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'It's Trump's party now': GOP primaries show pitfalls of criticizing Trump
As primary season advances, Republican incumbents seeking reelection have to make a careful political calculation when it comes to President Donald Trump.
Many candidates are portraying themselves as closer to the president than their primary opponents and fully backing the Trump agenda, which is hugely popular among their base. Others have quit, arguing on their way out of office that the Grand Old Party has become anathema to their values.
Mark Sanford, the two-term South Carolina congressman and outspoken Trump critic, chose the third option and in doing so may have demonstrated to other Republican incumbents the political perils of crossing President Donald Trump.
On Tuesday night, Rep. Sanford delivered a sober concession speech after losing the Republican primary to Katie Arrington, a state lawmaker who received a last-minute endorsement from President Trump.
Before the polls closed, Trump tweeted, "Mark Sanford has been very unhelpful to me in my campaign to MAGA. He is MIA and nothing but trouble." He then gave his full endorsement to Sanford's challenger, tweeting, "VOTE Kate!"
Trump later explained his "political representatives" didn't want him to weigh in on the race, but he felt strongly about Arrington and decided to "give it a shot."
Sanford's campaign hit a number of snags, including resurgent attacks on him for an extramarital affair he had when he was governor. Surrounded by supporters and family, Sanford acknowledged his criticism of Trump on issues of style and substance contributed to his defeat.
"It may have cost me the election in this case but I stand by every one of those decisions to disagree with the president," he said.
Arrington described the mood succinctly in her victory speech, telling the crowd, "We are the party of Donald J. Trump."
In Virginia, another Trump-endorsed candidate, Corey Stewart, won a three-way Republican primary.
In his victory speech, Stewart invoked themes from President Trump's 2016 campaign, and was interrupted by supporters chanting, "Build the wall" and "lock her up." Stewart will now run against Tim Kaine, the incumbent Democratic senator and Hillary Clinton's 2016 running mate.
Trump congratulated Stewart with a tweet, telling his followers, "Don't underestimate Corey, a major chance of winning!"
On Wednesday, the House Republican leadership downplayed the notion that an incumbent's criticism of Trump might seal their political fate.
House Speaker Paul Ryan dismissed President Trump's late intervention in the race with the sentiment that you win some you lose some. "That's just what happens in contested primaries," he told reporters.
Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana noted that "each race is different, especially when you talk about primaries."
"Ultimately, everybody gets held accountable each two years to the voters that we represent," he told Circa.
For Republican incumbents, they are accountable to voters who overwhelmingly support President Trump. Nationally, Trump's approval rating has been inching up around 40 percent. Among registered Republicans and likely GOP voters, his approval rating is above 80 percent.
"It's Trump's party now, fundamentally," said Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst and the associate editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "There's no question that being a critic of President Trump right now maybe bad for your political health if you're a Republican member of Congress."
In many respects, this is not a new dynamic. As soon as the president gets the party's nomination, he becomes the standard-bearer, his agenda becomes the party's agenda and downstream candidates tend to model themselves on the president, in style and substance.
A number of elements of Trump's agenda, including trade, tariffs and relations with long-time U.S. allies broke with Republican Party orthodoxy and left many conservative lawmakers uneasy and privately sniping. Conservatives have also been circumspect and often silent in response to the president's controversial tweets about race, immigration, women or the justice system.
The Republicans who have been the most outspoken against President Trump are largely stepping down from office at the end of 115th Congress. "I don't think that's a coincidence," Skelley noted.
On Tuesday, retiring Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee lashed out at his party's leadership for blocking a popular amendment because they did not want to "upset the president."
Paraphrasing the Republican leadership, Corker gave a fiery speech on the Senate floor. "'We might poke the bear,' is the language I've been hearing in the hallways... The president might get upset with us as United States senators if we vote on the Corker amendment so we're going to do everything we can to block it."
The Corker amendment required the president to get congressional approval before imposing tariffs, a measure Corker estimated "95 percent of the people on this [Republican] side of the aisle support intellectually."
Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona, an even more outspoken Trump opponent, explicitly cited the changes in the Republican Party when he announced he would not seek a third term in the Senate.
In the Trump era, he explained, "a traditional conservative who believes in limited government and free markets, who is devoted to free trade, and who is pro-immigration has a narrower and narrower path to nomination in the Republican party—the party that for so long has defined itself by belief in those things."
Paris Dennard, a conservative commentator and Republican strategist is not surprised that the "Never Trumpers" are launching attacks as they leave office.
"They get this courage on the way out, and I don't necessarily call that courage," he said. "They wouldn't be doing that if they were running for reelection. You know why? Because the people don't support it."
Dennard explained that criticizing the president is not necessarily a political death sentence for Republican incumbents. Another South Carolina lawmaker, Sen. Lindsey Graham, has been critical of Trump, but when it comes to advancing his agenda, Graham has found ways to work with the White House.
Similarly, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky has balanced his policy disagreements with the demands of his constituents.
There's a difference between those Republican critics and the ones who are attacking the president on their way out of office, he said. "They stay in the fight. They don't just cut and run because it's too hot in the political kitchen."
Rep. Carlos Curbelo of Florida, is walking a similar path. Curbelo has often been critical of Trump. He is also among the moderate Republican insurgents pushing for a vote on an immigration bill to protect DACA recipients.
Curbelo said he believes "there's a healthy balance" between challenging the president when he is wrong, but also being willing to work him.
"You want to try to coordinate with the White House as much as possible, but you also call it honest," he told Circa.


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Grace Drayton was one of the first and most successful female cartoonists, and is of great importance to the comics world. Grace Gebbie, her maiden name, was born in Philadelphia in 1877, the daughter of an art publisher. She began freelancing as an artist in 1895. In 1900, still in her early twenties, she married Theodore Wiederseim, and created the series 'Bobby Blake' and 'Dolly Drake' for the Philadelphia Press.
In 1909, as Grace Wiederseim, she published 'The Terrible Tales of Captain Kiddo', in collaboration with her sister, Margaret G. Hays. A year later, 'Dottie Dimple' appeared in the newspapers. In 1911, Grace divorced Wiedersheim and married W. Drayton, and became Grace Drayton. She illustrated children's books and created several comics, such as 'Toodles' (ca.1911), 'Dolly Dimples' (1915) and 'The Campbell Kids'. She created the adventures of Little Miss Muffet, the Man in the Moon, and others with Dolly Dimples and Bobby Bounce.
Grace Drayton was important as the creator of the Campbell Soup Kids, round-faced children with rosy cheeks which were a huge success, yet Grace's name never appeared on the drawings. After she left Campbell, she became well-known for her Dolly Dingle paper dolls in the Pictorial Review, from 1916 to 1922.
Grace divorced Drayton in 1923. She started her most famous series, 'The Pussycat Princess', in 1935, and died a year later. The comic was continued by Ruth Carroll and Ed Anthony until 1947.

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In March, the State Department gave the president cover to open a big spigot that will hitch our country to one of the dirtiest fuels on Earth for 40 years or more. The draft environmental review of the Keystone XL pipeline acknowledges tar sands are nasty stuff for the environment, but concludes that the project is OK because this oil will get to market anyway — with or without a pipeline.
A public comment period is underway through April 22, after which the department will prepare a final statement to help the administration decide whether the pipeline is in the "national interest." If the conclusion is yes, a Canadian company, TransCanada, gets a permit to build a pipeline to transport toxic tar sands through our heartland, connecting to refineries in the Gulf of Mexico, for likely export to China.
Around the world, emissions of heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide continue to soar. Australia is now finishing "the angry summer" — 123 extreme weather records broken in 90 days — which government sources link to climate change. Last year, 2012, was also the hottest year on record in the contiguous United States.
Yet a bipartisan chorus says the pipeline is no big deal. Some suggest the administration is better off focusing on stronger EPA regulations, as if it were an either-or proposition. Others say we need the temporary jobs. Still others torture logic by claiming that not building the pipeline will be worse because that would force the tar sands to be shipped overseas, with the greater carbon footprint that entails — even though analysts say this is the fate of most Keystone XL oil anyway.


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To me, turnover in the assistant coaching ranks certainly isn't
the most important thing in determining fantasy player value,
but for it to receive as little attention as it does in a sport
as detailed (and wildly popular) as professional football is mind-boggling
to me. In fact, I'll go back to school to illustrate their importance.
In this model, the players are the students, the head coach is
the superintendent and the assistant coaches are the teachers.
The head coach sets forth the direction of the curriculum and
how it will be implemented. The players generally go along with
the direction and implementation of the program, but sometimes
they will rebel. Just like teachers, assistants are the people
who spend the most one-on-one time with their pupils and, quite
frankly, can be the main reason as to whether or not a player
falls in line or not. In essence, how well they "teach"
the coursework and relate to the students often can determine
whether or not their students will succeed.
Sure, the example is a bit limited because school coursework
isn't centered on what the student does best like football, but
rather what the state requires. But I do believe given that limitation,
we are all too quick to praise or criticize the players and coaches
themselves for failing to live up to expectations when the people
that are teaching NFL Football 101 are generally assistants. The
truth is that for every offense or defense that looks like it
has no clue, there is a Mike Mularkey in Atlanta smart enough
to feature Michael Turner in order not to give Matt Ryan too much
too quickly or a Dan Henning in Miami open enough to innovation
that he allows a new QB coach (David Lee) to come from the college
game and implement the "Wildcat". I can remember being
critical of both Mularkey and Henning in years past for not being
able to mold their schemes in order to suit their team's personnel,
but in 2008, they did.
Last week, we covered five of the
12 teams that made changes at offensive coordinator. Even though
I am going in alphabetical order, it just so happens that many
of the more important transitions - for fantasy owners - are taking
place with this week's six teams. New Orleans also will be sporting
a new OC - Pete Carmichael Jr - after three years of stellar work
as Drew Brees' QB coach. However, I can't imagine HC Sean Payton
will be giving up his play-calling duties anytime soon, thereby
relegating Carmichael to just another set of eyes and ears for
Payton for the foreseeable future. However, I can't imagine HC
Sean Payton will be giving up his play-calling duties anytime
soon, thereby relegating Carmichael to just another set of eyes
and ears for Payton for the foreseeable future.
So, without further delay, let's get it started.
Indianapolis - Clyde Christensen
When Peyton Manning says something negative about his team or
organization, it�s newsworthy. When he suggests there �isn�t
a whole lot of coaching going on� during camp, it may be
time to start worrying about an offense that has been one of fantasy
owners' best friends since he arrived on the scene in 1998. Sure,
turnover in the coaching ranks is par for the course in the NFL,
but Indy has been seemingly immune to this notion since Manning
joined the Colts over 10 years ago. How odd is it then that the
change took place in part due to the league (and the Colts themselves)
for failing to ensure that assistant coaches like OC Tom Moore
and OL coach Howard Mudd would be taken care of into the future
once they retired?
While much of the credit for his 176 consecutive games-played
streak goes to the Manning himself for being such a quick decision-maker,
Mudd's lines have been stellar year after year and deserve high
praise for not allowing the Colts' quarterback to be sacked even
30 times in any one season. (Manning was sacked 29 times in 2001;
in no other season has he been sacked more than 23 times.) While
both coaches will be returning in a consulting role, Christensen
and new OL coach Pete Metzalaars likely will not the same gameday
access to the veteran duo they have enjoyed since joining Indy
as position coaches when adjustments need to be made on the sidelines
during a game. The latest word is that both Mudd and Moore's roles
will not change all that much, but if that is the case, the Colts
then have to be careful not to stunt the growth of Christensen
and Metzalaars because they will be needed sooner than later.
I have a feeling we haven't heard the last of this...
In case inquiring fantasy minds want some reason as to why they
should worry, allow me to briefly remind (or inform) everyone
just how decorated Moore's resume is. Moore coached Lynn Swann
and John Stallworth during the Pittsburgh Steelers' dynasty in
the late 1970s, and wide receiver Cris Carter in Minnesota. In
1994, Moore left the Vikings for the Detroit Lions, where he watched
over the incomparable Barry Sanders and the first set of teammates
to ever catch 100 passes in a season - Herman Moore and Brett
Perriman. Perhaps Moore has been the Phil Jackson of offensive
football coaches, seeing a situation where there were multiple
star-quality players and knowing he could be the final piece in
turning an underperforming offense into a top-notch unit. But
even if that isn't the case, Tom Moore is the only offensive coordinator
Manning has ever known. So while it is true that Manning does
call his own plays at the line nowadays, he always did so with
Moore's help. As Moore often said, his role was to give Manning
"an idea" and it was the QB's job to take it from there.
And don't think for a second that Manning is the only one breaking
down defenses in the film room during the week.
Christensen came up from Tampa Bay with former HC Tony Dungy
to serve under Moore in 2002. Unfortunately for him and the Colts,
he has only one season of calling plays on his resume. Now the
majority of folks out there in fantasy-land will suggest that
when it comes to the elite quarterbacks like Tom Brady and Manning,
it doesn't matter who the play caller is. While it is true that
players make the team and run the plays, it is typically the coaches
that put them in the best position to succeed game after game.
New England is really the only team in recent memory that hasn�t
experienced a fair amount of dropoff after losing a coordinator,
but I believe that is more of a function of Bill Belichick�s insistence
on not counting too much on any one player, hiring good (and moldable)
assistant coaches and making sure those coaches accentuate the
positives their players bring to the table. (As sad as it sounds,
this does not happen near as often as it should in the NFL.)
Now in regards to how this change figures to affect the Colts
offense in 2009, I will defer ever so slightly to team president
Bill Polian, a man whose eye for talent may be second to none
in the league. In all my years watching NFL football - and in
particular, the draft - I have yet to see another personnel man
do their job better than he does. With that said, Indianapolis
will be undergoing a transition unlike any one has seen since
he has run the team. For a team that hasn't seen change at the
top (HC, OC, DC, special team coordinator) since Dungy arrived
in '02, it will have to replace every one of those positions this
season, three of which will be assigned to coaches that have never
held their new posts at the pro level (HC Jim Caldwell, ST Ray
Rychleski and Christensen). With that kind of mass change all
around, it is hard to forecast another banner season for Manning
and company in 2009. With that said, the Colts have enough of
their core back that I don't foresee the bottom completely dropping
out of this explosive offense either.
Verdict: On one hand, the Colts
have all the weapons a play caller would need to make a name for
himself right away. On the other hand, inexperienced coordinators
tend to error on the conservative side. Also consider the fact
that Manning will not be working with Marvin
Harrison for the first time in his career and that two of
his four primary targets will have a combined two seasons of experience
between them (Anthony
Gonzalez, Austin
Collie). Lastly, I would be remiss in not at least entertaining
the notion that the reason RB Donald
Brown was taken in a first round in April was because Caldwell
(and maybe even Polian) wanted to put a little bit more of the
offensive responsibility on the running game. From where I stand
here in early June, I still believe Manning is a top-five fantasy
QB, but at least for this year, I'm not expecting anything more
than the 4,000 yards and 28 total touchdowns he put up last season,
with a better than 50% chance he doesn�t hit both of those benchmarks
for the first time since 2005. Reggie Wayne and Dallas
Clark�s fantasy stock should remain solid and Gonzalez should
ascend into mid-#2 WR status. But if I�m looking somewhere on
this team for a player who will benefit for all this turmoil,
I will go with Brown. Joseph
Addai is the more talented player, but his penchant for injury
and untimely fatigue during games have me believing early on that
Brown will be the Colts� fantasy RB to own this season.
New England - Bill O�Brien?
As only the Patriots can, there is some doubt about who will
be calling the plays for what could be the league�s best
offense. As of this writing, they have yet to name an OC and probably
will decline to do so, just as they did the year following Charlie
Weis� departure to Notre Dame. The OC title eventually fell
onto Josh McDaniels, who managed to do just fine with the responsibility.
Although years of experience would suggest that longtime OL coach
and assistant HC Dante Scarnecchia get the job, his plate is plenty
full as it is. Therefore, O�Brien, who worked closely with
McDaniels each of the past two seasons, should be the natural
choice to guide this offense in the right direction. After working
with the WRs in 2008, he will oversee the QBs this time around,
making him a natural pick as the play caller as well. It would
be a rapid rise for O�Brien if it happens as he joined the
club after serving as the offensive coordinator at Duke University
in 2005-06.
O�Brien will be jumping right into an offensive philosophy
that he helped create and install in 2007, the same year the Pats
brought WRs Randy Moss and Wes Welker aboard. There is little
doubt that the team is chomping at the bit to get going again
with a healthy Tom Brady again. While Moss� assertion in
late May this offense would match or exceed the 2007 record-setting
version is nice, a slow start should be expected from Brady regardless
of how glowing the reports are about his knee - if Brady immediately
overcomes the trust issues every player has following a devastating
knee injury, he would be the first. Additionally, the first-half
schedule of 2009 doesn�t line up quite as nicely for Brady
to surpass his 50-TD standard of two seasons ago. (Only the Chargers
could really challenge the Pats� offense two seasons ago.)
This season, the Jets, Ravens and Titans all should be able to
stand up defensively to New England�s offense through the
first two months of the season.
But it far from gloom and doom for fantasy owners here. Brady
will eventually trust his knee - probably no later than the midpoint
of the season - and his owners can expect extremely healthy numbers
from him once again giving his familiarity with the system and
the fact that his key cogs - Moss and Welker - will be entering
their third year in the system.
Verdict: So long as Brady, Moss and Welker are around, the Pats
will be tempted to make another run at their record-breaking offensive
output from 2007, no matter who is wearing the headset on the
sidelines. Brady should be considered right up there with Drew
Brees as fantasy�s top QB entering 2009, but as stated earlier,
he probably won't hit the 30-TD mark after eight games like he
did in his last full season. However, Moss should return as the
undisputed #1 fantasy WR again and Welker should continue being
a PPR dynamo. As for the running game, I see little reason why
New England would go away from their three-and-four-headed monster
at RB. Sammy Morris will likely be the most valuable fantasy RB
as long as he stays healthy but Fred Taylor and Kevin Faulk will
also get enough work to be included on fantasy benches. However,
without Mike Shanahan and his revolving door of RBs in Denver,
New England may replace the Broncos as the new king of fantasy
headaches when it comes to picking a fantasy RB off their team.
Oakland - Tom Cable?
Tom Cable's offense will once again be
focused on the run.
Doing their best Patriots' impression, the Raiders have also
elected not to name an official offensive coordinator. Unlike
their East Coast counterpart, they don�t have Randy Moss anymore,
are run-heavy and have little reason for preseason optimism in
the passing game (outside of Zach
Miller). While he has plenty of passing game coaching experience
along with him on the sidelines (QB coach Paul Hackett, passing
game coordinator Ted Tollner), this offense will go only as far
as the running game will allow it. Along with Hackett and Tollner,
Oakland also has two more new assistants, one each at WR and TE.
With a roster that is already void of proven playmakers at WR,
it is going to be that much more difficult for QB JaMarcus
Russell to take any kind of leap toward respectability right
The one thing that Oakland can hang its hat on heading into the
season is its running game, which recorded a top-10 finish in
2008. But as it goes with the Raiders, not even that is all that
great of a revelation for fantasy owners. The one thing that Oakland
does seem to have in common with New England is the fact that
any one of three RBs could have a banner fantasy day in any single
game. (For example, Darren McFadden�s 164-yard, one-TD stunner
in Week 2, Justin Fargas� 82-yard, one-TD showing vs. the
Chiefs and Michael Bush�s 177-yard, two-TD explosion in
Week 17 against the Bucs.)
Verdict: Starting with the
running game, keep an eye on reports coming out of Oakland this
summer. The Raiders can�t simply dismiss the type of runner that
Bush is and with the addition of Lorenzo
Neal in the offseason, the former Louisville standout doesn�t
figure to go back to fullback. Of course, McFadden returns and
it would be shocking if Al Davis isn�t making it known that he
needs to be on the field more than he was last year. Also, let�s
not forget the team�s leading rusher last year, Fargas, who isn�t
the type of rusher to just let the young kids pass him by. I�d
be surprised if this arrangement doesn�t turn into Earth, Wind
& Fire west with Bush and McFadden getting most of the touches
over the first three quarters and down by the goal line while
Fargas comes in during the final quarter, using his physical style
to punish a tired defense although that means he would also see
the fewest carries of the bunch, ala Ahmad Bradshaw. This is one
situation that will likely go right up to the wire for fantasy
owners who draft in late August or early September, but if one
player such as McFadden were to see the majority of first-team
reps, he could be highly undervalued this summer.
While Oakland may boast three usable options in the running game,
I�m not sure it possesses more than one draftable talent
in the passing game. Considering the mess that surrounded him
last season, Miller�s 56-catch, 778-yard campaign in 2008
stands as one of the season�s more impressive individual
feats. He is certainly a startable player in typical 12-team leagues
that require a starting TE. Outside of that, there is much left
to be desired. No one outside of Al Davis can realistically say
Russell is being given much of a chance to succeed, made that
much worse by the fact accuracy never was his calling card anyway.
At WR, Johnnie Lee Higgins� 22 catches led his position
in 2008. The team is said to be thrilled with Chaz Schilens and
shocked many with the first-round selection of Darius Heyward-Bey,
so maybe one of those two can double Higgins� total from
last season. Long story short, I highly doubt I�m drafting
any player - besides Miller - associated with the Raiders who
is dependent on Russell getting him the ball in 2009.
St. Louis - Pat Shurmur
Unlike his uncle, the late great defensive coordinator Fritz
Shurmur, Pat hopes to make his impact on the offensive side of
the ball. (Fritz served as an assistant for the Rams from 1982-90
while Pat spent each of the past seven seasons working as the
QB coach for Donovan McNabb in Philly.) It will be interesting
to see how much Eagles HC Andy Reid - he of the pass-first philosophy
- rubbed off on him over that time because new St. Louis coach
Steve Spagnuolo has already proclaimed RB Steven
Jackson the centerpiece of the offense. Whether that means
Jackson takes on a Brian Westbrook-like stat line or sees something
bordering on the ridiculous 436 touches he managed in his second
full year as a starter in 2006 remains to be seen.
Here�s what we do know: Shurmur and Spags will certainly
eliminate most of the time-consuming routes that the Rams had
become synonymous for over the Mike Martz years (and Linehan to
a smaller degree) such as the deep-in route, emphasizing shorter,
quicker passes and keeping QB Marc Bulger upright. After years
of getting beat up with below-average line play and five-second
pass patterns, it will be interesting to see if Bulger can reclaim
the level of play that allowed him to be a two-time Pro Bowler.
Making his job even more difficult will be the absence of WR Torry
Holt, who was let go in the offseason in part to make way for
the new wave of Rams wideouts including fifth-round pick Brooks
Foster, trade acquisition Laurent Robinson, second-year WR Keenan
Burton and last year�s pleasant surprise, rookie Donnie
Avery. Foster and Robinson fall into a similar category as players
that have been unable to put up numbers worthy of their talent
so far in the college and pro game, respectively. Foster may be
able to blame his weak college stats on the plethora of receiving
talent the Tar Heels ended up with in Chapel Hill. Since being
hyped up by former Falcons HC Bobby Petrino, Robinson hasn�t
been able to stay healthy.
Verdict: After believing in Bulger just a bit longer than I should
have, I find it hard to like his 2009 chances at fantasy success
in a new offense with a team that is clearly in transition. Add
to that the fact that Holt is no longer around and it makes it
hard for any fantasy owner to get too overly excited about any
Ram except Jackson. As long as TE Randy McMichael stays upright
(certainly not a guarantee), he might be a decent fantasy option.
However, with teams now gearing up to stop Avery, I would be quite
surprised if his numbers took much of a jump over last season.
He has the talent to overcome it, but it may not happen until
2010. Therefore, I can�t foresee Avery being much more than
a matchup-type play until then as well, while I can�t imagine
why Robinson or Foster would see the light of day on fantasy rosters
this season. Burton could be a wildcard, but there is enough youth
on the field and enough turnover in the coaching ranks to expect
rough waters for this group of receivers this season.
San Francisco - Jimmy Raye
Since former OC Mike Martz�s philosophies clashed in just
about every way possible with the power-running, ball-control
offense Mike Singletary seeks from his team, it did not take long
for the new HC to remove him from his staff after last season
ended. It did, however, take quite a while for Singletary to find
his replacement. After a brief flirtation with Dan Reeves, the
49ers settled on another conservative play caller in Raye. This
will be the sixth different team he has served as a coordinator
for and the seventh time that Raye has assumed that role for a
Although Raye has led his offenses to several top-10 finishes
in passing offense over the years, don�t expect that to
be the case again, at least not in 2009. First and foremost, QB
Shaun Hill isn�t the type of QB who would expect to flourish
in an offense where he was counted on to attempt 30-35 times a
game. And while Frank Gore won�t be the best RB he has worked
with in his 32-year NFL career (Eric Dickerson probably holds
that title), he is right up there with the best all-around talents
Raye has coached since he tutored Marcus Allen with the Chiefs
back in the mid-90s. As an OC, Raye figures to be what he always
has been - a close-to-the-vest play caller who is focused on pounding
the ball and getting big plays out of the passing game via run
after catch as opposed to using deep speed. With WR Josh Morgan
hoping to improve on a rollercoaster 2008 and the Niners�
first-round selection of Michael Crabtree, Raye should have a
pair of receivers who can manufacture those big plays. But the
biggest beneficiary of Raye's presence could be TE Vernon Davis,
who is seen mostly as a bust thus far into his career (as teams
don�t draft tight ends at #6 overall just to serve as one
of the better blockers at his position while sporting questionable
hands and concentration). However, Raye may be Davis� best
hope yet for taking him from a player seen as an underachiever
to one who emerges as one of the top five players at his position.
Verdict: Long story short,
Gore will be the centerpiece of this offense. After that, Davis
may represent the most valuable fantasy property on the team for
the upcoming season. Raye, who has been a TE-friendly coach going
as far back as his time with the Rams in the 80s (Mike Barber,
Jim Price), will be working with the most talented player he has
enjoyed at that position since he mentored a young basketball
player from Cal named Tony Gonzalez during his first four seasons
in KC. Otherwise, I have to believe San Francisco wants to get
Morgan and Crabtree entrenched in the starting lineup as soon
as possible while hoping longtime vet Isaac
Bruce is willing to accept most of his snaps in three-wide
packages. I don't think any of the above receivers, though, will
be more than bye-week fillers for fantasy purposes this season.
I also expect Hill to assume the reigns early in camp from his
competition in camp, Alex
Smith, and be a serviceable fantasy backup in 2009, just as
he has been in the past couple seasons when he has been allowed
to start.
Seattle - Greg Knapp
Unlike all the other situations we have covered in this two-part
series, the Seahawks give us the unusual daily double of a HC-OC
combination that has already worked together (Jim Mora and Knapp
were in the same roles they currently hold from 2004-06 in Atlanta).
What�s more, they also just �happen� to have a fairly prominent
RB from their days with the Falcons, T.J.
Duckett, currently on their roster. While that isn�t necessarily
where the coincidences end, there isn�t a great deal from the
trio�s history with Atlanta that we can gather because the centerpiece
of the offenses (Michael Vick with the Falcons; Matt
Hasselbeck with the �Hawks) couldn�t be any more different.
What is clear from Knapp�s background is that his offenses
have historically been quite proficient on the ground, so that
is where we will start. In his eight years as offensive coordinator,
Knapp�s rushing attacks have placed in the NFL top-10 every
time, including five top-five finishes - highlighted by three
consecutive top-place finishes in Atlanta, which can be looked
at with a critical eye because Vick rushed for no less than 597
yards in Knapp�s three seasons as the OC. Nevertheless,
five non-Vick years have netted top-10 finishes, so fantasy owners
really need to pay attention to Julius Jones - and yes, maybe
even Duckett to a lesser extent - this season. It is interesting
to note that Duckett received over 100 carries and scored eight
TDs in each the two seasons he worked with Knapp while Warrick
Dunn rushed at least 265 times both seasons, making for at least
a 70/30 split. With no new competition in camp and Mo Morris in
Detroit, a similar workload share could (and probably should)
be expected this season. Another Knapp prot�g�,
FB Justin Griffith, was the only back added to the squad in the
offseason, meaning Jones should be in line for as much work as
he can handle. That notion may or may not be a good thing, however,
depending on whether you are a JJ supporter and suggest he can
handle the load but his coaches keep forcing him to share or believe
he is just an injury-prone runner (although he has missed just
one game over his last three campaigns).
Considering he just finished a two-year stint with Oakland, Knapp
must be thrilled by the idea of working with the best talent he�s
had in the passing game since Jeff Garcia and Terrell Owens were
chewing each other out in San Fran just after the turn of the
century. With Hasselbeck, prized free agent WR T.J.
Houshmandzadeh, injured returning WRs Deion
Branch and Nate
Burleson along with TE John
Carlson, the skill position talent is bountiful. While every
aforementioned player is acclimated to the West Coast offense,
most of them are coming off surgery and, along with LT Walter
Jones, are far from guaranteed to return to their pre-injury form.
Verdict: As the last paragraph hinted, the jury is out on the
M.A.S.H. unit the passing game turned into during the 2008 season.
Carlson, Houshmandzadeh and rookie WR Deon Butler are the only
likely contributors from the passing game this season that aren�t
using this offseason to recover from an injury. If the reports
on all the walking wounded are good during training camp, it would
be no surprise to me if Hasselbeck returned to being a top-10
option at QB (so long as his back cooperates), Houshmandzadeh
continued his PPR domination and Carlson took the next step and
emerged as an every-week, no-brainer play in 10-or-12-team leagues.
I�m a bit more skittish on all the other wideouts, as their
injuries are not the type that players seamlessly return from
after one offseason. As for Julius Jones, I can easily see him
ascending into mid-#2 fantasy RB status so long as Walter Jones
can squeeze another productive year out of surgically repaired
knee and the rest of his zone-blocking line remains healthy. Because
of all the injury question marks, Seattle is probably the team
that fantasy owners need to pay attention to the most during the
preseason. An entirely healthy roster could easily net 4-5 weekly
fantasy plays whereas a Walter Jones or Hasselbeck injury hiccup
could turn this team into a fantasy wasteland.
Tampa Bay - Jeff Jagodzinski
Most football fans recall that Jagodzinski famously upset the
brass at Boston College by pursuing the head coaching job of the
New York Jets this offseason without the permission of the Golden
Eagles� athletic director Gene DeFillippo. He was promptly
fired for his actions despite a 20-8 record and consecutive ACC
Championship Game appearances. But that one blemish aside, perhaps
no OC is a better fit for the personnel he will be working with
this season than �Jags�. All their other flaws aside,
most of the prominent QBs, WRs and TEs on this roster will welcome
an attack that is sure to feature a strong-armed QB throwing to
receivers who can make plays downfield - a definite change of
pace from recent Buc teams.
Jagodzinski has experienced a great deal of success in his recent
college and pro stops. In 2007, he installed a deep passing game
at BC that catered nicely to eventual 2008 No. 3 overall pick
Matt Ryan. Prior to his stint with the Eagles, he served as the
offensive coordinator for the Green Bay Packers in 2006, leading
an offense that featured QB Brett Favre, 1,000-yard rusher RB
Ahman Green and 1,000-yard receiver WR Donald Driver. And before
that, he was on Greg Knapp and Jim Mora�s staff in Atlanta as
the TE coach in 2004 before moving to the OL coach when he likely
picked up the majority of his zone-blocking running scheme principles
from the master, Alex Gibbs, who served a consultant with the
team that season.
Jags joins a Tampa Bay squad that hasn�t finished in the
top half of the league in points scored since Tony Dungy�s
final season with the team in 2001. Perhaps even more amazing
is that in the team�s 32 years of existence, Tampa Bay has
yet to finish higher than 10th in total offense. Assuming he doesn�t
chase any other head coaching jobs in the near future, Jagodzinski
should be able to end both of those stretches, although with the
youth movement going on in Tampa, changing those streaks around
in 2009 is probably asking too much.
While the Bucs used their first-round pick on the player they
hope is their QB for the foreseeable future, Jagodzinski has to
hope that he can afford to keep Josh Freeman on the sideline -
for a short while anyway - with their offseason signing of QB
Byron Leftwich. While Freeman, Leftwich or fellow QB competitor
Luke McCown do not profile anywhere close to kind of QBs Favre
or Ryan do, the new OC has to like the athleticism he will have
a chance to mold in the Kansas State product.
But no matter who wins the QB competition this summer for the
Bucs, he should have a higher caliber of weapon to throw to than
any other QB in recent Tampa Bay history. Health has always been
a concern for offseason trade acquisition TE Kellen Winslow, but
if he is right physically, he will likely return to his 80-catch
ways of 2006 and 2007. WR Antonio Bryant also returns - this time
with a franchise tag - after last season�s improbable 83-catch,
1,248-yard campaign. Assuming at age 28 he is no longer dogged
by youthful indiscretions, he should capably man one side of the
formation. Free agent signee Derrick Ward is also a very able
pass catcher out of the backfield, but questions emerge after
that. Will current starter Michael Clayton ever return to his
rookie form or will he just remain an above average run blocker?
Does Maurice Stovall ever fulfill his potential? Or does 2009
seventh-round pick (and OTA sensation) Sammie Stroughter go from
April afterthought to the club�s third-best option in the
passing game?
Part of the Bucs' aforementioned youth movement included the
dismissal of the popular Warrick Dunn and adding a RB in Ward
who is six years younger and 40 pounds heavier but plays much
the same type of game. It is a bit ironic though that Ward left
a crowded backfield for his chance to be the workhorse only to
possibly have to fight for playing time again with two other backs
- Earnest Graham and Cadillac Williams - although Ward�s
contract likely signals he will be the lead dog (HC Raheem Morris�
term, not mine) in this backfield.
Verdict: No matter which way the QB battle ends up, I don�t
foresee Freeman, Leftwich or McCown making their way onto fantasy
rosters as more than possible bye-week options. Ward should carry
the most value among Tampa Bay runners and should have a pretty
fair o-line to run behind, although they will be adapting to the
zone-blocking scheme Jagodzinski will be installing. Ward should
be starter-worthy in fantasy leagues, especially PPR, as a low-end
No. 2 RB, assuming he gets the lion's share of the carries. Graham
could be worth a roster spot as well as a reserve if in fact he
shows himself as the most capable short-yardage (and thus, goal-line
back) runner on the team. Winslow is the most likely player from
the passing game to hold his current value as a talented TE is
always a good fallback option for a QB learning a new offense.
As things stand now, I expect Bryant to take the biggest hit although
he shouldn�t fall below the 60-catch, 900-yard mark, making
him still very usable as a WR3 in three-WR, 12-team leagues.
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Apps are an important part of any mobile ecosystem, and we've been working with partners and developers from around the globe to help ensure that no one will feel lacking in apps and content on BlackBerry 10. I'm happy to say the we'll be launching with 70,000 apps in BlackBerry World as well as content from some of the world's leading entertainment partners.
Marty Mallick, VP Global Alliance and Business Development, BlackBerry, took the stage at the BlackBerry 10 global launch event to address the crowd.
"Thank you for your passion your partnership and your commitment," he said to our developers. "Their belief in BlackBerry 10 is amazing and has helped us make this launch a huge success – right out of the gate! We already have 70,000 applications available for BlackBerry 10 and with the momentum we have built…we will continue to see thousands of apps added to BlackBerry World each and every week."
Marty then aired this video of just how excited developers are for BlackBerry 10:
BlackBerry World has over one thousand of the top apps from around the world for BlackBerry 10, and one of the most robust music and video catalogs in mobile today – with most movies coming to the store the same day they are released on DVD. And for all you social media addicts out there, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Foursquare apps are preloaded for BlackBerry 10. We've worked hard to deliver what you're looking for on BlackBerry 10, and leading application providers including Disney, Cisco, Foursquare, Skype and Rovio have committed to the platform.
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My father valued reason and rationality above all else, which made particularly cruel the cancer that pulled his mind from him in pieces. During his lifetime, that mind had remarkable influence, including seminal work in computer security and object-oriented programming, helping to build the earliest graphical operating systems at Xerox, and designing early AIs for robotic vehicles.
The eyes of a child are not a mirror for the life of a father, but my earliest memories of my father's work is in the computer terminal he brought home with him from Xerox PARC. We would dial in to the mainframe using a funky acoustic modem, the kind where you would pick up a phone handset and plop it down into little soft cups so the computer could talk with little beeps into the phone. The reason I loved that terminal as a young child is that Dad would occasionally let me use it to play Haunt, an early, clever, and amusing game set in a haunted house that, to this day, remains my favorite text adventure of all time.
Later, he took me into Xerox and let me try a Xerox Star. I still remember the enormous removable hard drives, shaped like the saucer section of the Star Trek Enterprise, nearly a meter across. A child being a child, the main thing that sticks in my mind again was the games, such as Maze War, Draw, Trek, and Pinball. Those early experiences made me want to write computer games myself and eventually pushed me into computer science. History may not repeat, but it echoes, and I look on curiously as I see my own son starting down this same path.
The window through which a child sees is small. As an adult, I can more fully see the impact my father had. The Xerox Star and Alto were the foundation for all modern operating systems. The desktop metaphor, the mouse, all that we see on our computers in our daily lives today was built on the shoulders of research at Xerox. My father's work at Xerox (ACM) was a part of that on which others now stand.
After Xerox, in the early 1980's, he worked on the DARPA Autonomous Land Vehicle project (IEEE), an early attempt to build a car that drove itself. His research included replanning when the robot encountered unexpected conditions ([1]), work that much later would influence the planning systems used in the Mars Rover (IEEE). The ALV was too ambitious of a project to succeed with the technology available in the 1980's, but, in 2005, he looked on with pride and joy at the remarkable success of the nearby Stanford team when their car drove itself 150 miles down twisty desert roads in the DARPA Grand Challenge.
Even as an adult, I did not know about all my father did until recently. He lived his life with a quiet competence -- things just got done -- and never bragged or boasted. I was surprised, for example, to discover that he did seminal work in computer security (ACM) and object-oriented programming (ACM) way back in the 1970's. All of this from a man who was the son of a millwright, only in America.
My father spent much of his life in the study of intelligent systems. His children follow his footsteps. My sister has devoted her life's work to neurobiology and the study of the mind at University College London. I work in artificial intelligence and machine learning. As we look back at my father and a life well lived, we can only hope we might have a fraction of the positive impact he did. Ted Linden will be remembered and sorely missed.
If you knew my father or his work, please comment on this post. I would much enjoy hearing from you.
Update: Thank you, all of you, who posted comments on this post. I appreciate your thoughts and stories about my father.
Update: Two months later, on March 21, 2009, we held my father's memorial. It was our celebration and remembrance of his life. Below is my speech on that day:
In his retirement, in the wee hours of the morning, it was not unusual to find my father out of bed, downstairs, playing Civilization in his office. Basking in the gentle glow of his computer screen, he would relive the never-ending struggles of men and nations against each other, the competition for wealth, power, and influence we see throughout history.
Earlier, when I was at college, we both started looking at game theory. As part of my work, I built little simulations of people interacting that showed that, even when people have short-term incentives to hurt each other, they often cooperate. My Dad saw this and started devouring texts on the topic, looking at game theory, evolutionary economics, the incentives created by societies, and the emergence of cooperation. In all of this, he was seeking to understand how normally competing actors suddenly could start working together.
Throughout his life, my father was fascinated with the goodness of man. Why are people good to each other? Is it somehow innate? Can it be derived from reason? Is it part of the rules that successful societies build? How is it that altruism can exist?
Perhaps it was born of his Jesuit upbringing, looking to reason to explain the nature of man. It lived on in his career in computers and early artificial intelligence. He built robotic cars that attempted to learn about and navigate through the world. He studied how little programs running on different computers, without really trusting the other programs to do the right thing, could share knowledge to protect each other from outside threats. In his career, much of his work involved trying to build robots and agents that understand the world and cooperate with each other.
In all of it, he was motivated by the same questions: Why are people good? Why do people cooperate? In this world, how can altruism exist?
Like so many before him, my father only gained partial answers these questions. He saw rational people as able to see the benefits of cooperation in the long-term. He noted the societies we build reward cooperation and penalize cheating. He read of the benefits of altruism that accrue not only to ourselves, but to our families and societies. And he wondered if this was enough to explain the kindness we see around us.
Looking back as a son, I am inspired by my father's pursuit of such great questions. A life inquiring about the very essence of human nature, that is a life well lived.


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Is Thanksgiving on its way to being a forgotten holiday, at least in the eyes of advertisers?
Halloween is big, but Christmas is the 800-pound gorilla in the holiday room.
At 12:39 a.m. Nov. 1, even before all the Halloween pranksters' eggs had dried on cars, a Black Friday promotion from a major online retailer dropped into my email inbox.
It invited me to get a jump start on my Christmas shopping.
I'll admit, planning ahead can be a good thing, but almost eight weeks before Christmas is just too far ahead.
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays, perhaps more so than Christmas, and I'm not about to let it fall by the wayside.
A whole day devoted to dinner and football, now that's my kind of holiday.
It's also a time to give thanks for the people and freedoms that give meaning to our lives.
Black Friday, on the other hand, has devolved from a time to get out and do a little holiday shopping and check out what's on the shelves to an all-out greed-fest.
People sit for hours outside big box stores in hopes of being the first to grab the latest video game system or snag a flat-screen TV at a huge markdown. They'll mow down their fellow shoppers, get in fights over the latest doll and risk credit card meltdown.
I have a theory, too, that much of what's purchased on Black Friday doesn't go under the tree at all. Although I don't have stats to back it up, I think most of the items are used by the purchasers long before St. Nick visits.
Then there's the alarming trend by some big merchandisers to start Black Friday sales on Thanksgiving, further encroaching on that holiday.
Those stores' workers either miss out on time with their families or have to leave for work before the last piece of pumpkin pie is served.
Most of us have far too little family time as it is.
I don't think I've gone to a Black Friday sale for more than 20 years. I'm not one for getting up in the wee hours to go shopping, especially in the wake of a turkey coma.
When Black Friday finally does roll around, on Nov. 29, I might think about holiday shopping but you won't see me in the stores.
Dee Camp is a reporter at The Chronicle. She can be reached via email at email@example.com.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. – Last season didn't end the way the King University swimming & diving team wanted it to, as they came home with a ninth place finish at the Appalachian Swimming Conference Championships. However, the Tornado have set some loft goals, that they expect to achieve with a core of experienced swimmers, and a solid group of newcomers for the 2013-14 season.
Senior Christian Knobloch, who holds the school record in the 200 meter freestyle, will lead a Tornado squad aiming to finish in the top half of the conference and break every school relay record this season.
Knobloch was one of the team's top performers last year, setting his school record at the Appalachian Swimming Conference Championships in February. He was also a member of the school-record 800 meter freestyle relay team at the same event and will be expected to improve on his stellar performances from last year.
Joining Knobloch as captains on the squad will be fellow seniors Taylor Horton, Alek Nochowicz and Mason Edmonds. Horton set several personal records during the 2012-13 season, while Nochowicz joined Knobloch on the record-setting 800 meter freestyle team. Edmonds will be looked upon to provide senior leadership and return to form after missing nearly all of last season with an injury.
"These captains have kind of taken over the group and tried to point them in the right direction. I'm kind of excited about that," said head coach John Connor. "We've decided that this year is going to be different than the past. Our guys are going to take it a little more seriously and go after it a little harder."
Sophomore Donny Vogelsong was the only swimmer to qualify for the conference finals of an individual event last year, finishing among the conference leaders in the 200 meter butterfly. Fellow sophomore Reynold Thibideau swam his personal-best time in the 200 meter individual medley at the conference championships in February. Both swimmers will look to improve this season upon their solid freshman campaigns.
A host of newcomers will make this perhaps the deepest team the Tornado have ever fielded. Junior college transfer Nick Piumelli and freshman Brian Stroinski will provide the team with much needed depth, while freshmen Tyler McBee and Michael Leach are expected to earn key points in distance events.
"We've put in many more miles than we usually have at this point in the preseason," said Connor. "We've improved quite a bit with the practice we've been doing. We anticipate trying to break into the top four in the conference this year and setting some new school records."
The King men's swimming and diving team opens its season on September 28 against Brenau University, Milligan College, and Thomas College in Gainesville, Ga. The Tornado will host two home meets this season, welcoming Emory & Henry College to Bristol on November 15 before hosting Warren Wilson College a week later. The Appalachian Swimming Conference Championships will be held in Christiansburg, Va. from February 13-15, 2014.


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Looked at narrowly, the question the Supreme Court faced in ruling on the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate was whether government can force owners of family-owned, for-profit corporations to provide employee health insurance covering abortifacient drugs despite their moral objections to doing so.
In a broader perspective, though, this was a clash between religious liberty and the juggernaut known as the modern secularist state. At least for now, religious liberty won. In the limited circumstances of a case like the one before them, a slim majority of Supreme Court justices are unwilling to be part of the juggernaut.
"Protecting the free-exercise rights of corporations like Hobby Lobby, Conestoga and Mardel protects the religious liberty of the humans who own and control those companies," Justice Samuel Alito declared in his majority opinion.
The June 30 ruling, the final one of the Supreme Court's 2013-14 term, provides no certain answer regarding what it will say about the contraception mandate as it applies to Church-related institutions.
While it is difficult to imagine the court requiring religious institutions to bear a conscience burden from which it has now excused some commercial corporations, the religious objectors, which include colleges, hospitals and charities, confront the reality that the government already offers them an exemption — even though many object to it as well.
More than 300 entities, including many Catholic ones, are challenging the contraceptive mandate in more than 90 lawsuits around the country. They contend that requesting the exemption is itself part of a process by which their employees will receive the controversial coverage by another route.
While speaking approvingly of the exemption in general terms, Justice Alito in his opinion said the court at this time was not deciding whether it satisfies "all religious claims" for protection against government coercion to cooperate in something the religious groups find morally abhorrent.
The new ruling came in a consolidated case called Burwell v. Hobby Lobby involving two separate legal challenges to the contraceptive-abortifacient mandate. "Burwell" is Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell, whose department is responsible for implementing the Affordable Care Act at the national level.
The Hobby Lobby corporation is an Oklahoma-based 500-store crafts chain owned by a family of evangelical Christians named Green and employing more than 13,000 workers. The Greens also have a chain of religious bookstores called Mardel that was part of the case. Joining Hobby Lobby and Mardel was Conestoga Wood Specialties, a Pennsylvania company owned by a Mennonite family named Hahn that employs 950 people and makes parts for custom wood cabinets.
The Greens and the Hahns cited the First Amendment guarantee of religious liberty in resisting health coverage for drugs that can cause early abortion, but they said they had no objection to other provisions of the mandate providing for contraceptives and sterilization.
A federal district court ruled in 2010 that Hobby Lobby was not entitled to an exemption, but the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed that decision. Conestoga Wood lost in both the district court and the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court agreed to hear the two cases last November and heard oral arguments March 25. The government was represented by U.S. Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. and the family-owned corporations by former Solicitor General Paul D. Clement.
The cases predictably attracted an unusual amount of interest, including many friend of the court briefs. In a brief submitted in January, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops declared its opposition to "any rule that would require faithful Catholics and other religiously motivated business owners to choose between providing coverage for products and speech that violate their religious beliefs, and exposing their businesses to devastating penalties."
Owners faced fines up to $100 per day per employee for refusing to provide the required coverage.
A key question for the Supreme Court concerned the interpretation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the 1993 federal legislation enacted with the intention of raising the constitutional bar against infringements on the free exercise of religion after the court had lowered it in an earlier decision.
The justices split along familiar conservative-liberal lines, with the majority adopting the sort of narrow approach that pre-ruling observers like William Saunders of Americans United for Life said Chief Justice John Roberts prefers in the interests of avoiding judicial overreach. Joining Alito were Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas. The four dissenters were Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, with Ginsburg writing a lengthy dissent.
Alito said the mandate would force the Greens and the Hahns to "engage in conduct that seriously violates their religious beliefs," and the government had failed to show this was necessary to achieve some compelling interest of its own. Ginsburg called the ruling a "decision of startling breadth" — something Alito denied — and said it would open the door to claims by other corporations for exemptions from other requirements on religious grounds. But for the moment at least the decision stands as a rebuke to the secular state in its juggernaut mode.
In a statement for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, president, and Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, chairman of the bishops' religious liberty committee, welcomed the decision, which came four days before the end of the third annual Fortnight for Freedom, an observance sponsored by the U.S. bishops to focus attention on religious liberty and threats to it.
Noting that the ruling left undecided the pending challenge to the mandate by Church-sponsored groups, the bishops said, "We continue to hope that these great ministries of service, like the Little Sisters of the Poor and so many others, will prevail in their cases as well."
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Martha Stewart Living, December 2004
Dip these Christmas standbys in white chocolate and nonpareils for something extra-sweet. For 50 peppermint sticks, you'll need 8 ounces of white chocolate and 1 1/2 cups of white nonpareils.
Candy Sticks How-To 1. Put the chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water; stir until melted. Let cool slightly.
2. Dip peppermint sticks in chocolate; spoon nonpareils over chocolate. Stand candy, coated end up, in a loaf pan filled with dried beans; refrigerate until set.
3. Package candy in cellophane bags. Cut rectangles out of card stock the width of the bags.
4. Fold them over the tops of the bags; staple shut. Affix labels over staples.


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Gracie.sia needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 69 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
Elite Healthcare
Currently constructing several clinics around Melbourne. Will eventually expand nationwide. These clinics will have other health services attached ie. GP, Dentist, Optometrist, Specialists and Chemist. Elite Healthcare is the overarching name as each individual clinic will be named differently.
A bit like a mini hospital.
Has to appeal to the masses - professionally. Ie. Like Primary Health or Medical One. Potentially do some abbrieviations like EHC.
1. Something that will make people think it is health related. (Small picture like a heart or pulse)
2. The name "Elite Healthcare" should be a part of the logo.
3. The logo should be something that can be easily simplified for business cards, print, etc.
4. Some colour is allowed - perhaps green? Open to ideas.
5. The typeface should be distinctive and professional.
6. The logo should be neat, simple and clear..
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CHICAGO (Feb. 12, 2011) – The U.S. Soccer Board of Directors provisionally sanctioned the North American Soccer League (NASL) to operate a Division 2 men's outdoor professional soccer league in the United States. The sanctioning was approved this weekend at U.S. Soccer's Annual General Meeting in Las Vegas.
The provisional sanctioning allows the NASL to operate a Division 2 league during the 2011 season. The NASL will need to meet certain requirements defined by the Board of Directors to be granted full sanctioning beyond the 2011 season.
"Division 2 soccer is an important element in the success and popularity of the sport in the United States and we are pleased the NASL will play professional games in their markets this season," said U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati. "The Federation's continued interest is in sustainability and stability at the Division 2 level of professional soccer."


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A small well established manufacturing business which has two locations in the Industrial suburb of Mitchell in Canberra and also Wagga in regional NSW. The owner approached me about a number of small to medium sized debts that have been outstanding for more than 6 months. They had been sending statements and letters to their clients but all attempts requesting payment had failed. This was causing serious and unwanted problems with cash flow and their financial position was becoming serious.
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Photo:Unidentified Flying Object; Sept. 7, 2009. Click to enlarge.
Versions of this story and a series of blurry, low reso photos appeared in various South American newpaper outlets. The following news story was translated from Diarios De Los Andes.
A gentleman photographed and object that he noted was silent and that was hovering several feet above the lake near the shoreline. One photo in particular has prompted some to suggest that this was a sighting of a fishing/hunting pterosaur.
The other photos in the series do not as clearly support that or any other known object. The pterosaur hypothesis remains viable but unproven given the quality of these photos. One way to also see the other photos as pterosaur is to assume that it is flying drectly away from the viewer with the wings in profile, the long neck visible with the other appendages as legs and traling tail. (But hey, you have eyes) :0)
Photo: "UFO" compared to pterosaur and Ropen. Click to view larger version.
Sooner or later the continued existence of the pterosaur will be a proven fact and when that happens, it will put the "mythology" of the ancients and flying dragons in an interesting context. See Tracking the Ancient Griffin, Modern Monsters and the "Extinct" Pterosaur Through Art, History and Science-…If you haven't already…s8int.com
See Also:Weird Object over Wichita
He went to fish and says that he saw a UFO
Diarios de lLos Andes, Sept 7, 2009
A resident of the City of Nihuil in Argentina went to fish and encountered and unknown flying object near the shoreline of the dam. He managed to take several photos of the object with his the cellular phone.
This is one of the photos of the series that the fisherman took near the shoreline of the lake. (Top, left)(Images: Newspaper San Rafael)
A man who lives in the town of Nihuil is said to have seen an object that could not identify. He took photos of the object with his cellular phone and he believes that it is a UFO (not identified flying object).
"I saw it and by luck was able to take several photos of it. The fishing fanatic said that he did not want to reveal his identity. According to the story published in the diariosanrafael.com.ar today, the resident of Nihuil saw the object unknown flying over the lake in the late hours of Saturday afternoon.
The man who made "incredible" discovery, at first, did not want anyone to find out about what he had seen. But a friend convinced him to present the news to the press, relates the early riser. "
He was not afraid during the encounter. Besides he continued, I liked it because they are things that are of interest to me, since I believe that alien life must exist on other planets. He affirmed the sighting in handwritten declarations to thepress. After snapping the images on the telephone, he realized that the unknown object in the sky had disappeared.
This story also told at Diario de Dan Rafael


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With Waka Flocka Flame's blunt force raps serving as the most influential sound in hip-hop and an underground scene currently ruled by the irreverence of acts like Odd Future and Das Racist, the market for so-called Real Hip Hop--the kind defined by boom-bap beats and exhaustingly complex lyricism--is at an all-time low. This might seem like a problem for someone like the pointedly intricate El-P, whose breakout group Company Flow and (now shuttered) label Def Jux are rallying points for a certain kind of genre purist.
But the New York rapper is arguably more relevant than ever right now, embracing collaborations with hip-hop's blog-friendly avant garde and cementing his elder statesman status by recently working on an album ("R.A.P. Music") with fellow indie legend Killer Mike. And when El-P's latest album, Cancer for Cure, brings out these friends, they fit nicely into his bleak, pounding vision.
The type to describe police states over jarring beats, El-P has always had a futuristic bent, but the great success of "Cancer for Cure"--particularly on more idiosyncratic tracks like "Drones over Bklyn" and "$ Vic/FTL (Me and You)"--is that its production aesthetic doesn't really need lyrics to make this dystopian stuff seem totally immediate. It's political without being preachy.
This album functions almost as much as noise rock as it does hip-hop, and that might be its biggest strength. Even at a time when explosive noise is the new genre norm, this music is a long way from pop but works because it offers its own self-contained world. That world sounds terrifying, intimidating and pretty great.
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Sorry to bring my marital problems/ mid life crisis to this place - I just don't know whom to talk with
Having a rough patch people:(
been a second or two since I've blogged
Nothing new to report but did you expect anything "really?"
Just thought I'd post a couple pics of some of my babies and just say high and how's it going?
There are three dogs and four dogs living here these are mine :P
Fuck ! I can never do this right :( first pic is Obi
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Went to the SGPDX brunch today and had a really good time even with my old lame ass there - special thanks to @toxic @metalmohawk @justplaindoomed @selene and all else whom attended - hope I didn't weird out anybody to bad
On a positive note I didn't throw up after words - lol - so two thumbs up on the new anxiety meds :)
New week > New...
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just can't stay away and I should know better ;)
Not going to blog much any more not that I was any good at it before-lol - just gong to leave it to the professionals ie. @remod66
All is well in my tiny little world :)
P.s. Had to come back @delaney_ has a new set in member review today - if you haven't checked it...
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Long time no bloggie - Sorry I'm such a slacker
Hope all had an amazing holiday season ,Christmas was overly festive at my house as always. I didn't get what I wanted ( I got fatter )
And since it is through back Thursday - yep h s grad pic - eek
And last but not least Happy New Year to all
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catching one of there last shows I'm guessing with @kickassanor tonight in Seattle at th Showbox should be fucking awesome
Still working through that depression bullshit but doing on my own
Hope all are well and having a great weekend
Sorry I've been kind of MIA around here. I've really stressed at work and dealing with a nasty case of depression :( I will be seeing a doctor on Friday for said depression . Hanging in there with the help of my cute pets - I seem to be only able to get one pic to upload
For those still here - Hope all are well
What are your plans for the week end ?
Tomorrow @KICKASSENOR and I head to Seattle for the Gwar show Saturday will be spent recovering (because I'm Old) and relaxing also spending some more time on here exploring and Sunday I think I'll take my mother to lunch - providing she's available
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Having fun navagating this mofo . Works on Safari for me but not Windows :/ New profile pic complete with menacing back ground - lol
Got an email reminder about tickets I bought for Gwar/Whitechapel on Friday - Any of the local SG friends going to this ?
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Two years ago, IDEA was stable and Eclipse was not runnable on Mac OS X. That's what prompted my first switch to IDEA. I'm now finding Eclipse to run faster on OS X and on Ubuntu. Lately, I feel pulled in the opposite direction: IDEA is quickly becoming too painful to use!


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