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As mentioned before, I was assuming the developer knows what he's doing. By the way, bubble sort can sometimes be the right tool for the job e.g. for very small data sets (1-10 or something) it's simplicity can help it outperform more advanced algorithms.
My hypothetical Java coder would not be "ignoring performance" (it's not like he's using bubble sort)
As far as I know most gamers that I would describe as casual gamers, don't buy new computers if they don't have to. And most of the time they are using them for many years.
And yes, I certainly do expect the user to buy new hardware, so that I can implement bigger and better features in my game instead of worrying about how fast it will run on October 4 2012 at 1:44 AM on current technology. Computers only get faster. Think in more than one dimension.
If you do not depend on thoose extra sales, you are free to ignore them.
Note, currently I'm working on commercial software (not games) and most of the computers that I'm installing it on, are quite old. Even if computers are new, they are usually the cheap kind. However my impression so far is that private/personal computers are updated even less often.
Of course if you're developing the next Unreal or Crysis you know there are many gamers that will buy a new rig just to play your game. (Well Crytek still targeted DX9 instead of >=DX10... with Crysis 2.)
Actually they don't take responsibility for slow software. For example, if someone complains that Outlook getting slower with each version, he is making MS responsible.
those who don't implicitly accept that some games may run slower by nature
And he is right, if you have features that justify a higher system requirement that's one thing. But if you waste CPU cycles and can't show anything in return, don't be surprised if the user is thinking "Oh great another upgrade required because the developer is lazy".
Well, if he had learned C/C++ from the beginning he would probably be faster using it than Java. At least for me this is the case.
he will benefit from fast development time
Why does everybody, think it's faster/easier to use Java? I feel terrible when I have to use it and the lack of good tools doesn't help at all.
Okay, I was trying unsuccessful to find an article I read about how Java is a bad choice for teaching programming. But couldn't find it. Anyway, sometimes that extra difficulty can help making you a better programmer.
You're right it's not cost effective. However the thought of it is quite pleasing.
By an assembly guru. Well, I just don't think that's cost effective, that's all.
Well I like toying around with assembly and I'm glad it was part of my training. Even though I was never forced to use it in production (that would probably be a maintenance hell).
Just to make one thing clear, I think Java is a perfectly valid language choice. It's just my personal preference that if given the choice, I wouldn't choose it.


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Binghamton University professor named to federal advisory group
Binghamton University faculty member Leo Wilton was among six people named as new members of the Director's Council of Public Representatives at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The 21- member panel is the advisory committee to the NIH director on issues important to the public. The Office of the Director is responsible for setting policy for NIH, which includes 27 institutes and centers.
Wilton is an associate professor of human development and Africana studies. He specializes in health disparities related to HIV and AIDS in black communities, community-based research and evaluation and black psychological development and mental health. As a regional trainer for the American Psychological Association's HIV Office for Psychology Education, Wilton provides outreach to diverse communities about HIV prevention through workshops and other initiatives. He has extensive experience as a psychologist in providing mental health care related to HIV prevention in black communities.
Wilton, recently attended his first meeting as a member of the council and said he is delighted to serve the country in this way. "This is really important in terms of public health," he said. Wilton has also played a role in a recent request for consumer health information released by the NIH. He and a number of Binghamton students will lead the data analysis of the results, which will look at the public's health information needs and information-seeking behaviors.
"It's good to know you're having an impact on public health in the nation," he said. "It's interesting to get to participate on that level."
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Most people come to the California Academy of Sciences, in San Francisco, to check out the planetarium or to watch the albino alligator lazily wade in the in-door swamp. Little do they know, more wonders await at the Steinhart Aquarium!
The aquarium holds up to 212,000 gallons of water and showcases more than 2,000 different kinds of fishy sea creatures, and live corals make the animals feel right at home. Some of the many marine animals found in the Steinhart Aquarium include seahorses, sea dragons, frogfish and more. Biologist April Devitt, who cares for and feeds the aquarium's creatures, gave TFK a behind-the-scenes look.
Penguin Pavillion
The first stop on the tour was a trip to feed the African penguins. The black-and-white birds flailed and fidgeted in the water, hungry for fresh fish. Part of Devitt's job is to record each penguin's daily diet and intake. The Academy has public penguin feedings everyday at 10:30 a.m. and at 3:30 p.m.
The small creatures sure have big personalities for their size. Most of the African penguins fought over who gets which fish, making a great show for the audience. "They act like people, which makes the feedings very fun and different each time," says Brooke Weinstein, the biologist who conducts the live show.
Fish Food
Up next: Feeding time for the seahorses, sea dragons and frogfish. "In the wild the seahorses feed on tiny little shrimp called mysis shrimp, so that's what we feed them here," Devitt explained. "We feed them live and frozen mysis shrimp."
Many people wonder: What's the difference between a sea dragon and a seahorse? "Sea dragons, seahorses and pike fish are in the same family," Devitt says. "The differences are that they are in different genera. Also, sea dragons are from Southern and Western coasts of Australia, while a lot of seahorses are from the tropical Indonesia and the Philippines areas. Their body shapes evolved to adjust to the different climates."
The frogfish feeding took a tiny bit more effort. First, Devitt attached a piece of small fish to a plastic wire and placed it in front of the frogfish. The frogfish realizes that it is food, and then, bam! It eats the fish in one huge gulp!
Tips to Thrive
If you want to own a seahorse or a sea dragon someday, then take some advice from an expert. "I would recommend that you would buy a captive bread seahorse, not a wild-caught one, because they have the tendency to not transfer over to eating frozen food very well and they don't do well in captivity," Devitt says. "Make sure you have the right tank set-up: tropical-like, warm salt-water. Also make sure you get the right food for them and give them places to hide and hold on to [with their tails] so they feel secure and safe."
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Not so long ago, Dover sole meant an overcooked fillet swimming in butter, dotted with tasteless dried herbs and soaked in too much lemon juice. But sole deserves a comeback: it can become a satisfying, sophisticated, one-skillet dinner with very little effort. The recipe can easily be doubled.
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Sprinkle both sides of fillets with salt and pepper. Coat a large nonstick skillet with cooking spray and place over medium heat. Add the fillets and cook 1 minute for sole or 3 minutes for tilapia. Gently flip and cook until the fish is opaque in the center and just cooked through, 1 to 2 minutes for sole or 3 to 5 minutes for tilapia. Divide between 2 serving plates; tent with foil to keep warm.
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A hippie who believes in peace and love ect. But believes in not giving any shit and not taking any shit. There slogan is," make love and war". Many believe that people should try to change society in a nonviolent way but that that will in the end fail and a violent revolution will be necessary.
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Searching for a cure for the brain's darkest diseases
By Nicole Sweeney Etter | Photography by Dan Dry
Day after day, Dr. David Baker hunched over his lab bench searching for a sign that he was on the right track. As a post-doctoral fellow, he was engaged in a risky project: deviating from the neuroscience establishment by studying the role of glutamate in addiction, while virtually everyone else focused on another neurotransmitter called dopamine.
It was slow, painstaking work. But it was then that Baker made the most remarkable discovery of his young career, one that propelled him to where he is today. He identified a unique mechanism in the brain that releases glutamate, a key neurotransmitter, in an unusual way. His team was the first to show that extrasynaptic glutamate released by that mechanism is critical for brain function and plays a part in brain dysfunction.
Now an assistant professor of biomedical sciences in Marquette's College of Health Sciences, Baker and Marquette colleague Dr. John Mantsch have started their own company, Promentis Pharmaceuticals, that could deliver promising new treatments for schizophrenia and other neurological disorders.
"This is exciting, leading-edge science right in Milwaukee," says Daniel Lawton, a veteran of the pharmaceutical industry who is CEO of Promentis. "One of the reasons it's so exciting and one of the reasons it's daunting is that schizophrenia really is a poorly understood disease. The more we understand about schizophrenia, the more we understand just how desperately necessary new therapeutic approaches are."
Baker grew up in Montana, just outside of Glacier National Park. Like most science-savvy students, he thought about a career in medicine. He wanted to help people, and as a doctor he could do that every day. Then he fell in love with research. "I thought if I could contribute to a discovery, that could touch millions of lives over years and years," he says.
Baker's path seemed bright from the beginning. As an undergrad at Montana State University, he contributed to three scientific papers in academic journals an extraordinary feat for someone his age. By the time he earned his doctorate, he had written 11 papers two or three times the production of his peers.
His post-doctoral fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina was different. The work was slow and filled with trial and error. Baker's mentor was Dr. Peter Kalivas, one of the top neuroscientists in the country.
"Dave is probably the brightest guy to come through my lab," Kalivas says. "Dave's real knack is to see with new eyes. He can see things in different ways, and that was always very impressive to me."
Kalivas' lab was researching long-term changes in the brain caused by cocaine addiction and found that glutamate levels in key structures of the brain were reduced by 50 percent. That seemed to indicate that glutamate could be involved in brain function or dysfunction. Kalivas assigned Baker a project: find out where this extrasynaptic pool of glutamate is coming from and how it's released.
Most neurotransmitters, including glutamate, are released between synapses, the gaps between nerve endings. But the mechanism that Baker identified bathes the entire nerve in glutamate. That's important because it could reveal a new molecular target for drugs to treat a host of major neurological disorders.
Baker and Kalivas were confident that extrasynaptic glutamate could answer mysteries of the brain, but until a few years ago, most people did not agree. The deck was so stacked against their research that at an international conference in Dublin, one of the leaders in the field declared that extrasynaptic glutamate was in no way involved with neurotransmission end of story. Kalivas presented the opposite viewpoint.
"It was really interesting being at odds with some very prominent neuroscientists," Baker says. "At that early stage, it was certainly a high-risk project and slow-developing story."
Plunging into uncharted territory has its disadvantages. "It was difficult and frustrating for months. It was like stepping into a room, and it's completely dark, and all you have to navigate through the room is the light from your watch. We stumbled around in the dark for a long time," Baker says. "But we really felt like if we were right, this would have the potential to be a significant development."
One of Baker's first studies showed that by inhibiting that unique brain mechanism, one could alter glutamate levels. Proving that fact was half the battle. Next he decided to see if it could affect dopamine levels. It did.
"It was really just incremental gains we were lighting candles along the way," Baker says. "A lot of things didn't take. A lot of things didn't make sense. But once we knew that we could stimulate the receptor and affect glutamate, that was huge."
Soon, Baker, Kalivas and their colleagues were publishing high-profile papers that were heralded as far away as England and India. One 2002 paper in the Journal of Neuroscience has since been cited by other scientists more than 200 times. A 2003 paper published in Nature Neuroscience has been cited more than 100 times. "It has had a major impact," Baker admits.
Now when Baker goes to www.clinicaltrials.gov and searches for studies targeting this mechanism, scores of projects come up. The explosion of interest didn't bother him at first, but then doubts started to creep in. He wondered: "What if this isn't real? What if I'm leading people down a dark alley, and it's going to be a dead end?" But as clinical data showed that targeting that mechanism did help people, he learned to relax. "For me that was the real confirmation," he says.
By the time Baker published the lion's share of data, he was already at Marquette. "Here you have a department where it's a priority to bring in people who study disease, understanding what goes wrong and how to treat it. I think it was kind of inevitable that we'd get someone like David who was working in a hot area," says Mantsch, an associate professor of biomedical sciences and fellow addiction researcher. "I think he's probably one of the most important faculty we have on this campus, and what he's doing just amazes me."
In the brutal "publish or perish" world of academia, competition can kill camaraderie. But Baker found a different environment at Marquette, where a group of young neuroscientists works alongside more-veteran colleagues. The biomedical sciences professors eat lunch together and routinely meet to discuss their research and share ideas. They want to see each other succeed. "It's not like a lot of other places faculty here really take a team approach," Baker says.
It was the perfect place for Baker to flourish.
Eager to follow up on his discoveries, Baker applied for three major research grants during his first year at Marquette. As a junior faculty member, he is required to divide his time equally between teaching and research, and he asked what would happen if he received all three grants. His bosses and colleagues laughed at the unlikely prospect. Then Baker won all three grants, worth nearly $2 million.
He made it work, even though the combination of teaching and research added up regularly to 80 hours a week. That's not unusual, says Baker, who points to other driven young colleagues who regularly clock 80- to 100-hour weeks.
Despite his lab's continuing progress, Baker started to feel frustrated. He continued to publish papers, but outside of academic journals, nothing was happening. "The real value of these findings wasn't being realized," he says.
Although Baker's focus at the time was on addiction, he hypothesized that this brain mechanism could also be involved in other neurological diseases, such as Parkinson's. In 2004 he decided to turn his attention to schizophrenia, one of the top 10 most disabling neurological disorders. Though it occurs in only 1 percent of the population, the disease is so disruptive that most schizophrenics can't function in society, and 10 percent commit suicide. But the medications for the disease are so debilitating and ineffective that compliance rates are abysmal. By finding a better treatment for schizophrenia, Baker hoped to have a real impact.
Because he'd never worked on the disease, it was unlikely his grant proposal would win funding. He began digging through the research anyway. "The field was a mess there were a myriad of potential causes, and they really seemed at odds with each other," he says. Baker sat down and sketched a table of all the opposing hypotheses. Then he considered the possible role of his mechanism. If it was involved, it appeared to resolve all the other hypotheses. He made such a compelling case that the National Institutes of Health funded his grant request on the first submission.
He started to collaborate with a psychiatrist from the Medical College of Wisconsin and a chemist from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The trio applied for the biggest grant offered by Wisconsin's Biotechnology Alliance $250,000 and won. Using an existing drug in a small clinical trial, the researchers found they could restore normal levels of extrasynaptic glutamate and alleviate some schizophrenia symptoms.
But Baker thought they could do better. He wondered: How could he transition from the discoveries he was making in his lab to technology that was commercially available? Should he patent his findings and sell the license to another company?
Then he and Mantsch came up with a crazy idea: Why not create a spinoff company? They talked to Tim Keane, entrepreneur in residence in the College of Business Administration, about how to found a company. Keane encouraged them to enter the Kohler Center for Entrepreneurship Business Plan Competition. Baker and Mantsch took first place, winning the support of Marquette's Golden Angels Network, and then were finalists in the state business plan competition. With the help of colleagues, including UWM chemist Dr. James Cook, their pharmaceutical company was born.
They decided to call their company Promentis, which means pro mind or healthy mind. They applied for NIH's small business innovative research grant which typically is no more than $100,000 and received $500,000. Then Baker and Mantsch recruited three industry veterans from Schwarz Pharma: Lawton as CEO, Steve Pollock as vice president and Dr. Klaus Veitinger as chairman of the board. Baker and Mantsch, who both hold the title of founder and director, will head up the science along with UWM's Cook.
Drug discovery is often a haphazard process. "The typical model is that someone makes a serendipitous discovery, and it seems to work," Baker explains. A pharmaceutical company might realize that a drug for one disease seems to alleviate symptoms of another, so then a similar drug is created. But no one knows why those drugs seem to work. That can lead scientists to jump to conclusions about the root causes of disease. Baker's approach is different understand the neurobiology of a disease first, then create the drug that corrects the problem.
It can take $100 million or more and a decade to turn the germ of an idea into a marketable drug, Lawton says. Promentis has already made substantial progress in a promising area. "But there's no doubt it's a long, expensive and uncertain path forward," he says. "This isn't the sort of project you can self-finance and produce in your garage."
Baker says if he and Mantsch knew what they were getting into, they might have thought twice about starting their own company. Still, Baker hopes to guide other Marquette faculty through the entrepreneurship process. "I could really make a convincing argument that my story couldn't have happened at other universities," he says.
At a large research university, could a junior professor walk into the dean's office or the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs and say, "I think I'm really onto something"? Could he have captured the attention and support of an angels investor group? Would he have the university president and provost as advocates? Maybe not. It's been a learning experience for Baker and the university.
"Marquette up until recently hasn't had a history of this entrepreneurship culture. ... I really think it's going to change the way the university looks at intellectual property and tech transfer," Mantsch says. "This is really something that could define Marquette as a research-intensive institution. It's a shift in mindset."
In the meantime, Baker and Mantsch have a lot of work ahead, and the clock is ticking. "We know more about this mechanism, and we have a head start on everybody," Baker says. "It won't stay that way."


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CivCity: Rome, an innovative city builder inspired by the world of Sid Meier's Civilization, and created by a collaboration between Firefly Studios and Firaxis Games, invites players to shift focus from building a multi-city empire and zoom-in on the great cities of the Roman Empire, culminating in Rome itself! Through dozens of missions, each offering an array of interesting decisions, players will be charged with building, nurturing and managing one of these great cities as they endeavour to lead the Roman Empire from its humble beginnings to its mighty apogee. Features players have enjoyed in the Civilization series, like research, city happiness, production and culture, can now be managed actively in the wonderfully immersive world of CivCity: Rome.


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Hey, is there a listing somewhere of all the tags (like [IMG] [URL] [center] [color=""] etc) that work on this forum, with their available attributes, somewhere? I know a lot of my images that I first started posting showed up inanely large in forum, so I started uploading thumbs, then linking them to the main image file...but I (and my hosting company) would VASTLY prefer to be able to access the "width" and "height" attributes via the [IMG] tag, so the multiple-files thing can be avoided.
That's what's buggin' me ATM, but it'd still be nice to see a complete list of what coding we can do somewhere


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Introducing Taylor from Boston. Hard 10 to start the smokeshow week. Well it's officially time to start the countdown to DCU. 2 weeks from Friday we make our triumphant return to Worcester. As a reminder there are no Boston shows this year. If you want to get foamed out this is as close as we come to the mainland. We are coming off 3 straight sold out shows that murdered it. We got sold out shows this weekend in Baltimore and ESU. Then it's onto DCU for hopefully our biggest show ever. Just in case you forgot what you're missing here was Philly from Saturday. DCU sold out last time about a week before the show. Buy tickets now or forever hold your peace
PS – I took a picture with Taylor at Lupos that she posted on her facebook page. I look hideous even for myself. And worse yet there is some KO Barstool chick just crushing me on her comments page. Saying her Women's studies class which is all KO sluts were saying how I was the antichrist and shit. But it shows you how stupid KO Barstool chicks are. Like all she had to do was say "look how ugly he is" and I would have been beaten. Didn't even mention it.
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"'Dad just never talked about it "
Seeking the Stories of the Children of War Veterans.
When Veterans return from conflict zones they're changed men and women. Their experiences come home with them and echo down the generations. What's it like growing up as the child of a veteran?
ABC producer Kimberley Howie and Malcolm Hopwood, Professor of Psychiatry at Melbourne University , discussed this on Overnights with Michael Veitch.
For those whose parents served in World War 1 or 2, Korea, Vietnam, Somalia, East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan - the experiences are vastly different, yet all share a common thread.
You can hear those interviews here :
In the lead-up to Anzac Day ABC Radio collected stories from the children of veterans - : you can read the results here : "Dad just never talked about it"


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Fair Play: Why Gamers Cheat
<p>We delve into the psyche of video game cheaters. </p>
One of my most vivid memories of my grandparents' house is their packed shelf of NES games. We were a Tetris family. When I'd wake up in the middle of the night, my grandfather and father would be huddled in the glow of their big wood floor model television, hypnotized by the falling blocks and Hirokazu Tanaka's musical arrangements (that still calm me to this day). We went through a lot of games there, spending hours inside with cousins on rainy days and eventually bringing our N64 along when we just couldn't bear the thought of playing eight-bit in our teens.
Eventually, when I came back from college, I brought a boy home, an avid online gamer, to meet my grandparents for the weekend. Once everyone was heading to bed, we decided to play a few levels of Super Mario Bros. 2 before heading to the bar for a pint. My boyfriend got tired of playing after about 15 minutes because he "knew how to get to all of the levels already."
Until that point I hadn't realized that cheating your way through levels was even something you'd want to do. Was cheating such a foreign notion to me because I had grown up in a different gaming environmentthan my boyfriend? One study suggests that's exactly so.
Nanyang Technological University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University recently released a study in the journal Behaviour and Information Technology. They studied Singaporean teenagers and concluded that "the frequency of gaming with online strangers (anonymous gaming) significantly predicted the frequency of cheating in online games."
What do we mean by "cheating"? Cheating is generally thought of as breaking the rules, but in the case of rule-breaking in games, it's not so black and white. In this study, cheating is defined as "strategies that a player uses to gain an unfair advantage over his/her peer players or to achieve a target which is not supposed to be achieved according to the game rules or at the discretion of the game operator."
If you're a fan of gaming history, the sentiment most likely rings a bell. Cheat codes were initially put in place for play-testing purposes. An early cheat code can be found in the 1983 game Manic Miner. When a player typed the developer's driver's license number, "6031769," they could skip to the next level.
Since then, many developers have shared their cheat codes, like the Konami Code which appears in many Konami video games. Cheat codes are catalogued on websites, in magazines and, at one point, even on television; the show Cheat! ran on G4TV from 2002 to 2009.
Because game cheating, despite being an unstandardized concept, is already embedded in video game culture, "game cheating can be considered a predominant attribute of typical gaming community members. In this sense, cheating in games can be understood as a normative behavior among gamers who belong to the same gaming community," explains the study. When playing in a largely anonymous gaming community, individuals tend to act according to perceived group norms and expectations. So if you know that your peers are cheating to outperform others, you're more prone to do it yourself.
The study concludes that "deviant behaviors online such as game cheating are largely influenced by the online social groups people feel they belong to. An online group, despite its fluid, unstable and imaginary nature, is powerful in constructing and changing its members' attitudes and views on behaviors. Hence, a behavior that is perceived as problematic and deviant can be reconstructed with a different interpretation."
When we asked our followers on the @GamerNextDoor account about what they thought of cheating, they answered with resounding negativity on the subject. "In game cheats for offline: Okay. Use of 3rd party program to affect online play: Banhammer." Tweeted @Wind_Shade, a QA tester and League of Legends summoner from Montreal. "I'm not ready to call the Konami code cheating." Tweeted another follower who goes by the handle @locdogg18750, "Think of it as an 'odds improvement facilitator.'"
In layman's terms, if we can alter the concept of "normal" in our online communities, we would most likely see a change in negative behaviors like cheating, flaming, trolling and all the other kinds of abuse people experience online and, hopefully, create a more level ground of online play.


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Drought early bloom/nectar flow and bees are only working those that are in watered properties and then only until about mid morning. I see them buzz around the flowers a little after but I think the nectar is either dried up or minimal amount of nectar available from drought. I posted a few years back that I never see the bees on them and since then they have repeatedly made me eat my words. Makes some awful thin soup (tic).
ADDED: I looked again this morning....They are off any dark red trees and only on the pink, lavender and white colors.....And for just pollen, not working the blooms this morning.
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I live in MYRTLE beach, and can say I have never seen bees working the myrtles in my yard. Maybe there is something else blooming that they like better.
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I agree that it depends on what else in available. Last year, during the severe drought, the bees were all over my crape myrtles. This year, we've had a tremendous wildflower season, and I see maybe 5 or 6 bees on my Crapes. Same with my lavender. The bees used to be all over it, but I have hardly any bees foraging in my yard this year, even on the sunflowers. Why should they?!! There were countless fields of wildflowers in bloom.
Funny when I was down in Houston the bees were all over the white ones. I come back home to the DFW area the girls wont touch em
"It's better to die upon your feet than to live upon your knees!" Zapata
Saw one bee working a pink crepe myrtle this morning, but just across the parking lot were about 15 magnolias in bloom...loaded with honeybees rolling in the blossoms.
There are always loads of bees at Lowe's in the garden area (about 12 miles from here). I was positive I would have bees everywhere I looked in my garden once I got my hives last April. I have never had so few bees in my garden, ever! So, I'm pretty sure it does depend on what's available. They aren't interested in anything I planted specifically for them.
Isn't it amazing how bees work. I have crepe myrtle around my house in NW Mississippi both pink and white. I have seen bees on it before but not in great numbers but none this year. My hives at home are surrounded by privet hedge never do I see a bee on it. I have a beeyard surrounded by golden rod, almost 70 acres, and in the 6 years I have been keeping bees last Fall was the first time I saw them work it. Bee behavior truly amazes me.
Davebcrzy, what are your bees working, can you tell?
julysun, they are working a weed that I call ironweed and sunflowers. If we don't get some rain soon, about all they will get is pollen because there will be no nector.
They were working the pink ones in my mother's yard here in KY yesterday morning. Has anyone seen them working Mimosa trees?
It is the Aphids! http://ipm.ifas.ufl.edu/resources/ex...1_myrtle.shtml
Very intresting article. Thanks for the link! Fascinating how nature works. My crepe myrtle is starting to bloom now and I'll be looking for those beneficial crapemyrtle aphid, Tinocallis kahawaluokalani (Kirkaldy). Thanks again!
Bees working my white Natchez crepe myrtle...
They are working my red and pink crepe myrtles for pollen here in Saint Louis MO.
There are so many Crepe Myrtles in this town They should support my bees all summer!
My bees have been all over my Crepe Myrtles! It looks like it is time to plant a few more!!!


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Top photo: Deborah Riley, Untitled, solarplate, 2006
Bottom photo: Joan Hall, "It's the Size of Texas," 2008;
solarplate, collograph, digital printing, pulp painting,
paper, handmade paper, Mylar, acrylic
'Catching Light' exhibit features solarplate prints
By Scott Sherer
Associate Professor of Art and Art History
(Oct. 22, 2008)--The UTSA Department of Art and Art History will present the exhibit, "Catching Light," from Oct. 22 to Nov. 26 in the Arts Building Gallery on the 1604 Campus. The works in the exhibit use paper, metals and ceramics in solarplate, a process using photos, paint and relief print effects.
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Curated by Dan Welden, the exhibit features recent work by Eric Fischl, Joan Hall, Dennis Olsen, Deb Riley and Dan Welden. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
>> An opening reception is 6-8 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 22. During the reception, free parking will be available in lot 8.
The works in the exhibit demonstrate innovative use of paper, metals and ceramics in solarplate, a non-toxic photomechanical process of printing from polymer plates that produces high-quality, detailed effects.
Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Tuesday-Friday, 2-4 p.m., Sunday 2-4, and by appointment.
For more information, contact Laura Crist at (210) 458-4391.
Directions to the UTSA Arts Building:
From Interstate 10, take exit 557 to UTSA Boulevard and go west. At the second traffic light, turn right onto James Bauerle Boulevard. Turn left onto O'Neil Ford Avenue, and then make an immediate right into lot 8. The Arts Building is on the right at the top of the long stairway leading toward the center of campus.


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Steamboat Ski Area to open more terrain
Ski area officials announced Tuesday afternoon that the Four Points chairlift will open Wednesday and provide access to all or portions of the Rainbow, Sunset, Hurricane, Nelson's Run and Twister trails.
Top-to-bottom skiing begins Thursday when the Storm Peak Express chairlift opens, providing access to Buddy's Run, Storm Peak Face, Cyclone, Meadow Lane and Calf Roper.
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Wintry weather arrives in Steamboat Springs
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How much snow do you think Steamboat Ski Area will get in its 50th anniversary season?
- You mean it's going to snow this winter? 6%
- Less than 100 inches — there's a first for everything 3%
- 100 to 200 inches — 1980-81, anyone? 8%
- 201 to 300 inches — last season all over again 27%
- 301 to 400 inches — at least it's average 35%
- 401 to 500 inches — bring it on, 2007-08 6%
- More than 500 inches — hey, I can dream 5%
- I'm not answering out of principle 9%
478 total votes.
Steamboat Springs Andy Volk said the snow arrived just in time.
"It means we're going back to work," the owner of Cowboy Excavating said Tuesday as he helped clear snow from the parking lots of condos in the base area. "And it looks like we're going to be back out there" Wednesday.
He said the unseasonably warm weather and clear skies that dominated the forecast for much of the past three weeks had him and other snowplow operators in town a little anxious.
But with more than a foot of fresh snow now coating Mount Werner, some attitudes quickly have changed.
"It's definitely a challenge keeping employees around and interested when they don't work for the first three weeks of season," Volk said. "I think people are excited to see the snow, and they're crossing their fingers we'll see some more."
Snowplow drivers aren't the only residents in town happy to finally see snow cover the ground in the second week of December.
The lift lines at Steamboat Ski Area lengthened as more terrain opened.
A few customers at Cruisers Sub Shop on Tuesday jovially proclaimed the snow "is finally here."
And Mainstreet Steamboat Springs Manager Tracy Barnett said although downtown business owners haven't reported any major boosts in business in the wake of the wintry weather that arrived in force Saturday, many now are more optimistic as the holidays approach.
"When it was so brown, nobody felt like shopping. Nobody was getting in the holiday spirit," Barnett said. "What I did notice in each of the stores this week was the attitude was better. There's that hope this is going to make a difference because people are finally starting to get in the holiday mood."
She said shop owners likely won't be able to gauge the effect of the recent snowfall until this weekend, when it could entice more people from the Front Range to travel to Steamboat to shop and ski.
And if hotel bookings are any indication, the snow could do just that.
"We've certainly seen an increase in bookings," Rabbit Ears Motel owner Greg Koehler said, adding that the booking outlook wasn't as positive last week. "It's probably people who were just waiting to see if it was ever going to snow."
The lack of natural snow last month cost Koehler and other lodging owners some bookings around the Christmas and New Year's holidays.
Now, they're seeing more interest from vacationers.
Larry Mashaw, chairman of the Steamboat Springs Lodging Association, said the recent snow is having a positive impact on bookings.
"Within the last three days, we've seen a slight uptick in phone volume but a more noticeable uptick in online traffic and online bookings," he said. "We've also got a really good group of group arrivals coming this weekend, and we're happy they're going to be happy."
He said that long-term Steamboat residents like him "take the wait for snow in stride" each season.
"But even with that background, you get a little nervous when (the snow) isn't here by December," he said.
Snow changes attitudes
Let it snow in Steamboat
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[quote user="AsianGiant"][quote user="JerseyGiant21"]The Jets named their 3rd string QB as captain for today...
Maybe Coughlin will name me as captain for today's game!!!!!!!!!!!! [:P]
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Why is the #3 the captain? What did I miss?
Not at all! And, may I add, go Rams, Saints, and of course, go Giants!!!!! Did I miss any other team? Oh yeah, for baseball, go Yanks!!
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Rotating molecules experience the Doppler effect
Fenella Saunders
It can be given credit for helping us to grasp the grandeur of the universe, and it can also be blamed for some modern-day unpleasantness. From the redshift of receding galaxies to the radar guns in speed traps, the same fact of physics underlies the outcome. The Doppler effect occurs when an object is moving while simultaneously emitting or reflecting wave signals, such as light or sound. If the object is moving toward a receiver, it catches up with the signal it emits, contracting the distance between wave peaks. The effect is that sound shifts to a higher pitch, or light to a higher frequency (toward the blue end of the visible spectrum). If the object is moving away, sounds are shifted to a lower pitch and light to a longer wavelength, toward red (which is why the light from stars moving away from us in an expanding universe is described as redshifted.)
This effect isn't restricted to objects moving in straight lines; it also applies if they are turning like a top. This phenomenon is again useful on the astronomical scale, where it is seen in revolving planets or galaxies and is used to determine their rotational speed. But it turns out that this rotational Doppler effect scales down from the most grandiose all the way to the tiniest possible level, at the scale of single molecules. (Atoms are considered points and don't rotate, so a minimum of at least two atoms joined in a molecule is necessary.) For the first time, this effect in molecules has been experimentally observed, as chemist T. Darrah Thomas of Oregon State University and a team of international colleagues reported in the May 13 issue of Physical Review Letters.
Thomas has suspected for several years that the rotational effect was there in molecules, and he finally got the data to prove it. He and his colleagues were able to show that when electrons are ejected from revolving molecules, the energy of the electron will be slightly higher if it is emitted from the end of the molecule that is rotating toward the receiver, and slightly lower from the end that is rotating away. The effect becomes more pronounced as the temperature increases. "On the astronomical scale, this is old-hat stuff," says Thomas. "It's just that it was not seen on the molecular scale for a variety of reasons, one being that nobody had looked for it."
Thomas and his colleagues conducted their experiments in synchrotrons, particle accelerators that provide a source of light at a wide range of frequencies and energies. The group traveled to three synchrotrons across the globe—in Japan, Sweden and France—to get the span of energies they needed. Their target was a gas that was a mix of solo krypton atoms and nitrogen molecules made of pairs of nitrogen atoms. The team bombarded the gas with photons of various energies from the synchrotron. The photons that collided with the atoms or molecules caused them to emit an electron, and the team was able to measure the energies of the ejected electrons.
"In the ideal world, when you put a photon in at a specific energy required to get an electron out, you would expect to see only a single energy," explains Thomas. "We don't, because the photon energy is not precisely defined, and the device used to measure the electron energy distribution is not perfect, so there will be an instrumental energy spread. There's also translational Doppler broadening because the atoms are moving." The krypton atoms are in the gas target mix to account for these factors. Both the krypton and the nitrogen molecules will experience the same instrumental effects, and the group can correct for the linear Doppler effect, but only the nitrogen molecules are turning, so only they will have an additional factor of rotational Doppler shift. "When we look at the distribution of electron energies coming from the nitrogen, they are broader than the distributions coming from the krypton," Thomas says. "By comparing the krypton measurements to the nitrogen measurements, we can figure out the rotational contribution."
Such effects are important for researchers to account for when they are making measurements of molecules, to make sure that their readings are accurate. This result provides them with a way to increase their precision, but as Thomas notes: "It's one of these things, be careful what you wish for. We always wish for better resolution, because then life would become simpler. Well life never becomes simpler, it only becomes more complicated, so this is just one more complication that has to go into analyzing and planning the sort of experiments we do."
Thomas hopes that the data might help to isolate measurements that come from deeper within molecules, such as from electrons that might be ejected from inner shells and only last a fleeting instant. It might also be possible, eventually, to work out whether or not electrons are ejected uniformly in all directions, which might tell something about molecular orbitals. "So there are other things that we might hope to glean, but these are pretty difficult experiments, and getting that kind of information out is a hard struggle, at least at this point," says Thomas. "It's probably there, it's just hard to do. But of course things get better."
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Re: st: 3-level model for crime victimization
Tue, 25 Sep 2012 19:59:30 -0400
thanks so much for the advice.
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:45 AM, JVerkuilen (Gmail)
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> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Erik Alda <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
>> Dear Statalisters
>> I am running a, so far, 2 level model on crime victimization using a survey
>> of 8 neighborhoods in a large city in Brazil. The firs level is individual
>> level predictors and the second level is neighborhood level predictors.
>> Since the survey is not representative of the whole municipality, would I be
>> able to include a 3rd level with citywide variables to estimate the effect
>> of policy?
> I don't see why you can't include it though your level 3 N is somewhat
> small. As long as the sample sizes per neighborhood aren't reasonably
> even it should run OK, though. The fact that the survey isn't
> representative is a study limitation and affects what conclusions you
> can draw from it, but that's separate from whether there's level 3
> heterogeneity in the sample you do have. In some cases having the
> external generalizability of a a representative sample is mandatory.
> In other case it's not.
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It feels like Christmas and New Year was so like yesterday. And now I'm already back in the place I grew up, waiting for reunion dinner. =) Everything seems like changing here. Even the house next door has been demolished and converted into a shop office work in progress. I believe changes are for the better. =D
Don't think the economy going to be a "Niu" year but nevertheless wishing my readers and everyone a Happy and Prosperous Chinese New Year.
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forum: Food & Drink
#281 Thu 04 Oct 12 7:37pm
Re: What beer is in your fridge?
Guinness mate!
#282 Thu 04 Oct 12 8:33pm
Re: What beer is in your fridge?
Salut Frenchie
#283 Thu 04 Oct 12 8:56pm
Re: What beer is in your fridge?
Salut Kye!
Comment vas-tu?? been away for a little while - quite a few things going on...
How have you all been keeping??
#284 Fri 05 Oct 12 12:14am
Re: What beer is in your fridge?
Je vais tr�s bien, j'aimerais avoir de tes nouvelles.
Where have you been, what have you been doing, have you found your dream house..?? Curious me
#285 Sun 07 Oct 12 1:47pm
Re: What beer is in your fridge?
Havent found the dream house just yet... just when we were getting our act together about finding our perfect place, the market changed etc... thank god we didnt buy at the time..
and then we ended up breaking up.. so I've been doing a bit of soul searching off line and taking care of myself and moving on... new relationship, new job, new home.. all good at the minute!
so yeah, between that and the rest.. glad to see everybody is still there.. Ms Pablo, Eddie, Ashen, Maree, Olivia etc.. what did I miss?
How are you keeping? you back in UK or still in France??
Feel like I'm hijacking that thread... where's the chit-chat thread gone to? still in use??
#286 Mon 08 Oct 12 12:11am
Re: What beer is in your fridge?
Sorry for your news Frenchie, i hope that all is positive for you now. Are you planning to stay in Ireland?
Prices were very high when searching too in GB 2008/9, we found a few houses that we would have loved. After many plans of what we wanted to do we decided to stay in France, my husband fell ill and was too worried to leave ... so we will stay.
We have a new house that we are working on, so life is good.
Chit-chat thread is somewhere, was that Bings over the garden fence?
Many of us are chatting together on FB.
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#287 Wed 10 Oct 12 6:47pm
Re: What beer is in your fridge?
sorry to hear that Kye.. hope things are better...
+ yes, it was the bing bang garden fence one...
have to dig that up...
not on FB - I know, I'm so old school....
#288 Wed 10 Oct 12 7:28pm
Re: What beer is in your fridge?
Just sitting here to carry on with my crochet lessons and zapping at the same time.
Thanks Frenchy All is well, the worrying thing at the time was to spend so much money in medics when they are 100% free for him here...also not having great faith in the docs over there.
Frenchy reminds me of when little kiddo signed on here and wanted to sign in as Frenchy, there was a Frenchy at the time so he signed in as Frenshy
I thought that he was forgetting his French at the time (he was in England for a few years) he got a little annoyed with me while explaining
If bored join us on FB, i joined when to keep an eye on little kiddo and was befriended after a short time by those that reciginised me from here...


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the generation of people born from the late seventies to the mid-nineties
a person born between the late seventies and the mid-nineties
'Gen Y's green demands for the workplace … The highly educated, mobile and tech-savvy age group that falls within the demographic band known as Generation Y wants a workplace that's like them: urban, flexible, collaborative, environmentally sensitive and unconventional.'BusinessGreen 20th May 2010
'I proceeded to employ multiple forms of communication like a true Gen-Yer. I called my mom and dad while simultaneously G-chatting with several of my friends, e-mailing my brother, and texting friends …'Bloomberg BusinessWeek 6th May 2010
I'm sad to say that I can remember a world in which 'I'll call you en route' meant finding a public telephone box, 'I'll send you a photo' meant popping a 4x6 inch print into an envelope and buying a stamp, and 'I'll need to do some research' meant trudging off to the nearest library. Yes, I am genuinely old. You, however, may barely remember a world without mobile phones, or where the Internet didn't exist to satisfy your every informational or communicative need. And if you're over 14 but under 30, then that makes you a fully paid-up member of Generation Y.
the precise age boundaries of Generation Y are not fixed, but most descriptions seem to agree that the term represents people born between 1979 and 1995
The expression Generation Y is a demographic term referring to a generation of people, particularly those from Western nations, who are characterized by their familiarity and everyday use of digital technology, online communication, new media, etc. The precise age boundaries of Generation Y are not fixed, but most descriptions seem to agree that the term represents people born between 1979 and 1995. The result of an increased number of births during the eighties and nineties, Generation Y is often thought to be the offspring of the large cohort of baby boomers, people born during the post-war baby boom of the 1950s. For this reason Generation Y is sometimes referred to as the Baby Boom Echo, and members of Generation Y, or Gen-Yers, as they are sometimes called, are alternatively referred to as echo boomers.
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The expression Generation Y first appeared in the early nineties as a successive term in relation to the earlier expression Generation X. Generation X refers to people born between the early sixties and the late seventies – those of us who witnessed the end of the Cold War, and the inception and rise of technology such as cable television, video gaming, home computers and the Internet (that'll be me then!).
Generation Y is also known as the Millennial Generation, and its members are correspondingly dubbed Millennials. A further lexical alternative which locates this group in relation to its predecessors is the expression Generation Next.
There is already some evidence for use of the expression Generation Z as a logical progression from Generation Y in reference to people born between the mid-nineties and 2009. Since these young people have spent their formative years interacting and communicating via Internet-based media, they are also sometimes dubbed Generation I, the iGeneration, and even the Silent Generation.
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3 Beds | 3.00 Baths | 5,144 sq. ft.
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|Single Family: $1,850,000
4 Beds | 4.00 Baths | 5,784 sq. ft.
This magnificent residence offers privacy and panoramic water and golf course views. This Estate property is located amongst other custom luxury homes on the prestigious street of Chancery Circle. A circular drive leads to a Porte-cochere front entry and the 3 car garages. This unique 4 Bedroom, 4 Bath home features a separate Guest House (w/Bedroom/Bath & separate living area) off of the spectacular lanai with pool, spa,...
|Single Family: $1,795,000
4 Beds | 4.00 Baths | 3,786 sq. ft.
You have to see this home to fully appreciate the thought and care taken by both the owner and the builder. This very charming Belicini floor plan shows as if it were a builder's model with the finishes and upgrades one would expect. Over 3700 sq. ft. of indoor space in addition to the intimate outdoor courtyard and the expansive lanai, make this one of the most livable homes in all of Mediterra. You'll move easily from ...
|Condo/Town Home: $1,775,000
3 Beds | 3.00 Baths | 3,514 sq. ft.
AQUA at Pelican Isle UNDER NEW DEBT FREE OWNERSHIP presents exceptional value & a coveted Naples lifestyle with resort-style amenities bringing to life the rich offerings of a delightful luxurious coastal residential retreat. Generous 3&4 bedroom plans 3,500-6,000 sq.ft a/c living space 2 penthouse plans, overlook the Yacht Harbor, Gulf of Mexico and natural preserves. 29 private marina slips accommodate boats up to 55' w...
|Single Family: $1,750,000
4 Beds | 4.00 Baths | 4,340 sq. ft.
V.1657 - Brand New, custom residence with designer features throughout. This private property offer 4 bedrooms plus den, 4 full baths, main floor master and guest rooms, media room and an over sized great room. The kitchen is fully upgraded with Wolfe gas range, SubZero refrigerator, 2 Miele dishwashers, a granite breakfast bar, pantry, planning desk, Argentinean Stone floors and a granite breakfast bar. A private patio c...
|Single Family: $1,699,500
3 Beds | 3.00 Baths | 3,925 sq. ft.
Enjoy colorful sunsets from this western exposure lake view villa in the prestigious Mediterra Golf & Beach Club. Plenty of privacy on your lanai as the lake extends to a wooded preserve area. This upgraded home features premium stone flooring, hurricane glass windows, large crown molding and baseboards, tray ceilings, and 8 sets of French doors. Entertain on cooler evenings by the stone fireplace in the formal living ar...


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Thread: Our Achilles heel
12-21-2006, 06:26 PM #1Regular 1st Stringer
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Our Achilles heel
The 2 areas that I have the greatest concern about are:
Our running game -- I think our o-line has gotten better , especially in pass blocking but our yards / carry at 3.4 is atrocious. It's the second worst in the league! We have got to see if Mike Anderson can help here, because the trend has not been getting better. While winning cures a lot, anyone who watches the running game this year knows its a shadow of its former self.
Our punt return -- Special teams has been an enormous boon to us this year until BJ got injured. While I'm fine without Clayton or Reed playing that role for the next 2 games, we really need to think about having one of them step up fort the playoffs. Getting better field position makes all the difference for this team.
I think in both of these cases there are significant steps we could try to upgrade -- hope the team tries to do it
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Re: Our Achilles heel
I agree about the running game -- Billick is doing the right thing by trying to establish the running game, but Jamal is still only averaging about 3.5 yards per carry, which doesn't scare anyone. It's a sad state of affairs when we act excited when Jamal runs for about 85 yards when it takes him about 23 to 25 carries to get there.
The punt return issue is a little sticky -- I think we need an upgrade but I'm a little reluctant to put Clayton back there. But then again, why not? I don't want to see him get injured (like Ismail several years ago), but he could make a big play in that role.
Re: Our Achilles heel
Jamal seems to have developed into a straight power runner w/o breakaway speed. clinching a playoff spot gives them a few more weeks to try out Ross; I think he'll be fine. how many starters do we want to risk the next two weeks? I have to think either the Colts or Chargers will lose a game, but it will be hard for the Ravens to win out as the Squealers are tough / at home, and the Bills are on a roll.
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Re: Our Achilles heel
While the run blocking has been pretty bad, I do see signs that it could improve for next season. With young guys like Brown, Chester, and hopefully Pashos, when all of these guys were in there, big, sometimes huge, holes were opened for Jamal.
Part of our failure in running is in the hands of the RBs. We have an old RB in MA, and a run down Jamal. Jamal of 2003 would have had 200 yards last Sunday.
Get us a young RB with the first pick and team him with Jamal next season along with a OL with Brown, Chester, and Pashos on the OL, and I think things improve.
I think we are seeing the beginning stages of a very good OL, but these young guys have to grow.It's a new season! It's a new day!
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Re: Our Achilles heel
What happened to P.J. Daniels. He hasn't gotten any carries this season, and we'd give Cory Ross a shot at RB AHEAD of Daniels?
But I'd agree, we're now seeing the downside of having two power backs as our main RBs. Jamal can bust through some defenders, but he can also be too slow to get through some holes. We need a speedy guy to take advantage of the weakened defense..
When I think of a Baltimore Raven - we go in there, we take your lunch box, we take your sandwich, we take your juice box, we take your applesauce, and we take your spork and we break it. And we leave you with an empty lunch. Thats the Baltimore Raven way. - Steve Smith Sr.
Call me a Special Teams coach again. I dare you! I double dare you, MFer!