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Issue 10 Volume 1 | Week of 12/18/08

Trailblazing: Ecotourism in the Former Coal Belts of Northeast Pennsylvania

By: Rory Sweeney, 12/18/2008 A series of trails through the northeast are linking together Commonwealth lands once thought of as casualties of King Coal, and forming the backbone of what could become a thriving ecotourism industry for the region.

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PA Companies Tap into Electricity Deregulation

By: Marty Levine, 12/18/2008 As vast swaths of the Commonwealth brace for electricity rate caps to expire and drive up prices, emerging PA firms are having success helping businesses and consumers find ways to save.

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Happy Holidays from Keystone Edge

By: Keystone Edge, 12/18/2008 Keystone Edge is taking the next two weeks off to celebrate the holidays and get some rest before the new year. We'll be back with a sparkling new issue on January 8, 2009.

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Video/Lo-ResTV: Holidays light up Philly

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the City of Brotherly Love, where lights and holiday displays illuminate streets and squares throughout Center City and the neighborhoods. Check out our video essay of Philly's finest light displays and hear what Philadelphians love most about the holidays in their city: the lights, music, energy and festivity of people out on the streets. And, of course, the Mummers.
This Week's Blogger:
Felicia D'Ambrosio
Felicia D'Ambrosio writes for the Philadelphia City Paper's food blog, Meal Ticket, as well as CP's print food section and fashion column, Shopping Spree. She also contributes to Daily Candy. This week on Keystone Edge, she's blogging about what makes Philadelphia a great dining city.

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Innovation & Job News
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Advance Manufacturing and Materials
An historic pillar of Pennsylvania industry, manufacturing remains an important part of the state's economy. With a robust infrastructure for shipping, and intellectual capital coming from the state's colleges and universities, Pennsylvania manufacturers have adapted to remain competitive in key industries of the future.

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Viddler
Viddler doesn't necessarily want to be the next YouTube; it wants to improve upon and replace YouTube, along with all the other video sites out there.

The Bethlehem-based startup has its sights set high, to be sure, but its ambition is not without good cause. In just a few years, Viddler has distinguished itself among the many video-hosting sites on the Internet with a unique business model: Viddler allows advertising to be embedded in user-generated videos.

Viddler's platform also allows the audience to interact with videos as they please. Timed tags and comments, including video comments, appear at the bottom of the screen as the video plays. Viewers can also create a special Digg button tag for videos they want to share with others.

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State College
A classic town-and-gown community situated in bucolic central Pennsylvania, State College is a powerful economic driver with Pennsylvania State University at its core. A significant portion of the school's budget is set aside for research; the Applied Research Lab partners with the U.S. Department of Defense, and the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering oversees the longest operating licensed university research reactor in the country.

State College is also a nice place to live and visit, its downtown teeming with hundreds of restaurants, shops and seasonal festivals, which might be one reason Psychology Today voted it one of the "50 Smart Places to Live" in the U.S.

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