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Local cartoonist Bill Bettwy is now national cartoonist Bill Bettwy.
Bettwy has been contributing occasional editorial cartoons to the Mirror for the past five-plus years, but he got his big break recently when King Features Syndicate began to carry carry his comic strip, "Take it from the Tinkersons."
It's a family-oriented spoof that began running in more than 50 newspapers across the country, including the Mirror, last month.
Brendan Burford, editor for King Features, said the syndicate only adds about one strip per year, and competition is so keen that he said statistics suggest it's more difficult to crack the cartooning world than it is Major League Baseball.
Either way, Bettwy's achievement is a home run, and he deserves congratulations.
We're proud that the Mirror played a role in helping to get him started, and a national audience can now also enjoy his artwork and humor.
Of the local politicians, Bettwy's caricature of Altoona Mayor Bill Schirf may be his best. Even though one recent cartoon infuriated Schirf to the point that he paid a visit to the Mirror, he admitted he loved Bettwy's depiction.
The Mirror doesn't add and subtract comics too often, but we felt it was appropriate to add Bettwy's strip - in part because it's a great strip and in part because he's local.
To make room, after discussion, the decision was made to drop "For Better Or For Worse," which had been in reruns since 2010.
The transition has been smooth as complaints have been minimal - surely fewer than those enjoying Bettwy's success with "The Tinkersons."
Notable ...
- You've no doubt noticed the onslaught of election letters, particularly in the race for Blair County judge, that have dominated the Opinion page for more than a month. In an attempt to be as fair as possible, we've tried to publish almost all of the letters during the week, rather than on Sundays, when our circulation is higher.
- This is the season in which the Mirror shines its spotlight on the community. We'll stage our 20 Under 20 banquet, which honors top students who have combined outstanding academics with special artistic talents, Tuesday. Our 20 Under 40 will recognize business achievement and community servants under 40 in the June issue of Blair Living, and our 2013 high school athletes of the year will be named May 20.
- With spring upon us, we're resurrecting "The Porch Tour," featuring readers enjoying the Mirror on their porch. Call me if you'd like to be a subject - keeping in mind that, unlike one potential candidate a few years ago, it's not because you've gotten new porch furniture.
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014
It is well documented that I am not a handyman.
I didnt take shop in high school. I know where you stick the ignition key and how to set the dashboard clock when we spring forward or fall back, but my definition of auto repair is having the mechanics phone number on my cell phones speed dial, and I have no clue how to set up speed dialing.
Im not a complete buffoon, mind you. I have skills, and they are manly skills.
I could throw a baseball harder than anybody else and I am a magician with a piece of cooked meat.
But I dont do yard work.
I dont do home repair.
My idea of having five tools is that I can hit for power, hit for average, throw, field, and run fast.
I have two basic rules of home repair: If its stuck and needs to be unstuck use some WD40. If its unstuck and needs to be stuck, get the duct tape.
Ive said this about duct tape enough times I can almost claim it as mine: If the ancient pharoahs had access to duct tape, the Sphinx would still have a nose.
So this week I had the occasion to venture into a Lowes and Home Depot in search of plastic chair pad thingies.
I hate shopping.
Browsing is not a part of my vocabulary. If I cant buy it why am I looking at it?
Thats like watching someone else eat.
I found going to Lowes amusing because never before had a grown man walking into a Lowes or Home Depot have less business being in there more than I.
There is nothing in these stores that I either want or can use.
Theres no Sporting Goods department here. No book section, either. No deli counter or bakery.
And no Starbucks.
My handyman pedigree is this: Ive used a Phillips head screwdriver more often to clean out my ears than I have trying to affix a Phillips head screw.
I do though, cop Man Card points simply by owning a Phillips head screwdriver, and this thing has magnetized reversable heads, too.
Chalk up another Man Card point.
But here I am walking into Lowes looking for plastic chair pad thingies.
Please note, if you have to use the word thingie to describe something, its a given you have absolutely no clue what youre talking about.
After 20 minutes of wandering around Lowes, I realized I was lost; and yes, I get lost in Lowes and Home Depot on a regular basis, which meant my chances were better than half that I would never be seen or heard from again. My purgatory would be to forever walk around the home appliance section of Lowes wondering why these refrigerators had no food.
Eventually, I did happen across a helpful Lowes associate somewhere way back in the lumber department, and asked him where I could find the plastic chair thingies.
He looked at me like I was breathing air he could be breathing, and said, Well for sure not in the lumber department. Lumber is made out of wood. Chair thingies are plastic.
Good point - even if it was sarcasm.
Good news though, I did eventually find the plastic chair thingies at Office Max, but they only had two.
I needed five or six.
You know you could have ordered these online, the sales rep said.
I wonder if Google knows how to differentiate between plastic chair pad thingie or say, picture hanger thingies.
I need those, too.
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HuneoH Custom Skate Decks sure showed Element and Adio where to stick it (right up their ass).
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Book and ebook versions of major styles guides.
EndNote is bibliographic manager software allows researchers to save and organize results of database searches or lists of bibliographic references. A web-based product called EndNote Online is also available.
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January 11, 2013
New state school Superintendent James Phares has been given a head start over legislators in beginning major education reform in West Virginia. It will be important for him to use the time wisely....
Students who want to succeed will. The rest are too busy having xes and doing some sort of drug. We have some bad teachers, and we have some fantastic teachers. Just the same as we do parents. We have so many students that do not have a command of the English language. If anyone is holding back good students, it is the crowd of disrespectful future criminals. That is depressing for the students that are excited about their future. It is also depressing for the teachers. Remember the dunce cap? Good idea to bring back.
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WV school will NEVER improve their near the bottom rankings in measurement of achievement until they start holding the teachers responsible. WV teacher salaries are in the upper half of US teachers rank.
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Here's an idea for our own Manny and the new eduocrat, Jimmy Phares. Identify the best schools in the state BASED SOLELY upon their students' performance on standardized tests. And, no, not just WesTest2 but ACTs and SATs too. Invite them to a central location and spend the day asking THEM what works to increase student performance. I guarantee that you will learn a great deal about improving the results of the education system in West Virginia. To heck with the eduocrats and legislative committees and paid consultants. Ask those who succeed.
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Liberals don't do everything wrong, Cowbell, just most things. Maryland residents and those of other lefty states usually have nice teeth, too. The latter is a function of money while the former is not. WV students perform miserably but per capita spending on K-12 education is consistently strong. WV ranks, consistently, in the mid 20s among states in that category but at the bottom for student performance. Why? Are our kids collectively stupid? Are their parents very different? Are our teachers less skillful or caring? I don't know but I do know that the emphasis locally when it comes to education is on teacher awards and student athletics. (Right, Photo-Op Manny?)
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Cowbell, we can only hope so...
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Wait just a minute! At the Dec. 12th WV state BOE meeting, Linger specifically stated that "it would delay tapping a permanent successor until an extensive nationwide search is completed" and that "person will serve on a temporary basis while the board conducts a "serious nationwide search" for a permanent superintendent of schools." So please explain whether Phares is acting as "temporary" superintendent until the nationwide search is completed or is he the permanent replacement and how is that "serious nationwide search" coming along?!? Phares shouldn't have to make too many tough decisions – no doubt the BOE members and their political friends will lay it all out for him.
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Hao about making the tough decisions required to improve student performance? That would be a welcome change. The state's ballyhooed ranking of 9th as an education includes a factor that is the single most important: A grade of F in student poerformance. I guess the state got the high marks in union relationships and the air quality in the schools.
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Feb. 17, 1910 – March 3, 2013
Leon Davis Sr., a retired laborer, died Sunday in Niagara Lutheran Home. He was 103.
Born in Amite County, Miss., he moved with his family to Gloster, Woodville and Centreville, Miss., where he went to school.
Before he moved to Buffalo in 1948, Mr. Davis worked at various jobs, including in a sawmill in Cosby, Miss., and a steel plant in Gary, Ind.
When he came to Buffalo, he found work as a bricklayer at the Bethlehem Steel plant in Lackawanna and continued to work there for 30 years until he retired in May 1972.
Mr. Davis enjoyed getting up early and walking from his Masten Avenue home to meet friends at a favorite spot at Jefferson Avenue and East Utica Street. After that, he would head to the 1490 Community Center for many years.
He moved into senior apartments of 1490 Enterprises, where he lived until he was 97 years old. He then moved into the Niagara Lutheran Assisted Living Center and then to Niagara Lutheran Home.
Mr. Davis was an avid baseball fan, especially of the New York Yankees. He also enjoyed fishing and hunting.
His first wife, Margaret Stewart Davis, died in September 1944.
He married Addie B. Turner in August 1955. She died in December 1984.
Surviving are two sons, Leon Jr. and Jeffrey Murray, and a daughter, Bessie Carr.
Services will be at noon Friday in Metropolitan United Methodist Church, 657 Best St.


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"I thought everyone knew me and I didn't think that one little adjective was going to define me," DeGeneres, 56, exclusively tells PEOPLE in the latest issue. "I didn't have perspective for a while."
But these days, with a hugely successful daily talk show, best-selling books and an upcoming gig as the host of the 86th Annual Academy Awards on March 2, that painful rough patch is a distant, if surreal, memory.
"Now I look at it as a movie that I saw that someone went through," she says, "and I only experience the amazing life that I have right now."
One big reason for DeGeneres' gratitude: her thriving marriage to actress Portia de Rossi, whom she wed in 2008. "I love her so much it kills me," says DeGeneres.
Despite recent tabloid reports of strain in the relationship, DeGeneres and de Rossi are as happy as ever – and even currently remodeling a new home together.
"The tabloids had a photo of Portia not wearing her wedding ring. She goes, 'I didn't wear it because when I ride horses and I'm holding the reins, it gives me a blister!' " says DeGeneres, baffled at the rumors.
"The truth is, and this is corny, I fall more in love with Portia all the time. I really do. She surprises me all the time," she says. "It's what anyone experiences when you find that person that gets you, wants to take care of you, wants the best for you. We're really lucky because we know how rare it is."
It's in part because everything is going so smoothly in her life that DeGeneres accepted the challenge of hosting this year's Oscars.
"I thought why not challenge myself? I'm comfortable right now and it's never good to be comfortable as a performer," she says. "Hosting the Oscars is pretty much the scariest thing you can do. To me, this is right up there with bungee jumping!"
For more from DeGeneres's revealing interview, told in her own words, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday


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on May 20, 2013 - 4:02 PM
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Homicide victim Vincent J. Cottone's tavern in Kenmore was the site of three crimes – a burglary, a suspicious fire and a petit larceny – in the last two months, but Kenmore police aren't sure whether any of those crimes were related to his weekend killing.
But, Kenmore Police Chief Peter J. Breitnauer said Monday, investigators also "don't believe this was a random act."
The chief assured: "Residents of the village of Kenmore should not be alarmed. I believe this was a possible acquaintance."
Cottone died sometime Sunday morning, an apparent victim of blunt-force trauma, Breitnauer said. No gun was used, but the chief would not discuss any other weapons used in the attack at the victim's Landers Road home.
There was no sign of forced entry, police added.
Cottone, known to everyone as Jimmy, left his tavern, Malone's Bar & Grill, at 3020 Delaware Ave., a few minutes before midnight Saturday. When he did not appear at a scheduled Sunday morning staff meeting, his employees repeatedly called him. After they spotted his truck in the driveway of his nearby home, one of the workers went there, where she discovered his body at about 11 a.m.
"She came out screaming," said Toni Barone, Cottone's first cousin. "She was hysterical."
The bar was closed Monday afternoon and neighbors on Landers Road declined to comment out of respect for Cottone's family. Crime scene tape and a police presence remained in place for a second day.
Kenmore police confirmed three recent crimes at Malone's:
• A March 26 burglary, in which $350 was reported missing.
• An April 22 suspicious fire in a shed behind the tavern.
• A May 10 petit larceny.
Asked whether his investigators believe any of those crimes are connected to the killing, Breitnauer said, "I'm not going to say anything. It's all part of an ongoing investigation. We're going to look at everything."
Relatives said that after one of the crimes, a key was discovered in the front-door lock, which was confirmed by Breitnauer. Relatives said Cottone then asked to see each of his employees' keys; one of them claimed to have lost the key, and that worker was fired, relatives said.
"I know there have been people let go," Breitnauer said. "Would I term any of them a person of interest or a suspect now? No."
Family members say they can't make sense of the killing of a conscientious, hard-working man known for putting in long days at his tavern.
"Jimmy was the nicest, easygoing guy," Barone said. "He was just an outgoing person. He'd give you the shirt off his back."
She recalled telling him that she wanted new hardwood floors in her home but couldn't afford the labor. So Cottone, who liked to buy and remodel homes, did the work himself.
"I didn't even have to ask him," she said.
People in the Kenmore business community remembered Cottone for his determination to be a good neighbor. He worked hard to create a clean, inviting atmosphere at his bar – even if it meant doing the work himself.
"The first week he was here he took every piece of equipment out of the kitchen, put it in the parking lot and power-cleaned the kitchen," said Joe Carriero, owner of Malone's neighbor, Marco's Italian Deli. "He wouldn't even cook until it was clean."
After the suspicious shed fire in April, which wasn't covered by insurance, Cottone and a friend bought lumber and rebuilt it themselves, Carriero said.
Cottone stopped in at Marco's late Saturday afternoon for a bowl of soup, Carriero said, and the two men had plans to cross-promote each other's businesses with coupons.
"I lost a guy I considered a friend," he said.
Melissa Foster, founder of the Kenmore Village Improvement Society, said she was thrilled with the improvements Cottone was making to his bar, including the addition of flowers on the patio, large mirrors and dividers inside and an expanded kitchen.
"I went in one day and he himself was personally covering the bar stools in new fabric," she said. "This is how concerned he was with the comfort of the people who go there."
"He wanted it to be known as a friendly place and as really a Kenmore gathering place," she said.
Family members suspect the killer may have been involved in at least some of the recent crimes at the bar, but they don't understand why Cottone had to be killed.
"If you want to rob somebody, why would you have to kill him?" Barone asked. "And we heard it was very brutal."
Relatives also identified Cottone as the uncle of Carly Collard Cottone, founder of Carly's Club for Kids, a group founded to offer support programs for children and their families affected by cancer. Carly was diagnosed with brain cancer in 1999 when she was 8 years old. She died three years later.
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There are clearly many bicycling/fitness groups out there!.....So, what makes this group different?
Here's one members testimonial from our 2009 Nantucket Trip:
" One of the best weekends of this summer. Words can't summarize my experience. Absolutely wonderful people with a great sense of humor. Time just flew by. Thanks, Rob for organizing this event and WE ( I take the liberty of every one that attended here) truly appreciate your time & thoughtfulness. Simply put it we had a BLAST; Thank you again and look forward few more meet ups before the season ends. "
Karan: 2009 Nantucket Trip Participant
Organizer Rob Fox writes: "I've participated in so many other biking/fitness groups over the years where it seems like the main goal is to just get to the finish first. In our group, we are not only out to get a good fitness ride in (average pace 12-15 mph) but I like for people to leave our rides feeling like they just made a bunch of great new friends! Join us! We're a fun group and we love cycling!!"
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It wouldn't be spring at The Citadel without the annual concert by The Citadel Regimental Band and Pipes.
This year's concert will be at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 18 in McAlister Field House. The concert will be under the direction of retired Navy Cmdr. Mike Alverson and Pipe Director Jim Dillahey.
The cadets of the Regimental Band and Pipes will present selections of varied musical styles-from Broadway to the traditional sounds of Scotland. The band, one of the most recognized cadet organizations at The Citadel, was one of the featured performers at the 2010 Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, a nightly show held each summer in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featuring military musicians and performing groups from around the world. This summer the Regimental Band and Pipes will perform at the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
As one of the 20 companies comprising the South Carolina Corps of Cadets, the Regimental Band and Pipes leads the way and sets the tempo that all other cadets follow. The Regimental Band is made up of about 70 cadet musicians. An important segment of cadet life at The Citadel, the Regimental Band contributes to the morale of the Corps and helps to maintain the martial atmosphere of the campus.
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It took them three days, but the Lady Swamp Foxes earned a 4-0 win over Summerville.
The crosstown rivals met in The Swamp Friday and the game moved slowly under overcast conditions. Ashley Ridge got a goal from Sara Goodwin to go up 1-0 and that lead held until the bottom fell out of the sky with 48 seconds remaining in the first half causing the rest of the game to be postponed.
Play resumed on Monday and after an uneventful 48 seconds and a short halftime break, Ashley Ridge picked up the pace and limited Summerville's scoring opportunities in the second half.
"If we play like we did in the second half tonight the rest of the season we should be fine," Ashley Ridge coach Mark Weaver said. "Right now we are playing with composure and confidence so if we keep it up we should be fun to watch and we should have some success."
The win left the Swamp Foxes (10-3, 7-0 in Region 8-AAAA) needing only one win in its final three region games to clinch the region championship and the top playoff seeding that accompanies the title. Summerville (4-8, 1-6) was left with its back against the wall, but not mathematically out of playoff contention.
Ashley Ridge was awarded a corner kick seven minutes into the second half and took advantage to cushion its lead. Senior Marin McDonough sent the kick in and sophomore Jaimy Farmer headed it in for the score.
With just more than 18 minutes remaining in the game, freshman Madyson Reed won a ball in front of the net, slide right and landed a shot for a 3-0 Swamp Fox lead.
The final goal came with just less than nine minutes remaining. Sophomore Amelia Clower passed to McDonough and she hit the shot.
Allyson Manns had the shutout in goal.
Ashley Ridge faced Colleton County (10-4, 4-4) Tuesday after press time. The Swamp Foxes will close their region schedule by hosting Bluffton (2-13, 1-6) Friday and traveling to Fort Dorchester (7-6, 5-3) April 30.
Summerville took on Fort Dorchester after press time and will close its region schedule by hosting Beaufort (5-7, 4-3) April 30 and Bluffton May 3.
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It's that time of year again. Sleigh bells are ringing and the sound of carols are drifting through the air. Although Christmas has a habit of getting lost in all the ribbons, bows and pretty paper, there are still quite a few teens that look past the price tags and commercial value of the holiday.
There are countless reasons to love Christmas, especially in Western New York. Besides that the chances of having a white Christmas are usually quite high, everyone seems to have their own special family traditions, often rooted deeply in their ethnicity. Of course, many of these ethnic traditions revolve around cultural food.
"Since my family is mostly Italian, every Christmas Eve my dad and mom make homemade lasagna and braciole," said Stephanie Dragone, a senior at Immaculata Academy. "My favorite food would have to be the lasagna and all the desserts my family makes … like sesame cookies, butterballs and thumbprint cookies."
Or perhaps your family fancies an Irish Christmas meal like Noah Martin, a junior at Global Concepts Charter High School. "We usually open gifts early, then my mom makes cinnamon rolls for breakfast. Then my mom makes cabbage, carrots, potatoes and ham for dinner."
"My whole family is mainly Polish, so when we go to Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, we receive a wafer called 'oplatek' that is blessed by the priest, and we eat it as a family at Christmas dinner," said Laura Rokitka, a senior at Immaculata Academy.
Much like Laura, my entire family celebrates a Polish Christmas Eve dinner, also known as Wigilia. We make pierogi from scratch and serve them for dinner with fish, and we share oplatek as well.
The food is just one part of the festivities though. Family gatherings in almost every family include gift exchanges, caroling and games.
"Even though it's not on Christmas, my mom's side of the family each year has a party at my house for Saint Nick's Day (Dec. 6)," said Bridget Barrett, a senior at Immaculata Academy. "Everyone comes over for dinner, then we all put our shoes on my front porch and sing Christmas carols in my living room while we wait for St. Nick to come. We have a '26 Days of Christmas' song that we sing that has all of our names incorporated into it, which is my favorite holiday tradition. Then, when we go out to get our shoes off my porch, there are giant bags of presents for all of us."
Pattie Wojcik, a senior at Lackawanna High School, plays her favorite family holiday game outside. "We play two-hand-touch football in the street, which we call the 'Sophie Bowl.' It was named after my great-grandmother."
Laura's favorite memory is a heartwarming story. "My favorite holiday memory was when it was around Christmas, about 13 years ago, when my dad brought home a stray puppy he found out by a farm where he was patrolling as a cop. He was very sick, so we took him under our wing and we named him 'Lucky' because he was lucky to be alive! Sadly, he died last year, and it's weird not giving him our table scraps, but Christmastime was forever changed by him," said Laura.
Andrew Phillips, a sophomore at St. Francis High School, had experienced a surprise a few years ago as well.
"My favorite holiday memory is definitely when I got my first guitar. Before I had a guitar I used to pretend I could play on a cardboard cutout with rubber bands. So on Christmas morning my parents surprised me with a real electric guitar. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I got a mini amp and everything. Who knew that 6 years later I would still be playing?"
Reminiscing on the best presents and memories is a wonderful thing to do. Unfortunately, eventually traditions and situations are sometimes forced to change, leaving nothing but memories. There is often sadness when that happens, but you can almost always find something to be happy about just as Andrew did when his grandfather passed away.
"Usually the day after Christmas, we would visit my mom's parents, but since my grandfather died, my grandmother has come to celebrate with us on Christmas Day," Andrew said. "This isn't really a bad change though, it just brings more people together."
The same goes for Kelly Hider, a sophomore at Immaculata Academy, who found joy even when some of her favorite traditions ceased.
"Most of my cousins have grown out of the gift swapping we used to do," Kelly said. "They either refuse to do so due to financial needs or just because of disinterest, so that idea has faded. However, it's enough to have us all under the same roof and celebrating the Christmas season together."
That's exactly the type of spirit that has gotten Pattie through some very difficult holiday seasons.
"The holidays have been pretty rough ever since my father passed away nine years ago," Pattie said. "He died on the 20th of December and we actually spent Christmas in a funeral home. Every year I still have a flashback to that very day."
The heartbreak didn't end there.
"This year is going to be rough as well with my grandmother's recent passing," she said.
Despite the somber events, Pattie and her family have kept their heads held high.
"It may seem weird, but even though they are gone my family is closer," she said. "We know that we only have each other, so we cherish the time spent with one another."
Daniel Ramirez, a junior at Pioneer Central High School, agrees with Pattie. "My favorite holiday was when we were all just together on Christmas Eve. It was perfect."
Even though Christmastime can become crowded with shopping lists and gift boxes or cookie trays and recipes, it's important to remember why we put so much effort into it all.
"It's funny how as time passes and we lose track of everything, how being grateful for the little things is lost and now expectation takes over," Pattie said. "I truly do wish I could go back to 4-year-old me and just not have a care in the world."
This year, remember to be thankful for the little things, look fondly on the past (even the gloomy times), and remember this from "The Polar Express": "Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see."
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Fitzgerald's statistical line, 0-0-0, looked more suitable for Rob Ray and was impossible to dress up. Most receivers would have dismissed the performance as one bad game during their rookie season and pushed it through a shredder. For Fitzgerald, the seventh game of his career became his personal trainer and motivational speaker.
The mere scent of that game last week was enough to arouse emotions in Fitzgerald that he had kept buried just beneath the surface. All these years later, the triple goose eggs still traumatize him like a gang of hoodlums who jumped him and stole his bicycle. And that's why he interrupted the prelude to a question.
"Oh, no, don't remind me,'' Fitzgerald pleaded by telephone. "Please don't remind me. I already know. It was the worst day professionally in my career up there in Ralph Wilson Stadium. We don't even have to talk about it, so don't even ask me. We know already what you're going to ask me.''
"You know when you come home and you know you're in trouble with your dad?'' he said. "You already know what you did wrong. He knows what you did wrong. And you say, 'Dad, look, I know I messed up. I apologize. I'm going to apologize before you even say anything.' "
Larry, it was eight years ago.
"And it still eats at me,'' he said. "It still bothers the heck out of me. I'm a professional. I take a lot of pride in what I do. You take pride in writing a good column, right? I've worked nine years tirelessly to make sure that doesn't happen again.''
Fitzgerald definitely knows his share about press coverage. His love for statistics was passed down from his father, Larry Sr., a sportswriter for the Minnesota Spokesman Recorder. He became the first to cover his son in a Super Bowl. In his rookie year, Larry Jr. memorized every offensive record in the Cardinals' media guide.
Now, at age 29, he owns most of them for receivers.
Buffalo's dilemma is covering Fitzgerald, who will be the best "Fitz'' on the field today. It would not be a total shock if Fitzgerald finished with more receiving yards than Ryan Fitzpatrick had passing yards. The Bills (2-3) have been mired in a full-blown crisis, and Fitzgerald is the last player they need across the line of scrimmage.
If they don't control the 6-foot-3, 218-pound receiver, particularly after the catch, they can forget about beating the Cardinals at University of Phoenix Stadium. Arizona already knocked off New England and Philadelphia en route to a 4-1 record, a mark some believe is a myth. Fitzgerald, however, is for real.
"He's an elite player, definitely one of the best wideouts in the game,'' Bills safety George Wilson said. "He's strong. He runs great routes, and he has soft hands. When I call him one of the best, let me rephrase. He's one of the elite, the creme de la creme of wide receivers we have in this league. When you mention wide receivers in any conversation, Larry Fitzgerald's name will be one of the first to come up.''
Fitzgerald, who has 25 catches for 250 yard and two TDs in his last three games, is 48 yards receiving shy of 10,000 in his career. The six-time Pro Bowl pick, who signed an eight-year contract worth $120 million before last season, could reach the milestone before halftime if the Bills continue their march toward the abyss.
Like many great ones, he's relentless and unforgiving when critiquing his own play. He straddles a line separating supreme confidence and radical insecurity, a search for perfection driven by reminders of failure. He had 159 passes thrown his way without a drop, a remarkable streak that ended this year and wasn't long enough to satisfy him.
"Oh, man, you're bringing up another sore subject,'' Fitzgerald said.
Actually, Larry, that was a compliment.
"It is not,'' Fitzgerald said. "It's a lack of concentration, a lack of focus and a lack of execution on my part. I'm better than that. I need to play at a higher level, especially if I want this offense to be as good as I know we're capable of being.''
When he was a sophomore at Pitt, he had eight catches for 225 yards and two touchdowns in the FIRST HALF against Rutgers. He's still infuriated because he was shut out in the second half.
"It was not my best game,'' he said. "I should have had 300 yards in that game. If I would have taken care of business in the second half, I probably would have won the Heisman Trophy that year. I cost myself.''
See what I mean?
And you wonder why he's been so successful while other look-at-me receivers – ahem, Stevie Johnson – couldn't carry his jock. Fitzgerald's attitude prevented him from believing today's contest was a rest stop on his way to Minnesota for his homecoming game. He ignored gaudy numbers against the Bills and gushed over their defense as if they were the '85 Bears.
Let me remind you that Buffalo has been outscored, 90-17, in the past six quarters and became the first team in 62 years to allow 550 yards or more in consecutive weeks. The most remarkable statistic about their defense is that it's 31st in the league, not last. New Orleans has been worse after an offseason of turmoil connected to the bounty scandal.
"We're not going to be fooled by what's happened,'' Fitzgerald said. "Everybody has bad games, bad quarters, bad halves. We stunk the place up last week. I would be expecting them to be licking to their chops to play against us. When you wake up on Monday morning after playing against the Bills, you know you were in a fight.''
The Bills will be licking their chops? Try licking their wounds. You know you were in a fight .... ? With whom, the Muppets? C'mon, Larry, who are you kidding?
He was serious. The Cards are 31st in total offense and rushing offense. Their backs have gained only 71 yards rushing total in their last two games behind a weak offensive line.
"Listen,'' he said. "It's like somebody asking me about somebody else's marriage when my own marriage isn't good. We have a lot of problems of our own that we need to address, that we need to work on, as opposed to the Bills' issues. We put three points up on the board last week – three points. That's embarrassing.
"I know those guys are watching us offensively. Man, we've given up 17 sacks over the last two games. We haven't rushed for over 100 yards combined the last two games. I know these guys are going to be ready. Let's put it like that.''
Fine, so long as we can also put it like this: Fitzgerald plays in a different stratosphere than Michael Crabtree and Wes Welker, who abused Buffalo for more than 100 yards each in the past two weeks. It could get ugly if they don't stop a weak running game and get pressure on quarterback Kevin Kolb, who was sacked nine times last week.
Fitzgerald has had 1,000 yards receiving in six of his first eight full seasons. One of the years he didn't hit 1,000 was in 2006, when he missed three games and finished with 946. The other was his rookie year.
It has been driving him to improve, if not driving him crazy, reminding him he'll never be good enough.
It goes back to one game. That game. Everyone but Fitzgerald and Euhus, who don't belong in the same sentence, deleted the performance from memory. It continues to torment one of them.
"My greatest gift is also my greatest weakness,'' Fitzgerald said. "And it always keeps me in line.''
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Reef Life: A Must Have Guide to Tropical Marine Life
by Brandon Cole and Scott Michael
What? Another fish ID book when you thought Paul Humanns and Ned Deloachs were enough? Yes indeed, and while I rarely say this, Reef Life: A Guide to Tropical Marine Life is a must-have for the library of every traveling diver. And if you only want one ID book, this is it.
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Reef Fish of the East Indies
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Renowned marine biologists Gerald R. Allen and Mark V. Erdman have
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Diving Indonesia's Bird's Head Seascape
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This dynamic duo's book describes 130 dive sites of Raja Ampat, Triton
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Reef Creature Identification: Tropical Pacific
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Paul Humann and Ned Deloach have done it again, releasing a definitive identification guide to 1600 extraordinary reef creatures of the Tropical Pacific. with this 500+ page softbound guide, you get upwards of 2000 exceptional photos of shrimp and crabs and stars and worms and lobsters and nudibranchs and slugs and squid and bivalves . . . well, all those invertebrates that move along the reefs of this region without fining, so it seems. There are several photos of some creatures to help you identify them during different life stages, and about ten percent of the book is descriptive copy so you can tie down your identification. Even if you have no plans to go to the tropical Pacific, just to thumb through the pages, gawk at the complexity and uniqueness of these animals, and read a thumbnail sketch will give any serious diver vicarious thrills for endless hours.
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Diving Southeast Asia
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This just-published, 302-page, soft-bound guide by Beth and Shaun Tierney, is a must for anyone contemplating diving in Indonesia, Malaysia or Thailand. Where is Sipadan? Raja Ampat? Komodo? Richeliu Rock? Maps make it easy to pinpoint dive destinations and travel routes. Destination and 250 dive site descriptions (with tables on depth, visibility and currents) help you determine whether youll see big fish in the blue or pygmy seahorses in the muck. Theres a lot of supplemental information such as travel tips, health tips, and resorts and liveaboard descriptions.
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Indo-Pacific Coral Reef Field Guide
by Gerald R. Allen, Roger Steene.
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aboard. Not so; the only book on the boat belonged to a fellow passenger. It was
one that I had not seen before, the Indo-Pacific Coral Reef Field Guide,
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was this fellow passenger kept it in a plastic baggie most of the trip and I had
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it has 1,800 color illustrations in a 6x8 1/2 paperback format with 378 pages.
A Diver's Guide to Underwater Malaysia Macrolife
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We just discovered the ultimate guide to Indo-Pacific macro life. It was published late last year by marine photographers and writers Andrea and Antonet La Ferrari, who have several other winning books in their portfolio. They picture and describe in full detail 600 different species, focusing on those found in the South China, Sulu, and Sulawesi seas. From colorful nudibranchs to cleaner shrimps and pipe fish, to larger species like cuttlefish and clown fish. Each description offers an insight on distribution, habitat, size, life habits, and U/W photo tips. Illustrated with more than 800 extraordinary color photographs and written in a clear, concise, informative style, this book is both a macro and fish field guide for all serious divers from the Maldives to Australia. A must for traveling divers.
$38.25, 468 pages, paperback, in a handy 6"x7" travel size.
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Reef Fish Identification: Tropical Pacific
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At last, here's a comprehensive fish ID guide covering the reefs of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The generous 500-page text, displaying 2,500 underwater photographs of 2,000 species, identifies the myriad fishes that inhabit the warm tropical seas between Thailand and Tahiti. The concise text accompanying each species portrait includes the fish's common, scientific and family names, size, description, visually distinctive features, preferred habitat, typical behavior, depth range, and geographical distribution. This is an essential book for every diver traveling westward. 6x9 inches. Order through us, get Amazon.com's best price and a good hunk of the profit will be donated to preserve coral reefs.
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You don't have to be Ice Man or Maverick to realize that life on a U.S. Navy ship is filled with some amazing sights. This slideshow runs through some of the most impressive images captured aboard America's fleet.
Amazing snapshots from the U.S. NavyUPDATED 11:41 PM CDT Aug 17, 2013
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Culinary DelightsMeringues à la Edelweiss.
SpecialitiesJuf is the highest village in Europe inhabited all year round (2,126 m a.s.l.). Cross-country trail Juf-Jufer Alp, 3 km.
Height: 2126 m a.s.l.
Local place name: Juf
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Winter Hiking Trail
Cross-country Ski Trail
No. of seats: Over 100
Service: Yes
Overnight accommodation: Yes
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Dr. Faheem Younus is an award winning philanthropist, blogger, and public speaker on issues surrounding Muslim-American identity and Middle East. He is based in Maryland. His work is archived on this site.
As the Senior Fellow at the Hoffberger Center for Ethics at the University of Baltimore and a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland, Dr. Younus has initiated a frank dialogue between Muslims and Americans, leading to the birth of this movement called Muslimerican.
Awards: Dr. Younus is the recipient of the prestigious Presidential Service Award (Gold) by Barack Obama in 2009 for his work with Muslim Youth in America. He also received an honorable mention at the 2011 Annual Volunteers Service Award by the Governor Martin O'Malley and was recognized in 2006 by the then Governor Robert Ehrlich for his services in the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
Writing: As a Huffington Post blogger and an award winning writer of the Muslim Writers Guild of America, he has published over 100 pieces in National newspapers like The New York Times, Economist, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, AOL News, and many others.
Public Speaking: With well over 100 talks under his belt, Dr. Younus has delivered lectures and courses at institutions like the Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland, University of Baltimore, and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA. He has talked to audience sizes ranging from 10 to 10,000.
Media: Responding to the call "Where are the moderate Muslims?" Dr. Younus has represented Islam on major cable TV channels such as FOX, RT, and ABC News. He is a frequent guest on Sean Hannity and Maryland's NPR affiliates. You can also listen to his more than 100 radio interviews here.
Leadership: A strong believer in the philosophy of "servant leadership," Dr. Younus serves on the Board of Directors of various non-profit organizations including University of Baltimore, Humanity First, and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA. Previously, he served on the Board of Directors of Upper Chesapeake Health.
Service: Dr. Younus serves as the National President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Men's Association USA. Previously, he was the National Youth President of the same organization. Under his leadership, Muslim American youth adopted over 50 highways across the nation, collected thousands of units of blood, organized massive community outreach events and held large-scale conventions.
Profession: Dr. Younus is an award winning physician, currently in the full-time practice of Infectious Diseases at a Maryland Hospital. During his career, he has helped thousands of patients, taught hundreds of residents and students, and implemented dozens of process improvements at the hospitals where he serves.
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Barack Obama let Mitt Romney off the hook frequently during Wednesday night's debate. The former Massachusetts governor's lie about his own tax plan and his specious comments about jobs were glaring. Obama blew his chance to force his opponent to come clean on the numbers when moderator Jim Lehrer failed to moderate.
Romney's tax plan would cut personal income tax rates by 20 percent, benefitting mostly our richest taxpayers. Obama cited and Romney rejected the non-partisan Tax Policy Center analysis that the plan would cost $5 trillion. When Obama didn't press the point, Romney's lie was left to resonate with the electorate. The Romney-Ryan plan reincarnates trickle-down economics and continues historic GOP practice of providing breaks mostly for our wealthiest citizens. In 1948, President Harry Truman told us "The Republican Party ... favors the privileged few and not the common everyday man. Ever since its inception, that party has been under the control of special privilege ..." The parallel to today is striking. "When tax relief can be given, it ought to go to those who need it most, and not those who need it least," Truman said.
On Wednesday Romney repeated a promise to create 12 million jobs. He was never asked and did not tell us how he'd do it.
"Where are the jobs?" House Speaker John Boehner and other Republicans have been harping. Obama's policies have failed, Romney insists, adding that this president has made the economy worse.
These arguments are fallacious. Since he became President, Obama has turned positive a jobs market that had been hemorrhaging 800,000 jobs per month. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that since his inauguration we've had an overall increase in jobs as well as an increase in private sector jobs every month since March 2010. Friday the Labor Department announced 114,000 were added in September and that the unemployment rate has dropped to 7.8 percent, the lowest in four years, clearly illustrating a continuing trend improvement. That there has not been an even greater proliferation of jobs is directly traceable not to Obama's presentation of comprehensive growth proposals, but to Congressional Republicans' persistent rejection of them. When Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell proclaimed two years ago that "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president," he signaled his party's willingness to sacrifice the nation's economic health to the callous political goal of limiting this president's tenure.
Truman's words 64 years ago could be addressed to the current Republican crop. "(Republican control by the specially privileged is proved) by the things they did to the people, and not for them. They proved it by the things they failed to do ... Now, let's look at some of them - just a few," he continued.
Fast forward to 2011-2012. In September 2011, the Obama administration unveiled the American Jobs Act designed to improve and repair our infrastructure, rebuild schools and rundown neighborhoods, and provide tax credits for hiring unemployed veterans. The legislation failed to garner the 60 votes required to break a filibuster. Jobs growth improvement was curtailed by Congress, not by the president.
In his effort to further enhance the country's jobs growth, President Obama's top priority on his 2012 "to-do" list was proposed legislation providing tax breaks for insourcing jobs and eliminating credits for sending jobs overseas. Sponsored by Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., the bill failed because all but four Republican senators voted against cloture, thus assuring that it could not get the 60 votes needed to vote the bill up or down on its merits. Senate Republicans defeated this president's plan for job growth, then disingenuously blamed him for the failure.
Last month, in another disgraceful display of letting their hatred of Obama trump patriotism, Senate Republicans blocked the veterans job bill by voting against cloture. It would have authorized $1 billion to help up to 20,000 veterans find employment in their local areas. "Once again, this Congress let partisan bickering stand in the way of putting thousands of America's heroes back to work," said Paul Rieckhoff, executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.
"(Republicans) are going to try to dodge their responsibility. They are going to drag all the red herrings they can across this campaign," Truman continued. "The battle lines of 1948 are the same as they were in 1932, when the Nation lay prostrate and helpless as a result of Republican misrule and inaction."
The battle lines of 2012 are the same as they were in 1948 when Truman battled the do-nothing 80th Congress.
- Michael Zucker is a resident of South Lake Tahoe and a stockbroker with Regal Securities.


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Dewhurst, Cruz top group's list of super PAC beneficiaries
Texas Senate contenders David Dewhurst Ted Cruz ranked No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, on a new list showing which U.S. congressional candidates benefited the most from "super PAC" spending from January through June.
Though Dewhurst made a big issue of "Washington insiders" who were backing Cruz with independent TV ad buys, the lieutenant governor sure had his super PAC buddies, as the victorious Cruz was quick to point out.
In the first six months of the year, which doesn't capture big ad buys in their GOP runoff battle in July, super PACs spent nearly $2.9 million to help Dewhurst and just over $2.5 million to aid Cruz, according to this report by MapLight, a nonpartisan research group that tries to highlight money's influence on politics.
A distant third was former Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine, a former Virginia governor who's running for U.S. Senate. Super PACs spent nearly $1.8 million in the period to assist him.
He was followed by the two Indiana Senate GOP candidates, tea party-backed primary winner Richard Mourdock ($1.5 million) and defeated incumbent Richard Lugar ($1.3 million).
Because of two recent Supreme Court rulings, an individual, union or company can make unlimited donations to a super PAC, which can push for election or defeat of a federal candidate as long as its efforts aren't coordinated with the candidate's campaign.
"Super PACs have already made over $30 million in independent expenditures to influence House and Senate races in the 2012 election cycle, in addition to the nearly $107 million spent swaying the outcome of the race for the White House," MapLight's Jeffrey ErnstFriedman, who analyzed the Federal Election Commission data.


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Spectacular political meltdowns
Published On: Oct 24 2011 07:51:46 AM PDT Updated On: Oct 31 2014 04:13:13 PM PDT
Rep. Michael Grimm is stepping down after pleading guilty to tax evasion. Take a look back at the many meltdowns, scandals and foot-in-mouth moments of politicians through history.
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Over the
last year, there have been a number of high profile takedowns
of botnets. These takedowns lead to a significant reduction in the amount
of spam that computer users see in their inbox.
Security researchers are talking about a new botnet
called TDL-4 and they say that it is virtually indestructible. The
designers of the botnet used some ingenious methods to ensure that their net
isn't as easy to take offline as previous botnets.
Security researcher Sergey Golovanod from Kapersky Labs said in a report on the
TDL-4 botnet, "[TDL-4 is] the most sophisticated threat today." Joe
Stewart is a malware researcher at Dell SecureWorks, he said, "I wouldn't
say it's [TDL-4] perfectly indestructible, but it is pretty much indestructible.
It does a very good job of maintaining itself."
There are several factors that work together to make TDL-4 so robust. One of
the factors is that the malware infects the master boot record of the computers
HDD it resides on. This is the first sector of the hard drive read when a
computer starts and the malware rootkit is installed there. That makes the
rootkit invisible to security software and the OS.
The thing that makes the botnet even more robust is the method that it uses to
communicate with infected computers from the command and control servers. The
TDL-4 botnet uses a public peer-to-peer network called the Kad P2P network for
one of the two channels it uses to communicate between infected machines and
the C&C servers.
Kapersky researcher Roek Schouwenberg wrote in an email to Computerworld, "The way peer-to-peer is used for TDL-4 will
make it extremely hard to take down this botnet. The TDL guys are doing their
utmost not to become the next gang to lose their botnet."
The hackers behind the botnet also use their own encryption algorithm and use
the domain names of the C&C servers as the encryption keys. The use of a
public network is the key to the robust botnet and helps ensure the TDL-4
network remains online.
Schouwenberg said, "Any attempt to take down the regular C&Cs can
effectively be circumvented by the TDL group by updating the list of C&Cs
through the P2P network. The fact that TDL has two separate channels for
communications will make any take-down very, very tough."
So far, the TDL-4 botnet is very effective with an estimated 4.5 million
Windows computers currently infected. Stewart said, "The 4.5 million is
not surprising at all. It [TDL-4] might not have as high an infection rate as
other botnets, but its longevity means that as long as they can keep infecting
computers and the discovery rate is small, they'll keep growing it."
Another key to the longevity of the TDL-4 malware is the fact that it finds and
disables other malware on the computer. This is done because the less likely
the user is to know of any infection on their computer, the less likely they
are to investigate further and potentially discover the TDL-4 malware on the
Golovanov said, "TDL-4 doesn't delete itself following installation of
other malware. At any time [it] can ... delete malware it has downloaded."
quote: In the decade of 20GB+ game installation, 200MB GPU, 150MB printer, 100MB mouse/keyboard driver downloads
quote: Makes me glad that Internet Connections have moved on from Dial-up years ago!
quote: You seem to have a very narrow understanding of the 'skills' required to deliver software. Memory management is not a skill, it's a chore. Wasting hundreds of man hours to root out memory leaks (and fail anyway) when you can have a garbage collector do it for free is not being smart to me. I'll take a managed language over free() and malloc() any time.
quote: reduce application performance
quote: Done in C? A few KB at most. Done in ASM? A few bytes at most.
quote: Actually only about 3-5% if you know what you're doing.
quote: Excuse me, but are you even rational? Besides the inflammatory language, akin to a religious war, WHO CARES?! a couple bytes here and there, so what. I've got a small'ish workstation w/ only 4.6 some odd TB's. Am I really that concerned about a couple kb's, or even mb's?
quote: Look, I'm kind of old-school in that I try to make a somewhat optimized program, small, easy-to-use, etc. But if I've got some kind of inept POS for a boss ranting about how slow a dev I am, then the optimization steps may have to take a back seat, in order to make the delivery date.
quote: "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
quote: No, not really.
quote: it's more about the coder taking the time (and having the intelligence) to write a program that isn't a clunky piece of garbage.
quote: A GREAT coder means you have the key to MANY income opportunities
quote: what AOL did to the internet - unleashed a tidal wave of stupid.
quote: Yes, yes really. Aren't you confusing "managed language" w/ "interpreted language"? And how much extra time do you spend optimizing your C program? and do you really still program in C? Seriously?
quote: Time is of the essence isn't it. Like when you have a delivery date. And IntelliSense saves plenty of time. That's my mentality.
quote: don't consider myself a "great" coder, not that I even dwell on it. You said yourself there are few great coders. The rest of us then must simply be mentally mutilated bums. Btw, checked out the job market recently?
quote: Right, all those idiot customers ... that pay the bills.
quote: Can't this be better optimized? void _(char *__, int ___, int ____) {//{+ if(___ <= ____)/*cin>>*/{cout<< *(__+___);//### _((__),(++(___)),(____));}}/*printf("%s\t", *__x)*/ int/*0xFF___\p+*/main() {char x___[8/*__(*Z_) */]={0x43,0x6F,0x64,0x65,0x43,0x61,0x6C,0x6C}; _(x___, 0, 7);return 0 ; }
quote: Sure, but while you're at that I've got people to meet and places to go. Enjoy your computer http://www.dailytech.com/Robots+Become+More+Lifeli... since I'm going to enjoy my date.
quote: Nah bro, not really
quote: That is why I wouldn't hire a schmuck like you
quote: The optimizations that allow C/C++ to outperform C# include the ability for functions to be tuned on a low level so that they execute in as few clocks as possible, where relevant, such as in media transcoding, media manipulation, algorithmic calculations, etc.
quote: Yes, really. And I'm not your "bro", thank you very much. In addition if you want benchmarks, go right ahead.
quote: First off, you couldn't afford me, especially since you're not in a position to do so. Second, you doubt I'm not missing any deadlines ... because, why? because I told you I wasn't. Again, time is of the essence. Thirdly, I used to think mental capacity and C++ were the greatest. Then I grew up. Silver bullets don't interest me. Getting the job done does. Which usually means good tools and communication w/ co-workers. Let me be clear regarding the latter, if you require somebody to put down in order to feel good about yourself, rots o' ruck.
quote: The job market is so-so. Economy is rough [just ask NASA engineers]. But job requirements listing .Net platform skills are better than ever. Personally, that is likely puerile snob appeal, though I admit it not. Nor do I care for the polar opposite of pop appeal. Of course, the latter does have correlation with revenues and profitability. If you're stuck on good quality, then you are sacrificing one of the other legs of the project triangle: price and/or speed. But you don't know that. Yet.
quote: I'd be willing to wager you can't even go back a couple weeks to your code and explain your design decisions w/o looking at your notes. What? you didn't comment anything? Nor can you look at somebody else's C and optimize it, instead you'd have to re-write it from the ground up. Big time savings there stud.
quote: Gee, golly, I bet Visual Studio doesn't have access to any of that, huh. Specifically those dastardly "algorithmic calculations." They always cause trouble. Lol .Net runs on many platforms and if I need tuned "media transcoding", I can purchase a library just as easily as you. Except I meet deadlines. Do you even make deadlines? Can you? because once you get the code working you'll have to pound your agile partner to re-code your optimizations ... yet more time.
quote: Lastly, I congratulate you however, for convincing me that the hacks who created TDL-4 likely are watchmaker-types who get off on saving a byte and who look forward to the resurrection of D.


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Realtor offers free pizza with home purchase
Lancaster Township home on market for 6 monthsUPDATED 10:03 AM CST Feb 21, 2013
Doug Miller put up the "free pizza with purchase of home" sign as an attention getter.
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Learn to fundraise from a pro! Virginia Berman, Equal Exchange Community Sales Manager, and mom of two, shares what she's learned from seven years of fundraising in her children's schools.
Virginia BermanFebruary 18, 2014
Small Farmers Big ChangeFebruary 14, 2014
Over the past seven years, Equal Exchange Bananas has facilitated a frank discussion about authentic Fair Trade, alternative sourcing, and how these affect small farmers. Continuing in this vein, we invite you to attend the Equal Exchange Banana Conference in Boston, MA in March 2014.
Learn more and register online for the Conference
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Small Farmers Big ChangeFebruary 4, 2014
By Carly Kadlec, Green Coffee Buyer, Equal Exchange
Anna CanningJanuary 24, 2014
At Equal Exchange we love coffee, we love beer, and guess what? We also love them together, so we were excited about the opportunity for our latest coffee and beer collaboration, brewed up in Portland, Ore. Our Portland crew teamed up with Harvester Brewing to offer a tasty new coffee beer featuring Equal Exchange beans. While lots of brewers are discovering the delicious ways that a little coffee can complement the dark, toasty malts that are the traditional staples in the brewing of dark winter beers, this brew is a little different.
Hope KollyJanuary 24, 2014
Beth Ann CaspersenJanuary 23, 2014
I was in a hot room, sitting in a circle with colorfully dressed Ugandan women representing the 10 primary societies of Gumutindo Coffee Co-op. Right away I knew that I was taking part in something special.
James RazsaJanuary 23, 2014
Over the last year we at Equal Exchange have been making a concerted effort to have conversations with lots of our customers. We have called hundreds and hundreds of our customers, some folks who are just starting, others who have been super stars for over a decade and some who are working hard but are still not growing.
Small Farmers Big ChangeJanuary 16, 2014
Tea grown at the ashram.
Among the small farmer groups working with PDS are the Adivasis (tribal people), an ashram, and a convent. Here we are learning about the tea grown by nuns at the convent, and their very impressive organic composting practices.
At the ashram where in addition to their spiritual practices, they grow tea, fabricate organic compost, and raise cows to generate income and provide the local community with dairy products.
Small Farmers Big ChangeJanuary 13, 2014
Happy New Year!
We hope that the start to 2014 brings with it new energy and positive growth, both personally and professionally, to everyone in our Bananacado network.


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When sea ice melts, polar bears are forced to look for food on land, a search that is increasingly bringing them into contact - and conflict - with people.
The biggest factor affecting grizzly bear recovery is human-related mortality. Defenders works with landowners, ranchers, government agencies and other partners to find solutions to these conflicts.
The southwestern United States are home to two predators struggling to regain their footing in their historic habitat: Jaguars and Mexican gray wolves. Defenders of Wildlife is dedicated to ending the vicious cycle of livestock loss and predator removal that poses a barrier to the recovery of these animals.
As human communities encroach on Florida's remaining wild lands, people are coming into closer and closer contact with wildlife, including the endangered Florida panther.
This companion document to the full Places for Wolves report explains Defenders' vision for continued wolf restoration and recovery, including the science behind our goals for wolves and our plan of action for achieving them.
The newest update of Places for Wolves details the history of wolves in the lower 48 states and Defenders' role in the restoration and recovery of wolves. It also explains the vital role that wolves play in the ecosystem, and their cultural and economic importance.
Senator Ron Wyden has filed an amendment (SB1318) to the Senate's immigration reform bill that would address the terrible impacts the Real ID Act of 2005 has had on the lands, wildlife and the people who live along the border. His amendment removes sections in the bill that allow for excess border fencing, provide unnecessary exemptions from NEPA and dozens of other laws that protect wildlife, antiquities and important landscapes and grant Border Patrol immediate access to all Federal lands within 100 miles of the border in Arizona.
Immigration reform doesn't have to come at the expense of the environment. Evidence shows that walls along the U.S.-Mexico border do not improve border security or address immigration problems. However, they are very effective at wasting taxpayer dollars, and having severely detrimental effects on wildlife and the environment.
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This document outlines the priorities for improving the conservation title of the Farm Bill as agreed to by an extensive group of regional, national and international conservation organizations.
Our National Forests contain some of the most exceptional natural places in the United States, with immeasurable recreational, scientific, ecological, and cultural value. In February 2013 the U.S. Forest Service released proposed directives to guide implementation of the new Planning Rule for the National Forest System.