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February 18, 2012 Health Watch: Game day event encourages socialization

The Finger Lakes Independence Center will host its Socialization Daze game day event 10 am to noon Thursday at 215 Fifth St.

Socialization Daze focuses on leisure activities, friends, interactive games and common interests.

The event will facilitate, promote and encourage people with disabilities to be more socially active and to:

» Meet and talk about shared experiences.

» Build and maintain new and previous friendships.

» Increase confidence about participating in already existing leisure activities the community has to offer.

For more information call Jeff Boles or Emily Papperman at 272-2433, e-mail flic@clarityconnect.com or visit www.fliconline.org.

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February 17, 2012 Incentive Spectrum Auctions Are Part of Payroll Package

Incentive spectrum auctions have made it into the compromise payroll tax bill package hammered out by Republican and Democrat conferees late Thursday night, which means the auctions to reclaim broadcast spectrum for wireless broadband could be approved as soon as Friday.

At a press conference on the spectrum legislation, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) pointed out that the bill was not a done deal just yet. He said that only 53 senators were committed to the compromise package at press time, and it would take 60 for passage..
 
At a FCC hearing Thursday morning, Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.), backer of the House version of auction legislation, said it had been a late night Wednesday...

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February 17, 2012 Houston’s Family Will Broadcast Funeral Service

NEWARK, NJ -

The family of Whitney Houston will let fans of the fallen pop star share in their private service. They have announced that now the memorial will be broadcast over the Internet.

Fans are thankful to hear they wont be frozen out of the singers final sendoff. The Grammy winners family has decided to stream the private service live over the Internet.

Officials from the New Hope Baptist Church are hammering out the arrangements for Saturdays service with the Newark police discussing how to handle both the crowds and the VIPs expected to attend. The church can seat about 15hundred people. Among the invitees Whitney Houstons godmother, Aretha Franklin who may sing....

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February 17, 2012 IA businesses decry proposed $10-hour minimum wage

IA businesses decry proposed $10-hour minimum wage

2/16/2012

By Lynn Campbell  |  IowaPolitics.com

DES MOINES ? Iowa workers who make minimum wage would get a 38 percent pay raise under a proposal advanced Thursday by Senate Democrats.

The state would increase its minimum wage from $7.25 to $8.75 in July, and to $10 in January under Senate File 2040, approved 2-1 by an Iowa Senate Labor and Business Relations subcommittee. That?s an annual pay of $20,000 a year, up from $14,000 a year.

?I believe that we?re actually going to harm the economy by pushing the minimum wage past the threshold that the federal government recommends,? said state...

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February 17, 2012 CRA: Where education meets Christian values

A lot of people think its just a Paragould school, Gates said. Northeast Arkansas is pretty well represented.

He added that the school provides bus routes to pick up students in Paragould, Jonesboro and Walnut Ridge.

Bible backbone

The Bible has been the backbone of Crowleys Ridge Academy.

We are a Christian school first, Gates said. We draw them in with what we stand for our Christian values.

Crowleys Ridge Academy is administered by members of the churches of Christ, but its students represent various denominations including Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecost, Catholic, Methodist, Christian, Church of God, Seventh-day Adventist, Apostolic Full Gospel...

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February 17, 2012 Sheila’s Party World closes

SALISBURY — Dont cry on the crepe paper or burst the balloons, but the independently owned party and crafts supply store and fixture on South Salisbury Boulevard for almost two decades has closed.

Sheilas Party World in the Waverly Shopping Center went dark permanently last week — minus the soiree it helped customers plan for the last 18 years. The manager of the Waverly property at Sperry Van Ness-Miller Commercial Real Estate in Salisbury was unaware the closing was coming, saying the business owner holds a multi-year lease on the property.

The Salisbury location is not the only store to recently close its doors. An employee at Sheilas Craft Party World in Dover...

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February 16, 2012 Small businesses use social media to grow

Smashburger offers coupons and trivia contests for its 67,000 Facebook followers, replies to questions and complaints on its Twitter and Facebook profiles, and actively reaches out to bloggers who might write about the new Smashburger restaurants opening in their areas.

The brand was really built on social media and PR strategies, says Jeremy Morgan, senior vice president of marketing and consumer insights. Social media is an opportunity for us to engage with consumers and have a conversation, which is different than paid media, when youre just shouting through a bullhorn.

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February 16, 2012 Sporting Activity After Colic Surgery in Horses (AAEP 2011)

The decision on whether to take a horse to colic surgery is one thats generally based on both prognosis and financial considerations. Thus, an equine surgeon must be able to counsel horse owners on the expected surgical outcome and required convalescence following hospital discharge so a timely decision can be made. At the 2011 American Association of Equine Practitioners convention, held Nov. 18-22 in San Antonio, Texas, Mogens Christophersen, DVM, of the University of Copenhagen, presented information about anticipated return of horses to sporting activities following colic surgery. He stressed that while there are short-term studies on colic surgery outcomes, historically there has been...

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February 16, 2012 OUTDOORS: PGC assaulted by sportsman and legislature

These same politicians now want to reach into the science-based decisions of Pennsylvania Game Commission and determine hunting seasons and deer allotments.

  • Yes, the same politicians who are incapable of creating fundamental changes with a legislature that is so bloated and useless now wants to take control of the Game Commission, and I have no doubt, the Fish and Boat Commission as well.

  • So I ask, are the few sportsmen pushing for this agency assault out of their minds?

  • I think so.
    Two bills before House committees would established an ?Antlerless Deer Harvest Committee? (HB 2034sponsored...

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    • February 15, 2012 Shifting Phoenix Open to late February could help draw better golfers, bigger …

    The Phoenix Thunderbirds like to call the Waste Management Phoenix Open The Greatest Show on Grass.

    Daily fun guide for the Phoenix Open

    But could it become an Even Greater Show on Grass?

    Under the sponsoring Thunderbirds, the tournament has thrived despite circumstances that have become increasingly demanding. And its fair to wonder just how big the PGA Tours annual attendance leader could become with a more-favorable position on the Tours annual schedule.

    Since 1967, the tournament has had to compete against the Super Bowl in all but two years: 2002, when the NFLs championship was pushed forward in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks; and in 2010,...

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