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Ever since he got kicked in the leg at Baltimore, where the Texans' three-game losing streak began, receiver Andre Johnson (37 catches for 407 yards) has not practiced much.
"He's just very sore, (but) he's pushing through it," coach Gary Kubiak said. "It's a tough thing to work through. We're basically giving him Wednesdays and Thursdays off and getting him going again on Fridays and trying to get to game day. It's been very frustrating for him. We're doing everything we can to get him back to full strength."
Johnson, who doesn't have a touchdown, is on a pace for 121 catches and 1,302 yards.
Asked if Johnson is a game-time decision for St. Louis, Kubiak said, "I would definitely think so with where we're at right now, with him practicing on Fridays. I may feel different about that tomorrow after I watch him move around."


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The problem with playing winless teams is that, almost always, they're eventually going to stop losing. At home last Saturday afternoon, the men's basketball team at Chestnut Hill College became the first victim of the 2012-2013 season for the Mercy College Mavericks, a non-conference Division II rival from Dobbs Ferry, NY.
The Mavericks came in with an 0-8 record and left with a 79-74 victory, giving CHC an overall record of 4-6. At the NCAA Division I and II levels, where teams give athletic scholarships, there aren't many truly hopeless cases, and half of Mercy's early setbacks had come by five points or less.
"Last Wednesday night they lost 94-88 to Pace, who's a very good team," said CHC head coach Jesse Balcer. "So when they have 88 against a good team, that tells you they have the ability to score. Part of the scouting report was, they're going to win a game, and you just don't want to be that team.
"I tried to explain that to our guys," he went on, "but it's one thing to hear it and another to get it done on the court. It looked like our guys were just not fired up to be playing an 0-8 team, and we have no business having that attitude about anybody. The good thing is that it's a non-conference game, and hopefully we learned a lesson."
In their previous outing, the Griffins had won in overtime against Post University, improving to 1-2 within the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference.
On Saturday, visiting Mercy built a 16-8 advantage over the initial seven minutes or so. The Mavericks scored frequently in transition, and this would be a problem for the Griffins throughout the contest. After lagging by eight points early, Chestnut Hill had senior guard Mark DiRugeris net a pair of free throws, which started him on his way to a 15-point first half.
Later, with sophomore guard Torrell Candelaria's putback of a teammate's missed transition lay-up, CHC pulled even at 21-all with 7:52 to go in the period. The rest of the half the teams stayed within five points of one another. In the waning moments Mercy led by two, then with five seconds a short jumper from the right side of the lane by CHC junior Jakeem Bogans sent the teams into the locker room knotted up at 37-all.
Francis Ashe, a senior guard for the Griffins, got the home team going with aggressive moves to the basket at the start of the second half, scoring four driving lay-ups to lead CHC out to a 46-39 advantage in a little over three minutes. Still, with a three-pointer and a lay-up by Joseph Pope, Mercy was right back in it with just a two-point deficit.
Chestnut Hill managed to stay a basket or two ahead for some time, and the lead eventually rose to seven points once more when DiRugeris drained a triple from the right wing, making it 69-62 with 4:58 to play.
That marked the end of his scoring for the day, but while he had done his part with a team-high 23 points, no one else really stepped up in the last five minutes, when the Griffins were outscored 17-5.
After Kirk Bailey's lay-up with 2:33 to play tied the game for the last time at 71-71, CHC missed three shots in a row on the same possession. Firing from the left corner, the Mavericks' Chaz Morrish bagged a three-pointer to put the visitors in front for keeps.
"I don't think we were focused defensively, and that's something I thought we'd gotten over," Balcer said. "We didn't have that intensity on defense at the end of the game."
Aside from DiRugeris, Chestnut Hill received double-digit scoring from Ashe (15 points), freshman Dexter Harris (13), and Bogans (10), but overall the Griffins shot 37.5 percent from the floor, while the Mavericks' aim was almost 11 percentage points better than that. Pope put in a game-high 24 points for the winners, with Bailey and Morrish adding 15 and 14, respectively.


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These small-diameter 2- and 4-conductor models are the latest in the New Generation line of unshielded, low-voltage cables. The cables are designed for several power-limited circuit and communications applications, including indoor security systems, PA systems, HVAC thermostat controls, remote control, signaling, single-line telephones, and intercoms. The cable construction includes bare copper conductors, polypropylene insulation and PVC jackets. They are rated for 300V maximum operating potential and continuous operating temperature of 75°C.
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These color-coded AC/MC connectors snap into a ½ in. KO and enable identification of the color and type of cable from inside the box. The insulated connectors, which come with a nylon insulator rated to 105ºC, are available in three styles. Models 570S-G and 570S-G/R are designed for use with steel 14 AWG to 10 AWG armored cable. Model 570S-R is designed for use with steel or aluminum 18-2 to 12-4 solid TFN or THHN, or 18-2 to 14-2 solid twisted-pair fire alarm MC cable.
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The 9600 combines the functions of a 3-phase power quality meter, web server, analyzer, and controller in one package. As a power quality meter, it comes preconfigured to provide compliance reporting and 256 samples per cycle waveform recording. Users can employ its Web capabilities to access and log real-time power data and distribute reports and alarms over the Internet and through e-mail. It also supports on-board time-of-use and transfer loss compensation for utility rate structure matching and all standard demand calculation methods.
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The Model 380974 rolls the functions of a clamp meter and phase rotation tester in one device. As a clamp-on meter, it measures AC current to 1000A and AC voltage to 600V with a 1.2% basic ACV accuracy. The meter/tester also provides L1, L2, L3 phase sequence testing using a wiring configuration that ensures 3-phase motor connections are correct. Testing options including resistance, frequency, and capacitance are also available.
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The Series 165 power transfer load center protects sensitive electronic equipment from power outages and electrical transients. It includes power distribution breakers, and all components are pre-wired for installation. The device integrates an automatic transfer switch, transient voltage surge suppression modules, power distribution, and provisions for load center breakers.
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Immediately below Paul Mirengoff describes one despicable Democratic congressman (Alan Grayson) waging a despicable campaign in search of a winning message, or at least a suitable bogeman. Southern California Rep. Loretta Sanchez is another despicable congressman waging a despicable campaign. Sanchez faces a strong challenge from Republican Van Tran. In the case of Sanchez, the bogeyman is her opponent. He's a native of Vietnam, you see, having left Saigon with his family shortly before South Vietnam fell to the communists in 1975.
Sanchez must be nervous about the election. Speaking to her Hispanic constituents on UniVision in Spanish, Sanchez sought to alarm them that the "Vietnamese and the Republicans" in her district were "trying to take away" her House seat after "we have done so much for our community." It's a nakedly racist appeal that reveals Sanchez to be unfit to hold high office. She obviously thought she could get away with it in Spanish on UniVision.
John Hinderaker previously posted the video below, but here it is again as a reminder. John noted in an update to his post that the story had begun to trickle out. The Orange County Register covered it, and AP took notice. In any event, prepare to be disgusted as you listen to this smarmy mediocrity seek to bring out the worst in her constituents.
In an excellent Politics Daily column, Lusita Lopez Torregrosa reports that Sanchez apologized for her comments this past Friday afternoon. In scandal management, of course, Friday afternoon is where news is dumped to die.
Sanchez's apology now takes its place In the annals of mealymouthed expressions of regret: "I used a poor choice of words that some people have taken as offensive," Sanchez said at a news conference Friday afternoon. "I apologize for those remarks." Torregrosa notes the limits of Sanchez's regret: Sanchez didn't apologize for calling Tran "very anti-immigrant and very anti-Hispanic."
You can follow the link above to contribute to Van Tran's campaign.
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Said Wright, a three-time All-Star: "It's a very prestigious award and I am proud to win it. This honor will help motivate me to even an even better season in 2009."
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KENNESAW, Ga. (Jan. 19, 2013) – In need of a win, the ETSU men's basketball team ventures to a place Saturday where the Buccaneers have enjoyed their share of success in recent years.
Having won 13 straight games over Kennesaw State dating back to the 2005-06 season, the ETSU men will invade the KSU Convocation Center on Saturday to take on the Owls in an afternoon matinee game at 2:30 p.m.
The Bucs (4-14 overall, 2-3 A-Sun) are coming off a loss on Thursday night at Mercer, and will be hoping to get back to .500 in conference play with a victory.
For more on Saturday's game, read the game notes below or click on the game notebook link above. For more on ETSU men's basketball throughout the 2012-13 season, visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the men's hoops link.
We are "ETSU"
The ETSU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics would like to ask both the print and broadcast media to honor our request to be called "ETSU" ... East Tennessee State in first reference is acceptable, but subsequent references should be ETSU ... On TV graphics please use ETSU ... Our nickname is the Buccaneers, but Bucs is also acceptable.
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After several years of quality returning players and at least some level of certainty regarding what to expect heading into the winter months, the 2012-13 ETSU men's basketball team will enter the new campaign with several questions and concerns. ... The loss of standout seniors such as Adam Sollazzo (Tampa), Isiah Brown (Miami, Fla.) and Tommy Hubbard (Boston) will be hard to overcome, considering that group combined for a total of 3,091 points in their careers ... A year ago, the Bucs enjoyed quality wins such as a road victory over Atlantic 10 Conference foe Charlotte, and finished with a respectable 17 victories on the season ... The team finished fourth in the Atlantic Sun Conference standings at 10-8, reaching the league tournament semifinals. ... This season, the Bucs' top two returning starters were guards Sheldon Cooley (Tampa) and Marcus Dubose (Hartsville, S.C.), who both combined to score 19.7 points per game a year ago. ... However, both Cooley and Dubose have been dismissed from the team for violation of team rules and policies ... Along with those two, fellow guard Jarvis Jones (Memphis) and forward Lukas Poderis (Port Richey, Fla.) are the only other ETSU seniors to be returning after playing significant minutes last year, but Poderis is now lost for the season with a left foot injury and will be forced to redshirt, while Jones missed the first seven games of the year for academic reasons ... Jones returned against Ole Miss on Dec. 14 ... With so few returning, experienced players, ETSU will be looking to some unproven returning players, as well as a recruiting class that includes three incoming freshmen and a pair of junior college transfers, to come in and make an immediate impact. Sophomores Rashawn Rembert (Tampa) and John Walton (Memphis), along with redshirt freshman Lester Wilson (Knoxville) are expected to increase their production this year, while true freshmen guards Petey McClain (Mobile, Ala.), Mario Stramaglia (Birmingham, Ala.), and Yunio Barrueta (Miami, Fla.) will look to blossom into early contributors. ... On the interior, Walton will need help from junior college transfers Kinard Gadsden-Gilliard (Georgetown, S.C.) and Hunter Harris (Nashville).
Last time out
MACON, Ga. (Jan. 17, 2013) – While the ETSU men's basketball team overcame a 19-point second half deficit to win in its last outing, the Buccaneers could not work that same magic Thursday night against the Mercer Bears. ... Falling behind by 18 points in the second half, the Bucs could get no closer than 11 points and ultimately dropped a 78-59 decision to Mercer in Atlantic Sun Conference play at Hawkins Arena. With the loss, ETSU drops to 4-14 overall, 2-3 in A-Sun play. Meanwhile, Mercer improves to 11-8, 4-2. ... While Mercer was a sterling 19-of-23 from the foul line and hit nine shots from 3-point range, ETSU missed 11 of its last 12 free throws of the contest and finished 5-of-15 from the line for the game. ... For the Bears, four players scored in double figures with Travis Smith netting a game-high 18 points to lead the way. ETSU got a team-high 12 points from senior guard Jarvis Jones (Memphis), and he was the only Buccaneers' player in double figures. ... In the first half, the Bucs and Bears traded offensive runs early on and the game was tied at 22-22 on a jumper by Kinard Gadsden-Gilliard (Georgetown, S.C.) with just over 6:20 left before the break. However, from that point forward Mercer put together a 17-6 run to build a 39-28 advantage at the break. ... ETSU shot a strong 50 percent from the floor and outrebounded the Bears 14-10 in the first half, but Mercer enjoyed a perfect 10-of-10 clip at the foul line and hit seven 3-pointers over the Bucs' zone defense to build their lead. ... After the break, the Bucs allowed the Bears to open on an 11-4 run and take a 50-32 advantage with 15:19 left in the game. The Bucs responded with 12-5 spurt to make it 58-47, but that would be as close as the Bucs would get the rest of the game.
The series versus Kennesaw State
The Bucs are 13-1 all-time against KSU, including a 64-59 win in their last game back on Feb. 4, 2012 ... ETSU has won 13 straight.
Last time out versus Kennesaw State
KENNESAW, Ga. (Feb. 4, 2012) – Senior guard Adam Sollazzo (Tampa) scored a game-high 19 points, freshman guard Rashawn Rembert (Tampa) came off the bench to net a crucial 11, and senior Tommy Hubbard (Boston) made clutch plays down the stretch, leading the ETSU men's basketball team to a 64-59 win over Kennesaw State Saturday afternoon inside the KSU Convocation Center. ... With the Bucs trailing 57-54 and 2:37 left on the clock, Hubbard – who played in the game despite suffering from a turf-toe injury – began his game-saving play. He first scored on a traditional 3-point play to make it 57-57, and then after a free throw miss by junior guard Jarvis Jones (Memphis), Hubbard grabbed an offensive rebound to keep the ball on ETSU's end of the court. He later picked up three offensive rebounds in a row on the same possession, before ultimately tapping in a miss to give the Bucs a 60-57 edge with only 20 seconds left in the game. ... The first half closely resembled the last meeting between the Bucs and Owls earlier this season, as Kennesaw State connected on seven 3-pointers in the first 20 minutes and led by as many as 11 at 24-13. The Bucs, whose offensive issues have become a theme this year, again struggled to score in the early going, but managed to cut the deficit to six at 30-24 at halftime thanks to a Rembert 3-pointer to close out the half. ... Guard Delbert Love was the story of the first half, going 5-of-5 from 3-point range and scoring 15 points for the Owls. ... In the second half, Rembert's play continued to impress as he opened the half with five straight points, and capped a 13-2 run with a 3-pointer that made it 44-42 in favor of ETSU with 10:07 left in the game. The ETSU advantage grew to six at 48-42 on a Poderis' layup, but the Owls battled back to regain the lead at 57-54 with 2:57 remaining on the clock. ... At that point, Hubbard took over. However, after his fourth and fifth point made it 60-57, it wasn't until Sollazzo and Jones combined to hit four-straight free throws that the Bucs could relax and picked up the win.
Young Bucs still face obstacle with experience
At no time in the tenure of ETSU head coach Murry Bartow have the Buccaneers had less experience ... Currently, the team has 10 players who are eligible and healthy enough to play, and of that group there are only six total years of Division I experience ... On average, that's less than a half year of experience per player ... With four freshmen and two junior college transfers that means 66 percent of the team is competing in their first season of Division I basketball.
New lighting system for the Mini-Dome
The game with VCU marked a new look for the Buccaneers home court inside the ETSU/MSHA Atheltic Center ... Over the holiday break, a new lighting system and championship banners were installed inside the Dome, creating a more "basketball friendly" environment ... Along with the new LED digital boards along the floor, a renovated "Courtside Club" for donors, and the team's new practice facility which was completed earlier this year, there have been over $1 million in basketball improvements made to the Dome this year alone.
Shuffling starters the "new normal" for Bucs
ETSU head coach Murry Bartow has used 14 different starting lineups in the team's 18 games this season ... Injuries and dismissals have left the ETSU's coaches searching for the right combination, as the team currently stands at 4-14.
Freshmen trio shine in win over FGCU
When Florida Gulf Coast built a 19-point lead over the Bucs back on Jan. 12, few would have thought a youthful ETSU team could pull off the victory ... However, a freshman trio that included redshirt freshman Lester Wilson (Knoxville), and true freshmen Petey McClain (Mobile, Ala.) and Mario Stramaglia (Birmingham, Ala.) had a different plan ... Helping power an ETSU comeback, the young Bucs ultimately came back and won 85-75 ... Wilson finished the game with a game-high 21 points, while McClain pitched in 10 points and eight assists at the point position, and Stramaglia came off the bench to score 14 points and grab five rebounds ... The question for ETSU fans is whether these youngters can continue to grow and become more consistent.
Gadsden-Gilliard shows signs of production
Early in the season, ETSU coaches spoke openly about the potential junior transfer Kinard Gadsden-Gilliard (Georgetown, S.C.) to produce quality numbers ... Thirteen games into the season KGG had struggled to meet those predictions, but that changed against Lipscomb (1/5) ... Setting or matching personal bests for points (13), rebounds (7), assists (3) and free throws (3) in 30 minutes of action, KGG played arguably his best game of the season so far.
Jones meeting expectations for Bucs
ETSU head coach Murry Bartow expected the return of senior guard Jarvis Jones (Memphis) would improve his team's efforts on the offensive end of the floor … He was right. … After posting a career-high 21 points against No. 4 Arizona, followed by a team-high 14 against Hawaii and another team-best 17 against San Francisco, Jones is now averaging 14.3 points per game in his eight outings since returning from academic probation against Ole Miss back on Dec. 14. ... Jones is currently second on the team in scoring with 14.4 points a contest.
ESPN names Wilson to nation's Top 25 freshmen list
While circumstances have forced the ETSU men's basketball team to struggle in the early going this season, talented redshirt freshman forward Lester Wilson (Knoxville) has still given the Buccaneers reason for hope. ... Wilson, who is averaging 15.8 points per game, was listed as one of the Top 25 freshmen in college basketball Thursday by ESPN hoops writer John Gasaway. The list – which included players such as UNLV's Anthony Bennett, UCLA's Jordan Adams, Michigan's Nik Stauskas and Duke's Rasheed Sulaimon – had Wilson ranked at No. 25. ... Wilson has posted six 20-plus point games so far this season.
Three-point streak for Bucs dates back nearly 20 years
Since Feb. 16, 1987 in a game against Davidson, the Bucs have made at least one 3-pointer in 782 consecutive games. ... ETSU was 0-for-8 in that 1987 game.
Bucs have tradition of postseason appearances, success
The ETSU men's basketball team has enjoyed its share of postseason success and ranks as one of the nation's most prestigious basketball programs ... The Buccaneers have earned berths to the NCAA Tournament nine times (1969, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010) and NIT twice (1983, 2007) ... In 2011, the Bucs made their first ever appearance in the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament, winning twice and advancing to the semifinals of that event ... It was the program's 12th postseason tournament appearance all-time.


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TULSA, Okla.—The U.S. Parachute Association will increase the minimum age for first-time skydivers nationwide to 18 years starting May 1, replacing a provision that allowed younger teens to jump with parental consent.
USPA spokeswoman Nancy Koreen says the change isn't related to the recent incident in Oklahoma in which a 16-year-old girl plummeted 3,000 feet to the ground after her parachute malfunctioned. The teenager, Makenzie Wethington, survived and is recovering from her injuries.
In an email to The Associated Press, Koreen says raising the age limit has been an issue that the USPA and the skydiving industry "have been struggling with the past couple of years."
Koreen says skydiving equipment manufacturers?have already instituted 18 as the minimum age for use of their gear "in reaction to an increasingly litigious society."


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This is a lesson about the Discovery Program's exploration of the solar system. Learners will identify and communicate to others the varied space science explorations carried out by the Discovery Program and dig into one mission in depth. They can... (View More) then respond to a NASA Discovery Program Announcement of Opportunity (AO) to submit a mock proposal. Includes the 29-minute Discovery Program overview video, "Unlocking Mysteries of Our Solar System." (View Less)
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UN: Combat continuing in South Sudan
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Combat is ongoing in South Sudan despite the opening of peace talks meant to end factional fighting, the United Nations said Tuesday.
U.N. peacekeepers reported fighting south of the city of Bor in oil-producing Jonglei state, and U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq said explosions were heard to the southeast.
The peacekeepers patrolled a highway in Unity State and found most villages along the road from Mayom Junction to Pariyang burned or looted. Severe food, water and shelter shortages were also reported to the U.N. mission by local officials, Haq said.
Peacekeepers are on 24-hour patrols in Juba, the capital, but the situation remains tense there, he said.
The U.N. Mission in South Sudan continues to protect about 62,000 civilians in its bases, including nearly 30,000 at its two Juba bases, Haq said.
Talks in Ethiopia between representatives of South Sudan President Salva Kiir and former Vice President Riek Machar were to resume Tuesday.
South Sudan has seen three weeks of violence that Kiir says began as a coup attempt Dec. 15, though Machar's side denies the allegation.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called Kiir to urge him "to use the talks to find a peaceful, democratic way forward" and said senior members of Machar's faction who are imprisoned need to attend the talks, State Department spokeswoman Jan Psaki said in Washington.
Kerry "reiterated that the United States will deny support and work to apply international pressure to any elements that use force to seize power from the government of South Sudan," she said.
South Sudan has been plagued by ethnic tension and a power struggle within the ruling party that escalated after Kiir dismissed Machar as his vice president in July, with the violence boiling over in mid-December. The rebels back Machar, who is now a fugitive sought by the military.


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Karl Rove Likes What He Sees
With his new gig at Fox and a seven-figure political memoir in the works, Karl Rove has officially crossed over from shadowy 'Wizard of Oz' territory to somewhat approachable public personality. But as Lisa DePaulo finds out, that doesn't mean he's any less…pointed with his opinions
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i can see karl rove standing outside the restaurant, on the phone, yakking, pacing, occasionally peering at me through the etched-glass window and sticking a stubby finger in the air to indicate that he'll just be just one more minute. Eighteen minutes pass. He enters brusquely, with apologies and a crack about my "bright red purse" but also with the clear message that he is in control. Uncomfortable in this position, somewhat wary, constantly checking his watch ("Gotta go soon… Gotta go… Couple more minutes…"), not diggin' it, but always in control. Karl Rove is not a guy who kicks back with a drink—even coffee's a stretch ("I'm a decaf guy," he says)—and shoots the shit for a few hours. This isn't about a charm offensive—he gives the impression that he's not even sure why he's doing this. But: To be with Rove is to listen to a man who is utterly articulate and insightful and at the same time utterly…what's the word? Plain? Normal? Caucasian? If you didn't know he used to be Bush's Brain, if you didn't know he is widely credited/blamed with leading the Republican Party to an era of total world domination, if you didn't recognize him (as numerous gawkers inside the Muse hotel restaurant do) as the man W. famously dubbed "Turd Blossom," you'd think he was a middle-management sales lackey in town to sell Ginsu knives or something. The nondescript gray suit and overcoat, the geeky glasses and bald-on-the-top-with-peach-fuzz do, the briefcase (in middle school, he was the only kid with a briefcase, which pretty much sums it up). In what ways is he cool? We can't help but ask. "None," he says. "I am the antithesis of cool." We should also point out that Rove is exceedingly polite and well-mannered and, at moments, as prickly as the little cactuses on his tie. He has the demeanor of a man who had more power than he'll ever admit but is never really far from the 9-year-old who once got into a schoolyard fight over Richard Nixon, and lost. To a girl.
karl rove: Sorry to be late. I have a lunch with the Big Boss shortly.
gq: The Big Boss?
Mr. Murdoch.
Ah, that big boss. Does that mean you'll be getting more money out of Fox?
No, it doesn't.
Do you like being a TV analyst?
Uh, it's odd. You know, it's weird for me. But it's interesting.
Do you think Fox News is fair and balanced?
I do. I think they go out of their way to be fair and tough in questioning. I'm really impressed with the people I've gotten to know. Brit Hume is a very bright person; Chris Wallace has got a lot of integrity.
You also sold a book recently.
I did.
What'd ya get?
A lot.
And you're doing speeches, too, right? I read that you just gave one at Penn—
I like speaking to the college campuses.
**And the first question, someone called you a cancer. **
Right. Oh, sure.
**You must get that all the time. **
Uh, I get it some. When I go to campuses. But did you hear what I did? I just let him rant. And when he was finished, he had no question, he just wanted to accuse me of undermining the Constitution and blah-blah-blah-blah-blah. And I said, "Thanks for your thoughtful rant." And he sat down. And I said, "Now do you feel better about yourself?" And he said, "Yeah." And I said, "Well, I want you to feel better about yourself." And everybody laughed, and we went on.
But is it hard when people—
No. No. Look, everywhere I go, people say nice things to me. I don't live for that. I appreciate it, and I'm grateful for their kind words, but I don't live for it. And similarly, when people say ugly things? It doesn't affect me. They want their words to affect me. And as a result, I'm not gonna let 'em.
But when people say, "You've created this climate of fear—"
I laugh.
**You laugh? **
Yeah. I laugh. Sure. How? What, exactly? I'm not apologetic about what this administration has done. It's protecting America. It has won important battles in a war that we as a nation better win or we will leave the future to our kids, a much darker and dangerous future.
**What's the biggest misconception about your role in the Bush White House? **
That it was all about politics.
**If that's the misconception, what's the overlooked truth? **
Look, I'm a policy geek. What I've most enjoyed about my job was the substantive policy discussions. Being able to dig in deeply and, you know, learn about something, ask questions, listen to smart people, and form a judgment about something that was from a policy perspective.
**When you look back at your career, especially in the Bush administration, what's the worst thing you did? **
I'm not gonna be good at answering that.
**But is there anything you feel guilty about? Or wish you did differently? **
[exasperated laugh] Off the record?
**No! Don't go off the record. **
Off the record.
Okay, let's look back, to the very beginning of the Karl Rove story, when you got handed the keys [from Bush the father, to deliver to Bush the son] until now. And you look at where the president's approval ratings are today—
**What did you do wrong? **
Oh, look, I did a lot of things wrong. But the main thing is, we're fighting an important but unpopular war.
**You still think it was the right thing to do? **
Absolutely. Absolutely. And you know, one of our biggest mistakes was, the first time Harry Reid got up and said, "You lied and you deliberately misled the country," we should have gone back immediately and hit back hard, and we didn't. We let that story line develop. In reality, you go back and look at what Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Al Gore—I'd be happy to supply you the quotes—what they said about Saddam Hussein possessing weapons of mass destruction.
**What are you most proud of? **
Being part of a group of people I have a great deal of respect and admiration for in service of the country.
**If you had to make a bet, can Hillary pull it off? **
The odds are long, but improbable things have happened almost every month in this race. She wasn't supposed to win New Hampshire, and she did. So we'll see. You know, she's got a lot of strengths, and he does, too. We got two wellmatched opponents going at each other hammer and tongs. It's fun to watch.
**If it's mathematically impossible for either of them to get enough delegates, how will this get resolved? **
Somebody can get to a majority, but they're gonna have to get to a majority with superdelegates. Neither of them can win enough delegates to win it on just simply the elected delegates.
**So if it comes down to superdelegates, doesn't that become a question of who can be more ruthless? **
Well, you know, people will have to decide whether they're going to act as reflectors of the popular vote in their districts or states, or whether they're going to ercise independent judgment. I think this is the big dilemma the Democrats face: Are they going to choose a nominee who essentially is chosen, validated, by a minor aristocracy, by essentially an undemocratic group? Because, look. Does anybody think that Patrick Deval [sic], governor of Massachusetts, and Senator Ted Kennedy are gonna respect the wishes of their home-state crowd and go for Hillary Clinton, who won their state? No.
**So how ugly is it gonna get? **
Well, I—we don't know. We have geological ages that are gonna pass. It's not that ugly today. The wounds are fresh, but there's plenty of time for them to heal. The question is, will the wounds get deeper and more difficult to heal? We don't know. My gut tells me it happens, but I don't know.
**If you could run one of their campaigns, which one would be the dream campaign to run? **
Neither one.
**Why? **
Because I don't believe in what they say.
But just as a strategist, just to get in there and—
Yeah, well, see, for me it's not divorced from who they are and what they're all about and what they would do.
What did you think of the red-phone 3 a.m. ad?
It was a gutsy, dangerous move. She figured out that she had to do something to raise the issue of: Is he fit to be president? And this was a way to do it. I happened to be in Texas a week before the ad popped, and all of her surrogates were hitting him pretty hard on the thinness of his experience. They were pretty brutal. And this ad sort of fed into that.
Isn't that the kind of ad you would have done?
Uh, look, that's the problem. She can't run an ad—you know, the more powerful ads she can't run against him, because she's afraid of looking too moderate. He's got essentially… His argument is twofold. "Vote for me because I'll bring Republicans and Democrats together; we're not red states, blue states, we're the United States." And second of all—and he said this most passionately in the Wisconsin victory speech: "There are big issues facing the country, and it requires leadership and energy to solve them." Well, the two best counters to those are Hillary saying, "I've actually worked with Republicans and Democrats to get things done." Or McCain saying, even more pointedly, "On all the big issues where Republicans and Democrats have come together, I've been in the middle of bringing them together, and you've been way out there on the fringe. When we pulled together the Gang of Fourteen, you were out on the fringe. When we pulled together a bipartisan answer on the terrorist-surveillance program, you were way out there on the fringe. When Democrats and Republicans, regardless of where they were on the war, came together to give our troops everything they needed while they were in combat, you were way out there on the fringe." Now, she can do some of that, because she's actually tried to work with Republicans over the years. He has not since he got there. He's been coolly detached and sitting on the side. His fingerprints are on, at most, a couple of small items. And then, on the leadership issue, she can say, "Look, I've been in the middle of these big battles. I've been providing the leadership. Sometimes we won, sometimes we lost. But at least I've been involved." And McCain will be able to sharpen that even more.
It seems like you're talking about authenticity here. Are you saying Obama is inauthentic?
I'm saying that he has adopted two themes for his campaign that are not supported by his actions.
Do you think Obama would be easier to beat?
I try not to think about those things. Because that inevitably leads you to believe, I would like to have A or I would like to have B. You need to keep your mind open about both of them.
You've said—what was the phrase you used about Hillary? "Fatally flawed"?
Fatally flawed. I just thought her flaws would show up in the general election. I didn't know they'd show up as early and as strong as they have.
Which flaws?
Uh, calculating. You know, she went through the period where she had the calculated laugh, she went through the period where she had the calculated accents, and you build that on top of a person who already has the reputation that anything she says is calculating, you know…
Is calculating a terrible thing?
It is if people think it's phony. And that's what her problem is. That and the sense of entitlement. You know, the sense of "This is mine, I deserve it; we're the Clintons, this is ours." And I think that really caused a lot of people to say, "You know what? It's not yours." And do we really want to go back? The '90s were nice in a lot of respects, but do we really want to go back to all that drama?
There is something ironic about Karl Rove criticizing someone for being calculating.
Right. Look, it's one thing to calculate and say, "What's the best way for me to do this?" It's another thing to say, "What's the best way to do this, even if it means the sacrifice of my fundamental principles?" When she stood up there and said, "I'm in front of an African-American group in Alabama, so let me adopt a phony southern accent!" And when she sat there and said, "You know what? I need to warm myself up, so for the next weeklong period I'm gonna sit there and laugh and cackle at anything that is even remotely funny." You know, when both she and he, who are free traders by instinct, went to Ohio and said, "We're gonna renegotiate NAFTA," when they know that (a) there's no provision to renegotiate NAFTA, and (b) the Canadians and the Mexicans are not gonna want to renegotiate NAFTA, and (c) when both of them understand that trade liberalization, particularly with our neighbors, has been to our economic advantage, who are they kidding?
But when people call you calculating, do you take that as a compliment?
Look, what I'm charged with is, in politics, taking the material that I have to work with—which are the views and values, convictions and principles, of my candidate or client—and charting the best path to victory. That's different than saying, "How am I gonna take a fundamental belief or a reality of me as an individual and discard it?"
So there's good calculating and bad calculating?
If Hillary pulls it out, will Mark Penn [her chief strategist] be considered a genius?
Mark Penn is a very smart guy regardless of whether or not she pulls it out. He's a very smart guy.
But don't you think there've been a lot of mistakes?
Sure. But if you have to lay them at the feet of one person, you lay them at the feet of the candidate. The candidate sets the tone.
Are you surprised at how Obama exploded?
You know, I want to be careful—I think we need to be careful about not getting carried away with a narrative that doesn't truly exist. Like the story this morning in The New York Times about "the Obamacans"—the Republicans who support Obama.
You don't buy that?
No. Do I buy that there are Republicans who support Obama? Sure, I do. But take a look at the last four polls on which there are cross tabs available. There are twice as many Democrats defecting to McCain as there are Republicans defecting to Obama. In the Fox poll, Obama takes 74 percent of Democrats and loses 18 to McCain. And McCain keeps 80 percent of Republicans and loses 10 to Obama. And in every one of the polls, it's nearly twice as many Democrats defect to McCain as Republicans defect to Obama. And against Clinton, it's three times as many. Know why? Well, there are a lot of different reasons why. There are Democrats, particularly blue-collar Democrats, who defect to McCain because they see McCain as a patriotic figure and they see Obama as an elitist who's looking down his nose at 'em. Which he is. That comment where he said, you know, "After 9/11, I didn't wear a flag lapel pin because true patriotism consists of speaking out on the issues, not wearing a flag lapel pin"? Well, to a lot of ordinary people, putting that flag lapel pin on is true patriotism. It's a statement of their patriotic love of the country. And for him to sit there and dismiss it as he did—
You're not wearing a flag pin, Karl.
Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. But I respect those who consciously get up in the morning and put a flag lapel pin on.
Do you see the elitist thing in other ways?
Obama is coolly detached and very arrogant. I think he's very smart and knows he's smart, but as a result doesn't do his homework.
So the Dems have two rattled candidates?
Right. Now, you got one candidate who's got an appeal to the blue-collar Democrats: Clinton. I call them the beer drinkers. And then you got the white-wine crowd, which Obama appeals to. There's a brilliant article by Ron Brownstein in the latest issue of National Journal in which he charts the change in the nature of the Democrat-primary vote, and it's becoming younger, more affluent, and more liberal. And that means that blue-collar Democrats, whatever's left of them, are on their way out of the Democratic Party.
What do you make of this whole thing where Hillary was talking him up as a vice president and he came back saying, "Wait a minute, I'm winning—why are you asking me to be your number two?"
Very calculating on the part of the Clintons, and a mistake for him on his part.
Because they wanted him to get down to their level. They want him to look like, you know, not the golden inspiring figure but instead, you know, like an average ordinary pol who's got three years in the United States Senate. So they lay it out there. And rather than having it be dismissed by a surrogate, instead he goes out there! And rather than having an inspiring, forward-looking message, instead he's out there as an ordinary pol saying, "Hey, I'm number one, I'm in first place! I won more states than she did. I won more delegates than she did. What the hell's she doing offering it to me? That's insulting." And he did it in an arrogant way that I don't think made him look that good.
So you don't think his response played well?
No. Take a look at the footage. Turn the sound off and look at it. You can tell that he is arrogant, and you can tell that he's a little bit angry, and you can tell he's very dismissive. He takes his hands and he sort of, you know, waves his hand like, "I'm dismissing something." That was the moment to say, you know, "Look, I know what my opponents are saying, but you know what? I'm focused on one thing and one thing only, which is to help bring Republicans and Democrats and independents together to move America forward." Instead of "Hey, lemme just remind you, I'm winning! I'm beatin' her!"
So he took the bait?
He took the bait.
Have you gotten to know Hillary or Barack to any degree?
Yes, I have.
What have been your dealings with them?
Well, you know, I used to have her office at the White House. And I got to know [Obama] because we have a mutual friend, Ken Mehlman, who was his law-school classmate at Harvard. And so as a result, whenever in the last three years he's been around at the White House, I've gotten to see him, and we sort of would hang around and chitchat about things. I'm actually in his book. He wrote that "people like Newt Gingrich, Tom Delay, Ralph Reed, and Karl Rove say we are a Christian nation." And I did not say that. I confronted him about it. At the White House.
And what did he say?
Well, first he denied that I was in the book! And then he denied that it said that I said that it was a Christian nation. And then when I pulled out the thing [he had a copy of the offensive page with him] and showed it to him, he sort of blah-blah-blah-blah-blah- blah-blah. And I thought, That's who he is. I mean, look, he may claim that he's for a different kind of politics, but that was a cheap shot. And I'm not certain if any of the four said it either. But it was like, you know, Let's just strap it in there and see if it goes someplace. Another example: Him saying, "We honor John McCain for his fifty years of service" was a cheap shot. He was going out of his way to say John McCain's old.
Is John McCain too old?
Do you think Obama's gotten a free ride from the press?
How so?
I don't think they hold him to the same standards. You know, look, his Web site is full of all kinds of proposals written by academics galore. But he's not required to defend them. He's not required to explain what it is he wants to do. Now I think that's changing. I think, when you have an editorial in USA Today that says, in essence, Where's the beef, what's the substance? When reporters start asking him tough questions about his relationship with Tony Rezko—you know, what was the value of the lot? What was the price that you paid? How many fund-raisers did he do for you? How much money did he raise at those fund-raisers? When they start asking him those questions, then it starts to change. I mean, the kind of questions that have been routinely asked of other candidates—about their background and associations and involvements—have only recently begun to be asked of him.
I get the sense you respect Hillary more than you respect Obama.
Off the record?
Please don't go off the record.
Off the record… [Yeah, it's good. Sorry.]
Damn! Now say that on the record.
No. Nope. Nope. Nope.
Let's try again, then: on the record. I get the sense you respect her more than him.
Uh, I know her better than I know him. And I just, uh—she has been around public life a lot longer and has demonstrated, you know, more involvement than he has.
Let's talk about Bill. You've gotten to know him better, right?
What do you think of him now?
He's a very entertaining rogue. He's a larger-than-life character. You can't help but sort of like him. But boy, he has made some missteps in this campaign.
Yeah, what's up with that? He's supposed to be this political genius. What's going on?
He's all wrapped up in it. He's lost his detachment. Sometimes you can be more detached about yourself than you can be about members of your family. He's all revved up about her and making mistakes.
Do you buy any of the pop psychology that there's a part of him that's sabotaging her?
I—I—that is way beyond. I have never… I don't have a couch that anybody could sit down on, and… I don't know, I don't know.
But you were surprised to see how he handled the South Carolina thing?
Well, it may have been calculated, I don't know. Maybe they made a calculated decision that, Hey, we need to send a message that all he can do is win states with African-American voters. But I don't think it played—even among Democrats.
Recently, in a meeting with some people from the Republican National Committee, you said, "Do not use 'Barack Hussein Obama.' "
Right, right. Um, in politics—
Is that because it's not right?
It's wrong. But not only that, it's counterproductive. In politics, there are arguments that are seen as not factual and not fair, or trivial, and they blow up in your face. And this is one that people look at and say, "You're trying to imply something about him that's not true. I think you're going a bridge too far, and I'm reacting negatively." I mean, he didn't pick his middle name, somebody else did. And he doesn't go out of his way, like Hillary Rodham Clinton to, you know, emphasize it.
You probably never thought, eight years ago, that John McCain would be the nominee.
You know what? In politics, second acts are either really bad or really good. And so the question was gonna be, Who might want to succeed Bush? McCain was always a possibility. He's always harbored a desire.
What do you think of him now?
I like him. We bonded in the '04 campaign.
Do you have to hold your nose to vote for him?
No, no, not at all. I enthusiastically voted for him. I just sent in my absentee ballot [in Texas], and I gave him $2,300.
So what's your life like now, Karl? Are you based in Washington still?
We're splitting our time between Washington and a place we have in the panhandle in Florida. And a little place in Texas. We're looking to be in Texas more permanently starting this fall. We've enjoyed Washington, but look, I don't wanna be like… I got a guy, lives around the corner from us in Washington, who had a prominent role for six months in the Reagan administration, and he's still living off of it twenty-some-odd years later. I don't intend to do that.
What do you intend to do?
I'm trying to figure that out. I've got a couple years between the book and the speeches and Fox and my Newsweek column and my writing for the Wall Street Journal and some things I'm doing in politics under the radar.
What do you do for kicks?
I read and go hunting. And travel with my wife.
Tell us about your wife.
She's a terrific, courageous person.
Is it hard being married to you?
Uh, I don't think it's hard being married to me. I think it's hard being married in public with me.
Let's talk about the last couple of scandals you've been involved in. Don Siegelman in Alabama [the Democratic governor whom Rove was recently accused of trying to sabotage by forcing U.S. attorneys to bring corruption charges against him prior to an election]. What happened?
[rolls his eyes] Will you do me a favor and go on Power Line and Google "Dana Jill Simpson" [the Republican lawyer who told 60 Minutes that Rove asked her to take a picture of Governor Siegelman cheating on his wife]? She's a complete lunatic. I've never met this woman. This woman was not involved in any campaign in which I was involved. I have yet to find anybody who knows her. And what the media has done on this… No one has read the 143-page deposition that she gave congressional investigators—143 pages. When she shows up to give her explanation of all this, do you know how many times my name appears? Zero times. Nobody checked!
Then how did this happen?
Because CBS is a shoddy operation. They said, "Hey, if we can say 'Karl Rove,' 'Siegelman,' that'll be good for ratings. Let's hype it. We'll put out a news release on Thursday and then promo the hell out of it on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday." And Scott Pelley—the question is, Did [60 Minutes correspondent] Scott Pelley say to this woman, "You say you met with him. Where? And you say that he gave you other assignments earlier. When did he begin giving you assignments, and what campaigns did you work with him in? What evidence? I mean, this woman, she said she met with him: Okay, you met with him—where? Did you fly to Washington?" Now she says that she talked to me on the phone and she's got phone records. Of calls to Washington and Virginia. But what's Virginia? I don't live in Virginia. And it's 2001. What is in Virginia? It's not the Bush headquarters; that was in Austin, Texas. What is in Virginia? So—but look, she's a loon.
What about the U.S. attorneys? Should you have had a role in hiring and firing?
[a little peeved now] What was my role in firing those U.S. attorneys?
Your position has been—and tell me if I have this wrong—that you basically relayed complaints?
To the counsel's office. Correct.
And that was an appropriate thing to do?
Oh sure. Sure it is. Sure it is.
What's your relationship with the president now?
Good. Really good.
Do you talk a lot?
Did you know that Laura called you Pigpen?
Yeah. [laughs] Laura Bush intimidates me. All the Bushes—well, most of the Bush men marry incredibly strong women, and they all intimidate me. Barbara Bush I've lived in fear of for thirty-seven years.
What's your goal with this book? You intend to set the record straight, as you see it?
Absolutely, absolutely. Sure. You bet. I intend to set the record straight.
I imagine you're going to have a lot to say.
Yeah, exactly. Available soon for $29.95…. I gotta go! I gotta go!
Wait, quickly: Do you believe Roger Clemens?
Um, yes, I do.
If he gets nailed on perjury charges, is that the kind of guy Bush might pardon?
I'm sorry?
Do you think if he got nailed, that would be the type of person Bush would pardon?
I'm not gonna answer that. I mean, he's done nothing wrong.
Should Scooter Libby be pardoned?
I'm not gonna answer that. Just not. Just not. But thanks for asking.
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Winter League roundup: Bucs prospect erupts in DR
Dominican Winter League
Escogido 8, Aguilas 0
Gregory Polanco, the No. 2 overall prospect in the Pirates' farm system, provided plenty of thump for Escogido, going 4-for-4 with a double and a homer. Jorge Polanco, Miguel Olivo and Erik Gonzalez added two hits, while five pitchers combined on a three-hit shutout. Box score
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Escogido 8, Aguilas 0
Gregory Polanco, the No. 2 overall prospect in the Pirates' farm system, provided plenty of thump for Escogido, going 4-for-4 with a double and a homer. Jorge Polanco, Miguel Olivo and Erik Gonzalez added two hits, while five pitchers combined on a three-hit shutout. Box score
Licey 7, Estrellas 4
After falling behind early, Licey responded with a five-run third inning before holding on to defeat Estrellas. Anderson Hernandez's grand slam was the big blow, as it turned a two-run Licey deficit into a two-run lead. Texas' Jurickson Profar went 3-for-5 on the night and is hitting .579 through five games. Audy Ciriaco of the Marlins' system went 2-for-4 with two runs scored for Estrellas. Box score
Gigantes 7, Toros 2
Toronto's Moises Sierra went 2-for-4 and launched a three-run home run in the third inning that opened the floodgates for Gigantes. Houston's Jimmy Paredes added a hit and two walks and scored twice in Gigantes' first win of the season. Eugenio Velez had a two-hit night for Toros. Box score
Venezuelan Winter League
Magallanes 8, Zulia 4
Mario Lisson's three-run homer in the seventh inning broke the game open, as Magallanes moved into sole possession of first place. Ali Castillo's RBI single had put Magallanes ahead one inning earlier, before Lisson's sixth homer of the season gave them a four-run lead. Former Twins utility man Lew Ford added two hits and scored twice. Box score
Margarita 10, La Guaira 5
A pair of five-run innings propelled Margarita to its fourth win of the season. Adam Duvall, a 25-year-old third baseman in the Giants' system, hit a third-inning grand slam, and the game was never really in doubt after that. Duvall, Breyvic Valera and Cesar Hernandez -- the Phillies' No. 14 prospect -- all contributed three hits. Luis Sardinas went 3-for-5 for Tiburones de La Guaira. Box score
Caracas 11, Lara 3
Daniel Mayora's four-hit night led Caracas in a romp. Catcher Carlos Perez, who is in the Astros' farm system, went 3-for-4 with three doubles. Caracas had the game well in hand after three innings. After a four-run first and a two-run second, Caracas put the game on ice with five in the third. Victor Garate tossed five scoreless frames and won his first decision of the season. Box score
Caribes 4, Aragua 3
In the most exciting game of the night, Caribes rallied from a two-run deficit in the ninth, as Eduardo Escobar's walk-off single capped a three-run rally. Luis Nunez, currently in the Braves' farm system, hit a two-run double off Victor Moreno to tie the game and shortly after scored the winning run. Luis Maza and Juan Infante each had two hits for Aragua. Box score
Mexican Pacific League
Guasave 7, Mexicali 3
Zelous Wheeler's 3-for-3 night sparked Guasave, which remains in second place. Wheeler, who spent last season with the Orioles' Double-A and Triple-A affiliates, also scored three runs. Almost all of Mexicali's offense came off the bat of Mike Jacobs -- the veteran left-handed hitter currently in the D-backs' system. Jacobs went 2-for-3 with a double and a homer, scoring twice. Box score
Hermosillo 1, Culiacan 0
Naranjeros de Hermosillo strengthened their hold on first place, winning a pitchers' duel. Jerry Owens' seventh-inning RBI single plated Yunesky Sanchez as Hermosillo moved to 8-1 on the season. Oscar Rivera threw six innings of two-hit ball, outdueling Culiacan's Alejandro Armenta, who was removed shortly after surrendering the run. Box score
Navojoa 3, Mazatlan 1
Hector Velazquez was dominant for Navojoa, tossing 6 2/3 innings and allowing one run on three hits. The only offense he allowed came off the bat of the Marlins' Bryan Petersen, who launched a homer to lead off the seventh inning. Diego Madero's home run in the third put Navojoa in front for good. Kraig Binick and Abel Martinez each went 2-for-4 for Navojoa. Box score
Los Mochis 8, Obregon 3
Ramon Orantes' two-run double in the top of the fifth gave Los Mochis a lead it would never relinquish. Brian Burgamy went 3-for-5, while Roberto Lopez, Jake Fox and Orantes each added two hits. Thomas Melgarejo tossed six solid innings for Los Mochis, allowing two runs on five hits. Cubs No. 14 prospect Christian Villanueva provided most of the Obregon offense, going 2-for-4 with a double and a homer. Box score
AJ Cassavell is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @ajcassavell.


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The second of the three-round American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament was completed today in Lake Tahoe. John Elway, the 51 year-old former franchise quarterback of the Broncos and now the team's football front-office boss, is in 13th place with 34 points in the Stableford scoring system. (Eagle: 6 points, birdie: 3 points, par, 1 pt; bogey, 0 points; double-bogey, 2 points).
Tim Tebow, the 23-year-old, soon-to-be franchise quarterback, has a -7 score, which is currently tied for 66th (out of 85) with Kansas City Chiefs coach Todd Haley.
Jack Wagner, best known for his former acting role in the soap opera General Hospital, leads the tourney with 52 points with Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo second with 46 points.
Green Bay and former Colorado kicker Mason Crosby is tied for 40th with former Broncos quarterback Steve Beuerlein with 16 points and Baseball Hall of Famer and Colorado Springs-resident Goose Gossage is tied for 49th place with 11 points.


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Ex-staffer: Apple assigns new workers to made up projects
Magical, revolutionary... imaginary
Get a job at Apple and there's a very good chance the company won't tell you what product or project you're working on, says author Adam Lashinksy. According to one ex-employee, Apple may even make up products in order to test your loyalty.
In Lashinksy's new book, Inside Apple - described by Apple fansite TUAW as "a quick, easy read... with large, readable type" - it is claimed that "new hires… aren't necessarily to be trusted with information as sensitive as their own mission".
New workers are hired into dummy positions while their loyalty is established, Lashinsky has said.
The book quotes a one-time Apple engineer who told Lashinsky: "They wouldn't tell me what [my task] was. I knew it was related to the iPod, but not what the job was."
And in a Q&A session with LinkedIn promoting the book, Lashinsky is told by a member of the audience, who claims to be a former Apple employee: "A friend of mine who's a senior engineer [at Apple], he works on - or did work on - fake products I'm sure for the first part of his career, and interviewed for nine months."
Apple's penchant for attempting to maintain secrecy at all costs is well known, and the company has always had a problem with details about future products, even minor upgrades, leaking out.
It's one reason why Apple has a downer on this very site - and a number of other publications we could mention, including the UK's - and the world's - first ever Mac magazine. ®


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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – Solid defense and steady shooting led the Coker men to a 67-51 win over the Lees- McRae Bobcats at Timberlake-Lawton Gymnasium on Saturday afternoon in Conference Carolinas men's basketball action. The win moves the Cobras to 10-12 overall and 7-9 in the conference, while the Bobcats drop to 3-18 on the year and 2-12 in the conference.
Coker struggled to find their rhythm early and found themselves ahead by just one point as they entered halftime 27-26. Luckily for the Cobras, they got into a groove in the second half and scored 40 points, while holding the Bobcats to just 25, securing their seven Conference Carolinas victory of the season.
The win puts the Cobras in eighth and final playoff spot for the Conference Carolinas tournament with just four games left in the regular season.
Vatrick Thompson (Columbia, S.C.) led all scorers with 22 points, while Mason Ambler (Atlanta, Ga.) had 20 points and five rebounds. Joselle Bracy (Ruby, S.C.) chipped in 10 points for the Cobra and had a game high eight rebounds.
Coker managed to hold all the Bobcats to just single digit scoring, with Daniel Sepokas scoring nine points and Josh Kurtz and Anthony Johnson each scoring eight points. Stephen Haymer was the rebounding leader for Lees-McRae with five rebounds.
The next game for the Cobras will be on Monday, when they host the Saints of Limestone College. Coker will be honoring the officials of the game with a special Officials night celebration prior to the opening tip-off. Game time is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.


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Did you know that Rob Kardashian is passionate about socks? He's been talking a lot about launching his own luxury sock line, Arthur George, for over a year, using his sisters' various TV shows to promote the business that didn't even exist—until now! Retailing for $30 a pair, the socks are available exclusively at Neiman Marcus. They're mostly hideous: lots of bright neons, pinks, animal prints, and even a pattern that features a silhouette of a ballerina. These are men's socks, by the way. Maybe now he can stop crying about how he feels like a loser because he's left out of the family's other business ventures and get over his resentment of Kim. Especially because this sock line was made possible, however indirectly, because of her willingness to allow someone to urinate on her.
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In this passage, Ginet explains why he thinks deontologism supports a kind of access internalism:
Assuming that S has the concept of justification for being confident that p, S ought always to posses or lack confidence that p according to whether or not he has such justification. This is simply what is meant by having or lacking justification. But if this is what S ought to do in any possible circumstance, then it is what S can do in any possible circumstance. That is, assuming that he has the relevant concepts, S can always tells whether or not he has justification for being confident that p. But this would not be so unless the difference between having such justification and not having it were always directly recognizable to S. And that would not be so if any fact contributing to a set that minimally constitutes S's having such justification were not either directly recognizable to S or entailed by something directly recognizable to S.
Alston offers us this rendition of Ginet's argument:
1. S ought to withhold belief that p if S lacks justification for p.
2. What S ought to do S can do.
3. Therefore, S can withhold belief wherever S lacks justification.
4. S has this capacity only if S can tell, with respect to any proposed belief, whether or not S has justification for it.
5. S can always tell this only if justification is always directly recognizable.
6. (Therefore) Justification is always directly recognizable.
He takes issue with (5) and invites us to consider an analogous claim having to do with the justification of action:
Consider the ethical analogy that is inevitably suggested by Ginet's argument. There is an exactly parallel argument for the thesis that the justification of actions is always directly recognizable. But that is clearly false … Would I be morally justified in resigning my professorship as late as April 12 in order to accept a position elsewhere for the following fall? This depends, inter alia, on how much inconvenience this would cause my present department … There is no guarantee that all these matters are available to me just on simple reflection. Why should we suppose, without being given reasons to do so, that the justification of beliefs is different in this respect?
While I happen to agree with Alston that the justificatory status of an action does not depend upon just what the agent can directly recognize (i.e., determine to be true upon reflection if she has the relevant concepts), I am not sure the example has quite the force Alston takes it to have. If Alston knew upon reflection that the permissibility of resigning depended upon facts that he could not know and could easily obtain and he decided to resign without first checking these facts, it seems plausible that he would act without justification. If, however, he did not know upon reflection that he needed to check these facts before making a decision, it seems relatively plausible that he could justifiably make a decision without first considering these facts. If it turns out that his resignation was a major inconvenience, this might show that the action was regrettable, but it is not clear that it shows that the agent acted without justification.
I think the real problem with the argument comes a step earlier. What justification is offered for (4)? Suppose we do sometimes have the power to withhold judgment as to whether p is true. Does our ability to withhold depend upon whether we have sufficient evidence or justification? It seems not. If not, then even if justifying reasons were invisible, unknowable, inaccessible, etc…, their presence or absence would have no bearing on what we are able to do or whether we are able to withhold. So, naturally we could withhold when those reasons happened to be absent, but this lends no support to the thought that we could identify (reflectively or otherwise) whether the reasons to withhold are present or not.
Ginet either conflates "ought" implies "can" with "ought" implies "can tell that you ought" or he takes OIT to be a consequence of OIC:
OIC: In circumstances under which S ought/ought not Φ, S can Φ and can refrain from Φ-ing.
OIT: In circumstances under which S ought/ought not Φ, S can tell whether or not she ought to Φ.
While OIC might be true, OIT is most likely false. It seems there are three serious objections to OIT. First, in cases of conflicting reasons where there is a case both for Φ-ing and a case against Φ-ing, you might know of the relevant reasons without knowing which reasons are stronger. It seems you should not against the stronger reason.
Second, there is a structural problem with OIT. Suppose you have an obligation to remove the left kidney. If so, OIT tells us that you can tell that you have an obligation to remove the left kidney. If your obligation is, inter alia, the obligation to remove the left kidney only if you can tell that this is your obligation, OIT tells us that you are under this obligation only if you can tell that you can tell that your obligation is to remove this left kidney. So, your obligation to remove the left kidney depends upon whether you can know that you know that you know, etc… Assuming, as is plausible, that you can have obligations to Φ where you are not in a position to know that you are in a position to know that you are in a position to know that you ought to Φ, we have to reject OIT.
Third, suppose both OIT and OIC are true. Because water is H2O, you cannot bring someone a glass of water without bringing them something containing oxygen and hydrogen. If you ought to bring them some water, you ought to bring them something containing oxygen and hydrogen. So, according to OIT, you can know that you ought to bring them something containing oxygen and hydrogen. So, if anyone in medieval times ought to have brought someone water or refrained from bringing them water, they were in a position to know that they would bring them something containing hydrogen and oxygen. So, should we conclude that they had no obligations to bring or refrain from bringing someone water because of their ignorance of chemistry?


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Van Persie's injury-time free kick at Manchester City on Sunday repaid another chunk of the £24million Sir Alex Ferguson invested in the striker last summer.
With 11 Premier League goals to his name so far Ferguson's judgement has already been proved sound, but it was at St Mary's in August, in the aftermath of a 3-2 win in which Van Persie had scored a hat-trick, that Evra discovered the forward's stamp of class.
"Robin is perfect for Manchester United," Evra told Talksport. "When he scored the hat-trick at Southampton he also missed a penalty.
"The first thing he said when he came back to the dressing room was that he was really sorry for missing the penalty. That shows the hunger, humility and personality he has to win trophies.
"He is not just scoring for himself. He really wants the team to win something."
While Ferguson has been effusive about Van Persie's impact, he has tended to keep plaudits for Wayne Rooney to a minimum.
Rooney was alone among the starting line-up at Reading that was required to start the midweek Champions League defeat to Cluj, with Ferguson claiming the 27-year-old needed more games to get his full fitness back after a very brief period on the sidelines with tonsillitis.
If there has been an element of cajoling about Ferguson's man management, it seems to have worked given Rooney has now scored four times in a week to take his seasonal tally to seven.
"A lot of people criticised Wayne at the beginning of the season, asking why he didn't score so many goals," Evra said.
"Last week he scored two goals. Today (Sunday) he got two again. He is a really important player for us."
Rooney has now also followed Alan Shearer, Andy Cole, Robbie Fowler, Thierry Henry and Frank Lampard in becoming the sixth player to score 150 Premier League goals.
In addition, he leapfrogged Sir Bobby Charlton in becoming United's most prolific scorer in Manchester derbies, moving alongside City's Francis Lee and Joe Hayes on the overall record of 10.
"I didn't know I was the top United derby scorer but I am proud of that," Rooney said. "It is a great feeling to score against City.
"There is a lot of passion and pride in Manchester in these games and it has been great for me to score so many."
However, Rooney was happy for Van Persie to take the limelight after his momentous strike.
"I practise free-kicks most days with Robin, Ryan Giggs and Ashley Young," Rooney said. "He is a fantastic striker of the ball.
"Before he took it I went over and asked him was he crossing or shooting, so I knew whether to get across my man or leave him space to shoot.
"He told me was shooting and thankfully it went into the bottom corner."
The result has given United a healthy advantage heading towards Christmas.
With relegation-threatened Sunderland due to visit Old Trafford on Saturday, it would be a major surprise if United's present momentum was halted prior to a tricky festive programme, which sends United to Swansea and Wigan either side of home encounters with Newcastle and West Brom.
On December 20, United will learn their last-16 opponents in Europe, and the point where City's unscheduled inactivity could start to work in their favour.
To Evra, it just makes it more remarkable that old friend Carlos Tevez was overlooked in City's starting XI on Sunday in favour of Mario Balotelli.
"Tevez caused us problems when he came on," Evra said. "I told him before the game that I was really happy he was not going to start.
"It was a good sign for us. When he came on he put pressure on every defender and chased everywhere."


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Elizabeth Hunke: piloting polar warning of climate change
Piloting polar warning of climate change
Modeling sea ice phenomena can be very difficult. But Elizabeth Hunke makes it look simple.
As part of the Lab's Climate, Ocean and Sea Ice Modeling (COSIM) team, Hunke develops advanced ocean and ice models for evaluating the role of ocean and ice in climate change and projecting the impact of such change globally. The team applies models to sea level rise, rapid changes in the Arctic, global circulation of the ocean and biogeochemical ecosystem interactions such as methane release.
One solution that may help predict the Arctic's future is a clever numerical solution Hunke and her colleagues developed. It is called CICE and is a user-friendly advanced and flexible thermal model. It is available online and is used by forecasting centers, climate modelers and researchers worldwide.
A fascination with the weather
Growing up, Hunke noticed her family never missed a weather forecast. The Tennessee farmers depended on the sky to water their crops, yet they kept a watchful eye on hurricanes that that could destroy their livelihood.
Weather could make or break many lives, so of course Hunke was thrilled to study it.
Career focus—music or science?
Hunke devoured all kinds of math and science in college. While she loved music, she says she opted to not major in music, fearing her interest would dwindle once her love became "work". Second, she quickly realized it would be much easier to make a living in science, playing music for fun, than it would be to make a living playing music and pursuing math or science as a hobby.
Science it is!
She accepted a summer job at Bell Laboratories, where she was immediately enamored with life in a lab.
She spent that entire summer focused on physics, trying to make a software program simulate the way certain atoms attach to other atoms in a potential superconductor; but she found much of the physics to be esoteric whereas she thought a mathematics degree would provide her with the basic skills to work on any scientific application.
Climate change and its connection to sea ice
A relatively new topic when Hunke was finishing her Ph.D. in Arizona, climate change science and its connection to sea ice intrigued her.
Sea ice is very reflective and therefore contributes significantly to the delicate balance between the energy delivered to Earth as sunlight and the energy radiated from its surface as heat.
Later, she joined the Lab's theoretical division as a sea ice modeler.
Ice movement similar to how music flows
Recently named one of the Lab's Women Who Inspire, Hunke spent weeks of the coast of Antarctica sampling and measuring ice.
However she spends most of her time in front of a computer screen, creating simulations of how the ice grows and melts, crumples and moves—a creative process akin to making music, according to the researcher.
Love of discovery remains a source of inspiration
Whether she's in the skies, flying a plane and analyzing wind patterns, or wondering how climate change affects the growth of the tender plants she's trying to raise her in backyard, Hunke always has weather on her mind.
But it is founded on her love of discovery, and she spends a lot of time encouraging girls to Expand Their Horizons in aptly named science workshops of the same name. She urges them to spread their wings and to be independent—to be courageous in whatever field they chose, whether they want to become a musician, a scientist or a pilot.


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In the past four years, no woman has been a more powerful fashion force than Michelle Obama.
Even after so much time on the public stage, her wardrobe choices still spark trends, drive sales and generate discussion and dissection on blogs and morning TV shows. On her 49th birthday on Thursday, the fact that she was sporting a new hairstyle with bangs heated up the Twitterverse.
The components of the first lady's personal style (pearls, cardigans, kitten heels) are instantly recognizable. Her endorsement of young designers such as Jason Wu, Rodarte, Band of Outsiders, Tracy Reese and Prabal Gurung has helped raise a new generation of American fashion talent. And she has given American women (including those over age 40) permission to dress to impress, to experiment with wearing color and print, to have fun with fashion.
But if the cliche about a second presidential administration is true — that it is an opportunity to tackle a new agenda without having to worry about reelection — what will the first lady's second "fashion administration" look like, beginning with Monday's inauguration attire?
"Do I think now that she's in a second term she will go Goth, get tattoos or suddenly start wearing all European designers? No," says Cindi Leive, editor in chief of Glamour magazine, which featured the first lady on the cover in December 2009.
"She's stayed true to her personality in the White House, which is one of the reasons women look up to her," Leive says. "The shapes she wears are consistent, the fitted bodices, fuller skirts and sleeveless tops. Her affinity for color and print has remained consistent. The Michelle Obama you see in 2013 acts and looks a lot like what she looked like on the campaign trail."
Mikki Taylor, author of the 2011 book "Commander-in-Chic: Every Woman's Guide to Managing Her Wardrobe Like a First Lady," and editor at large at Essence magazine, agrees.
"From a practical perspective, she has taught us the importance of defining your dress code, the importance of developing a signature style that works for you," Taylor says. "She put J. Crew on the map. She made cardigans, which she owns in a rainbow of hues, youthful. She made sheath dresses fresh and revived the kitten heel. She's her own role model, and doesn't care to be anybody else's style plate. It's all about unexpected pairings. She dresses to 'infotain' herself and likes to mix classics with a twist, like at the Democratic National Convention when she threw on the pink suede shoes and gray nail polish. She loves throwing an unexpected curve in there."
But other fashion observers have noticed some subtle changes.
"She's started to streamline her style a lot, which may signal a move away from the whole fashion thing and a move toward trying to emphasize her causes," says Kate Betts, author of the 2011 book "Everyday Icon: Michelle Obama and the Power of Style."
"She's wearing fewer accessories, including belts and bold jewelry, fewer floral prints. She's wearing suits more," Betts says. "She's dressing less like a 1950s housewife, which was a very strategic image she wanted to put out there early on to say, 'Hey, don't worry, I'm not going to the West Wing and rolling up my sleeves to get to work.' For all the people who thought she would be the sequel to Hillary Clinton in terms of her serious education and professional credentials, Michelle Obama actually went in the other direction, embracing a more traditional role and look."
In recent months, Obama has emphasized affordable labels over designer pieces, Betts says.
On the campaign trail last fall, for example, she wore dresses by Jones New York and BCBG Max Azria, each of which retailed for less than $300 and all of which were documented on the Mrs-O.org blog, which has registered more than 2.5 million visits each year since starting to chronicle the first lady's style in 2009.
Obama has also been rewearing a lot of pieces, most notably on election night when she chose a magenta silk pintucked dress by Michael Kors that she had worn back in 2010.
The gold Lurex Michael Kors suit she wore for the debut of the White House Christmas decorations in December was an old favorite from 2009. The blush-colored Byron Lars dress worn at December's "Christmas in Washington" concert made an appearance back in 2010, when Paul McCartney was at the White House to accept the Gershwin Prize.
"She's sending the right message: that it's not really a time to buy a lot of new clothes. So many people are in such trouble economically and she's in tune with that," Betts says. "And I do think her inaugural gown
is going to be something she has worn before."
Taylor predicts Obama's inaugural gown will be "colorful" and "celebratory" and maintains that Obama has been reworking and repeating pieces all along. "Before anyone started talking about the 'fiscal cliff,' she was teaching us to shop our closet. She's the first presidential wife to successfully work her distinctive pieces in the public eye again and again. She doesn't care if she's worn it before or been photographed in it before. She demonstrates that you can be price-conscious and still look as fabulous as if you have a rock star budget. It's really the antithesis to red carpet culture."
Rather than distracting from her agenda, Betts suggests that the first lady's fashion focus has strengthened her message when it comes to the Let's Move! health and fitness initiative. How you treat your body has a lot to do with your appearance, Betts says, and Obama uses her appearance and how she looks in clothes to showcase the effects of regular exercise and weight management.
Taylor agrees: "The fact that she looks the part shouldn't detract from the fact that she is the part."


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While Gen. Eric Shinseki obviously had to go as head of the scandal-ridden Department of Veterans Affairs, there is danger that the public might think the problems there are solved. They aren't. Not even close.
In fact, the scope and depth of the problems have not yet even been fully identified, as several investigations are proceeding.
But if Washington works the way Washington usually works, the sacrifice of one of President Barack Obama's longest-serving advisers may push the outrageous VA story out of the nation's headlines, at least temporarily. That would be a tragedy.
This story is far bigger than Eric Shinseki. It is a shameful tale of deceit and treachery that led to shadow lists and huge backlogs and there is plenty of blame to go around.
Shinseki was the leader of the department for five years and his inattention to understanding how the organization he managed actually worked — or didn't — was at the heart this particular colossal failure. That he was astonished when the massive conspiracy to hide poor performance within the veterans medical system was revealed tells us all we need to know about the general's detachment and his ability to manage a nonmilitary organization.
But let us not pretend for a second that the problems with the VA are only five or six years old.
Ask any veteran who has tried to navigate the VA labyrinth — veterans often receive shabby and disjointed treatment and it has been that way for many years.
And before members of Congress mount their high horses, we hasten to point out that many of the issues with the VA can be laid directly at the feet of the ridiculously low budgetary allocations for the agency and even many misguided attempts to cut benefits to veterans and their families.
This despite the entirely predictable dramatic increase in need for service as the nation prosecuted not one but two long-term major wars.
Yes, the VA was swamped with claims because of those wars, but only in Washington could that have come as a surprise.
From where we sit, at least three things need to happen.
First, the investigations must be thorough and brutally honest, no matter where they lead.
Second, the president and Congress must fashion a bipartisan budget agreement to properly fund veterans' earned benefits.
Finally, any new secretary must be committed to implementing major operational changes at the VA and he or she must be qualified enough as a manager to make sure those changes are actually happening.
The men and women who have served our country deserve nothing less.