document.writeln("<a href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/rss/feed/daily/buffalo\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Business News - Local Buffalo News | Business First of Buffalo</a><br />");
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document.writeln("<br /><a href=\"http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~r/bizj_buffalo/~3/FFCgQBrF6vY/synacor-shares-start-low-but-show-gains.html\" target=\"_blank\">Synacor shares start low, but show gains</a><br />");
document.writeln("Synacor Inc.?s first day of trading has seen share prices rise by 10 percent.");
document.writeln("In its IPO, the Buffalo-based company said it would look to sell 6.8 million shares at $10-$12. Synacor (NASDAQ: SYNC), however, lowered those prices to $5 per share on Feb. 9.");
document.writeln("In Friday afternoon trading, shares were at $5.50 per share, up 10 percent, on volume of 3.22 million.");
document.writeln("Synacor is an Internet video technology company that manages portals for pay TV distributors.<br />");
document.writeln("<a href=\"http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~r/bizj_buffalo/~3/IKnTdwPjWOg/hud-grants-to-aid-public-housing.html\" target=\"_blank\">HUD grants to aid public housing upgrades</a><br />");
document.writeln("The capital fund program directed by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will steer nearly $12 million to public housing authorities in Western New York.");
document.writeln("HUD announced Friday the allocations some 84 housing agencies in New York state totaling $321.47 million. The Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority is to receive just under $8.5 million.");
document.writeln("Funding for other area public housing authorities:");
document.writeln("? Niagara Falls, $1.24 million");
document.writeln("? Lackawanna, $810,326");
document.writeln("? Lockport, $444,528");
document.writeln("? Olean, $423,476");
document.writeln("? Dunkirk, $238,467");
document.writeln("? Jamestown, $195,827");
document.writeln("? Batavia, $186, 395");
document.writeln("? Kenmore, $175, 418");
document.writeln("HUD specifies that the money be used to build, renovate and/or modernize public housing in these communities...<br />");
document.writeln("<a href=\"http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~r/bizj_buffalo/~3/UG1MwaqG4po/buffalo-expressways-need-special.html\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo expressways need special driving lanes for idiots</a><br />");
document.writeln("I have a solution to the problem of dangerous drivers, the whack-jobs who plague the expressways that carry traffic into and out of Buffalo during the morning and afternoon commutes. Furthermore, my solution is a reasonable solution ? one that does not involve public executions or the removal of vital body parts from the offenders.");
document.writeln("What I have in mind are special driving lanes which would be used exclusively by our many whack-job drivers. I call them DIM lanes. DIM is an acronym for Dangerous, Idiotic Motorists...<br />");
document.writeln("<a href=\"http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~r/bizj_buffalo/~3/R1ze-L3e2AY/ub-football-books-date-at-ohio-state.html\" target=\"_blank\">UB football books date at Ohio State</a><br />");
document.writeln("The University at Buffalo Bulls football team will be headed for the famed ?Horseshoe? in the 2013 college football season and a $1 million payday.");
document.writeln("The UB department of athletics said Friday that the Bulls will play the Ohio State Buckeyes in Columbus on Sept. 21 next year.");
document.writeln("The game will be the first ever between the two programs and comes with the $1 million guarantee. UB competes in the Mid-American Conference; Ohio State, one the premier teams in college football, is a member of the Big 10...<br />");
document.writeln("<a href=\"http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~r/bizj_buffalo/~3/EY1R52DXBAI/biggest-loser-resort-checks-in-to.html\" target=\"_blank\">Biggest Loser Resort checks in to Beaver Hollow</a><br />");
document.writeln("Snyder Corp. has a deal in place with Fitness Ridge Worldwide to open The Biggest Loser Resort ? Niagara in May.");
document.writeln("The facility will be located at Beaver Hollow Conference Center in Java, Wyoming County.");
document.writeln("The Biggest Loser Resorts, known nationally through a television program that airs on NBC, are licensed through NBCUniversal Television Consumer Products and Reveille LLC. The company?s other two resorts are located in Malibu, Calif., and Ivins, Utah.");
document.writeln("?This is a win-win for Western New York both in expanding business and also in helping to improve health and wellness in our community...<br />");
document.writeln("<a href=\"http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~r/bizj_buffalo/~3/MX5uQEjtWgA/study-buffalo-isnt-sharing-in.html\" target=\"_blank\">Study: Buffalo isn't sharing in manufacturing revival</a><br />");
document.writeln("More than half of the nation's major markets are experiencing an upswing in manufacturing activity, according to a study released Friday.");
document.writeln("The increases are generally small, yet they're welcome news after several years of declines.");
document.writeln("The Buffalo area, however, is not sharing in the upswing. The two-county region lost 300 manufacturing jobs from 49,500 in 2010 to 49,200 in 2011.");
document.writeln("Detroit is leading the way forward. It added 11,400 jobs to its manufacturing base last year, according to an On Numbers analysis of figures from the U...<br />");
document.writeln("<a href=\"http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~r/bizj_buffalo/~3/llseiymuXb0/bpo-to-again-play-carnegie-hall.html\" target=\"_blank\">BPO to again play Carnegie Hall</a><br />");
document.writeln("The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra?s return to Carnegie Hall serves as the backdrop to its 2012-2013 season, but to music director JoAnn Falletta, it goes beyond that.");
document.writeln("The BPO?s traditional classics season includes guest appearances by the likes of Sir James Galway, famed pianist Joyce Yang, banjo player Bela Fleck while its Pops series will see singers Wynonna Judd, Johnny Mathis and Ronan Tynan returning.");
document.writeln("?It?s going to be a fun season and a diverse one,? Falletta said.");
document.writeln("Falletta concedes that the BPO?s Carnegie Hall concert, set for May 8, 2013, will dominate the season...<br />");
document.writeln("<a href=\"http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~r/bizj_buffalo/~3/LNAx6cWuWv0/militello-to-be-paid-50k-for.html\" target=\"_blank\">Militello to be paid $50K for sudden resignation</a><br />");
document.writeln("The former superintendent of the Niagara-Wheatfield Central School District is receiving a lump-sum payment of $50,000 as part of his separation agreement.");
document.writeln("The Niagara Gazette reports that Carl Militello will get the money because of his willingness to resign on Feb. 1.");
document.writeln("The lump sum must be paid by Sept. 15, according to the separation agreement.");
document.writeln("Militello, whose salary was $159,658, will also receive paychecks for the rest of the school year. And he will be paid $36,588 for 55 unused sick, vacation and personal days...<br />");
document.writeln("<a href=\"http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~r/bizj_buffalo/~3/hDzC9P3SXv8/8000-sign-petition-to-attract.html\" target=\"_blank\">8,000 sign petition to attract new Wegmans supermarket</a><br />");
document.writeln("A drive has been launched to attract a Wegmans supermarket to Lockport.");
document.writeln("Town of Lockport officials have been presented a pro-Wegmans petition signed by 8,000 residents, according to the Lockport Union-Sun and Journal.");
document.writeln("Supervisor Marc Smith likened it to a very large phone book. ?No one can remember a petition with so many signatures,? he said.");
document.writeln("A group known as We Want Wegmans is seeking a new store anywhere in eastern Niagara County. Wegmans spokeswoman Theresa Jackson says the Rochester-based chain is aware of the drive...<br />");
document.writeln("<a href=\"http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~r/bizj_buffalo/~3/G70vEw_Q-vA/public-shows-scant-interest-in.html\" target=\"_blank\">Public shows scant interest in pursuing school merger</a><br />");
document.writeln("Residents of the Wyoming Central School District apparently want to go it alone.");
document.writeln("The Batavia Daily News reports that several speakers at Thursday night?s school-board meeting opposed another attempt to merge Wyoming with an adjacent district.");
document.writeln("Wyoming voters rejected a consolidation agreement with the Pavilion Central School District last month.");
document.writeln("Wyoming, which is Western New York?s smallest school district, now faces a budget gap of $175,000. Officials have warned that a substantial tax increase could be in the offing...<br />");
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