apr 2013)
Indeed, 1080 high quality screen, no outdated closed WP, fast CPU and not a dual core outdated one, real customization, good battery and light weight is what that makes a great smartphone too.
8. UrbanPhantom (Posts: 949; Member since: 30 Oct 2012)
Your piece of junk Android is most likely compromised and infested with malware. Sucks to have a device that uses an open source OS with a master key, huh?
28. james004 (Posts: 486; Member since: 15 May 2013)
you have to illegally side load an app to get virus in any os.
or if you download the weird junky looking apps which is not made by known developer or reviewed by known tech reviewer you are more likely to get virus on your (pc, mac, android)
what i mean to say is, you have to be a real dumb fu*k to get virus on your phone.
which you sound like.
19. muhsen (Posts: 281; Member since: 07 Jun 2012)
wp 8(not 7) is closed??? its as open as android (except sideloading apps)....snapdragon s4 plus (which is 10 times better that the s400 found in the mega 6.3 and s4 mini and has the same features of s4 pro and s600..check QUALCOMM website) is outdated ???? it seems u r so not knowing in this space
wp has customizations ,customized tiles and tiles wallpapers and others, wps have one of the best battery lives( the lumia 720(60h and 2000mah) has one of the best endurance ratings on gsmarena)...most wp's r light weight (except the 920)...so wp's r pretty good smartphones according to ur points not to mention their super cameras ... and it seems also that u r so ignorant about wp(and processors) so why do u comment about things u r so ignorant about !!!
39. Edmund (Posts: 656; Member since: 13 Jul 2012)
I find it amazing that mods don't see pathetic comments like this as "trolling" ??? On the other hand, make a negative statement about android in any thread (regardless of how factually correct it may be) and you're guaranteed to have it removed promptly
10. FlushGordon (unregistered)
Unfortunately UrbanPanty disagrees
Gargantuan Megapixels is what makes a smartphone great
11. juandante (Posts: 463; Member since: 23 Apr 2013)
he is working for Micro$oft
35. oister85 (Posts: 493; Member since: 27 Apr 2012)
Yeah I know is software.... if you have a s**tty software you going to have a s**tty device.
9. FlushGordon (unregistered)
You're insinuating that Megapixels are everything?
WOW tbh I'm pretty much surprised by your amateurish remarks
21. muhsen (Posts: 281; Member since: 07 Jun 2012)
hmm..ur comment points to ur ignorance about the point of the 41 mpx....its not for taking 41mpx photos ...its for taking 5mpx photos having 7 times(or 5 times in case of 8mpx) the info of the normal 5 mpx i.e almost noiseless...its also for lossless zoom(like optical zooming) but without having a big hump that being elongated and getting bigger while zooming ...all this in a shell almost as thick and compact as a lumia 920 (10.7 mm thick not 25mm thick like s4 zoom and almost the same volume as the original galaxy s4)....it is just funny that people still whine about the 41 mpx while the 808pv is 1.5 year old
36. FlushGordon (unregistered)
FYI, sweetipie....I-HAVE-USED-PUREVIEW since the day u were born
I see nothing special with it.....NONE, NADA
You could fool a noob with Your sweet talking, but no matter how you put those pieces together, Pureview just takes ordinary photos and in NO way comparable to any high end camera
13. AshishRomea (Posts: 145; Member since: 09 Aug 2012)
Wish i could give you a Xperia Z Ultra and let the phone do the talking , sure it doesn have a 41mp cam or Led flash but 41 other things that are better than A WP Nokia.
15. UrbanPhantom (Posts: 949; Member since: 30 Oct 2012)
Both Nokia and Sony have a lot of catching up to do in order to reclaim their lost glory days, but the underdogs is where innovation is often found. However, I'll stick with with celebrating the Lumia 1020, since photography is my passion ;o)
18. kobainez (Posts: 429; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
Get a dlsr if photography is your passion
20. Kurai (unregistered)
get a goddamn dslr or digital camera then . . .
24. muhsen (Posts: 281; Member since: 07 Jun 2012)
808 ( the 1020 consequently ) found to be better than most digital cameras and DSLR's r a lot more expensive than the 808 (which costs peanuts now) and the coming the 1020 (which will cost as much as a galaxy s4) not mention that phones r a lot more pocketable and its a lot better to carry phone that almost (I said almost) can replace ur DSLR in many case than carry a DSLR all the time (if u r interested in photography in the first place) and hey,its mobile photography that we r talking about not normal photography
41. jb4674 (Posts: 145; Member since: 05 Apr 2013)
No serious photographer I know takes photos with a cell phone or a point & shoot camera. Stop trolling.
22. muhsen (Posts: 281; Member since: 07 Jun 2012)
invalid arguament...u r comparing a big phablet to a supercamera phone...two niche devices targeted at two different markets
27. MachidoDen (banned) (Posts: 202; Member since: 30 May 2013)
Megapixels are not everything
We have seen cybershot sony ericsson in past 2005
and they destroyed nokia even using carl zeiss
34. james004 (Posts: 486; Member since: 15 May 2013)
funny how 2000s sony competed with nokia that its Ericsson could have 3.2 mp where nokia had 3 mp camera.
and frankly they both were sh*t, for its time, i say sony was best it even had xenon flash then not these terrible led flash.
back to point, companies always go for numbers, see what happened to HTC One?
no one cared for its 3mp camera.
29. MachidoDen (banned) (Posts: 202; Member since: 30 May 2013)
Megapixels are not everything
when it comes to cybershot branding
Sony proved in 2005
they even destroyed nokia which used carl zeiss lens
30. MachidoDen (banned) (Posts: 202; Member since: 30 May 2013)
Megapixels are not everything
when it comes to cybershot branding
Sony proved in 2005
they even destroyed nokia which used carl zeiss lens
40. jb4674 (Posts: 145; Member since: 05 Apr 2013)
Have you looked at the specs for the Nokia Lumia 1020? I wouldn't be so fast to discount the Honami based solely on the camera advantage the Nokia has.
2. AshishRomea (Posts: 145; Member since: 09 Aug 2012)
And with year coming to an end , sony is set to end it on a high. I wonder what will Xperia Z2 be if Honami itself is sounding so good :O
26. muhsen (Posts: 281; Member since: 07 Jun 2012)
yeah right just like the disappointing camera in the xperia Z....sony builds amazing smartphones but their cameras r crap..exmor r lenses r crap compared to normal lenses found in iphones and samsungs...let alone compared to carl zeiss (now zeiss) lenses
32. MachidoDen (banned) (Posts: 202; Member since: 30 May 2013)
Nokia lumia 920/925/928
Iphone 4s 5 and even 5s
And samsung galaxy s3,s4
all uses sony sensors
5. abcdefgh (banned) (Posts: 471; Member since: 29 Mar 2013)
this is choice for those who dont like wp.but this has limited features w.r.t camera
42. jb4674 (Posts: 145; Member since: 05 Apr 2013)
Such as what? It's not 41mp? The hardware in the Lumia can't even tickle the reported specs of the Honami aside from the camera.
6. sri_tech (Posts: 188; Member since: 21 May 2013)
The reason is simple. They want to attract people on the same day that Nokia gonna bring true camera innovations.
12. FlushGordon (unregistered)
Consumers' needs evolve overtime
In the early 2000's , NOKIA can almost get away with everything for as long as it has a feature-packed camera function
Welcome to 2013....it's all about hardware muscle and gimmicky stuff
perhaps you want to take a peek at how well the Lumia line sold since its inception
25. muhsen (Posts: 281; Member since: 07 Jun 2012)
u seem the one who wants to take a peak at how well lumia line is selling....according to official reports(both nokia and apple) its growth is a lot more than iphone and its taking the lead in countries pushing iphone out on these countries (india the third country (after us and china) using smartphone is one of them)
7. Nathan_ingx (Posts: 3771; Member since: 07 Mar 2012)
Wow! That's a long way from home.
14. luabin (Posts: 36; Member since: 29 Jul 2012)
sony event back on july 4th in paris france doesnt mean anything?...
16. kobainez (Posts: 429; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
It was nothing
17. vincelongman (Posts: 4439; Member since: 10 Feb 2013)
I was really excited for that, but could find anything :(
I hope this one isnt buildups
My next phone will probably be either the S4, One, Honami, Lumia 1020/909, G2 or maybe iPhone 5/5S (depending on how good iOS 7 is, havent had a good look at it yet but not really liking it).
33. james004 (Posts: 486; Member since: 15 May 2013)
dude you just mentioned all the phones. you need to narrow down that list
46. vincelongman (Posts: 4439; Member since: 10 Feb 2013)
good point :), but half of them aren't released yet, so I got to wait for them to be announced first.
43. jb4674 (Posts: 145; Member since: 05 Apr 2013)
I was wondering the same thing.
23. itsdeepak4u2000 (Posts: 3718; Member since: 03 Nov 2012)
Let's come to party.
31. james004 (Posts: 486; Member since: 15 May 2013)
if the pictures we saw of Xperia Z like phone is honami then im little let down, i was hoping for little change in design, i like the front of Xperia ZL and how its bezels are thin, could have used that atleast in honami.
none the less, i have waited for good phones for far too long this year, every phone had some drawbacks that have been released so far, this honami seems to be best match even with old design.
ill be getting that phone even if xperia z with new sensor and processor is so called honami.
37. pongnamu (Posts: 12; Member since: 20 Apr 2013)
More I hear about it, more I want it :p
38. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
Just mark my calendar. In case MOTO x don't have a conference release date.I'll buy this or the Z ULTRA.
44. jb4674 (Posts: 145; Member since: 05 Apr 2013)
As someone who's currently using a POS iPhone 3G (yes, I'm using that POS), I can't wait to get my hands on this thing and liberate myself once and for all from the Apple business model and locked down OS that won't even let me update any of the apps I have installed on my phone.
I totally dislike how Apple forces its customers to upgrade their devices because future iterations of their OS updates will not support legacy hardware.
45. mike2959 (Posts: 538; Member since: 08 Oct 2011)
What puzzles me about Sony is the displays on their smartphones. They are really just okay at best. One would think that because of the television business the displays would be in the top 3 but never. The Z is good but look at the contrast, brightness...I mean all the specs, I compared it to the optimus g pro and the htc one and its striking how much better the others are. Oh by the way why does everyone bust the the balls of HTC for not marketing or spending enough cash..when was the the last time you saw a television commercial for a Sony phone? HTC 10 billion dollar company vs Sony a 80 billion dollar company.


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|FFcoder is an audio/video transcoding tool for windows. It is a unified GUI for 11 encoders - FFmpeg, MEncoder, FFmpeg2Theora, x264, LAME, NeroAAC, OggEnc, FAAC, avs2avi and WavPack. Supports batch processing, automated 2-pass encoding, and advanced configuration options for all codecs. Requires .NET Framework(XP Users).
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1. changing frame rate doesn't work
2. doesn't warn if Nero not installed, just encodes video then says audio "missing"
3. min and max q are STILL 10-51, despite the change log
Very good alternative to SUPER.
Opens and converts to many audio and video formats, can use Avisynth with and very easy to use.
Thanks Tony George.
using the standalone version. can't get ac3 to work with mpeg-2 or aac with mpeg-4. not really acceptable. program only says it fails.
Tried version 18.104.22.168. Still can't get x264 encodes to work and any profile that uses AAC audio gives the error:
"Forcing output FourCC to 34363248 [H264].
AE_FAAC, Unable to load libfaac.dll
Downloaded v184.108.40.206 twice but the program "about" says it's v18.104.22.168. Also have a problem encoding to x264 where it appears no video is encoded and MKVMerge can't find the video file that is supposed to be merged and it fails. On the other hand if I use MPEG4 all seems to work properly.
Perhaps the DVD importer needs a bit more fixing - I couldn't preview any video which was imported from DVD files. Also, it could use some more flexibility, i.e. I would like to choose which title set to import. Another strange behaviour is changing the video specs. A standard PAL DVD with 720x576 MPEG2 video is imported as 704x416 raw video. Things like resolution shouldn't be changed by default. This is what video filters are intended for.
However, this is by far the best ffmpeg-and-stuff frontend - MUCH MUCH better than Super! Everyone who complained about Super's development lately should try this one!
The file which Avira complains about is mplayer.exe. Just a guess: as mplayer2 is used, and maybe with a special compression, false positive shows up.
I tested the file on Virus Total, and only 3 AVs are showing an alert.
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Program is great, very easy to use. And the use of excellent encoders make the result very pleasant.
whenever I grab this my Avira AV says that this package has the "TR/Crypt.XPACK.Gen3". I'm not sure if this is a false positive or if it's harmless or it's sumthin else. Might need a clarification.
This version is a step in the right direction.For a year now,FFCoder is the only transcoding tool on my computer (,and i´ve tried a lot of them).PC TV-card + this app = a winner combination.Thanks to author.
Needed a way to convert 5.1 and 2.0 channel AAC (LC) to AC3, either from demuxed mkv (raw AAC) or right from MKV container.
Tried several other programs with no success, but this program worked.
Very comprehensive transcoding software. Lots of options available for
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Very glad to have found this software, meets my transcoding needs so far.
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Well, still like the look and feel, will try a bit more, perhabs further updates will remedy the problem.
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The Town of Clarence could take the lead role in building an indoor soccer facility in Memorial Park, under a proposal that town officials pledged would not burden taxpayers.
The project is still in the talking stages, but Town Board members are exploring how they might follow through on the Clarence Soccer Club's idea.
Soccer club representatives came to the Town Board's Wednesday work session pitching a plan for a privately funded facility, estimated at $1.5 million, in the park at Clarence Center and Kraus roads.
The club's idea was to buy 1.1 acres from the town at fair-market value and build the facility itself. Club leaders said buying, rather than leasing, the land would make the project financially feasible. But town officials were reluctant to sell town park land and said that process would be lengthy, requiring state legislative approval.
Town Councilman Bernard J. Kolber suggested looking at a different approach: The town would bond the project and lease the facility to the soccer club, which would make payments to reimburse the town for the bonding costs. "So it's revenue-neutral," he said. "We can borrow money much cheaper than [the soccer club] can."
The club would also avoid having to come up with a $300,000 up-front payment to a private lender, he said.
The Clarence Soccer Club bills itself as the town's largest youth sports program, with about 2,000 participants. Rick Carlson, the club's president, said the new facility would create an alternative to renting space for players at places like the Epic Center in Lancaster or using a school gym.
"We think we have a real plan here, a viable plan here," Carlson said. "I know this has been talked about in our club for a very long time. I tell you, we're closer than we've ever been."
Kolber, a self-described proponent of the soccer program, said Clarence needs its own indoor turf field "without any doubt. Our programs are suffering not having any indoor training."
The 35,000-square-foot, pre-engineered steel building would include a 40-yard by 70-yard playing surface, suitable for seven-on-seven play. The structure would be 50 feet high at its peak and would include bathrooms, a multipurpose room, an office and storage area.
Details such as who would be responsible for the facility's operating costs, including utilities, would be negotiated into a lease, said Lawrence Meckler, town attorney.
"I think [the club] would pay, though, not us," said Town Supervisor David C. Hartzell Jr. "We'll let them sell advertising, do something to cover that cost. I don't want taxpayers to have to cover it."
Soccer club leaders prefer putting the building in the middle of Memorial Park, without intruding on any of the park's 12 outdoor soccer fields.
An alternative site might be unused land in the park's northeast corner.
James Callahan, the town's director of community development, reminded the Town Board a soccer facility would face approval processes, including public input.
"Don't get too carried away until you hear from the public," he said.
The board referred the soccer club's request for an indoor facility at the park to the town's Recreation Advisory Committee for review and comments. It is expected to be on the committee's agenda Tuesday.
Club leaders said they would like to have the facility open in late 2013.
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Celts, Romans, Ostrogoths, Franks - all ruled Chur, the gateway to important trade routes and alpine passes, at one time or another. What remains today, is its 5000-year history, documented by Early Stone Age and Bronze Age finds anc artifacts from the Roman period, as well as testimonies to more recent history such as the 800-year-old Cathedral near the bishop's residence.
During a guided city tour, history buffs can discover witnesses to the past and hear gruesome stories from civil wars, or amusing anecdotes from times of peace. To this day, Chur is a commercial center and capital of a large region, as evidenced by a variety of stores, museums, the theater and the PostBus station, a hub of Graubünden's mountain world.
A regional mountain – the 'Brambrüesch' – means that Chur also has its own winter and summer sports region. In summer, Chur is the ideal spot from which to set off on walks and visits to vineyards in the 'Bündner Herrschaft' winemaking region. Chur is the gateway to the Grisons mountains: 26 holiday and spa resorts can be reached in less than an hour from Chur.
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Switzerland's oldest city charms visitors with its fine mountain setting, twisting alleys and historic buildings. Trains of the Rhaetian Railway run hourly to world-famous resorts.
- Rhaetian Railway, Albula/Bernina – the Rhaetian Railway has been certified as an UNESCO world heritage site and therefore has a lot to offer – best explored from Chur.
- Brambrüesch – Chur is the only city in Switzerland with its own winter and summer sports region, linked with the city by means of the Brambrüesch aerial cableway.
- Centrally located – all well-known resorts in Graubünden are within easy reach from Chur. Which means the city has a new adventure to offer every day.
- History – the oldest archaeological discovery on city ground dates back to 12'000 to 9000 years BC. Chur has been continuously populated for at least 5000 years.
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He began his career as a New Orleans street singer, traveling throughout the southern U.S. In his early 20s, he lived in Cameroon, West Africa for a year, which had a profound effect on his later work. He has recorded many old songs of the blues tradition while also creating an original vision of the blues by adding influences from reggae, soul, rock and West African music. His 1995 recording, "Between Midnight and Day," is a tribute to the tradition of acoustic blues.
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User-led innovation can't create breakthroughs. Really? | Opensource.com
User-led innovation can't create breakthroughs. Really?
Earlier this week, Fast Company posted an article by Jens Martin Skibsted and Rasmus Bech Hansen (thanks to Gunnar Hellekson for sending it my way) that may be of interest to folks seeing success with their open source and open innovation efforts.
The article is entitled "User-Led Innovation Can't Create Breakthroughs; Just Ask Apple and IKEA" and here's how it starts:
Companies should lead their users, not the other way around.
The user is king. It's a phrase that's repeated over and over again as a mantra: Companies must become user-centric. But there's a problem: It doesn't work. Here's the truth: Great brands lead users, not the other way around.
Jens and Rasmus aren't the first to preach this sermon, Henry Ford (apocryphally, at least) had a go at it about 100 years ago. And Steve Jobs has famously used Henry Ford's "faster horse" quote to describe Apple's philosophy about market research for years.
To make their case, Jens and Rasmus use Apple and IKEA as case studies of brands that have done very well by not listening to their users, and in the article they document conversations with insiders at each company.
According to Jens and Rasmus, Apple doesn't waste time asking users for opinions. Instead, Apple focuses on designing great products they think people will love (Steve Jobs pretty much says as much here). The other example, IKEA, is guided by an unspoken philosophy of "we show people the way."
I rather enjoyed this article, and believe it makes some interesting points (I especially liked the "three types of icons" categorization, and couldn't agree more on the role of vision, values, and culture). I'm certainly no fan of market research as an all-encompassing answer to everything either.
But I do spend quite a bit of time developing community-based strategies for organizations, including testing user-driven innovation approaches, and I hope I've learned a thing or two about community-centered brand strategy over the years.
So I thought maybe I'd weigh with an alternate view on a few of the points made in the article. Here goes:
1) Using Apple and IKEA to generalize a point about how innovation breakthroughs happen is a little like saying "because chocolate tastes good, all food should taste like chocolate."
I agree that both IKEA and Apple have superb innovation strategies... for them. But each brand is different. For every brand modeled after Apple or IKEA, there is another that has seen success with an approach that takes user ideas into account. I happened to spend 10 years of my career working for one such company.
But there are plenty of other examples, even beyond the open source technology world. Stefan Lindegaard's 15inno open innovation blog does a nice job of highlighting many examples of organizations pursuing innovation with the help of user and customer communities. IDEO has built a very successful business around a human-centered approach as well.
2) Getting user feedback ≠ taking user feedback.
Jens and Rasmus jump to a conclusion that I probably wouldn't reach myself. They argue that it is actually harmful to listen to users and that innovative brands don't care about what their users want. They make four key points 1) Users insights can't predict future demand 2) User-centered processes stifle creativity 3) User focus makes companies miss out on disruptive innovations 4) User-led design leads to sameness.
I agree that these four things can be traps organizations fall into when taking in user input (see: focus groups). But getting users involved in the creation process doesn't mean you must blindly take that feedback and implement it as if you were taking orders. In my experience, most good user-driven efforts are much more sophisticated than that.
3) Do Apple and IKEA really not care about what their users want? Really?
I'd be very surprised if either Apple or IKEA would agree with the assertion that innovative brands don't care what their users want. On the contrary, I expect Apple and IKEA care very much about what their users want—they just think they understand what the users will want better than the users do.
Both companies are expert at anticipating the desires of their user base. If you are really good at this type of prognosticating you can produce ground-shaking, market-making innovations.
But it is not the only way to do it.
Watching Apple and Google compete in 2011, we are currently witnessing a classic battle between two great innovation strategies, one open, one closed. Both are producing fantastic results (I've written about this battle previously, here and here).
Overall, I think creating controversy was probably the intent of this article, to get people thinking and discussing. So job well done. But I'm not sure there is only one path to innovation breakthroughs.
Am I wrong? What do you think?
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Based on my own experience in this field listening is very much part of scaling innovation. And if anyone believes for one minute that Apple (for example) isn't listening then I'd be keen to understand their speed of response to the great 'holding it stops it working' debacle of the iphone4.
Using social tech means you can scale better fit innovation in two ways:
1. Passive (gathering online conversations as insight for change)
2. Active (Identifying scalable groups of influencers for co-creation.
I detail these a little more here: http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2011/02/scaling-passive-and-active-cust...
These are no-brainer methodologies for companies to create a better fit with the fitness landscape in which they operate.
On occasion a product emerges which changes that fitness landscape. But those occasions are rare and filled with huge gaps of fail in between. For most orgs most of the time, seeking to replicate the innovation with the crowd is a much better bet than aiming to transform the landscape.
Nice response, Chris. I'd further add that their thesis flies in the face of research done on innovation, particularly Eric von Hippel and Sonali Shah's work. They note (as many do), that innovation generally comes from the outside-in, and they show how user-generated innovation in many fields is generally more likely to keep than company-generated innovation.
I find it silly to think of Apple and Ikea as companies that only produce big innovations by not asking their users. In the end there is no one true law that leads to innovation. User centered design is just one method that helps to produce results. Whether they are innovative is depending on so many things
Ego, left unchecked, blinds us to the point at which we think we are innovating in a vacuum.
Apple doesn't listen, and that's why they succed? That's total crap. We know that's total bull, but our ego sure wants to believe it. So, we ingest it, and use that point the next time a user with a valid point might sound a bit too risk averse for our liking. Not smart, if we want an authentic, and successful outcome.
Every time a transaction occurs, Apple and Ikea listen. Call it market-driven or user-driven, it is loud and clear, and their hearing is tuned in to that frequency better than most, especially lately.
Don't believe everything you read in Fast Company. Ego-centric success fluff sells issues, but doesn't provide a very realistic nor healthy perspective for today's honest entrepreneur.
This is a part of the business ethos that all companies can be painted with the same brush. Start-up companies must listen to their users or die an early death. This is because all of their users are bleeding-edge users and may know more than the company does. When the company becomes big enough for non-bleeding-edge users, it must change its policy. The bleeding-edge users become the power users but most of its costumers are the "I don't care what's under the hood as long as it works" type. Most of them can't tell you what they want in a manner you can use but the power users can. The company must identify them and listen to them. Don't think so? Try googling "Apple Newton" and "Apple Lisa". Apple just got lucky with its iPod. And these days, most of its revenue these days come from renting music and apps, not electronics.
This article is misleading in several ways. To create a completely new product or industry that has never existed by asking users what color they want their lunchbox to be is silly obviously. And your two examples of Apple and Ikea not using user center design are just wrong. Apple uses UCD all over the place. The very idea of the Macintosh is a derivative idea that Jobs came to through observation. Apple even documents the UCD process in their famous User Interface Guidelines. Using Ikea as an example is almost funny. Ikea is the paragon of lowest common denominator design (LCDD). I've never heard anyone accuse Ikea of being an innovative design company. User Center Design is simply knowing and observing your audience. In the movie the Social Network the Zuckerberg character uses UCD constantly to develop "the Facebook." He learned the behavior of students and came up with the ideas for Facebook. This is all UCD is.
Not all design is about disruption and breakthroughs. If it was we would have even more chaos than we already do. Some design is about incremental refinement. So the problem with the grand statement that "ULD is all bullshit" is overblown. Of course we all want to be creative and innovative. And for a vibrant economy this is important. But like everything in life there is balance.
Grand articles that create red herrings for effect are of limited usefulness. There are important points in this article.
Be a Visionary
Vision needs to be strong and consistent. Most organizations fail on the vision thing. This has nothing to do with UCD. It has to do with deciding what business you are in and execution.
Create an icon
Creating an icon is great and hard to predict.
User insights can't predict future demand
Of course User insights (opinions) don't directly predict the future. But this isn't the point of UCD. The point is to create your own insight by being in the real world and understanding how people use products.
User-centered processes stifles creativity
I think this is mis-framed. Being a slave to rigid process stifles creativity. Enjoying and understanding the people you are trying to reach with your product or design increases creativity.
User focus makes companies miss out on disruptive innovations
This is too broad a statement. The automobile, the computer, social networking, the iPhone, etc. are all results of incremental design and observation of humans interacting with their tools.
User-led design leads to sameness
True "user-led" design might lead to sameness. "User-centered" does not.
Over reliance on process and statistics can be stifling. Design should be multi-disciplinary. Knowing your users is a good thing. At its core that's what UCD is.
User Centered Design (UCD) is not the same as user studies for new product design, innovation. Unfortunately the article is not clear enough on this point for the design community.
I like to comment on this as well. I was at a recent debate of Artificial Intelligence vs. Human Intelligence (ironically the same week as the Jeopardy and IBM show) and I posed the question, did consumers buy the original ipod or iphone because of the technology used to created the functionality or because of the design approach Apple used that was very disruptive? I recently read a book by Adam Hartung, Create Marketplace Disruptions and he talks about how you can't pull your customers for information they will always say that they want it better faster cheaper but if you look at the competitive landscape go where your competitors are not. He's a big fan of Apple, his recent blog post in Forbes http://bit.ly/h27bfw asks the question, "would you hire Steve Jobs"?
Great, provocative article, and excellent comments. Having worked in a global FMCG corporation with standardised processes, best practice and benchmarks all in place, I believe the authors have a point. There is a risk that this kind of approach will more often lead to evolution than to step-change innovation. And though evolution often makes great sense from a business standpoint, one issue this corporation has been facing is big, bold innovation.
This being said, context has to be taken into consideration. There may be categories within which consumers wouldn't accept disruptive innovation. Take, for example, culinary foods rooted in local eating habits. Surely, these will evolve over time, but trying to launch disruptive innovation in culturally rooted categories based on habit is likely to cost you millions with little return.
I even doubt that Steven Spielberg creates his movies without a clear insight how to make it successful. As has been said by some of the commentators, consumer insight led innovation is not about following consumers' statements by the letter (which, by the way, isn't "insight" anyway, these are findings). It is about understanding the powerful underlying need or motivation. I would expect Steven Spielberg to have an unequalled grasp of the role that storytelling or legend has for his target, based on experience and insight gained over his many years in the business.
Another point that is often encountered in marketing departments is that insight led innovation requires focus. To create products people will love you will have to be specific about exactly who will love them because there is a good chance that another group will be underwhelmed. A great example: Marmite capitalised on this polarising effect in one of their TV campaigns. It's just that marketers too often can't seem to whip up the courage to create a clear profile. The result is either a big huge compromise, or a large range of all sorts for everyone, which dilutes the brand profile.
Aside from the discussion whether it is sensible/necessary or not, Ikea most definitely does use user feedback. Ikea just send out a mail asking customers whether they would like to participate in a study. In English it translates to:
"Ikea is continuously working on better and smarter solutions.
We can only achieve that by getting more insight into how people live and what their needs are. And we need your help with that. We would like more insight in the needs and desires with regards to the usage and purchase of drawers. (...)"
The point here is that statements should not be assumed to be applicable all across the product portfolio. The PS line of Ikea is likely to be more design driven, but the above quote clearly shows that they are requesting user feedback regarding drawers.


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