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Apr
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by Reprinted with permission of Invstment Representative Celine Richardson of Ithaca's EdwardJones
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Don't "Overstuff" Retirement Plan with Company Stock Nearly a century ago, George Santayana, philosopher and poet, wrote: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Sadly, this statement may be proving prophetic when it comes to the amount of company stock that people put into their retirement plans. Here's one key event in the recent past that people seem not to remember: Enron employees who participated in their 401(k) plan had invested about 58 percent of their 401(k) assets in Enron stock when it lost almost all its value during 2001. But have things changed much since then? Consider this: In plans that allow company stock as an investment option, 46 percent of participants hold more than 20 percent of their account balance in their company stock, and one-sixth hold more than 80 percent of their account in employer stock, according to a study by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.
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Apr
28
2006
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by Sharon Housley
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Friday, 28 April 2006 |
 Have you ever wondered what the little orange lables are on the front page of the Lansing Star? They link to special Web addresses that allow you to read the Star using a news reader. Expert Sharon Housley explains the benefits and how these news feeds are used.
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RSS also known as rich site summary or real simply syndication, arrived on the scene a number of years ago, but was only recently embraced by webmasters as a means to effectively syndicate content. RSS Feeds provide webmasters and content providers an avenue to provide concise summaries to prospective readers. Thousands of commercial web sites and blogs now publish content summaries in an RSS feed. Each item in the feed typically contains a headline; article summary and link back to the online article.
Benefit to the Webmaster
As the web has become more crowded webmasters have been striving to provide fresh and up to date content for their website visitors. Many webmasters have discovered they can easily utilize the information in RSS feeds to provide fresh web content.
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Apr
28
2006
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by Dan Veaner
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Friday, 28 April 2006 |
 When you were a teenager did you ever picture yourself playing guitar for a living? That's just what Lansing guitarist Bob Keefe has been doing since he was in High School. Keefe is a local performer and guitar teacher best known locally as guitarist in the Backtalk Band. He has also been spotted in the orchestra pit at Lansing school musicals.
Keefe took up the guitar when a school friend did, and almost immediately began performing in a band. "I've been performing professionally since I was 15," he says. "My first job was a New Years Eve gig. My parents had to drive me to the job, because I didn't drive yet." He got jobs at DeMolay (a national high school service organization) events, High School dances, and Junior High dances.
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Apr
21
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by Dan Veaner
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Friday, 21 April 2006 |
 Pop quiz: Where can you find a family-owned office supply store in Lansing? Answer: In the Cayuga Mall, about half way between P&C and TJ Max. Terry and Alexandra (Sandra ) Farish own the business that has been in Terry's family for 60 years. It was started by his uncle Joe McNamara, when he began repairing typewriters and business machines in his basement in 1946. It's come a long way since then, with three stores in Waverly, Owego and the Village of Lansing.
The business began in Waverly, but Terry grew up in Lansing. He started Lansing High School before moving to Alabama, where his father's side of the family is from. That's where he met Sandra, who was raised in Germany. "I was an army brat," she says. "My Dad and Mom retired in Huntsville, Alabama. We met in 1987 and he brought me home to New York!"
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by Dan Veaner
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Friday, 07 April 2006 |
 If you have been looking for a good local source of Eastern European foods, you will want to stop by AJ's Delights in the Triphammer Mall. The shop is just a month old, but already the Russian speaking community and people of Eastern European heritage are finding it. "We accept everybody, not only the Russian speaking community," says Inna Vishnevskaya, who owns the shop with her husband Mikhail Abramyan. "Americans with German background, Hungarians, Poles, Czech... they come and they say there used to be a store downtown. People say they miss it and they're glad that we opened."
The couple opened AJ's Delights on March 6th, but have been working on the project since last September. Originally from Azerbaijan, they saw a need for an Eastern European food source in Ithaca. " It took a month to write a business plan, because we had no idea what a business plan is," says Vishnevskaya. "So we took all the books from the library and our oldest daughter, big thanks to her. She typed it. Her English vocabulary is much better than ours. We worked on it for a month. Numbers we can do, it's universal. It's just English that took a long time."
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