today’s news and information gleanings from here and there!
Quote for today… “‘Do whatever it takes’ to land a recruit? No, wait, NEVER!” – Commenter to this article about Penn State’s football coach’s hoping to land a football prospect in his recruitment process. – PennLive.
- Give to the charity of your choosing; but watch out. A Lancaster based-one has been identified as among the worst in America for spending more to raise money than to help the people they’re supposed to be helping.” – PennLive
- Ah, those trusted staffers, including volunteers – WFMZ-TV69
- While on the topic of non-profits: “EZ-ID is a non-profit organization committed to enhancing general issue license plates to include an universally recognized symbol, such as a star or heart, to make it easier to report license plate registrations to law enforcement officials.”
- Economic development another way of saying “corporate welfare?” – MintPressNews
- K-mart layaway woes – WGAL-TV8
- On the sewer bill – not easy to find on the borough Website (property owners get notified; others, including visitors, do not):
“The Borough office will be closing at 12 noon on December 19th, 2014 – The Borough office will be closed December 25th & 26th in celebration of the Christmas Holiday.” Note the borough offices are closed for a Christmas party on the afternoon of December 19 for a Christmas party. Actually, “The next function at the Trail Services Building/River Park? The Columbia Borough Christmas Luncheon!”
- It’s so easy to communicate with homeowners, renters, businesses (current and prospective), visitors, guests, the world on the landing page of the Website – see what West Hempfield Township does.
- Misanthropy: Martin Heidegger had been said to show misanthropy in his concern of the ‘they’ — the tendency of people to conform to one view, which no one has really thought through, but is just followed because, ‘they say so.’”
“Feeling as if you’re always being persecuted against; playing victim or self victimization (usually a cop-out way to avoid taking responsibility for themselves or a method of gaining sympathy/attention)”
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