Sabre Dance
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A key to a Buffalo win is to get to Brady early in the game. He may complete a bunch of passes at first, but if you blitz him and knock him around a little, he gets rattled. That usually means he gets "happy feet" and/or takes an extra second to throw the ball. That can make a difference. Even if it doesn't, Brady still gets knocked around, and that can be almost as satisfying as a Bills' win. Almost.
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Wasn't that their normal shade? I think they just looked bad because red and green clash. That was just.... too much clash.
They seemed much lighter to me, but it could have entirely have been the contrast with the red.
The color the Jets wore last night was "Kelly green"; that used to be their color back in the past, but recently they've been using a darker shade (the exact name I do not know.) I thought the Bills' uniforms were too red. One of the two teams should have been wearing white jerseys. The red and green together were just too much. (Note to the NFL - check some of the major colleges' uniforms. There are some sharp combinations out there.)
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Just starting "The Witches: Salem 1692". To me this has always been one of the most fascinating/disturbing episodes of American history.
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My condolences to those who have lost loved ones (both human and animal). Saying goodbye is very difficult.
Sizzle, in regard to your job search, a close friend was searching for a new job most of last year. He sent resumes to several places in response to ads and never heard back. He just happened to meet up with a hiring manager (at a training seminar) for one of the positions he applied for. She told him she never saw his resume. Many places are contracting out the applicant screening process - those companies are using algorithms to filter out resumes that don't fit the particulars of a job well enough. The problem is, my friend was more than experienced enough but that experience was not in the EXACT field the companies were looking for and they never forwarded his resume/application on to the hiring manager.
If you see a job you are really interested in, definitely submit your resusme/application through normal channels BUT, check into the company and see if you can also get a resume directly to an individual who has direct contact with the position you are looking at (a supervisor, recruiter, etc.) These days, it sometimes takes direct networking to land a job...
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My dad is still suffering pretty badly from the aftereffects of his radiation treatment. His last one was Oct. 20th, and we thought he'd be improving by now. He's also losing weight because he can't / won't eat since it's painful and he's feeling nauseous a lot of the time, which doesn't help recovery.
My stepmom, who is the only one able to work right now, lost her job yesterday when Highmark laid off her entire department after outsourcing their jobs to India "to remain competitve in the marketplace." She hated the job and they knew this might be coming, but the timing is terrible. Thank God she's supposed to get a severance package that *should* include 7 months pay and the ability to keep their insurance for now.
I'm so sorry to hear this, Bio...it makes it hard to reconcile a situation like this with actors, athletes, CEOs, etc. making millions. Sometimes capitalism just sucks. :cry:
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Man, I hate to be a buzzkill, but here's where I'm at: Events in my life and in the Buffalo sports scene in the last few years have shown me that there is way more to life than worrying about the Bills and Sabres. The Bills were on the verge four times and the Sabres twice - I don't know if I have the heart or the interest any more to keep getting my hopes up. I really want both teams to do well, but....I have more important things to consider at this point in my life. I'll keep my eye on the sports page and hope for the best.... :thumbsup:
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Every man should have a pocket knife with them when they leave the house.
I used to carry a Swiss Army knife with me at all times (and it came in handy very often). However, the campus where I work does not allow weapons (and they consider anything with a blade a weapon), so I had to stop carrying it. Must've been that dangerous corkscrew.... :rolleyes:
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The time off should be paid. That's a big part of the point that I negelcted to mention. Everyone else in the world has guaranteed paid leave except the good ole USA. Why do we allow ourselves to be treated as less than everyone else when we're supposedly the greatest nation on Earth?
Because it would cut into profits. We've even "demoted" certain holidays (like Columbus Day earlier this week) so that many businesses do not give their workers these "minor" holidays off anymore. If they can't even give employees a few extra paid days off every year, how are they going to give the parents of a newborn many weeks of paid time off?
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I'm making my second trip to the A**le Store to have them look at the $1600 laptop I bought two months ago that keeps crashing. I've reinstalled the operating system twice (the second time after reformatting the hard drive). Hardware diagnostics have not revealed an issue and running a disk check on the hard drive has found nothing wrong. There are only two third-party programs loaded on the machine; a drawing program and an anti-virus. The other day, the OS went belly up just playing a music file (with the music player built into the OS). I thought perhaps the music file was corrupt, but after rebooting the same file played just fine.
All my friends and co-workers swear that they have never, ever run into any problems like the one I am having with their (fruit name) computers. I should have just invested the $1600 in the stock market.... :wallbash:
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It is my considered opinion that there is no completely selfless act. Pegula's real reasons for purchasing the Sabres and Bills and revamping the foot of Main Street may never truly be known. His motives may be no more nefarious than just wanting to do a nice thing for a city that had been down on it's luck for years. It may be that he is doing all this to cleanse his conscience from all of the horrible side effects his fracking business may have caused.
All I know is that his stated intention up front when buying the Sabres was to bring a Stanley Cup to Buffalo. Admittedly, there is a learning curve, but so far his efforts have not borne out...yet. It's kind of like a drunk walking to his car - he'll get there eventually, but not in a straight line. So far, there's been a whole lot of lurching going on.
If Pegula had to pick a city to bestow his "blessings" on, I am glad it was Buffalo and not Columbus (or Altoona). Time will tell what his true purpose was/is. I just wish he had started his "rebuild" of the Sabres a couple years sooner; we might be a contender by now.... :thumbsup:
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Nobody reads anything anymore....(well, except on this board). And no one takes any initiative to find out things on their own. Someone sent me a two paragraph email the other day to ask me for a web site address. They could have found a link to the same site by typing three words into a web search.
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I will bang the drum to go back to the royal blue into I am royal blue in the face but having said that, are there not going to be any 3rd jerseys for Buffalo this year? Anyone see this contest winner?
http://www.diebytheblade.com/2015/5/29/8685305/design-a-new-sabres-third-jersey-the-champion
Oof! These are wrong on so many levels.... (for instance, third jerseys are worn only at home and would be team color, not white).
I was never a fan of the red and black - the only reason the team picked these colors is because at the time the hottest-selling sports jerseys were Chicago Bulls shirts (and that was only because of Jordan...and the winning).
NHL should go back to home whites and road colors. That way, when a team comes to town, you get to see their colorful jerseys, not the plain old white things.....
I'm still ambivalent about alternate jerseys - too much like a money grab and (especially lately), the designs look like sh...er, crap.
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I don't know if anybody else read that whole article but wow...
Some notes about what's inside:
-Pats stole play sheets that included the game plan from the early portions of the game for opposing teams
-Had different headset frequencies so they could communicate the play the other team would run
-Watched and possibly filmed the Rams walkthrough before the Super Bowl
-Goodell asked Martz to put out a false statement to calm the public and somebody actually reworded Martz's statement to include things he never said
-Most owners supported Goodell in the Brady case
-Most owners believe Deflategate punishments were a "make-up" call for how soft Goodell was during the investigation into Spygate
-Goodell's contract expires in 2019 and there's motivation not to re-up
-Kraft or somebody connected with the Patriots offered Arlen Specter, a U.S. Senator, a lot of money to stop investigating them
Also: the Bills re-signed Matt Cassel.
It is entirely possible that the Patriots have been doing this for so long that neither they nor the NFL really consider it "cheating" anymore. Goodell may have just been picking on Brady in order to make it look like the league was trying to control it. Frankly, the NFL to me is barely worth watching now. To much gambling money, too many injuries, too many egos. I know college football has its own set of issues, but at least the atmosphere of the games is fun and the rivalries are intense. I do hope the Bills do well since so much civic pride in involved, but I do not care about the rest of the league. I do think it will be interesting to see what kind of reaction the Patriots and Brady get around the league.
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After a moderate hiatus from reading (no problems, except lack of time), I decided to go with the "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" series. Just starting that now...
I have been reading Stephen King since day one. I read "Carrie" well before the original movie (with John Travolta) was even released. And I've read almost everything of his since then. I love the way he can write about a very normal-seeming world and slowly, incrementally change it into a living hell. I think "The Stand" was his magnum opus. I read the book while staying at a friend's cabin out in the woods for a few days. We had no TV and no phone; it was easy to imagine the outside world going to pieces while we were "safe" out in the woods. The early part of the book when civilization was going to hell scared the crap out of me.
King is really good at writing about prisons - "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Mile" (besides being turned into awesome movies) were excellent at realistic depictions of prisons...well, as realistic as I want to know about as I'm not planning on being in one EVER.
He also gave one of my favorite interview quotes ever. When asked about why he was so good at writing such convincing horror stories, he replied, "I guess it's because I have the heart of a twelve year old boy.... in a jar on my desk."
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This is an extremely minor thing compared to some of the other resent issues posted, but it's the end of the day, I'm tired and I want to complain. I hate it when people who have been in my line of work longer than I have still don't know the basics. They try to get by with that "Shucks, I didn't know that!" attitude when they know better. And they KNOW I know better, which makes it worse.
On the bright side, I scored tickets to see Sir Paul McCartney in row 3. Woot! :thumbsup: :D
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Agreed. However are you prepared to argue that Terry Pegula has done nothing to correct that floundering? And I am not saying the tank, I am talking management moves.
Pegula has made moves intended to correct the foundering. The Sabres are still a last place team until the new season starts and the record gets re-set to 0 - 0. Their team looks better on paper, but until the puck drops...
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They have been here in the past and are still here. The evidence is all around us. Every creation myth, folklore from almost every corner of the earth, myths, cave paintings , architecture(pyramids) , religions , etc. Too many examples to list. Disclosure officially began a few years ago and will continue over the next 10 years or so to slowly break us in to the big not so secret secret. Scoff at your own peril. The truth is out there.
Hmm...I've always thought that if a culture was intelligent enough to create faster-than-light travel, they'd also be smart enough to stay out of sight and observe the human race, but not interfere. (the "Prime Directive" as it were). No, I think all the visitations we credit to extraterrestrials are actually our descendants travelling back in time to "fix" issues they imagine may need fixing. (If we can postulate faster-than-light travel, time travel shouldn't be all that much of a stretch.) We as humans just can't resist messing with things that we just shouldn't be messing with, even our future selves...
...oh, and Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster did live in the past, but appear occasionally through a warp in the fabric of time. That's why they're not there when people go looking for them.
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The IK guy formerly of the Jets - he's a Rex guy in terms of drafting and development. He might stick.
I think Ryan also brought him in hoping that some of his nastiness and attitude rubs off on the rest of the defense. That's one of the things the Bills' have been deficient in for a number of years. Rex seems to like "in you' face". We'll see what happens... :angry:
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Adobe. One of our remote applications uses Adobe Reader (or Acrobat) to open data entry forms. Every time Adobe sends out an update to Reader, it resets all of the settings to their default, which renders our forms incapable of working correctly. Over the past six months, I've spent at least 50% of my time working with remote sites to change all of their Reader settings so that our forms work again. On top of that, Adobe keeps adding more security features most of which have to be turned off for our forms to work (which kind of defeats the purpose). We're working to migrate our forms to another platform which doesn't require Reader, but the rollout on that is at least a couple of months away. Meanwhile, I sound like a frickin' parrot on the phone..."Disable setting A, enable setting B, etc. Puke :sick:
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I went with Marcus - Gorges could be right up there, but we can always blame the goalie if a bad goal goes in when Gorges is on the ice. Foligno not only has to live up to the expectations the Sabres and their fans had for him from day one, now his brother is playing great and is team captain. I'm sure that will bring a lot of family pressure to bear. Time will tell how Marcus will react, but based on past performances it is more likely than not he will fall short. If he is still having issues later in the season, maybe he will be sent to join his brother if GMTM can swing a decent deal.
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For those who prefer the milder smokes, I've had a few Oliva Serie Vs that were pretty good. Also, I've never met a Rocky Patel Vintage cigar that I didn't like... :thumbsup:
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The only defense would be if the walking/biking trail is full of walkers. I know first hand a trail can be really annoying as people will spread out and take up the entire trail and don't pay attention to bells or anything short of yelling. And those are the ones not wearing headphones.
Yes, I can certainly see that - but there were no pedestrians on the bike path. Oh, well...
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There has to be a clever use of a synonym or antonym that works for robviously. I just can't think of one.
Robtuse?
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No complaints so far today? OK, I have one... I was driving home from work the other day on Fuhrmann Boulevard. I wondered why the two cars in front of me were going so slow. I finally saw that two bicyclists were riding on the street (and this is the very narrow portion of the road without the parking spots along the side). The cars were going slowly as there was not enough room to safely pass the bicycles. There is a bike path about ten feet away from the road, which is 1) away from traffic; 2) nice and safe and 3) cost a bunch of money to construct. Please tell me why these bicyclists felt the need to purposely ride in traffic and hold up a number of cars (not to mention risking their own safety) when a safe alternative lay just a few feet away? Harrumph!
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Welll....my idea of a better fan experience is to see an exciting team that wins more than loses. In that, he has not been successful. I do agree that had he cleaned house at the end of the season he took over the team, we'd be two years closer to a competitive team.