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Leon McFadden had plenty of connections to the Browns long before he was selected in the third round of the NFL Draft on Friday night.
It dates to his time on the practice field at San Diego State University.
Aside from his talents on the field, he had a reputation for making life difficult for the quarterbacks on his own team. McFadden, initially recruited as a wide receiver, was asked to make the switch to cornerback. Once that happened, he took a small measure of pride in disrupting the passing drills whenever he could. The Aztecs quarterbacks coach he was disrupting? Brian Sipe, the former Browns quarterback.
"It was funny, that was pretty funny," Sipe said. "Right when practice started, everybody would be out there, scattered all over the field. When the whistle blew, most players would start warmups at the end of the field. The quarterbacks and centers would go to the middle to work on their exchanges. Leon would try to sneak up behind us and smack the ball out of the quarterback's hands. They would have a code word when they would spot him coming, code words so they knew he was in the area. One was 'Hootie Hoo,' they'd say things like that when he was near."
Sipe was elated with the Aztecs-to-Browns connection (his office in California is still decked out in Browns mementos, and everyone knows about it) and left McFadden a voice mail when he was picked. Caught up in all the commotion of being a draft pick, flying to the team's headquarters in Berea and meeting his new coaching staff, McFadden finally got back to Sipe on Tuesday morning.
"I'm very excited about him being a Brown," Sipe said. "I've known the kid for four years, watched him play. I'm excited for the Browns, and I think they got a great third-round draft pick."
Sipe should know. He spent the past couple of seasons teaching his own quarterbacks how to avoid him.
"He's very talented," Sipe said. "I had to train my quarterbacks to be able to throw against him, or I should say, stay away from him in practice."
The Browns ties don't stop there. McFadden's first official visit with the team was also the first week on the job for defensive backs coach Tony White, who later became his position coach after McFadden made the switch from offense to defense. White watched McFadden and immediately was reminded of Daylon McCutchen, whom White played against in college and who played for the Browns from 1999-2006.
"Both the maturity and the build, he and Daylon are similar," White said. "The best thing about Leon is he's always been somewhat of a professional. There are guys who understand where they're supposed to be and what they need to do to be successful. He's always been like that, low maintenance. Daylon was the same way. He knew that there are things he could attain if he kept his head on straight and worked hard. Physicality wise, they have a very similar build. Both 5-foot-10, 5-foot-11, little thicker on the lowerbody wise. Daylon was a great cornerback for a long time. Leon can do that."
The aforementioned switch from wide receiver to cornerback wasn't entirely welcomed, but McFadden accepted his new role with the same maturity and professionalism to which White alluded.
Only 10 days before the Aztecs' first game of the season against UCLA during McFadden's freshman year, they lost their starting cornerback to injury. San Diego State happened to have a talented receiving corps at the time — Vincent Brown, DeMarco Sampson and Roberto Wallace, all of whom now have NFL experience, and senior Mekkel Wesley — were all ahead of him on the depth chart. Seeing an opportunity to get him on the field, McFadden was turned loose to the other side of the ball and started 10 days later against the Bruins.
"At first, I was kind of bitter about it," McFadden said in a conference call after he was selected 68th overall in the draft. "Our coach, Brady Hoke, he gave me a three-day trial at corner. Ever since I went there, I never looked back."
McFadden played well quickly despite a smaller stature. Listed at 5-foot-9⅝ in Pro Football Weekly, scouts see a cornerback not too short for his position, but one who doesn't have the ideal height to combat the taller receivers of the NFL, either. White doesn't think that's a problem, and he pointed to how one of the NFL's best corners is built as an example.
"He's not a little cornerback," White said. "He might be shorter, but he's solid. His core strength, it's in his trunk and his hips and his legs. He's very similarly built to Darrelle Revis, too. Physically, that's how you neutralize those tall wide receivers. You can be 6-foot-2 and soft, but you're gonna get better results from a guy who's 5-foot-10 and physical. And he's a physical presence."
Like at San Diego State, McFadden will have a chance to start right away. He played exclusively on the outside with the lone exception of following motion in man-to-man coverage. Sheldon Brown is no longer on the Browns' roster and Buster Skrine was exposed when pushed into a starting role last season. Many believe Skrine would be better suited moving inside to the nickel, allowing McFadden to start from Day One.
Trade that wasn't
For the second consecutive year, the Browns and St. Louis Rams were close to finalizing a trade but decided not to pull the trigger.
During the first round of the draft Thursday night, the Rams moved up eight spots from No. 16 to No. 8 in a deal with the Buffalo Bills to select West Virginia wide receiver Tavon Austin. For the No. 8 pick, the Bills received the No. 16 pick, an additional second-round selection, a seventh-round selection, and the two teams swapped picks in the third round.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that same deal was on the table for the Browns, who held the No. 6 pick. Instead of trading down, the Browns selected Louisiana State outside linebacker Barkevious Mingo. In the event of completing that trade, the Browns would have held the No. 16 pick, where they might have taken Georgia outside linebacker Jarvis Jones (he was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers one slot later), and added a second-round and a seventh-round selection.
Undrafted players sign
The Browns signed 18 undrafted free agents, the team announced Tuesday.
Here is the official list: Eastern Kentucky offensive tackle Aaron Adams; Northern Illinois wide receiver Perez Ashford, a Shaker Heights High School graduate; Stephen F. Austin cornerback Josh Aubrey; Notre Dame center Braxston Cave; Youngstown State running back Jamaine Cook, a Midpark High School graduate; Central Arkansas wide receiver Dominique Croom; Iowa wide receiver Keenan Davis; UTEP wide receiver Michael Edwards; Hawaii defensive end Paipai Falemalu; Louisiana State offensive tackle Chris Faulk; Florida International offensive tackle Caylin Hauptmann; Eastern Michigan tight end Garrett Hoskins; Utah defensive tackle Dave Kruger, the younger brother of Browns linebacker Paul Kruger; Stephen F. Austin wide receiver Cordell Roberson; Illinois defensive end Justin Staples, a Lakewood St. Edward High School graduate; Kansas State tight end Travis Tannahill; Delaware safety Kenny Tunstall; and Temple offensive tackle Martin Wallace.
Wofford linebacker Mike Niam, a Hudson High School graduate, has been invited to try out for the Browns.
The Browns are scheduled to hold their rookie minicamp May 10-12. Rookies report to camp May 9.
Ryan Lewis can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Read the Browns blog at http://www.ohio.com/browns. Follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/RyanLewisABJ and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/browns.abj. Beacon Journal sports writer Nate Ulrich contibuted to this report.


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A Harvard-educated prodigy executive, Romney at a very young age was put in charge of a venture-capital outfit called Bain Capital. Reports suggest that many of the traits that mark Romney's campaign style — his meticulously prepared presentation, his apparent tirelessness, his iron discipline in not straying into controversial or unpredictable policy positions — were also in evidence in his managerial style at Bain, where he is said to have pored over each and every expenditure and bloodlessly weeded out risky investment schemes in an age (the early Eighties) when many investment companies were spending money like drunken sailors. At Bain, each partner had veto power over every deal, and as a result, investing any money at all was an enormously time- consuming process. One former partner, Bob White, says he got so tired of Romney shooting down deals in strategy meetings that he wanted to "punch him in the nose." But the devil's-advocate approach paid off — most notably when Bain's $650,000 investment in a single Staples store turned into an $18 billion chain.
Despite this success, however, Romney moved Bain away from boom-bust venture-capital investments and into the darker world of leveraged buyouts, where the firm borrowed money to make deals. A typical example of Bain's approach was its experience with another office-supply company called Ampad, which it acquired in 1992. In 1993, the company had $11 million in debt; by 1999, that number had grown to nearly $400 million, and the firm eventually defailure, Bain made a fortune, raking in more than $100 million while driving the company into the ground and destroying hundreds of jobs in places like New York (where 185 people were thrown out of work in a plant closing near Buffalo) and Indiana (where the firm fired 200 workers from a paper factory).
Even more telling was Romney's interest in a medical-testing firm called Damon Corp., which Bain bought in 1989. The company was eventually fined a record $119 million for defrauding the federal government out of $25 million, but Bain still tripled its investment on the Damon deal. And Romney, who was sitting on the Damon board at the time of the fraud (his claim that he was the one who called for an internal investigation has never been substantiated), made a personal profit of $473,000 on the deal. In a delicious detail that says a lot about the nature of Romney's morality, the investor had no problem making piles of cash off companies that executed mass layoffs or defrauded the government, but he balked when asked to invest in a Bain deal to acquire a video distribution company called Artisan Entertainment. "I didn't want to profit from a studio that made R-rated movies," he huffed.
All of which makes it very dicey when Romney talks about how he wants to help U the Voter save money by instituting a "new tax rate" on your savings — "zero." At stop after stop, I hear crowds cheer at that line; few, apparently, catch Romney mentioning that this new low, low tax rate would also apply to capital gains, which would make quite a killing for the Bain Capitals of the world. The crowds also respond when Romney promises to run the government like a business — although there is some creeping doubt on the issue, even among the hardest of hardcore Republican crowds. "I don't know," says an elderly man in Merrimack, reflecting the legacy of the Bush years. "These rich guys always promise not to spend. I don't trust 'em anymore."
That nagging credibility problem might explain why Romney, despite massively outspending his Republican rivals — $53 million so far, including more than $17 million of his own money — is currently slipping in the polls. In New Hampshire, where for months he has enjoyed a virtual monopoly on localtelevision advertising, Romney has dropped into a virtual tie with fangbaring rival Giuliani (who has lately been assailing him with wild charges about his "Taxachusetts hypocrisy"). And in Iowa, where Romney leads the GOP field, he has dropped four points in the polls in recent months. Worse still, his fund-raising numbers have steadily dropped from quarter to quarter; his haul went from $21 million in the first quarter of this year to $14 million in the second, less than half the amount raised by Barack Obama.
The real question is this: If you're gunning for the GOP nomination, where do you run these days? Do you strap on your medals, limp into VFW halls and do a Band of Brothers act, a la John Mc- Cain? Do you stand up before suburban crowds, tell horror tales of hairy Muslims lurking near reservoirs and promise to bomb them all back to the Stone Age, like Rudy Giuliani? Do you wear your WWJD cap and quote the Bible, like Mike Huckabee, or freak out about rapehungry Mexicans, like Tom Tancredo? Or do you do what Romney does: Look smooth, keep your nose clean and tour the country talking about business being the answer to all the world's ills?
It's a conundrum, and the problem isn't just that the current batch of ruling Republicans have horrified the whole world through their insane invasion of Iraq, run up record deficits despite campaigning on a platform of fiscal restraint, punted the ethics issue deep into Democrat territory with a parade of staggering corruption indictments and turned their pompous emphasis on personal morality into a late-night punch line through their hilarious high-profile pursuits of littleboy pages and anonymous bathroom sex. It's also that America is getting older, and yesterday's liberalism is slowly but surely turning into a new generation's conservatism. So when some starchedup, smooth-talking, TV-ready creature like Mitt Romney, who made his fortune laying off factory workers, walks onto college campuses and starts bashing cohabitation and having children out of wedlock, he loses young people who are tired of watching our leaders fuck things up on a grand scale and then turn around and blame our problems on stoned teenagers. Back when the Gingrich revolution was hot, even college kids bought into the reactionary rhetoric. But now that Bush and Cheney have blown that revolution to itty-bitty pieces, the Republican morality line sells like warmedover horseshit; on college campuses, Romney comes off like a parent trying to maintain his moral authority after a messy divorce in which the kids got to watch Daddy shacking up with his secretary and Mommy hauling out the lawyers to repossess Dad's fridge.
"Like, a friend of mine is pregnant right now, and I completely support her even though she may or may not be married," says Caitlyn Keating, a student who isn't impressed with Romney's moralizing at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire.
For a Republican, Mitt Romney did everything right. He pinched his pennies, fired everyone in sight, worshipped God loudly and often, and kept his cock in his pants for the whole of his enormously profitable adult life, before finally jumping into politics in late middle age with a giant war chest in tow. But by the time he made it to the campaign trail, a succession of Republicans before him had already spent an entire generation crying wolf to increasingly skeptical audiences. Romney may be a great salesman, but he's running for the nomination of a party that has nothing left to sell.
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According to Al Polehonki of the LAPD's Northeast Division, one of the male suspects made a derogatory comment about the victim's sexual orientation, then produced a knife and stabbed him in the side.
According to Polehonki, two men and a woman in their 20s are now being sought by police.
Polehonki says the suspects fled on foot. He also noted that he didn't see anything in the police report that would indicate gang influence.
The stabbings occurred just after midnight on Thursday as the man sat with a friend at a bus stop at Echo Park Avenue and Montana Street.
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Large cell carcinoma is a form of non-small cell lung cancer. Non-small cell lung cancers account for 80% of lung cancers, and of these, roughly 10% are large cell carcinomas of the lung.
Large Cell Carcinoma OverviewLarge cell carcinomas are also called large cell lung cancers. They are named for the appearance of large round cells when examined under the microscope, although the tumors themselves tend to be large as well when diagnosed. Large cell carcinomas often occur in the outer regions of the lungs, and tend to grow rapidly and spread more quickly than some other forms of non-small cell lung cancer.
SymptomsBecause large cell carcinomas often begin in the outer parts of the lungs, well-known symptoms of lung cancer, such as a chronic cough and coughing up blood, may be less common until later in the disease. Early symptoms of large cell carcinomas that may be overlooked may include fatigue, mild shortness of breath, or achiness in your back, shoulder, or chest.
Since large cell carcinomas are often found in the outer regions of the lungs, they can cause fluid to develop in the space between the tissues that line the lung (pleural effusions), and invade the chest wall. This can cause pain in your chest or side that worsens with a deep breath.
Large cell carcinomas can also secrete hormone-like substances that cause symptoms referred to as paraneoplastic syndrome. In men, these substances may cause enlargement of the breasts, something known as gynecomastia.
DiagnosisLarge cell carcinoma of the lungs is often first suspected when abnormalities are seen in an X-ray. Further evaluation may include:
- Chest CT Scan
- Bronchoscopy
- PET Scan - a test designed to look for actively growing tumors
Depending upon the results, your doctor will usually want to obtain a sample of tissue to confirm the diagnosis, and will order further tests to check to see if your cancer has spread.
StagesLarge cell carcinoma is broken down into 4 stages:
- Stage 1 – The cancer is localized within the lung and has not spread to any lymph nodes.
- Stage 2 – The cancer has spread to lymph nodes or the lining of the lungs, or is in a certain area of the main bronchus.
- Stage 3 – The cancer has spread to tissue near the lungs.
- Stage 4 – The cancer has spread (metastasized) to another part of the body.
CausesLarge cell carcinomas of the lungs are more strongly associated with smoking than some other types of non-small cell lung cancers, but other causes can contribute as well:
TreatmentsDepending upon the stage, treatment for large cell carcinomas of the lung may include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or a combination of these. Many clinical trials are in progress looking for new ways to treat lung cancer, and to help decide which treatments are most effective.
SurgeryWhen large cell carcinomas are caught in the early stages, surgery may offer a chance for a cure.
ChemotherapyChemotherapy may be used alone, in conjunction with radiation therapy, or following surgery for lung cancer. Examples of chemotherapy medications used with large cell carcinomas include Altima (pemetrexed) and Platinol (cisplatin).
Targeted TherapiesTargeted therapies are medications that are designed to attack cancer specifically. Because they work by targeting proteins on cancer cells, or normal cells that have been "hijacked" by a tumor in its attempt to grow, they may have fewer side effects than traditional chemotherapy. Examples of targeted therapies that may be used include Tarceva (erlotinib) and Iressa (gefitinib)
Radiation TherapyRadiation therapy may be used to treat lung cancer or to control symptoms related to the spread of cancer.
PrognosisThe 5-year survival rate for lung cancer overall is sadly only about 15%. For those diagnosed in the early stages of the disease, the prognosis is much better. One variant of large cell carcinoma, large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma, has a poorer prognosis than large cell carcinoma.
Coping with Lung CancerA diagnosis of lung cancer is frightening and you may feel very alone. Allow your loved ones to support you. Many people have no idea how to react towards someone who is diagnosed with cancer. Letting people know specific things they can do to help may ease their anxiety, as well as fill your need for extra support at this time.
Ask questions. Learn as much as you can. Consider joining a lung cancer support group either through your cancer center or online. And be true to yourself. No matter what others have experienced or recommend, only you know what is best for you.
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There are a number of issues you are probably dealing with as a result of a small fire in the server environment. Smoke, soot, water, and other contaminants the water may have brought (sprinkler water is a notoriously nasty mix of water, pipe cutting oil, some bio-growth, and so on). NFPA standard 75, "Standard for the protection of Electronic Computer / Data Processing equipment," appendix C, deals directly with the situation you are faced with, and goes through a number of steps for 'do it yourself' recovery from smoke and water.
In addition, there are dozens of local and regional businesses that deal with this sort of restoration project. If it turns out you feel the damage and/or work is too great to take on yourself, I would advise looking into "Fire restoration" companies locally. A few moments with a web search or web-powered yellow pages application should get you in touch with several locally. One benefit to a professional restoration program is that if local authorities (environmental and/or occupational safety groups) are required, they will have experience in finding the right folks to get in touch with.
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The neon sign is lit, and Joe's Corner is jumpin' again.
After nearly 80 years of saloon history, with some openings and closings tossed in, the legendary corner "dive" on Niles Boulevard in Fremont has re-opened as a family-friendly neighborhood coffee shop, deli and bar.
With new operators at the helm, locals Bob and Melissa DiMatteo, Joe's Corner is serving a delicatessen-style menu that New Yorkers will envy — in a setting that will make history buffs swoon.
The DiMatteos made some updates, like the newly installed espresso-cappuccino-latte machine, but kept the old-school charm of the vintage Kraftile bar and pastry case, the storefront window which opens to the street, and the historic wooden doors.
And prominently displayed is one hand-painted piece of history — a giant mural entitled "Happy Joe's Corner" with detailed renderings of past pub patrons.
Previous Joe's owners had the painting in storage, Bob said, and he's not really sure who the artist was.
But the DiMatteos are playing a "who's who" to identify the folks in the piece — the lawman, the cowboy, the soldier, the saloon gal — and have a smaller rendition of the painting with individuals numbered and a corresponding, fill-in-the-blank list for names.
The actual building dates back to the 1920s or 1930s; historical versions vary. Originally owned by Joseph Silva, it was sold to Joe Viveiros in the mid-'20s, who for decades ran what was the favorite gathering spot for Niles steel, tile, railroad and nursery laborers, who even cashed their paychecks there, and for silent film star Bronco Billy, who worked and partially owned the nearby Essanay Studios.
Families and children bought ice cream from the front-street window; dairy products and eggs were reportedly sold around the corner, according to a local.
History students even pegged Joe's as a spot that smuggled in alcohol during Prohibition.
After its colorful tavern past, Joe's apparently was denied a liquor license by city officials a few years back, which led to its brief stint as a no-alcohol joint, a teen hangout and the go-to meeting site for such 12-step groups as Alcoholics Anonymous, before folding once more in 2009.
So the re-opening of Joe's Corner is welcomed by locals like Viveiros' daughter, Cathy Mozzetti, who is now in her 80s and lives in the area, the DiMatteos said.
The couple is planning Joe's "official" debut for January.
For now, it's a "soft opening" as details are finessed and menu items tinkered with and expanded, Melissa said. Grilled chicken with basil dressing and baked ziti with Italian sausage are in the works, she said.
At present, Joe's is open Tuesdays through Sundays, serving breakfast pastries, Mission coffees, lunchtime and early dinner sandwiches, and homemade salads, plus beer and wine.
This new Joe's already has garnered Facebook fans and raves on Yelp.
Sandwiches — like grilled proscuitto with salame and mozzarella or the classic Italian muffuletta — start at $6.95 including side salads, dinner entrees run about $10, with beer and wine at $4 a glass.
Even the kids' menu is a throwback: Along with grilled cheese and PB&Js, the new Joe's Corner offers '60s-era "Fluffernutters."
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Good morning everyone!
How's everyone doing on this fine Tuesday morning?
I think that my city somehow knows that I went away last week, and is now getting back at me by raining every single day since I've come back! And it doesn't seem like it's going to stop anytime soon either! Not cool mother nature, not cool at all…..
I am trying to add more protein into my life, so instead of my usual yogurt cup this morning, I whipped up 3 scrambled eggs and 1 egg white. It was a nice change up, and I'll probably end up having some yogurt for an afternoon snack instead! On the side, I had a cup of decaf coffee with a splash of milk.
Dining in Aruba
As promised, here is the scoop on dining in Aruba!
For the most part, all of the restaurants we dined at were very good. There was only one place that was so-so, but all in all I was very satisfied with all of the different dining options that were offered. Our hotel concierge was excellent, and suggest some pretty rockin' places for us to try!
Each morning for breakfast we dined at the Hyatt's Palm Restaurant. They offered a fabulous buffet spread, that had probably every single breakfast option that you could ever imagine! Most importantly, they had fresh fruit yogurt cups that were prepared daily! YUM
Aside from the amazing fruit yogurt cups, the Palm's buffet also offered traditional options such as scrambled eggs, oatmeal, bacon, potatoes, an omelette station, waffles, fresh fruit, cereal, bagels and pretty much any other breakfast type food that you can imagine! Breakfast is typically my most favorite meals of the day, so imagine my face when I saw all of these options layed out in front my face! I was a happy camper for sure
Since we would usually eat breakfast around 8 a.m, and then go to the beach right after, I tried to keep it light (most of the time). My typical morning breakfast was a yogurt cup, some scrambled eggs and some fruit. I did give the locks a try, as well as the cottage cheese but the locks were wayyyyyyyyyy to salty for me, and the cottage cheese was ok, but not like my usual Breakstones 2% cottage cheese cup, so I left both of those on the plate.
Unlike breakfast, lunch was not as regularly scheduled. To be honest, sometimes I wouldn't even eat lunch, because breakfast held me over just fine. There were a couple of times where I got a salad at one of the hotel's restaurants, but for the most part I either snacked on an energy bar, or slurped down a delicious fruit smoothie from the smoothie bar for lunch.
Although I have been to Aruba twice before, I was still very impressed with all of the dinner restaurants we visited. I thought it would be difficult for restaurants to accomodate a party of 15, but luckily every restaurant was more than happy to welcome a large party.
The service and the food were both fantastic at every restaurant,(with the exception of one place) and I honestly don't remember eating a bad meal while on vacation.
My favorite restaurant was called The Flying Fish Bone. I would highly recommend this restaurant to anyone who is thinking about vacationing in Aruba.The food is great, the service is impeccable and the scenery is to die for! It is about a 35 minute drive from the main hotel strip, but it is totally worth the drive!
The restaurant seems like nothing special from the outside, but once you walk in, you realize that you are right on the beach! The tables are literally in the sand, and the view is incredible. This is probably one of the most beautiful restaurants I have EVER eaten at! We decided to book an early reservation (6:30p.m), so this way we could watch the sunset. It was magnificent, definitely something I will never forget!
I especially loved the fact that everything was fresh and cooked to order, but did not take an obscenely long time to make. I get impatient when I'm hungry!
Overall, I loved this place and would absolutely go back on my next visit!
Some other restaurants that we dined at during our stay on the island were Madam Jannette's, El Gaucho and Hostaria Da Vittorio. Madam Janentte's offers more of a French cuisine, El Gaucho is an Argentinian inspired steak house and Hostaria Da Vittorio is an authentic Italian restaurant. All of them were excellent, and I would absolutely suggest them to anyone.
There are definitely tons of dining options in Aruba for everyone. Even the pickiest of eaters should be able to find somewhere that will accomodate their needs. There were many times that I asked for a few changes to be made to my meal, and never once was it a problem. I was never scared about potentially getting sick, or not being able to find something I liked.
Overall the food in Aruba was OUTSTANDING for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It really added to the vacation, and made it even that much better!
I want to go back, now! Are you sick of hearing me say that yet?!
Any good (or bad) vacation dining experiences you have to share? Spill it! I want to hear!


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Jeffrey W. Duncombe, President of Industrial Plant Services, Inc. announced the acquisition of Vee Enterprises, Inc. in his letter to employees & customers on July 1, 2011.
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EPSCO International & Companies, Inc. and Vee Enterprises, Inc. are complementary businesses that both provide exciting opportunities for customers in Texas and Louisiana. EPSCO International & Companies, Inc. has been a leader in the supply of non-metallic corrosion resistant products and technical solutions for over 45 years. Vee Enterprises, Inc. customers can be assured that EPSCO International & Companies, Inc. is dedicated to providing the same high quality products and services from our seven sales and services locations all around the Gulf Coast.
Epsco International Acquired by Industrial Plant Services
Epsco International has been acquired by Industrial Plant Services
Industrial Plant Services has acquired ownership of EPSCO International, Inc. from Plastic Omnium on August 14, 2008. The new company will be renamed EPSCO International & Companies, Inc., a Texas Corporation ("EIC").
EPSCO will operate as the distribution division and sister company of Plant Maintenance Services ("PMS"), the field services division of the parent company, Industrial Plant Services. The field services business within EPSCO has merged in with Plant Maintenance Services in Texas and Louisiana. The distribution business of PMS has been merged with EPSCO in their St. Gabriel, La. location nearby EPSCO's former Geismer, La. location.
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— Every presidential election cycle, once a party's nominee becomes clear, we focus on the veepstakes. Who will Mitt Romney choose? Will he play it safe with a traditional pick, such as Walter Mondale in 1976 or Jack Kemp in 1996? Or take a chance, as John McCain did with Sarah Palin in 2008? Either way, there is no evidence that a vice presidential nominee plays a great part in voters' decisions. But that doesn't stop us from overhyping the selection process.
1. Being the vice presidential nominee is a steppingstone to the presidency.
This is true — but only if your ticket wins. Fourteen vice presidents have become president. Five were elected in their own right, eight ascended to the office when the president died of natural causes or assassination, and one moved up when the president resigned. The odds of a vice president becoming president are about 1 in 3.
But the odds are far worse for the vice presidential nominee on a losing ticket. Only one, Franklin Roosevelt, who was James Cox's vice presidential choice in 1920, went on to be elected president — and that wasn't until 12 years later.
In fact, only one other losing vice presidential nominee later won his party's presidential nod: Bob Dole, Gerald Ford's running mate in 1976. And Dole did not become the Republican presidential nominee until his third try, when he lost to President Bill Clinton in 1996.
Being the losing vice presidential candidate can end a promising political career, though not all have such a comedown as Palin, who later resigned as governor, or John Edwards, who's been tarnished by a high-profile affair and a criminal trial. Still, the prospects for a losing vice presidential pick are glum enough that potential nominees might heed Daniel Webster, who declined the offer to run for vice president several times, saying: "I do not propose to be buried until I am dead."


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Two Pittsburgh men were jailed Thursday after state police said they found $150,000 worth of suspected heroin during a traffic stop on the turnpike in Somerset County.
Quayln Cephis-Latimer, 22, and Rasheim London Wallace, 23, were arrested after a traffic stop at mile post 122 in Stonycreek Township by troopers from the state police criminal investigation drug unit.
It's believed the two were driving from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, said Somerset County District Attorney Lisa Lazzari-Strasiser.
Cephis-Latimer and Wallace were arraigned by on-call District Judge Sandra Stevanus of Confluence and sent to the Somerset County Jail.
The judge set bond at $250,000 for Cephis-Latimer and $100,000 for Wallace.
Authorities are testing the 7,500 stamp bags for traces of fentanyl, a synthetic morphine up to 100 times more powerful than heroin.
Fentanyl-laced heroin is being blamed for 22 overdose deaths in western Pennsylvania, state Attorney General Kathleen Kane said Friday.
The heroin blend, sold in bags stamped "Theraflu" and "Bud Ice," has been linked to a rash of fatal overdoses in and around Pittsburgh. Authorities believe bags marked "Sky High" might contain the same deadly mix of heroin and fentanyl.
"(These bags) did not have that marking but that doesn't mean it hasn't been tainted," Lazzari-Strasiser said. "Until we test it we won't know for sure."
Drug dealers may be "rebranding" the heroin now that the stamp names have been reported to be highly dangerous, Kane said in a statement.
Lazzari-Strasiser believes the deadly drug has found its way into Somerset County and may have resulted in one death already.
County Coroner Wallace Miller said there have been four suspected drug overdoses in the county since the start of this year. Authorities won't know if tainted heroin is to blame until tests are completed, which could take up to 10 weeks, he said.
"It is the intention of the state police to investigate the reported sale and possession of this deadly drug," Cpl. William Link of the Somerset barracks said in a news release.
Anyone with information on heroin use in Somerset County is being asked to call state police at 445-4104 or the Somerset County Drug Task Force at 1-866-609-9989.
Authorities in Cambria County also are hunting for the deadly drug but are unsure if has filtered into that area.
The Cambria County Drug Task Force and agents from the state Attorney General's Office have no indication the tainted heroin is being sold in the county, District Attorney Kelly Callihan said.
"That doesn't mean it's not here," she said. "It could be on its way here as we speak. The task force and the police departments are aware of how dangerous and potent it is."
Fentanyl is a painkiller typically used by cancer patients. Combined with heroin, it can be deadly.
"You have no idea what you're putting into your body," Lazzari-Strasiser said. "It's like playing Russian roulette."
Patrick Buchnowski is a reporter with The Tribune-Democrat. Follow him on twitter.com/PatBuchnowskiTD.


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Meadville Tribune
William W. Nourigat, 79, of Linesville, formerly of Pittsburgh, passed away Thursday, April 11, 2013.
Born Feb. 5, 1934, in Midway, Pa, he was a son of the late Albert and Margaret Cummins Nourigat and served our country in the U.S. Marines.
"Bill" was an avid sportsman who enjoyed fishing and hunting. He was a self-taught and extremely gifted artist and gardener.
To say that he was loved by many and will be dearly missed is an understatement. His passing has deeply saddened relatives and dear friends alike.
He was the beloved husband of Marlene (Cherry) Nourigat; loving father of Thomas "Billy" Nourigat of Linesville, Joseph Nourigat and his wife, Silke, of Germany and Cherrie' Neice of Pittsburgh; loving grandfather of Christopher and Dominic Nourigat of Germany, and James, Amber, Ashley and Isabella Neice of Pittsburgh; and dear brother of the late Fred Nourigat and Wilma Scott.
The family will receive friends on Friday from 10:30 a.m. to noon at which time a memorial service will be conducted at Royal-Coleman Funeral Home, 6028 U.S. Highway 6, Linesville, with Pastor Philip A. Torre of First Assembly of God in Meadville officiating. Full military honors will be provided by Huidekoper Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2006.
Family suggests memorials be sent to the Arc of Crawford County, 222 Chestnut St., Meadville, Pa. 16335.
Please share a condolence or memory of William for the family at royalcolemanfuneralhome.com.


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Honor Code
The Honor Code at Lynchburg College is based on the expectation that students will not lie, cheat, or steal in academic and non-academic matters. The Honor Code has a dual function of protecting both academic integrity and personal integrity.
Honor Pledge
Because the Honor Code is of central importance in the College community, every student is placed on his/her honor and is expected to adhere to the Lynchburg College Honor Pledge:
I understand the importance of honor in any community. Only by maintaining a strict standard of honor can we expect to achieve any measure of academic or social excellence. I, therefore, pledge that during my tenure as a student at Lynchburg College, I will not lie, cheat, or steal either in College affairs or in the environs of the College, nor tolerate such actions by fellow students.
Personal Integrity
The personal integrity section of the Honor Code includes the following A-level violations:
(A2.1) Lying: Any statement, action, or behavior with the intent to deceive or mislead
(A2.2) Stealing: Knowingly taking, appropriating, or carrying out actions to take or appropriate something that is not yours without the permission of the owner
(A2.3) Possession or use of false identification for any purpose, including purchase of alcoholic beverages
(A2.4) Eluding or Evading: Any statement, action, or behavior with the intent to prevent the truth from becoming known, including but not limited to running or hiding from College personnel and destroying evidence being sought
The standard sanction for a personal integrity infraction is suspension from the College; for more information, refer to the section titled Sanctioning Guidelines.
Academic Integrity
The academic integrity section of the Honor Code includes the following A-level violations:
(A1.1) Cheating: Using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information, or study aids in any educational exercise
(A1.2) Fabrication: Falsification or invention of any information or citation in an educational exercise
(A1.3) Facilitating Academic Dishonesty: Intentionally or knowingly helping or attempting to help another to violate any provision of the Academic Integrity Code
(A1.4) Plagiarism: Representing the ideas or language of another as one's own in any educational exercise. Read the Statement on Plagiarism.
Recognizing the difficulty of adjudicating academic violations, which can entail conflict between the rights of the accused and the faculty member's academic freedom rights, the following options are recommended:
Suggested action(s) by the faculty member
- Grant no credit for the examination or assignment in question (treat as a missed assignment).
- Assign a grade of "F" or score of zero for the examination or assignment in question.
- Recommend to the Office of the Vice President and Dean for Academic Affairs that the student be dropped immediately from the course with a grade of "F." This grade cannot be changed by student-initiated withdrawal.
- Meet with the student to confer about referral of the matter to the Office of the Dean of Students for review as a possible Honor Code infraction. If the faculty member refers the case to the Office of the Dean of Students, final grades for the academic work in question and for the course are not issued until disciplinary review of the matter is concluded. If the student is found not to have violated the Honor Code, then the professor must adhere to the disciplinary decision, grading the academic assignment as legitimate work. If the student is found responsible for having violated the Honor Code, then the professor may implement the grading options detailed in Parts 1, 2, and 3 above.
- When implementing Part 1, 2, or 3 above faculty are strongly encouraged to notify the Office of the Dean of Students that an academic integrity violation has occurred and that he/she has dealt with the incident. Such notification is necessary to identify recurring problems and to maintain accurate academic integrity records; however, no new action to address the violation will be taken by the Office of the Dean of Students.
- If the alleged violation occurs during final examinations, an Incomplete (grade not reported by instructor) shall be given to the student until the allegation is completely resolved.
Suggested action(s) by a student witness
- Address the student, encouraging him/her to report the infraction to the professor.
- Inform the professor of what was witnessed.
- Inform the Office of the Vice President and Dean for Academic Affairs of what was witnessed.
- Inform the Office of the Dean of Students of what was witnessed.
Action(s) by the Office of the Dean of Students
- Review the report of a possible academic integrity infraction in accordance with disciplinary procedures described in the Honor and Student Conduct Codes and Regulations.
- Resolve a charge of a possible Honor Code infraction through a judicial board hearing.
- If a student is found to be responsible for an academic integrity violation, the judicial board issues appropriate sanctions. The standard sanction for an academic integrity violation is suspension. However, mitigating and aggravating circumstances of the incident may affect the sanctions imposed. Expulsion may be issued for more serious circumstances, and lesser sanctions (typically not fewer than 50 hours of community service and a period of disciplinary probation, or the equivalent) may be issued for less serious circumstances.
- If the sanction of suspension issued for an academic integrity infraction is the student's second suspension from Lynchburg College, regardless of whether the previous suspension was imposed for academic or non-academic reasons, the second suspension constitutes expulsion from the College.


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Reese Moriyama '10 has won a national award from the University and College Designers Association (UCDA) for a series of photographs of Pacific athletes Moriyama shot in 2010. Only 196 Excellence Awards were given from nearly 1,300 entries in the 40th Annual UCDA Competition. His winning entry was on display at the annual UCDA Design Conference in October in Minneapolis.
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The Lorton Community Action Center provided more than 1,250 winter coats to 245 Lorton families at the Woodbridge Moose Lodge #583 on Tuesday night.
The coat drive was held on the busiest night for the LCAC's food pantry.
"You can't put a price on warmth," said Elizabeth R., who found coats for her husband and two children. "I was an executive assistant at Georgetown University Hospital and I was laid off four-and-a-half years ago, and since I'm not working I can't even shop at T.J. Maxx."
Many families are swallowing their pride to get help from the LCAC, said executive director Linda Patterson. "Many of our families don't want their friends and neighbors to know that they need help," she said. "We are having more and more famlies who are referring their friends and neighbors. We served 43 percent more people from July through September this year than we did over that same period last year. Last Tuesday night we served more than 80 families in our one-and-a-half hour time slot."
This year, 412 families requested Thanksgiving baskets, up from 308 families in 2011. The LCAC's Thanksgiving food basket drop-off is this Sunday, Nov. 18, from 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Click here to find out more about donating.
"It's really hard to be thankful when your basic needs aren't met," said Patterson. "The majority of our clients work more than one job. They work hard. They're school bus drivers, they work behind the counter at Target, drive our Metro buses, clean our offices and landscape our yards. They want the same life as us, which is a good life."


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Three new action-packed posters have been revealed for the Michael Bay-produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film, thus growing our anticipation for the Turtles' return to cinemas.
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The third entry in the "Best Man" series - this one titled "The Best Man Wedding" - has been greenlit by Universal following the box-office success of "The Best Man Holiday" last fall.http://www.hitfix.com
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Panera Bread expects to open its Huntington village restaurant this spring.
The newest Panera site is undergoing renovations at 354 W. Main St., in the space formerly housing Noma and Guido's restaurants. A Massa pizzeria shop is also preparing to open right next door. Both are accessible from the Clinton Avenue-Gerard Street municipal parking lot.
With its town permits in place, the company said this will be the 23rd Long Island site operate by Doherty Enterprises, Inc., franchisee for the Long Island Panera Bread.
"We consider this an ideal spot for Panera," said Greg George, vice president of operations for the Long Island bakery-cafes. "It's located right near the heart of the village, has great visibility and active foot traffic through town. In addition, this location will have a Community Room that can be reserved for free by clubs, organizations and not-for-profit groups looking for a gathering place."
The restaurant will also offer free wi-fi service.
"We strongly believe in supporting the communities we operate in," George said. Panera Bread makes daily donations of breads and pastries to Island Harvest, runs its annual Pink Ribbon Bagel campaign to help fund Long Island breast cancer charities, and provides donations of food to local fundraising events.
The chain said it expects to hire about 50-60 employees and will begin hiring about five weeks before the opening.
Panera opened a location in Syosset in July.


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By George Bremer
The Herald Bulletin
ANDERSON, Ind. — It's just the sort of move expected of Bill Belichick.
Sign a longtime member of the opponent's roster just days before a big game and pick his brain for intel.
With an AFC divisional playoff game looming against New England on Saturday, Colts head coach Chuck Pagano knew the questions would come. But he said Monday's addition of former Patriots wide receiver Deion Branch is about far more than subterfuge.
"Every decision we make is based on what's best for this team and what gives us the best chance to win," Pagano said during a previously scheduled conference call just moments after the signing was announced. "We just think we got one heck of a football player."
The numbers support that view.
Branch caught 328 passes for 4,297 yards and 24 touchdowns over seven seasons in New England. He was named MVP of the Patriots' Super Bowl XXXVIII victory against Carolina, catching 10 passes for 143 yards and one touchdown in just his third career playoff game.
Branch has 518 catches for 6,644 yards and 39 touchdowns in 12 seasons overall, including five with Seattle. In his only career game against the Patriots, he caught four passes for 88 yards and two touchdowns in a 24-21 home loss for the Seahawks on Dec. 7, 2008.
It's unclear how big a role Branch might play in Saturday's gameplan. He was signed in part because wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey left last week's win against Kansas City with a hamstring injury.
But Heyward-Bey lost his starting job to Da'Rick Rogers and hasn't had a reception since a Dec. 8 game in Cincinnati. And the Colts also promoted wide receiver Josh Lenz from the practice squad Monday, perhaps with an eye toward filling Heyward-Bey's increased role on special teams.
Pagano was coy about the team's plans for Branch, but he expressed confidence in the 34-year-old's ability.
"If you look just as far as bringing in a veteran guy that has played at a level that he has played at for such a long period of time, I don't see it how it can hurt you," the head coach said. "Again, we'll see how fast he picks up the terminology in the offense. We all know he's more than capable of making plays."
Indianapolis can use all the playmakers it can find against Belichick and Patriots defensive coordinator Matt Patricia. New England is known for its ability to take away a team's primary offensive weapon and can be expected to key on T.Y. Hilton on Saturday.
The second-year wide receiver set franchise playoff records with 13 catches and 244 yards in last week's epic 45-44 victory against Kansas City. It was Hilton's sixth game with at least 100 receiving yards this year and came on the heels of an 11-catch, 155-yard performance against Jacksonville in the regular season finale.
Hilton had six catches for 100 yards and two touchdowns as a rookie in last year's 59-24 road loss to the Patriots. So there's no chance he'll sneak up on Belichick and Patricia.
"I don't know if that's going to be the case, but if I were them I'd do everything in my power to stop T.Y.," Colts tight end Coby Fleener said. "I think it's a credit to T.Y. and the guys around me. They make my job so much easier. When you have a guy like T.Y. out there who just put up ridiculous numbers in our last game to help us win, 200-plus yards, you have to pay attention to guys like that.
"Ultimately, they kind of forget about guys like me, and it works out well for me."
Indianapolis offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton has done a good job recently of moving Hilton around in formations and forcing defenses to find him.
While it remains to be seen how big a role Branch might play in his Colts' debut, there's no question about Hilton's importance.
"I think that we need to get T.Y. open as much as possible," Fleener said. "He's a deep threat. He's quick enough underneath that he can get open underneath. To me, he's a very good wide receiver, and we need to do everything we can to get him the ball."


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ScHoolboy Q gets love from everyone he meets in the video for his new single, "There He Go." Directed by David M. Helman, the Cali spitter cruises the streets, signs autographs, and takes pictures with fans in the colorful clip. His fellow Black Hippy Kendrick Lamar also shows him love. The song is lifted from Q's latest album, Habits & Contradictions, available now on iTunes.
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Seven members of Watchung Hills Regional High School's Class of 2013 achieved Semifinalist standing in the 58th annual National Merit Scholarship Program competition. They are Katherine Dong Joshua Ehrenberg, Diana Liao, Audrey Luo, all of Warren; Alan Gou, Jessica Xu, both of Watchung, and Felix Kung, Millington.
The Merit honorees are among some 16,000 Class of 2013 students nationwide to have achieved Semifinalist status in the annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
Additionally, 24 members of Watchung Hills Class of 2013 were named Commended Students, in the top five percent nationwide of those taking the exam last fall. They are: Kayleigh Askin, Rohit Biswas, Daniel Codos, Rachel Hobble, Sheree Liu, Milonee Mehta, Brian Pester, Ujwal Rai, Lauren Sinski, Ryan Smith, all of Warren; Jackson Bahr, Timothy Carroll, Edward Chang, Casey Lane, Arjun Puranapanda, all of Watchung; Woo Chang, Kevin Chen, Jane Frank, Ari Goodman, Rohan Jadvani, Yitao Li, Matthew Piekarski, all of Green Brook; and Jessica Bethlahmy, Leanne Block, Millington. Each received a Letter of Commendation.
Last fall, more than 1.5 million juniors in about 22,000 high schools entered the 2013 National Merit Program by taking the 2011 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/ NMSQT), which served as an initial screen of program entrants. The nationwide pool of Semifinalists represents less than one percent of the nation's Class of 2013 graduates. As Semifinalists, they become eligible to advance in competition for some 8,300 Merit Scholarship awards, worth $32 million, to be distributed next spring. ( Semifinalist eligibility may differ from state to state, as the number of Semifinalists named in each state is proportional to the state's percentage of the national total of high school graduating seniors.
In order to proceed to Finalist standing, the Semifinalists must fulfill additional requirements. These include an outstanding academic record, the endorsement and recommendation of the school principal, and subsequent SAT scores that confirm their earlier (that is, Preliminary SAT) achievement. The Semifinalists and a school official must also submit a detailed scholarship application, which includes such items as the student's self-descriptive essay and information about the Semifinalist's participation and leadership in school and community activity.
Approximately 15,000 Semifinalists are expected to advance to the Finalist level, and it is from this group that all Merit Scholarship winners will be chosen. In addition to high scores on the second stage of testing ( the SAT), Merit Scholars are selected on the basis of their skills, accomplishments and potential for success in rigorous college studies, without regard to gender, race, ethnic origin, or religious preference.
Three types of Merit Scholarship will be offered in the spring of 2013. Every Finalist will compete for one of 2,500 National Merit $2500 Scholarships that will be awarded on a state representational basis. About 1,000 corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarships will be provided by some 240 corporations and business organizations for Finalists who meet their specified criteria, such as children of the grantors' employees or residents of communities where sponsor plants or offices are located. Thirdly: there are some 4, 800 college-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards for which only Finalists who will attend the sponsor institution are considered.
Merit Scholarship winners for 2013 will be announced nationwide from April to July next year. These scholarship recipients will join the ranks of more than 291,000 other distinguished young people who have earned the Merit Scholar title since the establishment of the Competition in 1955, say spokespersons for the Evanston, Illinois-based National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
By spotlighting the Semifinalists, the not-for-profit National Merit Scholarship Corporation hopes to increase the public's interest in academic excellence and to encourage support for the education of talented young people.


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Valle Crucis Park debuts Rootsfest June 15
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As if you needed another excuse to check out the Valle Crucis Community Park, here's one more: the inaugural Rootsfest, taking place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 15.
Admission is free, but parking is $5 per vehicle at the park and at nearby Valle Crucis Elementary School.
The event features local art and craft vendors, live music, games and activities for children and historical exhibits and demonstrations.
Children's activities include bounce houses, slides and old-fashioned carnival games. Activity tickets are $1 each or $15 for all day.
The event is a benefit to help fund the upkeep of the nonprofit, community-run park, which offers expansive fields and recreation facilities, Watauga River frontage, a wetlands area, covered pavilions, walking trail, summer concert series and more.
"We've always thought it would be a great venue for some kind of music and arts festival," said Caroline Gandy, executive director of the park.
Vendors' wares will include woodwork and rustic furniture, jewelry, soaps, home d�cor, paintings, pottery and more.
The Todd Wright Trio, Carolina Crossing and Sheets Family Band will perform, and Feastie Boys food truck will be on site.
Gandy said vendors may still apply to participate in the festival if they contact her this week.
For more information, call (828) 963-9239 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit http://www.vallecrucispark.com/rootsfest2013 for more information on the festival.


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CLINTON — More than two decades after it started shaping Clinton leaders, the Leadership Institute is making changes that will return the program to its core.
The Leadership Institute is put on annually by the Clinton Area Chamber of Commerce with the Leadership Committee guiding the program.
Unlike previous years, the class will not be expected to raise additional money in order to complete a class project. Projects in past years include lighting the bike path and the welcome sign for the city.
"The past classes of the Leadership Institute have done some phenomenal projects," Leadership Committee Co-chairman Nate Kreinbrink said. "Not that we want to take anything away from that, but I think re-evaluting the mission of the Leadership Institute and where we want to go with it we want to give people opportunities to choose to get involved in projects on their own."
Instead of raising money for a project, part of the $450 tuition fee will be held back for the class to use as seed money for a project if they choose.
Leadership Committee members, who are all alumni of the Leadership Institute, started ruminating the idea to eliminate the required project aspect a few years ago. Last year's class spending some of their project money to help the Convention and Visitors Bureau's new website solidified the idea.
"We want the project to be a want to more than a have to," Chamber President and CEO Nathan Sondgeroth said. "We want this to be an incubator and have that little bit of capital available to start the ball in motion."
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cgimodel: CGI Programming Made Easy with Python
The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a way in which you can let others from all over the world execute a program that resides on your computer. CGI is dynamic, since it runs in real time. You can decorate the CGI output with HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language). Most of the time, CGI is used as a front end for existing applications. CGI can be easy or complex, depending on the complexity of your project. Most CGI developers know the frustration which comes with debugging the CGI programs.
We present a very simple and robust way of doing CGI programming with Python. Debugging your CGI is easy, since you can do it on the command line, and integrating existing applications to work with CGI is just one step.
For our work, we chose Python, an object-oriented scripting language with a clear syntax. It is very easy to use, widely available and is free software.
Our intended audience is both experienced and novice CGI programmers. We will use the words "function" and "method" interchangeably. Note that CGI can be written in any computer language.
There are two ways of invoking CGI programs: through a URL with all data included, or by submitting HTML forms.
The two methods defined in HTTP to send your data to the CGI are GET and POST. When the method is GET, the CGI program gets the input from the QUERY_STRING environment variable. When the method is POST, the CGI program gets the input from standard input (STDIN). In both cases, one has to parse the input to obtain the input argument name,value pairs.
CGI may or may not be complicated, but when you have a larger application with many features, you might have problems in testing, debugging, etc. This is true with all software projects. Debugging becomes problematic with CGIs. For example, when the method is GET, you have to set up environment variables QUERY_STRING and REQUEST_METHOD. When the method is POST, you must set up REQUEST_METHOD and CONTENT_LENGTH (number of bytes) to read from standard input (STDIN). Moreover, when your program crashes, it is not visible to your browser—you do not know what happened. The only message you get in this situation is the error report made by the web server.
You can use either of these methods (GET/POST) depending on your need. If you will be sending more data to CGI, use the POST method. When you have less data to be sent to CGI, use GET to put all the data inside the URL. For example, on one line, type:
cgimodel
With HTML FORMS (for POST method), the same would be
<FORM METHOD="post" ACTION="/cgi-bin/cgimodel.py"> <INPUT TYPE=hidden name=fun value=DisplayFile> <INPUT TYPE=hidden name=fileName value=cgimodel.py> <INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE="cgimodel"> </FORM>We all know the difficulties of and have adopted different styles for debugging CGI programs. Our intention is to build CGI that does not work in the traditional way, but like other programs which work on the command line. This means you can test your CGI the way you test any other program on the command line. When it works on the command line, it is guaranteed to exhibit the same behavior on the Web.
Let us see how we can make life easier with cgimodel, which lets you integrate your existing application in an elegant way without much hassle. Basically it consists of two modules: cgimodel.py (see Listing 1) and cgidisp.py (see Listing 2).
cgimodel.py is a wrapper to Python's CGI module. It also encapsulates reading from the command line, so there is no real difference in invoking from HTML FORMS or a URL or the command line.
The CollectArgs function in the cgimodel.py module takes care of collecting arguments including name,value parameters from CGI or the command line. On the UNIX command line, you can supply the name,value parameters like this:
-name1 value1 -name2 value2
or like this:
name1 value1 name2 value2The same is true for both URL and FORMS.
You do not have to modify anything in cgimodel.py. You just have to use it. The main section of cgimodel contains the following lines:
d = Dispatcher() parDict = CollectArgs(parDict) print mime_html fun=parDict['fun'] if not fun: print "usage: cgimodel -fun functionName" d.ShowAvailableFunc() TraceIt(parDict) else: try: d.dispatch(fun,parDict) except: TraceIt(parDict)
cgimodel.py tries to call the function you have given as an argument to the parameter -fun.
When there is no such function available, it tells you the names of functions that can be called. If there is an exception (because of a syntax error, etc.) in the program, the exception will be traced back and reported. You can use this feature to e-mail the exception to yourself and make your CGI program more stable.
Phospho.ELM: a database of phosphorylation sites—update 2008 Francesca Diella, Cathryn M. Gould, Claudia Chica, Allegra Via, and Toby J. Gibson Nucleic Acids Res. . 2008 January; 36(Database issue): D240–D244. Published online 2008 January. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkm772. PMCID: PMC2238828 Phospho.ELM: A database of experimentally verified phosphorylation sites in eukaryotic proteins Francesca Diella, Scott Cameron, Christine Gemünd, Rune Linding, Allegra Via, Bernhard Kuster, Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén, Nikolaj Blom, and Toby J Gibson BMC Bioinformatics. . 2004; 5: 79. Published online 2004 June 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-5-79. PMCID: PMC449700 SIRW: a web server for the Simple Indexing and Retrieval System that combines sequence motif searches with keyword searches Chenna Ramu Nucleic Acids Res. . 2003 July 1; 31(13): 3771–3774. PMCID: PMC168953 ELM server: a new resource for investigating short functional sites in modular eukaryotic proteins Pål Puntervoll, Rune Linding, et.al., Nucleic Acids Res. . 2003 July 1; 31(13): 3625–3630. PMCID: PMC168952 Gene2EST: a BLAST2 server for searching expressed sequence tag (EST) databases with eukaryotic gene-sized queries Christine Gemünd, Chenna Ramu, Brigitte Altenberg-Greulich, and Toby J. Gibson Nucleic Acids Res. . 2001 March 15; 29(6): 1272–1277. PMCID: PMC29756
The points is it solves the
The points is it solves the problem of debugging cgi's,
since you can do it on the command line. But isn't
that unix/linux specific ? Will it work for windows?
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The author has done a very good job of designing a fantastic framework for cgi's. I am now writing cgi's with python!
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Springfield, MO (For OzarksSportsZone.com) -- The Marionville Comets held off a couple of late challenges in the closing seconds and edged the Greenfield Wildcats 61-59 in a non-conference Tuesday night matchup.Greenfield led 29-28 at the half on the strength of a press defense that led to a 3-pointer by junior Brendan Black with 11 seconds left in the second quarter.
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Videos: PhoneArena's 2 Part review of the Nokia N8 – a good phone? Of course it is, we'd even go so far to say it's a GR8 phone
PhoneArena reviews the N8 wondering if it lives up to all the hype.
- Design wise, N8 feels extremely solid – good weighting behind it.
- Flat top and bottom edge – we were dubious at first but it really helps when picking up the handset.
- AMOLED colours are really vibrant and pixel density is good.
- In direct sunlight it's still perfectly usable – though gloss may prevent from watching movies.
- CAMERA – Nokia says this could double up as a compact camera replacement – let's see if it does later on…
- Overall, we really like feel of the N8 – due to the non removable battery, Nokiia have made it more refined – feeling solid dense and secure in the process.
- S^3 doesn't feel different enough or more to the point, LOOK different enough [oh boy here we go, ]
- Very happy with the music player – it has been rethought through. Once opened, immediately brought to artists and albums – no wading through menu as these are all available within one click from the menu.
- Album art and song integration list – really great idea – makes one handset scrolling a real pleasure
- Loudspeaker is a littlebit tinny and not good for prolonged use
- Photo viewer loads up extremely quickly. Given that these photos were taken by the 12MP camera, we're really impressed by this.
- There's absolutely no lag – really happy that this makes the N8 a really good photo viewer and sharer.
- Keyboard layout much improved – in portrait, half the screen is now for your message
- In landscape, keyboard is extremely usable, with a lot of superfluous icons taken away. (ODD, this is something eve Steve Litchfield has issues with)
- Video playback – thoroughly impressed with the N8′s codec support – it just works seamlessly.
- Really great, N8 can double up as a media hub through HDMI – Really is a multimedia solution for all occasions.
- [quite a big general overview on the camera.]
- Web pages loaded on N8 well, but S^3 browser quite jerky. We're sure Nokia is going to remedy this in the future. We found ourselves switching to Opera Browser, even forgoing pinch to zoom
- USB – to go functionality is fantastic.
- Overall S^3 is a little bit of a let down, whilst it does do a good job of anything it does and doesn't royally stuff up anywhere, design wise it's just not pretty. [woohoo, come on style over substance]
- When iOS and Android are stealing the show are making us want to use it, Symbian is lagging behind a bit, not paying enough credence to design which to this day and age is becoming increasingly important
- N8 a good phone? Of course it is, we've even go so far as to say it's a great phone.
- One of the best if not the best camera we've seen on a mobile phone [the latter boys]
Whilst we can argue about S^3 usability, in terms of Symbian as a whole, erm YES Symbian ARE paying attention to design of their UI. That's why there is S^4 – but good to know that whilst achieving all the functionality through the current UI with a rating of "good job" is deemed a fail, for the intended market – this should be more than enough and the N8 will satisfy through the host of multimedia features with a decent UI that pulls it off without frustration – leading to MOST importantly, an excellent overall USER EXPERIENCE of the ENTIRE handset.
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Oh mistake, n8 will be in singapore end of NOVEMBER, well done NOkia!
Long live
Oh mistake, n8 will be in singapore end of NOVEMBER, well done NOkia!
Long live
so glad to see all these good reviews for the n8
but it also makes me more impatient in my wait for one
and it also makes me hungry to read more about it its like a curse
so glad to see all these good reviews for the n8
but it also makes me more impatient in my wait for one
and it also makes me hungry to read more about it its like a curse
hi Jay. I wanted to tell you that yesterday I signup to ovi store to publish one of my software, and the signup now costs 1 EUR , not 50EUR like it was a month ago. Cool huh? maybe you can write a post because I think there are a lot of people who might be interested.
hi Jay. I wanted to tell you that yesterday I signup to ovi store to publish one of my software, and the signup now costs 1 EUR , not 50EUR like it was a month ago. Cool huh? maybe you can write a post because I think there are a lot of people who might be interested.
really ? i must check this out , sounds good to me cant beat 1 Euro.
YEAH i can confirm it
1 eur/1 time!
What is your software name? Is it on the ovi store already? I'd like to try it.
not quite. it's in beta stage. I will submit it in about 1 -2 weeks. Thanks for asking
Thanks for the heads up Jim
The GR8 N8
this is a best review so far, bravo!
cant believe you agree with keyboard being good. For qwerty keyboard you have to turn to landscape everytime.. why not qwerty in potrait mode? And to show up the qwerty keyboard in landscape takes few seconds and with more apps installed..it might take even longer… grrrrrrr.
and why not keyboard use overlay – not to cover up the screen you are on.
he said good, and improved from S60v5, not great, or magical, or anything…
Try Swype
This would give you qwerty in portrait mode
other phones did this too, i think it was either samsung or htc and you needed an app/hack to get qwerty in portrait
I think they left out the QWERTY keyboard in portrait mode to improve out-of-the-box usability: for one-handed, thumb-oriented usage, the T9 keypad is much more fit than a portrait QWERTY.
The 5800 had the overlayed mini-QWERTY mode, and I remember that many phone reviews of the time labeled it as "unuseful".
I agree with you that anyway portrait QWERTY should be offered as an option, especially for those use cases where T9 is less suitable, such as entering URLs.
My bet is that Nokia will fix many issues with subsequent firmware updates: the N8 has to get Qt 4.7, which has already been released but was not in time for the N8 shipment, and a new web browser has been promised to appear IIRC before the winter… I'd say that a multitouch virtual keyboard could have some chances of sneaking in, too.
Wasn't Nokia saying that they want the N8 to be perfect when they release it. I believe firmware upgrades should be fixing any missed bugs but not to add important features.
qwerty potrait keyboard, nice default browser, and nice transitions is what is missing to attract US customers.. ofcourse a carrier contract..
Any improvement in widgets?
Size of Email, calender widgets should be able to extended to size of two, three, four or five widgets to contain more useful information and contents
the clock-profile widget should not be fixed!
Calender should not be like n97 style!
Music palyer should show more infromation
there should be a widget to slide to unlock the screen!
How about a quicknote widget?
How about a game in widget?
How about you be patient and wait for S^4 if you're not happy with S^3.
Re slide to unlock: if you don't like the dedicated unlock switch, you can unlock the screen by pressing the Menu button and then tapping the on-screen unlock button that appears.


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