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LOS ANGELES — Is this how Dwight Howard's L.A. story ends?
Does it finish with two technical fouls and an automatic ejection with 9:51 left in the third quarter of a second consecutive home blowout? Is this how the future of the franchise, as general manager Mitch Kupchak called him a few months ago, exits — walking off through the tunnel to a golf clap before much of the sold-out crowd had even made it back to their seats?
And then, like ships passing in the night, the Lakers' royalty of past and present emerged from the tunnel for the first time during these two playoff games at Staples Center. Dressed in a black suit and moving slowly on crutches, Kobe Bryant chose that very moment to make his appearance, to wave to the crowd, as if to reinforce whose hands still cradle this proud franchise. He took a seat behind the bench, serenaded by the familiar chant of "M-V-P" as action on the court played on.
Howard said he somehow missed Kobe coming in as he was heading out.
"I didn't see anybody," Howard said in hushed tones. "I didn't even know he went out there."
Bravo, Lakers. No one does drama like you.
Meanwhile, the always sympathetic 7-footer, Pau Gasol, remained as last star standing to finally bury this tragic season. If this was to be Gasol's last stand as a Laker, at least the faithful sent him on his way with a heartfelt standing ovation with 3:08 left in the game.
"I guess there's a sense this is a possibility," Gasol, with the topic of his departure sensitive, said after producing 16 points, eight rebounds and five assists.
Gasol and the ragtag Lakers that mopped up this season were no match for the San Antonio Spurs, who are headed for an extended layoff after finishing off the depleted, and now officially defeated, Lakers with a first-round sweep. Sunday's Game 4 was never in doubt with Tony Parker, Tim Duncan & Co., going wire-to-wire for the expected 103-82 thumping.
And so here we go dashing into your offseason story, L.A. — Lakers held hostage: Day 1.
Three seasons removed from their last title and anything more than a first-round series win, the Lakers' future is now trapped inside Howard's head. And after the loss, he was at his contradictory best while talking about this lost season and the season to come, wherever that may come for the free-agent-to-be.
Howard, almost comically, used the word "nightmare" to describe this season in its entirety, an unintentional nod to the "Dwightmare" moniker that media types dubbed Howard's final, maddening, flip-flopping season with his old team the Orlando Magic. And, on a beach somewhere, those bums he used to call teammates are laughing so hard they're spitting up their Mai-Tais.
"It was like a nightmare. It's like a bad dream and we couldn't wake up out of it. That's what it felt like," said Howard, who settled for seven points, eight rebounds and five turnovers in 20-and-a-half minutes before frustratingly getting a second technical. "It seemed like nothing could go right from the start [of the season], injuries and all that stuff."
Then, Howard continued with a most interesting "but," that perked up all listening ears …
"But," Howard continued, "we get an opportunity to get some rest, guys who are injured, coming off injuries a chance to rehab and think about what we can all do to better ourselves."
The questioner told Howard that he sounded optimistic about a return to the Lakers. Or is it reading too much into that?
"You're reading too much into that," Howard said softly.
Next, Howard was asked if the team can turn this disappointing season into something positive and return the proud Lakers franchise to title contention next season.
"We're all going to take some time away from the game and focus on us, and focus on getting better," Howard answered, again sounding as though he planned to be part of the "us" that's focused on "getting better."
Really, be thankful that only the Lakers' fate, and not that of the free world, hinges on Howard's ability to make a decision or say what he means. We'd all be doomed.
"It was a rocky year. A lot of things happened that I didn't have any control over," Howard said. "I think I handled some situations good and I think I handled some bad, but it's a growing process. We're going to keep growing, we're going to keep learning. That's why we have an offseason, to get an opportunity to reflect on good and bad things that happened during the season and try to make it better for the next year."
For whatever reason, Howard can't or won't commit to taking the Lakers' max contract offer of five years and $118 million that will be on the table July 1. He won't allow Kupchak to begin taking bids for sculptors — you remember Kupchak's statue talk — or to begin a master plan of building the program around the 6-foot-11 Howard without also having a contingency plan. Only Howard knows what he intends to do. Or maybe he simply doesn't.
"I'm going to step away from everything for a couple weeks and clear my head before I talk about anything as far as next season," Howard said. "I think I deserve that."
Sure, Howard can "explore" free agency, but his value is already set. He will be a max player somewhere. He already knows the handful of teams — Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, to name three — that will have the cap space available to fit him into a four-year, $87.6 million contract, the max that teams not named the Lakers can offer under the collective bargaining agreement.
Howard's only consistent thought about his future throughout this season is to say that he hasn't thought about it.
Reasons to leave L.A., to pass on the challenge of being the next great center alongside George Mikan and Wilt Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Shaquille O'Neal, are worthy of consideration. Does he want to continue to play with the domineering Kobe? Can he thrive under coach Mike D'Antoni? Does the lack of a young superstar already on the roster worry him? Does he want the responsibility of being the cornerstone of a franchise that demands championships? Can he stomach the constant scrutiny of spoiled fans and the media and of the ultimate vocal critic in Magic Johnson?
Howard wasn't done with his postgame contradictions. Here he was now talking about his relationship with Kobe, how it was "pretty good" before he came to town and how nothing's really changed despite perceptions. He said people "twisted a lot of things." The "fake fights and arguments that we supposedly had" being chief among them.
And then came this surprising admission that seemed to genuinely come straight from the heart: "We've maintained a pretty good relationship," he said of Kobe, "and I want to continue to be here for him throughout the process that he has to go through recovering from his Achilles. … We're not best friends, but I want to be there for him. Having an injury is a tough thing to deal with. I just want to be here for him as a brother."
It would certainly seem strange for younger brother to then pack up and go.
But who knows? This is the contradiction of Dwight.


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"'Tis been a long wedding tradition o' both Sylvans an Faendryl, that the bridal couple would plant a pair o' trees which were encouraged to grow around each other, becoming stronger as a pair."
Brokkrsten recites deeply:
"As the trees became one, it symbolized the couple's loyalty, unity, an strength."
Brokkrsten recites deeply:
"Today, as Dirvy an Zailon begin their life together,
Brokkrsten deeply says, "This evenin' we are gathered here ta witness the joinin' of Dirvy an Zailon."
Brokkrsten deeply says, "We do so under the gaze o' Imaera, whose stars above stand in silent testimony o' these proceedin's."
Brokkrsten gazes up into the heavens.
Brokkrsten recites deeply:
"Imaera, behold our family here assembled.
We thank ya fer this place in which we dwell,
And fer the love that unites
This is just the ceremony. I will post the entire wedding with guest reactions later.
Maven Brokkrsten just arrived.
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sreitshamer needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 142 designs submitted by 52 freelance designers.
We're an independent software development shop building Buckets, the best online backup software for the Mac.
Buckets is a desktop application for the Mac.
Super simple: Just select a folder (or drag it in) and it'll be backed up continuously. No settings to worry about.
Nothing to remember: Your important files are backed up automatically without you having to remember to insert CDs or external disk drives.
Safe: Your online backups are in your own Amazon S3 account, so you keep ownership of your data. No risk of CD read errors or disk drive failure.
Painless restore: Just drag and drop a file or folder from your backups to your desktop or anywhere you choose.
makes the user feel safe;
is reliable;
is easy to use;
makes the user feel like he/she is good at using it.
Our target audience for Buckets is every independent Mac user (not users of corporate Macs that are backed up by an IT department).
Our users are not technical at all. They will never need to understand arcane backup terminology. They just want to setup their files for automatic backup, browse their backups, search for files in their backups, and restore files from their backups.
We're looking for an app icon in the current glossy Mac desktop-app style. Some examples of the style:
1. the clock icon at http://timelessapp.com/
2. the icons at http://graphicpeel.com/
It's not an iPhone app, so we're not looking for the rounded-corner square background. We're looking for an icon with no background.
The name "Buckets" refers to the "buckets" of content that you have on your hard drive and want to back up -- your personal files, your work-project files, etc.
So far we've been thinking about a beach-pail icon (http://www.getbuckets.com/wp-conten…75_cap.jpg), or maybe a paint bucket. But we're open to all new great ideas.
An icon that we really like is:
The things we like about that icon are: the part attaching the handle to the bucket looks realistic; the shape of the handle is realistic; the lighting is more realistic; and it's turned a bit instead of straight on. In general we like photorealistic.
The colors should connote something safe, reliable, approachable; not aggressive or alarming.
The app icon must be color, 128x128 pixels, in Adobe Illustrator file format.
Although the deliverable for this contest is a 128x128 color icon, the icon concept must be simple enough that it can scale down to favico size (16x16 pixel) and still be recognizable. A silhouette of the color icon seems like a nice approach -- the Apple logo is a good example of this (http://www.apple.com/favicon.ico) -- but we're open to all great ideas.
The icon concept must also work well in 16x16 black-and-white form as a Mac status-bar icon, just like the other status-bar icons (http://www.reitshamer.com/statusbaricons.png).
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Mr. and Mrs. John Trivett celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on July 11.
They celebrated with family and friends, along with a cruise to the Hawaiian Islands.
Trivett and the former Lois Davis were married on July 11, 1962, in Elizabethton, with Luther Rodefer officiating.
He is retired from Fortafil Fibers, Rockwood, and she is retired from Roane County News, Kingston.
The couple has two daughters, Angie Sewell and her husband, Randy, Knoxville, and Veronica Stinnett and her husband, Travis, Harriman.
Babies born at Methodist Medical Center, Oak Ridge, to Roane County parents:
July 6 — Hayleigh Patterson and Xavier Murphy, Harriman. A girl, Kira Marie, 6 pounds, 6 ounces. Grandparent: Christina Patterson.
July 8 — Lindsay and Kasey White, Oliver Springs. A boy, Kasen Elijah, 6 pounds, 13 ounces. Siblings: Keigan and Keylon. Grandparents: Jerry and Phyllis White; Jimmy and Sonja Crawford; Joey and Marlene Sexton.
Jamie Elizabeth Pierce and William Matthew Bullock, both of Rockwood, were married on June 23 in Luminary United Methodist Church, Ten Mile.
Pastor Adam Barnes officiated during the 5 p.m. ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of James and Laura Pierce of Ten Mile.
The groom is the son of William and Brenda Bullock of Oak Ridge.
The bride was escorted by her father. Marie Nora Pierce served as her sister's maid of honor.
Todd Walker of Kingston was the groom's best man.
Five generations of Aliene Lynch's family recently gathered.
The five generations include, from left, Lynch; her daughter, Cherri Birge; her great-great-grandson, Gabriel Burnett; her great-granddaughter, Tabetha Phillips; and her grandson, William "Bill" Phillips III.
Marriage licenses granted at the Roane County Courthouse from April 30-July 9:
Jerry Ray Smith to Robin Renee Ayers Reynolds
Nicholas Thomas Young to Brandi Lynn Gearin
Adam Christopher Mills to Courtney Amber Long
Matthew Jarfi to Melissa Ann Christian
Nicholas James Riblett to Linda Marie Genung
David Edward Ester to Andrea Lynn Aimar
Gary Scott Rawls to Ashley Marie Powers
James Henry Lowery to Aleia Chani Shaw
Babies born at Methodist Medical Center, Oak Ridge, to Roane County parents:
June 2 — Ashley Nicole and Gregory William Cloyd, Harriman. A boy, Alexander William Cloyd.
June 8 — Ashley and Joshua Argubright, Harriman. A boy, Yisreal James. Siblings: Ezekial Dean, Joshua Jr. and Andrianna. Grandparents: Ronnie Ashbrook and Linda Eddington; Stephen and Janice Argubright.
Willie Penix Finch celebrated her 100th birthday on July 31.
The Finch family had a party/reunion in her honor on Aug. 4 in Oak Ridge Community Center.
About 40 relatives and friends turned out to extend happy birthday wishes.
Born Willie Edith Penix on July 31, 1912, she is originally from Lexington in West Tennessee. Her family farmed on a 160-acre plot, and she played high school basketball.
Jennifer Smith of Harriman and Jordan Williams of Oakdale were married on Aug. 4 in the Suddath House, Harriman. Robert Lamance officiated.
The bride is the daughter of Ketta Smith of Harriman and the late Lee Smith.
The groom is the son of Paul and Donna Williams of Oakdale.
Beth McConnell of Kingston and Jerry LaSuer III of Birmingham, Ala., announce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Mattye Caroline LaSuer, to Matthew Lee Woodcock.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Causey and the late Lee Woodcock of Glennville, Ga.
The ceremony will be on Nov. 3 in St. Simons Island, Ga.
The bride-elect is the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. H.T. Houser of Kingston, and the late Mr. and Mrs. Jerry LaSuer II of Birmingham.
Liam Smith turned 4 years old on May 27. He celebrated with a pool
party with family and friends.
He is the son of Will and Kristy Smith of Harriman.
Grandparents are Steve and Mona Bolden of Harriman, and Diana Smith of Oakdale.
Great-grandparents are Mary Oran of Harriman and Ruth Headrick of Oakdale.
Liam has a 5-year-old sister, Taylor.
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Following the demise of my very first Microsoft mobile phone, and three days of compassionate leave, I decided it was time to wipe the tears and continue to live on. It's time to forget the days of old and look ahead to the future of new toys.
The problem is, the phone ruptured at approximately 1 year 3 months after purchase (there was a one-month period inbetween when i sent it in for servicing as well), and there're still around two months before my mobile plan is up for renewal, which gets me a S$400 discount for the current Dopod model. I needed a lifeline in the mean time, or I could just remain uncontactable during this stretch.
And here is a wonderful example of a luxury technology turned critical for life/work productivity. Can you imagine reverting back to twenty years ago and just relying on land line phones? In fact, during that weekend I was without a mobile phone, it dawned onto me just how few public phones are left in this nation.
Working in an MNC with frequently travelling colleagues across the region has its perks. I have a Thai colleague who is making a side line making available to us the nifty and nimble I-Mobile 310 (watch video), so I thought it would serve as a good stand-in until I got a "real" phone. I was fortunate enough to have a colleague give up his unit for my sake so I don't have to wait another fornight before our Thai "dealer" returns to mainland for more goods. Probably means the company intends to call me during the weekend....
Sleek and shiny, everybody is talking about the phone (since just about every alternate person in the company has ordered one) and I have not heard anybody talk bad about it. Well yesterday I discovered, by sheer chance, possibly the biggest flaw of the phone; the entire casing turns into a capsule mirror the moment I walk outdoors. That's right the plastic surface is built with reflective material, including the area around the LCD panel. The amount of light the sun provides outside overwhelms the puny power output of the LCD. Probably needs a halogen lamp to make it visible in broad daylight.
So the usefulness of the phone outdoors extends to teeth checking, and with good potential as a morse code mirror to signal overflying rescue aircraft should I ever get stranded on a lost island. All these without being able to see the phone interface, until I drop the book I carry on my other hand so I can cover it up as though there are students around me copying my model exam answers.
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First time for me and my husband to go for snowboarding holiday and just want to say what a great holiday we had from this chalet. Friendly and helpful people. BIG THANKS TO Jack who cooks us lovely meals everyday and thanks for Sarah, Adam and Megan who been look after us during our stay in Tignes.
Apres Ski: 4/5
Accommodation & Value: 4/5
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We found it very easy to book through Igluski - Steve was a star dealing with our booking and asking colleagues for extra info to answer all our questions. The travel out went really smoothly and we arrived mid pm in the resort. Although initially we were a bit dispappoited with the chalet location (it was overlooking the main road on the way into Tignes Le Lac and neither in Le Lavachet or Le Lac) this was soon made up for with the great team of Amy, Helen, Olivia and Dave. And the chalet had everything we wanted/needed inc a great top floor sitting room....which proved very social! Food was great....and the hot tub an added bonus.
Apres Ski: 3/5
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Firefox 3.0 alpha 6 is now available for download. This release includes a handful of new features, but no significant modifications to the user interface.
I tested alpha 6 on Ubuntu 7.04 and on Ubuntu 7.10 Tribe 2. Recent Firefox 3.0 builds are available from the Universe repository in Tribe 2, so Ubuntu pre-release testers can easily grab it with APT or Synaptic.
On Linux, Firefox 3.0 alpha 6 now uses native styles for Gecko widgets like text boxes and buttons. Ironically, the text boxes in web page forms now look more consistent with my GTK theme than the text boxes in the navigation toolbar. I'm still bitter about the Firefox 2.0 style changes, which really only look right on Windows and probably won't be fixed for Firefox 3.0.
Text layout and rendering got some improvements in alpha 6, but there are still some bugs. During my rendering tests, I noticed that certain special characters still show up as boxes. Text size preferences are now remembered on a site-specific basis, which means that if you increase the font size on a specific site, the browser will use that font size when you return to that site in the future. Per-site font size persistence makes sense in some contexts but not others, and unfortunately there doesn't appear to be a way to disable this feature yet.
There are also some minor interface changes aimed at improving usability. A permanent Restart Firefox button in the Add-Ons manager is a much-needed addition, and the new quit dialog isn't too shabby either.
Under the hood, Firefox 3.0 alpha 6 includes an updated version of SQLite (3.3.17) and has a few other changes that are relevant to developers. JavaScript 1.8 support is still a work in progress. Firefox 3.0 alpha 6 includes a few much-needed new XUL elements, including new date and time choosers. In one of my own XUL projects, I had to pilfer the date selection widget from Sunbird, so I'm very pleased to see the addition of an officially supported date widget in alpha 6.
Overall, Firefox 3 alpha 6 is a decent incremental improvement that reflects a reasonable rate of development progress. It isn't really particularly impressive on the surface, but there is definitely a lot of evidence of very important work going on under the hood, particularly with Gecko 1.9 integration. The rendering improvements will generate excitement in the web development community, but I think the visually impressive stuff that really appeals to regular end-users will start to show up when the developers start working on the Places interface. The bookmark tagging mockups, for instance, are very compelling and I'm looking forward to seeing how those features look when they are finally implemented.


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Phase 1: JHB to Soweto Pilot
This phase will include selection of ten buildings in and around Johannesburg to be used as pilot, the upload of basic metadata and low resolution images to new or existing Wikipedia Articles (English), Installation of QR code ceramic/metallic plates next to Blue Plaques and editathons and translation rallies. It has been suggested by the City of Johannesburg that this first phase, tail the sequence of new sites being plaqued in JHB and culminating in the Mooki street June 16 route.The details of the phases are as follows:
Part 1: Selection and endorsement
The first phase of this project entails project inception and conceptualisation. Due to the nature and scale of the project, all affected stakeholders (WM-ZA, Blue Plaques and City of Jo'burg) must finalise the scale, all necessary endorsements and legal agreements on technicalities of the project upfront.
Part 2: Sourcing of Metadata
James to investigate possibility of JHF (and other bodies) to donate minimum meta data on these sites. This meta data can include:
The basic premise is that Organizations would be willing to part with basic non-sensitive information and articles would then direct traffic to their portals for detailed information and high resolution images.
Part 3: Installation of QR Code tiles
Once meta data has been donated and uploaded on wikipedia and commons, QR Code images must be created of the articles in Wikipedia created or enhanced from donated metadata. An external company will have to be employed for the manufacture and installation of the cream plaques with corresponding QR codes.
Part 4: Content creation
The final phase of the project will involve content creation/enhancement and translation to small languages wikis through a series of Editathons and translation rallies. The idea is to ensure wider coverage of the pilot project preferably in all south African wikis. project evaluations and reporting will naturaly follow at the completion of the project.
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Stephen Curry made a tiebreaking jumper in the final second of overtime, lifting the Golden State Warriors to a 122-120 victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Tuesday night.
Curry finished with 23 points and 10 rebounds. Klay Thompson led Golden State with 27 points, and Jermaine O'Neal added 20.
Dallas had a three-point lead until Thompson made a 3-point shot with 1:01 remaining in regulation.
O'Neal blocked a Dallas shot with the game tied at 120, setting the stage for Curry's winning move. He dribbled the ball to the left side of the court and hit from 20 feet.
The Mavericks called timeout, but the inbounds pass failed to connect as time ran out.
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Federal charges filed against man accused of impersonating pilot at Philly airport
PHILADELPHIA – A French man accused of impersonating a pilot after sitting in an airliner cockpit at Philadelphia International Airport now faces federal charges.
The U.S. district attorney's office says 61-year-old Philippe Jeannard, of La Rochelle, was charged Monday with using a fraudulent identity. He already faced state trespass, forgery and false impersonation charges.
Authorities say Jeannard was wearing a shirt with an Air France logo and carrying a counterfeit Air France ID card when he boarded a Florida-bound US Airways flight Wednesday.
Jeannard was a ticketed passenger, but prosecutors say he sat in a cockpit jump seat behind the pilot, then became verbally abusive. The affidavit says Jeannard told crew members he was an Air France pilot.
Jeannard remains in custody. It's unclear whether he has an attorney on the federal charges.


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Welcome to the Current Affairs Quiz Question & Answers Section of GKToday. This section is a repository of more than ten thousand Multiple Choice questions based on daily current affairs from 2012 to 2018. These are fact based questions written mainly for aspirants of IBPS Banking, Bank Clerical, CLAT, MBA entrance exams, State PCS examinations and other examinations of similar nature. Currently, we update 10 questions roughly everyday.


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Well ya'll, I FINALLY got disability! My hearing was today and a friend brought me and all went well during the hour drive, but my tailbone has been acting up and making sitting a "pain".. so today was a good day for it to act up.
The hearing was set up like a court room on TV, except all of the folks have computers. It was recorded by microphone into one server with a "recorder lady". I was told to speak loudly, clearly and focus on the judge. The attorney "prepped" me for a judge we were supposed to have and at the last minute, we were told that we were having a new judge; which seemed to frazzle my attorney but it all worked out.
The judge talked to me mostly which was a surprise (to both my attorney and I); so we were asked to leave and 1/2 hour later, the judge called us back into the room and read what is called a "bench decision". Which means instant approval. She was even so thorough as to say that she didn't know what "Sryringomyelia" was, so she looked it up and we discussed it a bit and she looked like she felt badly. At any rate, my attorney was so surprised that we got a decision so fast he was like almost crying!!! I think he expected more from me, but I was beat and said "I'm still in shock"... so he took that and well, I'm back home, letting everyone know.
The best advice: TELL YOUR DOCTORS HOW YOU FEEL and MAKE SURE they DOCUMENT IT IN YOUR RECORD!!!! just how you say it, too. That is what helped me and that is what my attorney said.


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EV Override is not OS X native. EV Override requires a Macintosh running OS 7, 8 or 9.
EV Override and its sequel, EV:Override, have been released as plug-ins for EV Nova. EV Nova, available at http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/evn/ has been ported to Windows and is also OS X native.
So if you are a registered owner of EV Nova, you can use EV Nova to play any and all of the EV Override games on PC or on OS X.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. – The San Jose Earthquakes announced today that the club will close its preseason with an exhibition against their USL-PRO affiliate, Sacramento Republic FC, in Turlock on Wednesday, March 5. Kickoff is 7 p.m. PT at CSU Stanislaus' Warrior Field.
The Earthquakes have also officially partnered with the City of Turlock and CSU Stanislaus to make Turlock the home of the club's PDL team. San Jose's U-23 PDL side will practice at the Turlock Regional Sports Complex and will play home games at Warrior Field.
Tickets for the exhibition match will be on sale at the gate on the day of the game for $25. Advanced purchase will also be available in the City of Turlock's Recreation Office at 144 S. Broadway on business days between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. PT. Fans can also guarantee their spot in the stadium by purchasing an Earthquakes PDL season ticket package for $50 through the City of Turlock's Recreation Office.
The Earthquakes announced a landmark partnership with Sacramento Republic FC on Jan. 23, 2014 to make the first-year club their USL-PRO affiliate. As part of the agreement, San Jose will loan a minimum of two players to Sacramento for the duration of the 2014 season, with an option to recall those players. The match in Turlock will be the first game for Republic FC.
After wrapping up their preseason, the Earthquakes will host Mexican league leading Deportivo Toluca FC on Tuesday, March 11 for the first leg of their CONCACAF Champions League Quarterfinal. San Jose opens its MLS campaign four days later against Real Salt Lake at Buck Shaw Stadium. Tickets for both matches are on sale at www.sjearthquakes.com or by calling 1-800-225-2277. Groups of 10 or more can call the club's front office at 408-556-7700 to inquire about group rates.


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Today (February 12) marks the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Sir Charles Darwin, whose legacy has been arguably one of the most influential to modern biological science. His book On the Origin of Species revolutionized the way biologists look at species changes over time. It is appropriate, then, that the Gulf of Maine Area field project should choose Darwin's birthday to kick off their public lecture series titled "Life in the Gulf: Past, Present, and Future." Today marks the first lecture, entitled "Still Life: Historical Pictures of a Changing Ecosystem," with the four remaining lectures of the series covering marine archaeology, ecosystem change, human influence, and diversity of the Gulf of Maine. For more information and lecture dates please visit: Sea State 4.0 [1]
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Catechist's Bookshelf
by Dorian Speed
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My Blog: Scrutinies
List Creator Says: "These are resources I've found helpful in my experience as a high school theology teacher and parish catechist for high school students."
Did Adam & Eve Have Belly Buttons?
- And 199 Other Questions From Catholic Teenagers
Author: Matthew Pinto
Reviewer Says:"Down-to-earth, faithful responses to teenagers' questions about our faith"
Did Jesus Have a Last Name?
- And 199 Other Questions From Catholic Teenagers
Jason Evert
Matthew Pinto
Reviewer Says:"Sequel to Did Adam & Eve Have Belly Buttons, with more questions from Catholic teens"
Gospel Figures in Art
- A Guide to Imagery SeriesAuthor: Stefano Zuffi
Reviewer Says:"Great to have on hand for images to bring life to a discussion of Scripture"
Saints in Art
- A Guide to Imagery Series
Author: Rosa Giorgi
Reviewer Says:"A great introduction to the saints and their depiction in the visual arts"
Old Testament Figures in Art
- A Guide to Imagery Series
Author: Chiara de Capoa
Reviewer Says:"Enhance your appreciation of Scripture with these vivid and striking works of art"
Truth & Life Dramatized Audio Bible - New Testament
- RSV Catholic Edition
Reviewer Says:"Tremendous asset for catechists - play audio clips in the classroom, or use for your own self-study"
United States Catholic Catechism for Adults
Reviewer Says:"I've used this as a text for high school students; a readable guide to the Catechism that includes lots of great resources."
Be an Amazing Catechist
- Inspire the Faith of Children
Author: Lisa Mladinich
Reviewer Says:"Author Lisa Mladinich is devoted to helping catechists serving all different groups and with varying levels of experience. Lots of practical tips."
Catechist's Toolbox
- How to Thrive as a Religious Education Teacher
Author: Joe Paprocki, D. Min.
Reviewer Says:"Very thorough manual for new and experienced catechists, with special emphasis on the role of prayer in catechesis."
Set Free To Love
- Lives Changed by the Theology of the Body
Author: Marcel LeJeune
Reviewer Says:"Great supplement for teaching the Theology of the Body to older teenagers and adults"
Signs and Mysteries
- Revealing Ancient Christian Symbols
Author: Mike Aquilina
Reviewer Says:"Simple but thorough overview of early Christian symbolism in art and artifacts. "
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
Good morning, and many thanks for the invitation to talk to you today and exchange views on our current and future cooperation. As Frauke Seidensticker mentioned just a few minutes ago, I will go into more detail about the day-to-day cooperation between the Council of Europe and the EU Fundamental Rights Agency.
To begin with, I can tell you that our collaboration has developed further over the past year. And this is not an opinion, but is based on fact. One recent proof of this was the active participation of several CoE representatives at our annual Fundamental Rights Conference, which we held earlier this month. We were pleased to welcome, among others, Snežana Samardžić-Marković and Christos Giakoumopoulos. For more details, I refer you to the 16-page document that has been circulated and lists all the areas of our collaboration.
1. FRA's recent and forthcoming work
This year's Fundamental Rights Conference was devoted to the subject of hate crime, a topic on which FRA has already built up a solid body of research data and analysis. Our discussions at the conference, whose participants included victims of hate crime, showed very clearly that hate crime is a problem that must be acknowledged and effectively combated by policy makers throughout the EU. I am pleased that we will soon be following up on the conference recommendations with our colleagues from the CoE, in particular given the Council's work on hate speech.
Only a few days before the conference began, we published a report on experiences of antisemitism and hate crime against Jewish communities in a selected number of EU Member States. The scale of fear among the communities in the eight countries covered by the report is very disturbing, with many respondents afraid to go out on the street wearing anything that could reveal them to be Jewish and afraid for their children when they go to school. This high level of fear is summed up by the fact that over the last few years, 29% of respondents had considered leaving their country of residence. ECRI and other CoE bodies will benefit from the in depth of knowledge contained in the report. Interactive data maps on FRA's website will facilitate the use of this and other FRA surveys in the future.
The findings of the antisemitism survey were strikingly similar in many ways to the results of our large-scale survey of 93,000 LGBT people throughout the EU. This was the case with regard to the vast scale of underreporting, an issue that was discussed at length at the Fundamental Rights Conference. And it was also the case with the devastating effect on communities of offensive language by politicians and other public figures.
FRA has discussed the LGBT survey with CoE staff on a number of occasions, and the methodology used in the survey could certainly be extended to European countries outside the EU. Indeed, a number of non-EU countries such as Norway and Montenegro have already expressed their strong interest in using FRA's methodology. Expanding the survey in this way would give us a great wealth of data on the experiences of LGBT people throughout Europe and how to combat the prejudice that does so much damage to people's lives.
Looking forward, next March we will be presenting the results of our Violence against Women survey, which interviewed over 40,000 women across the EU. One of the recommendations we make is that EU Member States would do well to consider acceding to the Istanbul Convention. I will be interested to see how discussions on this topic develop and to explore possible next steps with the CoE.
2. Joint projects with the CoE
- Apart from the complementarity and synergy our collaboration generates, we can look back on a number of successful joint projects and meetings. For example,
- We published a handbook on European asylum and immigration law earlier this year that was jointly produced by FRA and the European Court of Human Rights. Interest in the guide was extremely high, with more than 13,000 downloads from FRA's website in four months and a great demand of the printed version.
- Continuing our cooperation in a similar way, we will be jointly producing a handbook on European data protection law early next year. This aims to assist judges, lawyers and policy makers who work in the area of data protection, a field which changes rapidly in line with technological developments and the current global discussion.
- Just last month FRA, the CoE, the European network of equality bodies (Equinet) and the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions (ENNHIRI) held a joint conference to discuss future cooperation that can help combat human rights abuses that have been increasing in the wake of the economic crisis.
It is clear that this crisis is having a far-reaching effect on human rights throughout the EU. One example is the increase in child poverty in a number of Member States, which challenges basic rights such as the right to housing, education and health. Another challenge is the rise in extremism and the attendant threat of increased xenophobia and racism.
3. Potential for future cooperation
This is why it is so important for us to work together. And indeed, there are many areas in which we can develop our cooperation in the coming years.
- We need to further strengthen and develop our collaboration on Roma issues, in particular at this juncture when there is a commitment in Member States to improve the situation of the Roma.
- Another area is related to children and justice, where the implementation of the CoE's guidelines on child-friendly justice needs to be ensured.
To conclude:
Our two organisations cooperate both closely and smoothly. We complement each other through our division of labour. By deepening our cooperation and our outreach, I hope that we will be able to jointly break down barriers to move the human rights agenda forward. Together, we can help make fundamental rights a reality for all Europeans.
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Jenyphur needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 32 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
The Phoenix Polar Bears Junior A hockey team is very excited about their 10th season! (1999 - 2009 ) We need a logo that will help capture this very special year for us. This logo will be seen on over 500 youth jerseys!.
The logo will be used as a patch for ALL youth hockey players in our organization. We will also be using it on the website and possibly even as a 3rd jersey for the Junior Team. Please help us design this very special logo.
- The Phoenix Polar Bear logo must remain intact. You can find the logo here: Phoenix Polar Bear logo
- Either the number 10 or X somehow integrated into the design
- Years would be ok also 1999 - 2009
- A small red poppy somewhere in the design. It signifies 'Remberance Day'. Here's more info: Red Poppy. Here is an example of a Red Poppy
- Some examples of logos along the lines we are looking:Example 1
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- A catchy tagline might work...our main taglines now are "Pride and Purpose" and "The Tradition Continues"..maybe "Ten Years of Tradition"???
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Like nearly all graduate students and scholars in the broadly conceived field of the study of religion, I'm a member of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), which holds its annual conference (i.e., massive religious-nerd circus) in different locations around the United States each November. This year it's being held in Chicago and it kicks off this afternoon in some part and in full-force tomorrow (Saturday). It runs through Tuesday and should prove to be an exciting, exhausting, energizing, and enjoyable time. I'll make my way to the conference later this weekend after I give a day of reflection at a retreat center in Maryland. The daylong series of talks is titled: "Prayer as Relationship: A Franciscan Day of Reflection" and will be followed by an afternoon book signing. You can learn more by visiting the website of the Retreat and Conference Center at Bon Secours in Marriottsville, MD. For all my fellow theology and religious studies nerds, I'll see you in Chicago! For those planning to attend this event in Marland, I'll see you there! For the rest of you, I hope you have a great weekend and will see you back here at DatingGod.org next week!
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I recently attended a church service where a pastor admitted they have always taken the perspective of "people are responsible for themselves. If they choose not to engage and participate, it's not our problem." That same pastor also admitted that he and the rest of the staff are haunted by Colossians 1:28 and the call to "present everyone fully mature in Christ." They struggle with getting attendee engagement at the church. Thousands attend; maybe 40% of them are in small groups, and a far lower percentage volunteer. They're trying to figure out how to improve engagement, and their new strategy is still to offer small groups/classes and wait for people to sign up. The difference now is how frequently they talk about small groups and serving.
Just like football has its "Super Day" every year, many churches view Easter Sunday as their "Super Day" for reaching out to the community. People who only come a few times a year are getting their "Sunday Best" ready and you want them at your church! For those of us who have been in ministry for any amount of time, we lovingly have words like "Creaster" or "CEO" (Christmas and Easter Only) for the people who only show up twice a year.


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Who I Am: A Memoir (Hardcover)
From the voice of a generation: The most highly anticipated autobiography of the year, and the story of a man who... is a Londoner and a Mod.... wanted The Who to be called The Hair.... loved The Everly Brothers, but not that "drawling dope" Elvis.... wanted to be a sculptor, a journalist, a dancer and a graphic designer.... became a musician, composer, librettist, fiction writer, literary editor, sailor.... smashed his first guitar onstage, in 1964, by accident.... heard the voice of God on a vibrating bed in rural Illinois.... invented the Marshall stack, feedback and the concept album.... once speared Abbie Hoffman in the neck with the head of his guitar.... inspired Jimi Hendrix's pyrotechnical stagecraft.... is partially deaf in his left ear.... stole his windmill guitar playing from Keith Richards.... followed Keith Moon off a hotel balcony into a pool and nearly died.... did too much cocaine and nearly died.... drank too much and nearly died.... detached from his body in an airplane, on LSD, and nearly died.... helped rescue Eric Clapton from heroin.... is banned for life from Holiday Inns.... was embroiled in a tabloid scandal that has dogged him ever since.... has some explaining to do.... is the most literary and literate musician of the last 50 years.... planned to write his memoir when he was 21.... published this book at 67.
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"Intensely intimate…candid to the point of self-laceration…[Townshend's] tone is less lofty than anyone would have expected, just as this book is more honest than any fan would have hoped."
-Rolling Stone (Four 1/2 Stars!)
"Mr. Townshend's self-portrait is raw and unsparing...as intimate and as painful as a therapy session, while chronicling the history of the band as it took shape in the Mod scene in 1960s London and became the very embodiment of adolescent rebellion and loud, anarchic rock 'n' roll."
-Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
"Unusually frank and moving…[Who I Am] isn't one of those rock memoirs that puts the what before the why. His past is a puzzle Mr. Townshend is sweating to decipher."
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December 31, 2013
INSPIRATION: Tartan...Cosy and Elegant
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Faye Toogood's house in London
The designer Faye Toogood finds exceptional beauty in unexpected arrangements of objects, and uses them to create installations for fashion houses — and her own house.
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Montse Esteva's courtyard house
After reformed this elegant house in Barcelona, its owner, interior designer Montse Esteva, retained its personality with a sophisticated blend of styles that respect the charming French flavor of its past.
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Casa Cor by Pedro Lazaro
This project of Casa Cor, designed by Pedro Lazaro is a form of a simple rectangular box nestled amongst the lush semi-tropical foliage of a mature garden. The immediate surroundings have influenced the decision of the incorporation of a strong organic element within the design, a bold timber roof trim and the surrounding deck of the structure. The interior, a contemporary minimal space contrasts with the organic exterior through the use of concrete tiles and warm lighting.
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Veteran Sprint Car Driver Dies After Crashing at Qualifying Race
ABBOTTSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A veteran Sprint Car driver has died from injuries suffered during a qualifying race at Lincoln Speedway in central Pennsylvania.
The York County coroner's office says 63-year-old Kramer Williamson was pronounced dead at York Hospital at about 1:15 p.m. Sunday. He had suffered serious injuries during a crash that happened Saturday night during the United Racing Company 358/360 Sprint Car Challenge in Abbottstown.
United Racing Company co-owner John Zimmerman says they're mourning the loss of a popular and accomplished driver.
Officials say Williamson was inducted into the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in 2008 and had been racing for more than 40 years. He shared the 1971 rookie of the year title at Williams Grove Speedway in Mechanicsburg.
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Andy SailJuice brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 23 Designs von 8 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Can you design me a cartoon logo for a new sailing website I'm about to launch? I want you to use a photo montage as the inspiration, but for you to have some fun designing something that's bright and has impact on the visitor to SailJuice...
To find a detailed description of what I'm looking for, click on the link below:
SailJuice.com is a website where I interview the world's top sailors - Olympic gold medallists and so on - and write their advice up for other weekend sailors to be able to incorporate into their sailing. The website is a conduit of information from the very best sailors to your average weekend sailor who wants to improve.
The website is currently under construction here:
I would like you to design a replacement headline banner to take the place of the rather dull and bland dark blue banner which is there at the moment.
Your cartoon and logo which you design for me will help inject some fun and brand recognition into the website.
- ITEM 1: BRAND NAME AND TAGLINE OF WEBSITESailJuice.com ... the sharp end of sailing...
This should appear to the left of the banner (as it does currently on the website) http://sailjuice.trial.subhub.com/h…ges/public
The theme of the website will be light blue, but please feel free to play around with differentcolours for the wording. As you can see from my more detailed design brief here ( http://sailjuiceblog.com/design/ ), there is an Indiana Jones theme that I've suggested.
If you want to have a play with fading-out ofdifferent colours (again, refer to my more detailed design brief), then I'd be interestedto see those ideas too.
- ITEM 2: CARTOON LOGOPlease incorporate three types of boat (from left to right:keelboat, catamaran, and Laser dinghy) into the final cartoon, and inthe same order as they appear in my design brief here:
Make all three boats so thatthey're directly alongside each other, all bursting off the same wave,with lots of splash.
Remember, the photos above are to get the right format for thecartoon, but you do not need to keep strictly to the detail of theseimages. I want you to have fun with this. For an idea of the style ofcartoon I'm looking for, look at the Shark logo here:
and some of the great sailing cartoons on this website:
- ITEM 3: 950Px by 80Px Banner Once you've done Items 1 & 2, I'd like you to incorporate theminto a header banner for a website, with banner measurements of:
950pixels (same width as http://www.BBC.co.uk) by 80 pixels deep.
The backgroundshould be light blue.
Item 1 (the words) should be on the left
Item 2 (the cartoon) should appear middle/right
Please save the final logo as a GIF file.
By the way, I don't want you to pay too much attention to the styleor design of the website, but to give you a context for where thisbanner will be appearing, it will be replacing the dark blue banner atthe top of the home page which you can see by clicking on the linkbelow.
Thanks, and good luck!
Andy Rice
I hope I've been specific enough about what I DO want. Please ask if you need any further clarification.
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Baseball Completes Weekend Sweep, 7-5
BATON ROUGE, La. - LSU first baseman Mason Katz homered for the third time in two games as No. 3 LSU (15-1) won its 10th-straight game, sweeping Washington (4-11), 7-5, on Sunday at Alex Box Stadium.
LSU plays host to Nicholls State at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in Alex Box Stadium. The Tigers begin Southeastern Conference play next weekend at Mississippi State.
"With the wind blowing out the way it was today and pitching depth becoming an issue for the last game of a series, I thought we might be in for a real explosion on offense," said LSU coach Paul Mainieri. "The game didn't quite unfold that way, but we did get some key hits, and our pitching and defense were excellent the entire day."
LSU catcher Ty Ross added a solo shot in the second inning, collecting his second dinger of the season.
Outfielder Mark Laird went 4-for-5 on the day, marking his second four-hit game of the season.
LSU starter Cody Glenn (3-0) received the win giving up two runs on seven hits while striking out seven in 5.2 innings.
"I was very proud of the way Cody kept his composure and continued to make good pitches," Mainieri said. "A few ground balls got through the infield early in the game to give them a lead, but Cody hung in there and gave us a great outing."
Washington starting pitcher Tyler Davis suffered the loss (0-2) allowing four runs on five hits while striking out two in two innings of work.
LSU 7, Washington 5 (Mar 10, 2013 at Baton Rouge, La.)
Washington.......... 020 000 210 - 5 10 2 (4-11)
Pitchers: Washington - Davis, Tyler; Wright, Zach(3); Kane, Tyler(5) and Guinn, Parker; Rei, Austin.
LSU - Cody Glenn; Nick Rumbelow(6); Hunter Newman(7); Brent Bonvillain(8); Joey Bourgeois(8); Chris Cotton(9) and Ty Ross.
Win-Cody Glenn(3-0) Save-Chris Cotton(5) Loss-Davis, Tyler(0-2) T-2:55 A-10441
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Brown Charges State Bar Employee with Embezzlement and Filing False Tax Returns
OAKLAND – Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. on Monday filed seven criminal charges against Sharon Elyce Pearl, who embezzled $675,000 from the State Bar of California to pay for "spa treatments, designer clothes, lavish meals, and fancy hotel rooms."
"The defendant embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars from the State Bar of California over a period of eight years," Attorney General Brown said. "She was responsible for collecting rent for the State Bar, but instead used the money to pay for spa treatments, designer clothes, lavish meals, and fancy hotel rooms."
On Monday, April 6, 2009, Attorney General Brown filed seven criminal charges in Alameda County Superior Court against Ms. Pearl, 51, of Oakland. The charges include:
• One criminal count of embezzlement for violating section 504 of the state Penal Code.
• Six counts of filing false tax returns for violating section 19706 of the state Revenue and Taxation Code.
The State Bar of California admits attorneys for practice in the state, provides continuing education classes, and conducts disciplinary hearings.
In 1999, the State Bar purchased an office building at 180 Howard Street, San Francisco, for use as its headquarters. The State Bar inherited tenants who leased retail space within the building. As the Director of Real Property, Ms. Pearl handled building management and was responsible for collecting tenant's rent.
As early as 2002, Ms. Pearl began to embezzle a portion of the rental funds she collected. Here's how the scheme worked:
• Ms. Pearl directed some tenants to make their rent checks payable to "PLOT-The State Bar of California." Unknown to the renters, "PLOT" stood for the Piedmont Light Opera Theatre.
• Ms. Pearl deposited some of the checks into accounts held by the Piedmont Light Opera Theatre (PLOT).
• Ms. Pearl, who was a signatory on the theater's accounts, would then transfer funds from the theater accounts to her personal bank account.
• She would then use the embezzled funds to pay for spa treatments, designer clothes, lavish meals, and fancy hotel rooms.
Ms. Pearl was able to continue the scheme for years because the State Bar did not keep track of the rent payments it was owed.
The State Bar finally uncovered Ms. Pearl's scheme in 2008 when she requested a check that she claimed was for a tenant's security deposit refund. Because there were no records that the tenant in question had ever paid a security deposit, the State Bar launched an internal investigation into the financial discrepancies.
The State Bar ultimately discovered that Ms. Pearl was maintaining two sets of books, and the investigation was referred to the Attorney General's Special Crimes Unit for prosecution.
Ms. Pearl has agreed to surrender herself to authorities next Monday. She could face up to nine years in state prison if convicted on all charges.
Copies of the complaint and arrest warrant declaration are attached.


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There used to be a time (last year and all the years prior to
2009, to be exact) when "Cutdown Day" meant only marginal
or overpriced NFL players were handed their walking papers. Apparently,
now the same can be said for offensive coordinators. In the final
week of the preseason, three play callers were given the axe over
a five-day span. (With that kind of heat on the OC's, don't think
for a second that fantasy football writers have it any different.
After all, a bad preseason by any one of us leads to the same
kind of mocking and hatred that play callers encounter when they
confront their fans after a few scoreless quarters.)
In all seriousness, though, has the NFL reached the breaking
point? In other words, can three franchises honestly say that
- in the same week no less - each of them realized the man they
entrusted to run their offense in January or February is no longer
fit to do so now, less than two weeks before the start of the
season? Football - more than any other sport - needs continuity
on both sides of the ball for a team to achieve and maintain any
degree of consistent success. This is particularly true on offense
as team execution is a must; very rarely can a player "freelance"
and hope to help his team move the ball down the field. On the
other hand, a player like Junior Seau made a living - especially
early on in his career - by working outside the framework of the
original defensive call. The point to be made here though is that
someone (typically an OC) is the one man responsible for overseeing
the offense's ability to execute on a daily basis. It is quite
possible whatever hope that Tampa Bay, Kansas City and Buffalo
had on offense this year is no more (at least for the Bucs and
Bills anyway).
Haley v. Gailey
In the case of Todd Haley v. Chan Gailey, I suppose it was only
a matter of time before Haley exerted his power. While Haley and
Gailey both led productive pass offenses last season, Haley doesn't
exactly strike me as the type of coach who wants to share much
of anything, including any credit he may get this year for getting
more production out of a Chiefs' offense than most people expect.
Of the three coordinator firings this week, this one should concern
fantasy owners the least. While Haley and Gailey shared similar
offensive approaches with their teams last season, the former
is a more aggressive play-caller in general and he probably did
not want to waste any time in making sure his players and bosses
understood that if the team is going to lose this season, they
are going to go down swinging.
Schonert, Really?
The most senseless firing to me is that of Turk Schonert in Buffalo.
If unemployment was his ultimate destination, it could have been
realized at the end of last season when the Bills' offense was
dreadful. Instead, Buffalo allowed Schonert to install the no-huddle
and spend countless hours diagramming ways to use Terrell Owens
and Lee Evans in a fast-paced attack. Realistically, could an
OC who likely spent the spring building his pass offense around
Owens be expected to get a great deal of production from his offense
in the preseason after his offensive centerpiece goes down to
a toe injury after the first series or two in the Hall of Fame
game? Furthermore, Schonert probably also had his mind on how
the running game was going to function without Marshawn Lynch
for the first three games of the season. In an interview with
a Buffalo TV station on Saturday, the former OC stated his side
of the story, which essentially boiled down HC Dick Jauron's feeling
that Schonert was using too many formations and that he needed
to simplify things. (This from the man who kept John Shoop, quite
possibly the worst play caller in all my time of watching the
NFL, around for three years in Chicago because his conservative
schemes were just what Jauron wanted.) Apparently, Trent Edwards
and Lee Evans led the movement of offensive players who made their
concerns about Schonert known to Jauron. When those complaints
were met with owner Ralph Wilson's agreement, change happened.
QB coach Alex Van Pelt and RB coach Eric Studesville take over
for Schonert and, while I didn't think the world of the latter
as an OC, I sincerely doubt the new OC combo has been burning
the midnight oil with their offseason preparations in hopes that
Schonert would get canned at the end of the preseason. Van Pelt's
only play-calling experience came with the Frankfurt Galaxy in
2005 (they went 3-7 that season) while Studesville spent most
of the last decade in his current position. In my mind, Buffalo
has gone from potential fantasy goldmine in the offseason to a
near wasteland. As of right now, Terrell Owens is the only player
in Buffalo I would feel comfortable starting on my fantasy team...and
that may be only as long as he stays healthy. Congrats, Bills
players...go make offensive magic happen now with two coaches
with next-to-no experience and no past success in their current
At the expense of sounding like I'm piling on, the release of
Dominic Rhodes on Saturday is further proof to me that the Bills
don't know where they are going right now. A team letting go of
their fourth-best RB is not surprising, but cutting him after
proclaiming him as a strong veteran influence who will help reduce
wear-and-tear on Lynch AND doing so right before the starter begins
his suspension is puzzling. Fred Jackson and Xavier Omon are fine
players, but given the team's offensive line woes, the Bills may
need a third RB by the time Lynch is ready to return.
This One Grinds My Gears
The firing that gets me the most is the one in Tampa Bay with
Jeff Jagodzinski. Firing a coordinator for a lack of "precision"
and then suggesting he may be a better fit as a head coach is
essentially telling the rest of the league that he is clueless
at running an offense and has trouble dealing with authority.
The more notable problem here is that the Bucs failed Jagodzinski
and the entire team in the interview process. If the team did
not want to fully embrace a deep passing game and a zone-based
running game, the team shouldn't have felt compelled to hire Jagodzinski
because he was a "name coach". Now, the team must continue
applying Jagodzinski's principles without him or switch back to
the power-based running and short-passing game that Jon Gruden
ran for most of the last decade. Either way, nothing in Greg Olson's
(the new OC) resume suggests to me that he was qualified to run
another offense anytime soon after showing very little in stops
in Detroit and St. Louis.
Besides offering my opinion on what appears to be a rather senseless
and disturbing trend in the NFL, I detail the OC departures to
reinforce how delicate the balance is between making sure you
- the fantasy owner - pick the best players for your team while
also recognizing that same player's stock can fluctuate drastically
based solely with a change at the offensive coordinator position.
My other purpose for such a lead-in is to transition ever so smoothly
into some bold predictions for the 2009 season, which may become
even bolder now considering that 9% of the league's offenses changed
hands in less than five days.
Note: All
predictions/assumptions will be based on 12-team leagues that
start 1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR and 1 TE.
Of the quarterbacks going after the 12th round,
Jason Campbell and Joe Flacco have the best chance to emerge as
a starting-caliber fantasy QBs.
Jason Campbell: Ready to explode on the
As far as Joe
Flacco goes, I'm choosing to put a lot of faith in OC Cam
Cameron. Quite often in his college and pro career, Cameron's
presence on a team's sidelines has resulted in a QB enjoying a
career year or coming pretty close. Without getting too deep into
his bio, he was the QB coach in Washington when Gus Frerotte made
his only Pro Bowl and also ushered in Trent Green's emergence
into the public's consciousness. After a five-year stint at Indiana
University when he made Antwaan
Randle El a household name as a QB, he returned to the NFL
to help push Drew Brees from possible second-round disappointment
to what he has become today. Heck, in his lone disastrous year
in Miami, he even made Cleo Lemon a usable fantasy QB! Getting
now to his work in Baltimore, Cameron appears willing to back
off the 600 rush-attempt goal of 2008 and let his second-year
QB open things up a bit more. I, like many others, felt early
on the Ravens� preseason aerial display (37 attempts/game was
fourth in the league) may have just been an attempt to save the
RBs and work out the kinks in the passing game. I no longer feel
that way for a number of reasons, one of which is Ray
Rice's ascension to near-feature back status. Because Le'Ron
McClain will move to more of a fullback role this season, it's
safe to say that the Ravens' rush attempts will come down dramatically
as neither Rice nor Willis
McGahee figure to come all that close to 300 carries, much
less both of them. And given Rice's receiving abilities, it would
be foolish not to use him in that capacity more often. Lastly,
Mason and Todd
Heap appear to be healthy while L.J.
Smith was added to complement Heap and help Flacco use the
whole field in 2009, as opposed to the routes outside the hashes
Cameron called for most of last season.
Running Backs
Out of the group of Ronnie Brown, Kevin Smith
and Ray Rice, at least two out of the three will emerge into fantasy
first rounders next season.
I've been firmly on board of the Ronnie
Brown bandwagon for some time now. I can't help it - I guess
- I'm just a fool for a 27-year-old, 230-pound RB who can catch
the ball and is in the best shape of his career. Prior to his
ACL injury in 2007, Brown was living up to his immense potential
as a complete back. Granted, that season came under the watchful
eye of Cameron, who just happens to oversee more productive fantasy
RBs than just about any other OC in recent memory. So while I
won't predict a return to the 2,288 total-yard, 11-TD pace he
was on in 2007, he should be the focal point of a power-running
game that should only get better in 2009. Ricky
Williams is another year older (32) and is unlikely to steal
another 161 carries and 29 catches from Brown again. Brown won't
keep Williams on the sidelines full-time, but Williams will probably
see his 2008 workload cut by a third in both the rushing and receiving
departments. If that scenario shakes down as I expect it to, Brown
would come close to 300 carries and 50 catches, totals that would
make him a PPR beast and solid RB1 in non-PPR leagues.
Much like Brown, Kevin
Smith should be able to ditch his biggest fantasy handicap
- namely, the other RB in the rotation. That Smith was so productive
last season - over 1,200 yards and eight scores in part-time duty
- on a winless team that had to abandon the run early in many
of its games speaks to his immense potential. With Rudi Johnson
out of the picture and OC Scott Linehan now in it, it would come
as little shock if Smith neared 350 touches in 2009. There are
a handful of opponents that make me cringe a bit (Pittsburgh and
Minnesota during the fantasy regular season and Baltimore in Week
14), but all told, it is hard not to like a runner who is going
to be so involved in his offense at a RB2 price.
With each passing day, I seem to become more enamored with Ray
Rice. Just this past Sunday, I chose him over a host of other
backs (Ryan Grant, Clinton Portis, Pierre Thomas and Smith to
name a few) in a big-money PPR league. The thing is, I�m starting
to believe his ceiling is Steve Slaton-kind of high. Heading into
the season, it appears as if Le'Ron McClain will indeed see most
of his time at fullback and Willis
McGahee could get worked in for a series here and there. And
if the preseason was any indication, McGahee may get the majority
of goal line carries. But if Cameron's history comes into play
as I think it will, Rice will emerge as a true feature back before
the end of the season. He's a fair bet to surpass 50 catches,
making him a very tempting RB2 in PPR leagues as is, but give
him 200-225 (or more) carries behind Baltimore's solid offensive
line and it wouldn't come as a complete surprise to see him surpass
the 1,000-yard mark on the ground. Perhaps he becomes little more
than a real poor man's Tiki Barber (ton of total yards but very
few scores), but the fact is he will lead the team in touches
and he will probably do so by a wide margin.
Jamaal Charles' fantasy production will either
nearly meet or exceed that of backfield mate Larry Johnson in
PPR leagues.
Based on what I saw in the preseason, it wouldn't be all that
shocking if Jamaal
Charles bested LJ in non-PPR as well, but I'll save that for
prediction for a prognosticator bolder than I am. (Although I'm
willing to roll the dice, I also know when to pull my money off
the table!) For the time being, we'll stick with PPR. While it
is convenient for me to use Haley's previous team as an example,
I think the Edgerrin James-J.J. Arrington arrangement from last
year applies here. From what I could tell during the exhibition
season, Johnson's role appears to be limited to when the offense
is "on schedule" (1st-and-10, 2nd-and-six, 3rd-and-2 or better).
Anything more than those distances seems to be Charles� domain.
Considering the Chiefs will not be �on schedule� all that often,
working out of the spread a high percentage of the time and trailing
late in games, I tend to believe Charles will see the field at
least half the time. So if he can stay healthy all season, it
would not be the least bit surprising to see him catch 50+ passes.
Since LJ won't be hauling in many passes of his own or rushing
for many TDs, Charles may just win the fantasy battle between
the two.
Wide Receivers
Larry Fitzgerald will struggle being the most
productive fantasy WR...on his own team.
Let's get the most telling stats out there right away. Larry
Fitzgerald led Cardinals WRs in fantasy points on five occasions
last season, three of which occurred in the four games Anquan
Boldin missed. Worse yet, half of Fitz's 12 TDs were scored in
those same four weeks. Meanwhile, Boldin was Arizona's best fantasy
WR in seven of the 12 regular season games that he suited up for
in 2008. It's not easy for me to try to make Fitzgerald sound
bad because he is arguably the most consistent fantasy WR in the
game today. But with that said, there is no way I can recommend
him being the #1 WR taken in drafts after reviewing the aforementioned
numbers. Furthermore, Boldin averaged more than one target/game
more than Fitzgerald did last season. While I'll admit that doesn't
sound like much, those are not the numbers you want to see in
a player that you will need to spend a mid-first round pick on
to put on your roster.
Roy Williams will have the second-best season
of his career and will still be labeled as a "bust"
by the national media and fantasy owners alike.
Roy Williams: A bust for all the right
Only once in Roy
Williams career has he surpassed 69 catches or 1,000 receiving
yards. He has yet to score 10 times in a single season. I mention
those numbers only as a reminder of the worst season Terrell
Owens posted as a Cowboy, a season during which many observers
noted that T.O. had lost a step. While Williams' 82-1,310-7 line
in 2006 serves as a reminder of what he is capable of when healthy,
it also spotlights the fact that he will need to come pretty close
to matching his career high every year he is in Dallas to make
the media forget about Owens. Yes, Tony
Romo has established himself as an upper-echelon QB, but unlike
the T.O. years, the Cowboys plan on being a running team this
season and Jason
Witten will remain his first option on most passing plays.
So while it is not right and it certainly is not fair, Williams
will need to overcome the team's new offensive philosophy, Romo's
affinity for Witten and his own injury history if he has any hope
of not being labeled a disappointment. That's a lot for one man
to overcome and it's probably not going to happen in 2009.
Tight Ends
Todd Heap will re-emerge as a top-15 TE once
again, barring injury.
It has come to my attention that this column is taking a Baltimore
tint, but the 2009 Ravens don't figure to be as much like the
2008 Ravens as most of us assumed going into the season. No, Baltimore
will not throw 40 times a game like it did in the preseason, but
the offense will open up more in Flacco's second season. Part
of the "opening-up" process includes throwing the ball
over the middle on a regular basis, which makes the TE a much
more likely option than he was a season ago. Now, I'll be the
first to admit that I don't typically recommend injury-prone TEs
who have to fight for catches with other injury-prone TEs (L.J.
Smith), but the preseason showed us that Todd Heap looks more
like his younger self this season than he has in a while and that
Flacco will look for him in the red zone. HC John Harbaugh echoed
those sentiments as well at the start of training camp, telling
the Baltimore Sun, "We want to definitely expand him in the
passing area. We want to control the middle of the field with
our passing game, and Todd Heap has got to be a big part of that."
I'm not sure a return to Pro Bowl form is in the cards for Heap,
I'd take the over on a 50-550-5 stat line from him this season.
Kevin Boss will make me regret not putting
him on the Big Boards.
Am I already having second thoughts on the Big
Board? Well, maybe not so much at the top, but somewhere down
the line, I'm getting a bad feeling the "Boss" is going
to make me look bad. My reasoning for not giving Kevin Boss any more
credit pre-Big Board was sound - my strong impression of Travis
Beckum stealing his work in the passing game from the H-back spot
- but then the rookie saw very limited work - two catches - in
the preseason. Although I still expect Beckum to be fantasy-worthy
at some point this season, Boss is one of the few trustworthy
options Eli Manning has entering this season. And Manning clearly
trusts Boss in the red zone (six TDs last season led all Giants
receivers in 2008), so I may need to swallow my pride and admit
that Beckum may not emerge as Eli's favorite TE target until 2010.
Percy Harvin and Aaron Curry will be the 2009
Offensive and Defensive Rookies of the Year, respectively.
The temptation to take the easy way out and select a RB as the
2009 Offensive ROY was tantalizing, but not a single rookie RB
even has a clear path to a full-time job (like Matt
Forte last season). Donald
Brown, LeSean
McCoy, Knowshon
Moreno, Chris
Wells, Shonn
Greene and even James
Davis all have the talent to succeed right away, but no one
from that group is any better than option 1A or 1B in their teams'
RB plans. Yes, the same could also be said for Steve Slaton and
Chris Johnson in 2008, but both Slaton and Johnson played on teams
with better run-blocking lines or stronger running game approaches.
The Colts, Eagles and Cardinals all figure to be pass-heavy teams
once again while the Broncos and Browns may not be strong enough
defensively to keep their RBs in the gameplan for four quarters.
Only Greene strikes me as the lone rookie that has the right combination
of playing in a run-heavy offense and a formidable offensive line,
but he stands third on the depth chart and is extremely limited
as a receiver. At QB, the Jets' offensive approach almost disqualifies
Mark Sanchez
as a ROY candidate, and while Calvin Johnson can do a lot of things
for a QB, I'm not sure he alone will be enough to help Matthew
Stafford's candidacy. The rookie WRs appear to be a mess with
Heyward-Bey a definite project and Michael
Crabtree a definite holdout. So, by process of elimination,
Percy Harvin
is my choice to win the award. It's been pretty clear from the
outset that Minnesota intends to showcase his talents all over
the field. And as we all know, it is much easier for a player
to produce when he has opportunity and the team believes in his
talent. After watching how the Vikings plan to use him in the
preseason, I have no problem endorsing him as a WR3 in 12-team
PPR and non-PPR leagues and expect him to meet or exceed the projections
I placed on him in July.
Because fantasy football is primarily an offensive showcase,
we don't usually take much time to discuss impact players on defense.
Much like RB, picking a LB to win the ROY award is not taking
a great leap of faith. But unlike the offensive side of the ball,
I don't see too many challengers for Aaron Curry except maybe
the Bengals' Rey Maualuga or the Rams' James Laurinaitis. Maualuga
would have likely been my #1 choice, but his numbers will be stunted
by starting the season out on the strong side instead of in the
middle, meaning his tackle numbers will be down. Laurinaitis,
on the other hand, will be working in the middle, but probably
won't have the protection up front a MLB needs or play on a good
enough team to catch the eye of the voters. I'm not sure I expect
the world from the Seahawks, but the fact that Seattle intends
to use Curry as a pass rusher in addition to his normal linebacking
duties leads me to believe one of the best prospects at his position
to come out of the draft in recent years will be taking home the
hardware at the end of the season.
And with that, I am happy to announce that the next time fantasy
owners tune into this column, we will have seen each team kick
off in what is one of the best weekends in sports each year. I
will also be moving from Tuesdays to Thursdays in an effort to
adequately prepare each of you for the upcoming week of NFL action.
Since it also appears as if I will be free on Saturdays this fall,
I am contemplating ending each column this season with a "College
Spotlight" in which I highlight a player I watched over the
past weekend who I feel may be of some help to fantasy owners
in 2010 or beyond.
In the meantime, go pick up Cadillac
Williams like I advised you to do a week or so ago as he was
placed atop the Bucs' most recent depth chart on Monday. Since
Tampa Bay appears to be committed to a 2-2-1 split of RB carries
to open the season, Williams may get enough playing time to use
in a flex spot. But whatever happens with the Bucs� RB rotation,
I assure you that starting NFL RBs are better off on your fantasy
bench than in someone else's lineup. Always consider potential
trade value! For example, if your WR5 is unlikely to see your
starting lineup and is just taking up a bench spot, then adding
someone like Williams makes a lot of sense because in 2-3 weeks,
he could bring back a WR3 or low-end TE1 in return from a desperate
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