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Every B2B company, regardless of size and industry, will encounter the occasional crisis. Whether your company botches a product shipment or endures a network outage that affects the mission-critical software you deliver, your customers will be upset. In times of trouble, B2B companies can find high-dollar contracts at risk and strategic relationships in jeopardy, and these threats can shake an organization to its core.
Social media has raised the stakes when a crisis occurs, given that customers can communicate their dissatisfaction quickly and broadly. If not managed properly, social media can amplify a crisis and severely damage your business before you have even had the opportunity to troubleshoot the problem. But even though sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn may make managing a crisis trickier, they can also help you communicate with your customers, demonstrate your commitment to them and bolster your reputation. In fact, a well-managed crisis can not only help you retain customers, but it can lead to new customers and additional deals.
Following are six tips for effectively managing a B2B crisis using social media.
1. Develop a Strategy
Crises emerge without notice and leave little time to do much more than react. To respond in a way that is best for your business and your customers, you must develop a crisis management strategy for social media before issues arise. Take the following steps to develop your plan:
- Gather your key team members and brainstorm the best strategy for responding in times of crisis using social media.
- Assign someone to draft the various communications that will be required, and determine what additional review and approval will be needed before they post to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or other channels.
- Establish parameters for follow up posts, including how frequently your team will post or tweet updates.
- Consider using email and your blog to deliver updates.
- Document your plan.
By the time the meeting is over, your team should fully understand the plan that will be set into motion at the first sign of trouble.
2. Acknowledge the Crisis When it Occurs
At the first sign of a crisis that impacts your customers, quickly gather an understanding of what is happening and set your plan into motion. In your early messages to your audience on traditional and social channels, make sure to communicate what steps you will be taking to resolve the issues, and confirm how frequently they can expect updates.
3. Be Honest and Explicit
Don't sugarcoat the problems at hand or address them in vague terms. Be honest and explicit, and stand accountable. Social media has ushered in an era of transparency and it is one of the most important values in a crisis. If you receive questions or feedback from customers, respond in a calm, calculated manner to ensure they are aware that you are putting them first and that you understand their needs. All responses in social channels are considered public statements and can easily be shared. Another reason honesty really is the best policy.
4. Keep the Information Flowing
Keep the information flowing, and strive to provide meaningful social media updates according to the schedule and on the platforms that you have established. If there is no new information to report, let your audience know. However, make sure they understand the steps that are being taken. By communicating frequently, and in multiple places, your audience will be confident that you are working as hard as you can to resolve the problems.
5. Apologize and Close the Loop
Once the crisis passes, complete the due diligence needed to understand what caused the problems and create a plan for avoiding similar issues in the future. Once you have this information, craft an apology email or blog post to your customers that provides a full picture of what happened, why it happened, and how you will prevent this from happening in the future. Speak candidly and be direct. This is the stage of the process where you reaffirm your commitment to your customers and the relationships you have with them.
6. Prevent the Same Crisis from Occurring Again
Simply put, don't make the same mistake again. If you do, you will drive away any of the goodwill that you created through previous crisis management efforts and further damage your credibility. This can prove troubling for existing clients and those considering engaging with your company.
Social media can be your company's best friend during a crisis, and if used effectively, it can help you provide assurance to existing customers while building your reputation in a way that impresses prospective customers.
What best practices do you use to manage crises through social media?


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Seven mass shootings rocked the nation in 2012, with the Dec. 14 tragedy in Newtown, Conn. being the second deadliest in United States histor....
This makes me feel perfectly safe in this backwards place. Idiots.
"Elza said P&M Outdoors has recently experienced a significant increase in the sale of assault rifles and high capacity magazines. He said he had just received some new semi-automatic weapons on Friday, but they would probably all be sold by the end of next week."
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This has been considered before. Buying into it anymore?
"If we need forwards, Riley Sheahan deserves a chance, Landon Ferraro, we've got Tomas Tatar, Gustav Nyquist, Joakim Andersson, Damien Brunner,..." per Kenny.
Uses the word "deserves". Makes me think he wants the young guys up now.
Also, Dan Cleary would have been sat by 29 other coaches at some point this year.


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The Buffalo Niagara job market continued to stumble during November, shedding 1,500 jobs over the past year, the state Labor Department reported Thursday.
The decline was the fourth consecutive monthly drop in the total number of jobs in the Buffalo Niagara region, although the pace of the drop — at an annual rate of 0.3 percent — remains relatively modest.
But some local economists believe the jobs data is overstating the scope of the decline and that revised statistics that will be issued in March will show that the region's job market is stronger than the latest figures indicate.
"I think we're probably slowing, but the slowdown may be overstated in these numbers," said John Slenker, the labor department's regional economist in Buffalo. "We'll probably see an upward revision."
The statistics released Thursday show that the Buffalo Niagara region that most of the weakness during November was centered around the goods producing occupations — primarily local factories and construction — which lost 2.1 percent of their jobs during the past year. At the same time, private sector services jobs were flat and government jobs inched up by 0.1 percent.
Construction jobs, which had been a bright spot of the local employment market for more than a year, slid by 3.1 percent over the past year. Factory jobs, which had rebounded sharply after enduring steep declines during the recession, dropped by 1.7 percent over the last year.
The weakest spot in the job numbers remained the administrative and support and waste management category, whose 17 percent plunge has raised questions from Slenker and other local economists about their accuracy.
Those declines, coupled with a 4 percent drop in financial services jobs, were offset by 4 percent growth in education and health services jobs, and growth in the trade and leisure and hospitality sectors that averaged just under 1 percent.
The local job losses stood in stark contrast with the moderate job growth taking place throughout the country and across the state. Nationwide, job growth during November hit 1.4 percent, without adjusting for seasonal factors, while it was slightly weaker in New York, at 1 percent.
Among the state's 14 major metro areas, only Elmira, with a 2.3 percent drop in jobs, Binghamton, with its 1.1 percent decline, and the 0.6 percent slide in Nassau-Suffolk counties were weaker than the Buffalo Niagara region during November.
The pace of job growth varied widely across rural portions of Western New York, ranging from a 2.1 percent jump in Cattaraugus County to a 0.8 percent decline in Wyoming County. In between, the job market was grew by 0.6 percent in Allegany County, while it improved by 0.5 percent in Genesee County. The number of jobs slid by 0.4 percent in Chautauqua County.
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Do as I say, not as I do?
I read that first lady Michelle Obama is returning to Colorado on Oct. 10, her sixth trip in 10 months. Now, I understand her helping our president campaign and vacations. However, I do not understand how a person can personally thank the EPA for securing the future of our planet via combating climate change and then proceed to fly multiple times here on a fossil-fueled plane at a cost of $12,188 an hour, per U.S. News 2011. Also, per
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Perhaps worse, this aviation CO2 emission, per the Carbon Institute, is "generally released into the high atmosphere and is thought to have a greater greenhouse effect than CO2 released at sea level."
So due to the number of her flights to Colorado, I have to assume this is a matter of "Do as I say and not as I do."
That isn't an effective protocol when raising children, so why is it OK in regard to taxpayers, the environment and our children's futures? And why isn't the media addressing that to our leadership?
After all, the White House states this: "The Obama administration is committed to protecting the air we breathe, water we drink and land that supports and sustains us."
Shouldn't one start cleaning up their own backyard first?
So respectfully, my question for our president and first lady is this: "What about your global footprint?!"
Marty Lich
Layman for commissioner
This letter is to endorse Jeff Layman for Eagle County commissioner. Jeff is without question one of the most qualified candidates, and best men, we could ask for to serve all of us here in Eagle County.
I have known Jeff for many years, and in many different capacities, all of which have provided valuable insights into who he is as a man. These range from serving together on our church council to observing his leadership within the Avon and Eagle County law enforcement departments. From watching the very visible difference he has made as manager of Eagle-Vail to our fellowship over the years as brothers in a special men's group. Additionally, we have spent a fair amount of time hut tripping, skiing and bicycle riding!
While fun, these shared activities also enable one to gain a real sense of perspective about a person. Given all the above, I believe I am qualified to share my heart regarding Jeff's qualifications as a man and as a leader.
In short, I believe we could hardly do better in finding a leader such as Jeff to serve the residents of Eagle County. Jeff has no personal agendas, only the desire to serve. He has deep experience within the county, knows how things work and how to get things done. Jeff is a man of action who, once a decision has been made, works diligently to implement it quickly and skillfully. He is tireless in his service and focused on accomplishing the goals of those whom he serves.
And Jeff is a good man, one who will serve us with honor, integrity and faithfulness. In summary, Jeff Layman will be a commissioner that we will all be proud of!
What more could we ask for from someone to help guide Eagle County?
I encourage you to vote for Jeff Layman, Eagle County commissioner.
Led Gardner
Romney doesn't add up
Say, let's cut taxes, increase military spending and eliminate Wall Street regulations so they can play. That would seem to be Romney's strategy to maximize votes from the military and his wealthy friends. Oh, and by the way, we'll balance the budget by reducing Social Security benefits, replacing Medicare with a voucher system and eliminate women's health benefits - as if the middle class wasn't suffering enough!
We're told, don't worry, all these plans will stimulate growth and we'll enter into another era of false prosperity, just like the Bush administration created.
Romney's got to be kidding! Wall Street's deceptive, unregulated shell games have not only brought America to its knees but have gone worldwide this time, taking Europe into recession and slowing the growth rate in Asia.
People are hurting, consumption is down and growth will be very slow until the middle class can get back on their feet. After all, they're the ones that drive growth with consumer spending, and many of them are just barely getting by with incomes too low to pay federal income taxes (part of Romney's 47 percent).
Then there's Romney's claim that he'll create 12 million jobs, hoping that will garner votes. His theory is to let free enterprise run wild, get rid of regulations and eliminate the EPA and Energy Administration.
He defies science by considering global climate change to be a sham, proposing the elimination of renewable energy subsidies in favor of more oil and coal consumption.
He ignores the remarkable progress that's been made by promoting increased energy efficiency, growth of renewables and expanded domestic energy production.
Romney's positions just don't add up.
Dave Mott
Can't continue
Never before in American history have we had a president who seeks decline, who is actually attempting to downsize his country in a divisive attempt to cast the rich against the poor for the "benefit" of the middle class.
Can America survive four more years of Barack Obama, and is this what our founders envisioned for this country?
Bill McCarthy
Why I'm against Stavney
Put succinctly:
1) 10 parking spaces are not enough for an investment of $3,250,000 with a county population of 52,000 plus Denver and the world.
2) Dan Godec, of Eagle Valley Land Trust, tried to buy the Allen access (which leads to the east-west 80 acres of the "L") from March 2011 until the present. Some definitive proof is available.
3) The only place for more parking is on the 50-foot-wide Allen access road and the east-west 80 acres of the "L," where 100 elk winter.
4) If Jon Stavney, Godec, Runyon and Warner succeed in stealing the Allen access, that means too much traffic on Homestead.
It is getting around that I, Barbara Allen, am campaigning against Jon Stavney. It is true. There are three reasons.
1) I have been trying to keep the foursome - Stavney, Godec, Runyon and Warner - from stealing the 80 acres owned by my brother and myself. It is located south of the "L" and shares a fence line with the east-west 80 acres of the "L." Godec offered me approximately one-tenth of the appraised value. Since I refused to sell, I've been harassed. I am not even allowed to walk on Homestead open space to get to my property. Arrowhead residents and anyone else are allowed but not me.
Since the county did not require a permit for an ag road, my longstanding attorney advised constructing it after conferring with the county attorney. There are emails.
Instead of advising me to follow the agreement with Homestead (submitting a road plan first), he advised that we go ahead with the ag road. It looked as if dealing with Homestead would have been futile.
Warner had placed three utility stubs in my easement. Eight trees, now about 15 feet tall, are in my easement. Warner had even sold a lot to Ryan Sutter with 465 feet of my 50-foot-wide easement running through it.
My present attorney makes certain I read everything, and he makes certain my brother does the same. My original attorney did not confer with my brother at all about the possibility of a lawsuit.
2) There are 100 elk dwelling on the east-west 80 acres of the "L." I wanted that 80 acres to be in the habitat protection program. I tried to get the Elk Foundation's interest. I was scheduled to speak at one of their small meetings. I called to get directions, a member alluded to the "county," and I was uninvited.
I found that many people are genuinely interested in protecting elk habitat. There is a great place to observe them from high up above the east-west 80 acres of the "L" without disturbing them.
3) Shortly after the "L" was bought and Homestead had agreed to a measly 10 parking spots, Godec said to my Realtor, "Barbara should wise up and sell to me for ..." Obviously, more parking spaces are needed. Where could more parking possibly be put? The east-west 80 acres of the "L," of course. The Allen access road runs right into it.
The ag road was constructed lacking 1,100 feet before reaching the Allen 80 acres. This summer, it has been enjoyed by between 50 and 75 Homestead residents. It is a nice road to walk. Remember, the first 465 feet are Ryan Sutter's driveway. My goal is to make the Allen ag road a paved fire truck road for the exclusive use of Homestead residents and a fire truck, in case one is ever needed!
My new attorney discovered that the public cannot cross my access road.
I read Jon Stavney's letter titled, "That sign." If he had done his homework, he would not have written an article containing four false statements, one extremely false statement and one unlikely statement. A good commissioner would have contacted me and found out where I was coming from.
I have been begging for mediation for months. I had to act now because what is coming is not good for the Allen 80, the elk or traffic on Homestead. Stavney refers to getting access to the forest through the "L." Does he think Homestead residents are stupid enough to think more parking will not be required?
In his letter, Stavney refers to the State Land Board section that has been taken out of the big land exchange. It is an ignorant presumption to assume that the State Land Board will put the section back into the land exchange when they can realize at least $30 million for Colorado schools.
On Oct. 3, there was a conference call among the judge and four attorneys against my attorney. The conclusion is that since my first attorney was being sued by Homestead for advising me wrongfully, his malpractice insurance would pay for covering the Allen ag road back up and restoring it to original condition. The judge assured my new attorney that I can scrape it all off in the spring.
Maybe now, you, Eagle County, can see why I am campaigning against Jon Stavney. The river accesses are considered a good thing, according to some letters to the editor. Other projects appear to be OK, too. There is nothing that cannot be continued by better commissioners.
Our forefathers had a good plan for checks and balances. There are no checks and balancing among Eagle Valley Land Trust, Open Space Advisory Committee and the commissioners. At every Open Space Advisory Committee meeting, you will find a commissioner and a Land Trust person in attendance. And, as Don Donnalley so correctly pointed out: "We feel that the last two commissioner groups forced a political agenda that we did not support and were not fiscally responsible."
You may or may not know that Dan Godec was Sarah Fisher's campaign manager. The Allen 80 acres is blocking Stavney, Godec, Warner and Runyon's push through to Lake Creek properties. There are ranch buyers available for the Scudder-Webster property. Scudder-Webster can realize as much by selling to ranchers as by selling to Eagle Valley Land Trust. Then there wouldn't be the problem of too much traffic on Lake Creek Road, nor the interference with elk and deer habitat.
Homestead is fortunate. They now have the north-south 80 acres of the "L" undeveloped with only 10 parking spaces for the public. If Stavney is re-elected, I hope Homestead is wise enough to see the consequences.
I have been observing quite a bit of this stuff for the last 31⁄2 years. Somebody told me I should write a book. I think I just did.
Barbara Allen
Fire district needs help
After a long, hot summer, fall has finally arrived, accompanied by two sure signs of the season: pro football and election campaigns. These two topics elicit very different responses from most folks. There's no way they could have common elements, right?
On the national scale, absolutely not. The huge hits and embarrassing foibles of this NFL season are nothing compared to the candidates' shots at each other. On a local scale, however, let me explain why pigskin and politics share more than meets the eye.
My godson recently turned 1. I gave him a check for his college fund. Creative? No, but he doesn't know the difference, and nothing can top the first gift I ever gave him: one share of stock in the Green Bay Packers. As a fan, it was important to start this kid on the right path - or at least the right rollercoaster of emotion that comes with the territory.
So about this stock? It will never go up in value or pay dividends. At first glance, it's a terrible investment. So I spent good money giving my godson something worthless? Not exactly.
I grew up in Wisconsin, which means unless you have a serious deficiency, Packer fandom is part of your upbringing. Cheering for the green and gold is ingrained in Wisconsin culture.
The Packers are the NFL's only community-owned team. When the organization offered its fifth sale of stock in team history in 2011, the team envisioned a lot of buy-in. In the sale's first 11 minutes, over 1,600 shares of stock were purchased. When the sale closed after five months, 268,000 shares of stock had sold for $250 apiece.
If you're a fan of any sports team, you probably know that team ownership is reserved for billionaires, making the Packers' situation pretty unique. The stock sale helped finance a needed renovation at Lambeau Field. Normally, the billionaire owner would pony up the cash. The Packers don't have that luxury. They're kind of the workingman's team.
Eagle River Fire doesn't have that luxury, either. So they're asking their faithful for help.
The Eagle River Fire Protection District is asking for a 3.77 mill levy in the November election. Unlike the Packers, the fire district has historically received about 90 percent of its revenues from property taxes. Since the last assessment, Eagle County property values have declined by an unprecedented 25 percent with another 20 percent drop in values anticipated for 2014. The Eagle River Fire Protection District lost almost $2 million in revenues since the first assessment and stands to lose about a million more.
Eagle River Fire has done everything possible to slash its already bare-bones budget: deferred critical equipment purchases, including critical wildland firefighting apparatus; cut 70 percent of its administrative staff; cut medical benefits to firefighters and other staff, none of whom have received a raise since 2009; implemented rolling station closures in lieu of paying overtime to cover firefighters who are sick or injured.
Unfortunately, this hasn't been enough.
In tough times, you do everything in your own power to make the situation better. But sometimes doing it on your own isn't enough.
The cuts made by Eagle River Fire Protection District put the organization in a pretty difficult position when it comes to protecting and providing emergency care to you, your family, your home and your community. Without the mill levy, two stations will permanently close in 2014, response times will increase and your fire protection will decline.
If the Packers, or your favorite team, didn't prepare for their weekly games, didn't participate in the draft or sign free agents in the offseason and didn't have the best equipment for their games, admit it, you'd be outraged.
The Packers fill Lambeau Field to capacity, even when the team isn't posting a winning record, such is the situation right now. Yet the waiting list for season tickets is approximately 83,000 people deep.
Times are tough. When your team, or your local fire department, is down on its luck, give 'em a hand. Or the wait list for fire protection service is going to be longer than the one for Packers season tickets.
Support Eagle River Fire Protection District. Yes on 5A.
Catherine Hayes
Citizens Campaign for 5A
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That annoying piece of shit rubber that penetrates your ears. The bass explodes loudly with the earbud/s (can be used plurally).
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I can't hear you. My earbuds are in.
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In this lesson Bob walks through the major sections of the GroupedItemsDetail.xaml page explaining the purpose of the elements. He explains the purpose of the LayoutAwarePage, how binding syntax works in XAML, resource dictionaries, styles, data templates, and more.
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When i am creating the App I don't have the LayoutAwarePage. No OnNavigatedTo Event.
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Hello Bob.
I am developing an app with the grid app template on windows 8.1 pro
It seems to be the fact that in the windows 8.1 the app is likely to break and in visual studio 2013 ultimate, there is no LayoutAwarePage by default.
Any help?
@Maruri: Win8.1 changed the templates. This was designed with VS 2012 and the Win8 templates.
Bob Tabor is really a talent for describing complex Software architectures to beginners. Though Content is sometimes dry it's never boring listening to him.
Hrm.. So, trying to follow along with VS2013 and the 8.1 templates. any tips?
@Ewizza: I think the changes in 8.1 and Callisto are so dramatic that it completely broke this series. I'm very sorry. To my knowledge there's no effort underway to update the HOL or videos upon which it is based.
@Bob @Ewizza I dont know if this question is still up to date for u.
I had the same problem,cause of this I couldnt run the app.
To fix this i did this. Look this video (http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2013/3-077) just from 13:10 to 13:30 its enough :D. And this link :
Sry two parts otherwise i cannot sent two links ^^
https://github.com/timheuer/callisto/commit/3de3dbd1aa46edc58a205e2fcbf24cf18f0502dc. It is just changing two lines of code.
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Petroleum Engineering Tops List of Best Undergrad Degrees
PayScale.com periodically updates their list of Best Undergrad College Degrees by Salary and earlier this year the list was led by Aerospace Engineering – rocket scientists. It's not surprising to see that much of the top ten is unchanged, it's still filled with engineers of all varieties, from Chemical to Electrical to Nuclear, but this was the first time I've seen Petroleum Engineering on the list.
My lovely wife graduated with a Chemical Engineering degree several years ago and many of her friends went to work for large energy companies working with petroleum. I don't know how Petroleum Engineering differs from Chemical Engineering, other than being a specialization, but it's been a poorly kept secret in the Chemical Engineering world that the best salaries are in working with oil.
Does this mean you should rush out to get a petroleum engineering degree? PayScale.com looks at median starting pay as well as "mid-career" median pay, so it's a little more balanced, but a lot can change in four years. Petroleum engineering may be hot now but unless you love it, it may not be what you expect in four years. Or ten. I went to school for computer science in 1998 because it was the hot thing, fast forward three years and you hit the point people remember as the dot com bust (March 2001). So here I was, graduating early into a busted market and everyone in lockdown mode. It's since recovered but it still hasn't reached the excesses I was hoping to enjoy back in the day!
That being said, I'm now of the mind that if you work hard and do what you enjoy, you will succeed. You may not uncork untold fortunes but at the very least you'll enjoy the ride. If that happens to be Petroleum Engineering, then PayScale.com thinks you'll be pulling in over $150k a year by mid-career.


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McALISTERVILLE - State Senator Jake Corman, R-Bellefonte, was the guest speaker at the annual Juniata Business and Industry Inc. meeting, which was held Thursday evening at the Bread of Life Restaurant in McAlisterville.
Senator Corman praised the efforts of the JBI and their efforts to attract more business to come to the Juniata Valley.
"It's always good to have a partnership to get business to come here," he said.
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State Sen. Jake Corman, R-Bellefonte, addresses the annual meeting of Juniata Business and Industry Inc. Thursday at the Bread of Life Restaurant in McAlisterville.
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Senator Corman also stressed that economic development in Pennsylvania is just as, if not more, important than that of social issues.
"I've always tried to take the economic approach to things. If you are doing well economically, it minimizes a lot of the social problems," he said.
Senator Corman also talked about his belief that big money shouldn't be spent on the bureaucracy.
"When you are putting money into the bureaucracy you are not putting money in the local store down the street," he said.
During the regular meeting, three members, Ed Singer, Mike Kramer, and Jeff Brown, were elected to the board for three-year terms. President Mark Partner spoke about the new board.
"We now have a really diverse and hard-working board," he said.
Dane Walters, the marketing director of JBI, talked at length about the past year, and explained how it was one of the most active he's seen.
"I've been with JBI for 12 years and this past year has been extremely active. It's been a very good year," he said.
Walters also talked about three new business that were purchasing lots in the Juniata Industrial Park. Hampton Machinery purchased one lot and will break ground on their building this Spring. Country View Family Farm, a division of Hatfield Farms, bought two lots in the industrial park. Last Spring, Prebuild Homes went out of business, and Harber Farm Equipment is taking over the lot they occupied.
Walters mentioned that the JBI is also looking to expand its reach.
"We are going to start trying to locate ground and start preliminary procedures to build another industrial park," he said.
Walters said that anyone who knows of any land available is asked to contact JBI.
The JBI office is located at 287 East Industrial Drive, Suite 101, Mifflintown.


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5 Things You Don't Learn About High School Until Too Late
I'm not one of those guys who's going to tell you that high school is the best years of your life, because quite frankly, I don't believe that they are. I don't look back on the experience with glassy eyes and a sigh of nostalgia, little cartoon hearts floating around my giant, fluttering eyelashes. And I most definitely don't agree with adults who say, "You've got it easy -- all you have to worry about is going to school." That type of vapid, shallow statement is made by people who have forgotten what it was actually like, the type who plan their 10-year reunion while attending their five-year one.
But there are a few things I did learn long after I graduated that would have made the whole thing a lot easier. Maybe kids today are already wise enough to see these things, but back when I was in school, it would have been nice to know that ...
#5. The Things That Make You Cool Now Mean Nothing After Graduation
There's a really strange, unique phenomenon that happens in high school that you don't find anywhere else in life. It's a sort of social hierarchy that's built around a person's activities, looks, fashion sense and taste in entertainment, a power structure that seems to mean everything for a few years and immediately evaporates within days of graduation.
In a few weeks, the real world is going to stage a bloody coup on this little teen junta.
It's most noticeable among the jocks, who grow accustomed to being showered with praise on a level way out of proportion to what they're accomplishing. Oh, sure, if you're a rare athletic talent bound for the pros or the Olympics, congratulations, you'll be getting that praise for another decade. But at the high school level, just having the right genes, hormones and frame can make you good enough at football to win huge applause from stands full of adults trying to relive their glory years. These kids find themselves having to completely rebuild their identity and status from the ground up at age 20, suddenly living in a world where there are no longer rewards for tackling skinny 16-year-olds.
The non-jocks out there shouldn't start smirking just yet -- the game changes just as much for them. Take the class clowns, for instance. There's a huge difference between someone with a genuinely good, clever sense of humor and the kind of "bet me five bucks I won't eat this" act that gets you attention in a classroom. In fact, that kind of attention magnet is as incapable of adapting to the real world as any personality type in the entire school, including the drug dealers.
"It's just for, uh, college."
If you're a "look at me" class clown, the thing that made your classmates like you is the exact thing that will make the rest of the world hate you. I know, you're just trying to make people laugh, and getting reactions out of people feels good. But if you were known as the guy who goes too far, chances are that you're bad at judging when it's time to hit the off switch.
In high school, the only negative reinforcement you get is a trip to the principal's office, which just makes your act seem edgier. And that's the thing -- this act only plays in that setting, because the school has to put up with it, and everybody knows it. High school is the last time that will be true. A year later, your employer calls you into her office and says, "We've received multiple complaints from your customers and co-workers that you're annoying and distracting. You're fired. But only because we can't legally shoot you in the face."
Sorry, class clown. Your audience is gone, and they're never coming back.
No one will pay you for this.
If I Had to Go Back ...
I'd leave the popular kids to crash and burn on their own, opting instead to hold a private intervention with the class clowns:
"Look," I'd say, "I'm almost as old as some of your parents, and now people pay me to do what you're attempting to do in class. But you need to be careful, because what you're doing right now is the exact opposite of what we look for in the field. Put down the match and pull up your pants, because this is important. What you're doing is annoying people, and it's only funny in the most remedial sense to those who aren't on the receiving end of your incredibly simple, unoriginal antics. You're getting cheap laughs at the expense of the unpopular kids and harried public school teachers. Nobody is going to be amused by that outside of this room.
"Here's a good rule of thumb to follow: If your routine makes most of the people who hear it want to physically fight you, it's not comedy. You're on the right track when people come to you when they want to laugh -- not when you come to them begging them to laugh."
Farts are always funny, but they're difficult to monetize.
#4. Not Every Teacher Knows What They're Teaching
Teachers are an easy target, especially for the aforementioned class clowns. They're an authority figure we can rebel against, and often they have multiple physical flaws ripe for mocking. But one thing we can always count on is that teachers know what they're talking about. They have to, otherwise society wouldn't let them stand up and tell it to two dozen impressionable young minds.
"And here we see the gigantic glass sphere that encases our world."
Unfortunately, that's not always the case, and the danger is that since we're hearing these facts and lessons for the first time, there's no way for us to know what's correct and what they're just stumbling over in the midst of a hangover, secretly praying to demons to make the clock go faster. And most schools won't let you fact check statements on Wikipedia in mid-lecture.
When I was in school, we had a gym coach who was no longer needed in that position. But he had tenure, so they had no choice but to let him teach another subject, and he landed in algebra. He knew enough about the subject to get by, but knew virtually nothing about the more advanced problems, so he got daily lessons, himself, from another dedicated math teacher. It was a daily occurrence for the class to correct him when he flat-out got it wrong.
"This has an area of, oh, let's say a bazillion."
Understand that you are absolutely going to encounter one of these teachers because, after all, the school is a workplace, and no workplace is without a few mouth-breathers that the boss tries to hide away in the corner. The thing is, if you're the manager of a fast food restaurant, you put that type of person on dishes until someone calls in sick. And even when they're working fries in one of those emergency situations, if they mess up, you just have to correct a one-dollar mistake and move on. If a teacher does it, he's directly damaging the intelligence of hundreds of people.
"This is the periodic table of deliciousness. Everything on here tastes incredible in a sandwich."
But the problem isn't just their lesson plans. Teachers are like bartenders for teens. When things go sour, they're the most likely adults that students will turn to for help. When they give advice, we listen, because they're teachers and they must therefore be the best at teaching things. If you can't trust your teacher, then who can you trust? But if he's a moron, every bit of advice he gives you is so much worse than simple misinformation. Bad facts can be corrected. Bad advice shapes who you are.
These people are, after all, only human, and low-paid humans at that. They may be trying their best. But when you're a kid, you don't realize that your teachers aren't necessarily any wiser than the average person, and may in fact be undergoing medication for numerous mental illnesses.
"I don't feel like teaching today. Maybe we'll just watch Star Wars again."
If I Had to Go Back ...
I'd be kicked out of school before the end of the first day. I'm sorry, I know they have a thankless job, but the years have not made me more tolerant of people who have no idea what they're doing. I can see myself stopping that PE teacher mid-class and saying, "Would you like one of the smart kids to take over for you? It's obvious that you're struggling with the material. You know, the only subject you teach. The same exact lesson you repeat every hour from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The lessons that we as a class didn't know yesterday but do today because we actually read what you assigned us. Did you not read the material yourself? Maybe it would be best if you just gracefully declined your tenure in favor of not making us all look like idiots on our first day of college. I hear the middle school is looking for a kickball coach."
#3. No One Gives a Crap About Your Crusades
Above every exit at every high school should be a sign that says, "Remember, most of what matters in here probably doesn't matter out there." It's a bubble where all of the priorities are upside-down -- the contest for Prom King is huge, the kid getting terrorized by bullies means nothing.
For instance, the stupidest thing I remember from high school was a political fight about the dress code. Not the stuff you'd expect: no cursing on T-shirts, or that pants had to have a crotch (I'm taking credit for that one). It was an obscure rule from the 1940s that said girls were allowed to wear hats, and guys weren't. There was a huge school council meeting. Speeches were given. The words "sexist" and "unfair" were used a lot. And in the end, they changed the rule to say that nobody could wear hats at all.
"Hooray, we've ended the real problem in this country: hat hair!"
Our class president and her -- cabinet? -- celebrated that victory as if they had ended sexism itself. In retrospect, I can see why they were excited. No matter how minor, it was their first real taste of taking on the system and directly causing a tangible change. It didn't much matter what that change was. Or that the school officials forgot about the whole thing the next day. They still celebrated that policy change for months.
On the other end of that spectrum were kids who legitimately thought that The Man was out to get them. Teachers had it in for them. The principal had made it his life's goal to get them out of school for good. The police were constantly screwing with them. There were dozens of these people, and they honestly believed it because, at that age, it's natural for authority figures to be viewed as the enemy.
"What's your problem, Captain Fascism?"
It's not until you get a few years of real life under your belt that you realize that the last thing the police want to deal with is a 16-year-old whose rebellion is being put into overdrive by a 12-pack of liquid balls. Every second they spend trying to get you to put your clothes back on is time that they could be devoting to wiping out meth labs or locking down some wife-beating social virus.
"Suburban noise complaints won't solve themselves, son."
No, at that age, the world is still locked firmly in orbit around you, and it's impossible to imagine that to society at large you exist mainly as a series of annoying sounds.
If I Had to Go Back ...
I'd go to that hat meeting, and I'd step up to that podium with the most depressed face I could muster. "Esteemed members of the school council, you'll notice that I'm not wearing a hat tonight. And those of you who know me personally will notice that my grandfather isn't here to support me like he usually does. At 2:31 this afternoon, I got a call from him, and upon hearing my voice he immediately asked what was wrong. I told him about the hat controversy and that because of it, I could no longer don the giant family novelty sombrero that had been handed from father to son for 16 generations. There was silence as I heard a single tear roll down his face. At 2:34, my grandfather died. It is in this spirit that -- no. No, I can't go on." And I'd leave that podium in a fit of tears, never saying another word about it.
Adios, abuelo.


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A Tiffin apartment building was left uninhabitable after a fire Saturday evening.
The fire at 8 Adams St. was reported at 6:31 p.m., a Tiffin Police Department spokeswoman said. Chief William Ennis of Tiffin Fire Rescue Division said the building has eight apartments.
"They were all vacant," he said.
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Three shifts of Tiffin Fire Rescue Division personnel were summoned to a fire at 8 Adams St., Tiffin, Saturday evening.
Ennis said he did not know the cause of the fire and it was under investigation Saturday night.
The chief said firefighters could see smoke from the fire station, and flames were blowing out of second-floor windows when they arrived at the scene. It took 50 minutes to get the fire under control, he said.
Ennis said all three shifts of firefighters fought the blaze. He said only eight initially were duty because of vacancies on the department. Normally, 10 would be on duty, but the department is down 25 percent, he said.
The Adams Street property is owned by Monument LLC, according to the Seneca County Auditor's Office website.
Ennis said the main part of the building has three floors, and the second and third floors suffered smoke damage. The single-story, second-floor apartment where the fire started was on a two-story addition and was gutted, he said.
A first-floor apartment had significant water damage from a water pipe that Ennis said he is sure broke in the single-digit temperatures. The broken pipe was not discovered until Saturday night, and there were a couple feet of water in the basement, he said.
Ennis said he did not know a loss estimate Saturday night but said the building is going to be reparable. The building was being prepared to undergo renovation, and the fire left it uninhabitable, he said.
Firefighters had to cut power and water to the building, he said.
Tiffin Police Department personnel provided traffic control and will assist in the investigation, Ennis said.
No one was injured, Ennis said.


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SpecialitiesSeats 85 indoors, 150 outdoors. Exceptionally sunny and unrestricted views. When the weather is good, raclette and grills served on the terrace. There are numerous walks, both on foot and with snow shoes, that start out from Siviez.
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ROCKFORD — The Rockford Area Convention & Visitors Bureau will host Stroll on State from 4 to 10 p.m. Nov. 30 in downtown Rockford.
The free event will include the lighting of the city's Christmas tree, ice skating, holiday shops and food vendors. The Moonlight Jazz Orchestra will also perform.
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Purdue's Interns for Indiana program helping regional companies meet competitive demands.
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This Wednesday, February 25, representatives of VisionTech Partners and VisionTech Angels will travel to West Lafayette to participate in Purdue University's faculty "Pitch Day," part of the Entrepreneurial Leadership Academy. Our role: to serve as technology commercialization and business start-up experts for the ten Purdue faculty members who will pitch their ideas.Read Full Story
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Mayor Cook keeping busy with end of term a few months away
Cook is writing a book detailing some of the controversial situations he's had to deal with
With just a few months left in office, it would be understandable if Mayor John Cook decided to take things easy.
Nothing could be further from his mind as he gets ready to leave office after the mayoral election in May.
"One of the things that I've talked to (City Manager) Ms. (Joyce) Wilson about … is the strategic plan that … we actually started on the strategic planning process back in 2005. And we've updated it every year since, where we bring in the entire council together. So what I've asked her to do is to make sure that we can sit down, without going through that whole process over again and make sure there's no loose ends that we're going to leave," Cook told ABC-7 during a late 2012 interview. "Beyond that I think there's several things that I'd like to institutionalize that we started during my administration."
Cook said the Mayor's 100 Teens program has already been institutionalized and the next program he would like to have institutionalized is the First Lady's Thanksgiving Dinner.
"We've done it for eight years," Cook said. "It costs approximately $10,000 a year to put it on, including the rental of the convention center, buying the turkeys. So I've talked to her (Wilson) about the possibility of institutionalizing that."
Then there's the matter of City Hall.
"Beyond that though, the most important thing I think that's going to take place over the next several months would be the transition out of this building – City Hall – into the new City Hall locations (and) how we remain as user-friendly as possible during that move. User friendly to the people that are doing the jobs, No. 1, because the last thing you want is disgruntled employees trying to deal with members of the public . that's probably not a good way to start things off," Cook said. "But secondly, how to be user friendly to our customers who come in and use city services. So getting the word out as to where the locations are going to be. Make sure that we carefully move, don't miss things like telephone service, and internet service. Those are going to be very key. And remember, we have to do all of this at the same time there's some legal issues and challenges to the demolition of City Hall and the building of a Triple A baseball stadium."
Cook also is keeping himself busy with another big project.
"I'm in the process of writing a book and the name of the book is 'The 21st Century Mayor: Back to the Future,'" Cook said, adding he was about 2/3 finished with it. " I haven't had anybody edit it yet so it's in a rough draft manuscript form. I'm actually hoping to have that completed prior to the end of my administration. Which will be in either May or June depending on if there's runoff elections. …. So that doesn't give me a lot of time to finish it. But if I'm not able to, I'm just going to set aside that time to finish working on the book."
The book will not just be about his eight years as mayor but also will have some of the stories and anecdotes from when he was the City Council representative for Northeast El Paso from 1999-2005.
"It'll be a lot of personal issues that I bring up and how I handle personal conflicts, how I dealt with things on a personal level, some stories related to grandchildren… how I've integrated them into my City Hall life," Cook said.
The book also will include some of the controversial topics that have come up during his tenure and how they were dealt with.
"The ballpark issue will definitely be in there, the demolition of City Hall will definitely be in there, and then I think the newest chapter that I decided to add is the hazards of email communications," Cook said, referring to the emails of the city manager that became public last year in which she did not talk favorably about some city representatives. "I think that's something – you know, you have the Austin case – one of the first big national cases where Texas open records laws were used to review all communications between council members in Austin. And then you have the same thing here, an open records request that revealed there were probably some very inappropriate emails between the city manager and some council members. So that will be one of the lessons that I want to share with other mayors around the country: Be careful what you put in writing because anything you say in writing not only can but will be used against you."
He also will be a part of an organization he started called The U.S.-Mexico Border Mayors Association, which he created at the urging of Dept. of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
"That organization was formed so that people on both sides of the border can speak with one voice in Mexico City, in Washington D.C., so I've agreed to step in as their volunteer executive director to keep the organization going even after I leave office," Cook said. "So I'll probably do that at least for a couple of years to see if I can try and attract some funding so ongoing it will be successful. Then lastly, my wife and I started a foundation called Feeding the Nation's Homeless. So we're going to devote quite a bit of time to making sure that that foundation does well and survives."
In addition to the Triple A ballpark and demolition of City Hall, Cook also had to deal with temporarily housing Hurricane Katrina evacuees in 2005, Storm 2006, and the 2011 freeze.
"In all of those, when you have crises, the measure that you have to use is 'how did you handle it? Were you prepared to handle things you weren't even prepared for? Did you know how to put the team together?'" Cook said. "If you go back to Storm 2006 that's probably one of the best examples. Ms. Wilson and I have pledged for the two of us never to be out of town attending the same function at the same time ever again. Because we were both in Kansas City at the time and I got her on the first plane back and I got on the second plane back. But we ended up taking care of the situation."
"And remember, we had $210 million in damage to our infrastructure. We had to deal with FEMA in order to get the maximum amount of reimbursement we could get. We had two entire communities that had to be leveled and people relocated.
And I think we set the bar for other communities that face similar things," Cook said. "We not only found replacement housing for these people but most of them got upgrades in what their housing was already. For example, in the Sapian area you had houses, some of them a one bedroom house, 700 square feet. Well, they don't build 700 square foot houses anymore. So, how could we find a replacement house that wasn't better? We didn't have to. We could have just given them the money their house was worth and told them be on their way. But we did the right thing and we made sure that they had the right house – a house that would serve as a substitute for the one that may have been in their family for years. And then we had very constructive reuse of the property. It's a beautiful soccer complex now."
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Food crawl (n). a multi-stop investigation of the best restaurants, meals, or specific item on the menu. Food crawls may last a few or much longer depending on the type of crawl.
"Bro, let's do a taco food crawl next week and find the best carnitas in town."
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Visiting multiple restaurants in an evening to obtain one complete and proper meal. This may be done as a dine-in or take-out experience. It is most often a practice where restaurants have one tasty item, and everything else on the menu ranged from only moderatly good to shit.
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• Ridge Road & Green Road, John D. Valery; Donna J. Valery to Joseph A. Olivero, $185,000.
• Lockport Road, Kristen A. Cercone; Todd R. Daigler to Peter A. Sciandra; Danielle A. Sciandra, $8,000.
LEWISTON Highest price: $475,000 Average price: $214,350 Median price: $175,000 Number of Sales: 8
• Forest Road, Elizabeth Jesella; Edward P. Jesella to Erik J. Chretien, $475,000.
• Saddlewood Townhouses, Paddock Lane, Diane Santalucia; John Santalucia to Elizabeth Jesella; Edward Jesella, $264,900.
• Saunders Settlement Road, Brenna Stachewicz; Robert E. Stachewicz to Jamie Beth Johnston, $200,000.
• Seneca St., Clayburn C. Booth; Bonnie M. Booth to Anthony D. Carella, $180,000.
• Merrie Road, Rosemary Thompson; Elizabeth T. Doyle to Jeremiah M. Smith; Julie K. Smith, $170,000.
• Kathleen Court, Barone Building Co. Inc. to Joan L. Maulis, $163,900.
• Elm St., Theresa Butta; Christian L. Butta to Teresa A. Hennessy, $131,000.
• Lower Mountain Road, Marn A. Weld to Amy M. Rinehart; Michael R. Williams, $130,000.
• Park Lane Circle, Livingston K. Clark; Brenda J. Clark to Jayne M. Bil, $125,000.
• Regent St., Kelly L. Devine to Tammy L. Szafran; Michael A. Szafran, $116,400.
• Carolina Ave., J Robert Cramer; Audrey M. Cramer to Cynthia N. Lamarco; Robert J. Lamarco Sr., $110,000.
• Washburn St., Jayne Bil to Ronald Cole; Craig Cole, $89,900.
• East Union St. & Rogers Ave., James M. Scapelliti to Gregory Shaw, $82,000.
• Bewley Parkway, Eric R. Jackson to Ryan J. Houseman, $69,000.
• Mccollum St., Heather L. Knight to Anna Dipasquale-Munn; Matthew D. Munn, $25,000.
• Carleton South, James D. Herberger; Daniel W. Garlock to Bradford L. Sherwood, $175,000.
• Old Niagara Road & Stone Road, Jean Mcnally; William D. McNally Jr. to Gary Clark, $54,000.
• Lockport-Olcott Road, Robbin S. Pollock; Robbin S. Allen; Ronald H. Pollock to Bryan Pollock, $75,000.
• Dean Brown Drive & Apple Court, Anthony Quarantillo to James Paul Goss, $165,000.
• Estates at Wildwood Acres Condo, Steele Circle, Michael E. Haag to Edward J. Hess, $80,000.
NIAGARA FALLS Highest price: $165,000 Average price: $72,550 Median price: $67,000 Number of Sales: 10
• Dean Brown Drive & Apple Court, Anthony Quarantillo to James Paul Goss, $165,000.
• 92nd St., Sharon A. Hale; Douglas E. Hale Jr. to Rick D. Forgione; Nicole A. Forgione, $93,000.
• 77th St., Rocco J. Bruno Jr. to Jennifer L. Lasecki, $85,000.
• Estates at Wildwood Acres Condo, Steele Circle, Michael E. Haag to Edward J. Hess, $80,000.
• Munson Ave., Timothy J. Reed to Karen L. Boddecker, $72,000.
• 67th St., Catherine M. Giunta; Patricia H. Walsh to Daljit Singh Mann, $62,000.
• 26th St., Damian J. Rocco; Danielle M. Rocco; Danielle M. Darcangelo; Dana L. Rocco to Michele Eodice; John Eodice , $58,000.
• 74th St., Paul J. Lequeux; Gail E. Lequeux to Micha Twist; Daniel Twist, $42,500.
• Falls St. & 69th St., William Payne; Nancy L. Payne; William F. Payne; William F. Payne III to Nicholas Lebay , $40,000.
• Linwood Ave., Upstate Development Group to Hon Wai Daniel Chiu, $28,000.
NORTH TONAWANDA Highest price: $187,500 Average price: $87,775 Median price: $89,000 Number of Sales: 14
• Fairmont Ave., Allen B. Stiver; Patricia E. Stiver to Heather Cooke; Bradley J. Cooke, $187,500.
• Ward Road, Melvin J. Ott; Glenda A. Ott to Adam C. Dickey; Danielle M. Dickey, $149,350.
• Meadowbrook Drive, Leda Leroux; William E. Leroux Sr. to James M. Martineck; Christine A. Martineck, $140,000.
• Barrally St., Amanda M. Taylor; Amanda M. Ellman to Ashley M. Richards; Joseph W. Wodka, $110,000.
• East Schenk St. & Spruce St., Donald G. Urban; Dorothea I. Urban to Mark L. Vona, $104,000.
• Barrally St., Irene Sukiennik; Anthony J. Sukiennik; Elaine S. Driscoll; Irene H. Sukiennik to Christian L. Butta ; Theresa E. Butta, $102,000.
• Christiana St., Jeffrey Anastasi to Josephine Castelli; Nunzio Castelli, $92,000.
• Jackson Ave., Joanne Lewandowski; Joanne M. Rutana to Casey L. Button; Charles T. Button, $86,000.
• 1708 Eddy Drive, Sandra Yoder; Sandra Lindaman to Kathleen Lindaman, $75,000.
• Roncroff Drive, Jamie Marie Monda-Tylec to Anthony J. Cosentino; Madalyn J. Cosentino, $75,000.
• Witmer Road, Della Sanio to Patty Sue Semelsberger, $45,000.
• Felton St., City of North Tonawanda to 89 Felton Llc, $30,000.
• Felton St., Barbara J. Kline to Charles Internicola, $25,000.
• Cramer St., Gwen Mulcahy; Kyle R. Andrews to Jessica Ellis; Donald Bowden III, $8,000.
• Hunters Creek Condo, Tonawanda Creek Road, James J. Bartlett; Grace F. Bartlett to Michael J. Jerzewski, $182,000.
• Fisk Road, Joseph Coccho III to Jeffery R. Kowalski, $165,000.
• Irish Road, Elaine Tucker; Burton H. Lenhart to Viktor Svirgun; Lyubov Svirgun, $165,000.
• Bear Ridge Road, Jeffrey S. Sikora to Janice M. Sturtz, $145,000.
• Aiken Road, Janet J. Kala; James W. Kala to Jennifer L. Steiner; Joshua C. Steiner, $129,500.
• Irish Road, Elaine Tucker; Burton H. Lenhart to Judy A. Brenon; Lee H. Brenon, $101,100.
• William St., Donald G. Hoech; Donald G. Hoech to Dusty Bloss, $90,000.
• Kayner Road, Sally L. Cutter to Scott D. Hiddie; Bonnie J. Hiddie, $136,000.
• State St., Jennifer M. Raduns; Daniel J. Raduns to Cheryl A. Gutierrez, $71,000.
• 10 Manor Lane, Edward A. Williams; Clara J. Williams to Linda C. Drum, $70,000.
• 65 Main St., County of Niagara to Nathan Vanderbeck, $32,500.
• Johnson Road, Robert P. Chojnacki; Patricia A. Chojnacki to Christopher J. Czarnecki; Carrie M. Czarnecki, $17,500.
• Wildwing Drive, Paulo J. Fumo to Matthew A. Puskas; Carolyn A. Wiech, $318,000.
• Renee Terrace, Mary Lou Ribbeck; Steven J. Ribbeck to Richard Musolino; Pauline M. Musolino, $225,000.
• Ward Road, Dennis J. Neri; Barbara J. Neri to Joseph J. Spano, $118,000.
• Witmer Road, Christopher P. Brosius; Lori A. Brosius to Jennifer Deufemia, $75,500.
• Town Line Road, Patrick D. Kelahan; Christine M. Kelahan to Michelle A. Mattice, $215,957.
• Beebe Road, Joseph J. Forsyth; Christine A. Forsyth to Teresa Trank; Michael Trank, $159,000.


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Feb 05, 2013 | 10:00 AM - 02:00 PM | CNB Community Rm., Harold Rogers Student Commons, Somerset North
Somerset Community College invites local businesses looking for qualified employees to attend the upcoming SCC College and Career Fair.
The event will be held on Monday and Tuesday, February 4 and 5, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the Somerset Campus in the Rogers Student Commons Citizen National Bank Community Room, 808 Monticello Street, Somerset.
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Manchin's 'No label reforms' evoke New Progressive Era
February 17, 2013
One hundred years ago, the United States experienced the zenith of a political reform movement driven largely by moderate Republicans who championed the causes of working people and the middle clas....
And there you have it. Reading these comments you can clearly understand why this country will never be capable of another "Progressive Era". Fear mongering and use of words like "Marxism" and "Tyranny" (especially when describing a sitting US President) only serve as distractions to keep the country off course. Our inabilities to separate historically what has worked from what has not worked will eventually doom us all.
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Like many libs today, Woodrow Wilson regarded the Constitution and our system's separation of powers as a millstone around the neck of progress. He admired the British parliamentary system and worked to reduce the purposeful constraints of constitutional government. Swint's treatment of the Progressive movement reveals a superficial understanding of it. To understand the movement more deeply, one must begin with looking to the great influences of the day: anti-capitalism and Marxism. Swint would be well advised not to use Wikpedia as his primary resource for future articles.
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No labels ? This is just one more "label" attached to the leftist gambit of "be reasonable, do it my way". Bill Clinton, the last leftist president before Obama, had a different label for the same idea. He called it "The Third Way". It is Marxism ! It is pablum for the masses ! It attempts to dress up a failed idea in new academic and scientific sounding rhetoric. It is still Fabianism. It is still a pig with lipstick. It will still lead to failure. It is just one more cry for compromise with tyranny. Jesse Helms gave them the appropriate answer long ago -"Compromise, h e l l ! ... If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?"
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Maui boasts its sun, sand and surf during the holidays, but now there's ice skating, too.
Well, sort of.
The Westin Ka'anapali Ocean Resort Villas unveiled Wednesday its "hybrid ice rink," which acts like a real ice-skating rink, but doesn't have any ice and doesn't use any refrigeration or electricity.
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Westin Ka'anapali Ocean Resort Villas guest George Sikora (with hat) and the hotel's director of Food and Beverage, Robert Megargle, test out their skates on the approximately 1,000-square-foot hybrid ice rink that opened Wednesday.
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Megargle, who moved to Maui from New York recently, thought of the idea to bring a version of "ice skating" to Maui.
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Chicago visitor George Sikora got a kick out of skating on a hybrid ice skating rink at The Ka'anapali Ocean Resort Villas on Wednesday afternoon. "It's probably as close to a real experience as you can imagine," he said of the rink that is made out of a special polymer and sugar-based lubricant. The rink is open through Jan. 1.
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"I think it's an island first," said Robert Megargle, the hotel's director of food and beverage who came up with the idea to have the plastic hybrid rink on the resort's lawn.
The resort is calling it "Skating by the Sea, a Kaanapali Holiday."
Megargle, who moved to Maui nine months ago from New York, joked that "I had to bring Rockefeller Center here to the island."
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Skating By the Sea
Through Jan. 1, The Westin Ka'anapali Ocean Resort Villas, 6 Kai Ala Drive.
Monday through Friday: 4 to 9 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: 1 to 9 p.m.
* $15 for 20 minutes; includes ice skate rental
* All-day passes available for $75
Children 6 years old and under not permitted.
Open to the public.
And, now there's a 1,000-square-foot, cozy skating rink decked out with tinsel on its vinyl fence enclosures and three Christmas trees standing as sentries near its entrance.
But instead of skaters keeping the cold winter chill away with warm beanies and mittens, they enjoyed Maui's warm weather, wearing shorts and T-shirts.
"It was fun," said Chicago visitor George Sikora, who was the first hotel guest to try out the rink. "It was really an incredible experience to be ice skating in 85-degree weather on the island of Maui."
The software company owner who grew up playing hockey said it was almost like the real thing.
"It's probably as close to a real experience as you can imagine," Sikora said.
Megargle, who also grew up skating in Michigan, glided through the rink and fanned out his arms as he wore his aloha shirt and slacks.
Megargle was employed at one of the Westin's sister hotels, the W New York Downtown, where he had worked with the company BH Skating International, which patented the hybrid rink. He then lured the company to Maui.
The rink is made out of polymer, a plasticlike substance, with a sugar-based lubricant which gets absorbed into the polymer so its not sticky, he said.
"It acts and feels like real ice," under one's skates, he said.
The products along with blades moving across the surface work together to let the skater glide, he added.
To the touch, the rink was not cold, but damp, with some water visible. The top of the rink felt like soft plastic flooring and wasn't slippery. The rink is slower than riding roller skates or inline skates.
"What we are proud of, it requires no electricity, or any power whatsoever, it's environmentally sound," Megargle said.
He added that the hotel built the rink with local contractors and workers. It took about a couple of days to build. Then the rink was outfitted in holiday decor, with more to come, hotel officials said.
He said that the rink comfortably holds 15 people, who will be allowed to skate for 20 minutes for $15. The price includes skate rentals, but people should bring socks. (See box.)
Megargle said that the hotel is combining the skating experience with other holiday events, including events for children as well as a "Skate into the New Year" party on New Year's Eve.
Events are open to the public.
During the rink's evening and night hours, the monkeypod trees above it will be lit up with Christmas lights.
"The big thing for us is we wanted to provide something unique and memorable," said the hotel's General Manager Angela Nolan as she watched the skaters as the sun began to set.
"It's nice to bring the winter feel to the island."
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on November 7, 2012 - 6:47 PM
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Say Yes Buffalo received a formal community kick-off Wednesday, with speakers offering hopes of a brighter future for the city's public school children through scholarships for all eligible public and charter school graduates.
Public officials, foundation representatives, university administrators and parent leaders were among the nearly 200 people who gathered at First Niagara Center's Harbour Club for the inaugural meeting of the Say Yes Buffalo Community Leadership Council, which will set policies and monitor outcomes.
"It is a new day in the City of Buffalo, and it is a new day in Buffalo Public Schools, whether we refer to it as a renaissance or rinascimento [Italian for "renaissance"], or rebirth or game-changer. Things are about to change in Buffalo Public Schools," School Superintendent Pamela C. Brown said.
Consultants hired by Say Yes Buffalo also publicly released two reports critical of the school district and teachers union.
The reports describe a corrosive culture under former Superintendent James A. Williams and suggest ways to achieve better results and save money.
Brown, whose tenure began June 13, said she welcomed the consultants' work and would incorporate some of the findings into a strategic plan she aims to begin later this month and complete by early February.
"I do embrace what was shared today. Many of the points are things that have been evident to me during the first few months of my tenure here," Brown said.
Mayor Byron W. Brown, a co-chairman of the Say Yes Leadership Council, celebrated the scholarship plan as the only one in the country that provides comprehensive support services and promotes school district reform.
"Some children in this community don't have the resources of two-parent households. They don't have the resources of parents who are doing well economically. We can fill that void that many children experience in this community, and Say Yes is the vehicle we can all come together around to have that impact," Brown said.
The leadership council announced that $17 million has been raised for the scholarship fund so far, with a short-term goal of $30 million.
"I describe the support we're getting as miles wide and miles deep. I've never seen anything like this in Buffalo," said Alphonso O'Neill-White, another council co-chairman and the president of BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York.
"We want the words 'Say Yes' to be on the lips of every single person in this region," he added.
Absent were Phil Rumore, president of the Buffalo Teachers Federation, who also didn't attend a Monday meeting he was invited to with the Say Yes Buffalo consultants, and Crystal Boling-Barton, president of the administrator's union.
Both were invited to participate on Say Yes Buffalo's Community Leadership Council.
"I won't say I'm disappointed," Pamela Brown said. "Hopefully, there are very good reasons why they're not here. I want to make sure they know I really value being able to work with them and that I think it is important that we work together."
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WASHINGTON – If the "fiscal cliff" alone is not enough to give you indigestion, here's a new worry: Milk prices may be about to double as a result of a looming "dairy cliff."
Thanks to congressional inaction on a new farm bill, the nation is set to revert, on Jan. 1, to federal farm policies that date back to the 1940s.
The impact, farmers and lawmakers say, would be the end of the federal price supports that keep milk prices where they are now, meaning that early next year, a gallon of milk in Erie County could cost nearly $6.80, compared with up to $3.39 today.
Also, everything that you eat or drink that is made at least in part from milk – from pizza toppings to Greek yogurt to white Russians – would cost more.
It's a scary prospect for families and farmers alike, said Dean Norton, president of the New York Farm Bureau, who spent Wednesday in Washington, lobbying lawmakers to act fast on a new farm bill.
If nothing is done and prices double, "milk consumption will go through the floor," said Norton, whose family runs a dairy farm in Genesee County. "It would be a serious economic disaster for dairy farmers."
Day by day, that disaster grows nearer.
Staffers on the House and Senate agriculture committees have been trying to hammer out details of a new five-year farm bill that could pass by the end of the year. As of Wednesday, they remained hung up on a disagreement about commodity price supports, according to sources close to the talks.
If that stalemate continues into January, the price that the government pays for surplus milk under the expiring farm bill would more than double, as the nation reverts to the 1940s-era law that remains the fallback whenever a more modern farm bill is not in effect.
You might think farmers would be happy that the government would suddenly pay more than twice as much for their milk, but instead they are terrified. They say the new, higher government price support for milk will boost prices at the grocery store to levels that consumers will not be willing to pay.
"I haven't talked to a dairy farmer who's not seriously concerned," Norton said.
Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., is seriously concerned, too.
"This is an entirely avoidable and unnecessary burden on families, schools and farmers alike, and it could be easily addressed," said Schumer, who discussed the issue on a conference call with reporters on Wednesday. "All the leaders of the House of Representatives must do is put the bipartisan Senate farm bill on the floor for a vote, and I'm sure that it will pass."
The Senate passed its version of the farm bill earlier this year, but the House has been divided over the farm legislation and hasn't brought a bill to the floor for a vote.
But there's still time for a deal that can pass both houses, Rep. Tom Reed, R-Corning, said earlier this week.
"The [Agriculture] Committee is working hard, and they're working in a detailed review of where the Senate is at and where the House is at, and where the Senate is willing to move and where the House is willing to move," Reed said. "The details are being looked at, and to me, that is a good sign."
As that happens, Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand, a New York Democrat who is on the Agriculture Committee, is working with Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, to try to get the final bill to include a modern dairy price support provision.
"I am working hard to get a five-year farm bill across the finish line, since dairy farmers deserve the certainty of keeping a safety net in place, especially as feed and fuel prices are at all-time highs," she said. The trouble is, the House remains stuck as it tries to come up with a way to replace cash subsidies to commodity producers with a loan system.
As a result, "I'm becoming pessimistic" about the possibility of a bill being finalized by the end of the year, House Agriculture Chairman Frank Lucas, R-Okla., told Politico, a Capitol Hill newspaper.
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I believe it is possible to experience loss and sustain an emotional wound that cuts so deep it hits you in the very depths of your soul. That is how I felt when watching the horrors unfold Friday in Newtown, Conn.
The photos from Sandy Hook Elementary School were gripping. Photographers captured images of children fleeing to safety after the second deadliest school shooting in our nation's history. May we pray we never see the pictures of the carnage inside.
By the time the killing spree ended, 20 children had perished at the hands of 20-year-old gunman Adam Lanza, who later committed suicide. Seven other victims also were murdered, including six adult employees at the school. The first victim, his mother, Nancy Lanza, was killed prior to the attack at the school in the home she and Adam shared.
As a mother, I struggled to contain the tears that silently slid down my cheeks as I settled in to watch the news Friday evening. The TV played in my living room upstairs in our home. In stark contrast, the joyous sounds of my boys echoed from the family room in the basement, where they were playing with their friends.
I felt humbled and also guilty. I was able to embrace my children at a time when I knew other parents' hearts must have felt as though they had been ripped from their chests. I bowed my head in prayer: first for the families of all those involved and second in thanksgiving for the health and safety of my own children.
At a loss and wanting to do something, I sat at my home computer and wrote the editorial that was published in Saturday's edition of The Inter-Mountain. I realize there wasn't much I could have done to help the situation in Newtown, but I wanted to empathize with the emotions our readers - nay our entire nation - experienced as we watched in stunned, captivated silence.
Even President Barack Obama, who has been criticized for his sometimes detached, emotionless demeanor, struggled to address the nation in his speech. His voice broke during his delivery, as the roles of parent and president battled for control. In the end, he was both sides of the same man - showing, through the wiping of tears, that our commander in chief also is human.
It is hard not to be felled at the knees by such extreme acts of violence, especially when they are committed against such young children. Those killed in Newtown all were in the first grade. They ranged in age from 6 to 7 and had their whole lives before them.
Newly released information indicates some of the children were shot as many as 11 times each. This scenario literally was and is every parent's worst nightmare. Even more chilling, it played out in almost real time as our nation watched in horror.
For me, no movie plot, no terrorist plan could ever hurt more than the real-life slaughter of our children.
Truth often can be more brutal than fiction. It slices to the core of one's being because the hurt is real versus perceived.
Right now, it is time for this country to get very real. We as voters need to provide politicians with a truth of our own.
Something must be done to address this culture of violence in America, where our citizens are being attacked from within. That something must include an open, honest assessment of all the factors that contribute to an attack like the one in Newtown.
It's not just about gun control. It's not just about access to quality mental health services for those who are desperately in need. It's not just about preparedness and safety training for our nation's schools. It's all those things combined with so much more.
The one thing this clearly isn't, shouldn't be and cannot become is a partisan battle. Politicians must put down their weapons that long have been drawn from across party lines to take up a new fight - together. They must rage in unison to ensure the peace we promise our children when we tuck them in bed at night really does exist.
We have soldiers watching our country's borders to protect us from outside threats. Our legislators need to rise to the challenge to watch us from within. There's no one on our homefront's front lines, and our casualty count will continue to grow until our leaders can unite to address this most urgent threat.
Until that occurs, how can any of us sleep soundly or securely, or keep these real-life nightmares at bay?
Heather Goodwin Henline is publisher and general manager of The Inter-Mountain. She may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The head of the Republican party in Montgomery County has resigned amid sexual assault allegations.
The Montgomery County GOP released a statement Thursday saying Robert Kerns resigned.
Multiple sources tell our partner station WPVI the resignation has to do with a sexual assault allegation against Kerns.
A source tells 69 News it may have happened in King of Prussia.
According to the Montgomery County GOP's website, Kerns is married with three children.
The Montgomery County Republican Committee says it will follow its bylaws to select a new party chair.


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