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Ebola is a blood borne pathogen which means it's spread much like HIV. Gotta have blood or semen/vaginal fluid involved. But the hemorrhagic fever component could blood taint most any bodily fluid thus the extra precautions. But the bottom line is the patient has to have progressed to an advanced state of the disease before every bodily fluid is a serious risk. Not just a fever. But hey, let's panic because if an infected person touches a doorknob or drinks from a water fountain then we're all going to catch it and die just like when HIV/aids first hit the limelight. Family and friends of the guy who died from it in Texas have not shown to be infected and it's been close to 20 days based on the second ER visit. http://ajnoffthechar...borne-pathogen/ "Ebola is a bloodborne pathogen. It’s spread in the same way as HIV, hepatitis B, or hepatitis C: when blood or other body fluids contaminate another person’s non-intact skin or mucous membranes. None of these diseases is spread by casual contact." " Unlike for HIV or hep B or C infection, isolation precautions are implemented to prevent transmission of Ebola. This is because bloody secretions, vomit, and diarrhea are typical symptoms as the disease progresses. Because of the resulting probability of exposure to the patient’s blood or bloody secretions/excretions, both contact and droplet precautions are used (i.e., gown, gloves, mask, and eye protection) in order to place a barrier between the infected person’s secretions and the caregivers. Airborne transmission has not been documented—however, because of the potential for aerosolization of blood or bloody secretions/excretions, most experts recommend airborne isolation precautions as well "

They also view the Bills as their scrawny little brother and know they can intimidate us. New England looks at us the same way, and nothing has changed yet. Hoping to hell this is the weekend that changes but I fear we're just not to that point as a team yet. If we want the playoffs we need to stand up to the jets this weekend. Go Bills!

It's quite simple. The ref saw the St. Louis player on the ground in full possession of the ball and lying under a Seattle guy before a bunch of other players jumped on, burying him and taking the ball away. Down by contact, St. Louis ball, despite a bunch of players jumping on late and wrestling the ball away from him. Correct call.

It's a shame no ref has the balls to flag Brady for unsportsmanlike conduct. Total disrespect of the game.

I agree with ya, I haven't had a ton of experience with recruiters but the 3 or 4 agencies I've interacted with were highly professional. From what you've described that company won't be around long if they don't care.

I too think you're getting played or the guy is massively incompetent. Recruiting agencies want to present a first class business image to employer clients and candidate clients. As an interested, viable candidate representing potential income for the recruiting company they would be far, far more likely to fire the recruiter than black list you for how the guy has interacted with you.

Agree with all this great advice. Just a couple perspective things to add: -No company ever gives you their top offer the first time unless they are overly vocal that they are doing just that. -Congrats on the masters, you are a new grad looking for his first job. Because of that, they should have a specific salary/range in mind for you. -Everything involved about the offer(benefits, vacation) is negotiable. -Just don't forget about assessing work environment. This makes a ton of difference to most people. -I always respect potential hires who are asking questions about how the company fits what they feel is important. Obviously you don't want to appear selfish or overly demanding but this is not just responsibilities and a salary. You will spend most of your day here and want to build your career with some degree of life balance and the companies worth working for will appreciate your questions to address this IMO. -Just because you're after your first job, don't take the attitude that you will not stick up for what you want. -Don't be afraid to ask for more but you must be able to justify why, even if it's simply your work ethics and dedication at this point. Just provide specific examples. -Most raises are done by % so being able to negotiate a higher salary means more $$ over time. Makes a big difference in about 5 years and will set the tone for your next job's salary since most companies will at least offer something above a lateral move. -Be careful to appreciate future career/opportunity of the position versus current salary level. If you don't have family costs/responsibilities now is one of the best times in your career to focus on the right opportunity.

My impression was I don't think he's given it much of any thought. Probably impressed with how the organization is being run during the sale process and will mostly leave it be. Pegulas seem like very simple, straightforward people which is refreshing to see. I mean, the guy drove up to Traverse City to watch the jr. Sabres play and was listening to WGR on the way back. For all his wealth he is just a regular guy. Love that him and Kim were driving from New England to NYC and had their dog with them on the hot day they stopped by to see Robert Kraft and brought "Sidney" with them to the meeting. Love how Sully asked his question and Pegula stumbled through a rough "no changes" answer and ended it by saying "but today's a happy day" Terry's not a deep thinker but people, Buffalo, the teams, and this region seem critically important to him. The interesting thing in all this is Terry could have all the local entrenched politicians by the balls if he really wants to push the Niagara region forward and beyond sports that is truly exciting.

After Marrone and Whaley had that argument in the preseason it became apparent that Russ Brandon is one of Tim's "sources inside the organization". I'm guessing that's why he's fairly definitive about things. Probably hints to Russ's future with the organization.

No one's making him a saint. I don't know Robert Kraft's total charitable donations but I'm sure they are not limited to this one instance and many, including myself, appreciate the fact he was willing to step up and take action to help in this unique circumstance. It's always sad when people such as yourself have to throw down some judgmental pettiness over a voluntary act of kindness.

I can believe it. I don't think Jairus really wanted to stay here in the first place but I do believe the FO factors in player health/injury risk when deciding if or for how much they will re-sign a player. As it should be.

Pretty interesting what the Steelers DB's on the sideline were saying to Glazer about Manuel when the 2 teams worked out in Latrobe. I want EJ to succeed but I do think Marrone did the right thing

Is sitting and learning behind a veteran QB really the difference? Brady, Rogers, Manning, etc all have the ability to read a defense and make quick, attacking decisions. With accurate throws. The difference between the franchise quarterbacks and the best backups is arm strength and aggressive decision making. Both types have to be accurate enough and read a defense well enough to be consistently effective. You have to worry because Manuel has problems in 3/4 areas. I hope the time off allows him to regroup, excel and be the man for us. But at this point I'm not confident.

The WR's and team will eventually stop putting the effort in. I agree with you, got to force Manuel to take some shots. Sadly, it appears we missed the boat with Pettine. I've been really impressed with how the Browns play ball. They aren't afraid to take chances despite not a lot of talent, no receivers, a solid but noodle-armed quarterback, decent but not spectacular o-line. Yesterday vs Baltimore with about 2 minutes to go Cleveland got the ball around the 10 and leading by one. I knew Pettine would throw for the first down (which the receiver dropped) and I wondered if Marrone/Hackett would have just done 3 straight runs. Got to be aggressive. Our biggest problem on offense by far.

Why blame the media? The NFL and Goodell have declared themselves judge, jury, and executioner in their efforts to clean up the image of the league. Some of the punishment is spelled out, some of it is highly subjective. Most of the time it revolves around banned substance use/abuse. All these criminal incidents have people questioning if the NFL is properly dealing with this end of its image. Bravo. Let's see how the NFL responds. And there are a ton of great, down-to-earth, humble guys in the league. Playing a violent game doesn't justify violence in life. If these guys need help get it for them or fire 'em. What's the policy of your average publicly owned company if you as an employee get convicted of similar crimes?

You really don't have to look hard to see how screwed up the chicago river still is: http://www.epa.gov/Region5/chicagoriver/ I live within 15 minutes of the Grand River. It is a designated state scenic river and has a few minor pollution issues but is generally healthy. It got put on the endangered list because the environmental group is worried that any future fracking operations nearby will destroy the Grand's ecosystem. It hasn't happened yet but I guess that was their criteria. http://www.cleveland.com/sports/index.ssf/2012/05/grand_river_on_endangered_list.html Our sewage contamination into Lake Erie only takes place after heavy storms, much like Chicago's though we do not routinely dump 70% partially treated sewage into the rivers as Chicago likes to do. Our rivers all flow to Lake Erie, we never needed to reverse flow on any of them just to spew our sewage in a different direction from our drinking water intakes. How you come to feel that we are doing something very wrong compared to what goes on in Chicago is inexplicable. We completely treat our sewage but the system simply cannot handle heavy storm sewer loads. We are in roughly similar boats. I am not blowing off pollution risks to the Pacific Ocean. I feel your perspective of those risks are blown way out of proportion. Your pointless panic-mongering on the Fukushima contamination (which is negligible) and is no risk to the Northern Pacific by Alaska or the entire west coast for that matter.

So, I don't know where the truth about global warming lies. As a scientist, there is tons of dogma and problems with both sides. I would strongly disagree the science is settled. I thought I'd share my simplistic way of looking at this issue. The data are relatively simple (not a lot of modeling) and it actually highlights quite well the amount of dogma being injected. My first go-to site: http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/ It tracks sea ice area for the arctic and antarctic. It has a paradigm or model for calculating areas, but it should be a fairly consistent model and it is updated daily. It also has this fantastic set of graphs along the right margin: http://nsidc.org/arc...-sea-ice-graph/ So you can track sea ice area over individual years. It is easy to see how we have been gradually losing sea ice over the decades the AGW people preach about. If you look at the minimums part (which we are now approaching) and individually click in the years from 2013 back to 2006 you have to wonder if we haven't hit the minimum since 2012 and are in a slow upswing. If you look at the maximums level around February, you can see that maximum extent for 2014 is surprisingly low due to the unusually warm winter up there. But I can tell you from checking bulletin boards of climate scientists that based on that low max they fully expected a far lower minimum than we will see this year. Minimum ice area will most likely be slightly increased or equivalent to 2013. AGW people think it's an anomaly in the trek to zero sea ice but is it? Time will tell. The other site which actually calculates arctic ice volume is PIOMAS: http://psc.apl.washi...volume-anomaly/ Looking at the first graph: http://psc.apl.washi...CurrentV2.1.png You see the downward AGW touted trend but since 2012 you have to wonder where the increasing volume will take us. When you couple all this with the recently flat Global temperature average and how temps haven't followed most of the predicted models you really have to wonder. Bottom line to me is that the next several years should shed some light on where the truth lies. Antarctica: Another great example of trying to find the truth. Antarctic sea ice has been well above average (see NSDIC site) but AGW folks are saying the loss of land ice well offsets it. Most of the "global warming" induced loss comes from the western end of Antarctica and actually ice thickness is increasing on the eastern end but not enough to neutralize the loss. Problem I have is there are active volcanoes under the Ross ice shelf on the continent and active undersea volcanoes in the Western Antarctic Ocean. http://www.techtimes...tarctic-ice.htm http://news.national...ience-tsunamis/ I couldn't find any of the global warming people trying to ascertain the contribution or changes in volcanic activity as it relates to the melting. Oh well, hopefully somebody will directly address it with some research. Bottom line is I'm just focusing on the polar ice data. Just some food for thought.

Interesting thing ridiculousness. I wonder if there is any body of water on this planet truly pristine, ie unspoiled by the chemical pollutant effects of man? Maybe in the remotest of places after much searching? The presence and pollution of humans is everywhere on this planet. What then qualifies as pristine these days? You are attempting to compare the 660-700 million cubic kilometer Pacific Ocean to the 23,000 cubic kilometer great lakes. Let's not forget the fact that the great lakes region was and still remains an industrial manufacturing and population hub which has polluted every one of the great lakes over many years. I live just east of Cleveland and enjoy going to the beautiful lake Erie beach less than 15 minutes from my house on a hot summer day. Except when it storms 24-48 hours before, which blows out the sewage holding tanks at the treatment plants and dumps them straight into the lake spiking bacterial counts until nature cleans up the mess. Since 2011 we have initiated project clean lake: Project Clean Lake is a $3 billion, 25-year program that will reduce the total volume of raw sewage discharges from 4.5 billion gallons to 494 million gallons annually - See more at: http://www.neorsd.or...h.aeFgqbIY.dpuf This will do nothing to address the PCBs, mercury, dioxins and other pollutants which account for strong fish consumption advisories on every one of the great lakes. I'm 44 and the visible quality of the great lakes has improved remarkably since I was a kid but the slope of that curve will flatten out because it will take many decades for the pollutant levels to fade. I am a fan of the great lakes and highly recommend to anyone a trip up to the western and northern areas of Michigan. Great stuff up there. But compare the fish advisories for Michigan (surrounded by great lakes) with Alaska: http://www.epi.hss.s...s/rr2007_04.pdf http://www.michigan....y03_67354_7.pdf Which one of these would be considered far closer to pristine? As far as the radiation: http://www.forbes.co...ast-of-america/ "The amount of Fukushima radioactivity in this seawater is miniscule, about a Becquerel per cubic meter of water, or Bq/m3 of short-lived Cs-134, and poses no concern at all. And never will. By comparison, the EPA drinking water standard for its sister radionuclide, Cs-137, is about 7,400 Bq/m3, and for all radioactive materials is almost a million Bq/m3." Ridiculous indeed.

Totally agree. Possibly the focus of the next Whaley/Marrone argument?

Ah, some spicy stuff to kick off the season. Just wanted to throw a couple thoughts out there for the discussion: 1. Looking at Tim's tweets here and then at the Buffalo News story he wrote, his unnamed "source" appears to me to be Russ Brandon. Something to remember in the future. Once the story gained enough traction, Russ decided to come out of the shadows. 2. Interesting that the "fire me" quote/joke occured later at a smoothing out dinner between the parties involved but got thrown into the main story. 3. Obviously the conflict was between Marrone and Whaley/Monos. Monos because he was not at the public fight but was at the make up dinner. Whaley says all the right things but he is a young GM and I do sense a good size ego under there. Conflict about value and use of the talent. 4. LaCanfora's source obviously does not like Marrone and is tied to Whaley or Monos but is neither of those two. Too much gossipy venom. "Saint Doug" was probably a joke started somewhere in the GM/scouting Department and twisted for the article. 5. I respect the fact that our head coach is strongly determined to do things his way. When's the last time we had that? 6. I'd like to think the spat helped both parties understand each other. Hoping LaCanfora's gossip spew helps them mature and work together better also.

I guess one other way to think about it is to look at our first team run defense. Weren't very good at it last year but are doing well in preseason when the ones are in. Is that meaningless? If our run defense tanks and is near the bottom of the league again and Schwartz stays as DC to coach next year and run defense looks really strong in 2015 training camp do we hide it or severely limit our scheme so it looks like crap in meaningless preseason games? Give me a break! Final score doesn't matter in these games but our coaches are trying to be effective with the ones, even if they limit playcalling or schemes to a degree.

Maybe later in the game but not when you're going 1st string O vs 1st string D. They want 7, especially when we sucked at it the previous year. Not like we're the seahawks or niners here.

+1 well said. Does anyone truly believe that there's some arsenal of hidden plays that will dramatically increase our red zone effectiveness once the season starts? Red zone effectiveness is about execution but also about keeping the defense off balance with the playcalling. Fakes, snap counts, motion, etc. Is it so vital we do none of that to keep it off tape? You can fake on tape and then not during the next game. The fact that we are so ineffective at running screens is another symptom of play calling. They need to be called when the defense is crashing and over pursuing around the LOS. Are we saving the real screens for the regular season? Afraid to put it on tape? I don't think so. Just poor playcalling and execution. Teams are sniffing out our screens no problem.

Except they didn't and the server was "rude" about it so mom decided to change the kid on her chair to make a point to the restaurant. Mom is an azz hole because there are more sanitary ways to deal with the situation but the restaurant did have a deficiency too.

Let's not forget about this: http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeozanian/2014/04/02/buying-buffalo-bills-would-save-donald-trump-a-fortune-in-taxes/ Not my expertise but sounds like the RDA is a pretty significant perk.