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Alex Dickerson was 2 years old, Gregory Polanco had just turned 1, and Jameson Taillon wasn't even 1.
Those were the respective ages of some current Curve players the last time the Pittsburgh Pirates were in the playoffs, or in the hunt for a playoff berth, or finished a season over .500.
Now more than 20 years later, the Pirates - barring a giant collapse - will finish the season above .500 and be in the hunt for a playoff position. And the idea of being part of that is something that Taillon, Polanco and Dickerson can enjoy - not only because they are all more than 20 - because they are players.
As the Pirates begin the second part of the season, not only fans, but players are getting excited about the major league team's possible success.
"It's cool to be a part of it, even if we are only in the minor leagues," Tallion said. "It's cool to see them doing well. Around this clubhouse, we know most of the guys up there so it's great to see them have the success that they are having."
While it may be a few years, Taillon, Dickerson and Polanco, among others,could potentially be a part of what is happening in Pittsburgh.
Despite the Pirates collapsing in the second half the last two seasons, many like Jared Hughes said this year is different.
"It's good to watch," Dickerson said. "All three years I've been here, they have been good so I don't really have as good of perspective of how bad they have been in the past. They've been solid, and we all knew this was coming."
That idea of playing for a team that is in pennant races also excites Dickerson.
"It would be awesome," Dickerson said of possibly playing for the Pirates in a few years. "As you grow up, you always think about playing in the big leagues and playing in the big games in October. To be a part of an organization that is probably going to be there is also an added plus."
Taillon, a former No. 2 pick overall, is most likely on the Gerrit Cole path and could be in a Pirates uniform next season.
Polanco could be in Pittsburgh within the next two seasons, and if Dickerson keeps performing like he has lately, it could be a short time before they are all in black and gold.
"It would be fun," Taillon said of helping with a potential pennant race. "Getting drafted and seeing where they were at the time and where they are now, it's a cool process to be a part of. If I got to help out, that would be great."
With contract situations locking up key guys like Andrew McCutchen, Starling Marte and Pedro Alvarez, who are all signed until at least 2016, the several members of the Curve team can help make an impact.
"That's a big thing for me," Polanco said of how he'd like to be part of the future. "I wish they call me up in September or whenever they want. That is one of my dreams [to be on a major league team and compete for a title]."
Both Dickerson and Taillon have seen the Pirates when they have struggled, much like many of the team's fans.
"When I first signed, it was like a dark time," Taillon said. "There was not much energy around Pirate City when I was down there. Now, you are down there, people are buzzing, and people are really excited to be there. There is competition. The coaches are all really excited to be a part of."
While nothing is guaranteed for the Pirates, seeing them do well is something that Dickerson and others can get excited about, even though the Curve may not be in line for a playoff spot.
"It's to that point now where we are right there on the cusp and the big league," Dickerson said. "They are going to make a push for the playoffs this year. They are going to contend for a championship."


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TORONTO – One of the most surreal moments in the history of the Buffalo Sabres took place Wednesday in the rear parking lot of the Northtown Center at Amherst. The players were still shaking their heads over it and the shock had yet to dissipate early Thursday afternoon following their pregame skate in Air Canada Centre.
It was 3 p.m. Wednesday, the appointed time the team was leaving for the trip here, and coach Lindy Ruff had not yet arrived. When he showed up a couple of minutes late, boarded the bus and told the team he and his staff had some news, everyone figured it was a trade. Maybe a big one to shake up a struggling team.
Instead, Ruff gave them word his time as their coach was over. Ruff thanked them and hopped back off, initially leaving everyone in stunned silence.
"That's when we totally realized changes were on the way," captain Jason Pominville said in Toronto on Thursday. "We all said, 'We gotta go out there and see him.' It was pretty emotional for everyone."
The players lined up in the parking lot for a quick handshake and a quick hug with their now-former coach. Then they were off to continue their season, minus the man who has been the coach of the franchise since July 21, 1997.
"He's a great person, a great guy," Pominville said. "He's done a lot of great things for the city and organization. It was just a tough way to say goodbye. Obviously we would have liked to have had more time. Everyone was kind of waiting in line to talk to him."
"It was very hard. I spent eight years with him," added winger Thomas Vanek. "It was very difficult. I just went out to shake his hand and wished him well. I told him I was sorry I couldn't do more."
Center Tyler Ennis said the players were happy Ruff told them the news himself.
"We all have a lot of respect for him doing that," Ennis said. "We could all tell he was upset and emotional and it was emotional for us too. It's a big change for us. He's been here for so long that it's tough on the human side of things to be a part of that. A lot of us feel like we let him down."
Easily the most emotional member of the Blue and Gold was assistant coach James Patrick, who played with Ruff while with the New York Rangers, played under him with Buffalo (including the 1999 Stanley Cup finalists) and has coached under him since 2006.
Glassy-eyed and in a voice choked with emotion, Patrick said he and fellow assistants Teppo Numminen, Kevyn Adams and Jim Corsi had no idea what was going on when Ruff came on the bus. Patrick said it was a "pretty awkward feeling" to not have Ruff with the club.
"He's been a former teammate and then he coached me and then I worked with him. I feel so blessed to have all this experience with him, to have him as a mentor," Patrick said. "I felt that way about him as a player. I thought he was a great coach as a player – and I had 15 NHL head coaches. I learned so much from him. He's an incredible person. There's very few people like him."
Winger Patrick Kaleta – one of 12 Sabres whose entire NHL career has been spent under Ruff – has a particular affinity for the former coach. The Angola native played his 280th NHL game Thursday, easily the most by a Western New York native with the Sabres.
"You couldn't ask for a better opportunity than he gave me," Kaleta said. "He basically made a Buffalo kid's dream come true. I'm thankful for everything he's done for me on and off the ice in my career. ... Lindy has been a big part of the organization as long as I can remember, even growing up. I wish him all the best."
As the NHL schedule moved on Thursday, winger Drew Stafford admitted the team was still "trying to process what had happened" on that bus and in that parking lot in Amherst the day before.
"There's no other word to describe it except just shocking," Stafford said. "A lot of guys were sitting there ready to go and it was a normal day. Then all of a sudden he came on, shared the news and it definitely got emotional pretty quick.
"I don't know any different. He's been my coach my whole career. A lot of disappointment comes when we realize we should have been playing a lot better. The onus is on us obviously. We're the ones playing the game. We didn't get it done and he has to pay the price for it."
Said Vanek: "I keep waiting for Lindy to come back. But obviously that's not going to happen. As a group, we have to move on and get better."
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A smile crept onto Jeff Neel's face as he shoveled pile after pile of snow on a hill last weekend at Peakview Park in Greeley. Neel was building a terrain park, a terrain park that would become so much more for a group of snowboarding teens.
Neel was building a classroom.
Neel runs The Farm, an indoor skate park and terrain park for snowboarders. The Farm is a part of the Northern Colorado Youth for Christ group, an organization that introduces teens to faith and provides a safe environment for teens to meet.
After rails were setup and snow was piled into landing zones, snowboarders of all skill levels and ages arrived. Sliding their boards across rails — some only inches wide, not all attempts were successful, but they were all met with cheers.
"We accept you for who you are not what you can achieve. That's our central message," Neel said.
Neel also works to ensure the teens snowboarding with him learn the attitudes they need to have at the ski resorts as well.
"We love to snowboard, but we don't want to be snowboarders," Neel said.
Neel encourages members of his group to break the stereotypes that surround the sport. Whether that's baking cookies for ski patrol or giving candy to their fellow skiers and boarders. Among the snowboarders racing down the slops with Neel is Chase Russell, 13.
Chase began skating at The Farm two years ago.
When Chase discovered how The Farm connected snowboarding, skating and faith, he become more interested in the program. He saw how their service projects helped the community and how they connected with beginner skaters and snowboarders. He wanted to be apart of that.
Now he volunteers, helping Neel with younger skaters and snowboarders as they start out, and learn the different sports.
"Whenever we get a someone new I always try to stick with them. I know how it feels to be left behind," Chase said.
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The Berkeley County Sheriffs Office is investigating a fatal shooting of a teenager Monday night.
Berkeley County Sheriffs Office spokesman Dan Moon said Tuesday morning that an investigation is ongoing into a shooting in Ladson; a 15-year-old boy, Alonza Williams of Goose Creek, was shot multiple times and died at MUSC after being taken there by helicopter. The shooting occurred in the College Park area of Ladson.
It is under investigation, said Moon.
Berkeley County Coroner Bill Salisbury confirmed the victims identity.
On June 30, at 9:49 p.m. the 911 dispatcher received a call reporting a shooting in the College Park Area of Berkeley County. When sheriff officers arrived they found that Alonza Williams had been shot several times.
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The video isn't that bad - I was watching the recording in the session and it looked "uncomfortable" - what a dedicated videographer - thanks Scoble! Raymond Chen is simply a great speaker and I am thankful he is talking about some very important details surrounding the Windows environment. Keep up the great work!
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Earlier this month, NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, adrift in space, successfully completed its three-and-a-half year mission to catalog faraway planets. As a reward, NASA is extending Kepler's mission for up to four years.
Since its launch in 2009, Kepler has helped scientists identify over 2,300 planet candidates and confirm at least 100. It proves that planets are quite common in the universe.
"The initial discoveries of the Kepler mission indicate at least a third of the stars have planets and the number of planets in our galaxy must number in the billions," says William Borucki, the Kepler principal investigator at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.
Finding Earth-like planets that might support life has been much more difficult. NASA has identified hundreds of candidates in "habitable zones," where they are the right distance from their star to have liquid water, but none is close to an Earth clone.
Borucki remains hopeful: "The planets of greatest interest are other Earths and these could already be in the data awaiting analysis. Kepler's most exciting results are yet to come."
The extended mission will focus on finding stars and exoplanets (planets that orbit around a star that isn't the Sun) similar to the Earth and Sun. Key characteristics include distance, size and the existence of years and days.
"Kepler's bounty of new planet discoveries, many quite different from anything found previously, will continue to astound," said Jack Lissauer, a planetary scientist also at Ames, "But to me, the most wonderful discovery of the mission has not been individual planets, but the systems of two, three, even six planets crowded close to their stars, and, like the planets orbiting about our sun, moving in nearly the same plane. Like people, planets interact with their neighbors and can be greatly affected by them. What are the neighborhoods of Earth-size exoplanets like? This is the question I most hope Kepler will answer in the years to come."
How does Kepler spot a planet? It constantly monitors the brightness of over 150,000 stars. If there is a blip in the brightness, it could mean a planet has passed by, darkening the star from Kepler's vantage point. Different sized planets block out different amounts of starlight.
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Geoff Marcy of UC Berkeley sees a philosophical component to Kepler's mission: "The Earth isn't unique, nor the center of the universe…The diversity of other worlds is greater than depicted in all the science fiction novels and movies. Aristotle would be proud of us for answering some of the most profound philosophical questions about our place in the universe."


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The duo confirmed their marriage to TMZ Friday – and said their union would have been late mom Whitney Houston's dream come true.
"I would tear up, this is exactly what she wanted, us together," Brown, 20, said as she cuddled up to her new husband.
The coupling has long raised eyebrows due to the unusual connection between them: Houston raised Gordon like a son, although she never officially adopted him.
The pair did not address that connection in the video, but did share that they received a blessing from Brown's grandmother, Cissy Houston, prior to the union. In 2012, Cissy was said to be "worried" about the pair together.
"We saw her at our cousin's sweet 16 and she gave us her blessing," Gordon explained.
"She's very happy" Brown added.
Their comments come just one day after Brown posted a photo on Twitter and Instagram that confirmed the union, and showed off their wedding rings.
"@nickdgordon #HappilyMarried SO#Inlove if you didn't get it the first time that is," Brown wrote.
The newlyweds were coy when asked about the specifics of their nuptials, but hinted that a bigger celebration is to come.
"What we can tell you is that next year the ceremony will be beautiful," Gordon said.
Plus, like any couple, they are planning on a honeymoon.
"I'm thinking Fiji," Gordon declared.
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Alice Edna Steele Campion, the mother of Hesperus resident Tom Campion, died Saturday, Aug. 18, 2012, in Sandpoint, Idaho. She had just turned 103. Mrs. Campion was the last living grandchild of Longmont pioneer John Dunsha Steele.
She was born to J.D. and Blanche Steele on Aug. 11, 1909, in Altona, a small community west of Longmont. She was one of eight children. Mrs. Campion lived most of her life in the homestead her grandmother built in Altona. She moved to Montana in 2000 to live with her daughter Donna Platt.
In February 1929, she married Charles H. Campion in the Longmont area.
Most of her life, she was a caregiver for various people in her home and also enjoyed caring for her home, garden and flowers.
Mrs. Campion was a member of the Hygiene Methodist Church, Altona Grange and the order of the Eastern Star. She sang with the Sweet Adelines. She loved crafts of all types while she could see. Mrs. Campion was preceded in death by her husband of 45 years, Charles Campion; and infant daughter Betty Jo Campion.
In addition to her son, Tom Campion of Hesperus, she is survived by her daughters Phyllis Carlson of Florence, Ariz., and Donna Platt of Heron, Mont.; six grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and 10 great-great-grandchildren.
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Fans are not the only ones eager to find out what happens on Revenge – the stars of the juicy drama get just as excited.
"So much can happen in an episode. At this point I've resorted to flipping to the very last scene the minute I get the script to see where [my character Charlotte Grayson] is going to end up," actress Christa Allen told PEOPLE recently while on break from filming.
Allen admits the nature of the primetime soap opera means that any character could "fly off the handle and become the enemy of any other character," but she calls the cast a "family."
"I don't know how I would do it without them," she said. "Every single person on the cast just has so much love for one another."
The cast is known to play dodgeball, attend concerts together and recently planned to celebrate the 24th birthday of Joshua Bowman, who plays Daniel Grayson, at the home of costar Emily VanCamp, according to Allen.
Even Allen's most frequent on-screen adversary – her character's mother, Victoria (played by Madeleine Stowe) – has taken on a "motherly role with me."
"She always have a little golden nugget of advice to offer up," she said of Stowe. "From fashion on the red carpet to the way we deal with things on set, she's given me tidbits that make the day easier to get through."
Allen teases that there are twists and turns to come as the cast members' characters continue to piece together what happened on the night con artist Tyler Barrol (Ashton Holmes) was shot.
"We're starting to put the pieces of the puzzle together and we have these big explosive scenes," she said. "I feel like the Graysons should just stop hosting dinners at their place. Something horrible always happens."
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A Niagara Falls man whose false testimony caused dismissal of a drug case in federal court has been sentenced to 22 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara, U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. reported Wednesday. The charge carried a maximum prison sentence of 20 years.
Maurice M. Ubiles, 26, was convicted of obstructing justice. Prosecutors said that he gave false information to narcotics officers about a controlled drug purchase he allegedly made from a suspected dealer. The suspected dealer was arrested and charged in federal court, but charges were dropped after it was learned that Ubiles had lied about the purchase. Police records show that Ubiles had been arrested on drug charges three times since 2009.


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A love song to an American icon: the first full-length biography of Carly Simon, from an acclaimed music journalist who has known her for decades
Carly Simon has won two Grammys and an Academy Award, and her albums have sold more than forty million copies. She has touched countless lives and is considered an icon in 1970s music, yet her own life story has remained a mystery. Tapping private archives, family interviews, and a forty-year friendship with the legend herself, Stephen Davis at last captures Carly Simon's extraordinary journey from shy teenager to superstar, covering everything her fans want to know, including:
- The real story behind "You're So Vain"
- Romances with Mick Jagger, Warren Beatty, and Cat Stevens
- Surviving breast cancer
- Her recent financial and spiritual crises
Along the way, Davis vividly takes readers back to some of the most powerful eras in American music history and delivers a tribute worthy of the artist. The updated paperback edition includes two brand-new photos, as well as a note to the reader and selected sources.


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Spinal and epidural anesthesia are medicines that numb parts of your body to block pain. They are given through shots in or around the spine. You will stay awake during both of these types of anesthesia.
Intraspinal anesthesia; Subarachnoid anesthesia; Epidural; Peridural anesthesia
The area of your back where the needle is inserted is cleaned with a special solution. Most of the time this shot goes in your lower back. This area may also be numbed with a local anesthetic. You may receive fluids through an intravenous line (IV) in a vein. You may also get medicine to help you relax.
The doctor who gives you epidural or spinal anesthesia is called an anesthesiologist.
For an epidural:
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Your pulse, blood pressure and oxygen levels in your blood are checked during the procedure. After the procedure you will have a bandage where the needle was inserted.
Spinal and epidural anesthesia have fewer side effects and risks than general anesthesia (asleep and pain-free). Patients usually recover their senses much faster. Sometimes, they have to wait for the anesthetic to wear off so that they can walk.
Spinal anesthesia is often used for genital, urinary tract, or lower body procedures.
Epidural anesthesia is often used during labor and delivery, and surgery in the pelvis and legs.
Epidural and spinal anesthesia are often used when:
Spinal and epidural anesthesia are generally safe. Ask your doctor about these possible complications:
Tell your doctor or nurse:
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After an epidural, the catheter in your back is removed. You lie in bed until you have feeling in your legs and can walk. You may feel sick to your stomach and be dizzy. You may be tired.
After spinal anesthesia, you lie flat in bed for a few hours to keep from getting a headache. You may feel sick to your stomach and be dizzy. You may be tired.
Most patients feel no pain during spinal and epidural anesthesia and recover fully.
Miller RD, Eriksson LI, Fleisher LA, et al. Miller's Anesthesia. 7th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Churchill-Livingstone; 2009.
Sherwood ER, Williams CG, Prough DS. Anesthesiology principles, pain management, and conscious sedation. In: Townsend CM, Beauchamp RD, Evers BM, Mattox KL, eds. Sabiston Textbook of Surgery. 19th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2012:chap 16.
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The complicated world of investment firms is understood by few, hence the obscurity and secrecy that still lingers even after the financial sector almost plunged America and the rest of the globe into economic darkness.
This lack of knowledge or understanding may come back to haunt some of us, for many retirements are reportedly bundled up in the gun industry. Yes, that's right. You may be an investor in the gun used to massacre 26 people, including 20 children, in a Newtown, Conn., elementary school—the tragedy that still has the country moving in slow motion at its unfathomable savagery and the rest of the world looking at us in consternation.
The Daily Beast reports that the private equity firm Cerberus Capital—which owned Freedom Group, the giant maker of the Bushmaster gun used in the Sandy Hook school massacre—have swiftly cut ties with the gun conglomerate. Obviously seeking to distance itself and wash the blood off its hands, Cerberus said in a statement Tuesday that Freedom Group does not sell guns directly to the public, but added, in seeming contradiction, "We do not believe that Freedom Group or any single company or individual can prevent senseless violence or the illegal use or procurement of firearms and ammunition."
I guess they think that takes care of the blame part and they are now absolved from any kind of responsibility. It's sort of like the tobacco companies and their manufacturing of those deadly little sticks called cigarettes. We make them, but don't blame us if you pick one up between your voluntary little fingers and can't put them down until you're dying of cancer.
Sorry, I digressed. Now that the good and righteous folks at Cerberus have set the manufacturers of that particular killing machine adrift, do they think they have solved the problem? "As a firm, we are investors not statesmen or policy makers," read part of their statement. Yeah, right—so the money donated to mainly Republican candidates during the 2012 elections was not dabbling in politics hoping to influence policies, it was simply generous giving. Moreover, Cerberus Capital has "policy makers" on its payroll. High-level politicians like former Vice President Dan Quayle and former Treasury Secretary John Snow.
They hoped that selling their investments in Freedom Group would be a public-relations positive, even if they have to sink the company financially. Which brings us to this: Just who invests in portfolios like Freedom Group? The Daily Beast writes that we may be surprised whose retirements are wrapped up in gun sales.
"From its inception, the industry has raised money from public-employee pension funds—taxpayer-funded retirement-savings programs for teachers, DMV clerks, bureaucrats, sanitation workers, and police officers," writes The Daily Beast.
The article goes on, "Huge institutional investors like the New York State Common Retirement Fund, CALPERS (the California Public Employees Retirement System), and CALSTRS, which invests on behalf of California teachers, possess hundreds of billions of dollars in assets and are mainstays of the private-equity business. When Cerberus, and the Blackstone Group, or Bain Capital uses debt to boost returns, and use the bankruptcy code to shuck obligations, a big chunk of the benefit goes to civil servants."
Private-equity firms like Cerberus raise money from public employees. So teachers, firemen and other civil servants unknowingly build their retirement partly from gun sales and who knows what other questionable investments? Oh, what a twisted web we weave.
You can read more at Cerberus to Sell Stake in Gunmaker Freedom Group.


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Residents urge ban on bath salts in city
January 19, 2013
Two women urged Buckhannon City Council Thursday to get rid of synthetic drugs, saying they supported an ordinance that would ban the sale of such items within corporate limits....
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We can thank the government and its drug prohibition for the rise in use of the so-called designer drugs that can cause more harm than the drugs they're intended to replace. "Spice" and "K2" wouldn't exist if Cannabis were not illegal. Cocaine and, yes even ******, were not a crime problem when they were available over-the-counter...and kids weren't attracted to them. Addiction rates have remained constant which is proof that Prohibition has no effect on reducing use yet makes "drugs" exciting for young people to experiment. The government really has no Constitutional authority or moral right to dictate what consenting adults choose to ingest.
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2013 Farm Progress Hay Expo had plenty to see and learn about.
by Taylor Pires, Hoard's Dairyman Editorial Intern
For hay and forage enthusiasts, the 2013 Farm Progress Hay Expo was the place to be. There were numerous equipment line-ups and demonstrations held at Regancrest Holsteins on June 19th and 20th near Waukon, Iowa. Visitors from all over, even international guests, flocked to northeast Iowa to scope out the newest and most efficient equipment and products from hay industry exhibitors. Mowing, tedding, chopping and baling demonstrations were held on 150 acres of Regancrest land. Ten acres were devoted to equipment and hay industry exhibits.
According to Frank Holdmeyer, executive editor at Farm Progress Companies, there were over 100 exhibitors at this year's Hay Expo, a record number for the show, which is in its 27th year. He also noted there were a number of local businesses present, allowing involvement of the surrounding community. "[The Hay Expo is] a great opportunity for people in the hay and forage business to show products on an actual farm and see them in action," said Holdmeyer.
Along with the exciting field demonstrations, Hay and Forage Grower sponsored a "Lunch and Learn," where University of Nebraska Extension forage specialist Bruce Anderson presented his insight on hay marketing and pricing. Anderson shared that hay can be difficult to market because it can change and the terms in which we market it (green, leafy, fine stemmed) aren't exact. "Hay today may be not the same as hay being fed this winter [we] start from a losing position when talking about hay marketing because hay isn't hay," Anderson said.
Anderson went on to say that the key to marketing well is knowing what you are selling, what quality you have, what you want, what the customer wants and how to give both parties what they want. This consensus between two parties is where marketing hay can be tricky because there is no standard price. "The price of anything comes down to what two people agree upon," Anderson noted.
Although Anderson promotes honesty and knowledge of the product, and what both parties want out of the transaction, he admits that, "Hay is crazy in terms of pricing." Anderson stated some factors that influence pricing, like supply and demand, alternatives to hay, corn prices (more than anything else), and the region. He thinks that hay prices are going to stay high and he advises hay buyers and sellers to keep a close eye on other commodities because of their influence on the price of hay.
The 2013 Farm Progress Hay Expo attendees left knowing what options were available for hay/forage products and equipment, how effective that equipment could be in the field and how to market the hay they work so hard to grow and harvest.
The author is the 25th Hoard's Dairyman editorial intern. She will be a senior at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. At Cal Poly, Taylor is majoring in dairy science with an agricultural communications minor. Pires grew up on a 500-cow dairy in Merced County, Calif.
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Hillcrest Home in rural Geneseo will host an open house from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 20 to showcase their newly renovated areas.
Nursing home tours will be given and will include visits to the renovated resident dining areas on the east and west sides, the main entrance, the social service and dietary office, the family room and the dietary delivery area.
"The renovation has given us much more seating room in the main dining area and allows all residents to eat in the main dining room and to take advantage of the buffet dining that is offered," said Hillcrest Home administrator Mary Bergren. "The extra seating room also makes it more comfortable for family members and visitors who want to join residents at mealtime."
Bergren said a new family room provides a private area where residents can sit and enjoy a meal with family or visitors.
"This room also can be reserved for resident birthday parties and other family events," she noted.
A new drive-thru overhead canopy at the main entrance provides protection for residents and families as they arrive or leave during inclement weather.
"It also is greatly appreciated by the activity staff when they take residents out for outings in the community and country rides," she said.
"The automatic front doors help residents to be more independent as they enter and leave the facility, and staff and families pushing wheelchairs through the entryway have a much easier time, also," said Bergren.
Hillcrest Home's delivery area, mechanical room and walk-in freezer now are enclosed and are located at the rear of the kitchen area.
Renovation work started in the fall of 2011. Kenyon and Associates of Peoria served as architects for the project with Hillebrand Construction of Davenport, Iowa, serving as the general contractors.
An outdoor cafe area where residents can sit to eat outside, weather permitting, still needs to be completed.
"Though Hillcrest Home is owned and operated by Henry County, taxpayer dollars were not used for the construction," said Bergren. "Many years of planning and saving has allowed us to provide a beautiful ara for our residents to use and enjoy."
A ribbon cutting will be at 2 p.m. and refreshments will be offered during Oct. 20 open house.
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You have to give Buffalo native Gregg Easterbrook this: he aims high, very high, with "The Leading Indicators," his newest book, a novel.
He builds his story around a conceit that is, when you stop and think about it, pretty powerful stuff. It is about the decline of Empire. Put more simply, it is about what normal people like you and me – or people perhaps slightly better than you and me, with better wardrobes and nicer cars, cleaner maybe, and more used to luxury – do when the world around them crumbles and the sand on which they have built their luxury McMansions washes away. (To mix our metaphorical millennia for a moment.)
Easterbrook, who was born in Western New York in 1953 to parents who were Canadians by birth, has – maybe as a result, maybe not – a perspective on life in modern America that is that of both an insider and an outsider. That works to his advantage in this book, which calls itself a novel but which is really more of a fable, or parable.
Here is the situation of the story: Margo and Tom Helot are well-to-do Americans living the well-heeled suburban lives that many of their generation and paycheck-level have attained, complete with open-plan kitchen, built-in latte maker, nice cars and polite kids.
"The Helot household," we read, "rested on a crest of tasteful affluence. Five-bedroom home fully redecorated. Two delightful children with good grades. His-and-hers fancy cars in the drive – Margo drove a Lexus, described by the automotive press as an 'entry-level luxury' product. Day after day the driver [of a package delivery truck] brought this house packages from the kinds of places from which all Americans wished they were receiving packages: Williams-Sonoma, Bergdorf Goodman, Under Armour, Pfaelzer Brothers, L.L. Bean, Villeroy & Boch."
That shimmering vision of success is undercut in the novel's opening passages, when Easterbrook has a FedEx truck delivering to the Helot household crash into a UPS truck which is also in the driveway. The jarring accident telegraphs to the reader what the rest of the novel will attempt to do: turn this idyllic vision of effortless affluence on its head.
The book is being touted on its cover and on Easterbrook's own website with a blurb from Arianna Huffington, calling "The Leading Indicators" the "first great novel of the Great Recession."
This book is not that – not great, and not the first book about the recession we seem trapped endlessly within. (Although the title is admittedly fabulous. Easterbrook reveals in the acknowledgements at the back of the book that the title was suggested to him 10 years ago as a nonfiction book on economics.) "The Leading Indicators" contains too many diversions and distractions from its main theme and its central concept; Easterbrook writes at length about waitressing and tipping and package delivery systems and labor costs and health insurance and other signs of the spoiled nature of privileged Americans, and although he is pithy and at times quite funny on these subjects, they feel like sidetracks here, in a book that is thinly sliced to begin with (wide margins, large font sizes and generous spacing all add up to a read of a few hours' time).
Easterbrook's writing style is pithy and elliptical, and he is good at the one-liner. Take this one: "All that effort to attain the nice car, and the world refused to get out of your way." Or this: "Nicole had amusement value; she was trying hard to carry herself as a trophy wife so that she did not get replaced by an actual trophy wife." Or this: "Millions of Americans were spending as if tomorrow would never come. Tomorrow had a way of coming."
Easterbrook's book is, ultimately, a quick, breezy read for those fascinated by what the neighbors in the nice house down the block may, or may not, be doing.
And it's always nice to read a novel that contains a shout-out about Buffalo's great seasonal weather. You'll find it here on Page 41.
Be forewarned: The novel ends with a surprise, and not a pleasant one.
Oh well. As Easterbrook might say, all is fair in love and war – and high-end real estate.
The Leading Indicators
By Gregg Easterbrook
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
208 pages, $25
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Several articles from Dr. Snyder's lab illustrate the strength that CGH arrays provide in clinical medicine. By using CGH arrays to map segmental trisomies in patients with Down syndrome, the investigators recently generated the highest phenotypic resolution map for this condition to date. This helped narrow down the chromosomal region associated with Down Syndrome-specific congenital heart disease, a major phenotype that accompanies this condition, to a <2 Mb region, and excluded the requirement for several genes that were previously implicated by other studies.
Moreover, the phenotypic map helped test specific hypotheses that were advanced in the past regarding the etiology of this condition. "Next-generation sequencing is clearly stepping into this area, but arrays are still the perfect tool for confirmation, and they are cheaper, and orthogonal," emphasizes Dr. Snyder.
Another recent advancement in Dr. Snyder's lab was the development of a personalized -omics profile, in a strategy that involved high-accuracy sequencing of several genomes, including his own, combined with the analysis of -omics components, and the examination of personal RNA and protein variants, in a study that included over 3 billion molecular components across multiple time points that spanned 14 months.
"The data predicted that I will develop diabetes, and I did," says Dr. Snyder, and the early discovery of this condition helped him implement timely nonpharmacological interventions, including dietary changes and increased exercise, which most likely would not have been able to control the condition by themselves had it been discovered later on at a routine checkup.
Microarray analysis has shown substantial benefits in diagnosing certain congenital disorders. However, one of the challenges with using chromosomal microarray analyses for clinical applications is the inconsistent reimbursement for testing, as third-party payers often consider them to be an experimental tool because of a lack of evidence that microarray testing affects patient management or clinical outcomes.
"There is not a lot of information out there published on this, and this was the reason why we tried to gather evidence to show that microarray analysis actually provides useful information for patients," says Jay W. Ellison, M.D., Ph.D., medical director at Signature Genomics at PerkinElmer.
Dr. Ellison and colleagues selected specific medical conditions that can be diagnosed with microarray technologies and have specific clinical features that require medical follow-up. Many times, patients diagnosed with these conditions might not be aware of their risk to develop certain medical problems.
"We tallied the frequency with which these actionable diagnoses were made, and it was quite high. Up to one-third of the diagnoses that were made had features that would require specific medical or clinical actions. This was the major take-home message from this study," explains Dr. Ellison.
In addition, the authors tracked a subset of patients to see whether physicians responded to the test results with specific clinical actions that are related to the diagnosis, and reported that specific and appropriate clinical actions were taken approximately 90% of the time, an aspect that awaits further work to be explored in more detail.
"The best future studies will be within provider systems where one can capture those individuals who were tested by chromosomal microarrays and look at the clinical outcomes that result from receiving the result of the microarray," explains Marc S. Williams, M.D., director of the Genomic Medicine Institute at Geisinger Health System.
In the short time that elapsed since the extent of genomic copy-number variation was discovered, its role in biomedical areas as diverse as physiological development, disease pathogenesis, pharmacogenomics, and evolution has become increasingly apparent. In parallel, technological advances have fundamentally contributed to measuring specific copy-number variants and characterizing their significance.
These strides promise to catalyze the incorporation of this relatively newly discovered source of interindividual genomic variability into routine clinical applications, forecasting one of the most exciting times that medicine and biology have seen.
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Don't have tickets to the April 20 opening night of American Idiot, the new Broadway musical by Green Day? The festivities will be online.
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The Stetson Hatters had plenty of chances to pick up a day one victory over ETSU in the Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament, but came up just short in 4-3 loss to the Bucs in 11 innings.
The loss for Stetson (26-30) marked the fifth consecutive season in which the Hatters have lost their opening game in the A-Sun Tournament. ETSU (33-22) evened its all-time tournament mark against Stetson at 2-2.
While the game was decided on a two-out, two-run single by Alex Reynolds in the 11th inning, Stetson coach Pete Dunn said it was multiple mistakes earlier in the game that were the difference in the game.
"You can't look at the 11th inning and say that game was lost in the 11th," Dunn said. "In the first inning we had a chance to take the lead right out of the box and got an infield pop up and a strikeout to leave a runner at third. We gave them a run in the fourth inning on an error on a routine play where all you have to do is pick it up and throw to first to end the inning. You can't do that, especially in tournament play where every game can be determined by every pitch. We were close, and we did some good things but, in the end, we didn't do enough good things."
Facing ETSU's Kerry Doane, the 2013 A-Sun Pitcher of the Year, the Hatters had a chance to put a run on the board early when Kevin Fagan led off the game with a single, moved up to second on a sacrifice bunt and then to third on a balk. That brought Patrick Mazeika, the league's top hitter and A-Sun Freshman of the year, to the plate with a chance to put the Hatters on the board.
"We work on it all the time that when you come up with a runner at third and less than two outs with the infield playing back, you hit the ball on the ground," Dunn said. They were giving us the run if we can put the ball in play. Instead we got an infield pop up."
ETSU made no such mistake in the home half of the first when Jeremy Taylor led off with a single against Stetson's Austin Perez and then scored on a two-out hit by Kevin Phillips.
Another mistake by the Hatters, this time defensively, cost Stetson another run in the fourth inning. Perez, who allowed nine hits, all singles, over 7.1 innings of work, got a two-out ground ball to second that should have ended the inning, but Fagan misplayed the ball, allowing Mason Hershey to score from third for a 2-0 Bucs lead.
"Perez got better as he went along, and he was able to pitch out of some jams," Dunn said. "They left 16 runners on base, so they had a lot of opportunities. AP made some big pitches when he needed to, Tyler Warmoth came in and made some big pitches and Cam Griffin came in and made some big pitches. We just shot ourselves in the foot with a walk here, an error there and an infield popup. It is the kind of game where you just beat yourself to death over all the mistakes. We had opportunities to score and to get out of innings, but we didn't do enough to seal the deal."
The Hatters were finally able to break through against Doane in the sixth inning when senior James Rasmussen delivered a two-out, two-run double down the line in left. It was the first hit by a right-handed batter for the Hatters against Doane in 15 innings this year.
The game remained tied until the 11th inning, after the Hatters dodged a pair of bullets in the 10th. Griffin (4-4) surrendered four consecutive one-out singles in the 10th, but the Bucs were unable to score because of two throws to the plate to cut down the potential winning run. Kyle Zech, who came on as a pinch hitter in the top of the inning, nailed Reynolds trying to score from second on a hit by Hershey. Fagan followed up by throwing out Chris Riopedre on a ball that deflected off Griffin behind the bag at second base.
ETSU turned to closer Clinton Freeman (6-1) in the 10th inning after Doane, who has 11 complete games, allowed two runs on seven hits over nine innings. In the 11th, sophomore Tanner Blackman delivered a one-out double and then scored from second on a two out single by Rasmussen, who accounted for all three Stetson runs.
"James came up big today with three RBI," Dunn said. "He is a senior and he wants to keep playing. We all want to keep playing. He did what he had to do today, but it is disappointing because we didn't do enough. In tournament play, when you have the four and five seeds playing, they are going to be evenly matched. Whatever team plays the best and makes the fewest mistakes will win. They made fewer mistakes than we did today."
In the bottom of the 11th, Griffin surrendered a leadoff single to Dylan Tritsch and then walked three-hole hitter Andrew Green on four pitches. The junior left-hander regained his composure to strikeout Freeman, but then gave way to senior Joe Dye.
After a double-steal opened up first base, pinch hitter Tyler Roach drew a walk to load the bases. Dye got Derek Niesman to hit a one hopper to the mound to cut down Tritsch at home, before Reynolds jumped on a 1-2 pitch for the game-winning hit.
"You have to give them credit because they battled, even when we got two outs in the 11th," Dunn said. "We thought we had dodged the bullet, but they came up with the big hit. They were just better than we were. You can't just do most things good. We shot ourselves in the foot just enough times to cause our demise."
The Hatters will have to turn around and play in an elimination game on Thursday morning at 10 a.m. against the loser of the game between Mercer and USC Upstate. Dunn said the team will have to put the game one loss behind them.
"They are down right now and there is nothing I can say to make them feel any better, but the sun will come up tomorrow and we have to come back and be ready to play and put this one behind us," Dunn said. "That is what you have to do in the loser's bracket. You have to pick yourself up off the canvas and keep battling."


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Mr. and Mrs. James Wilson of Niagara Falls celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with an intimate gathering in November with their daughters, sons-in-law and family. Mr. Wilson and Verna Wise were married Oct. 20, 1962, in Niagara Falls. He is a retired chemical operator for E.I. DuPont in Niagara Falls; she is a retired electronic assembler. They have three daughters and six grandchildren.


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Just right for a quick face trim, the Wahl® Pocket Pro® Trimmer runs on an AA battery. This compact horse trimmer includes two trimming attachments, brush, oil and blade guard. Ideal for touching up muzzles, ears and bridle paths. Weight 3.3 oz; length 4"; grip diameter 3/4".
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A select group of cities in Michigan, generally metropolitan Detroit. The cities are Taylor, Lincoln Park, Allen Park, Wyandotte, River Rouge, Melvindale, Ecorse, Woodhaven Romulus, Dearborn, Dearborn Heights,and Inkster. Though they're all different cities downriver consists of the same types of people. Teenagers that are either gangster, scene, indie,preppy or a mixture of everything. Downriver is considered a "lifestyle" by the teens that live there. Mainly the downriver teenager drinks too much, chain smokes, starts having sex at a young age, and starts experimenting with drugs at a young age also (especially marijuana and various prescription pills.) The young locals often hang around malls, go to shows which are concerts put on by no name bands at no name places, party at people's houses, and drive to "The D" to pick up weed. Everyone smokes Marlboro Menthol's, Red's, or Newport's, and weed is smoked out of blunts, usually grape flavored. The girls usually have nose rings, are too skinny, pale, obsessed with fashion, and often very promiscuous. The boys are school drop outs or just complete fuck ups, can almost never keep a relationship, have tattoos, are also very promiscuous, and they only date downriver girls. Parents are not your run of the mill parents, they often not only know of their child's behavoir, but supports it. Downriver parents will allow their child to smoke, drink, and go out 'till sunrise because they were downriver teenagers themselves. The cities vary in some areas though. Dearborn has a high arab concentration and is more about clubbing than house partying, the kids (whom are white, arabs aren't "downriver") have a bit more money and are into drugs like coke more than anything, but all the same are trashy. Taylor is sloppy and the people are definitely more blue collar/red neck than the others. Allen Park has more thug kids. Linclon Park kids are heavily decorated with tattoos, and piercing. Romulus consists of farmers. Inkster is almost 100% black, and the crime is unbelievably high. Wyandotte is probably the most decent, there's only poser gangsters. River Rouge is a desolate factory town that looks deserted. Ecorse is a part of Detroit, very rough. Woodhaven is decent, kind of a typical town. Melvindale, is squeezed between Dearborn and River Rouge and you could drive right through without even knowing it, it mainly consists of little bars and fast food places. and last but not least, Dearborn Heights, Dearborn's poorer younger sister, a lot like Dearborn just not as nice of houses and no cute little downtown area. So there you have it folks, theres a REAL definition of downriver Michigan "It's not just a place...it's a lifestyle."
None of us are ever getting out of downriver.
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A metropolitan area in southeast lower Michigan consisting of working class suburbs that are located ' down the river ' from the city of Detroit. Population consists of middle to below income households of all races, but mostly white with a predominant Muslim community in Dearborn. Some of the early housing in the Downriver communities were quickly and cheaply built to house the influx of southerners who moved there to work in the once thriving auto industry of Detroit. Because of this Michigan is sometimes referred to as "The Mississippi of the North". For the record there is nobody famous 'from Detroit'. Bob Seger, Kid Rock, Eminem, ICP , Madonna and Alice Cooper are not from Detroit, but the SUBURBS that surround it. Crap floats right..and always downriver! *the 'burbs North of Detroit are always a lil' uppity because of that *
Kids who are trying too hard to have street cred will say they are from Detroit rather then admit they live Downriver.
Beküldő: Yankeee 2007. június 15.
Downriver consists of cities in the Detroit metropolitan area. There is Romulus, Taylor, Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Riverview, River Rouge, Wyandotte, Woodhaven, Southgate, Gibralter, Flat Rock. And basically the cities are this, Romulus: is either filled with neighborhoods of black people or White Cloud. Taylor is "taylortucky" and the rest are alright i guess.
I live in taylor tucky which is Downriver
Beküldő: mlshoee 2009. december 31.
Is when you go down on a girl, while she's on her period.
Dude, theres something red on your top lip. "Oh, shit i must of went "Downriver" on her."
I decided to go "Downriver" on her. And Shitted all over it...
I decided to go "Downriver" on her. And Shitted all over it...
Beküldő: fearbeforfear 2008. április 3.
An area south of Detroit, categorized by goth kids, obese people and collar poppers. These kids get beat up when they go out into the rest of the world. The only kids who survive are the ones who are on myspace.
"Yo, that beatdown was Downriver as fuck."
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James Cathey was born May 11, 1928, in Reno, NV, to Pauline & Carl Cathey. James died Jan 13, 2013, in Dayton, NV.James was very proud of being a native of Reno and attending Mt. Rose Elementary school and Billinghurst Jr. High. He always regretted not being able to attend Reno High as he moved to San Francisco, CA, with his mother at the age of 14. After graduating from Bates High School in San Francisco, Jim joined the Marine Corps and fell in love and moved to San Diego and started a family.Many years later he was able to return to the Reno area where he met is wife Laurel, whom he married in 1980. Jim was a meat cutter by trade, opened J & J meats on Arroyo and S. Virginia St. and then moved to Incline Village where he will be remembered as the owner of the meat department at the Village Market. Upon retirement, he moved to Smith Valley then back to Reno and then to Dayton.Jim was a caring loving husband, father, grandfather and uncle. He attended every event possible to support his grandchildren. He will be missed by everyone who knew him.Funeral services will take place Wednesday, Jan 23, at 1 p.m. at Mountain View Mortuary, 425 Stoker Ave. in Reno. Visit www.mountainviewcam.net/ for information.
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Too happy to be taken seriously; happy to a cheesy or campy extent. Comes from the R.E.M. song Shiny Happy People.
I hated that movie's shiny happy portrayal of high school. In reality, it's a living nightmare for some people.
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A so-called "normal" person who shuns the feelings the rest of us have, stigmatizes our solutions, and would take away our right to self-terminate, calling us selfish or immature or incapable of deciding our own destinies.
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This philosophy was born out of the first print execution we ever produced back in 1982 to launch black Levi's. It became something of a model for our own business…and how we approach Client's problems always seeking to challenge the prevailing or conventional wisdom.
The philosophy has created moments in our own history when we decided to go against the grain of our industry. We were the first agency to become financially transparent. We were the first agency to create a micro network to serve global business. We were the first agency to recognise the need for channel planning to be at the heart of all creative development so we created a discipline called Engagement planning.
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Multi-million pound campaign kick-starts an autumn of Virgin TV
Today Virgin Media unveils its latest brand campaign which sees the company shift its focus to Virgin TV. The campaign, which runs to the end of this year, marks a major programme of updates and changes to the Virgin TV service.
The campaign, called "Masters of Entertainment", is spearheaded by a new TV ad, which will go live with a 60" spot in The X Factor on ITV on Saturday 10th of September and The Last Leg – Paralympics Special on Channel 4.
The creative concept of the campaign is based on the insight that the TV landscape has become increasingly complicated. With a myriad of controls, programmes and ways to watch TV, parents finding that their children are more easily able to access content and navigate technology than they are.
In this fantastical world, the ad features six children, each boasting of the different ways they can work the TV; from which remote controls which box; to connecting the laptop to the TV; to finding a missed episodes across multiple channels as their parents get increasingly frustrated. They are the Masters of Entertainment - not the parents. The new campaign has been shot to deliver an epic, cinematic feel.
The core message is revealed at the end – that it's time to simplify TV with Virgin Media. Bringing the TV you love, brilliantly brought together by Virgin TV.
Kerris Bright, Chief Marketing Officer at Virgin Media, said: "This campaign is the start of a major investment in building Virgin TV. These days, the telly we love is hiding all over the place. The shows we want to watch are no longer just on live TV – they're on a range of services, like Catch Up, On Demand or services like Netflix. There is more to choose from, but you have to look harder to find the TV you love.
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Later in the campaign, additional 20" spots will go live illustrating specific product benefit messages around Virgin TV. The first one of these will highlight 'smart search' on TiVo. It requires only the first letter of the programme title and the box does the rest to find the shows you love, whether they are on linear TV, on demand or OTT streaming services such as Netflix.
The new marketing campaign was created by BBH, with media planning handled by Manning Gottlieb OMD, and will also run in cinema, VOD, Display, Mobile, Social, Search and OOH. It was directed by Traktor. The TV campaign has been planned around family-programming in line with the creative and target audience.


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Jeremy Piven, shopping for magazines with a pal at a Borders bookstore in Hollywood. And what was Ari reading? The Entourage actor picked up Rolling Stone and Details.
Reese Witherspoon, playfully reenacting her famous Legally Blonde pose with a fellow diner's pet Chihuahua while lunching with a pal at the Polo Lounge in The Beverly Hills Hotel. Witherspoon, who ate a salad, greeted the pooch after she finished her meal.
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LEWISTOWN - For the first time in six years, the Mifflin County Commissioners have passed a tentative budget for 2013 that calls for a tax increase.
On Thursday, the commissioners voted to put the 2013 spending plan, which totals $23,074,343, with a 1.63 mill tax increase, on public display for 21 days with final adoption scheduled for Dec. 27.
"The budget going on display does not necessarily represent the feelings of all board members," Commissioner Mark Sunderland, said discussing the vote. "I voted yes to put it on display."
In a written fact sheet handed out by Commissioner Kevin Kodish, the first-year commissioner noted, "The current millage rate has been in effect for six consecutive budget years. The last increase was just 0.10 mills in 2007. For a property owner with an assessed value of $50,000, this (increase) would amount to an increase of $81.50 per year, or $6.80 a month.
"We are facing uncertain future funding on both state and federal levels," Kodish continued. "Federal and state governments have sought to balance their budgets in part by cutting support to counties. With inflation, the buying power of the same tax dollars declines.
"We do not have any appreciable capital reserve fund in Mifflin County and we have bond payments that will continue to increase each year. We currently have to take out a large Tax Revenue Anticipation Note each year. This costs the county over $20,000 in interest. We hope to be able to reduce the amount of the T.R.A.N. significantly - if not eliminate it altogether - in the future."
Kodish said the board has trimmed expenses in several areas this year and will continue to seek the most efficient operation for the county.
"With this year's increase," Kodish said, "our goal is to have no further increases for at least the next two budget years. Property owners are already burdened. We are excited about the future of Mifflin County and we will continue to work hard on behalf of all citizens."
In other business Thursday, the board voted unanimously to pledge $5,000 toward a Regional Gas Utilization Initiative being sought by two other counties, along with the SEDA-Council of Governments and the Mifflin County Industrial Development Corporation.
MCIDC President Rob Postal officially made the request Thursday, stating the project, if approved by the federal government, would entail a study to allow a composium of counties, Mifflin, Clinton and Centre, along with the other entities, to positively exploit the availability of affordable natural gas and encourage the use of that gas in the region, particularly for industrial purposes.
Postal said Clinton and Centre counties have already pledged $20,000 each as a match for the project. He added that he will contact other entities for support to go along with the county's pledge and a pledge of $5,000 from MCIDC to cover the county's $20,000 share.
"The purpose of this (study) is to investigate how to utilize gas already coming through the pipelines," Postal reiterated. "Our industrial areas are already served, but they're pretty close to capacity."
Postal said the $5,000 approved Thursday is only a pledge at this time.
"The program may or may not be successful," he said. "If it's not, the pledge will be voided. But we think it's important and ask you to consider this."
Postal said the initiative is another tool to be used in economic development efforts for the region.
"Companies need to know if the infrastructure is there," he said. "This is to get ahead of the curve if you will. Other regions are looking into this."
Kodish then made a motion to accept the request for the pledge
"I gladly second the motion," Commissioner Otis Riden said. "This is a potential economic driver for the county."
Sunderland agreed.
"This is a good project. SEDA-COG has always been a front-runner with bringing jobs to this area," he said. "This is good for the area."
In other business Thursday, the commissioners adopted a proclamation designating December as "United Way" month in the county.
In part, the proclamation read that county government employees are always at the forefront in supporting the efforts of the United Way of Mifflin-Juniata, which is currently at roughly 45 percent of its 2013 goal of $600,000. The proclamation also asks residents of the county to support the United Way campaign and the agencies it funds.
On hand to accept the proclamation was Phyllis Mitchell, vice-president of community relations for Lewistown Hospital.
"On behalf of the United Way, I would like to thank the commissioners and county government for their continued support," she said. "We appreciate your support over the years."
In other business, the commissioners:
Approved purchase of service agreements for use, if needed, by Children & Youth with Soulberry Farm Inc., Huntingdon; KidsPeace Corporation, Schnecksville; and Children's Home of York.
Approved a request from Miffco Tax Services for exoneration of the county portion of the per capita taxes for the years 1983-2011 totaling $1,231.50.
Approved the following applications for 2012 Liquid Fuels funding: $4,435.45 from Bratton Township; and $11,409.09 from Armagh Township.
Reappointed Mark Ellinger, of Lewistown, to another three-year term on the Agriculture Land Preservation Board.
Reappointed James Hostetter, of McVeytown, to another four-year term on the Mifflin County Conservation District Board of Directors (farmer member).
Reappointed Mark Sunderland, of Milroy, to another one-year term on the Mifflin County Conservation District Board of Directors (commissioner member).
Approved an agreement for the county to provide planning services to Lewistown Borough for 2013.
Approved the acceptance of a Mifflin County Victims of Juvenile Offenders grant in the amount of $4,766.
Accepted a $5,000 grant for upgrades to the county's Megan's Law registration site.
Approved the application for a Drug Court Patrol Grant in the amount of $11,272.
Approved the transfer of Kristen Price from the planning office to special projects coordinator in the human services office effective Dec. 10.
Approved the transfer of Kim Napier from the treasurer's office to office manager in the planning office effective Dec. 17.


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As severe weather moves closer to our area, road crews are already treating trouble spots in our area to keep the roads dry.
Fayetteville Transportation Services Director Terry Gulley told 40/29 News the city has enough workers to staff 10 trucks overnight. Some of those trucks will spray brine while others will lay salt to melt ice.
Gulley said steep roads are the department biggest concern when ice is in the forecast. Road crews will treat roads like North St., Township St., and parts of Gregg Ave. first.
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