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Today we talked to Nikola Mihaylov, a developer in the Expression Blend team. Nikola is the developer of Fantasia Painter, an extremely highly ranked photo editing app for Windows Phone.
Nikola walked us through his app, and talked a bit about how he implemented various aspects of the app. He describes himself as 'obsessed with performance,' and had a few very interesting practices to share in that regard.
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Fantasia Painter in the Windows Phone Marketplace, (Free and Paid)
Performance Considerations for Windows Phone Developers in the MSDN Library
Mike Battista's recent posts on WP app optimization:
Pratap Lakshman's recent posts on using the WP Profiler
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This is the best episode of Inside WP I have watched. Nikola has provided excellent dev tips that I will consider in my apps.
Great video! Fantasia Painter is by far my favorite mobile app!! Great performance tips too, will make use of them for sure.
Thanks guys!
One note - use the Debug -> Windows -> Modules in Visual Studio to see which DLLs are loaded just after you press F5 on the initial startup. Also, in my experience all DLLs that have Silverlight control get loaded at startup regardless whether you use the control or not. It's resource-only (e.g. images) DLLs that don't get loaded if you don't use the image at startup.
Absolutely outstanding episode, bravo...
Very usefull app and great show.
It is possible to get this VideoOut App?
Looks like a necroposting a bit, but still. I was pretty much surprised over the statement that inlining the code _by_hand_ improves execution time dramatically. Isn't compiler should be responsible for such an obvious inlining? I call it obvious because it was told it speeds execution up by orders of magnitude. Is the compiler stupid enough not to do so? If the latter, than I should really re-think the way I write WP programs...
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The Northeast Ohio Christmas Tree Growers began meeting in 1998 with tree farmers from Trumbull County and has expanded to include members from other counties in northeast Ohio.
The total membership in NOCTG is currently 29 tree farms, with 10 of those located in Trumbull County.
The group's goal is to educate the public about the benefits of using a real Christmas tree. They sponsor new grower clinics for those entering the profession.
They place videotapes of "The Great American Christmas Tree" and "The Christmas Tree Story" as well as the book "The Wonderful World of Christmas Trees" into local libraries. The members also have weekend activities at their farms with hayrides, petting zoos and, of course in the season, fresh-cut trees, wreaths, roping and gifts. Some farms even offer tree planting in the spring and fall.
"Many homeowners and businesses use the wrong type of tree when they install their landscaping, and our growers group is here to help with that process," stated NOCTG member Lyle Bailey.
He spearheaded the group to assist the Trumbull County Agriculture and Family Education Center where the SWCD's offices are located when we had trouble with some infested trees.
The Northeast Ohio Christmas Tree Growers replaced trees with various pine trees near our flag pole and installed signage to use for educational purposes.
The NOCTG members who participated were Lyle Bailey of Bailey's Christmas Tree Farm, John Pieton of 7-P Trees, Norris Williams of Whispering Pines Tree Farm, Carl Yeager, and John Campbell of Storeyland Christmas Tree Farm.
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She was born Jan. 28, 1920, in Tiffin, to Oscar Boyd and Lael (Henninger) Fausnaugh. She married Loris Arbogast Jan. 31, 1942, and he died in 1946. She later married Kenneth Rowe Sept. 15, 1958, and he also preceded her in death in 1978.
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South Carolina House Speaker Bobby Harrell has reimbursed himself more than $325,000 from his campaign war chest since 2008 but has produced no receipts or itemized invoices accounting for the spending, a Post and Courier examination has found.
Harrell's plane
S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell is a licensed pilot who can fly three passengers in his fixed-wing Cirrus SR22, a single-engine propeller plane that was manufactured in 2001, according to the Federal Aviation Administration database.The model retails new for $449,900, though a fully-loaded plane costs an additional $170,000, according to the manufacturer, which bills the SR22 as "luxury travel at is ratified best."Harrell registered his plane under the name Pierpont Air, an LLC whose business address is listed as his State Farm insurance office on Sam Rittenberg Boulevard.The speaker keeps the plane at Atlantic Aviation, a private airport on South Aviation Road in North Charleston. An Atlantic employee said the short-term rate to keep a single-engine plane such as Harrell's in a hangar is $100 nightly. She said she did not have long-term rates available. Other plane expenses include fuel, maintenance, certification and insurance.Charleston County property tax records show Harrell's Pierpont Air paid $4,300 in taxes on the plane in 2011, down from more than $5,000 in 2009.Renee Dudley
State politicians must maintain such documentation for four years to prove they are using campaign money for political rather than personal spending. Harrell told the newspaper that all his expenses are legitimate. But the State Ethics Commission said that without the required documentation, it is impossible to confirm that Harrell spent the money properly.
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SECTION 8-13-1302: Maintenance of records of contributions, contributors, and expenditures.(A) A candidate, committee, or ballot measure committee must maintain and preserve an account of:(1) the total amount of contributions accepted by the candidate, committee, or ballot measure committee;(2) the name and address of each person making a contribution and the amount and date of receipt of each contribution;(3) the total amount of expenditures made by or on behalf of the candidate, committee, or ballot measure committee;(4) the name and address of each person to whom an expenditure is made including the date, amount, purpose, and beneficiary of the expenditure;(5) all receipted bills, canceled checks, or other proof of payment for each expenditure; and(6) the occupation of each person making a contribution.(B) The candidate, committee, or ballot measure committee must maintain and preserve all receipted bills and accounts required by this article for four years.SECTION 8-13-1360: Contribution and expenditure reporting form; contents.(A) The State Ethics Commission shall develop a contribution and expenditure reporting form which must include:(1) a designation as a pre-election or quarterly report and, if a pre-election report, the election date;(2) the candidate's name and address or, in the case of a committee, the name and address of the committee;(8) the aggregate total of all contributions, loans, and other receipts during the reporting period and the year-to-date total; the amount, date, and a brief description of each expenditure made during the reporting period, the name and address of the entity to which the expenditure was made, and the year-to-date total of expenditures to that entity. Credit card expenses and candidate reimbursements must be itemized so that the purpose and recipient of the expenditure are identified;(B) A candidate or committee must disclose all information required on the form developed under this section.
State law also requires candidates to itemize their expenditures on disclosure forms filed with the commission. Portions of Harrell's forms lack such itemization. Asked about the matter, Harrell's office said in a statement: "The Speaker is in full compliance with all requirements of the SC Ethics Act."
Many of the reimbursements cover the speaker's costs for using his private plane for "official legislative trips and politically related travel," Harrell's office said in an emailed response to the newspaper's questions. The office said flying the four-seat, single-engine Cirrus SR22 costs "as much as $800 or $900" a leg. His office did not respond to written questions asking how the speaker arrived at those figures. Harrell pilots the plane himself.
In addition to attending campaign events and fundraisers for other House members, Harrell said in a statement that he uses the funds for travel related to his legislative duties.
"While South Carolina is known for having a rough and tough political history, I never thought I'd be attacked for saving taxpayers money by using campaign funds instead of state funds to pay for official Legislative expenses," Harrell said in his statement.
Flight logs filed with the Federal Aviation Administration show Harrell has flown the 30-minute route between Charleston and Columbia more than 110 times since 2008. Other destinations include Augusta during the week of the Masters Golf Tournament in 2009, Miami and Key West, the flight logs show.
Harrell, who was elected to the House in 1992, has repaid himself nearly a quarter-million dollars for travel expenses over the past four years, the newspaper found. On his campaign finance reports, the Charleston Republican provided no descriptions of where he went or the reasons for the trips.
Along with requiring that expenditures be itemized on state filings, South Carolina law says that politicians using campaign funds must "maintain and preserve all receipted bills and accounts … for four years." The newspaper asked to review all such documents related to Harrell's political travel and other reimbursed expenses. Harrell did not respond to multiple requests from the newspaper over the past month to provide those invoices or any other documents showing how the nearly $326,000 was spent.
Harrell "is not being accountable by any stretch of the imagination let alone the letter of the law," said Edwin Bender, executive director of the National Institute on Money in State Politics, an independent group that monitors campaign finance laws. "This is someone who has become brazen because he's so confident of his power."
Harrell did not address most of the questions the newspaper submitted in writing on Aug. 30. Harrell declined repeated requests to be interviewed.
Harrell's office provided no explanation as to why Harrell reimbursed himself rather than directly paying vendors such as airport fuel services, restaurants or hotels.
Early in the newspaper's examination, the Ethics Commission, an independent state agency, criticized the lack of receipts and itemizations, noting that Harrell's reimbursement practices made for "incomplete disclosure" and "shouldn't be done."
On Tuesday, however, Commission Executive Director Herbert R. Hayden refused to discuss the issue, saying his agency was not authorized to weigh in. The commission, which has commented freely in the past on ethics matters involving state lawmakers, depends on nearly $323,000 in general funds appropriated by the state Legislature for about half of its annual budget.
On Friday, Harrell spokesman Greg Foster confirmed that the speaker's office contacted the Ethics Commission regarding its involvement with this story.
"Neither the Speaker nor anyone in his office has told the Ethics Commission that they should not talk to anyone," Foster said in an email.
The rules
Enforcement of rules on self-reimbursement and record keeping rests with the House Ethics Committee, a panel of six of Harrell's fellow lawmakers. Campaign contributions to five of them through a political action committee he is affiliated with. Through the PAC, money has been given to more than 130 legislative candidates.
Committee Chairman Roland Smith, who has received at least $2,000 from the PAC, said he "can't comment on anything about the Ethics Committee."
"I'm not trying to avoid the situation," the Aiken Republican said. "You know I can't afford to talk about it. I can't talk about it."
South Carolina law says campaign expenses "must be drawn from the campaign account."
Cathy Hazelwood, general counsel for the state Ethics Commission, the independent agency that is separate from the Ethics Committee, initially told the paper that the wording "means no reimbursing."
It "shouldn't be done because you're not accurately disclosing what the campaign is actually buying," Hazelwood said in an Aug. 30 email to the newspaper.
In the email she offered this example: "A campaign should have a specific expenditure to a staff member and not to the candidate who's paying the staff member." Anything else "makes for incomplete disclosure," she wrote. Prior to last week's no-comment directive from executive director Hayden, to whom she reports, Hazelwood also had discussed the issue at length via telephone.
But when the newspaper sought additional information from the Ethics Commission last week, after Hazelwood's interpretation was disputed by a lawyer working for the Legislature, Hayden said in an email: "We are not authorized to comment on matters involving members of the General Assembly."
Hayden referred the paper to the House Ethics Committee.
Patrick Dennis, a House attorney who has worked with that committee, had asked Hazelwood for her interpretation of the reimbursement law in an Aug. 30 email obtained by The Post and Courier. He sent the note hours after the newspaper submitted its initial inquiries in writing to Harrell's office.
Hazelwood responded to Dennis: "When reimbursements are done to the candidate you don't know who they paid or how much or what for. You just have a bald description of reimbursement to candidate with little or no detail."
Contacted Wednesday, Dennis disagreed with that interpretation.
"There's absolutely nothing wrong with self-reimbursement as long as the extent being reimbursed is a legitimate campaign-related expense," Dennis said. "It doesn't matter whether you pay yourself or not as long as you don't lie about it."
Despite that difference of opinion, Dennis and Hazelwood both agreed that the record-keeping portion of the law is clear.
"You are supposed to be able to substantiate what you report on your disclosure if the committee or the commission asks to do so," Dennis said.
If a politician can't do that?
"I haven't ever dealt with that situation," he said. "I'm not prepared to answer that question."
The newspaper five times over the past month asked whether Harrell's office could provide either itemizations or receipts describing his reimbursed spending, as required by law. Harrell's office said the speaker is in overall compliance with the law.
Bender, of the Montana-based National Institute on Money in State Politics, called Harrell's relationship with both the Ethics Commission and the House Ethics Committee a "fox-and-hen-house classic."
"He's a very powerful guy, and no one wants to do anything for fear of retribution," Bender said.
Harrell's campaign donors should be concerned by the lack of accounting for the nearly $326,000 the speaker reimbursed himself, Bender said.
"People are giving him money to represent them as citizens," he said, noting the public has no way of knowing how the reimbursements were spent. "When someone is raising in the six figures and running unopposed — they don't have to use that money to campaign."
Harrell's office said his business affairs as a State Farm insurance agent and his personal travel expenses "are not paid for using campaign funds." Harrell did not reimburse himself for the trip to Augusta during the Masters or for the trip to Key West, although he did reimburse himself for two trips to Miami for National Speakers Conference Executive Committee meetings, Foster said in an email.
"The Speaker's duties require him to travel more than the average member," Foster wrote.
The public is right to be skeptical of campaign spending, said Bob Stern, a former administrator of the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws, a national association of ethics officials and experts.
"How are they supposed to enforce the personal use law if they can't see the records?" he asked.
Travel costs
Harrell reimbursed himself for travel about 40 times since 2008 for a total of $231,561, the newspaper's analysis of the records shows.
On nine separate dates, he paid himself $10,000 or more. Three times he paid himself more than $20,000 on a single day for what he reported as travel. Amounts listed on the reports include "travel costs incurred over several months," according to Harrell's office. The date listed on the campaign finance report indicates when the check was cut, not when the actual travel took place, the office said.
Harrell's Ethics Commission filing, which does not list travel and other expenses individually, conflicts with the state law that says "candidate reimbursements must be itemized so that the purpose and recipient of the expenditure are identified."
Harrell's office refused to answer the newspaper's questions about the lack of itemization.
Foster said the "role of speaker includes various additional responsibilities that require the speaker to travel and represent the entire House, the House Republican Caucus and the state of South Carolina." Harrell traveled for federal court proceedings, funerals, meetings involving the National Speakers Conference and more, his office said in its statement.
In his statement, Harrell said: "While state funds should never be used to pay for political expenses, I also make it a point to try and save taxpayers money by using campaign funds to cover costs associated with many of my duties as House speaker."
In a separate email, Foster added: "For many of these trips, it would have been completely appropriate and justified for him to have used the State Plane. Instead, Speaker Harrell chose to use his own plane and by doing so save taxpayers thousands of dollars."
In addition to the campaign reimbursements, records show Harrell has taken annual taxpayer-funded stipends, according to statements of economic interest filed each year since 2008. The "in-district" rate for state lawmakers generally is $12,000 a year. Harrell reported receiving $44,999 in taxpayer-paid "salary, per diem, mileage, etc." on his 2012 income statement filed with the Ethics Commission.
The newspaper reviewed filings submitted by the 21 members of the Charleston County legislative delegation and found that other lawmakers also reimbursed themselves directly from campaign coffers. None of them, however, approached Harrell in the amounts and frequency of self-reimbursements.
Other costs
Harrell also reimbursed himself for a variety of expenses beyond travel, bringing the total reported reimbursements since 2008 to $325,836, the newspaper's analysis found.
He took more than $7,500 over the past four years to pay for Christmas gifts and flowers for his staff and for fellow lawmakers.
This year, he reimbursed himself more than $58,600 for administrative and clerical staff. His campaign reports offered no additional details. In its statement, Harrell's office said those expenses "were related to Regina Keene, executive assistant and scheduler for the speaker who works out of his Charleston office."
Harrell's office did not respond to follow-up questions asking why the campaign did not pay Keene directly. In an email, Foster said "all appropriate state and federal payroll taxes are withheld and filed as appropriate."
Rather than pay a phone and Internet provider directly, Harrell paid himself more than $16,000 since 2008 to cover those and other "communications" and "computer services" costs, his filings show. Instead of paying the U.S. Postal Service, he paid himself more than $1,200 for postage over that time, the reports show. No receipts were provided.
Other lawmakers, including S.C. Reps. Seth Whipper and Jenny Horne, made detailed disclosures that reported direct payments to vendors.
Whipper, D-North Charleston, bought stamps at the Pinehaven Post Office in North Charleston for $84, according to one of his reports. Horne, R-Summerville, reported paying $225 in April to the Post Office on North Gum Street in Summerville.
Horne's fuel charges also were detailed. She reported paying $52.50 to the Shell station on North Main Street in Summerville for gas to travel to a "Caucus Tax Committee meeting," according to the filing. Other legislators reported gas mileage reimbursement to specific meetings or campaign events.
Driving a car is not practical for the speaker, his spokesman said.
"Using his own plane allows him to attend and address many more of these duties than had he driven to them all, and allows him to get back home to his family."
Reach Renee Dudley at 937-5550 or on Twitter @renee_dudley.
Editor's note: Earlier versions of this story need correcting. South Carolina law does not require House Speaker Bobby Harrell to produce for the public receipts or itemized invoices accounting for how he spent campaign funds. It does require him to maintain the records, receipts or other proof of payment for campaign expenditures dating back four years. The Palmetto Leadership Council, a political action committee affiliated with Harrell, has given campaign contributions to certain legislative candidates and members. The House Ethics Committee is a separate and independent body that does not report to Speaker Harrell.


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The summer has taken a decidedly chilly turn since celebs began accepting the Ice Bucket Challenge – you know, the social media-driven stunt that's been dominating your newsfeed this month in an effort to raise awareness and money for Lou Gehrig's disease. (Participants must decide within 24 hours whether they want to dump arctic H2O on their heads or donate $100 to the ALS Association in the most common variation of the challenge.)
Cold water, bikinis, a good cause: Really, it's no surprise stars from Katie Holmes and Neil Patrick Harris (the latest to feel the freeze) to Taylor Swift and Justin Timberlake have reached for their respective buckets, put on their bravest faces and accepted their cold, cold fates.
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Honolua's Lipoa Point is one of few areas left in West Maui that has resisted commercial development, and now that state lawmakers have alloted $20 million toward its preservation, it is likely to stay that way.
The funds were appropriated as part of a $23.7 billion biennium budget proposal that cleared the state legislative conference committee Tuesday and is headed for a final vote by both houses of the Legislature sometime next week, officials said.
The funds would allow the state to acquire about 280 acres of coastal lands surrounding and north of Honolua Bay.
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With Honolua Bay in the foreground, Lipoa Point juts into the Pacific Ocean. A legislative conference committee has approved $20 million for the purchase of the land from Maui Land & Pineapple Co. for preservation purposes. The bill containing the funds will be voted on by both houses of the state Legislature next week.
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During last year's General Plan discussions, groups sought to have the area designated for preservation from its current agricultural zoning. Landowner Maui Land & Pineapple Co. resisted, saying the change would devalue the land and jeopardize pension agreements for its workers.
"A crisis turned into an opportunity for the community to acquire this asset as well as assist the pensioners and create an area that can be used to help preserve our wildlife and environment," said West Maui state Rep. Angus McKelvey, who spearheaded efforts in the Legislature to preserve the coastal land in perpetuity.
"It's a win-win situation," he said.
When asked if there was any chance that Lipoa Point would be developed in the coming years, even after the state Department of Land and Natural Resources acquires the land, McKelvey said no.
"No way. If the money is released and DLNR can clear negotiations with ML&P, the bay is safe in perpetuity with the people of Hawaii, forever. . . . The trust is now in the hands of the public."
State Sen. Roz Baker, who represents South and West Maui, commended lawmakers for "a very big step" in preserving an iconic landmark in Hawaii.
"What this says is that the Legislature is very concerned about preserving those special places that are important to our individual communities," said Baker. "The thought of a million-dollar house built on that point and not allowing anyone else to enjoy that special place would be a tragedy."
Though the funds have been approved by the state legislative conference committee, a separate measure, House Bill 1424, which mandates that the money received by ML&P must go toward pension funds and absolves the state from any remaining liability, is still making its way through the Legislature. The bill passed through a conference committee Thursday and will be voted on by both chambers Tuesday.
Lawmakers are confident that the measure will pass.
"It's a done deal that this is going to happen, but it's not going to happen tomorrow or the next day," said Baker. "The funds don't become available until July, and there's a process that follows."
After the funds are released, DLNR will most likely buy the land from ML&P at a price that has not yet been determined. The state will then partner with Hawaiian Islands Land Trust, a Wailuku-based nonprofit organization, to manage and preserve Lipoa Point, Baker said.
"The details still have to be worked out - the particulars of the deal with the landowner, the state . . . and all the other partners," said Ted Clement, executive director of the Hawaiian Islands Land Trust. "But there is consensus that this property should be protected in perpetuity for the benefit of the public and should continue to be public access."
Landowner ML&P had no comment, according to President and Chief Operating Officer Ryan Churchill. However, in written testimony on HB 1424 he said that the company was "supportive" of the measure. ML&P has been "working for many years with the community, including Hawaiian Islands Land Trust, Save Honolua Coalition and various government agencies in their efforts to acquire the coastal lands surrounding and north of Honolua Bay," said Churchill.
DLNR also supports the measure, according to department Deputy Director Esther Kia'aina.
"Anything we do will be in concert with concerns and desires of the community," said Kia'aina. "We don't have the details set on exactly what will happen, but we just know that we want the area preserved for generations to come."
"We are incredibly grateful," said Tamara Paltin, president of the Save Honolua Coalition.
Last year, Mayor Alan Arakawa negotiated a plan for the county to purchase Lipoa Point that would have required the community - to be led by the Save Honolua Coalition - to raise $5 million.
"We didn't just raise $5 million, we raised $20 million," said Paltin, taking some credit for the legislative appropriation. Because the mayor did not mandate the money having to come from private entities, she said that the group focused on obtaining public funds through lobbying the state Legislature.
"It's just the beginning, it's a great beginning, but now we really need to come together as a community to work with the state, the kupuna, the aha moku to make sure this area gets taken care of," she said.
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1 clove garlic, minced
2 medium organic potatoes, peeled and chopped
1/2 cup celery, diced
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Graduates from Radford University in Virginia say their spring 2013 diplomas contain not one, but two misspellings, Roanoke TV station Roanoke TV station WDBJ reported.
In one, the word "Virginia" is missing an "I," turning it into "Virgina."
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As week 16 is about to begin, Dolphins fans can't help to look ahead to April with a 5-9 record. After a 0-7 start draft talk has dominated the minds of Dolphins fans across the nation. Since we can't talk playoff scenarios in Miami, I guess it's time for some potential draft day scenarios.With 3 elite QB prospects in the draft, it would appear there is a good chance that this is the year the Dolphins will finally draft a 1st round QB.
Assuming the Dolphins lose out (@ Pats, vs. Jets) the Dolphins will finish with a 5-11 record putting them in the top 8 at the very worst of the NFL draft. It is never smart to assume wins or loses on an NFL schedule but here is some speculation of where the Dolphins may end up selecting next year's draft.
1) Indianapolis Colts ( 2- 16)- Andrew Luck, QB, Stanford
While many are beginning to talk how it is possible the Colts will play themselves out of Andrew Luck, I see them falling just short of doing so. While they have two winnable games (Hous, @ Jags) I only believe they will be able to pull out one victory of the two.
2) Minnesota Vikings (2-16) : – Matt Kalil, OT, USC
Falling just short of the 1st pick overall due to SOS (strength of schedule), the Vikings will take a sure thing in left tackle Matt Kalil.
3) St Louis Rams ( 2-16) – Morris Claiborne, CB, LSU
St Louis will be in tough against the Vikings for the 2nd overall pick because they most likely want Kalil too but Claiborne here makes plenty of sense too
4) Cleveland Browns ( 4- 12) Matt Barkley, QB, USC
To the dismay of the Dolphins fans, I expect the second QB of the draft to go off the board at pick number 4. With games against Baltimore and Pitt it seems almost a 100% inevitability the Browns finish at 4-12. Barkley probably fits with the Browns better but they could go with RG3.
5) Jacksonville Jaguars: (4-12) Justin Blackmon, WR, Oklahoma State
Dolphin's fans better hope Blackmon is still on the board when the Jags are drafting so they aren't tempted to with RG3. With games against the Colts and Titans, I am only predicting one win but two would be possible placing them behind the Phins.
6) Tampa Bay Buccaneers (4-12): Dre Kirkpatrick, CB, Alabama
I don't think the Bucs win another game and therefore take Ronde Barber's replacement.
7) Miami Dolphins : (5-11) Robert Griffin, QB, Baylor
If the Dolphins lose out, they would probably still have a strong shot at RG3. Washington still has the Vikings on their schedule and I think Carolina will beat Tampa Bay both scenarios see the Dolphins moving up in the draft.
Maybe I am biased but I still think there is a strong possibility of the Dolphins getting RG3 or Barkley.


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He did not skate at Belgian Championships, but his sister did.
Thanks, Kalina!
Here's the thread about Kaitlyn Weaver's injury:
I can't help but shake my head at the amount of injuries this year... Yes, maybe starting this thread has made me see them more, but on the other hand, one of the reasons I did start it, was that there were so many injuries, I couldn't keep track of them all! Honestly... (just shakes head, speechless)
Each season the skaters have to add more and more tricks, especially in pairs and dance.
In dance, the girls are starting to need to have the same weight and size as pairs skaters to enable the boy to throw them around into various positions like rag dolls! It's becoming way too acrobatic for my liking......
As has been noted in the Russian skaters-thread, Julia Lipnitskaia is out of Russian Nationals -
"Lipnitskaia qualified for the Grand Prix Final in Sochi but withdrew due to injury: during training, she lost balance on the entry to a spin, split her chin and sustained a slight concussion. Doctors advised that she not compete and to stay off the ice for at least two weeks. However, according to the latest news, she needs more time for the complete recovery."
And from this article:
About Plushenko:
" "I have only resumed doing quads here in Sochi, he explained. A month ago, I underwent a surgery and it resulted in a major drop in my physical conditioning. So it was only here, basically yesterday and today, that I managed to land a first couple of quads. I am especially happy that I did it, even though I failed to land a clean one during the warm up. "
"The student of Alexei Mishin credits intense training early in the season for his recent bout of health issues.
I have attempted too many jumps early in this season, Plushenko stated. I started to land quad Salchows, begun working on the quad Lutz I am not young any longer.
Truth to be told, I have already forgotten when I competed healthy, he lamented. Fortunately, I know pretty well how to skate while injured, through pain. I have year of experience in tolerating it. "
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I am very happy with my performance, but I had to fight for it, admitted the 2006 Olympic Champion. Yesterday, I said that the long program would be much harder and the prediction turned out to be true. My back ached and I had to skate through this pain.
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More Plushenko details from this article:
It almost feels like going home, joked Plushenko, who at the age of 30, and days before becoming a father for the second time, combines a Zen-like detachment with a sense of invincibility that would make any teenager proud.
It was a thermal treatment of a disk hernia, he explained about the surgery. They make a cut, enter a catheter, and can follow the process on a monitor. Surgeons sear the hernia with a special liquid under general anesthesia. You are not allowed do anything for ten days. I was back on the ice in seven.
After the surgery, the doctors told me to stay off ice for a month, he added. However, it was not for me. As usual, I had to jump the gun. I felt that need to run fast in order to defend my position. I had the National Championships coming up, so, not only did I start to train too early, but I started to train too intensely.
As a result, complications arose which required another medical intervention, this time closer to home.
I got an injection, a block, in St. Petersburg at a presidential clinic, he said.
Unsurprisingly, his physical condition plummeted.
I am a grown up man, but I cried in practices because I was not able to do anything, revealed the three-time World champion. I was not able to land a triple loop, triple Salchow, or triple Lutz. I had to start from the scratch. All the progress I had achieved this summer it was gone. I felt like giving up.
The next stop for the ten-time National Champion is another visit to a doctors office.
This was the most important National title in my career, he said. The circumstances were very difficult. I wanted to withdraw. Or, more accurately, to withdraw would have been a right thing to do at the time. So, now I will take a short break and I will have another injection in St. Petersburg and let the doctors work their magic on me.
Then I will prepare for the Europeans, he continued. The rivals will be strong, so I have to bring back two quads and a quad-triple combination. I think my muscles are up to the task, but everything depends on my back now. "
There is more in the article, of course - I tried to keep this to what is most health-related.
Gachinski gave an interview in Russian to a site called "All Sport", where he tried to explain what is going wrong with him:
All Sport: "Gachinski: Confidence seems to come, but on the ice it can not reflect"I strongly numb legs and appear very uncomfortable. It started last year, but then it was not so pronounced. Doctors say flat - CLOTHING insole. Influence rather than that, and a strange lack of preparation before each rental. The disease, the common cold, then something else.
Need to understand yourself, and then go to the gym. Confidence seems to come, Im all figured out, but on the ice until it fails to reflect
Mishin also provided an interesting comment after Nationals:
All Sport: "Alexei Mishin: We will prove to Gachinski his Olympic destiny""Arthur this year because of some very personal circumstances is not entirely stable.
Putting the pieces together, it seems there are three problems:
1) This problem with numbness in his legs
2) A weakened immune system
3) The "very personal" circumstances
Poor guy.
Thank you so much, karne! Indeed, one couldn't help but wonder what was the matter... Poor guy, indeed.
Denis Ten posted this on his facebook this morning:
"The season started roughly on me and recovering period took longer than doctors and I were expecting. 3,5 weeks with no skating made me realize how strong my dedication to sport is and how much I love what I do!
Fortunately, I'm back on ice now, I started training and last month has been very productive. I did a wonderful show in Germany and held the seminar for young skaters in Kazakhstan which went very very well!
I look forward to start competing soon and my first event may be in just one week."
Thanks Butterscotch17! It sounds as if his injury has made him even more keen to come back and show what he can do - it's nice to see that he's turning it into something positive, refuelling his fire. (What little I've seen, he overall seems like quite a positive guy.)
Some other threads relevant to this one
about Kiira Korpi's recent injury:
and on a more positive note, Alissa Czisny's recovery, and in the linked article she also discusses her injury:
Unfortunately, we now have this:
Alissa Czisny injured during FS on Jan 12
There's a Swedish saying: "Name the joy that lasts forever" - but this is a bit much!
Dreadful news about Alissa. I hope she recovers soon, but this doesn't sound promising, does it.
This is a young person's game. It seems like it is just not possible to subject your body to that kind of punishment for a decade.
Maybe they should change the rules to put less of a premium on jumps and elevate other aspects of skating instead. You could think of it in the same way as requiring hockey players to wear helmets -- less macho, more common sense.


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The black School of the Arts junior who was the target of a white senior's tweet containing the "n word" said Monday she hates going to school and has thought about "giving up" since the incident.
Tweet target's Mom, Lisa Herring, soon could be No. 1 academic leader for Charleston County schools
The high-ranking Charleston County school leader whose daughter was the target of a tweet using the "n word" likely will receive a promotion and raise.The county school board unanimously approved Monday night a reorganization of the district's top positions. The change elevates three positions to chief level, which will increase their duties and pay.Superintendent Nancy McGinley will bring her picks for any of these jobs back to the board for approval.Lisa Herring, whose daughter was involved in the controversy, is the district's associate superintendent for academic and instructional support. Her position will be elevated to chief academic officer and receive a roughly $20,000 salary hike. Herring makes $124,204.McGinley said she plans to open that position to internal candidates only and Herring would be a top contender.That position is significant because it was the job McGinley held before she became superintendent in 2007. The chief positions report directly to McGinley.The board also signed off on creating a new chief information officer. The executive director of technology position would be elevated to that job. John McCarron holds that post. He makes $105,427, and the new position would pay about $30,000 more annually.The final new slot will be a chief performance officer. The district's executive director of achievement and accountability will be elevated to that job. That position is now vacant, and McGinley said she would advertise nationally for it.Board Chairwoman Cindy Bohn Coats said the pay hikes were being made possible through cuts in other areas, and it wouldn't cost the district more money."We're going to hold (McGinley) accountable for it making a difference in the (district's) performance," she said.
Sixteen-year-old Imani Herring spoke to the Charleston County School Board for about two minutes during the public comment portion of its meeting. She said she was a victim of both cyberbullying and the media, which have portrayed her negatively and only reported one side of the story.
"Some say I have a voice," Herring, a vocal major, told the board. "Last week, I lost it."
Herring was mentioned by name in a tweet senior Ashley Patrick made from home in February. Patrick wrote: "If Imani makes one more got damn remark in Roger's class tomorrow ... (expletive) will drop." Patrick posted a link to a picture of a young white girl squeezing her eyes shut and crossing her fingers. The text on the photo read "I wish a nigga would."
Patrick made headlines last week because the district administration wanted to kick her out of the school, send her to an alternative program, and ban her from graduation and prom.
A quorum of the school board told Patrick last week that she could stay at School of the Arts but couldn't attend the prom or graduation. That changed over the weekend, and Patrick went to the prom and will be able to walk at graduation. She was suspended for five days, will have to do 20 hours of community service, and must write a 500-word essay on race and social media.
Patrick and her attorney argued the district administration wanted a harsher penalty for Patrick because of Herring's mother, Lisa Herring, one of the highest-ranking officials in the district. She oversees the district's behavior and discipline programs.
The Post and Courier asked to speak with Lisa Herring about this situation on May 3, but she declined to comment. She also said she would not allow her daughter to be interviewed.
After Imani Herring spoke to the board Monday, Lisa Herring stood in front of her daughter and refused to let her speak with a Post and Courier reporter. Instead, she said, Imani would do an interview with a television reporter. Herring then escorted her daughter and that reporter into a secure district area.
Imani Herring told the board that Patrick's tweet was a response to something she said in class with the teacher's permission, but Patrick didn't like it. Imani Herring said the tweet hurt, insulted and threatened her, and that adults had forgotten about her.
She said she's launching a campaign on cyberbullying and raising awareness about its negative effects.
Board Vice Chairman Craig Ascue decided on Saturday afternoon after talking to other board members that Patrick would be allowed to go to the prom and graduation. The board's ruling didn't specifically prohibit her from either and misinterpreted the intentions of the North Charleston Constituent School Board's disciplinary decision, Ascue said.
"We didn't say we would take those away," he said.
Patrick did not return a text message or phone call seeking comment. Someone took a photo on Saturday of Patrick wearing a red prom dress and using both hands to flip off the camera. The photo was posted on the social media site Instagram with the caption "AGP WON!!!!"
Her attorney, Dwayne Green, said he didn't see the photo as anything more than Patrick blowing off steam, and it's not clear who the gesture was directed toward.
"It's another example of the potential dangers of social media, but I don't know how anyone can control what their friends post or how they label photos," he said.
Green praised the county board for allowing her to go to prom and graduation.
"I'm thankful to the board for stepping in so the end of her senior year isn't completely ruined," he said. "Once prom and graduation are gone, you can't get those back."
Still, Ascue's decision isn't sitting well with some.
"This is just a big mess," said board member Michael Miller. "I'm not understanding the process. I never changed my decision."
It doesn't appear as if Ascue broke the state's Freedom of Information Act and he was simply clarifying the board's positions, said Jay Bender, attorney for the S.C. Press Association.


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Michael Stevens, PhD
Director, Clinical Neuroscience and Development Laboratory at Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center; Director, Child & Adolescent Research, The Institute of Living
Research Interests
Adolescent Behavior; Anxiety Disorders; Brain Mapping; Child Behavior Disorders; Child Development; Child Development Disorders, Pervasive; Depressive Disorder, Major; Electroencephalography; Impulsive Behavior; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Neural Pathways; Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders; Substance-Related Disorders; Adolescent Development
Research Organizations
Research Summary
The CNDLAB variously focuses on research of several psychiatric disorders commonly seen in pediatric groups, including Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, Conduct Disorder, and Autism Spectrum Disorders. To better understand how abnormalities of brain structure and function may contribute to these illnesses, the laboratory employs functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electrophysiology (event-related potential and time-frequency decomposition analyses), eye tracking techniques, neuropsychological assessment, brain structure analysis (including diffusion tensor imaging), and genetic analysis techniques. The CNDLAB also uses these techniques to study brain structure and function during typical adolescent and young adult maturation.
Extensive Research Description
Currently, Dr. Stevens is responsible for directing a clinical neuroscience research lab at the Olin NRC that uses neuroimaging (both fMRI and structural neuroimaging) and other neurobiological research techniques (EEG, genetics, neuropsychological assessment) to address cognitive and clinical neuroscience questions in childhood psychiatric disorders. Dr. Stevens' faculty responsibilities all directly involve research, or teaching/administrative duties relevant to this research mission. Dr. Stevens' research is broadly aimed at better understanding the neurobiological basis of many different neuropsychiatric illnesses. He is principal investigator on projects studying the genetic and neural basis of AD/HD, Conduct Disorder, adolescent depression, and traumatic brain injury, and makes active contributions to multiple other NIH-funded grants of his colleagues. Although he has varied interests in the types of psychopathology he studies, his career activities have been generally focused on understanding developmental aspects of psychopathology. His research program to date can be broadly described as study of neurobiological risk for psychiatric illness, differentiating clinically similar psychiatric disorders that arise in childhood on the neurobiological level (including identifying predictive endophenotypes for genetic association studies), and studying the interaction of neurobiological abnormalities and maturation. In particular, Dr. Stevens has made significant conceptual contributions in the past several years to understanding neural network connectivity in neurodevelopmental psychiatric illnesses and cognitive development. He is positioned to become a leader in the field of developmental cognitive neuroscience by examining trajectories of neural network development, relationships between structural and functional neural network integration, and how abnormalities in systems-level brain connectivity contribute to the pathophysiology of psychiatric illnesses.
Selected Publications
- Hyatt, CJ, Haney-Caron, E., Stevens, MC. (in press). Cortical thickness and folding deficits in conduct-disordered adolescents. Biological Psychiatry.
- Pavuluri, M. N., Ellis, J. A., Wegbreit, E., Passarotti, A. M., & Stevens, M. C. (2012). Pharmacotherapy impacts functional connectivity among affective circuits during response inhibition in pediatric mania. Behavioural Brain Research, 226(2), 493-503.
- Wegbreit, E., Ellis, J. A., Nandam, A., Fitzgerald, J. M., Passarotti, A. M., Pavuluri, M. N., & Stevens, M. C. (2011). Amygdala Functional Connectivity Predicts Pharmacotherapy Outcome in Pediatric Bipolar Disorder. Brain Connectivity, 1(5), 411-422
- Witt ST, Lovejoy DW, Pearlson GD, Stevens MC (2010). Decreased prefrontal cortex activity in mild traumatic brain injury during performance of an auditory oddball task. Brain Imaging Behav 4(3-4): 232-247.
- Stevens, M.C. (2009). The developmental cognitive neuroscience of functional connectivity, Brain & Cognition. 70(1):1-12
- Stevens, M.C., Skudlarski, P., Pearlson, G.D., Calhoun, V.D. (2009) Age-related cognitive gains are mediated by the effects of white matter development on brain network integration. NeuroImage, 48: 738-746.
- Stevens, M.C., Pearlson, G.D., Calhoun, V.D. (2009). Changes in the interaction of resting state neural networks from adolescence to adulthood. Human Brain Mapping, 30(8): 2356-2366.
- Stevens, M. C., Kiehl, K. A., Pearlson, G. D., & Calhoun, V. D. (2009). Brain network dynamics during error commission. Hum Brain Mapp, 30(1), 24-37.
- Stevens, M. C., Pearlson, G. D. & Kiehl, K. A. (2007). An fMRI auditory oddball study of combined-subtype Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Am J Psychiatr, 164, 1-13.
- Stevens, M. C., Kiehl, K. A., Pearlson, G. D., & Calhoun, V. D. (2007). Functional neural networks underlying response inhibition in adolescents and adults. Behav Brain Res, 181(1), 12-22.


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I wrote, drew & colored a 6 page Bee & Puppycat story for KaBoom! It's out in February in Volume 2 of the collected Bee & Puppycat comics.
in Sick Day, Bee and Puppycat still have to do a magical temp job, even if Bee is totally worn out from a all-night movie marathon.
I was so excited to do a little comic for Boom! studio's Peanuts: A Tribute, celebrating Peanuts' 65th anniversary. Peanuts was one of the first comics I read and was inspired by, and it still influences my art today. I was so honored to be in a book alongside so many fantastic cartoonists!
Pencil Pup is an ongoing web comic about a cute dog with pencil legs that has ensnared a little girl in its paper wonderland. Silly and sometimes a little sinister, Pencil Pup is a cute comic that's sort of about the joy of drawing. But mostly it's about how cute Pencil Pup is.
The whole comic can be read at the comic archive at www.pencilpup.com.
Parts of the comic have also been collected in mini-comic format.
School of World is a more-or-less daily gag strip that my friend Rel writes and I draw. It's sort of about a Little Boy learning about the world, and sort of a fun outlet for us to improvise together and have fun. Using the 'ask' feature on tumblr, we also let Little Boy and Papa explore reader's questions about the world as well! The whole comic can be read at School of World's main site, and is also collected into 4 book editions so far.
A 12 page mini-comic of Magical Girl jokes and adventures. The first 3 pages were originally published in in 2014 in the Hana Doki Kira anthology. The later pages were added in spring 2015.
a pdf of the whole mini-comic can be purchased here!
a 4 page comic about Pokemon, Animal Crossing, and the feeling of playing a handheld game.
Drawn for the Chailmail Bikini Anthology, put together by Hazel Newlevant. Available in digital form at gumroad, the physical version debuts at SPX 2015.
a standalone comic done for the Terrestrial anthology, arranged by Amanda Scurti, focusing on fantasy stories with 'earth' as a theme.
I had fun drawing sparkling witches!
I drew a pair of one-shot backup comics for issue #5 of Boom Studio's Steven Universe comic!
drawn in spring 2013, my submission for the excellent Animal Crosszine!
I love Animal Crossing, so this was super fun to do.
A little Charlie Brown/Magical Girl mash-up comic I did for a newspaper comic strips themed zine. I loved drawing this so much, even if the ghost of Charles Schulz will probably eternally haunt me for it.
I did the art for Issues 1 and 2 of I'm Not OmniGirl, written by Lauren Burke! A continuation of our Womanthology entry, about a normal teenage girl and the superheroine she happens to resemble.
Drawn in fall 2012 after getting excited about a new pokemon game and feeling nostalgic.
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Four Out of Five U.S. Smartphones Sold Run Android or iOS
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RIM is earning a reputation as the successor to Microsoft as the "biggest loser" in smartphone sales
most recent survey
by the NPD Group on U.S. smartphone sales offered few surprises as recent winners and losers for the most part furthered their respective streaks. The winners are, of course Apple, Inc. (
) and Google Inc. (
), while the losers are Canadian BlackBerry maker, Research In Motion, Ltd. (
). Windows Phone 7 manufacturer Microsoft Corp. (
), a perennial loser, was about the only party reverse its recent trend, posting a small growth.
I. Four Out of Every Five U.S. Smartphones are an Android or an Apple
For Apple and Google, they're seeing their individual growth more or less flat-line for this year, but this growth is still substantially elevated, when compared to 2010 numbers. Google's Android market share remained at 53 percent -- the
same number
the NPD group reported for
, and a significantly higher level than Jan.-Oct. 2010's ~21 percent which NPD
reported last year
. Likewise Apple grew from 21 percent to 29 percent.
RIM continues its humiliating fall, reaching a mere 10 percent of the U.S. market, down from a year ago when it held a quarter of it. On a quarterly basis RIM captured a miserable 8 percent of U.S. smartphone sales in Q3 2011. NPD analyst Ross Rubin, the report's author, pointed out that in the close to five years between Q2 2006 to Q3 2011, RIM has gone from owning 50 percent of the smartphone market to owning a sixth of that.
in 2009
RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis as saying, "sometimes we have to put the brakes on. We've shown that we can handle annual 100% growth. I'm not sure we could handle more than that."
RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie may be all laughs and grins, but his company's increasingly abysmal U.S. sales outlook has given investors little to crack a smile about. [Image Source:
Well RIM has certainly put the brakes on -- in fact it's put the vehicle in reverse and is backing up towards a cliff leaving investors yelling in the back seat.
II. Microsoft Performance is Slightly Better Than Last Time
For Microsoft the news was considerably better. Unlike RIM, which has no "plan B", Microsoft is
sitting on a pile of cash
some of it from Android
) and isn't afraid of throwing it at the smartphone market. And Microsoft has apparently passed on the tradition of standards bearer of the biggest losers side of the list to RIM.
While it still has a long, long ways to go to regain even a fifth of its Q2 2007 peak 25 percent market share, Microsoft did manage to reach a 2 percent market share with its Windows Phone platform -- up from 1 percent in August.
Looking ahead, Mr. Rubin argues that Nokia's Oyj. (
strong recent partnership with Microsoft
will have little immediate effect on the U.S. market because, he says, they have to "build from almost nothing."
An even bigger comeback story is the performance by Google-subsidiary Motorola, who rose from 1 percent of the market in 2009, to 12.1 percent today.
Ultimately, it remains to be seen in the long run whether Microsoft and Nokia will have enough fuel left in the tank to achieve an equivalent level of comeback success as Motorola. But signs of Microsoft's general direction should become more evident by next year, Mr. Rubin says.
III. RIM Could Follow in Palm's Footsteps if it Doesn't Beware
A shift for RIM will be even more noticeable, as continued declines could push it to be sold or at least commit to serious global cutbacks. RIM has brought some of its trouble on itself. After
announcing that its next generation smartphone OS would be dubbed BBX
-- a trademark
clearly registered and actively used
by a separate software company in the U.S for years, RIM was sued and ordered to cease using the name.
Now RIM is
offering customers the moniker "BlackBerry 10"
. The underlying OS looks promising -- barring a
glaring security issue
uncharacteristically presented itself
in QNX, BB7's parent OS. That said, the naming issues might serve to distract and confuse some would-be buyers.
To its credit, RIM has always managed to drawn strong sales thanks its IT-strength software, allowing it to pinch on hardware costs and post some almost Apple-esque profits. But even that may be coming to the end. From Q1 to Q3, RIM saw its profits fall to a third of their previous levels down to $329M USD from $934M USD. A quarter or two more like that and RIM could find itself in the red.
Mr. Rubin opines, "The competitive landscape for smartphones, which has been reshaped by Apple and Google, has ultimately forced every major handset provider through a major transition. For many of them, 2012 will be a critical year in assessing how effective their responses have been."
While he did not mention it, one of the biggest smartphone stories of 2011, aside from the Nokia-Microsoft affair was Hewlett-Packard Company's (
) decision to
kill sales of webOS smartphones
, effectively striking a death blow to the remains of Palm, Inc. -- a firm that had close to 20 years of mobile device experience and almost 10 years of smartphone sales.
The smartphone event of 2011 may have been the death of HP's ex-Palm unit, a veteran core that had stuck it out for almost 20 years. [Image Source: Gigaom]
Once viewed as the chief competitor to Apple, Palms' sales plunged prompting a
2010 fire sale
to HP for $1.2B USD. From there things went from bad to worse, with HP's
deteriorating management
driving the struggling unit to its grave.
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RE: Where goeth Pirks?
What? You want me to reply to a dumb illiterate reporter like Mick who saw RIM handsets only on pictures and thinks BB7 is the next version of the QNX derived smartphone OS? Are you even serious? Jeez, I can't believe people could be THAT dumb. Even dumber than cheesy bitch. And that means a lot!
Well, I'm surprised why retro's not trolling RIM here too. Perhaps he is also ashamed to reply to the level of dumbness and illiteracy that Mick demonstrated here by calling BB7 "the next QNX derived BB OS". I say, Mick is even beyond dumb, I don't know how to call this, super dumb maybe? Seems like he trolls RIM because he's being paid by some Android company like Google or something. He can't be just doing this because of pure stupidity, no way!
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