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There is a long time to go before game time, but the #Jaguars are not optimistic that star RB Leonard Fournette (hamstring) will play vs. the #Patriots, sources say. Not a surprise, he didn’t practice all week and they did promote Brandon Wilds from the practice squad. |
The Patriots won't have wideout Julian Edelman, who's serving a four-game suspension for violating the league's performance-enhancing drug policy. Quarterback Tom Brady also won't have wideout Danny Amendola, who caught two fourth-quarter touchdown passes in the last AFC Championship Game; he's now under contract with ... |
Both teams have missing parts from last year, so expect to see a different game with new emerging factors and contributors. New England running backs Rex Burkhead (concussion) and Sony Michel (knee) list as questionable for this contest, which puts added pressure on Brady to deliver through the air against a top-notch ... |
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Falcon Spirits’ Amaro Aplomado has a light, smooth mouthfeel. |
If your gifting sensibilities lean toward the boozy end of the spectrum, we have you covered. The East Bay is awash in locally made beer, wine, spirits, and mixers, so you can feel extra rosy about your purchases. And nothing makes someone's cheeks as rosy and festive as a bottle of whiskey. |
You can find most of these bottles at Alchemy Bottle Shop (3256 Grand Ave., Oakland) and Craft Beer & Wine (2526 Santa Clara Ave., Alameda). |
If you're shopping for someone who is always looking to try the newest small-batch whiskey on the market, a bottle from Home Base Spirits might be your best bet. Oakland twin sisters Samantha and Alexandra Blatteis launched the company last fall with a focus on top-notch ingredients. Batch five is in stores now, and it... |
Until this fall, there was only one artisanal absinthe in the area. While we love St. George Spirits, it's nice to shake things up on occasion. And for those new to absinthe, Absinthia's more traditional style is approachable. It's light, clean, and absurdly smooth, with a subtle herbaceous flavor. Burning Man regulars... |
Amaro, the Italian herbal liqueur, has becoming increasingly trendy around the Bay Area, popping up in cocktails or served as aperitifs. Instead of shelling out for an imported amaro, try Amaro Aplomado, made by Falcon Spirits Distillery in Richmond. It's an unusual, modern take on the liqueur with a brandy base and 25... |
The local music lover in your life might dig the backstory of this sparkling wine. Composer JooWan Kim, artistic director of Oakland's hip-hop orchestra Ensemble Mik Nawooj, started getting into natural wine after visiting The Punchdown. He teamed up with winemaker Barbara Davis to craft this unfiltered pétillant natur... |
Perhaps you watched the most recent season of Master of None and now all of your friends are interested in orange wine. You're in luck. Donkey & Goat, the natural winery in Berkeley, makes one of these rare, orange-tinted wines. It's actually white wine made from Roussanne grapes that rests on the skins for 12 days, de... |
Get this Berkeley-made shrub, otherwise known as drinking vinegar, for the budding mixologist in your life. As opposed to ginger beer, ginger ale, or even ginger syrup, this ginger shrub boasts a much more intense, spicy bite, balanced by the refreshing tang of vinegar. It pairs especially well with bourbon and would e... |
If ginger doesn't sound quite right, you could opt for this sampler of four mini 100ml bottles, wrapped up in a box with a pretty ribbon. Given INNA's brilliance with jams, you can expect the Emeryville company's fruit-flavored shrubs to be especially good. With the gift set, you also get to choose the flavors, and the... |
The focus of the series that Sarah Palin is pitching would be Alaska and would be similar to a nature series on the Discovery Channel. |
A Palin source told POLITICO that during a trip to Los Angeles for a taping of “The Tonight Show,” the former GOP vice presidential nominee met with executives from ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX as well as representatives for A&E and the History Channel. |
Palin will take part in the series, which the source said will be short and not recurring, but her involvement – whether as a producer, host or anything in between – has yet to be determined. |
“She’ll take part in some way, but it really still is in development right now,” the aide said. |
The focus of series would be Alaska and will be similar to a nature series on the Discovery Channel. |
The source would not disclose the financial stake Palin is hoping to have in the deal. |
Competing as a fitness model is a whole step up from just losing body fat and building a little muscle. It requires extra dedication and a lot more attention to detail. Fitness model physiques differ from bodybuilder physiques as the focus is more on aesthetics and symmetry, rather than huge muscles and extremely low l... |
To get the fitness model look, you need to burn body fat, which means consuming fewer calories than you burn. Go too low though and you risk losing muscle mass. Nutritionist and model Nate Miyaki recommends a calorie intake of 10 to 12 times your body weight in pounds five to six days each week, increasing your calorie... |
When it comes to training, there's no one-size-fits-all routine. The key to building muscle is to follow a progressive weight-training program, with particular focus on large muscle groups -- your chest, legs, back and shoulders. Include cardiovascular exercise to burn fat. The best type of cardio is high-intensity int... |
Around 10 days out from the day of the contest, start adjusting your nutrition and training to bring your best package to the stage. Norton recommends increasing your carb intake gradually from a week out, peaking at just over double your normal daily intake four days out, then lower it slightly leading up to show day.... |
Ten days before the show, increase your water intake by 2 liters, advises professional fitness model Vince Del Monte. Keep up this high intake until two days before the show, then just drink half of this. At the same time as increasing your water intake, start adding a little salt to all your meals, then cut salt compl... |
Bio Layne: Best Form of Cardio for Bodybuilding? |
The Supreme Court has "eviscerated" the Voting Rights Act, a New York Times editorial declared on June 30, the day after the Court ruled five to four that it is unconstitutional to use the race of voters as the "predominant" factor in drawing the lines of congressional districts. A dejected Cynthia McKinney, whose Geor... |
If the critics of Miller are right, the future of black political representation in Congress is grim, and blacks ought to mobilize to salvage what they can of racial districting. But another interpretation suggests a different response. The Court's decision may not diminish black influence in congressional elections, a... |
Critics of the Miller decision have greatly overstated its likely impact on minority representatives. The redrawing of the offending district lines does not mean that current black and Latino incumbents will automatically lose their re-election bids. |
Most current black incumbents will not be fatally affected by the Miller ruling. Racial gerrymandering is not an issue for the numerous black representatives of geographical areas with large compact minority populations. The growing number of black politicians elected from districts without black majorities will also h... |
Many black incumbents, moreover, have been anticipating that the Supreme Court would rule against race-conscious districting since last year's decisions in two earlier cases, Johnson v. DeGrandy and Holder v. Hall, and have been gathering resources in anticipation of more competitive campaigns. Georgia's McKinney and N... |
Critics of Miller are also missing two other important facts. First, the Court did not authorize white officials to return to the old practice of breaking up compact minority populations into separate districts to dilute their voting power. Miller does not overturn Beer v. United States (1976), which led to a no-retrog... |
Second, even if the Court had approved race-conscious districting, the strategy of grouping together black voters in the same district to elect blacks to Congress has nearly been exhausted. Today there are few places where African Americans are concentrated enough to create more black-majority districts. Philadelphia's... |
Most people would agree that African Americans lost substantive representation in 1994: The new Republican Congress represents their interests less than the previous Democratic one even though the new Congress has more black members. What went wrong? One answer is that the strategy to enhance minority representation th... |
It was clearly the intention of the architects of the minority districts to give greater voting power to both African Americans and Latinos, two predominantly Democratic groups. Indeed, 13 blacks and 5 Hispanics were elected in the 18 newly created minority districts in 1992. The newly elected blacks, all Democrats, we... |
Moreover, some white Democrats at the state and local level lost because minority voters failed to turn out for the general elections in districts where congressional black incumbents had no serious competition. In several congressional districts, Republicans declined even to run candidates against black incumbents. Si... |
Some critics have disputed this analysis. Soon after the election, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) of the NAACP issued a detailed analysis of what was then thought to be a Democratic loss of 54 seats (later narrowed to 52 after a couple of cliff-hangers were resolved). That analysis showed that Republicans captured 24 sea... |
But the LDF report fails to provide a satisfactory account of such states as Georgia, where two black-majority districts were added to the one that previously existed. The Georgia plan was largely designed to unseat Newt Gingrich by obliterating his old district and forcing him to move his residence. As it turned out, ... |
The dismemberment of Gingrich's former district contributed directly to the defeat of 12-term Democrat Richard Ray, and redistricting led three other white Democrats to retire. Since redistricting, a nine-to-one seat Democratic advantage has turned into a seven-to-three Republican advantage (with Republicans picking up... |
North Carolina, which created two black majority congressional districts, is another case that illustrates how redistricting backfired. Although its six Democratic incumbents survived the 1992 elections, they were decimated in 1994 when Democrats lost two incumbents and three open seats. Before redistricting, North Car... |
North Carolina's second district was the one most directly affected by the concentration of black voters in nearby districts. Before redistricting, blacks made up 37 percent of the voting-age population; after redistricting, they constituted only 20 percent. Tim Valentine, the six-term Democratic incumbent, retired aft... |
Other Democrats whose losses were related to redistricting include Joan Kelley Horn of Missouri, who was barely elected in 1990 and then defeated in 1992 after losing more than 8,000 black voters to the district of a 13-term black Democrat, Bill Clay. Alabama's five-term Ben Erdreich, Maryland's three-term Tom McMillen... |
These results should scarcely be surprising. After all, the coalition to racialize voting districts included not only blacks and Hispanics, but also Republicans. Why should a party otherwise opposed to affirmative action have advocated quotas in the electoral system by supporting specially drawn racial districts that w... |
Defending the strategy of race-conscious redistricting, the Reverend Jesse Jackson declared, "These new districts are beneficial because they've made the U.S. Congress look more like America. It's white, it's black, it's Hispanic, it's Asian, it's Native American, it's male, and it's female." And "it's also Republican,... |
Racial districting has had an impact not only on the makeup of Congress, but on the disposition of white representatives after black voters were stripped from their districts. In a study of the voting patterns of the white Democrats in the last Congress who had lost black voters through redistricting, political scienti... |
Although a number of analysts had predicted that the black and Hispanic empowerment strategy would backfire, voting-rights activists and minority-group leaders, almost all Democrats, forged ahead with their unholy alliance with the Republicans. The upshot was that black voters lost power and influence. Black politician... |
Blacks in America are bound to suffer in the new political milieu of the mid-1990s, as Republicans advance their ambitious agenda to eliminate affirmative action, curtail social programs such as free school lunches, and reduce taxes. The Democratic Party has traditionally represented the policy preferences of African A... |
During the last Congress, the Black Caucus became a major player in shaping the budget, the crime bill, the space program (which passed by a single vote), and other legislation. Caucus members were prominent in debates on health care, NAFTA, the ban on assault weapons, welfare reform, and environmental policy. The cauc... |
The Republican decision to reduce the size of all standing committees meant that under seniority rules, the most junior Democrats lost their assignments on the more prestigious committees. Blacks and Hispanics who had been in Congress for less than two terms were disproportionately affected. Carrie Meeks of Florida, wi... |
The resurgent Republicans also eliminated more than 600 committee staff jobs, many of which were held by blacks. Hundreds of personal staffers of defeated Democrats lost their jobs; many of these too were black, since Democrats in recent years have often reached out to hire more blacks. |
The Congressional Black Caucus must bear some responsibility for what has happened. Bolstered by its increased size during the 103rd Congress, the caucus under Chairman Kweisi Mfume of Maryland took highly publicized aggressive stances against President Clinton and the Democratic congressional leadership. Caucus member... |
A combination of factors, including the group's larger size, its aggressiveness, and the increased media attention paid to race-conscious districting, worked in concert to ensure that the caucus received more press coverage than ever before. On more than one occasion President Clinton was portrayed as kowtowing to the ... |
The media also focused on the conflict between the caucus and its lone Republican member, Representative Gary Franks of Connecticut. At issue was Franks's desire to participate fully in Black Caucus meetings and the organization's desire to make plans without having a member of the opposition party present. The group r... |
But the most costly public mistake made by the group was probably its apparent embrace of Louis Farrakhan at its annual legislative weekend, which was aired on C-SPAN and coincidentally occurred during the historic week when Israel signed its peace agreement with the Palestine Liberation Organization. After a number of... |
"Black people have no permanent friends, no permanent enemies . . . just permanent interests," runs the Black Caucus motto. To pursue those interests, blacks in Congress need more friends and fewer enemies. In response to Miller, black Democrats need to reach out across partisan and racial lines to form coalitions with... |
Rather than constitute a disaster, the Miller ruling is good for the Democratic Party, good for the Congressional Black Caucus, and good for the vast majority of African Americans who need more representation of their liberal views of policy than they need people who look like them. Minority-group leaders have encourag... |
Mike Hughes is rapidly learning several roles in secondary, special teams. |
Video (03:22) : Ben Goessling and Andrew Krammer talk about how the Vikings have made up for the absence of defensive end Everson Griffen and how Arizona's speed will keep Minnesota's defense on its toes. |
When the Vikings drafted cornerback Mike Hughes with the 30th overall pick in April, the selection was painted more as luxury than necessity. |
The team had passed on an offensive lineman, the thinking went, to accumulate more depth at a position where it had already used two first-round picks and a second-rounder in the past five years. Even the analogy coach Mike Zimmer used on draft night suggested the Vikings were accentuating a strength. |
A series of events in August and September, though — from Mackensie Alexander’s ankle injury to Terence Newman’s retirement to Marcus Sherels’ chest injury to Trae Waynes missing time because of a knee injury and concussion — has turned “just one more” into “just enough.” And in the process, Hughes has been thrust into... |
The rookie has started the Vikings’ past two games, playing both nickel and left cornerback while working as both a punt and kickoff returner this season. Hughes, who was one of two Vikings defenders to play all 59 of the team’s defensive snaps in Sunday’s 23-21 victory in Philadelphia, already has been on the field fo... |
And while some of Hughes’ playing time might have come because of necessity, he’s earned some trust by marrying his athletic ability with an eagerness to learn. |
Taking into account how much the Vikings are asking of a 21-year-old who played only one full season of major college football, the team seems pleased with Hughes’ progress. |
Waynes practiced Wednesday after being cleared from the NFL’s concussion protocol, and said he expects to play Sunday against the Cardinals, which likely would free the Vikings up to put Hughes back in their rotation at nickel corner. In recent weeks, though, he’s had to prepare himself at two positions while the team ... |
The Vikings, quite quickly, have reached a point where they’re developing contingencies to ease the workload for a rookie corner who figured to be brought along slowly in Zimmer’s defense. |
There’s likely no going back now, and Hughes doesn’t seem to be interested in pumping the brakes. |
It is to be an all-German Champions League final as Bayern compound Barca's misery with comprehensive win at Camp Nou. |
Bayern Munich cruised into their third Champions League final in four years as a 3-0 win over Barcelona at the Camp Nou on Wednesday gave them an incredible 7-0 aggregate semi-final victory. |
The absence of Lionel Messi from the Barca starting line-up almost eradicated any hope of an unlikely comeback before the game had even begun, but Bayern showed their 4-0 first-leg win last week had been no fluke with a display of controlled dominance. |
"Perhaps it was the bitterest night I have had at Barcelona" |
Arjen Robben opened the scoring for the visitors with a trademark left-foot strike just after half-time before a Gerard Pique own-goal and Thomas Mueller's header in the final 20 minutes ensured Bayern booked their place in an all-German final against Borussia Dortmund at Wembley on May 25 in some style. |
Afterwards Pique admitted it was one of the most difficult nights he has had in his five years at the club. |
"Perhaps it was the bitterest night I have had at Barcelona," he told Spanish Canal Plus television. |
"We tried but they scored a goal very early in the second half and this left us broken. The last 25 minutes were very difficult." |
For Robben meanwhile it was unconfined joy as he aims to make amends at Wembley for missing a penalty that could have won Bayern the trophy on home soil against Chelsea last season. |
"That's history - 4-0 at home and then 3-0 here, we should be proud of that and enjoy it. Now we have to win this thing," he told Sky Germany. |
"We have so much quality in the team that we can win games like these, in this manner." |
Already without Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba through injury and suspension respectively, Barca were handed another huge blow before kick-off as the persistence of a hamstring injury suffered in the first leg of their quarter-final tie against Paris Saint-Germain forced Messi to start on the bench. |
Without their talisman, Barca started tentatively and only a desperate sliding challenge from Pique prevented Robben from having a clear shot on goal after he galloped clear down the left on 11 minutes. |
Pique had to be alert again seven minutes later as he again slid in to deny Philipp Lahm at the end of a wonderful Bayern move. |
Pedro finally forced Manuel Neuer into a save on 23 minutes with a long-range effort that the German number one turned round the post and Xavi then had the hosts' best chance of the first period as he hooked over on the volley after Cesc Fabregas had chested the ball down inside the area. |
However, Barca were still out of sorts with a number of uncharacteristically long balls failing to find their target and another weak effort from distance by Adriano was the only other effort they managed on goal before the break. |
It only took three minutes after the restart for Bayern to completely wipe away any lingering doubts they would be travelling to London for the final when Robben collected a raking crossfield pass from David Alaba, cut inside Adriano onto his favoured left foot and buried a rasping drive past Victor Valdes into the far... |
Robben ought to have had a second moments later as another quick Bayern break caught Barca outnumbered at the back, but this time the former Real Madrid man couldn't get the required touch to Franck Ribery's cross and the ball dribbled wide. |
But further pain was inflicted upon the hosts 18 minutes from time when a beautiful pass from Luis Gustavo played in Ribery down the left and his cross was sliced into his own net by Pique. |
And four minutes later it was 3-0 on the night as more terrific play from Ribery saw him burst past Alex Song and dink a lovely ball to the far post for Mueller to head home his third goal of the tie. |
It was Mueller's eighth goal of the competition - and he might have Robert Lewandowski's 10 goals as a target when the two German sides go head-to-head at Wembley. |
Two of the best starters in baseball, Chris Sale and Justin Verlander, have signed contract extensions over the past week. Don't expect New York Mets ace and reigning National League Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom to join them in New Contractville before Opening Day. |
“I think they should pay the man already,” Noah Syndergaard says regarding Jacob deGrom’s contract extension. “I don’t get it,” he added. |
Syndergaard was in a talkative mood about other Mets matters, too. He voiced his displeasure with the Mets' spring-ending travel plans, which will see them take an hours-long bus ride to Sarasota before jetting to Syracuse for a workout at the Carrier Dome -- the latter being part of the club's new Triple-A affiliate p... |
Having the Mets work out in Syracuse is a nice touch on a business deal, but it appears to be weighing on the clubhouse -- particularly in light of the organization stressing the importance of getting rest. Yet, per Syndergaard, the players pushing back on the trip yielded no change. |
Syndergaard has a point. The Mets want their players to be as rested as possible, but they're adding unnecessary mileage to their plates ahead of the regular season (which opens Thursday against the Nationals in D.C.). That seems counterproductive at best, and harmful at worst-- if not on a physical level, then at leas... |
Maybe the extra travel won't make any difference. But between that story and the deGrom news, the Mets are chipping away at the goodwill built from an active winter that left them with a fresh roster and renewed playoff hopes. |
The new Netflix series blends classic King and Spielberg to create masterful contemporary television. |
If we can trust Hollywood, there was something magical about small towns in the '80s. Movies like "E.T.," "The Goonies," and "Carrie" all found small suburban settings to be the perfect backdrop to -- that's right -- stranger things. And yet few stories since have nailed that narrative in which American banality gets c... |
The new Netflix original, "Stranger Things," is a story in the same vein as these '80s staples. But what starts off feeling like an homage to movies of yesteryear ends up establishing itself as a modern cult-classic. Here are seven aspects that made us love "Stranger Things." |
1. The credits alone are awesome. |
2. It references '80s classics, but never panders. |
3. It still feels brand new. |
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