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By biting into an Italian sausage, downing an empanada or polishing-off beef brisket, festivalgoers at Canal Fest of the Tonawandas may indirectly be giving to charity this week.
The eight-day event featuring a wealth of food and drink is a financial boon for community and nonprofit organizations, which use money generated by vendors to sustain philanthropic and neighborhood efforts.
About two-thirds of the projected $350,000 generated by food stand and kiosk sales during the festival will be reinvested in the community, said Larry Denef, president of Canal Fest of the Tonawandas Inc.
"We do it for the love of the community," Denef said. "The love of the organizations."
Canal Fest, based at 15 Webster St., usually takes place during the third weekend in July, but it touched off a weekend early this year to accommodate the carnival ride operator's schedule. Forty-eight community organizations will be vendors this year, and between 180,000 and 200,000 people are expected to attend by the festival's last day Sunday.
Several organizations are repeat vendors, with some, including Tonawanda's Boy Scout Troop 600, returning all 31 years of the festival's existence. The troop's star menu item – roast beef sandwiches – has remained unchanged from 1983.
The troop operates at the same wooden bungalow that was custom-made for the event three decades ago, and the same troop flag hangs from one end of the booth. The approximately $3,500 earned from sales helps send Scouts to camp, said Assistant Scoutmaster John Bender.
"You can see people you haven't seen all year," he said.
Using history as an indicator, Tonawanda's Elks Lodge 860 expects to raise $25,000 from dishing out meat-packed subs, including crowd favorite muffaletta, a salami, capicola and shaved ham invention.
The lodge's work with military veterans and those with cerebral palsy will benefit from those earnings, said Tom Latko, the lodge's loyal knight.
"The whole tradition, it's part of the culture of the Buffalo area," Latko said of Canal Fest.
Empanada sales allow Tonawanda's Salvation Army to send children off to a weeklong summer camp, where they indulge their outdoor sensibilities and fish, camp and swim.
"A lot of them are from low-income communities and would otherwise be at home doing nothing," said Major Nkounkou, commanding officer of Tonawanda's Salvation Army.
Jeff Wojcik, a past master of the Ken-Ton Masonic Lodge, allocates time at Canal Fest informing passers-by about a culture that many assume is shrouded in secrecy.
"We've probably made a good number of brothers that have joined as a result of the Canal Fest," Wojcik said. Sales of the lodge's slow-cooked beef brisket go toward providing $2,500 in scholarships, he added.
Vendors line both the North Tonawanda and City of Tonawanda sides of the Erie Canal, with live music and entertainment interspersed among the food and rides. The festival is a chance for two communities on opposite sides of the canal to unite, said Chris Mobilla, vice president of the Union Hook and Ladder Volunteer Fire Company.
"Two separate towns, two separate counties," he said, "and this is something that brings us together for a week."
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She may have radiated sex appeal that no other woman of her time could match, but Marilyn Monroe was no bimbo.
"She wasn't manufactured by Hollywood; Marilyn created her own legend," says Laine Snyder, assistant curator at the Dayton Art Institute.
From April 28 through June 24, the museum explores the many facets of "Marilyn Monroe: Life as a Legend," by presenting familiar photos and film clips, along with fresh renderings by artists dedicated to honoring the icon, who continues to charm and captivate despite her death 44 years ago.
"She was deliberate in many of her decisions about how she wanted to be portrayed," says Snyder, "which included the clothing she wore, her gait and the way she transformed her face and hair color." Tom Kelley's 1949 series of "Red Velvet" photos of Monroe - which created quite a sensation four years later when one was published as Playboy magazine's first centerfold - is perhaps the most famous artifact on exhibit. Monroe, who up until that time had portrayed a wholesome ingenue posing for such magazines as Family Circle and Yank, reinvented her image at the photo shoot.
"Kelley positioned her against a sumptuous red velvet background so there's a very lush quality to the photographs which was just as provocative as the photos themselves, when you consider the majority of people's sexual morés were a little bit more conservative back then," Snyder says. ("I had nothing on but the radio," Monroe often recalled about the modeling session.)
Monroe would go on to transform herself countless times to suit the audience she was playing to.
"She always felt like the Marilyn icon, the status of being Marilyn Monroe, was somewhat of an albatross - and she used that word albatross - that she carried around with her. There was a part of her who really wanted to be taken seriously as an actress," Snyder says.
Monroe's movie-star glamour, so evident in Sam Shaw's famous posed shots of the actress standing over a subway grate for 1955's film "The Seven Year Itch," gave way to images of vulnerability and loneliness captured on camera by Ernst Haas and Eve Arnold five years later when she was making "The Misfits." (Both images are in the exhibit.)
Monroe inspired artists to portray her in a wide variety of media. Andy Warhol's pop-art likeness - reproduced through the years on items ranging from clothing to coffee mugs to tote bags - presents a vibrancy that has transcended time. Christian Blau, on the other hand, examines the dark side of celebrity in "Overexposure," a collage he created in 2003 that juxtaposes an image of Monroe when she was fresh-faced Norma Jeane Baker with a photo taken after her death.
"Blau's work is an extremely compelling, almost overwhelming work," Snyder says. "It confronts the idea that we're not just looking at Marilyn as a commodity, but as a real person. Her tragic life seems to be really encapsulated - all the hope in the one image, and all the despair and ultimately her death in another."
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"Marilyn: Forever Blonde," a one-woman show presented by Sunny Thompson, recounts the actress' life in her own words. Performances are Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. and Friday at 8 p.m.
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KAHULUI - Maui County's director of planning testified Thursday that he believes the developers planning two large retail centers and 250 affordable housing units in Kihei have not violated land-use conditions imposed on the property.
Planning Director Will Spence was called as a witness in the state Land Use Commission's ongoing "show cause" proceedings to determine whether the projects are in compliance with 20 conditions the body imposed in 1995 when granting a land reclassification Kihei project from agricultural to urban.
"It's the county's position that there has been no breach of any of the conditions," he said.
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This north Kihei lot along Piilani Highway shown Thursday was the subject of a state Land Use
Commission hearing the same day in Kahului.
This is the planned site for a total of 700,000 square feet of retail space to be built to Eclipse Development Group.
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Spence's testimony is key because as director of planning for the county, he has a statutory obligation to enforce orders by the Land Use Commission.
At issue in the case is whether any of the LUC's conditions have been violated since the property changed hands and plans have shifted from a proposed 123-lot light industrial subdivision under former landowner Kaonoulu Ranch to two large shopping centers totaling 700,000 square feet of retail space under California-based Eclipse Development Group.
Also proposed on the site is an affordable housing project Honua'ula Partners wants to build there tied to its master-planned luxury golf community of the same name past the end of Piilani Highway as it exists today.
A challenge from community groups South Maui Citizens for Responsible Growth and Maui Tomorrow Foundation and Kihei resident Daniel Kanahele prompted the Land Use Commission to revisit the site's approvals.
The groups contend that the developments now being proposed are substantially different from what Kaonoulu Ranch represented to the LUC. The developers have not formally petitioned the commission to proceed with their projects.
Asked by Maui County Deputy Corporation Counsel Jane Lovell how he reached his opinion, Spence said none of the conditions on the property limit the amount of commercial or retail activity that can take place on the 88-acre parcel. He also noted that apartments are a permitted use within the county's light-industrial-zoned districts.
"When I look at the decision and order, I see no such specific condition that says only light industrial, or a (required) percentage of light industrial, or (limiting the) amount of commercial," Spence said. "There's no specific condition on that."
He cited, as an example, a condition the Land Use Commission placed on the Maui Business Park Phase II project in Kahului, limiting the amount of commercial use there.
"If we do not have explicit conditions . . . I can't tell if there's a breach or not," Spence said.
Joel Kam, an attorney for landowners Piilani Promenade and Honua'ula Partners, argued the point that if Spence can't tell if there's been a breach, how would a landowner "reasonably ascertain" from the LUC order whether or not retail and apartment housing uses are prohibited.
Speaking broadly, Spence described Maui's existing light industrial subdivisions as a "hodgepodge of different uses."
He cited the Lahaina Gateway shopping center and Maui Marketplace as examples of retail centers in light-industrial-zoned districts, as well as Iao Parkside and Opukea at Lahaina as examples of residential projects with housing uses on light industrial lands.
Charlie Jencks, a representative for both Eclipse Development and Honua'ula Partners, also testified Thursday that he believes the projects being proposed are allowed uses.
Asked why the landowners never went back to the Land Use Commission to seek approval to build retail and affordable housing on the site, Jencks said he didn't feel it was needed.
"Based on the simple reading of the (decision and order), it seemed to me . . . that we were entitled to build the use we were proposing - the housing and the retail center," Jencks said. "I took the time to look at the (Kihei-Makena) Community Plan and the (decision and order) and the zoning and deliberately scheduled meetings with the mayor, the director of planning, the deputy director of planning (at the time) to discuss what it is that we were proposing . . . (and) to ask the specific question, is this something that comports with your interpretation of these documents. And the response was yes."
Jesse Souki, director of the state Office of Planning, has previously argued that the matter before the commission is "not whether the proposed project today is consistent with county zoning and other county entitlements," but rather "about whether the proposed project is substantially compliant with the findings of fact, conclusions of law, and decision and order issued more than 17 years ago on Feb. 10, 1995."
Given the parcel's light-industrial zoning, Jencks agreed that "certainly, there needs to be a light industrial component."
He shared a new commitment by Eclipse that at least 125,000 square feet of space on 11.5 acres would be dedicated to what he called a home-improvement-center-type tenant, such as The Home Depot. But, he said, no lease agreement or tenant has been lined up yet.
Jencks testified that Eclipse is "ready to go in the very immediate future" and estimated that it would take about two years for the retail centers to be completed and open for business.
He said the company has posted a cash bond with the county for $22 million for the needed infrastructure improvements for the project. That includes:
* $2.3 million for roadway improvements and the first segment of the long-planned Kihei-to-Upcountry highway.
* $1.4 million for Piilani Highway widening improvements.
* $4.8 million for a 1 million gallon domestic water tank that would be dedicated to the county to serve north Kihei. The retail center and affordable housing units would use about 20 percent of the tank's capacity, Jencks said.
He noted that Eclipse would not fund the improvements should its retail development be halted.
The LUC is scheduled to resume its proceeding at 8 a.m. today at the Courtyard by Marriott Maui Airport hotel in Kahului.
LUC Chairman Kyle Chock said once the evidentiary hearing portion of the case is completed, the proceedings will move on to oral arguments by the parties and eventually to deliberation by the commission.
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MARTINSBURG - The Eastern Panhandle Home Builders Association, a local trade association representing the construction industry and related businesses, recently recognized several members for their contributions to the organization and construction projects during its annual meeting at the Purple Iris.
Greg Janes of Greg Janes Custom Homes & Renovations was selected as the 2012 Builder Member of the Year. Greg is active in many areas of the association as well as the community. He currently is vice president of the EPHBA and serves as Program Committee Chair, co-chair of the 2012 Home Show, member of the Budget, Green Building, Nominating and Golf Committees. He is also an active recruiter, bringing in many new members to the organization. Greg is also active in the community in a variety of organizations, including the Eastern Panhandle HOME Consortium and Trinity Episcopal Church.
P.J. Orsini, Orsini's Appliances, is the 2012 Associate Member of the Year. PJ has brought his energy and know-how to the annual Home Show Committee for several years and co-chaired this successful event for 2012. He is also actively involved on the EPHBA Board of Directors and has recruited several new members to the association. In addition to the EPHBA, PJ is active in Martinsburg Sunrise Rotary.
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- Best Non-Residential Project - Dulyea Construction
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I totally saw Shaniqua working at McDonalds, she's such a McNigget.
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term of endearment for someone you know well, but has done something poorly.
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black person+chicken nuggets= mcnigget. black fried goodness.
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A variation of the Chicken McNugget but instead you fry the nuggets in the fryer for several more hours than you usually do causing them to turn negro.
Black people enjoy a McNiggets meal at McNiggers cause McDonald's is too white for them to handle.


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Essentially the preppy assholes of the Big Ten, they have some of the laziest and most uninspired fans in all of college sports. One gets the sense that there would be no such thing as a Michigan fan if the state of Michigan wasn't so intensely boring. Their football stadium is atrocious, and literally stinks.
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Green Day's major label debut Dookie had been on shelves for five months at this point, slowly climbing by #19. The group saw Woodstock '94 as an amazing opportunity to reach a wider audience, and when fans began throwing mud they didn't hesitate to throw back, culminating in a near-riot where a security guard mistook basset Mike Dirnt for a psychotic fan and smashed his front teeth out. It was absolute chaos. It was also one of the most memorable performance of the entire festival, causing MTV to play highlights over and over. Check out this video of "Paper Lanterns" from the set.
Full article at Rolling Stone: HERE
Within three months, Dookie was at #4 on the charts and headlining arenas across the country. "Welcome To Paradise," "Longview" and "Basket Case" were all over the radio and MTV. Hopefully Ollie Armstrong forgave her son for his behavior at Woodstock '94 by that point.
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Cutting off your arm is one thing, hosting the Oscars is quite another.
Yale student and 127 Hours star James Franco, who happens to be both an Oscar nominee and co-host of the Feb. 27 main event (with Anne Hathaway) tracked down Producers Guild Award host and comedy film auteur Judd Apatow (ever hear of The 40-Year-Old Virgin?), seeking some words of wisdom for the job ahead.
What Franco got instead were wise-ass words, but what do you expect in a Funny or Die video? Among Apatow's suggestions … well, see for yourself. (Warning: Their conversation contains sexual references.)
The 83rd annual Academy Awards will air live Sunday, Feb. 27, at 8 p.m. ET (5 p.m. PT) on ABC from Hollywood's Kodak Theatre.
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DAYTON, Nev. - For the first 25 minutes of the game, the inexperienced Dayton Dust Devils gave Truckee all it could handle.
The other seven minutes? Well it wasn't pretty for the hosts, and it was the final seven minutes of Wednesday's game that cost Dayton a chance to pull off an upset.
In a span of 129 seconds, the Wolverines outscored the Dust Devils 12-0 to run away with a 52-40 decision in the Division I-A boys crossover matchup.
"We're young and inexperienced," Dayton coach Jason Santos said. "We have a lot of sophomores this year, and we have sophomores with just freshman (team) experience.
"We just got hammered on the boards. We're not very strong or physical. That will come in a couple of years."
Truckee led 27-24 with 2:58 left in the third period, but Dayton's Davis Winebarger and Josh Joyner led a 9-4 run as the Dust Devils went up 33-31 with 7:04 left in the game. Winebarger started the surge and then Joyner converted a three-point play to give his team a 29-27 lead with 2:23 left. Aaron Pado's putback tied the game at 29 after three.
Pado had another putback to give the Wolverines a 31-29 lead, but layups by Joyner and Winebarger enabled Dayton to reclaim the lead, 33-31, with 7:04 remaining. That's when the game took a decided turn in Truckee's advantage, as Dayton scored just one field goal the rest of the way.
Truckee junior Kyle Mello scored on an offensive rebound to tie the game at 33 with 6:43 left. Nick Morgan drained a 3-pointer, and following a Dayton mistakes, Mello scored in the key to make it 38-33. After another Dayton turnover, Morgan made a layup for a 40-33 lead, and David Burnham's 3-pointer capped the surge and made it 43-33 with 4:34 remaining.
Burnham led Truckee with nine points, while Graham Millie and Morgan added eight apiece. Adam Morgan and Nick Oberriter each scored seven.
Joyner led Dayton with nine, while Jayson Fraser, Stevie Thompson and Bernardo Macias added seven points apiece.
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Perhaps the most critical section of the public school improvement bill signed into law last week by Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin is the mandate to improve reading skills among West Virginia students....
In my opinion reading should begin at home long before they start preschool. First by reading to a child to get them interested and to understand the importance of it. I'd bet very few parents read to their kids before bedtime anymore. Secondarily why do these kids continue to be advanced to the next grade level if they can't meet the minimum criteria? When I went to school you were graded on your results. Today kids seem to be graded on the effort or worse.
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We already do 3 times a year, benchmark testing, in Berkeley County. These results are not made public, however. The schools are publically given their "grade"based solely on one test, Westest. I would like to add that I like your idea of gender separation.
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I concur with much of your clarification.
However, the Reality is that the only way that public (mass) education works or is remotely economically feasible is to make it one-size-fits-all standardization.
The U.S. couldn't begin to afford Individualized Education Plans for every student.
The U.S. already spends abundantly more than other nations on "education" yet our results are lacking. It is time for dramatic changes.
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Sorry for all the errors. My phone does not work well for comment sections.
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Bullhead, my point was just because the government mandates something doesn't make it so. I made the statement about immigrants learning english before miving here, not because I actually would, or could, expect something like that to happen but to show how silly it is to expect a mandate will magically make all children have equal ability. I believe all children can learn. All children clalso come to school at different readiness levels. How about a common sense approach to testing that shows to improving each child as an individual has made over the course of a school year. Testing beginning, middle and end to ehow progress made? Instead of one test that in my opinion proves nothing of what has happened in a teacher's classrom.
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Privatize all education (or at least allow for vouchers and parental involvement)! And, separate schools by gender and concentrate on basic education!
Then you will see a huge portion of public education's problems disappear.
BTW, Melany how many immigrant children are there in West Virginia? Is it a statistically significant amount to affect the state's test scores? From what I've seen, WV does not have much of an immigrant population statewide (and for all that I know they may do better than the natives).
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Major: I'm sure your preferred answer is simply to cull the herd, but why don't you try to think of something else. Some other solution????
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"If it is not adequate - and that means tremendous improvement - additional steps should be taken." Watch out for those additional steps, they are big ones.
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"Of course all children are exactly the same, born to a stable middle class family and all have a 100 or better IQ. Oh, they're not? Then let's legislate that." Hear Hear Amen to that.
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Of course all children are exactly the same, born to a stable middle class family and all have a 100 or better IQ. Oh, they're not? Then let's legislate that. Then there would be no problem of them being on level at all times. Also, children who immigrate should know english before arriving that would help too. Then they can test on level as well.
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The Stetson University volleyball team is riding its first four-game winning streak since 2007. Now the Hatters have their first weekly honor from the Atlantic Sun since that same year.
Senior middle hitter Ellen Hawks (Austin, Tex./Westwood HS) was named the Atlantic Sun Conference Defensive Player of the Week on Monday.
Hawks collected 17 blocks over four matches to help lead Stetson to a 4-0 record and the Stetson Westin Classic title this past weekend. Against Providence on Saturday, which later proved to be the championship game, Hawks tied a career-high with nine blocks, including four in a row during key third-set run by Stetson. She also tallied four blocks against Bethune-Cookman on Friday and three blocks vs. Savannah State on Saturday.
Hawks also contributed offensively, tallying 28 kills in 59 attempts while recording just one attack error for a blistering .458 hitting percentage. For her efforts, she was selected to the Westin Classic all-tournament team.
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Anyone born in the last 50 years has heard that the Mayan calendar, which many have called the most accurate calendar in the world, ends in 2012 and that our world is supposed to come to an end as well. But just as the fears of Y2k dissipated with the New Year, so will our fears of the end of the world on Dec. 21, 2012 — or will they?
In a group discussion about the so-called end of the world, local experts in various fields, including politics, economics, climate and technology, weighed in on what they believe is to come in 2012 — globally and locally. While no prediction can be accurate to a T, at the very least, we can be prepared for better or for worse.
California's economy
by Bill Watkins
California's economy will be helped in 2012 by a recovering national economy. We expect the United States economy to continue to improve slowly. It will be held back by continued weakness in real estate markets, but there is some great upside potential on the energy front. That will help California's economy, but not as much as it should.
Unfortunately, perhaps deliberately, California's leadership will probably find ways for the state to continue to avoid any prosperity associated with anything so passé as industry or carbon-based energy. Given the pace of technological improvement in carbon-based energy and the state's vast resources, this will be an impressive achievement.
The probability of any economic stimulus from regulatory reform, budget reform or tax code reform in California is really quite remote. Consequently, we expect California's economy to lag the United States' economy, and while California's unemployment rate will slowly fall, it will remain stubbornly above the United States unemployment rate. Businesses will continue to avoid California as best they can.
Domestic migration will remain negative as young middle-class families move to states with more economic opportunity and affordable housing. Home prices will remain weak, relative to past prices, but high, relative to other states. Economic growth will be far below potential.
It is really amazing how California, which once led the world in economic vigor and change (can you have the former without the latter?) is now so resistant to any change. Indeed, California's economic joints are becoming arthritic and its arteries clogged more quickly than those of its aging population.
Coastal California, with its wealthier population and stronger home prices, will continue to enjoy lower unemployment and relative prosperity, while inland, improvement will come more slowly. California's great Central Valley, in particular, will remain very weak with very high unemployment rates throughout the forecast horizon.
Southern California's Inland Empire is showing signs of a more vigorous recovery than much of inland California, but recovery to its former vigor is still years away.
The Greater Bay Area and San Diego will continue to be centers of technological innovation, but the regions will fail to realize many of the economic benefits of that innovation. The innovation may occur in California, but the jobs and economic growth will occur outside of California.
I would love to see California significantly outperform our forecast, particularly our jobs forecast. Absent serious reform, though, I'm confident that it won't. That's unfortunate. Persistent high unemployment is more than a statistic or trend. All too often, persistent unemployment ruins lives and families. California has abundant potential. Right now, that potential is unachievable because of policy, policy that results in needless suffering. That's inexcusable.
Bill Watkins, Ph.D., is executive director of the California Lutheran University Center for Economic Research and Forecasting and an associate professor of economics.
Climate globally and locally
by Simone Aloisio
There is a 51 percent chance that 2012 will be warmer than 2011, and a 49 percent chance that it will be colder than 2011. That is more of an estimate than a calculation, really, an estimate based on a look at the temperature record. That's apparently what climate change looks like. Globally, 2011 was the 10th or 11th warmest year on a record that spans more than a century. The other 10 warmest years have all been since 1998, and chances are better than not that next year will crack the top 10.
For babies born in 2012, it will almost certainly be one of the coolest years globally. During their lifetimes, sea level will continue to rise, the Arctic ice cap will continue to shrink, and endangered species teetering on the brink of survival will go extinct. Ecosystems will change. As the climate changes, it is likely that more rain will fall in heavy storms globally. At the same time, droughts will probably be more widespread.
For people who live in relatively wealthy countries, like ours, climate change will be costly but manageable in the short term. We will hear about the droughts and storms. We will know someone who lives in a city experiencing a record-breaking heat wave. Maybe a particularly devastating flood or wildfire will be on the news and get people talking. Some people will be severely affected in 2012, but most of us will not. We will pay a little more for our water, cheeseburgers and insurance.
For the poorest billion people in the world, chances are better than not that 2012 will see a larger strain on resources. More land will become degraded, more livestock will die, more crops will fail. More people will suffer malnutrition. Civil conflict will increase in areas where hungry men become angry men. People will do things they would otherwise not do. Drying of some areas will help mitigate malaria, while the heating of others will help propagate it. Other disease patterns will change. Less people will freeze to death. More people will starve to death. In the developing world especially, climate change in 2012 will result in a net loss.
Even in 2012, some people will continue to deny that climate change is happening, that the temperature is going up at all. Others will attribute the rise in temperature to "natural variability," without referencing what natural occurrence is causing the climate to change or explaining how the increase in greenhouse gases is not causing a warming. Someone will have an uncle who is a scientist, who has a colleague who is a genius, who has a filing cabinet full of data proving that man-made climate change is a hoax.
Many people will make decisions in 2012, without bad intentions, that needlessly contribute to climate change. Others will have concerns that doing the right thing for the environment will impede the facilitation of other goals. Sometimes contributing to climate change will be unavoidable, other times it will just seem unavoidable.
I am hopeful that many people will make individual choices that reduce their carbon footprint in 2012. I will use less electricity. The next car you buy will get better gas mileage than the one you drive now. I hope my students will discover ways of doing things that are better than the way I do things. I hope my university will exercise leadership in addressing climate change. We can be a model for the community, and Ventura County can be a model for society. People may say: "They are making it work. We can do the same!"
Science will continue to provide insight into what is happening to our planet. It will help us predict what will happen and what we can do about it. I am 100 percent sure of that.
Simone Aloisio, Ph.D., is an associate professor of chemistry at Cal State University, Channel Islands.
Politics in California and Ventura County
by Herb Gooch
California is predominantly Democratic, so much so that presidential candidates will skip any serious campaigning here, just fly in to raise cash. Welcome to California, the nation's ATM.
Statewide, Republicans have painted themselves into near irrelevancy, holding just shy of a third of the registration in the state and a third of the seats in the legislature. Every statewide office is in the hands of the Democrats. This will remain so as long as Republicans remain on the wrong side of every rising demographic trend in the state: branding themselves anti-immigrant and -minority, stressing traditional family values against the trend in gender politics, and adopting a siege mentality, refusing to compromise or join Gov. Jerry Brown in finding solutions. They prefer the poetry of opposition to the prose of governing.
Redistricting has shaken, but not fundamentally stirred, the political landscape. It is harder to predict outcomes. Over the last 10 years, there have been 265 congressional elections in California. Either the incumbent or a successor from the same party has won 264 times.
The potential for change, however, is nowhere more evident than with Ventura County. Republican Congressman Elton Gallegly, 23 years in Congress, who finds himself in a new district, in which he doesn't even reside. Congresswoman Lois Capps, D-Santa Barbara, suddenly finds her coastal district has moved inland and she is challenged by a popular Hispanic Republican, Abel Maldonado, Santa Maria.
Gallegly remains mute about his intentions and doesn't have to announce until early February. Both parties, nationally, see this as a "swing" seat, since Gallegly is not a safe incumbent and if he retires, it is open for grabs. Supervisor Steve Bennett, Ojai, and other Democrats have recently announced for the seat, though Bennett announced in late December that he wasn't certain he would run. Targeted nationally by the parties, this race is apt to be one of the most expensive races in the country.
The State Senate seat of Tony Strickland, R-Moorpark, is displaced into an area more Democratic, and he is opposed by Sen. Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills. The result will be a high-profile clash of ideological opposites bound to attract intense attention.
The Assembly seats are not likely to change. Democrat Das Williams, Santa Barbara, was re-districted into a more heavily Democratic area to the north, and Jeff Gorell, a Republican with high Democratic cross-over appeal, will be returning in spring from military posting in Afghanistan to a more Democratic district but one that also includes our military installations. The political unknown will be centered where there is no incumbent, the Assembly seat vacated by Cameron Smythe to the east, which still favors Republicans. There is likely to be no party change.
A handful of seats throughout California will change party hands. Likely, Republicans will gain, but only slightly. They have enthusiasm and money, fewer seats to defend and more to gain, playing on dissatisfaction with the economy and the political performances of Brown and President Barack Obama. If Obama finds a close race in the rest of the country, the temptation will be to let the California Democrats tend their own. It is unclear that Brown will have the political muscle to corral restive union support and minority support. Brown, the new-old governor, will be preoccupied with the budget. He can pass it, but he doesn't have the votes to raise taxes, for which he needs a two-thirds vote of the legislature. So he is going for broke, wagering everything on a November proposition to raise taxes. Precisely crafted to minimize opposition (only a half-cent sales tax, and up to a 2 percent income tax, but only for the highest-income earners and temporary at that, and tied to education and prison funding exclusively), he hopes to raise $7 billion, which will make his 2012 budget balance, in theory – otherwise triggering mechanism like this year's to cut more spending.
Brown hopes a Democratic national tide will put a surge into his campaign for tax increases. If the economy improves, it may undercut the argument for higher taxes, but the greater danger is an overburdened November ballot. Multiple tax initiatives and a ballot cluttered with requests for bond issues (think water and trains in the billions) and pro-life, anti-death, reincarnations of Proposition 8, etc., may simply stun the voters into confusion and apathy turning against.
Herbert E. Gooch III, Ph.D., is an associate professor of political science at California Lutheran University.
Religion, Mayan calendar, doomsday
by Sam Thomas
There has been no shortage of predictions concerning "the end" in the history of American life. In fact, modern American civilization began — if indeed we might be justified in identifying Christopher Columbus as its beginning — with apocalyptic expectations. Columbus thought he was an instrument for bringing about the new era outlined centuries earlier by Joachim of Fiore: the Age of the Holy Spirit, in which the "prophecies" of Revelation and other biblical texts would be brought to bear on "new" soil (see the Libro de Profecias of Columbus).
Of course, the Maya had their own ideas about prophecies and cycles and end times, much of which is as badly caricatured now as it was during the time of the Spanish Conquest. Witness the bubbling spring of books and films about 2012, all of which tap into a cultural narrative deeply embedded within the American psyche. (For the record: my birthday is Dec. 21, but that is not what qualifies me to write this article.)
As a scholar of religion — as one who studies religion and its effects — I am not inclined to give predictions except as informed by history and its repetitions. I study the early Jewish and Christian origins and later manifestations of apocalypticism, but I have no purchase on whether the claims are in fact true. That the roadsides of history are littered with failed prophets and worlds unredeemed might itself be a clue, though I think one misses the point if one focuses solely on this observation.
What too often goes unremarked is the fact that it is our culture that continues to produce obsessions with consummation and its corollary, which is annihilation. In other words, normal, everyday, thinking people tend to assume that apocalypticism is a fetish of the fringe — that only people who have somehow crossed over into fantasy are capable of entertaining such "irrational" dispositions. But what if it pervades our lives in ways that we have not imagined? Here one might mention the rhetoric of Tea Party politicians, radical environmentalists, peak oil adherents, 9/11 conspiracy theorists and, for that matter, the national security strategy of the United States. A city upon a hill? A light to the nations? Or the fall of Rome?
Well, in any case, apocalypticism is as much — perhaps more — about seeing as it is about ending. That is, apocalyptic perspectives unveil aspects of a culture that many people would prefer to ignore. If pressed to unveil, to offer signs, I would say this about 2012: There will be much doom, or at least much talk of doom.
Sam Thomas, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of religion at California Lutheran University.
by Andrzej Bieszczad
I will start with stating a problem with predicting technological advances: the most dramatic shifts are revolutionary rather than evolutionary in nature, and are therefore hard to predict. There are many potentially revolutionary advances made in research laboratories around the world, many of them located in California, but personally I do not see anything as dramatic as self-driving cars (like the one developed by Google), or as brain-implanted controllers (like the ones being developed at the new Center for Neural Engineering and Prostheses run jointly by U.C. Berkeley and U.C. San Francisco) making it to the mainstream in 2012.
Some great ideas (like artificial intelligence) will most likely never happen at all as they are more like guiding stars than concrete, well-defined technologies. They bring plenty of novelties to the world around us (like the buyer profiling on Amazon.com and elsewhere; or conversational systems like Apple's Siri), but they are not in the same category as a wheel, a printed book, a car, a plane, a computer, the Internet or the World Wide Web.
So what can we expect in 2012? We will see further growth of the virtual society, with more things that can be done online. For example, there is a movement to build a trustworthy social networking platform, Global Square, for the Occupy Wall Street Movement, with the goal of strengthening "the 99 percent of us."
The trend to move away from printed media toward electronic formats will accelerate, mostly due to the proliferation of affordable content-delivery platforms that will be shifting further from eBook readers toward universal content consumption devices like tablets. Rather than transplanting printed books verbatim to e-formats, the publishers will increase the use of new capabilities (like the ones found in standards such as ePub or HTML 5) to enhance the consumption experience with interactive features and multimedia. Some magazines available for tablets already include such capabilities, and there is no reason that the books should be left behind. One of the best uses of these technologies could be in textbooks if it were not for the fear of the publishers that they might loose their lucrative existing arrangements.
There is no doubt that these advances will take place in the near future; changing the mentality, however, might be a longer process than developing new technologies. That brings us to — in my humble opinion — the most dramatic advance likely to happen in 2012: the appearance of Internet-based TV. Apple TV has been around for years, and Google TV has been introduced with rather mediocre results in 2011. That is going to change.
Content providers will have to give in at some point and allow their content to be delivered by means other than a cable in spite of their multibillion-dollar arrangements. The alternative is the appearance of new content providers that will put the incumbents in the state of oblivion. That process has already started with the progress of YouTube, Vevo, etc. The success of Netflix and iTunes has already forced the traditional content providers to come up with alternatives like Hulu, Crackle and still-restricted Internet access for the regular TV subscribers. That will end at some point, but maybe not in 2012 — yet.
The arrival of Apple TV sets, rumored heavily on the Web, has already forced Sony, Samsung and others to announce Internet-capable devices with Siri-like voice recognition components. The mighty power of Apple, with its recent streak of overwhelming success stories, may finally convince content providers to work on some solution that will deliver to the market what many consumers want. There is no doubt in my mind that the new generations will be consuming content using just the Internet, but that may —unfortunately — take a while. Nevertheless, Apple TV sets might be the largest technological story of 2012.
We will see a new, redesigned iPhone, and a better iPad with a screen that will finally match iPhone's quality; and Microsoft-Nokia smartphones will increase their share of the market, mostly due to the self-inflicted annihilation of Blackberry. Amazon will come up with a better tablet, but the quality will most likely never match iPad, since Apple can afford to deliver superior quality by setting price points at much higher levels. The android world will grow, but the developers have already realized that developing applications for the variety of devices supporting many versions of android is much more challenging than targeting uniform platforms such as Apple's iOS.
The smartphones will evolve to match the increased speeds of the 4G networks, but the most dramatic enhancement will be the increased use of the near field communication (NFC) that will add to our phones' capability to carry cash. Field trials have already proven the feasibility of the technology, and some of the Android phones already come with NFC built in. I expect both iPhone and Microsoft-based phones to incorporate it as well. It took several years for Bluetooth to take off, and NFC will need some time, too, but paying for groceries by swiping smartphones along NFC readers at close range should start on a large scale in 2012. Tablets will be increasingly treated as serious devices, replacing computers in many households, since there is really no need for a traditional computer in most of them. Computers will continue to evolve toward content creation, and tablets will increasingly be used as content consumption and collaboration tools. They will also be used increasingly in service roles such as in hospitals, restaurants, planes, etc.
No technology prediction can leave games on the sidelines; the video game market is a multibillion dollar industry, and each year there are more adults whose blood was infused with games when they were growing up. Therefore, games are increasingly used in non-entertainment applications that may apply virtual reality in job training or therapy. While I do not foresee any dramatic changes to the man-machine interface (like using Emotiv headsets that allow for brain-waves-based controllers), the current devices that work with consoles (Wiimote with Wii, Kinects with Xbox) will evolve when the new-version gaming platforms are introduced in 2012. I predict that the shift from consoles to tablet-based gaming will continue, with iPhone and iPad gamers increasingly using AirPlay to move the action to a large-screen TV through Apple TV (as a separate box or a built-in TV set module). I expect Apple to open the Apple TV platform to developers — just as happened several years ago with iPhone OS (now iOS) — although I would not bet that that will happen in 2012. The potential is enormous — not only in the gaming context — so there is a good chance for that.
Unforeseen events may take our future in all sorts of directions, but the only visible catastrophe that is looming ahead of us is the potential for a financial meltdown in Europe. That could have dramatic implications that are impossible to foretell. Just as the Japanese tsunami ripples affected supply chains in electronic, energy and auto industries, the crisis in Europe and its global implications may result in some technological shifts.
If the discovery of the God particle is confirmed, then that would be quite something to remember 2012 for, albeit with no apparent immediate technological implications. Just like many discoveries in the past, the Higgs boson may yield some dramatic changes in the years to come, unless, of course, the 2012 phenomenon does not obliterate us all on Dec. 21. Otherwise, I will be quite happy with my iPhone 5, iPad 3 and 60-inch Apple TV set.
Prof. Andrzej Bieszczad, Ph.D., is the director of the master program computer science at California State University, Channel Islands


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A scale version of the Vietnam Memorial Wall will be on display in Geneseo in August.
The American Veterans Traveling Tribute will visit Geneseo Aug. 7 through 11 with an 80 percent scale version of the Washington, D.C. monument.
The 360-foot wall contains every single name etched on the original.
The wall's display in Geneseo is sponsored by the Don Cherry VFW Post No. 5083 and its auxiliary as well as the Geneseo Foundation.
The wall will arrive in Geneseo on the afternoon of Aug. 7. It will be escorted by members of the Patriot Guard.
The wall will be set up in the city park on Aug. 8 and will be open to the public starting at noon. It will remain open for free viewing until 3 p.m. on Aug. 11.
A special opening ceremony will start at 7 p.m. Aug. 8. There will be an ice-cream social held in conjunction with the ceremony.
Events have been planned for each day the wall is in Geneseo.
Aug. 10 will feature a "Welcome Home Vietnam Veteran" parade followed by a program in the park bandshell and a pork chop dinner. Vietnam veterans will receive a free lunch. All Vietnam veterans are invited to walk or ride in the parade and area businesses and organizations are encouraged to participate.
A non-denominational church service and memorial service honoring Geneseo service men killed in Vietnam will be Aug. 11.
Organizers will host a steak sandwich and grilled tenderloin dinner in the park on June 15 following the Music Festival Parade to help raise funds for the wall's visit.
All events are open to the public.
For more information, contact Ronda Borkgren at 714-1551, Heather Pierson at 945-3859 or Larry Hines at 944-2840.
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Mount Pleasant Mayor Billy Swails says he was tired of hearing parents tell him that the area lacked a local public option for their children to earn bachelor's degrees.
His response? Courting Francis Marion University in Florence to open a satellite campus in the College of Charleston's backyard.
The upscale community east of the Cooper River is the fourth-largest city in the state, and it has a great public high school, Swails said. But many of its graduates have to leave the area to earn a four-year degree from a public institution, despite having decent grades, he said. For many students, "it's hard to go a long way away to go to school."
Many local students aren't accepted at the College of Charleston, a liberal arts school on the peninsula with a growing national reputation, Swails said. The college enrolls large numbers of high-achieving, out-of-state students, who pay higher tuition rates, and in most cases requires students to have high SAT scores, he said.
Francis Marion, on the other hand, has demonstrated success educating South Carolina residents in the Pee Dee region, many of whom don't have super SAT scores or are among the first generation in their families to attend college, Swails said.
If Francis Marion officials accept his invitation, the satellite campus could open as early as the fall of 2014, he said. It likely would start by offering a limited number of degrees, including several business degree options and a bachelor of science in nursing program for registered nurses with two-year degrees.
'Missing the boat'
Francis Marion President Fred Carter, a former member of the College of Charleston faculty, said he's studying the plan now. He likely will make a recommendation to the school's Board of Trustees at its Nov. 8 meeting, he said, but he doesn't know yet what his recommendation will be.
About 4,100 students are enrolled at the school. More than 95 percent of freshmen are South Carolina residents, and for years the school's enrollment of black students has exceeded 40 percent.
The average SAT score for incoming freshmen was 952 in 2012; the College of Charleston's average was 1,209.
Swails said he wants the Francis Marion satellite campus to focus on students with SAT scores between 800 and 1,200. "It think we're missing the boat on them,"
Richard Crummy, pastor at Greater Goodwill AME Church in Mount Pleasant, said Francis Marion has a good reputation among members of his congregation of 1,180. He attended the school for three semesters in the 1970s, he said, and he would welcome a campus in the town. "They have done well in the Pee Dee," he said. "If they came here, they would have success here."
Swails said the Mount Pleasant campus also could serve students who graduate with two-year degrees from Trident Technical College.
Now, he said, there is no formal "bridge program" between Trident Tech and the College of Charleston. Such programs allow technical college students to take a limited number of classes at a four-year university, and guarantee their acceptance if they meet certain requirements.
Hundreds of students enroll each year in a bridge program between Tri-County Technical College and nearby Clemson University. The program has been operating since 2006.
National reputation
Greg Padgett, chairman of the College of Charleston's Board of Trustees, said a similar program between Trident Technical College and the College of Charleston is in the works now.
The college is committed to serving students from the Lowcountry, he said, and it is "always pleased to work with city and town leaders if they feel an educational need is not being met." Trident Technical College President Mary Thornley was not available for comment Monday through Thursday.
In the fall of 2012, the latest year for which data is available, 286, or 13 percent, of College of Charleston freshmen were from Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester counties. At Francis Marion's Florence campus, 86 freshmen, or 11 percent, were from those counties.
The College of Charleston is proud of the standards it has in place and its national reputation, Padgett said. "But we've worked hard to accept as many students from the state and Lowcountry as we can."
The arms race
Julie Carullo, spokeswoman for the state's Commission on Higher Education, said Swails has sent a letter to the commission making it aware of the proposal, but the commission can't weigh in until there's a solid plan for the campus, and until Francis Marion's board has approved that plan.
The commission must approve new facilities, leases and new academic programs, Carullo said. But she's not yet sure what kind of commission approval the new campus would need.
Mount Pleasant Town Administrator Eric DeMoura said a group of Town Council members are working on the plan now, and are exploring a few possible locations for the campus.
"When kids come out of Wando High School, we're proud to say they are well-prepared," DeMoura said, yet those students lack options to continue their educations. "You have to wonder if our community is being fully served," he said.
"I fully understand the frustration that the parents and residents experience," said state Rep. Jim Merrill, R-Charleston, and Mount Pleasant is trying to respond to that. But he and some other state legislators likely will have some concerns about the proposal.
Affordable and accessible options for earning four-year degrees are limited in the Lowcountry, he said. "That's why Clemson, (the University of South) Carolina and others are trying to establish a toe-hold here."
But, he said, "the helter-skelter way we're going about things is not a plan I would choose."
The state needs a comprehensive, statewide plan for higher education, instead of leaving those decisions to the individual colleges, he said. "For the schools it's an arms race."
Diane Knich at 937-5491 or on Twitter @dianeknich.
Schools by the numbers
|General information
|Total undergraduates
|Graduation rate (six year)
|Freshman Class
|Number of students
|From tricounty-area
|286 students/13%
|86 students/11%
|Average SAT score
|Black students
|Data is for the fall of 2012
|Source: S.C. Commission on Higher Education, CofC, FMU


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on March 12, 2013 - 11:15 PM
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One thing I'll say for Ryan Fitzpatrick, he never lacked for confidence.
From the minute he arrived in the NFL, as a seventh-round draft pick out of Harvard, Fitzpatrick believed he was good enough to start in the NFL. All he asked for was a chance to prove it.
That's why Fitz chose the Bills in the first place. As a free agent in 2009, he saw Buffalo as a place where the quarterback competition was soft enough to give him that one big shot.
Fitz ultimately became the quarterback by default, because the Bills had nobody better. The fact that he held the job for 50 games says more about the prolonged dysfunction of the franchise than Fitzpatrick's abilities as an NFL starter.
But he still thinks he can start in the NFL, which is probably why he and the Bills parted company Tuesday. The Bills offered Fitzpatrick $3 million a year to remain in Buffalo and compete for a job, likely the backup job. For a man of his pride, the offer had to come as an insult.
Still, it was difficult for Fitzpatrick to say goodbye to Buffalo, where he got his chance to be a starting NFL quarterback.
"It's a really hard day for me, as a husband and father," Fitzpatrick said Tuesday night from his home in Arizona, "because we loved Buffalo so much. We were very fond of the area and the people. It was a special place to me because of the fans and lifelong friends we made in four years there.
"That organization gave me my first shot," he said. "It's hard leaving the people in the locker room and in that building. They deserve a winner."
The new coach, Doug Marrone, talked about an open competition at quarterback in camp this summer. The Bills signed Tarvaris Jackson, who somehow wasn't deemed worthy of playing a down last season. They will almost surely take their future franchise QB in the draft.
Presumably, Fitzpatrick would have been part of a three-man fight for the starting job. The problem was, he might have won it. I don't believe the Bills relished the idea of selling Fitz as the starting quarterback to a dubious fan base that was only too familiar with his limitations.
Management's intentions came out in humiliating fashion Tuesday, when the website Deadspin.com released a conversation that had been illegally recorded between Bills general manager Buddy Nix and his Tampa Bay counterpart, Mark Dominik.
Nix characterized Fitzpatrick as "a guy that's fighting for probably a backup job."
That comment made it pretty clear that Nix and Co. didn't want Fitz to line up under center on opening day next season. And Fitzpatrick couldn't have been amused when he heard the general manager talk about him like some scrub who would be fortunate to make it as the backup.
"I'm a very competitive guy," Fitzpatrick said. "I want to be out there playing. I wanted to finish what I started there. I had so many guys helped me in my career. I learned from some great ones. They weren't maybe Brady or Manning, but they helped me a tremendous amount.
"I see myself being a very valuable guy in that regard," he said. "For me, pride is never going to get in the way. But respect and pride can maybe go hand-in-hand. It's probably more respect than pride."
Fitzpatrick said Nix's comments on Deadspin.com didn't influence his decision. But it sounds as if he knew that the Bills wanted him to compete to be the backup. So while he would have been willing to help out a rookie, Fitz would have at least wanted a chance to compete for No. 1.
That's too bad, because you could do worse than having a player of Fitz's ability and character grooming your rookie quarterback. He'll make some team a decent backup.
I'll miss Fitzpatrick, off the field, anyway. He was a good guy who never uttered a harsh word about a teammate and went out of his way to support Stevie Johnson during Stevie's more juvenile moments.
Fitz had an easy, engaging way with the media and the community. He knew what it meant to be the quarterback in Buffalo. People rooted for him, despite his shortcomings as a passer. He was a family man and father of four who wore his wedding ring in games, which went over well with women.
People accused me of being easy on him, and there was some truth to that.
You develop a soft spot for the good guys, the ones who can usually be counted on for a smile or a helpful quote. Some of the best have gone out the door lately: Fitzpatrick, George Wilson, Nick Barnett, Chris Kelsay.
I'll never forget Fitz coming to the post-game interview room on Dec. 4, 2011. He began his remarks by expressing his condolences on the death of Allen Wilson the day before. He couldn't imagine how much that decent gesture meant to all of us at The News.
Before and during the 2011 season, I pushed for the Bills to give him a new contract. It was the right thing at the time. A respectable NFL team doesn't send its starting QB out as a lame duck in the last year of his contract. It would have cost a lot less if they'd done it in the summer.
Fitzpatrick had his finest run in the first seven weeks that season. The Bills gave him a six-year, $59 million deal. He had thrown 32 touchdowns in a 16-game stretch over two seasons. He'd beaten the Patriots and Eagles at home, giving Bills fans some of their finest moments in years.
Even then, you figured he would never see the bulk of that money.
Fitzpatrick wound up collecting $21 million, barely one-third. That's roughly one year's salary for the Ravens' Joe Flacco in his new contract.
It's not as if the deal bankrupted Ralph Wilson.
Fitz was holding down the position while the Bills waited for a better idea to come along. That's been the case since Jim Kelly retired in 1996. The problem with the contract was it gave the Bills a false sense of security.
It prevented them from finding an immediate successor.
I spoke with Fitzpatrick by phone moments after the Bills drafted cornerback Aaron Williams with the 34th pick of the 2011 draft. He was elated that the Bills hadn't taken a QB in the first two rounds. It meant he would enter camp as a team's starter for the first time ever.
"Wait," he said a few minutes into our talk. "San Francisco just took Colin Kaepernick." Look at the two of them now.
You always wanted Fitzpatrick to be better. We used to joke that he had the qualities of a top quarterback, except passing a football. If only he had Drew Bledoe's arm strength, or Jim Kelly's accuracy.
He had his moments. There were big games on the road, when he threw four TD passes. There was the Oakland game here, when the whole FitzMagic thing was at its peak. But soon enough, opposing coaches caught up with him. He couldn't throw the deep ball, and he made too many bad decisions late in games.
For all that, he still might have been their best option this season.
Fitzpatrick was hardly the only problem with the Bills. During his three years as the starter, they had perhaps the worst three-year stretch of defense in the history of the franchise.
Too often, they asked Fitz to be something that he's not: An elite quarterback who can carry a team with his arm, who can lift a team beyond its own modest possibilities.
He had an inflated sense of himself as a gunslinger, which only exacerbated the problem when he insisted on attempting tough throws that were beyond his capabilities.
So he's gone now. After the final home game last Dec. 30, Fitzpatrick brought his children onto the field at Ralph Wilson Stadium to run around.
He suspected it would be his last game here. It was his way of saying goodbye to the place where he enjoyed his finest moments as a pro.
His biggest flaw might have been his own enormous self-confidence, a belief that far exceeded his talent. Fitzpatrick never thought of himself as a career backup. He refused to settle, to accept low expectations.
It's too bad he fell short, because Buffalo can surely use more of that.
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Important reform for software adoption within the Italian public administration
FOSS takes precedence in Italy
At the end of August I wrote a short post about an important reform that modified the rules for software adoption within the Italian public administration.
This morning a new law (commonly known as "Agenda digitale italiana") has been approved and it adds a further amendment to Article 68 of the Codice dell'amministrazione digitale. Now Italian public administrations could select between six options (and not five, as it was in the previous version):
- develop a solution internally
- reuse a solution developed internally or by another public administration
- adopt an free/open source solution
- use a cloud computing service
- obtain a proprietary license of use
- a combination of the above.
Now cloud computing is a new feature. And it takes priority over the proprietary solution.
By the way, also the rest of the article is quite different and more detailed. Paragraph 1bis and 1ter has been added. Paragraph 1bis describes the principles governing the comparative analysis that every public administration has to do before choosing one of these 6 options. And paragraph 1ter has modified the most interesting part of the previous version of Article 68. Now it says:
In the event that the comparative analysis of technical and economic aspects, according to the criteria described in paragraph 1-bis, demonstrates the impossibility to adopt an already available solution [option B], or a free/open source solution [option C] (adapted to the needs to be met) the acquisition of proprietary software products is allowed.
Originally posted on Simone Aliprandi's personal blog. Reposted under Creative Commons.
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Isn't cloud-based solution just the same as proprietary software? If you don't own the cloud service yourself and it isn't free software (as in freedom) then just as with proprietary software you still don't have the 4 freedoms and someone else has control over you computing and not you.
Italy is the country of unapplied laws.
The "Agenda Digitale" will be applied when pigs will learn to fly.
I would have made more clear the differentiation between free software and "free solutions". What happens if, e.g., Microsoft decides to offer a server solution for free to an administration and this forces all people to _buy_ a microsoft solution to access the services offered by that administration? The solution is for free for the administration but becomes a cage for the peple.
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Wow, what a note from jenkens. Unfortunately, he may be right. Out of town liberals coming to Charles Town and then running City Council is a disaster waiting to happen. With the meager budgets and tight fiscal economy, Slover, Paonessa and Bringewatt should not be giving away tax dollars to any liberal cause.
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Business roundup for Charles Town.....Why do you think that Charles Town is about bankrupt? Councilman Poeanessa, Slover and Bringetot give our tax dollars to the Opry House to buy new carpet, then the Opry House turns around and buys the building next door. I guess the Opry House really shoved the taxpayers of Charles Town. Why do Bringetot, Slover and Ms. Poenessa take our tax dollars and redistribute them to the arts when we have sidewalks crumbling, our drinking water is terrible and businesses downtown are hurting. Redistribute your own money but not mine. Not bad enought the Feds, State and County does it, now Slover, Bringetot and Poeassna are doing it with City money. They could care less about City taxpayers. We need these liberals off City Council. And that is this years Business Roundup for Charles Town.
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on February 17, 2013 - 1:00 AM
Employees indeed love animals at Buffalo Zoo
In response to the writer who expressed her views on zookeepers not "loving" their animals, the zookeepers and volunteers who work at the zoo do indeed love their animals. The keepers and volunteers did not put the animals there and have no say as to whether or not they are returned to the wild. Most of these animals were born in captivity and would never survive in the wild. The keepers, volunteers and veterinarians provide an invaluable service to the lives of these animals and do their best to keep them active and engaged.
Did the writer see the news clip of the Canisius College students who, through their animal enhancement classes, went to the zoo to engage the animals in activities to alleviate their boredom? Did she do any research as to what is done on a daily basis for the care and comfort of these exotic animals? The keepers go above and beyond their "regular" jobs to make sure these animals are properly taken care of as best as possible.
Several years ago, it was proposed to give Buffalo a state-of-the-art zoo on the waterfront. Money was in the coffers from Albany, plans were in place and yet the public declined improvement on the grounds that the neighborhood did not want to lose its tiny zoo. Had this zoo been built, these animals would have better exhibits to call home. We not only would have had a great new zoo, but we could have used the Delaware Park facility as an educational center, breeding center, children's zoo and informational center.
Yes, the keepers and volunteers get to go home at the end of their day, but that does not mean they don't bring their work home with them. They are constantly thinking of the animals. Maybe the writer should talk to one of the keepers or volunteers before she condemns those who really love the animals.
Mary Jane Runkel