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Back to school = back to bento-making. I'm not going to lie, I did enjoy my little break from making school lunches. It was nice to get back to routine this week too though. The kids NEEDED to get back to routine. Here are some recent bento boxes I've made, as well as a couple new boxes!
Here's a fun new bento box I got for Kirsten's morning nutrition break. It's a circle-dome shaped box with 2 tiers each with their own lid to keep everything separate. It also comes with an included ice pack that fits on the inside to help keep everything cold! In the top tier I put a sliced cereal bar, and in the bottom tier I put flower-cut cantaloupe and kiwi with some blackberries. I used a cute flower stem pick in it too! Kirsten loves this new container!
Here's another colourful bento for my kiddo's morning nutrition break. One tier held a lovely fruit salad with orange segments, raspberries, plums and a cute pick. The other tier held rectangle silicone muffin cups with a sliced granola bar and alphabet pretzels.
This was a fun lunch packed in our Easylunchbox for the kiddos afternoon nutrition break. I used a dino sandwich cutter to make the sandwich (it makes 2, so each kid got one). I also added a cute little sun made of cheese and carrot. The other sections held a silicone muffin cup filled with yogurt covered pretzels and sliced cucumbers with an adorable tree trunk pick.
For those who love their EasyLunchboxes, they've come out with 4 new bright colours:
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Here's another fun new bento box I bought. It's an adorable froggy-shaped box with an included froggy ice pack that goes on top. It's really awesome and the kids have really enjoyed this box. It has 2 tiers – 1 tier held a circle-cut sandwich with a keroppi the frog (from Helly Kitty) on top. I also snuck in a few baby tomatoes and pretzel twists. The other tier held flower cut cucumbers and carrots.
And lastly, a bento for the kids morning nutrition break packed in our favourite steeltainer. One section held a rectangle silicone muffin cup with a sliced granola bar, and the other section held flower-cut cantaloupe with a cute pick!
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While purchasing plane tickets we were having a bit of sticker shock. Five tickets to Africa don't exactly come cheap. On Tuesday night Chad and I were having a conversation about paying for this adoption. Our goal all along has been to have a debt free adoption. When seeing the price of airfare and other things I started to doubt if this was even possible. But my God is faithful and his plan is perfect. When Chad and I have reached difficult times throughout this process financial and others we have said that this is what God has told us to do and he will direct us. That he did this week. The day after having airfare sticker shock we received a letter from an organization called Show Hope. It was informing us that we had received and adoption grant. Overwhelmed. That is what I was. Overwhelmed by His Glory, Faithfulness, and Love. It has been amazing to see just how God has provided and met all of our families needs. To Him be the Glory for this.
And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus. To our God and Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen. Philippians 4: 19-20As soon as one prayer request is answered another arises. We were not able to purchase tickets for the girls on the flight home. This is because we do not know their birthdays, something needed to buy plane tickets. We know they are around 2 years of age. If they turn 2 after we arrive home we will not need to purchase them their own seat. We can just purchase them a lap seat which is what we did with Nolen. A lap ticket is about $1,000 cheaper than a regular airplane ticket home. The way it is now if they turn 2 in Africa we will have to purchase them last minute one way tickets. Our prayer is that we will know when their birthdays are so we can make this decision not at the last minute. Financially it would be great if they didn't have their birthday until we got home.
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L.A. Reid's "Over 25" contestant Tate Stevens, 37, is the winner of season 2. He's a dad of two and a road worker from Missouri.
After performing live one last time the night before, Britney Spears's contestant Carly Rose Sonenclar and Simon Cowell's Fifth Harmony vied with Stevens for the $5 million recording contract.
"First and foremost I got to thank the man upstairs for taking care of me, my family, all the country music fans – God bless you," he said after hearing the results. "Thank you so much for all the votes. This is the best day of my life."
L.A. said, "You deserve this. I'm proud to work with you. I think you represent The X Factor really, really well. So on behalf of Simon and myself and all the judges, congratulations."
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BASCOM - Born in Bascom, Wayne Hoover still resides in his hometown. A graduate of Hopewell-Loudon Schools and Heidelberg College, he was a biology major with education certification and taught for 15 years. Hoover and his first wife had been married 48 years before her death in 2003. Seven of their children are living and one is deceased. He also has 14 grandchildren.
"I had a great marriage. She was a wonderful woman," Hoover said.
In 2006, he and his second wife were married. She is from Fostoria and has eight children and 26 grandchildren. Hoover's current wife and her first husband were married on the same day as Hoover and his first wife.
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The first pavilion was built in 1901 by Samuel Sneath.
The second ballroom, built in 1934, which still stands.
The merry-go-round at Meadowbrook Park as it looked in the 1940s.
Many local people know Hoover as a member of Sts. Patrick and Andrew Parish in Bascom, as the former fiscal officer for Hopewell Township, and for the tax service business he and his wife operated for more than 25 years. He also served four years on the Hopewell-Loudon Board of Education and 14 years on the Seneca County Board of Elections. He retired in 2005.
In addition, Hoover has strong connections to Meadowbrook Park.
Recently, he compiled a Power Point program about Meadowbrook, where he worked as a college student and later as park manager. Hoover gave the first presentation for a farm women's organization at St. Andrew Church. An antique club in Tiffin also invited him to address their group, and he gave it twice for the Appreciation Day festivities at the park in April. Deb Tiell and her business sponsor the annual free community event for more than 500 people.
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By the 1970s, many of the manufacturing companies had been shuttered, and the number of picnics at Meadowbrook Park decreased. The rides were shut down and removed from the park.
The merry-go-round had operated at Meadowbrook from 1944-75. With only a canvas top, it had been exposed to the elements and neglected during the park's receivership. The chickens, horses, dogs and pigs from the ride were taken off the frame and sold at auction.
Wayne Hoover, former park manager, said the ride had been built in 1908 by the Hershell-Spillman Co. of North Tonawanda, N.Y.
Wayne Coffman of Tiffin, whose father Michael Coffman once had owned the merry-go-round, bought the mechanism from the ride and stored it for a number of years. In 1999, Coffman sold the works to Todd Goings of Marion.
Goings restored the motor and frame.
"He sold it to the city of North Bay, Ontario, which is north of Toronto. A gentleman in Missoula, Mont., hand-carved 26 horses for that carousel. Two years ago, I took a trip up to see it. I took my wife and three other people with me," Hoover said.
Other local artisans carved nine more horses for the merry-go-round. Hoover knew where the the ride had gone, but a chance meeting in southeast Texas with an Ontario resident revealed additional information about the carousel.
"One evening, we were at a local VFW and I saw a fellow with a jacket on that said on the back of it, 'North Bay, Ontario,'" Hoover said.
When Hoover spoke to him, the man said he lived about 20 miles away from the town, but his wife knew of the carousel and its location. Hoover gave the man his contact information and asked the couple, if they ever were in North Bay, to send him a few photographs. A few months later, they wrote him a note and sent a coloring book with drawings of the new horses and a bit of history about the ride.
"It is beautiful. I can remember it as a kid. I rode it as a kid, and I remember it very well," Hoover said.
In its new life, the merry-go-round has a roof to protect it from the elements.
Thirty-three hand-carved, hand-carved horses, two chariots, and a spinning tub now occupy the deck. Local artists have painted the band organ and the center panels of the ride with murals of Ontario scenes.
Owned by Heritage Railway and Carousel Co., the carousel opened in 2002.
"I was there. I've seen it. I know it's there and I know where it came from," Hoover said.
"I've been associated with Meadowbrook for many, many years. I worked there through school. ... That place put me through Heidelberg with employment. Then, I managed it a couple years in 1958 and '59 after I graduated from Heidelberg. I went back there in the very early '70s and spent 14 years there, from that point," Hoover said. "I enjoyed my time at the park. I enjoyed my time at the board of elections. The people I worked with, the other members of the board, were good people and good board members."
Hoover's program reviews historical highlights of Meadowbrook, which can be traced to 1898. That year, Tiffin banker Samuel Sneath opened the Tiffin, Fostoria and Eastern Railway, or the Interurban. His wife, an active conservationist, encouraged him to create a park adjacent to the streetcar station. This was a common practice to attract weekend riders.
Sneath built a pavilion, picnic area and baseball diamond on the north side of Wolf Creek. The pavilion served food and offered stage shows, dancing and other entertainment.
In 1925, the pavilion burned.
In 1929, James Garfield Haugh, who owned Gem Manufacturing, purchased the property and established the park on the opposite side of the creek. The 180- by 60-foot pool was constructed at an estimated cost of $40,000. Instead of rebuilding Sneath's pavilion on the same spot, Haugh replaced it with a dance hall on the site of the current ballroom.
A raised wooden walkway led across the creek to the dance hall, which featured an enclosed promenade around the perimeter of the building. The ballroom had a low ceiling and a fence that stretched beneath the arches to separate the dance floor from the promenade.
A fire destroyed that structure in 1932, and Haugh died in 1933.
"The ballroom that's there was completed in 1934. they were in the process of rebuilding it when Mr. Haugh passed away," Hoover said.
Haugh had incorporated the park and issued 50 shares of stock. Of those, he had kept 47 and placed the others with three individuals. They took charge of the park until 1948. Haugh's will designated his shares in the park be given to "the Bascom community."
"Bascom is unincorporated. It has no mayor. It's just a part of the township," Hoover said. "When he willed those shares to Bascom, he set up a charitable trust that was administered by Seneca County Probate Court."
The owners continued to collect a 25-cent park admission at a small ticket booth near the entrance. They also kept improving the area with a wading pool, picnic shelters and other additions.
Hoover said the existing Maple Shelter, near the swimming pool, is the only original structure still standing. All the others have been replaced with more modern shelters with electricity and paved floors.
Starting in 1936, drive-in movies were shown twice a week, just south of the pool. Admission was 25 cents a carload. Hoover remembered going to the movies with his grandparents. "Ed's Movie Cruiser" provided the films into the 1960s.
"There was a fellow by the name of Ed Ramsey. He came from Plymouth, Ohio. He had a van truck with two projectors in there. The park had a screen, right up there by the roadway. He used to come in there on Monday and Thursday night and he would show a double feature. Of course, he always had a serial in between them," Hoover said.
The park went through many phases to reflect the popular entertainment trends. In 1940, a beauty pageant took place at the ballroom, which also offered roller skating for a number of years. Big bands were brought in for Saturday night dances.
Early on, the dance hall had no tables and chairs. Hoover said patrons had to sit on benches in the promenade when they needed a rest or refreshments.
Also during that period, Clayton Decker and the Red Shirts played every Sunday night. No alcohol was permitted, and round and square dancing took place. Hoover said the band was paid $65 for their services. Decker received $15 and the other six musicians each got $10.
"In 1963, we celebrated the 25th anniversary of them playing there. They started in 1938. The last member of that band just passed away this summer - Glen Croy. He was 94 years old," Hoover said.
The Red Shirts played at Meadowbrook for 33 years. Hoover said Decker lived in Tiffin and worked at American Standard. The band leader called the square dances and played the bass fiddle. Whenever the band performed at other venues, Decker would always remind the crowd his group played 8:30-11:30 Sunday nights at Meadowbrook.
"When I was in high school, he used to bring his band over for two or three dances a year. He would play, and he taught us how to square dance. Anyway, he tried," Hoover said. "If we screwed up, he would just stop the music and come out there and show us what to do."
During the 1940s and '50s, the park hosted numerous company picnics, so the owners added a boat ride on the creek and amusement rides, such as the Lindy Loop, giant slide, The Whip, a merry-go-round and others.
"There's a little train that ran in the west woods, where we now have camping. There was a ferris wheel.
"The merry-go-round, when it was at Meadowbrook, just had a canvas top on it at that time," Hoover said.
While Hoover managed the park in the late 1950s, he had the fence removed from the ballroom to make room for tables and chairs for receptions. He remembered the Fostoria VFW had a band that used to play three or four times a year at Meadowbrook for a few years. Their 14-piece big band could draw a crowd of 600 people. The proceeds were used for a scholarship fund.
Maintaining the park gradually became a financial burden to the three men who owned it. They went bankrupt, and Meadowbrook was placed in receivership for 10 years.
One of the three park trustees knew of Hoover's history with Meadowbrook and approached him in 1970 to suggest Hopewell Township take charge of the park. Attracted to the 60 acres of farmland that came with it, the township trustees approved of the transaction.
"I was the fiscal officer of the township for 24 years, and it was during that time the township was able to take over Meadowbrook," Hoover said. "I'm very pleased to say that I had a lot to do with getting that done."
The township worked with Seneca County Probate Court Judge George Forrest to transfer the 47 shares of stock, along with the farm acreage, to Hopewell Township. At that point, Hoover was named park manager, a title he held for 14 years. He always tried to pay it forward by employing young people trying to finance a college education, as he once had done.
One of Hoover's early projects was to remove the ticket booth and do away with the entrance fee. The township wanted the park to be free and open to the public.
The amusement rides were removed in the 1970s. Along with the park, the township received equipment for township use. Even better, Meadowbrook became eligible to obtain government grant money, which had not been an option for the private owners. Many of the grants came through the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
"We did take advantage of that, and we are still taking advantage of that. I wrote the first grant in 1979 and, in 1980, we renovated that swimming pool with a 50-percent federal grant. It cost us a lot of money," Hoover said. "We took out part of the bottom and deepened it and put new stainless steel sides all the way around. It was all concrete originally. ... The project, when we renovated it, was estimated at $245,000. We had to supply half of that money."
Hoover was able to get the job done under budget at $214,000, and local residents were able to match the grant amount. Hoover said Meadowbrook has been awarded other grants since then to maintain and update the grounds and buildings.
"Since I retired, they've kept on and done a wonderful job. I'm really proud of those guys. ... They put all new windows in that ballroom. Those were all wooden windows, and they put all new vinyl windows in there- double pane. They put a new heating system in there with air conditioning and new handicapped restrooms," Hoover said.
Starting in the 1970s, the demand for campsites increased. Cyclists who were biking across the country often stopped at the park. Hoover said he would let them camp there at no charge and take showers in the bath house.
"Of course, we'd sit and talk with them a lot of times. We would give those bike riders a card and tell them, 'When you get to where you're going, send us the card to tell us you made it,'" Hoover said.
In 1980, a cyclist wanted to buy a Meadowbrook T-shirt, but Hoover didn't have the right size. When the shirts came in, Hoover notified him with a picture postcard of the park. In 2011, that same postcard, with Hoover's signature on it, appeared on e-Bay for sale. One of Hoover's grandsons bought it for $12 and gave it to his grandfather for Christmas.
The park only had 36 campsites in 1970. By the time Hoover left the manager's position, Meadowbrook had 250 campsites. Camping continues to be the park's main source of income.
"Now we've gone more to seasonals, where we rent them for the whole season. I think we've got 180 of those now that we fill," Hoover said.
Meadowbrook Park has begun a campaign to make the swimming pool more handicapped-accessible. Proceeds from the Woody Hayes show Nov. 1 are to be used for this project.
In addition to the weddings, receptions and parties, the park is open for people going there to walk, swim, have picnics or use the playground. The Meadowbrook memorabilia Hoover collected over the years now decorates his home and appears in his historical program.
"It was my life for a period of time. That's why I kept all these things. Now, I enjoy giving this little program to people. They just need to call me," he said.
Wayne Hoover can be reached at (419) 937-2384.


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NIAGARA FALLS – Several vehicles were damaged in unrelated incidents over the weekend and on Monday, including a vehicle owned by a hotel security guard, city police reported.
The security guard at the Quality Inn told police that sometime between 11 p.m. Sunday and 6 a.m. Monday someone smashed a driver's side window in his Dodge Nitro and threw his belongings around the car, while it was parked in a hotel lot on First Street. Nothing was reported missing. Damage was pegged at $250. The guard said he will check area surveillance video.
Between midnight and 6 a.m. Monday in the 100 block of 17th Street, a woman told police all four tires on her Buick Rendezvous were slashed. Damage was estimated at $400.
A woman in the 2400 block of Ontario Avenue told police Monday that sometime over the weekend someone poured a white substance, apparently sugar, in her gas tank, causing $300 worth of damage.
A woman in the 2900 block of Main Street said he heard the sound of breaking glass at 4:30 p.m. Monday and found that someone had smashed every window, except the front driver's side window, on her cousin's Pontiac Bonneville, while it was parked in a rear lot at her apartment. Damage was estimated $1,500. The woman said she saw a suspect in a maroon Chrysler Sebring with Virginia plates strike the vehicle and then leave the area.
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Abstract: Company performance is increasingly affected by a range of external factors embedded in a complex network of action controlled by other companies' in its environment. A well managed company, it's argued, is one that is aware of these external factors, and one who in response seeks to implement tactics maximizing own influence and control over them. Information gathering and model building are tactics normally used in this effort. However, in this article we discuss a third tactic, the tactic of attraction in dyadic relationships. Founded on the theory of social exchange and based on literature reviews on long-term-orientation in relationships and relationship value we develop a conceptual model highlighting the components of attraction in business to business relationships. First we demonstrate how the force of attraction can be understood as partners expected relationship value and how expected relationship value in turn is strengthened or weakened by partner- comfortability and dependability. Then we show how partners perceived attraction towards an industrial company can be managed using a combination of structural- and behavioral adjustments. Key words: Inter-organizational relationships; Relationship Management; Relationship-value; Attraction. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6293
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HAGERSTOWN - Music director Elizabeth Schulze and the Maryland Symphony Orchestra will kick off the holiday season with its 25th annual "Home for the Holidays" concerts on Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. at the historic Maryland Theatre in downtown Hagerstown.
This year's special guests will be Robert Tudor, baritone; Russell Iceberg, violinist; Northern Middle School Women's Ensemble; and, Hagerstown Choral Arts. And it wouldn't be an MSO Christmas celebration without the popular yuletide sing-along led by Jolly Old Saint Nick himself.
Musical highlights will include Winter Wonderland, White Christmas, March of the Kings, O Holy Night, The Christmas Song, Gloria, Christmas Festival, Mary's Lullaby, March of the Toys and Sleigh Ride.
Robert Tudor is the director of vocal activities and chair of the Department of Music at Shepherd University. Praised by The Washington Post for his "powerful singing voice" and "notable acting skills," Tudor has performed opera, musical theatre, cabaret, and concert works throughout the United States. Hagerstown Choral Arts, under the direction of Gregory Shook, was founded in 1993 as an auditioned, community-based volunteer chorus dedicated to bringing the highest level of choral music to Hagerstown. Nicole Swartwood is the Director of the Northen Middle School Women's Ensemble which is comprised of approximately 20 seventh- and eighth-grade students. Violinist Russell Iceberg is the most recent winner of an MSO competition to select a soloist for its annual Youth Concert. He is a home-schooled senior from New Market, and has played the violin since he was 4 years of age.
Tickets for the concert are $25 for adults, $18 for students and $12 for children, 12 years and younger. They may be purchased online, in person at 30 W. Washington St. (today and Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.), or by calling 301-797-4000. The MSO also offers special rates for groups of 10 or more. For more information, please call the MSO office.
"Home for the Holidays" is sponsored by M&T Bank.
The Maryland Symphony Orchestra is also supported by a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency dedicated to cultivating a vibrant cultural community where the arts thrive.
The Maryland Symphony Orchestra is the area's premier professional orchestra, dedicated to providing musical performances that educate and entertain while enhancing the cultural environment of Western Maryland and the surrounding region.


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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's promised "Buffalo Billion" economic-development program, outlined during his visit here Tuesday, doesn't contain any quick fixes.
Instead, the plan takes a patient approach that focuses on building support centers for local businesses and funding programs that will help the Buffalo Niagara region become a bigger player in targeted industries, from advanced manufacturing to health and life sciences to tourism.
"Those are the three sectors that have been identified as having the greatest potential to create jobs and spur wealth creation," said Howard A. Zemsky, co-chairman of the Western New York Regional Economic Development Council, which drafted the plan over the last year.
Part of the life sciences plan revolves around an Albany company, Albany Molecular Research, which is getting $50 million in state money to open a $250 million drug research, development and testing center on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. The center, which is expected to employ 250 people, would receive $35 million for new equipment and $15 million to improve existing lab space.
Other parts of the plan are likely to take years to fully develop. "Our plan for the $1 billion focuses on the long term and sustainability," Zemsky said. "There are no silver bullets; we've learned that."
The plan also seeks to take advantage of what council officials believe are some of the region's competitive advantages over other parts of the United States – and other countries – to develop a concentration of expertise that could turn Western New York into a magnet for firms in those targeted sectors.
"We need to jump-start the Western New York economy because it has been a long time coming," said Cuomo, who did not back away from the $1 billion commitment, despite the increased financial strain on state funds because of the damage from Superstorm Sandy.
"It's a lot of money in this environment because there is no money in this environment," he said.
The regional plan, which does not yet include specific funding allocations, is centered on several initiatives that council officials hope will help lay the groundwork for future growth, including:
• For manufacturers, it means focusing on more sophisticated factories that rely on skilled workers, trained through local workforce-development programs, to make products for industries that also can tap into the expertise at local universities.
The plan looks to build on the region's strength in ceramics manufacturing, while also capitalizing on local expertise in chemicals, along with university-based research on clay, rubber and plastics.
• In health and life sciences, it looks to build on plans for a new children's hospital and the medical research now being done at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, along with the planned move of the University at Buffalo Medical School to the Medical Campus. It means stepping up efforts to turn the $350 million in science-related academic research that is done in the region into thriving, well-funded businesses that can create good-paying jobs.
"This is health care on steroids," said John R. Koelmel, president and CEO of First Niagara Bank and a member of the development council. "It's really good business."
• In tourism, it means finding ways to persuade the 8 million people who visit Niagara Falls each year to stay for more than a few hours. A bigger marketing budget, which at $4.25 million is less than half what Cincinnati spends on tourism and just a third of what Pittsburgh spends, is one part of the plan, as is a study to find out why tourists come to the Falls and why they don't stay longer.
In addition, the plan envisions improvements for the downtrodden area within three blocks of the falls and is expected to include a contest to seek ideas for a project located on a key parcel of land near the state park, Mayor Paul A. Dyster said.
• There also would be a contest aimed at budding entrepreneurs to compete for up to $500,000 to help turn their ideas into a business. It would help address one of the region's nagging problems: Despite the high level of research conducted here, the region attracts very little venture capital, frequently forcing entrepreneurs to locate elsewhere to find the funding and the support they need.
"We have a lot of risk capital investors who get on a plane to do their jobs," said Teo Ballbach, a principal at Mercury Capital Partners, a Buffalo venture capital firm that specializes in media investments. "We have a lot of entrepreneurs who get on a plane to raise capital."
• The plan also includes a Better Buffalo Fund that would help finance economic- and community-development initiatives within the city, from improvements along the Fruit Belt-Michigan Avenue corridor to investments around the Central Park neighborhood, while also aiding initiatives in housing and transportation improvements.
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December 9, 2011
Anna J. Fiano, senior mathematics major and finance minor of Connellsville has been named to the 2011 edition of Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges and was recognized as an outstanding campus leader during the annual Saint Vincent College Founders' Day Vespers and Honors Convocation Thursday, November 17 in the Archabbey Basilica. Ms. Fiano, daughter of Chris and Jane Fiano, is a team leader of Activities Programming Board and served as the Student Government Association Executive Board Vice President. She served as treasurer of Alpha Lambda Delta and is a member of Orientation Committee, Respect Life Club, and Italian Club. She is a 2008 graduate of Geibel Catholic High School. The Who's Who students are selected by campus nominating committees and editors of the annual directory on the basis of their academic achievement, service to the community, leadership in extracurricular activities and potential for continued success. They join an elite group of students selected from more than 2,300 institutions of higher learning in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and several foreign nations. Outstanding students have been honored in the annual directory since it was first published in 1934.
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best quality car I have ever owned
by dennisthemenace from Orange County, CA | July 7, 2009
The M-45 (2004 model) is a truly awesome vehicle and it has exceeded my expectations ever since I purchased it new from a local dealer in May, 2004. The car has a very classy look to it, almost like a small limousine. It is dignified yet sexy but what I like most is it is distinct. I live in an area in Southern California where "everybody" drives a Mercedes or a BMW, with a few Lexus thrown in for good measure. Those vehicles are okay, but oh, so commonplace and yuppyish. This Infiniti did not sell nearly as well as it should have considering all you get with this car. It has comfortable easily adjustable seats(bucket) in front and seats two in the back in comfort or three in a squeeze. It has a seat/mirror memory for 2 drivers so you can push one button to retrieve your own settings. It has a sunroof and when I use it, it reminds me of the convertible days of my youth. It has a wonderfully big and powerful engine which makes it faster than 95% of the cars on the road. It has a choice of automatic transmission or stick shift(without you needing to use a clutch). It has the auto-pilot for cruise control so you can rest your foot on the highway, and it will maintain your safe distance from other cars. The Bose sound system is the best I have ever experienced with something like 8 speakers. The rearview mirror dims at night so headlights don't scramble your brain. If you want to adjust temperature, or do something with the entertainment system, you can give it a voice command, and it answers you back. The handling is great, it has many features only found in sportscars and it holds the road very well on steep hills or winding roads. It has an excellent field of view from the driver's seat with no sight blockages. The ride is exceptionally smooth. I feel like it has a very quiet cabin, even on the highway I don't hear much noise. I have received several dozen unsolicited compliments on the looks and styling of the car which has a great deal of appeal to people. (even after it just passed five years of service). Only disadvantage: it gets 16.7 mpg in the city and about 22 to 23 mpg highway, and it burns premium fuel. This car is extremely dependable and always ready to take me where I want to go in high style. I am delighted I chose Infiniti and the M45.
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The "M" performed wonderfully.
by Car Nut from Southeast MI | May 23, 2007
I just purchased my new to me 2004 M45 two weeks ago in Denver for around 25K with 32K miles and drove it to Michigan. It has the navigation system, which kept me out of trouble even when a route it had chosen in southern Kansas was closed. It is very comfortable and quite powerful yet it gets about 23MPG on the highway and around 20MPG combined. The car has all the toys and the multiple displays kept me amused for most of the 1,500-mile trip I took. This is the first car I've owned that I can talk to and it will answer me. It has a voice actuated control system. I have yet to learn all the commands. I got many unsolicited compliments on the "M" during my trip. It has the laser cruise control which I found to work better than I had expected but I did find two drawbacks—it doesn't work when you are heading toward the setting sun or when you are using your windshield wipers. When I was in Kansas I experienced high cross winds and that created unacceptable wind noise, particularly at the driver's side window but with normal winds the noise is negligible. My M45 is very comfortable and I found I could drive a lot further than I usually do on a long road trip in this car without getting tired. The "M" has lots of little extras like the side view mirrors that tilt down when you back up. You can select which mirror you want to tilt. Most of the time I select the right one for parallel parking So far I really like the car and I love the styling. It is also very tight with no squeaks or rattles. With rear wheel drive time will tell if I have to let it hibernate in the winter.
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by thekell from Chicago | September 18, 2006
Great car! I have owned a Lexus, Bmw, and and Audi. This car is tops. V8 has great power, with VDC off and shift yuoself mode you are looking @60mph in 6 seconds flat. I bought it used with 27.5K miles for $25K. The A/C seats are great and so is Navigation system and intelligent cruise. Now what's wrong. The styling was not popular, but I like it. The 18" wheels are beautiful. I think the car looks great. Wind noise on the highway is too loud for a $50K car, and the throttle response is slow when the transmission is in the automatic mode. Throttle response is good if you shift yourself. Still don't know why I got this car for $25K with 3.5 years left on the factory warranty and only 27.5k miles. I love it!
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quote: Yeah, iPad is useless for actual work while Surface with its Office 2013 and nice attachable keyboards is pretty useful for it. You nailed it on the head man!
quote: Exactly, those corporate Blackberry 7 phones are indeed very unpopular these days I agree, but WP8 is getting glowing reviews and highest customer satisfaction scores, so you have nailed it again, thanks!
quote: Actually the iPad has a lot of useful fart apps, as does Android
quote: Windows RT (Surface) on the other hand has a non-commercial Office 2013 licence
quote: Windows RT are right at the bottom of the pile for businesses
quote: Then look at all the problems with WP8
quote: Still minor compared to issues that plague iPhones, all these antennagates, crappy scratchy cases, etc etc. Internet is full of stories of iOS bugs and problems, if you stop being blind you realize that WP8 is actually better than iOS.
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Developer Carl Montante, who owns the sprawling University Corporate Center across the street from the University at Buffalo North Campus in Amherst, wonders if the successful office complex would be eligible to be part of the tax-free zones proposed last week by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.
Or what if the developer struck a deal with UB officials to build and run a business incubator on the university campus?
Local Ingram Micro executive Susan O'Sullivan wants to know just how many new jobs a project would have to create to be eligible for the tax-free zone.
And officials from Daemen College in Snyder are looking for more details about how private colleges and universities can claim a share of the 3 million square feet of space that Cuomo's plan would set aside for tax-free zones at those schools across the state.
A little more than a week after Cuomo proposed the establishment of tax-free zones in and around State University of New York campuses and at 20 other state-owned sites, the governor's aides are still preparing the legislation outlining the economic development incentives and how the plan will work.
The clock is ticking. Less than three weeks remain in the current legislative session in Albany, which puts Cuomo up against a tight deadline if he is to succeed in getting his plan approved by the Assembly and State Senate before lawmakers head home.
"We're still finalizing some of the bill language," said Leecia Eve, Cuomo's deputy secretary for economic development, during a meeting with about two dozen local business and education officials Friday to drum up support for the tax-free zones and provide a few more details on the plan.
Among those details:
• While the 20 "strategically located" state-owned sites that could be designated as tax-free zones have not been identified, Eve said a "classic example" of that type of site could be a closed prison.
"Some of these prisons really are pretty good-looking campuses," Eve said.
• Administration officials are leaning toward including provisions that would allow off-campus facilities owned by SUNY colleges to be included in the tax-free zones.
That was a particular concern for officials at Fredonia State College, who operate an off-campus business incubator in Dunkirk, outside the one-mile radius from campus that Cuomo's proposal targets for the tax-free zone.
Off-campus sites operated by a SUNY school that fall outside that one-mile radius will be able to apply for an exemption from Empire State Development officials to have the tax-free designation applied to those outlying locations, Eve said.
• While the Cuomo plan allows for as much as 200,000 square feet of adjacent space outside each SUNY campus to be designated as part of the tax-free zone, Eve said those off-campus properties still may be required to pay a portion of their property taxes through a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement. That's the same type of arrangement used by companies receiving tax breaks through industrial development agencies.
• Companies that locate within the tax-free zones will be subject to clawback provisions that would allow the state to recover some of the tax benefits that were granted to businesses that failed to meet their job creation or investment promises. Eve said the clawback provisions could be similar to those included in the state's Excelsior Jobs tax credit program.
• While companies locating in tax-free zones must pledge to create new jobs, Eve said administration officials have not yet set a threshold for the minimum number of new positions that would be needed to qualify. The benchmark is likely to be fairly low because of the program's focus on start-up companies and smaller businesses.
"It's about smaller, midsized firms that are at that decision point" in determining whether they will set up in New York or in another state that may have lower taxes or other costs, she said.
• The proposal would give SUNY presidents an expanded role in determining which projects and which companies are eligible to be part of the tax-free zones on their campuses. "The college presidents are going to play a huge role here" along with Empire State Development officials, Eve said.
A little less than 20 percent of UB's North Campus is undeveloped, leaving about 230 acres open for development. There also are about 230 acres of undeveloped land near the campus, stretching along an area east of Millersport Highway to Ellicott Creek. About 154 acres are undeveloped on UB's South Campus, an Empire State Development spokeswoman said.
• Retail projects, such as stores, hotels and restaurants, will not be eligible for the tax-free zones.
"As a general matter, it's got to be on the campus or adjacent to the campus to be eligible, and it's got to be part of the innovation economy," Eve said.
"There's lots of possibilities," said Jack F. Quinn Jr., president of Erie Community College, which hosted Eve's meeting. "If for once we've got something that talks about upstate, this is it."
Jenn Diagostino, executive director of the Coalition for Economic Justice in Buffalo, said the Cuomo plan could be a catalyst for the creation of good-paying jobs that the region sorely lacks.
But she also said the Cuomo administration has shared too few details of the plan. "If it moves forward, it must include very clear standards that ensure that it creates real community wealth, rather than job shifting or incentives for low-wage work," she said. "It is still unclear what the criteria for awarding tax breaks to companies will be, and who will be making these decisions."
The proposal also has met resistance from one of the state's biggest public employee unions, the Civil Service Employees Association, which has been at odds with Cuomo over job cuts and wage issues. The union this week began a statewide advertising campaign that blasts the tax-free zone proposal as "another special giveaway to business."
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I think this is an interview with Velikova about Stolbova & Klimov. Could someone translate please?
I think this is an interview with Velikova about Stolbova & Klimov. Could someone translate please?
Federation Cup
1.º - Pushkash & Guerreiro --- 142.81pts
2.º - Sinitsina & Zhiganshin --- 142.67pts
3.º - Starygyna & Volobuiev --- 120.07pts
4.º - Polikarpova & Kirilov --- 109.01pts
5.º - Baturintseva & Nevsky --- 103.49pts
All couples, with the exception of B&N, got at least one deduction on the FD!
That said, no one needs to be told the ladies field is deep in Russia. She's going to need to step up if she wants to be sent to Senior A or even, really, many B competitions.
they are going downhill unless they leave Kustarova/Aleeva, most of their good students have left them already
Pushkash/Guerreiro actually was the clear winner the were underscored on the FD and and S/Z were overscored on SD even with mistakes
Pushkash/Guerreiro outperform them, soon Stepanova/Bukin will put them even lower on the Russian rankings
Bobrova and Soloviev's FD
They messed up their curve lift before the second step sequence and Ekaterina didn't spend three seconds in a difficult position meaning that they only got level 2. I'm not sure why they got level 2 on their twizzles though.
Looking at their twizzles, they do everything on one foot and they had one additional feature (the arms in the second set) so I guess that's why they only got level 2. I'm guessing that their second additional feature from a different group was a coupee because that's the hardest to see so I probably just didn't notice it. They may have gotten it in the SD but not the FD.
She is really unlucky that she is from Russia. In any other country (except of USA, Japan and Russia) she would be the national champion. In Russia it seems that she will always be behind the younger ones and behind Leonova.
Interesting but I think we really want to see how B and S do against I and K and just how close they can get to W and P and P and B as well as where will the judges put Italy C and L.
http://www.team-russia2014.ru/article/5465.html (Russian)
Julia LIPNITSKAIA: it would be very good to reach the Grand Prix Final
08.10.2012 07:50:01 | Figure skating | News
Today, on October 7, in Espoo (Finland) finished the international event on figure skating Finlandia Trophy. Russian skater Julia LIPNITSKAIA won competitions of Senior Ladies, with total score 188.23. Popular Finnish skater Kira Korpi lagged behind on 7,07 points. Julia LIPNITSKAIA shortly commented her skating to TEAM RUSSIA-2014 portal.
«I am very happy with the skating in this competition, - Julia LIPNITSKAIA saidd. These were my first international competitions at Senior level. I'm glad that in Free Skating (on music of the ballet "Nutcracker" of Tchaikovsky TEAM RUSSIA-2014 Comment) made the difficult combo 3Lz+3T. Committed a mistake on filp made double instead of the triple. Certainly, it is necessary to work on making programs better, but at all I skated easily and Short Program (Khachaturian's "Sabre dance" performed by violinist Vanessa Mae TEAM RUSSIA-2014 Comment)».
«Tasks for this season ito skate good at Events of Senior Grand-Prix, - Julia Lipnitskaya specified. It would be very good to reach the Grand Prix Final which will be in Sochi. Also I want very much to take place in Junior Worlds».
"The Judges put them". when fans think this way it reminds me the pre-COP era, when a dance team was cast in stone for a full season at least on the same position.
You guys have to get out of this mindset, because ice dance is judged more like a sport these days, based on execution and not protocol. That is why for example, C/L defeated B/S in the FD while in the SP the russians were ahead.


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The long wait for Myeisha Hall is finally over.
It had been nearly 12 full months since the Stetson University junior guard last laced up the sneakers and put on a uniform. After transferring to Stetson from Old Dominion in January and sitting out the NCAA-mandated two semesters, Hall hit the court Tuesday night and made an immediate impact in the Hatters' 83-81 win over Charlotte at the Edmunds Center.
"It felt good to be playing again but I was extremely nervous," Hall said about her debut. "It was my first official game in a year."
"I don't think we would have won this game without her," Stetson head coach Lynn Bria said after the victory. "Myeisha just came in and made some big plays for us."
Hall entered the game at the 16:31 mark of the first half, but she admittedly got off to a shaky start as her first couple of attempts missed the target. However, she knocked down a pair of three-pointers in the final minute of the first half that help stake Stetson to a 42-36 halftime lead.
"At first I head my head down because I wasn't hitting any shots and I had a couple of turnovers, so those two shots (before the half) really boosted my confidence," Hall said.
In the second half, Hall converted four free throw attempts, including two that gave Stetson a one-point lead with 10:11 remaining. Later, with time running down and Charlotte making one last push to try and tie the game, Hall came up with a huge offensive rebound and putback to help ice the contest.
"That really was a big play," Hall said. "I was really praying that I would get the rebound because (the 49ers) were so big, but I knew we needed it so I just tried as hard as I could to get it."
"I thought Sasha Sims's three and Myeisha's big rebound really separated the game down the stretch where they had to foul us," Bria said. "I thought Myeshia's two threes in the first half were huge for us as well."
The key for Hall now will be to continue to gel with the rest of the squad that has played together for 10 regular season games. Sims doesn't think it will take long for Hall to be acclimated to the flow of the game and contributing even more.
"We have been working on that a lot in practice, just getting her reps and getting her into it," Sims said. "The only days that she has missed are games that we have had. Other than that she's there (every practice) and has been putting in the same work as we have been putting in, so it's all going to come together."
Stetson (6-4) will host Murray State (6-4)and Nicholls State (4-4) this weekend in the 26th Annual Hatter Classic at the Edmunds Center. Bethune-Cookman (3-7) also joins the field in the two-day, four-game tournament. On Friday, Stetson and Murray State tip-off 1 p.m. followed by Bethune-Cookman and Nicholls State at 3 p.m. On Saturday, the Hatters and Colonels square off at 1 p.m. followed by the Lady Wildcats vs. the Racers at 3 p.m.
Single-day tickets range from $5-$30 and are available online at GoHatters.com/tix or at the Edmunds Center ticket office.
All four games can be seen live on HatterVision, while the two Stetson games will also be broadcast live on WSBB, AM 1230 New Smyrna Beach, AM1490 DeLand, and online at myam1230.com. Live stats, the @StetsonWBB twitter feed, and the Hat-Alerts text messaging system are also available for in-game updates.


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Coding online with browser based editors and web IDEs
Open source browser based code editors
The humble browser. Its main purpose, for many years, was to serve up simple HTML documents and provide information on just about any subject you could think of. In the last decade, with broadband taking over from dial-up, and net connections getting ever quicker, websites have increasingly provided applications usually restricted to the desktop.
With the evolution of languages such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript helping push the limits of what could be done, we find in turn it provides new opportunities in openness and sharing. This has evolved to the point where there's really not much that can't be done or opened up online now.
Everything online?
Take a moment and think about it. Document editing, file sharing, image manipulation, server backups, 3D rendering, music production, and just about any other work traditionally done in desktop software can now be handled by a web service. Web development however has been one of the last areas to truly get with this trend, as web developers themselves have stuck with the theory that it's best to code offline and push code online when it comes to launching.
This has always been a sensible way to work and is built on sound logic and experience. Working offline was fast, your code is pretty safe, and desktop editors generally very good. So why make the change? Well, a new era has been quietly growing and over the last few years, web based editors have evolved hugely, almost now equalling their desktop rivals. Today, they're fast being seen as viable solutions to coding, bringing new possibilities to share code and the development of sites with others. From quick experimentation on websites such as jsbin.com and jsfiddle.net thru to full blown coding environments such as codeanywhere.net and c9.io, there's a solution for just about any level you'd like to work at.
Open source editors
One of the latest trends in this new frontier has been to share these online code editors and IDE's themselves thru open source.
The benefit here is that you can see exactly what the editor is doing and as they're written in familiar languages such as PHP, Ruby, and JavaScript, you can customise them to your liking. Don't like how the editor works? Change it. Want to connect it to a specific service? Integrate it. It's very rare you find a desktop editor that's exactly as you'd like, there are often small irritations or limitations meaning you have to work with them or use other services, taking extra time and effort away from your coding efforts.
This is where ICEcoder steps in. It's a fully featured, browser based code editor that allows you to code online or offline in the web browser. It contains just about everything you need by supporting many common languages, comes with an image viewer with hex & RGB eyedropper, full 16.7m colour picker, Linux terminal, backs up every 30 mins, you can push & pull files to/from Github, is Emmet enabled, has type boosters, advanced find & replace, MySQL management, JSHint linting, live editing, and more.
However, because it's open source, you can take it and make it your own, no more having to fight your editor to get the job done. It can fit to the way you want to work and connect to anything web based. The web effectively becomes your toolbox.
An open source future
Having truly open source solutions like this seem to be paving the way towards a more shared and open future where everything can be integrated, mixed, and reworked on our own or in teams, with the safety of knowing code can be rolled back, bugs tracked, and solved from anywhere if there's a problem. It allows you to share code examples and prototypes easily as you work collabortively with others plus coding in a similar environment to where you'll deploy also helps avoid the headaches caused by going live and new bugs emerging. You also have the opportunity to create fixes at any time and push from development servers to live servers all from the comfort of your home, local cafe, beach, or wherever you may be. No more being restricted to the office.
With everything ultimately moving to the cloud, browser based editors and web IDEs will undoubtedly become the defacto way of coding, and I welcome this bright new future. If you're still coding offline, why not give one of them a try?
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On the one hand, I always love seeing more options for in-browser text editors. Not only do they make the geek in me squeal with delight at seeing a new toy, they're an excellent option for engaging users who either won't be around long enough to justify installing a custom tool (eg. almost everyone who clicks a jsfiddle link) or aren't yet committed enough to be willing to.
On the other hand, I strongly disagree with this whole "in the cloud" movement for a variety of reasons.
First, I think it's demographically naive. I live in Canada. A lot of us still have to choose between dial-up and some of the most expensive 3G cellular service in the developed world... and some of the developing world. I'm lucky enough to live in a place where I get 5Mbit/800Kbit connectivity and, as far as I know, Bell Canada currently has no plans to upgrade our sleepy little village to fiber-to-the-node. (Which is required to upgrade to faster DSL speeds. The only TV service here is via satellite so no Cable Internet.)
Second, I think it's overly optimistic. "The cloud" is still a single point of failure for end users since we rarely have redundant connections and, even when we do, we still see the occasional GMail or Google Docs outage. This is why I was so happy to discover git and TiddlyWiki. The "work offline, then merge later" model provides that redundancy while, at the same time, allowing the end user to transparently become part of plan B if the backups are lost, useless, or were never being made, as was discovered to be the case with Ma.gnolia in 2009.
(My preferred approach to things like GMail, Google Docs, and full in-browser IDEs is to use things like appcache manifests and IndexedDB to support seamlessly going offline and coming back no matter which URL it was loaded off.)
Third, data portability in "the cloud" isn't yet a solved problem and there's plenty of room for companies to pull shenanigans and leave the user holding the bag. With a tool like git or TiddlyWiki (or watching streaming videos by running a script which calls youtube-dl and then points MPlayer at the file within seconds of it appearing), the power is in your hands. "Having a copy" means "having a copy" in the same sense as with physical objects, rather than "it worked last time I tried, but something changed unexpectedly".
(It also often means trusting your backups to a single point of failure. See my comment about Ma.gnolia.)
Fourth, it's wasteful. I have an Athlon II X2 270 with 16GiB of RAM (fastest non-Intel 65W TDP chip I could find), but I run LXDE on it and test my desktop on my old 2GHz Celeron with 1GiB of RAM. The only things that don't run comfortably are browsers... so why would I essentially run my nice, lightweight copy of Vim inside something that slows it down about as much as a full-blown x86 emulator? I bought a fast computer because i want to do more... not because I want to do the same things in a trendier way.
(Even if the already limited GUI API weren't further crippled by my tweaks to neuter things like window.open(), I'm a firm believer that, if an app doesn't inherently require reinventing the browser's HTML/CSS renderer or network stack to be written standalone (and "zero install" isn't absolutely essential to the intended use case), then writing it in the browser is like buying a big, heavy, hot-running refurbished Pentium 4 for $100 because you already know how to bit-bang the parallel port and don't want to learn Arduino programming.)
Finally, it's uncomfortable to me, personally. My Vim uses quite a few plugins and I'm quite used to Vim motions. I don't have problems using non-Vim text editors, because I made sure to train myself to be comfortable in both Vim-style and CUA-style key schemes, but the basic, common CUA is too slow and inefficient for coding and nothing else on my desktop runs in "Vi mode" because I've yet to find an application which implemented enough of a Vimscript runtime environment to parse the keybinds from my .vimrc and run all my plugins.
That's not to say I don't use in-browser code editors myself, but I use them much less as full blown coding environments and much more as lightweight widgets complementary to TinyMCE. There are tons of places on the web where a textarea with syntax highlighting, line numbers, and search/replace is a good thing to have.
I was aware that ICEcoder could be run locally but that still ties into my point about browser-based apps being heavier.
The whole point of using things like Vim and urxvt is that they make it easier for me to have "many programs open". Hence why I think that using tools like Vim is "working smarter". I get the same functionality but waste less CPU and RAM, which means it's easier to do things like having copies of of Firefox Aurora, Firefox Stable, Chrome, Opera, Midori (GTKWebKit), Arora (QtWebKit), and three or four of the http://www.modern.ie/ testing VMs just sitting open in the background for quick-access testing.
Naturally, I couldn't do that on the 2GHz Celeron but, if I just got lazy and let my desktop grow a beer gut, I might have trouble doing it on the dual-core Athlon too... especially if I'm developing and testing something that is, itself, CPU- and RAM-intensive.
(I actually didn't plan to upgrade to a 3.4GHz dual-core Athlon II with 16GiB of RAM. I was perfectly happy with an Athlon64 X2 5000+ (2.6GHz, dual-core, also 65W TDP) with 4GiB of RAM that I bought about 5 years ago but my old motherboard died back in January. Since I was buying new kit anyway, I decided to make room to run more than one IE testing VM at once.)
You also seem to misunderstand my point about Vim. Even if you implemented Vim keybindings, it wouldn't interest me because I don't use Vim keybindings. I use custom keybindings and plugins within Vim and the amount of effort required to port my .vimrc and chosen plugins over to any other application just isn't worth it.
True. I know browser extension load-outs and the design trade-offs between Chrome and Firefox make a big difference.
Chrome is memory-heavy but responsive because of its multiprocess design (though window.opener support causes multiple tabs to share the same process) and I can't stand a lot of the design decisions that went into its extension API.
Firefox's single-process nature helps it to be memory-light and its approach to extensions makes it easy to implement things like HTTPS Everywhere and RefControl, but they push so many things Chrome does naturally (like matching the system's native scroll-wheel behaviour for tab bars) into extensions that said lightness is a bit deceptive... and I'm still trying to track down the last of the slow extension memory leaks
Worse, and more relevant to this case, a messy site in one tab can bog down every other tab.
Given how I find Opera to be unacceptable for being closed-source and Chrome for making various design decisions I dislike and can't override with extensions, I'm stuck with Firefox, which means I'm effectively stuck with Ye Olde Windows 3.1 Cooperative Multitasking.
Basically, I'd have to run a separate Firefox or Chrome profile just as an application runtime environment and doing that just for ICEcoder doesn't make it feasible.
Perhaps in the future, but I just don't see the web runtime environment (or whatever you want to use as a general term) being mature enough to satisfy me right now.
Its not really code editors that dictate development environments, its more the IDE used. I for instance use a combination of VS2012, Netbeans and Eclipse depending on what project I'm working on at the time.
Things like Cloud9 IDE are OK as far as they go but are still a long ways away from the tools above.
I've tried to use various IDEs throughout the years but every one I've tried has just caused me more distraction and bother so I kept coming back to something visually minimalistic like Vim (with various plugins for static analysis and the like) combined with git gui, a Quake-style terminal for various command-line tools, and, for web apps, something like Firebug or the Chrome developer tools.
I do see your point though. Tools like Cloud9 are sort of in an uncomfortable middle ground. Too IDE-like for some, not complete enough for others.


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IRWINDALE, Calif. (May 17, 2012) – When SCE FCU financial instructors talk to Baldwin Park and Duarte High Schools' business classes about financial literacy, the students cash in.
Combined, the San Gabriel Valley schools had 19 students finish in the top 20 percent nationally during the month-long web-based National Financial Capability Challenge (NFCC) designed by the US Dept. of Treasury and the US Dept. of Education to teach high school students the X's and O's of personal finance.
"This year marks the second consecutive time our business students have participated in the NFCC and secured top finishes," said Craig Peacock, Baldwin Park High School teacher and Virtual Enterprise coordinator, who had 12 of his students finish above the 80th percentile. "Not surprisingly, this is also the second year SCE Federal Credit Union financial experts have provided in-class assistance and mentoring to our students. The financial literacy series they offer is an invaluable learning tool that helps prepare our kids for the NFCC and, more importantly, provides them with a money management foundation to build on. The combined efforts of my curriculum and the seminars from the SCE FCU Foundation are a recipe for success."
SCE FCU has been supporting residents in the San Gabriel Valley for 60 years and partnering with local schools in their community for the past decade. Their credit union foundation will conduct more than 100 financial literacy workshops and courses throughout 2012.
"Our foundation was created primarily to help young people gain financial insight and moxie for facing the real world," said Dennis Huber, SCE FCU CEO. When local kids secure top 20 percent finishes, it's validation we're getting through to them. Congratulations to the students for their outstanding efforts."
California is one of 46 states that do not require students to take a financial literacy course in order to graduate. In the 2012 NFCC, California's average student score was 67.09 percent, which ranked them 44th out of the 50 states.
Duarte High School – which had seven learners place in the nation's top 20 percent – offers a financial literacy program with the help of the SCE FCU Foundation.
"Giving our learners the financial acumen to succeed in real world situations is absolutely critical," said Joe Kenney, Duarte High School teacher, who has welcomed SCE FCU financial instructors into his classroom each of the last six years. "It has become imperative that we provide our learners with the tools and resources to appropriately manage their personal finances. It's about putting them in position to be successful. Our partnership with SCE FCU has been a dynamic, authentic learning opportunity that's clearly paying dividends."
SCE Federal Credit Union was founded in 1952 and currently has nearly 50,000 members, $560 million in assets, several Southern California and Nevada branch locations, thousands of shared branch locations across the United States and more than 28,000 surcharge-free ATMs available to members. SCE FCU serves all of Southern California and Southern Nevada, with membership open to individuals and businesses. SCE FCU is a not-for-profit entity committed to improving the financial well-being of the communities it serves, especially those underserved by mainstream financial institutions. With a strong commitment to volunteerism, employees donate hundreds of hours to local community causes each year. Additionally, the creation of the SCE FCU Foundation provides much-needed financial education to the underserved in Nevada and Southern California.
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Milwaukee police are investigating a pair of shootings connected to robberies overnight.
The first happened around 11:20 p.m. Tuesday shooting near 25th and Melvina streets. Police say a robber shot a 50-year-old man shot in the groin. The victim is expected to survive. There's no word if police have made any arrests.
A second person was shot during a robbery near 17th Street and Atkinson Avenue. Police say 47-year-old man was shot in the abdomen, but is also expected to survive. Investigators tell WISN 12 News they are looking for two suspects.


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This hasn't been a good month for West Virginia Superintendent of Schools Jorea Marple. First, on Nov. 6, voters ousted her husband, Darrell McGraw as state attorney general, a post in which he'd seemed secure for many years. Then, on Thursday, Marple lost her job as state superintendent of schools.
Marple was axed in a surprise move some said was linked to McGraw's loss.
Well, the McGraw clan for years ran one of the most powerful political machines in West Virginia. Some legislators were afraid of Darrell McGraw. So I suppose it's possible the five state board members who voted to can Marple thought now, with her husband's power in the Capitol crushed, would be a good time to get rid of her.
Some observers speculated the termination was political, with former governor and now U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin's faction behind it. The senator's wife, Gayle, is a state board member, after all. And she voted with the majority to fire Marple.
That would appear to be nonsense. What does Manchin gain from having Marple fired? Nothing, except a few more enemies. Smart politicians don't make new foes unless there's a compelling reason to do so, and no one ever accused Manchin of being a dummy.
Until Thursday, I hadn't heard of any complaints against Marple. Not long after she became state superintendent in March 2011, she was the topic of a "Sunday Sit-Down" piece in the Sunday News-Register. She outlined a vision for public school reform that seemed appealing.
For reasons as yet unexplained (see the editorial to the left of this column), five members of the state board seem to believe Marple isn't the person to lead such reform. Two others were upset enough about the decision to fire her that, after voting against it, they resigned.
Also for reasons not mentioned, the five members seem to think it would be a good idea to hire Randolph County schools Superintendent James Phares to replace Marple. The vote to do so - without any sort of search for the best person to lead state schools -could come as soon as next week.
Now, I'm sure Phares is a fine educator. And these days, just to hang in there as a county school superintendent requires a good bit of leadership ability.
But what's so special about him? He took the top job in Randolph County schools at a time when education affairs there were such a mess the state board considered taking over the system, as it has done in several other counties. Reportedly, Phares is well-liked in Randolph County and has improved schools academically - though there still is much to do in that regard.
This emphatically is not a shot at Phares. He may be liked in Randolph County and known in Marion, where he also worked, but most West Virginians know nothing about him. So why do some state board members like him so much? Why was the plan to fire Marple and hire him hatched secretly, then sprung suddenly?
School reform is likely to be near the top of the Legislature's priority list when lawmakers meet for their regular annual session in January and February. An "audit" of public education conducted by a private consultant provides dozens of recommendations for improvements - including reducing the power and cost of the state board and the state Department of Education.
The audit report was released in January and state board members, despite intensive discussions about it, have not yet provided the Legislature with a formal response to the study's suggestions. It has been reported Marple and some board members did not agree on that.
Leaders of both the state's teachers' unions reacted negatively to Marple's ouster. Does that provide any clue concerning why five state board members didn't think she should remain in office?
Education reform is a critical need in West Virginia - and it needs to be done in the open, with the public a part of the process. To date, including what happened Thursday, that has not been the case.
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ENGL 110 Composition and Research
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HON 201-202 Humanities I and II
SPCH 111 Public Presentations
HON 201, 202, 211, 212, 231 (4 of 5 required for SPCH credit)
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MATH 141 College Algebra
MATH 150 Elementary Statistics
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PHYS 104 Explorations in Science
HON 222 Natural Science II
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PLSC 101 Intr. to Political Science
PLSC 121 American Nat'l Gov't.
HON 211 Perspectives in Social Sciences
ANTH 160 Intro. to Anthropology
PSYC 105 Intro. to Psychology
SOC 105 Introduction to Sociology
SOC 253 Sociology of the Family
HON 231 Perspectives in Social Sciences II
HIST 112 Western Civilization I
HIST 113 Western Civilization II
HIST 212 World History to 1500
HIST 220 United States History
HON 201-202 Humanities I and II
ENGL 220 Introduction to Literature
HON 201-202 Humanities I and II
ART 110 Survey of Art
MUSC 110 Survey of Music
THTR 124 Survey of the Theatre
HON 212 Seminar in the Arts
ART 101 Beginning Drawing
ART 103 Beginning Painting
ART 148 Fundamentals of Pottery
MUSC 105 Ensembles
MUSC 305 Ensembles
PE Any physical education class
THTR 127 Stagecraft
THTR 180 Acting I
HON 212 Seminar in the Arts
PHIL 100 Intro. to Philosophy
PHIL 102 Critical Thinking
PHIL 206 Introduction to Ethics
REL 101 Religions of the World
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