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There are few things that bring me more joy in life than Twitter. And not because of the celebrity stalking aspect or the acquired ability to read shorthand with the best of em...but because it gives millions of people everywhere a quick, cowardly avenue to blame their problems on someone else. Being Twangered (Twitter anger) is amazing for two reasons. 1) It's really a manageable tongue-lashing. As opposed to when I do something wrong at home and get yelled at for 15 minutes following 2-hours of awkward silent treatment, Twanger is a sporadic, passing hatred that is limited to the confines of 160 characters, and that hurts a lot less emotionally than the former. 2) The Twangerer never replies to your retorts. They say their piece, and even if you reply, most of them will never reply back. It's like a 6-year old yelling "I hate you" and then storming off to his or her room to pout for the next 30 minutes.
As part of this "job", Twanger is something we have to deal with on a weekly, nay, dare I say, daily basis. Occasionally we'll get a "hey, good call on Player X that just won me my matchup", but this politeness is usually sandwiched by "Hey, you suck, thanks for telling me that Player Y was gonna have a big game". Yeah, sorry about that, dude...my tarot cards clearly led me the wrong direction here.
Remember, fantasy is a game of guessing. Sometimes, you guess right. Sometimes, you guess wrong. But we are not a profession of fact. We're like the weathermen of sports. We can usually kind of, sort of guess what will happen and give you opinions that you may choose to use however you would like, but we do not have a magic fortune cookie that gives us results ahead of time.
At no point in the season is this more true than Week 1, when we have no basis for most of our suggestions - only a handful of preseason games, last year's statistics, and educated research and analysis of said facts. Fantasy analysis is a prediction of what is LIKELY to happen. Sometimes you hit a game-winning grand slam. Sometimes you strike out to end the World Series.
So, when you Twanger me because Anquan Boldin had a bigger day than Jordy Nelson? Sorry for not being able to predict Anquan Boldin's 2nd biggest receiving day of his 11-year NFL career.
Or because Zach Sudfeld, a preseason darling who looked to be "the guy" for the Patriots in the presason has only 1 target and 0 catches? Oops, our bad, but was there anyone out there who thought that would happen? Come on.
Anyway, we made some really good calls in Week 1...and then again some really bad ones. Here's some highlights:
-- JJ's "Sneak of the Week" (player owned in 50% of leagues or less that would score 10+ FPTs) was Julius Thomas, who scored 28 in standard leagues.
-- Tyler said on last week's show that he would start Anquan Boldin...who scored 26 fantasy points in standard leagues.
-- JJ called Jordan Cameron a no-brainer starting tight end this week. Cameron scored 16 fantasy points in standard leagues, good for 5th so far among TEs.
-- Both of us said Reggie Bush was a must-start, and probably a RB1 this week. As of this writing, Bush is the #2 fantasy RB this week, with 25 points.
-- Tyler called an 18-point game for Carson Palmer. He scored 17. Close enough.
-- Both of us warned against starting Tavon Austin, who finished with 4 points in standard scoring.
-- JJ championed Shane Vereen as a Top 20 RB this week. Vereen went for 159 total yards and is 6th among RBs this week.
Now, because I don't believe in just patting myself on the back with no accountability for my mistakes (hear that, Kanye West? Now apologize for this new album already), here's some painfully bad calls that we made:
-- Tyler's "Sneak of the Week" was Zach Sudfeld...who, as you know...is now possibly on your waiver wire after scoring 0 points
-- JJ called a big game for David Wilson against the Cowboys. I forgot that he apparently uses butter on his hands before the game.
-- Tyler said that Joe Flacco would have a better fantasy day than Peyton Manning. Well, we know how that worked out.
-- JJ said that Greg Jennings would finish as a Top 20 WR this week. Wrong Vikings receiver, as Jennings disappeared and Jerome Simpson had the better game.
There, see, I humbly hang my head in shame...but we did pretty good for Week 1, so suck it, haters!! :)
Here's a few fantasy takeaways from each game on Sunday.
Patriots 23, Bills 21 - I'm not pressing the panic button on Tom Brady - but there's certainly cause for concern after Brady struggled, barely completing 50% of his passes against a Bills secondary without their two best players. A Thursday night game against the Jets looms, and Brady will have to get on the same page with his receivers in a hurry. Danny Amendola was as good as advertised. Julian Edelman is the only other Patriots receiver I feel good starting, and the jury is still out on Kenbrell Thompkins and Zach Sudfeld. It greatly concerns me that Thompkins had 14 targets...but just 4 catches. In the running game, we'll see how Stevan Ridley's fumbling issues affect him going forward, but Shane Vereen looked fantastic in this game and I believe continues to have a large role in the offense going forward. On the Bills side of the ball...not really much to say. The Pats did a good job shutting down C.J. Spiller, but the biggest surprise was Fred Jackson getting just 5 less touches than Spiller (17-22). So much for giving it to him until he pukes.
JJ's Bold Prediction: Zach Sudfeld finishes as a Top 6 fantasy tight end. 0 points.
Bears 24, Bengals 21 - Well, we told you hear to only start Marshall, Green, and Forte, and that turned out to be the right call. The Benglas running game looked awful here: Green-Ellis averaged under 2 yards per carry, but had a cheap touchdown somehwat save his fantasy day. Giovani Bernard looked good, but only touched the ball 4 times. We expect his workload to increase as the season continues, but wouldn't feel comfortable starting him for a few games, especially next week against the Steelers. On the Bears side, it was a big game for Brandon Marshall despite solid coverage from Cincinnati. Martellus Bennett caught a nice TD pass but was otherwise mediocre...and, well, that's pretty much it. The Bengals tight ends each had 5 catches, but neither one is a good play going forward.
Tyler's Bold Prediction: Alshon Jeffery will finish within 3 fantasy points of Brandon Marhsall. 0 points (Marshall 16, Jeffery 4)
Dolphins 23, Browns 10 - I was really disappointed in the Browns offense here. They couldn't seem to get anything consistent in the run game, and it was clear that not having a true downfield threat hurt what they wanted to do. Once Josh Gordon is back, that should help tremendously. Jordan Cameron is a legit TE1, as he had a monster game here, leading the team in targets, catches, and yards. For the Dolphins, it'll be interesting to see how they utilize Mike Wallace next week when he won't be covered by Joe Haden. Wallace is reportedly frustrated with the game plan after catching just 1 ball on 5 targets in Joe Philbin's West Coast offense. I'm still starting him against Indy next week, but that's a story that may be a bit of a fluid situation. In related news, the Dolphins running game is awful.
JJ's Bold Prediction: The Browns Defends ends a Top 5 fantasy unit. Not exactly. The Browns weren't able to generate any pass rush, ended with just 1 turnover and allowed 23 points to the paltry Fins offense. 0 points
Saints 23, Falcons 17 - Well, we did get one part of this game right. The Falcons were largely able to keep the Saints offense in check, holding Drew Brees to just 2 touchdown passes, and mostly shorter tosses. We weren't expecting the Falcons offense to struggle so much though. Steven Jackson looked ok, but outside of one long 50-yard run he averaged just under 3 yards per carry the rest of the day. He's a solid RB2 though in any format. Roddy White completely disappeared, and his ankle injury is worth monitoring. If he stays gimpy, Harry Douglas (4/93 on 6 targets) may be worth a pickup.
Tyler's Bold Prediction: Matt Ryan finishes with more fantasy points than Drew Brees. False, although neither one was outstanding. Brees 20, Ryan 19. 0 points.
Jets 18, Bucs 17 - This game was absolutely terrible for fantasy. Take away his touchdown and Doug Martin wasn't very good - the Bucs offensive line was downright offensive, and the Jets running game...well it was exactly what we expected. I would like to point out that on last week's show, I said Powell would get 15 touches and Ivory 10. The final count? Powell 16, Ivory 10. Close, kids. Close. Kellen Winslow could be an interesting bye week TE fill-in. I don't think the offense will be good enough most weeks to warrant starting anyone, but Winslow is far and away the best receiving option on the team.
JJ's Bold Prediction: Geno Smith finishes the day as a Top 15 fantasy QB, almost by accident. This didn't happen because of some monster performances from The Manning brothers among others, but Smith was serviceable. He added 47 yards rushing to an okay day throwing. But still 0 points.
Titans 16, Steelers 9: My takeaway is this: Outside of Chris Johnson, I am highly uncomfortbale starting any player from either of these teams. Emmanuel Sanders led the Steelers with targets, and he and Antonio Brown each passed 50 yards, but nothing downfield opened up for Big Ben, and the loss of Markice Pouncey makes that offensive line even worse. Isaac Redman was miserable (8 car, 9 yards) and LaRod Stephens-Howling is hurt, leaving Felix Jones as a guy that might get a chance next week. Until Le'Veon Bell is back, stay away. Jake Locker is bad, and none of the Titans receivers looked good enough to warrant an every week start. Nate Washington is probably the "safe" guy, but his upside is extremely limited.
Tyler's Bold Prediction: Chris Johnson goes over 100 yards with a TD. Yeah, Chris Johnson still looks bad. CJ averaged 2.8 yards per carry and never broke a carry longer than 11 yards. 0 points.
Lions 34, Vikings 24: Calvin Johnson owners panic! Not really - Megatron had a TD called off and still led the team with 9 targets. As long as Ryan Broyles is out, Nate Burleson is ownable in all leagues and startable in deeper leagues. Here he has 6 catches for 78 yards, and he looked like a nice security blanket for Matthew Stafford. Reggie Bush is a beast. So is Adrian Peterson. Christian Ponder is bad. Jerome Simpson? Eh, I'm interested in that he clearly holds the trust of his quarterback more than Greg Jennings or Cor'Darrelle Patterson. Simpson should be picked up, but I'm not starting him next week against Chicago.
JJ's Bold Prediction: Reggie Bush catches more balls than Calvin Johnson. Well, they both ended up with 4. That counts for something. 1/2 point.
Colts 21, Raiders 17: I'm not buying Terrelle Pryor as a fantasy starter yet....but stay tuned. The Colts defense is bad. That being said, I might consider plugging Pryor in next week against the Jaguars...who are equally bad. Pryor's the leading rusher of Week 1 with 117 yards, and Indianapolis just couldn't catch him in the pocket. What's more - is that Pryor looked decent at times throwing the ball, and ended the day with 217 yards. The mistakes will be there, sure, because he's not that good. But for purposes of fantasy, he's an interesting backup. You know what I'm also not buying? Ever again? Darren McFadden. I was all out on him going into the year, and he proved to me yesterday that I was right. He looked sloooooooow against a terribly Indy front, and were it not for a goal line score he would have been completely useless in a standard league. At this point, we're just waiting on his inevitable injury so that the Raiders can give the ball to the much more fantasy-friendly Marcel Reece. For the Colts - the only real takeaway is that Vick Ballard looked decent. Averaged nearly 5 yards a carry, and looked better than Ahmad Bradshaw when he was in there. I like Ballard as a sometimes flex play going forward, although until we see how carries shake out when Bradshaw is 100%, I'm hesitant to start him every week.
Tyler's Bold Prediction: Andrew Luck finishes with 25+ fantasy points. You know, this is close enough. The Colts were fairly conservative, but Luck still scored 3 times, protected the ball, and finished with 24 fantasy points. 1/2 point.
Seahawks 12, Panthers 7: The Seahawks D is good. The Panthers D is better than you think. That's really the extent of my takeaways. I'm reserving my judgment on Seattle receivers until we see a game where the offense looks in sync, but it's worth noting that Doug Baldwin led the Seahawks in targets, with Golden Tate second. For Carolina - it's Steve Smith and no one else, although Greg Olsen led the team in targets. Also, if DeAngelo Williams averages 5 yards a carry all year, he could have more value than we gave him credit for.
JJ's Bold Prediction: Marshawn Lynch scores 20+ fantasy points. 0 points. And I should probably lose points for this one, but who thought that the Panthers would shut him down as much as they did?
Chiefs 28, Jaguars 2: If you're a believer in Cecil Shorts...and I am....you can't be encouraged by how awful Blaine Gabbert looked in this game. I wouldn't be surprised if Chad Henne took over as the starter soon. Look, Shorts DID have 11 targets. He just only caught 3 of them. I'll hang on to him on my bench and hope for a QB change. Those waiting for the re-emergence of MJD will have to wait another week, as he went just 15-for-45 in this game. We'll hope he finds more running room against a Raiders D that allowed 5 ypc to Vick Ballard in Week 1. On the Chiefs side of the ball, early reports are that Jamaal Charles will be ready for next week, which is good beacuse he looked great in the 1st half of this game, totaling 100 yards on 19 touches. He'll be a beast if he stays healthy. I was a little concerned with Dwayne Bowe's lack of production, but Kansas City really didn't throw much (34 passes, 28 runs) and Alex Smith spread the ball out quite a bit. I still believe Bowe is a low end WR2 in this offense.
Tyler's Bold Prediction: Blaine Gabbert will throw more interceptions than MJD will have touchdowns. Well, that'll happen every time. Gabbert threw 2 picks. Jones-Drew didn't score. 1 point.
49ers 34, Packers 28: See, aren't you glad we told you not to play either defense here? Colin Kaepernick looked fantastic here, and he didn't even have to run a lot to do it (just 7 carries for 22 yards). I was wrong about Anquan Boldin. Tyler was right. Also, it looks like Vernon Davis is on the same page with Kaepernick, which is a good sign for those who took the chance on him this year. For the Packers, this game kind of was what we expected. Big games for Cobb and Nelson...Eddie Lacy looked good but it's hard to find room against the San Francisco front....and I was very encouraged to see Jermichael Finley get 8 targets and have a nice game (despite the boneheaded drop-turned-INT). My concern? James Jones only getting 2 targets here. If Finley continues to produce, that doesn't bode well for Jones as the 3rd receiving option here.
JJ's Bold Prediction: Jermichael Finley will finish with more fantasy points than Vernon Davis. Finley looked good, but wasn't anywhere close to the production that Davis offered, getting outscored 21-11. 0 points
Rams 27, Cardinals 24: Not that many takeaways here honestly. Tavon Austin continued to not do much to impress me, and I'm leaving him on my bench until he proves otherwise. Jared Cook definitely looks like a legimitate part of this offense, and continues our trend of tight ends going OFF (Julius Thomas, Jordan Cameron). Chris Givens' lack of involvement doesn't bother me - he was covered most of the game by Patrick Peterson...who is incredibly good, in case you didn't know. I'm steering clear of the Rams running game, as I don't think Daryl Richardson did anything to separate himself from the pack, and with Pead coming back next week I'd be surprised if he got 20 carries again. I still stand by my Cardinals defense. They definitely have an issue over the middle of the field, but I thought they were stellar against the run and on the corners. I still think they're a Top 10 defense over the course of the year. Offensively, we all remember now what Larry Fitzgerald looks like with a good QB (thanks Carson Palmer), and I continue to think Carson Palmer will have a serviceable fantasy year after tossing for over 300 yards and a couple of scores. Andre Roberts with 9 targets is telling, but it's hard to say still who emerges as the #2 there between him and Michael Floyd, who had a couple of nice big plays.
Tyler's Bold Prediction: Carson Palmer will score 18 fantasy points and 2 TD. 2 TD was right on, and the 327 passing yards was good enough for 21 points...but 2 turnovers knocked him down to 17 points in standard scoring. 1/2 point
Cowboys 36, Giants 31 - I thought DeMarco Murray looked good, and continue to think that, so long as he's on the field, he's a #2 back. 3 Giants receivers went over 100 yards - Cruz, Nicks, and Randle, and I think there's enough balls to make 2 of them viable fantasy options every week. I don't think the Giants will throw that much from week to week though, so I'd hold off on your excitement for Randle. On the Cowboys side of the ball...a little bit of a light game for Dez Bryant, but I'm not terribly concerned. On the Giants side, the obvious question here is David Wilson. Simliar to last season, Wilson may have fumbled away his opportunity to be the every down back in New York. I thought Da'Rel Scott actually looked good, save for one boneheaded play where he didn't turn around in time to catch a pass from Eli. Rumors out of New York, however, are that the Giants may sign either Brandon Jacobs or Willis McGahee this week. If one of them is signed, they'll be a hot waiver wire pickup immediately, and should be owned, and potentially started, in all leagues.
JJ's Bold Prediction: Eli Manning throws 3 TDs - one to Cruz, one to Nicks, and one to David Wilson. I was right about Eli having a nice game...I just didn't expect all of the love to go to Cruz. 1/2 point.


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Jaguars coach Mike Mularkey hospitalized after feeling ill, might stay overnight for tests
Jacksonville Jaguars coach Mike Mularkey has been hospitalized after feeling ill.
Mularkey showed up at the facility Monday morning, a day after his team's 17-10 loss to the New York Jets, and felt ill. He went to a team trainer, who took him to a hospital for tests.
The team says Mularkey might be kept overnight, but offered few other details about his illness.
The Jaguars expect Mularkey back at work Tuesday.
Jacksonville (2-11) has lost nine of its last 10 games, a disappointing first season for Mularkey. The Jaguars rank 31st in the league in offense and defense, playing most of the year without star running back Maurice Jones-Drew and starting linebackers Daryl Smith and Clint Session.
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With Medicare taking front and center in the presidential race in recent days, a new Pew Research Center poll released Tuesday indicates that GOP proposals to privatize the system remain unpopular among the general public.
According to the survey, 72 percent of American adults have heard either a lot or a little about a voucher-like program that would give seniors credit to purchase their own health care coverage--a proposal similar to that pushed by Paul Ryan, the House Budget Committee chairman and now-running mate for Mitt Romney.
Of those who have heard of the idea, 49 percent oppose such a change, while 34 percent favor the entitlement reform. Pew states that the margin is "virtually unchanged from public reactions a little over a year ago," when House Republicans voted on a similar measure as part of the so-called Ryan budget plan. The bill, however, did not pass the Democratic-controlled Senate.
The survey also finds that while Americans place the need to reduce the deficit as a top priority, most would not favor entitlement cuts as a way of balancing the budget. Asked which was more important, 51 percent of respondents said maintaining current Social Security and Medicare benefits, while 33 percent said taking steps to reduce the deficit. Eleven percent said the two were equally important.
The poll also indicates that Romney's selection of Ryan has low support among all Americans, as 28 percent said he was either an excellent or good choice, while 46 percent said he was a fair or poor choice. Among Republicans, 60 percent said he was either an excellent or good choice, while 20 percent said he was a fair or poor pick.
It's important to note that most Americans do not associate Ryan with Medicare reform, according to the survey. Of those who have heard of the proposal, 23 percent linked the idea to Ryan, while 17 percent said it was President Barack Obama's idea. Forty-four percent said they were unaware of who proposed it.
The poll was conducted about a week after Romney announced Ryan as his running mate, a move that injected Medicare as a hot button issue in this year's presidential race. The two campaigns have been engaged in a war of words over Medicare for much of the last 10 days.
Team Romney claims Obama 's health care reform includes more than $700 billion cuts to Medicare, while the Obama campaign contends the Romney argument is misleading and says the figure amounts to savings in health care costs-not cuts. The figure was reported in a Congressional Budget Office analysis that measured the effects of a repeal of the controversial health care legislation.
While the Pew poll shows Ryan with low approval ratings, Vice President Joe Biden is even more unpopular. Twenty-seven percent of respondents said he has done either an excellent or good job as the president's number two, while 56 percent said he does only a poor or fair job. Among Democrats specifically, 51 percent said he has done an excellent or good job, while 36 percent said he has performed poorly or fairly.
The survey was conducted just days after Biden drew fierce criticism over a comment he made about Romney during a campaign speech last week, telling a Virginia crowd that the presumptive GOP nominee's regulatory policies would "put y'all back in chains."
The Pew Research Center questioned 1,005 adults nationwide by telephone between Aug. 16 and Aug. 19. The sampling error is plus or minus 3.6 percentage points.
CNN Political Editor Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.


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Interviewed at Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Interview Details Applied online and was phoned the next day to do a phone interview. I was asked several questions, and then invited to attend an in-person interview. That interview lasted an hour and I was asked numerous questions (often repetitive) to assess my personality.
Interview Question – Lots of "name a time when..." that got quite exhausting after a while. Answer Question
Accepted Offer
Positive Experience
Easy Interview
I applied online and the process took 2 weeks - interviewed at Enterprise Rent-A-Car in September 2013.
Interview Details
I applied online, got an e-mail the next day by a recruiter asking me for a phone interview. I prepared a little bit. The phone interview was just to see if I had half a brain. Then I got another e-mail for a face to face interview with the same recruiter. In my preparation, I picked up tips from friends who worked or had worked at ERAC. I got lost on my way to the interview, I called the recruiter and she was very nice about it and helped me find my way. It was an easy interview and I nailed it right up front by apologizing for being 10 minutes late, not making excuses and saying that it was unfortunate because it could cost me a job that i really wanted.
I got called in for a second interview with my future branch manager and the city manager. It was a lot harder than I expected. They asked me a lot more about how I though people viewed me and gave me the ''sell me my pen'' routine. I didn't know what to think when I left the interview, especially since they did not give me a definitive answer.
Finally, the recruiter gave me a last call: I was to meet with the group rental manager. I truly think he is a great man. He was in his early 30's and had this old business feel to how he behave, which convinced me I was in the right place. We talked about his family and his recent move from area manager to group rental manager. He showed me pictures of his kids. He basically asked me the same questions everybody else did. When he asked me if I had any questions, I asked him what type of candidate he was looking for. Basically, this was his answer: "well, you pretty much fit into what we are looking for, does working at ERAC interests you?" I said yes, we shook hands and that was it.
Interview Question – The city manager asked me to sell him his pen. View Answer
Negotiation Details – No negociation, compensation negociation begins when you are assistant manager.
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Positive Experience
Average Interview
I applied online and the process took 3 weeks - interviewed at Enterprise Rent-A-Car in August 2013.
Interview Details They have a very lenghty interview processes initial is a in phone interview, then an interview with the HR Rep, then an onsite observation followed by an interview with the Area manager and Branch Manager, Last interview is with the GRM.
Interview Question – List 5 most important things to you and justify the order. View Answer
Reason for Declining – Compensation is around 35, 000 and you work 45,000 hours a week.
Accepted Offer
Positive Experience
Difficult Interview
I applied online and the process took 1 week - interviewed at Enterprise Rent-A-Car.
Interview Details Three interview process. First is with the recruiter, Second is with an Area Manager, the third is with the Group Rental Manager.
Interview Question – What are the three most important things to you in choosing a career. Answer Question
Negotiation Details – None.
No Offer
Neutral Experience
Difficult Interview
I applied online and the process took 4 days - interviewed at Enterprise Rent-A-Car in July 2013.
Interview Details
1. Applied online. Said on the website that someone would get back to me in 5 days. Never received a reply. Had to send the local recruiter a strong, persuasive e-mail before I got a response. Arranged for a 15 minute phone interview.
2. Phone interview. Phone interview went well. Asked personal questions about myself, my education, and basic sales&customer service questions. Scheduled to set up a one-on-one interview.
3. One-on-one interview. Arrived 20 minutes early. The workers who walked by were very friendly! They all wished me luck on my interview. The recruiter was also pretty nice. I know I matched their dress code expectations and did above adequate research on their company.
My sense is that they were expecting dull, generic answers. Got a little too philosophical with a couple of my answers and that probably killed my hopes of a 2nd round of interviews.
Interview Question – What type of manager do you respect the most? Answer Question
Declined Offer
Positive Experience
Easy Interview
I applied online and the process took 5 days - interviewed at Enterprise Rent-A-Car.
Interview Details
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Jordanian Muslim leader to Netanyahu: "Get ready. The army of the Prophet Mohammad is coming your way."
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Once the jihad in Syria has toppled Assad, he says, they will conquer Israel. Not that that purely nationalist struggle against a vicious dictator has anything to do with Islam. "'First we take Damascus, then Tel Aviv,'" by Roi Kais for [1] Ynet News, December 16 (thanks to Lachlan):
The leader of the radical Salafist movement in Jordan, whose organization actively supports the Syrian rebels' efforts to topple President Bashar Assad's regime warned Sunday that once the Damascus opposition achieves its primary goal, it will set its sights on Israel.The group's leader, Abed Shihadeh, who is also known as Abu Muhammad al-Tahawi, spoke at the funeral of a Jihadist who committed a suicide attack in Amman last week.
"We tell Benjamin Netanyahu, the (Israeli) prime minister, get ready. The army of the Prophet Mohammad is coming your way."
Shihadeh added: "Those carrying explosives in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan will find you, Allah willing," he added. "The next fight is between us and you."
The jihadist leader further pledged to "Take over Damascus and then head to Tel Aviv… As far as we are concerned, Palestine stretches from river to sea, from Rafah to a-Nakura. We will not rest until Palestine is liberated."
Commenting on the United States' decision to add the al Qaeda-linked Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra to its terror watch list, Shihadeh said that "Allah blesses the heroes of Jabhat al-Nusra.
Remember this the next time you hear an Islamic supremacist group condemning undefined "terrorism":
"America is the mother of all terror in the world," he added, further blaming the US for "standing by Assad and the Jews."
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Biography (Magill's Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
William Saroyan was born in Fresno, California, on August 31, 1908, the son of Armenak and Takoohi Saroyan, poor Armenian immigrants. In 1911, when his father died, Saroyan was put into an Oakland orphanage with his brother, Henry, and his two sisters, Cosette and Zabel, but in 1915 he returned to Fresno with his family. Over the following decade, Saroyan attended school in Fresno and held various after-school jobs, including work as a telegraph messenger boy, an experience which he would later re-create in his fiction.
In 1926, after repeated expulsions from school for disciplinary reasons, Saroyan left Fresno without a high school diploma, first going to Los Angeles, where he served briefly in the California National Guard, then to San Francisco, where, after working as a telegraph operator, he eventually became manager at a branch office of the Postal Telegraph Company. By 1928, when he made his first trip to New York, Saroyan had made up his mind to make writing his career. Soon depressed, homesick, and discouraged, he returned to San Francisco, taking a series of brief jobs and spending most of his time learning his craft at the library and the typewriter.
Recognition and success first came to Saroyan in 1934, when Story magazine published two pieces that would also appear in his first collection of sketches, The Daring...
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Biography (Magill's Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
In his 1966 critical study of William Saroyan, Howard Floan claims that the writer's reputation would ultimately rest on the plays and fiction that he wrote prior to World War II. That view, issued when Saroyan was still actively writing, has since been validated.
The quintessential Saroyan pieces are unquestionably his early works. It is they that bear his peculiar stamp—the charm, goodwill, and delight in experimentation for which he will be remembered. Perhaps it was the war that robbed him of his youthful, wide-eyed acceptance and love of life that is the hallmark of his best work; perhaps it was the misfortune of success and his stormy marriage. In any case, from the war's end to his death, except for brief flashes of his former brilliance, Saroyan never again achieved the high critical esteem he once enjoyed.
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Biography (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
William Saroyan was born in Fresno, California, in 1908. His father, who died when William was two, was a minister turned grape farmer; upon his death, young Saroyan spent seven years in an orphanage, after which his family was reunited. He worked at many odd jobs, including a stint as a telegraph operator, spending most of his time in Fresno and San Francisco. His first short stories began to appear in 1934 and found instant success. In his first year as a writer his work appeared in the O'Brien volume of The Best Short Stories, and he published what is still his best-received volume of short stories, The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze. Thereafter he produced an amazingly prolific stream of short stories, plays, novels, and memoirs. Saroyan was twice married to Carol Marcus, with whom he had two children. In 1959, after his second divorce, he declared himself a tax exile and went to live in Europe. He returned in 1961 to teach at Purdue University and later returned to live in Fresno. He was actively writing right up to his death from cancer in 1981.
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Biography (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition)
So much of the work of William Stonehill Saroyan—especially his fiction—is drawn from the circumstances of his life that it has a biographical dimension. He was born in 1908, in Fresno, California, the city where he died on May 18, 1981. The child of Armenian immigrants, he faced his first hardship when, at his father's death in 1911, he was placed for four years in the Fred Finch orphanage in Oakland. During these years, his mother worked in San Francisco as a maid, finally gathering the money to move back to a house in Fresno with her four children. Here Saroyan lived from age seven to seventeen, learning Armenian, acquiring an irreverence for the town's chief social institutions—the church and the school—and working as a newspaper boy and as a telegraph messenger to help support the family.
At age fifteen, Saroyan left school permanently to work at his Uncle Aram's vineyards. In 1926, he left Fresno, first to go to Los Angeles, then, after a brief time in the National Guard, to move to San Francisco, where he tried a number of jobs, eventually becoming at age nineteen the manager of a Postal Telegraph branch office. In 1928, determined to make his fortune as a writer, he made his first trip to New York. He returned to San Francisco the following year, somewhat discouraged by his lack of success. In the early 1930's, however, he began to write story after story, culminating with his decision in January, 1934, to write one story a day for...
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Biography (Identities & Issues in Literature)
The youngest of four children, and the only one of them born in America, William Saroyan's earliest memory was of his poor and exiled Armenian family in Fresno. When he was three, his father died, and the children went to an orphanage. At eight, reunited with his family, Saroyan learned to read and write, and from the age of nine considered himself a writer. At twelve, he threw out all the rules because, he said, they did not include him. He rebelled at school and spent most of his time on the streets of Fresno's Armenian district, later weaving its atmosphere and people into his writings.
In 1934, when he was twenty-six, Best American Short Stories reprinted his story "The Broken Wheel" from an Armenian newspaper. Then Story published "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze," and Saroyan was suddenly the most sought-after writer in America. He began writing plays, including The Time of Your Life: A Comedy in Three Acts, for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in drama in 1940. He refused the award.
He was associating with writers, actors, and the cream of New York society when he was drafted into the Army in October, 1942. He rebelled against every kind of regimentation in the Army and was humiliated by nine months of latrine duty. He wrote his first two novels by 1951, the year that he and a...
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Biography (Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition)
William Saroyan was the fourth child of Armenian immigrants, Armenak and Takoohi Saroyan, who settled in Fresno, California. Three years after Saroyan's birth, his father died, and Saroyan, along with his brother and sisters, was sent to an orphanage in Oakland, California. His mother, while working in San Francisco, tried to maintain the family, and by 1915, they were reunited in Fresno. Saroyan's formal education ended before he completed high school, but by the age of twenty, he had committed himself to a career as a writer. In 1934, he won the O. Henry Award for his short story "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze." During the 1930's, Saroyan traveled widely, published five novels, and worked briefly as a screenwriter in Hollywood. Between 1939 and 1942, Saroyan enjoyed a meteoric career on Broadway. In the early 1940's, he produced and directed several of his own plays before entering the army in October, 1942. In 1943, he married Carol Marcus, whom he divorced in 1949, remarried in 1951, later divorced again, and by whom he had two children, Aram and Lucy. In the late 1940's, he published several plays that were not produced on Broadway. After 1943, Saroyan wrote only one important work for the theater, The Cave Dwellers, although he continued to write prolifically in other genres.
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Biography (Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition)
During the 1930's and 1940's, William Saroyan (suh-ROY-uhn) was one of the best-known, most critically admired, and most popular American writers. His affirmation of humane values in the face of adversity, oppression, and human error was a source of comfort to the reading public, and his audacious stylistic experiments won for him the praise of critics. Later, Saroyan continued to write as much and as well as he had before, but the world changed—and with it critical reception and public taste. After Saroyan's death in 1981, however, audiences began to rediscover an author who was a unique blend of public figure, entertainer, and artist.
William Saroyan was born in Fresno, California, to Armenian immigrants; he was the only one of his siblings to have been born in the United States. Saroyan was proud of his Armenian heritage and rarely allowed his readers to forget his ancestry for more than a few pages. Early in life he experienced two devastating losses: His father, a preacher and writer, died of appendicitis when Saroyan was three, and his mother, unable to care for her children while she worked, put them in an orphanage, where Saroyan lived for the next five years, effectively losing his mother as well.
Because of these experiences, Saroyan was determined not to be defeated by life, and he threw himself into his work with intense...
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Biography (Short Stories for Students)
William Saroyan (who also wrote under the pseudonym Sirak Goryan) was the fourth child of Armenak and Takoohi Saroyan, who fled their native Armenia to escape ethnic persecution. They settled in Fresno, California, where Saroyan was born on August 31, 1908. Three years later, Armenak died. Impoverished, Takoohi sent the children to an orphanage, where they stayed for four years until she could provide for them.
Saroyan dropped out of high school and worked as a telegram messenger until 1926, when he moved to San Francisco to pursue a career in writing. After years of writing stories for magazines, Saroyan released his first collection in 1934 titled The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze. It was a bestseller, and the title story, which was first published in Story magazine in 1934, won the prestigious O. Henry Award. ''Resurrection of a Life'' first appeared in Story magazine in 1935, and was included in Saroyan's second collection of fiction in 1936 titled Inhale & Exhale. A prolific writer, Saroyan had completed eight volumes of short fiction and five staged plays by 1941. He won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for The Time of Your Life but declined it on the grounds of commercialism. In 1943, Saroyan won an Academy Award for the screenplay The Human Comedy. He later adapted the screenplay as a novel.
In 1942, Saroyan was drafted to serve in World War II. He was stationed in New York...
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Biography (Drama for Students)
William Saroyan (also known as Sirak Goryan) was born in Fresno, California, on August 31, 1908. He was the fourth child of Armenak and Takoohi Saroyan, who fled their native Armenia to escape ethnic persecution. Armenak, a Presbyterian minister, died only a few years after Saroyan's birth, leaving Takoohi, with her limited English and job skills, to support the family. She sent her children to an Oakland orphanage for four years, until she could provide for them.
While in school, Saroyan worked as a newspaper boy, and after he dropped out of high school, he worked various jobs, including a job as a telegram messenger. In 1926, Saroyan moved to San Francisco to pursue a career in writing. In 1934, he published his short-story collection The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze to rave reviews; by the late thirties, he had a national reputation as a fiction writer. Saroyan was a prolific writer and claimed to have written more than five hundred stories between 1935 and 1940.
Having been interested in drama from the time he was a child attending puppet shows, local theater, and movies, Saroyan decided, after his success in writing short stories, to try his hand at writing plays.
In 1939, he directed The Time of Your Life on Broadway to mediocre reviews and limited audiences. The play won the 1940 New York Drama Critics Circle Award and the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for drama, but Saroyan declined the Pulitzer because he...
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Congressman David Schweikert on Immigration Bill
Rep. David Schweikert, (R-Ariz.), introduces a bill to reverse President Obama's immigration law.
Jun 25, 2012
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Rep. David Schweikert, (R-Ariz.), introduces a bill to reverse President Obama's immigration law.
Jun 25, 2012
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Arizona congressman net David weicker has introduced a bill that would block -- -- -- Obama's immigration policy.
Question is can it work congressman Parker joins me now and -- congressman.
Your first term.
-- -- because you've got you've got an MBA you were the county treasurer miracle -- county so your financial guide.
Does this however the politics of Washington.
Will it hurt or help Republicans.
By going against the president's.
Changing of the rules.
Yeah it's brilliant question and I'm not sure I can tell you know.
What has been fascinating -- the phone calls and emails to the office.
I get folks that say look we support this but -- -- the conceptually but we can't stand the way the president did it.
So you get some folks is -- what we want some sort of DREAM Act but we wanted to follow the constitution.
So I think the public is being Smart enough to sort of understand.
This really is an election year stunt.
By this president.
Will the president be on the sell it.
Far will the public start understand this is really sidestepping the constitution.
Well I commend you for for standing up because I think congress is -- talking to senator -- I think congress'.
Quickly getting emasculated by the executive branch and so on -- -- happy and I'm glad you are but.
If -- you don't if I was a 25 year old and illegal and I didn't.
Been brought here by my parents in the I don't think I would come out of the shadows because this is only a two year deal.
Yet another administration can reverse and so why would I expose myself when this is kind of a little.
Temporary cap -- some time.
Tom Tom you brilliant you've hit the point this is Peter.
This is absolutely political Peter.
If you actually lay out what the president ordered to Department of Homeland Security is which is just they don't enforce this portion of the law for a couple years.
With these mechanics.
Even the activist community even the open borders community.
Should be outraged.
Because of the law of unintended consequences here for two years if -- thirty years old -- -- -- but if you're 2911.
Months you are eligible.
If you drop -- a high school you're not eligible but if you went to trade school you're still not eligible.
The cascade of unintended consequences here is disasters.
And if this president really forget my language -- a damn about this issue.
He -- -- walked across the mall.
Visited -- like Marco Rubio and said.
Let's actually follow the constitution and work out a real.
Legislative constitutional solution which your bill gonna say what to -- -- -- and are you gonna get a -- Look -- hidden actually stunned.
At the overwhelming support that's coming in for -- piece legislation.
And conceptually very simple.
It basically says he can't spend money Homeland Security to avoid following the law and we tried to write something.
That was even more than just this issue but would actually move around a series of subjects in this area because this White House.
Has a history now.
This is a pattern.
Whether it be the executive order that you saw this last week.
Or this game from a week ago avoiding following the law and immigration.
This White House keeps trying to go around congress we're trying to lock down department Homeland Security to follow the law right well it's -- be that the data watch the battle.
And I and I again I commend you because congress doesn't need to.
It's been going on for a -- that the -- executive branch gonna run roughshod over the over the legislative branch so.
Tom I've heard you actually speak about this come on other days.
About these sort of imperial presidency.
And if you can have a balance of power has the constitution saw on our founding fathers and you'll wish for.
We in congress need to stand up and go to battle.
We wish you well congressman David -- good thank you for joining us back.
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For me it doesn't make sense to buy one before they hit 500 GBs for $500 or less. By then they'll be at the limit of SATA 6 and sufficiently mature... that and you can put more than your OS and favorite games on it. My picture folder is 240 GBs alone.
I've had my OCZ Vertex 2 120GB SSD since December 31, and I love it! It's so amazingly fast and I'm glad I got it. I'm also glad I didn't get the 25nm flawed one. I currently use it for my OS and Games. I do plan on buying a Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB 32MB in the future for my apps, since my current WD Caviar Blue has bad sectors.. :/
I feel your pain...i just grabbed mine because I had some $ to blow waiting for bulldozer to drop. But I have a 2tb & 1tb for data and I have a 640gb external for backup.
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You don't get the point of how to use them. Yeah price/storage ratio suck But when it come to the price/performance ratio, SSDs are just unbeatable. I have two 60GB SSDs, one is for the OS (Vertex I) the other is for games (Vertex II). And for general storage like photo/video and general data en programs, i use HDDs. I play many games but only some I play often, and those ones stands on the game SSD, there rest i just run from theHDD, and if i noticed that i wane play a game from the HDD more often i move it to the SSD, yeah its a bit of a pain but, but it dose not happen more then once a month ore so, and the return of lighting speed startups and loading levels is more the worth the wait. Yeah it can be handy for some, to have only one hard-drive in you PC. But no-ware is Windows forbidding you not to change the installation path of your programs. And I use the same tactics back in the days, when I used to have a 2x 4.5GB tripe of 7200rpm SCSI drives (and those ware $500 a disk). Using smart tactics is not that hard, it just gives you the best bang for your buck And almost all programs (99.9%) still work even after you move them from one HD to a other. ps. You can always copy the program and see if the copy still starts up before you delete the original data.
I've got an Intel X25-M 80GB G2. Rock solid SSD, use it for OS drive and whatever game I'm playing at the time. Will never go back to spinning disks for system. As for the people talking about SSD drives not having enough space... you're doing it wrong. Store your movies, pictures, music, porn, whatever on high capacity, inexpensive spinning platter HDDs. Use SSD for Operating System, I/O bound games like MMORPGs, maybe your page file. Manually move everything to HDD. All it takes is one extra step during software install : select custom install and select your HDD as destination. Boom. You get the best of both worlds. EDIT : Didn't finish reading whole thread, guy above me basically posted the same thing. I guess great minds think alike
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Seriously ? I move maybe once every 2~4 months data from the game SSD to the HDD That's in only when i install a new game and the old one i am bored with go's to the backseat. No way do i ever feel like a DJ ore constricted by the size of my SSD, do i want more space sure, do i need it, not yet on the moment, for the extra cost its going to cost me, i can skip a generation, and wait for a RevoDrive type PCIe 4x but preferable a 8x based SSD. And as you can see i still have plenty of space left on all my drives, and the HDD is about 99% of the time i working on my PC idle. The rest of my files/photos/video are on my server, so to keep my work/game PC clean. But i don't get you defensive almost rude attitude, ofc there is a magical point ware and how to use them, only its for everyone different. And if you don't see the benefit of having a SSD in your system, so be it, i am not twisting your arm and saying you have to have one, I just share my good experiences i have with them. And yeah i am a heavy user as you can see in my system specs
If i would spend 1050 euros on SSDs + minimum of 300 euro for a good controller, would a 1100 euro 480GB RevoDrive X2 not be a better ore at least a simpler choice ? Just asking, as there is only a 2% price difference between the setups, but the revo is a lot cleaner imho
i've tested revodrive and its not as fast as you may think. the drives and sas raid card were give to me for testing so its not like i spent much.... all i had to do was buy 2 $45 sas breakout cables.
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