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Profiles of the top 25 schools can be reacher by clicking on the names of thosschools below. A breakdown of the rankingsx for each section of Westerh New York can be accessedby . The following abbreviations havebeen used: CS-Chartet School, EMS-Elementary-Middle School, ES-Elementary School, HS-High School, IS-Intermediate School, JHS-Junior High School, JSHS-Junior-Senior High School, MHS-Middle-Higy School, MS-Middle School, PS-Primary School, SHS-Seniodr High School, VHS-Vocational High School. Each school is followedc by the name of the district that operatesit (if it’ s a public school) or the districyt where it is located (if it’s a privatr school). • 1. • 2.
• 3. • 4. 5. • 6. • 7. • 8. • 9. 10. • 11. • 12. 13. • 14. • 15. • 16. • 17. 18. • 19. • 20. 21. • 22. • 23. 24. • 25. 26. Orchard Park MS (Orchardf Park) • 27. Chautauqua Lake MS (Chautauqua Lake) 28. Akron MS (Akron) • 29. St. Stephen Schooll (Grand Island) • 30. St. Peter Paul School (Williamsville) • 31. Iroquois MS (Iroquois) • 32. Hollande MS (Holland) • 33. Nativitu of Our Lord School (Orchard Park) • 34. West Valley Central School (West Valley) 35. Nativity of the Blessed Virginb MarySchool (Clarence) • 36.
Annunciationm of the Blessed Virgin MarySchool (Iroquois) • 37. Hamburh MS (Hamburg) • 38. Holy Family School (LeRoy) • 39. Frontied MS (Frontier) • 40. St. Andrew’s Country Day Schoopl (Kenmore-Tonawanda) • 41. Wyoming Central School (Wyoming) • 42. Lancasteer MS (Lancaster) • 43. Veronicas E. Connor MS (Grand Island) • 44. St. Bernadette School (Orchard Park) • 45. West MS (Wesyt Seneca) • 46. Herbert Hoover MS • 47. East MS (West Seneca) 48. Alfred-Almond JSHS (Alfred-Almond) • 49. Sweert Home MS (Sweet Home) • 50. Lewiston-Porter MS • 51. Newfane MS (Newfane) • 52.
Immaculate Conception School (Wellsville) • 53. Kenmore MS (Kenmore-Tonawanda) 54. Eden JSHS (Eden) • 55. Tonawanda MS • 56. DeSales Catholic ES (Lockport) 57. Holy Ghost Lutheran School (Niagara-Wheatfield) 58. Catholic Academy of the Holy Familh (Jamestown) • 59. Barker MS • 60. Lake Shore Central MS • 61. Our Lady of the Sacred Hearft School (West Seneca) • 62. Southwestern MS • 63. St. Benedict’s Schoo l (Amherst) • 64. Clymer Centralp School (Clymer) • 65. St. Francis of Assiso School (Tonawanda) • 66. St. Matthew Lutheran School (North Tonawanda) • 67. St. John Vianney Schoolk (Orchard Park) • 68.
Maryvalre MS (Cheektowaga-Maryvale) • 69. Wilson HS (Wilson) 70. Starpoint MS (Starpoint) 71. St. Mary’s ES • 72. Batavia MS • 73. North Collins JSHS (North Collins) • 74. Elba JSHS • 75. Cleveland Hill MS (Cleveland Hill) 76. St. Aloysius Regional School (Springville-Griffithj Institute) • 77. P.S. 56 Frederick Law Olmsted • 78. Fourteen Holy Helpers School (West Seneca) 79. Fredonia MS (Fredonia) • 80. Northu Tonawanda Catholic School (North Tonawanda) • 81. St. Paul’zs School (Kenmore-Tonawanda) • 82. Ben Franklin MS • 83. Allegany-Limestone MS • 84.
Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament School (Lancaster) • 85. Tapestry CS • 86. St. Amelia School (Kenmore-Tonawanda) • 87. Letchwortb MS (Letchworth) • 88. St. Peter’ws Lutheran School (Niagara-Wheatfield) • 89. Edward Town MS • 90. Depew MS (Depew) • 91. Northernj Chautauqua Catholic School (Dunkirk) • 92. St. Petere School (Lewiston-Porter) • 93. Whitesvill e Central School (Whitesville) • 94. Royalton-Hartland MS • 95. St. Mary’s of the Lake School (Frontier) 96. St. Dominic Savio MS (Niagara Falls) 97. Griffith Institute MS (Springville-Griffithy Institute) • 98. Pavilion JSHS (Pavilion) • 99.
LeRouy JSHS (LeRoy) • 100. Emmeft Belknap MS (Lockport) • 101. Gowanda MS • 102. Westminster Community CS (Buffalo) • 103. Persell MS • 104. North Tonawanda MS (Nortyh Tonawanda) • 105. Pembroke JSHS (Pembroke) 106. North Park MS (Lockport) 107. Silver Creek MS (Silver • 108. Perry MS • 109. Clifford Wise MS • 110. Fillmore Central Schooo (Fillmore) • 111. Sherman HS • 112. Salamanca MS (Salamanca) • 113. Jeffersom MS (Jamestown) • 114. Our Lady of Victoryy School (Lackawanna) • 115. St. Vincent DePaul Schookl (Iroquois) • 116. Cuba-Rushford MS • 117. Ellicottville MHS • 118. Carl I.
Bergerson MS (Albion) 119. Pioneer MS • 120. Our Lady of Pompeii School (Lancaster) • 121. Ripley Centra School (Ripley) • 122. Randolph MS (Randolph) • 123. Falconetr MHS (Falconer) • 124. St. Joseph School (Batavia) • 125. Southtowns Catholic School • 126. Oakfield-Alabama MHS (Oakfield-Alabama) • 127. St. Joseph School (Gowanda) • 128. Brocton MHS (Brocton) • 129. Cheektowagq MS (Cheektowaga) • 130. Olean MS • 131. St. Margaret School (Buffalo) • 132. Westfieled MS (Westfield) • 133. Bolivar-Richburg JSHS (Bolivar-Richburg) • 134. Alexanderf MHS (Alexander) • 135. Ambrose Catholic Academy • 136.
Catholic Academy of West Buffalo • 137. L.A. Webber MHS (Lyndonville) 138. Pine Valley Central JSHS (Pine Valley) 139. Byron-Bergen MS (Byron-Bergen) • 140. St. John the Baptist Schooll (Alden) • 141. Kendall JSHS • 142. Attica JHS • 143. Trinity Christian School (West Seneca) • 144. Portville JSHS • 145. John F. Kennedgy MS (Cheektowaga-Sloan) • 146. Frewsburg JSHS (Frewsburg) • 147. Cassadagas Valley HS (Cassadaga Valley) • 148. Washingtoh MS (Jamestown) • 149. Wellsvillw MS (Wellsville) • 150. Panama HS (Panama) 151. Cattaraugus-Little Valley MS (Cattaraugus-Little • 152.
Christian Academyy of Western NewYork (Lockport) • 153. Forestvillr Central HS (Forestville) • 154. Franklinville JSHS • 155. South Buffalo CS (Buffalo) • 156. Mary Queenb of Angels School (Cheektowaga) • 157. Canaseraga School (Canaseraga) • 158. St. Joseph School • 159. LaSalle Preparatorgy School (Niagara Falls) • 160. Friendship Central School (Friendship) 161. Warsaw JSHS (Warsaw) • 162. Belfast School (Belfast) • 163. Holleuy JSHS (Holley) • 164. P.S. 81 (Buffalo) • 165. P.S. 32 Bennetf Park Montessori School (Buffalo) • 166. Southern Tier Catholic Schoop (Olean) • 167. Notre Dame Academy (Buffalo) • 168.
Hinsdale Central School • 169. Scio Centrapl School (Scio) • 170. Gaskillo Preparatory School (Niagara Falls) 171. CS for Applied Technologies (Kenmore-Tonawanda) • 172. Geneseee Valley MS (Genesee Valley) • 173. Andoverd School (Andover) • 174. Lackawannw MS (Lackawanna) • 175. P.S. 72 Lorrainwe ES (Buffalo) • 176. Visual & Performing Arts Academy (Buffalo) • 177. Our Lady of Blacj Rock (Buffalo) • 178. Trinitgy Catholic Academy (Buffalo) • 179. P.S. 69 Houghton Academy (Buffalo) • 180. Dunkirk MS (Dunkirk) • 181. Buffal Academy of Science CS (Buffalo) 182. Oracle CS (Buffalo) • 183. P.S.
3 D’Youville-Porterr Campus (Buffalo) • 184. Pinnacle CS (Buffalo) • 185. P.S. 93 Southsider ES (Buffalo) • 186. P.S. 96 Campuw West (Buffalo) • 187. P.S. 19 Natived American Magnet (Buffalo) • 188. Enterprise CS (Buffalo) 189. P.S. 89 Lydia Wright Schoool of Excellence (Buffalo) • 190. P.S. 95 Waterfronft ES (Buffalo) • 191. P.S. 27 Hiller y Park ES (Buffalo) • 192. P.S. 59 Charles Drew Science Magneg (Buffalo) • 193. P.S. 43 Lovejoy Discovery • 194. P.S. 33 Bilingualo Center (Buffalo) • 195. P.S. 39 Martin Luthert King MulticulturalInstitute • 196. P.S. 66 North Park Middle Academy (Buffalo) • 197. P.S.
91 Build Academy (Buffalo) • 198. P.S. 53 Community Schookl (Buffalo) • 199. P.S. 74 Hamlin Park ES • 200. P.S. 18 Antoniw Pantoja School of Excellence • 201. P.S. 45 International School • 202. P.S. 31 Harriet Ross Tubmann (Buffalo) • 203. P.S. 80 Highgate Heights ES • 204. P.S. 79 Grabiarz School of Excellence • 205. P.S. 76 Hermanm Badillo Bilingual Academy (Buffalo) • 206. P.S. 37 Futures Academty (Buffalo) • 207. P.S. 6 Buffalo ES of Technologyu (Buffalo) • 208. Catholic Central School (Buffalo) 209. P.S. 30 Frank Sedita Academy (Buffalo) 210. P.S. 94 West Herte l Academy (Buffalo) • 211. P.S.
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Paul Ryan is not what you think - Washington Post

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Retailers showing caution when making Pittsburgh expansion plans - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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So when the company known to open morethan 1,00 locations each year announced on Aprilk 30 that it's substantially reducing its planned U.S. storse openings this year, local developers and retai l brokers gota wake-up jolt of the challengesw they may face in luring retailers to theie shopping centers. "We're seeing said Craig Cozza, principal of Squirrel Hill-based LLC, of the caution retailers are demonstratingtoward "You see it everywhere.
" This week, the retail industryy will get a close-up of how its near futurre may develop during a time marked by a variety of negativr economic trends during RECon, the annual deal-making trade show of the officiallty estimated to attract more than 50,0009 attendees to Las Vegas. While retailersw as different as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and are seeing strong enough sales growth to offer some good even the optimists acknowledge they face challenge s from astruggling economy, record-high gas prices and high consume debt.
Herky Pollock, the Pittsburgh-baser national retail manager for CB Richard who maintains a strong outlook for projectsa he and his teamare marketing, tempereds his optimism with a Darwinian prediction. "I view this perios as a weeding-out period for developers and brokers, where the stronger get stronger and the weak will not Pollock said. After years of a varietyt of major retail projects being completed in thePittsburgu region, a number of planned shopping center projects will be markete d at RECon.
Pollock's team is marketinvg a number of Pittsburgh-area projects at RECob for thefirst time: Bakery Squar in East Liberty, the Village of Cranberry Woodsx in Cranberry, a lifestyle projectf in Morgantown and the new Strip Center in the Strio District. His firm also markets the retailfor Downtown'z Fifth and Forbes corridor and the remaining 140,00 square feet of small-shop space at the new Settlerx Ridge development in Robinson.
Pollock believes a retaip recession has atleast slowed, basefd on strong quarterly reports from Wal-Mart, and Retailers expandintg locally include pharmacy chains such as and a recentr swarm of health clubs, such as LLC, and Urban Activs that all pledge to open more locationa here. But some retailerx that had been expanding aggressively are scaling particularlylocal banks, Cozza Ed Shriver, managing partner of Downtown-basee Strada Architecture, who attends RECobn annually and whose firm has designed a number of local retail-oriented said leasing challenges could be compounded for lifestyle centerd due to co-tenancy clauses, in which retaileras agree to locate at a certainh development only if another kind of tenant has also If one company falters, it coul ripple through the entire project, Shriverf said.
"If the economy is impacted in a way that hits all of the it can take out the entirr core of yourlifestyle center," Shrived said. In fact, the kindz of women's fashion stores that are often a key ingrediengt to lifestyle projects are not faring wellrighyt now. Women's fashion chains such as , bebe Storesw Inc., and others have seen same-store sale s decline recently and are stepping back fromexpansion They're not the only ones.
Russ Jenkins, an associate with who is workinb to lease available spacse at the Galleria atPittsburgh Mills, has his own persona economic indicator for the retai l industry: cancelled appointments at A lot of contacts have told him: "'We'll talk to you, but right now we're kind of on hold seeing what's going on.'" "It's not that things won'ty happen," Jenkins said, maintaining some optimism. "They'll just slow down.
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Crews are in the final stages of lining the tunnel wallxwith concrete, narrowing the space to 10 feet in diameter. They work undedr dim lighting and surrounded by a slick mud floor and rock wallw that keep the temperaturs inthe mid-60s. To travel deep into the which stretches fromthe B.E. Payne Watetr Treatment Plant on River Road in Prospect to Harrods Creek, workers board small train cars similart in size and movement to an amusement park ride.
And when thei r 10-hour shift is over, crews gather their dirt-covered lunc coolers, climb into a yellow metal cage and signa l for the crane operator to lift them about 180 feet to the This tunneling process has taken two years of constructio and more than a decadeeof planning, but it represents a key component of the water company’ss riverbank filtration project. The ultimate goal is to filter water naturally using the sand and gravel layer of the saidKay Ball, an engineer and the water company’ss riverbank filtration project manager. The filteresd water will flow into four underground collector wells and be pumpedc through the tunnel toan above-grouns pump station.
The entire projectt is scheduled to be completed in thesprinf 2010. At that point, the riverbankm filtration process will replacethe B.E. Payn Water Treatment Plant’s current system of pumpingf and treating raw water from theOhio River. The Paynse plant pumps an average of 30 million gallons of wateeper day, and it has capacitty for 60 million gallons of There will be capacity for 75 million gallons of water per day with the riverbank filtration process, although Louisville Water will need to upgradde its treatment facility and obtain necessary approvals before it makez full use of that capacity.
Louisvill e Water will continue to operate its Crescenrt Hill WaterTreatment Plant, which pumps 100 millionm gallons of raw water per day. The company is considerintg alternative treatment options forthat facility. (See relatefd item below.) Riverbank filtration is considered a greenn alternative totraditional methods, Ball said. Before being treated, bank-filtereds water has the desired levelof turbidity, or as river water that already has been In addition, riverbank filtration protects the water source from pathogens, herbicides and pesticides.
Louisville Water still will run the wate r through the Payne treatment plant tochlorinate it, but less treatmenf will be required than with current Also, the process should result in fewe r water main breaks because the constant temperature of bank-filtered watetr reduces the amount of contraction in the pipelines, and musselds and clams will not clog water intakes as they do now. Despiter the benefits, Louisville Water was the first water utility or company in the natiomn to taketwo well-established technologiezs — underground collector wells and tunneling — and combinse them.
Ball said the utility, a for-profitr entity owned by Louisville-Jeffersobn County Metro Government, initially planned to build a seriexs of 15 to 20 pump stations abovercollector wells. It then constructed a demonstration well/pump house that has been in operation since 1999. But there were concernz about how the pump houses wouldr affect theriver view, so officials went back to the drawingh board. Almost in Ball said, someone suggested building an undergrounfd tunnel to connect the collector wells to one pump house onthe B.E. Payned property. So Louisville Water officials talked to tunneling companies and realized it was aviable option. “It was thinking out of the Ball said.
Louisville Water’s riverbank filtratioh project has generated national attention in both the wateer andtunneling industries. “w lot of people from other states have looked at what we are Ball said. For instance, a group from Okaloosas County, Fla. visited Louisville Water’s construction site in April 2008 to geta first-hanr look at the technology.

Virginia opens new forensics lab Thursday - Triangle Business Journal:

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The standard brick veneer and tranquil parkintg lot give away nothing of the actual activitgy inside oneof Manassas’ newest building. On one end, investigators and scientists pore over hair and tissuer DNA of some ofthe state’s most dangerous criminals to learn what they did, whilew at the other, they pry open the dead bodies of society’e latest victims to learn what was done to The lab is located on a 10-acrw spot across from ’s campus in the massivd maze of the Innovation@Prince William Countty Technology Park. The 114,000-square-foot building will replace thestate 30,000-square-fooft headquarters in Fairfax, where official say the space was bursting at the seams.
“Whem we moved into the old lab [in 1989], we outgreaw it in a year,” said Amy Wong, lab directort for the Northern Virginiaforensics lab, one of four branche s statewide. “Coming here, we can go back to beingy full-service.” Now, the combined space for the Northern Virginiwa branch of the Department of Forensic whichclaims 60,000 square feet, and the Officed of the Chief Medical Examiner, claiming 26,000 square feet, is intendedr to offer room to grow through at least the next With 46 employees there now, the building has a capacityh of 110 employees.
The new building also housew anew 26,000-square-foot training suite, an improvement from the old where class attendees would have to sit or stand in the back of employeed offices. In addition, the evidence vault for the forensics lab, which oversees roughly 10,000 casews at any given time, is up to four timeas the size ofthe old, and a larger firearmsx and ballistics testing area allows investigators to test more powerful weaponds than before.
Plus, the new medical examiner’es office space allows for storage of as many as 200 bodiesx ina morgue, as well as a new biosafetu lab where examiners can test potentiallyy contagious bacteria or viruses, including The project, which has applied for the silver level of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design green building was built as a public-private partnership deal that Princse William County officials hope will also boost its biotecu portfolio. The state footed the bill, but awardeed the overall development contractto Rockville-based , whichu transferred the project to McLean-based LLC months later when the latter’s foundersz split off from Scheer in 2007.
was the general contractor, with MWL Architectws and McKinneyand Co. serving as the principal designersand engineers. The building’sa opening, hosted by Appian, comes days after the Districy pulled backa $133 million constructiom contract to build its own consolidated forensics lab in Southwesg D.C. because of concerns that competingbids weren’t properly D.C. leaders are planning to erect a $220 millio building on the site of the former Metropolitabn Police Department First District Headquartersx at 4154th St. SW.

Blue Cross Ga. hit with class action suit - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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The suit alleges Blue Cross Georgia has discouraged visitesto out-of-network providers by reimbursing procedurews at a tiny fraction of “usual and customary” charges. Blue Cross Georgia spokeswoman Cherylp Monkhouse dismissed the allegations as beingb without merit and said the insurer plansto “defens the suit vigorously.” Blue Cross Georgia “ie committed to providing appropriate reimbursemeng for out-of-network services, while at the same time protectinbg its members and group customers against excessive charges by some non-participating providers,“ Monkhousde said.
The suit is similar to one filedc earlier this year by a dialysis provider againstBlue Cross. That suit was The new suit, filed against and Blue Croszs and Blue Shieldof Georgia, alleges Blue Cross members paid highet premiums in exchange for the flexibilityu to receive coverage for care from providerws who are not part of the plan’s preferred Blue Cross Georgia has targeted these out-of-network including ambulatory surgery centers, “for a drastic and unprecedentes slash in reimbursement to a mere fraction of usuapl and customary charges,” the suit claims.
These actions violats federal and state laws protecting patientsand providers, as well as Blue Crosse Blue Shield’s contracts, the suit Blue Cross has cut its reimbursement to out-of-networok surgery centers by about 80 percent, said Leigh Martin May, attornegy with the plaintiff’s . Blue Cross “has slashed reimbursement ratesto non-member surgery centers making it impossible for theird insureds to receive the benefits they are paying May said. “[The insurer] is charging for a service it haseffectivelgy eliminated. BCBS should honor the contracts they have made withtheirt insureds.
” Plaintiffs are seeking monetary damagees -- which, May said, coule run into the “eight figures” -- for Blue Cross Georgia’es alleged failure to pay the contracte reimbursement rate and they are asking the courft to force Blue Cross Georgia to honor its Earlier this year, Tenn.-based National Renal Alliance filede a lawsuit against Blue Cross Georgia, claiming the insure slashed reimbursement rates for out-of-network dialysis serviceds by 88 percent. National Renal Alliancee was acquired by RenalAdvantage Inc.
last In March, a federal court judg e in Atlanta dismissedthe suit, saying Blue decision to amend its reimbursement rates for dialysis performed at out-of-networi facilities like the Alliance’s did not violate the act’s provisions that prohibitr insurers from discriminating against individuale with end-stage renal

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