Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) reportedly had a Chinese spy infiltrate her office for some 20 years.
According to reports from Politico and The San Francisco Chronicle, the mole from the communist government served as Feinstein's driver, an office gofer, a liaison to the Asian-American community, and even attended Chinese consulate functions on behalf of the senator.
Nothing like having a Chinese Spy checking up on the local Chinese community for you and telling you what they want… then attending the consulate for you to "report" on what's happening. Sure makes turning in those spy reports easier.
Feinstein allegedly had no idea that the man was spy for some two decades, and only found out via the FBI five years ago. She was apparently "mortified" by the shocking news and reportedly forced the spy into resignation, but neglected to tell her staff of the revelation.
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Been watching this nonsense develop on twitter and it seems every time you scratch the surface someone with Russian or Chinese connections pops up in every complex international deal our leadership is involved in.
More importantly it has been going on for decades this is not some new penetration of our government systems but the fruit of long term efforts to plant agents.
We are in much the same situation we were when McCarthy was ranting about Communist spies in our government in the 1950's. He was vilified by the media, but later exposures showed in the majority of cases he was correct.
Our leadership is very sloppy about counter intelligence issues, unlike the institutional paranoia of Russia and China, our leaders are hopelessly naive and trusting and either get suckered or corrupted and bought off by folks with deep connections to intelligence and criminal networks all the time. The result is folks like John Kerry are either complete suckers and get played by the opponents or they are complicit agents who like HRC leave open intelligence leaks every where they go.
Spies in our Nuclear weapons development systems, high tech industrial espionage it is across the board broad spectrum exploitation of our open society.
Was the Chinese spy . . .
– a U. S. citizen?
– paid by donations to her? Her family money? State of CA? or the U. S. taxpayers?
– thrown in jail? Off the Golden Gate Bridge? Flown to China and living in a nice place?
– registered to carry a concealed pistol?
It is no surprise that democrats are riddled with foreign spies. It is easy to get a job with them – just mouth the same snake oil they are trying to sell to America and they become blind to anything else! It is nothing new. Hate is stupid as it blinds you to the real dangers. But I never gave most democrats credit for intelligence.


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I Worcester IceCats sono stati una squadra di hockey su ghiaccio dell'American Hockey League con sede nella città di Worcester, nello stato del Massachusetts. Nati nel 1994 e sciolti nel 2005, nel corso degli anni sono stati affiliati alla franchigia dei St. Louis Blues.

Storia
Gli IceCats nacquero quando l'allora proprietario della franchigia dei New York Islanders Roy Boe decise di rilevare la formazione dei Springfield Indians e di trasferirla a Worcester nell'estate del 1994. La squadra iniziò a giocare la stagione 1994-95 con un roster formato da giocatori free-agent, senza alcun legame di affiliazione con squadre della National Hockey League. A partire dalla stagione successiva gli IceCats furono la squadra AHL dei St. Louis Blues. In aggiunta nel 1998 gli IceCats si accordarono come affiliata nella serie minor dell'ECHL con la squadra dei Peoria Rivermen, già dal 1994 parte dell'organizzazione dei Blues. Nel corso della stagione 2000-01 Boe vendette la squadra, divenuta interamente di proprietà dei Blues.

Il 9 novembre 2004 i St. Louis Blues annunciarono ufficialmente la cessione degli IceCats ai proprietari della squadra affiliata in ECHL, i Peoria Rivermen. I nuovi padroni della squadra decisero quindi di trasferire dalla stagione 2005-06 la franchigia a Peoria, nell'Illinois. Nella loro storia gli IceCats vinsero due titoli di Division e uno di Conference.

Affiliazioni
Nel corso della loro storia i Worcester IceCats sono stati affiliati alle seguenti franchigie della National Hockey League:

: (1995-2005)
: (1996-1998)

Record stagione per stagione

Giocatori

Allenatori

Record della franchigia

Singola stagione
Gol: 38  Eric Boguniecki e  Justin Papineau (2001-02)
Assist: 46  Eric Boguniecki (2001-02)
Punti: 84  Eric Boguniecki (2001-02)
Minuti di penalità: 337  Sylvain Blouin (1999-00)
Media gol subiti: 2.13  Curtis Sanford (2003-04)
Parate %: .929  Dwayne Roloson (2000-01)

Carriera
Gol: 79  Marc Brown
Assist: 154  Terry Virtue
Punti: 210  Terry Virtue
Minuti di penalità: 1083  Terry Virtue
Vittorie: 65  Curtis Sanford
Shutout: 10  Curtis Sanford
Partite giocate: 455  Terry Virtue

Palmarès

Premi di squadra
Macgregor Kilpatrick Trophy: 1
 2000-2001
F. G. "Teddy" Oke Trophy: 2
 1996-1997, 2000-2001

Premi individuali
Aldege "Baz" Bastien Memorial Award: 1
 Dwayne Roloson: 2000-2001
Les Cunningham Award: 1
 Eric Boguniecki: 2001-2002
Louis A. R. Pieri Memorial Award: 1
 Don Granato: 2000-2001

Note

Collegamenti esterni

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Reviewing the Classics #2 Maurice
Firstly i'd like to apologise for not sticking to my original schedule of reviewing a classic every other month! Lady Midnight completely consumed me last month and with it being huge and me being a slow reader I just didn't get round to reading a classic! However I intend to make up for this by reviewing a classic in both April and May. My classic for this month is Maurice by E.M Forster
Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life,this story by a master novelist introduces us to Maurice Hall when he is fourteen.
We follow him through public school and Cambridge, and on into his father's firm, Hill and Hall, Stock Brokers. In a highly structured society, Maurice is a conventional young man in almost every way "stepping into the niche that England had prepared for him" except that his is homosexual.
Although I of course had heard of E.M Forster before, this was the first time that I actually picked up one of his books. The book follows Maurice throughout his adolescent years, including his time at Cambridge University and his time after working for his fathers firm. I immediately loved Maurice's character, as although he was stuck up and had little sympathy towards other people I identified with his initial view of not seeing others as individuals. Especially in the modern world, we often hide away in our own personal spaces and don't think of the stranger passing us in the street as someone with a life just as intricate as our own. I loved that after interacting with his fellow Cambridge students, he came to realise that these were people just like him.
I loved that Maurice's homosexuality was hinted at right from the start of the novel, which was shown by his fascination with George the gardener and the reason why he had left. It also foreshadowed his relationship with Alec and how class difference would be one of the obstacles in their relationship. I also loved that although Maurice is seen as privileged and someone who can afford to attend Cambridge, it is stated several times that he is of average intelligence, and that Clive is superior to him in this. I felt that this made Maurice seem more likeable and relatable, and set up Clive to be a bit of a snob.
Clive is the first romantic relationship Maurice has ever entered, and I loved how it started out slowly with Maurice trying to throw out little hints that he liked Clive in a romantic way. I found it both adorable and hilarious that Maurice waited outside for him for hours and lost his nerve at the last minute and ended up yelling goodnight at him. I loved how their relationship progressed and that they were finally comfortable with admitting their feelings to each other.
I felt myself liking Clive less and less as the novel went on, especially when he told Maurice that he didn't love him anymore and that he was now "normal." I felt as if Clive was forcing himself to be straight, as he was afraid that his family would find out about his true relationship with Maurice. Society and Class are a huge theme in this book, and we are not shown any affection between Clive and his wife, so to me it felt as if he was hiding his homosexuality from everyone, including his former lover. It was also extremely frustrating that Clive made Maurice feel bad about his homosexuality and was often telling him that he should go and find a wife. Maurice is left to feel that the one person he trusted with his sexuality has abandoned him and is left isolated.
I loved the introduction of Alec, Clive's servant and gamekeeper. Alec is introduced into the story in a very subtle way until he becomes Maurice's main focus. I thought Alec was a completely adorable character and I loved him straight away. I loved that unlike Clive, he didn't see anything wrong with loving men, and never makes Maurice feel as if it is sinful. The character development that Maurice goes through is mainly due to Alec, as throughout the novel he sees his homosexuality as something that is sinful, and goes to great lengths to try to "cure" himself, including going to his doctor and a hypnotist. The ending of the novel made me extremely happy in that he accepted his homosexuality and even went to talk to Clive about his relationship with Alec.
I loved the fact that Alec was bisexual, as I feel as if even in the modern world people often see bisexuality as "not being real" or that the person is "greedy" so seeing it represented in a classic novel wasn't something I was expecting! I loved that although there was a class difference between Maurice and Alec, it was never shown in their personal relationship with each other, and the one time that Maurice calls Alec out for using his first name, Alec retaliates by telling Maurice that he is no better than him. I loved Alec's confidence despite the fact that he is a servant and that he doesn't let class difference stand in the way of loving Maurice.
Although this book was written in 1913, I felt that it was still relevant to modern life. For example, Clive telling his family that he was an atheist and their reactions to this mirrors someone coming out as gay to their family in the modern world. I loved that Christianity could literally be switched out for homosexuality and have exactly the same effect.
I have to talk about the ending because as the pessimist that I am I was not expecting it to be happy! I loved that Maurice and Alec got to stay together, and that the ending suggests that they lived happily ever after. The fact that this book was written at a time when homosexuality was a sin is heartbreaking, as Forster stated that he wrote them a happy ending as this meant that homosexual men would at least be able to live together happily in fiction. I found this extremely sad as Forster felt that if the book had ended with them not being together for whatever reason, then it would have easily been published.
This book covers extremely important themes and even if you're not a classics fan I would definitely recommend this one as I felt that it was way ahead of it's times! It is also relatively short, which makes a change from the daunting 500 page novels that come to mind when you hear the word classic. This has definitely made it's way into my top 5 classic books and I could not recommend it more!
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After the less-than-encouraging analysis of my AncestryDNA matches to see what percentage of my matches also match my parents (only 69%), I took a look at MyHeritage. These are matches obtained by uploading our raw test data from the AncestryDNA tests to theMyHeritage website (currently a free process), rather than by taking MyHeritage's native tests, so results may be impacted by that. MyHeritage is also a newer entrant to DNA testing/matching.
Suffice to say, MyHeritage currently makes AncestryDNA's match processing look good.
I have 97 matches at MyHeritage (excluding parents and great-uncle), so a much smaller sample size than AncestryDNA. It's just as well, as MyHeritage doesn't currently have any tools for working with or analysing your matches (and there aren't any external tools for this either as far as I know), so you have to look at each match manually and record the necessary details to do any analysis.
4 of my matches, or 4%, also match my Mum.
Another 4 of my matches, or 4%, also match my Dad.
So that's a 92% rate for false positives for me and/or false negatives on my parents.
Of the 4 maternal matches, MyHeritage reports me as having more (generally around double!) shared cMs with that match than my Mum does for 3 of them. The paternal matches were a bit more plausible, only one of those showed me as having more shared cMs than my Dad did.
Side note - there's no ability to search matches by birthplaces in their tree at MyHeritage, so no easy way to locate any Wing descendants yet.
[UPDATE Jan 2018: MyHeritage rolled out a new matching algorithm in January 2018. I now have 1476 matches in total, with 590 or 40% shared with my Mum, 452 or 31% shared with my Dad, and therefore 434 or 29% false postives/negatives. This is much more in line with the match percentages I obtained from AncestryDNA. Well done, MyHeritage, the new algorithm looks much more feasible].
Your results are just crazy.
I recognize a few of the names of those on our match lists either from GEDmatch or the "Big 3" testing companies. Of the few people I've contacted whom I don't recognize and who have uploaded to GEDmatch, there was zero matching DNA -- so I'm not bothering to do anything until they sort out their matching algorithm, which is seriously flawed. My sister and I both have matches that don't appear on our parents' match lists, but I haven't done the calculations for the %. I hope that MyHeritage does manage to get their act together and provide matches we can be confident in, and also, of course, provide the matching segment information.
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Lydia is a bright, confident and committed family lawyer in Aberdeen. Her clients appreciate her pragmatic approach, her knowledge and understanding of the law, and her desire to secure positive outcomes for them, whether in financial or child related matters.
Born in the Western Isles, Lydia was brought up on the East coast of Scotland. She studied law and French law at Aberdeen University and Lyon University but after graduating was resistant to an office job and joined what was then Grampian Police.
She worked with Grampian Police for over five years after graduating from the University of Aberdeen with Honours. Lydia describes her time in Peterhead as a Police Officer as eye-opening and challenging and maintains that it prepared her well for her current post.
Like the rest of the Family Law Team, she aims to resolve the majority of her cases by negotiation. Skilled in negotiation, Lydia is also a qualified collaborative family lawyer and is accredited as a family law mediator. She is equally adept in handling contentious, litigated matters and frequently appears in Courts all over Scotland.


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Derek Anderson (American football)
American football quarterback
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(1983-06-15) June 15, 1983 (age 36)
Scappoose, Oregon
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(Scappoose, Oregon)
2005 / Round: 6 / Pick: 213
Baltimore Ravens (2005)
Cleveland Browns (2005–2009)
Arizona Cardinals (2010)
Carolina Panthers (2011–2017)
Buffalo Bills (2018)
Pro Bowl (2007)
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Derek Matthew Anderson (born June 15, 1983) is a retired American football quarterback who played 14 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in the sixth round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football at Oregon State. A 2007 Pro Bowler, Anderson has also played for the Cleveland Browns, Arizona Cardinals Carolina Panthers, and the Buffalo Bills.
2 College career
2.1 Freshman season (2001)
2.2 Sophomore season (2002)
2.3 Junior season (2003)
2.4 Senior season (2004)
3 Professional career
3.1 Baltimore Ravens
3.2 Cleveland Browns
3.2.1 2005 season
3.3 Arizona Cardinals
3.4 Carolina Panthers
3.5 Buffalo Bills
3.6 Retirement
Anderson grew up in Scappoose, Oregon, where he led the Scappoose Indians football team to one of their record three consecutive state football championships in Class 3A football.[1] He excelled at basketball and was named state player of the year in both football and basketball his senior year. He participated in the first ever U.S. Army All-American Bowl game in 2000. He was a childhood friend and schoolmate of Playboy Playmate Sara Jean Underwood.[2]
College career[edit]
A Beaver fan growing up, Anderson wanted to play for Oregon State most of his life and his decision as a top national prospect to play for the Beavers was celebrated by fans.
At 6'6", many believed Anderson would play basketball in college instead of football. Still, he was recruited nationally for football and his dominating high school performance as quarterback led him to stay with football.
Freshman season (2001)[edit]
As a freshman in the 2001 season, Anderson appeared in five games and recorded 263 passing yards, one touchdown, and three interceptions.[3]
Sophomore season (2002)[edit]
At the start of his sophomore year (2002), Anderson was thrust into the starting role as quarterback and handed the reins of a rapidly improving program. Despite an early string of losses, Oregon State had no serious competition for quarterback in 2002 and his job was secure.
Anderson's early entry into the starting role came on the heels of Oregon State's most successful period to date. Capped by a Fiesta Bowl win over Notre Dame, the team went 11–1 in 2000 and ranked 4th in the nation under head coach Dennis Erickson. Following such a successful season, expectations were exceptionally high in 2002 for both Anderson and the OSU program.
Despite this, Anderson helped the Beavers record an 8–5 season.[4] His work was good enough to give them entry into the 2002 Insight Bowl, against the University of Pittsburgh. Anderson's team lost 38–13 and coach Erickson left for a National Football League head coaching position with the San Francisco 49ers.[5]
Junior season (2003)[edit]
Pressures on the entire team to keep the program on-track were compounded by the coaching change. The return of previous head coach Mike Riley from the NFL meant learning an entirely new system. With help from teammate and star running back Steven Jackson, Anderson again rose to the occasion and played a leading role in propelling the team to an 8–5 record, this time ending the 2003 season with a 55–14 Las Vegas Bowl win over a then up-and-coming New Mexico program.[6][7]
Senior season (2004)[edit]
Throughout the 2004 season, Anderson successfully branched out and surprised many defenses with his ability to escape the tackle and run the ball effectively. Although the team's 7–5 performance was far from spectacular, Anderson became nationally recognized as a dangerous offensive weapon who could strike long gains at will.[8] The Beavers went without Steven Jackson through the 2004 season (Jackson was drafted into the NFL at the end of the 2003 season). Even without the star running back, Anderson led his team back into the Insight Bowl where they again faced Notre Dame (led by future Browns teammate Brady Quinn). The Beavers never trailed in the game and defeated the Irish 38–21. Anderson passed for 359 yards and had four touchdown passes with no interceptions.[9]
Anderson is the fourth player in Pac-10 history to throw for over 4,000 yards in a single season, setting an Oregon State Beavers football record at 4,058 yards in the 2003 season. He ranks second in the Pac-10 for career touchdown passes, at 79 (also an Oregon State record). He is the 6th person to ever throw for 10,000 yards in a career in the Pac-10.
Professional career[edit]
Baltimore Ravens[edit]
Anderson was selected out of Oregon State University by the Baltimore Ravens in the sixth round of the 2005 NFL Draft (213th overall), but never played for them and was waived on September 20, 2005.[10]
Cleveland Browns[edit]
2005 season[edit]
Anderson was claimed off waivers by the Cleveland Browns the day after being waived by the Ravens. He did not see any action, being third on the depth chart behind Trent Dilfer and Charlie Frye.
Anderson served as Frye's backup for the Cleveland Browns in the 2006 season. He made his first appearance in an NFL regular season game against the Denver Broncos at Cleveland Browns Stadium, October 22, 2006, taking one snap after Frye was briefly shaken up.[11] His second NFL appearance was more noteworthy. After Frye injured his wrist during the first half of Cleveland's December 3 game against the Kansas City Chiefs, Anderson played the entire second half. He threw his first two NFL touchdown passes in that game, connecting with tight end Steve Heiden twice in the fourth quarter. Anderson scrambled for 33 yards in overtime, moving the ball from the Kansas City 45-yard line to the 12-yard line, after which the Browns were in field goal range. Anderson's play was instrumental in leading the Browns back from a 28–14 deficit to a 31–28 overtime victory.[12] Overall, Anderson appeared in five games and recorded 793 passing yards, five touchdowns, and eight interceptions in the 2006 season.[13]
Although some reports said he outplayed incumbent starter Frye and rookie Brady Quinn in mini camp, Anderson was not as productive in the pre-season games and Frye was named the starter for the 2007 season. Head coach Romeo Crennel earlier said that the two were so close in effectiveness that he would use a coin toss to decide which quarterback would start the first preseason game. Anderson would take over for Frye in the 2007 opener after Frye was ineffective in the first quarter against the archrival Pittsburgh Steelers.[14] The game was Frye's last in a Browns uniform, as he was traded to the Seattle Seahawks for a sixth round draft pick two days later. Named the starting quarterback by Crennel for Week 2, Anderson threw for 328 yards and five touchdowns against the Cincinnati Bengals in his first start. His passer rating for the game was 121.0 as the Browns defeated the Bengals 51–45, solidifying Anderson's role.[15] In the same game, Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer threw for six touchdown passes. It was only the third time in NFL history that two quarterbacks had thrown at least five touchdown passes in the same game.[16]
On September 30, Anderson beat the team that drafted him, the Baltimore Ravens. He threw for two touchdowns and 204 yards, completing 10 of 18 pass attempts with just one interception.[17] The Browns would later beat the Ravens again, making it the first time since 2001 that the Browns were able to sweep the Ravens.[18]
In Week 13 of the 2007 season the Browns faced the Arizona Cardinals. Down 27–21 late in the 4th, the Browns drove down to the Cardinals 34-yard line. On fourth down, Anderson threw a pass to the end zone which was caught by Kellen Winslow. The pass was ruled out of bounds and held up through review. Anderson argued that Winslow was forced out, but the force-out rule was not reviewable. The game was notable for the officials' missed call of a Braylon Edwards catch and tackle by contact, but mistakenly ruled a touchdown as Edwards got up and ran to the endzone.[19]
Another close game that could have put the Browns in the playoffs was December 23 against the Cincinnati Bengals, in which the Browns went scoreless in the first half, but held the Bengals scoreless in the second half. Anderson had four interceptions, two of them in consecutive plays, and one more in the Cincinnati end zone as Cleveland appeared to be heading for a scoring drive. The Browns had two turnover-on-downs possession. Anderson threw two touchdown passes to Braylon Edwards, Cleveland's only scores in the game. The game ended in a 19–14 loss.[20]
Anderson led the Browns to a 10–6 overall record, 10–5 in games in which he started.[21][22] Anderson finished with 29 touchdowns to 19 interceptions. During the week of December 12–18, Anderson was named as a first alternate for the 2008 Pro Bowl at quarterback.[23] On February 4, Tom Brady of the New England Patriots announced he would not be attending the Pro Bowl due to injury. This paved the way for Anderson to make his first and only appearance in the Pro Bowl.
On February 29, 2008, the first day of free agency, after speculation that Anderson would leave Cleveland to pursue a bigger contract, Anderson agreed to a three-year contract to stay with the Browns through the 2010 season.[24] With fans split between the proven Anderson and the locally-homegrown Quinn (an image of Quinn wearing a Bernie Kosar jersey as a kid was shown at the 2007 NFL Draft), many were speculating if the Browns were in a similar position the San Diego Chargers were in a few years back with Drew Brees and their first-round pick Philip Rivers.[25]
The 2008 season was a tough one for the Browns and Anderson. In the preseason, he suffered a concussion when he was sacked by Osi Umenyiora of the New York Giants. This would prevent him from practicing for the majority of the preseason. In the regular season opener against the Dallas Cowboys, he was 11-of-24 for 110 yards and one touchdown.[26] On November 3, after starting out the season the Browns announced that Anderson would be benched in favor of Quinn. On November 23, during a game against the Houston Texans, Quinn was benched by Crennel in favor of Anderson. On November 25, Quinn was ruled out for the remainder of the season with a broken finger and Anderson was renamed the starting quarterback. On November 30, Anderson was injured during a game versus the Indianapolis Colts.[27] It was later revealed to be a MCL injury, which put Anderson out for the season. Ken Dorsey came into the starting role, but could not save the Browns. The Browns lost the last four games to finish with a 4–12 record.[28]
In the 2009 season, Anderson continued to compete with Quinn. He appeared in eight games for the Browns. He finished with 888 passing yards, three touchdowns, and ten interceptions. The Browns finished the season with a 5–11 record.[29][30]
Arizona Cardinals[edit]
On March 17, 2010, Anderson signed a two-year deal worth $7.25 million with the Arizona Cardinals.[31] After Kurt Warner retired and Matt Leinart was released, Anderson became the starting quarterback for the Cardinals. After struggling in his first few games, Anderson was benched in favor of rookie Max Hall on October 6.[32] Anderson was named the starting quarterback again for the November 7 game against the Minnesota Vikings after Hall struggled.[33] However, in week 14 he was benched again after suffering a concussion and was replaced with Hall, whose season ended with a separated shoulder later in the game. Rookie John Skelton finished the game and succeeded Anderson as the Cardinals' starting quarterback. Anderson also created a notable soundbite after being caught on national TV laughing with teammate Deuce Lutui while he and his team were playing poorly. His subsequent anger toward the reporter who kept questioning him on the subject made national news and was featured on several sports shows.[34] Anderson was released by the Cardinals on July 28, 2011.[35][36]
Carolina Panthers[edit]
Anderson signed with the Carolina Panthers on July 31, 2011. He served as the backup to quarterback Cam Newton and played only a few times for Carolina either to end the game or play for an injured Newton.
On September 7, 2014, Anderson made his first start since 2010 after Newton suffered an injury which held him out. In the game, Anderson completed 24 of 34 passes for 230 yards, two touchdowns, and no interceptions, leading the Panthers to a 20–14 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.[37] Anderson would have his second start of the 2014 season after Newton was involved in a car accident, coincidentally also against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Anderson finished the game by completing 25 of 40 passes for 277 yards, one touchdown, and no interceptions, helping the Panthers win 19–17.[38]
On February 7, 2016, Anderson was part of the Panthers team that played in Super Bowl 50. In the game, Anderson served as Cam Newton's active backup quarterback as the Panthers fell to the Denver Broncos by a score of 24–10.[39]
In Week 4 of the 2016 season against the Atlanta Falcons, Anderson entered the game after an injury to Newton and threw for 172 yards, two touchdowns, and two interceptions as the Panthers lost by a score of 48–33.[40] Due to Newton's injury, Anderson started the Week 5 game against the Buccaneers and threw for 278 yards and two interceptions as the Panthers lost by a score of 17–14.[41] In Week 13 against the Seattle Seahawks, Anderson made his second start of the season. He threw an interception on the Panthers first play on offense and was then replaced by Newton. Anderson started the game due to Newton having violated the team's dress code.[42][43] Anderson came into the 2017 NFC Wild Card Round on January 7, 2018 against the New Orleans Saints in the fourth quarter after Newton went down with an injury.[44]
Buffalo Bills[edit]
On October 7, 2018, it was announced Anderson would sign with the Buffalo Bills, reuniting with Sean McDermott and Brandon Beane from his days playing for the Carolina Panthers, to serve as backup and mentor to rookie quarterback Josh Allen. The Bills completed the transaction on October 9.[45]
On October 17, following an injury to Allen and a poor performance by backup quarterback Nathan Peterman in relief, Anderson was named the Week 7 starter for the Bills against the Indianapolis Colts.[46] During the game, Anderson threw for 175 yards, no touchdowns, and three interceptions in a 37–5 loss.[47] With Allen still injured, Anderson made the start the following week against the New England Patriots on Monday Night Football. He threw for 290 yards, no touchdowns, and one interception before leaving the game in the fourth quarter.[48] He was put into concussion protocol and ruled out for the Week 9 game against the Chicago Bears, and Peterman was named the starter once again.[49]
On December 31, 2018, Anderson signed a one-year contract extension with the Bills.[50]
Retirement[edit]
On May 9, 2019, Anderson announced his retirement.[51]
Statistics[edit]
2005 BAL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2005 CLE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2006 CLE 5 3 66 117 56.4 793 6.8 5 8 8 63.1 4 47 11.8 0 2 1
2007 CLE 16 15 298 527 56.5 3,787 7.2 29 19 14 82.5 32 70 2.2 3 5 2
2008 CLE 10 9 142 283 50.2 1,615 5.7 9 8 14 66.5 25 55 2.2 0 9 2
2009 CLE 8 7 81 182 44.5 888 4.9 3 10 11 42.1 10 8 0.8 2 5 3
2010 ARI 12 9 169 327 51.7 2,065 6.3 7 10 25 65.9 5 25 5 0 6 3
2011 CAR 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 2 −2 −1.0 0 0 0
2012 CAR 1 0 4 4 100.0 58 14.5 0 0 0 118.8 0 0 0.0 0 0 0
2013 CAR 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0.0 0 0 0
2014 CAR 6 2 65 97 67.0 701 7.2 5 0 4 105.2 8 24 3.0 0 2 0
2015 CAR 3 0 4 6 66.7 36 6.0 0 0 0 82.6 7 −2 −0.3 0 1 0
2016 CAR 5 2 36 53 67.9 453 8.5 2 5 0 67.6 1 4 4.0 0 1 1
2018 BUF 2 2 42 70 60.0 465 6.6 0 4 5 56.0 1 −1 −1.0 0 3 2
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^ "Cincinnati Bengals at Cleveland Browns – September 16th, 2007". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
^ Sports Illustrated, September 24, 2007, p. 24
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^ "Cleveland Browns at Baltimore Ravens – November 18th, 2007". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
^ "Cleveland Browns at Arizona Cardinals – December 2nd, 2007". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
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^ Jackson, Zac (February 29, 2008). "Browns, Anderson agree to terms". Archived from the original on March 5, 2008. Retrieved February 29, 2008.
^ Browns GM Savage pleased with start, encouraged by progress
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^ "Indianapolis Colts at Cleveland Browns – November 30th, 2008". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
^ Anderson agrees to terms with Cardinals
^ Biggs, Brad (November 4, 2010). "Cardinals turn back to Derek Anderson". nationalfootballpost.com. Archived from the original on November 7, 2010. Retrieved November 7, 2010.
^ Associated Press (October 30, 2010). "Derek Anderson sounds off after game". ESPN. Retrieved March 14, 2013.
^ Rosenthal, Gregg. "Release Tracker". Pro Football Talk. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
^ "2010 Arizona Cardinals Statistics & Players". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
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^ "Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Carolina Panthers – December 14th, 2014". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
^ "Super Bowl 50 – Denver Broncos vs. Carolina Panthers – February 7th, 2016". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
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^ Henson, Max (October 10, 2016). "Turnovers tarnish Derek Anderson's night". panthers.com. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
^ Joseph, Andrew (December 4, 2016). "The Panthers surprisingly started Derek Anderson for one play and it went terribly". usatoday.com. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
^ Jones, Lindsay H. (December 5, 2016). "Cam Newton explains dress code violation that led to benching". usatoday.com. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
^ "Wild Card – Carolina Panthers at New Orleans Saints – January 7th, 2018". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
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^ Harding, Robert. "Buffalo Bills Week 7 Report Card: Colts stampede Anderson, Bills 37–5". Auburn Citizen. Retrieved January 23, 2019.
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CONFESSIONS OF SANTA CLAUS
A CHRISTMAS CARD OF MEMORIES
I was built to play Santa Claus, from my pot belly, beard and pipe to my love of everything about Christmas.
So I've played Santa many times over several decades, even though I've never looked quite as merry as the Santa in the iconic image that Coco-Cola first made famous in its ads of long ago.
It allowed me to continue to live in that enchanted Christmas world of great expectations and greater nostalgia long after I should have been just another cynical newspaper guy.
It's the nicest part of the year. Even brats are almost tolerable. How can you beat Silent Night, angels, a baby, Twas-the-night-before poetry, camels, wise men, stars, the eternal story...and Santa too?
I treasure the happy memories. I was a clown in the Eaton's Santa Claus parade, a yearning visitor to the vanished department store's famous Toyland and faithful listener to its radio broadcast, and I stood in the smelly halls with the rest of the school and sang along with the broadcast of carols from shoppers on the first floor of Simpsons.
But nothing matches my years as Santa.
I always took being his doppleganger seriously, thinking that if I was to screw up the charming illusion for some child, I would be punished by such torture as a year of reading Toronto Star editorials.
I can't pretend it has always gone smoothly.
Friends asked me to play Santa for their little girl without a future. Mary had not yet made me a great costume so I said it would be safer if I ran across their backyard. Don't have the lights on because the mystique of the legendary figure would be aided by the shadows.
I was in mid-flight when an older brother turned on all the lights, which so startled me that I blundered into a small tree and a branch knocked off my glasses and poked me in one eye.
I fished through the snow for my glasses, which I really needed, and finally figured out from the lack of blood and innards that my eye had not been damaged. I croaked out a feeble "ho ho ho," bit back a curse and disappeared into the night.
Next stop was a curve of a suburban street that looked like a Christmas card. An anxious tot waited in the picture window with her parents. It was a command performance where I knew my friends would be caustic if I screwed up.
So there I was at 6.15 pm. on Christmas Eve walking down the street loudly ringing a bell and boisterously yelling "ho ho ho" when a cruiser with two young cops pulled up and asked what I was doing.
I leaned in the passenger window and bellowed "fuck off."
From the watching window, an older sister squealed in mock horror to the tot that "the cops have just busted your Santa." The dad, a university dean whose father had been a beat cop in Edmonton, reassured the tot, saying it was obvious to most of Etobicoke that Santa had just told the police where to go.
I related the anecdote in my Boxing Day column, prompting the police chief to call and say I just had to have made up the story because he doubted he had two cops, even raw rookies, that could be that stupid.
In the young days of the Sun, I prompted the publisher, Doug Creighton, and our marvellous promotion wiz, Linda Ruddy, to organize a carol sing at the Ex. There was a carillon there, not used much, but I found someone who could play those bells, and we publicized it as a readers' event for singing and hot chocolate and candy canes and Santa.
I arrived at the carillon on a stage coach so small that I couldn't fit inside with the bags of candy. So the ponies delivered me riding on top. Unfortunate, there were large decorative balls at the corners of the roof, so when I jumped off, I "grounded" my groin on one, meaning I couldn't utter even one "ho" for minutes.
I then staggered up between the hundreds of carollers to be confronted by Norm Betts, an ace Sun photog, who yelled that he had to get back to the office with a picture for Page One right away. He grabbed the nearest kid and thrust him into my arms.
Unfortunately, it was my youngest son, Mark, then 4. I figured Sunday Sun readers wouldn't exactly be thrilled by Santa holding his own kid on Page 1 in glorious Betts colour, so I told Betts we needed another child.
"This one's fine," Betts said. I shoved Mark away, causing him, naturally, to feel teary at being rejected so vigorously. And I grabbed another boy, whose father turned out to be a pain in the ass.
Mary and I finally managed to soothe Mark after the event when we headed home with hundreds of left-over candy canes. Mark's brothers went to school for weeks armed with enough candy to rot the teeth of entire classes.
It was always more difficult to play Santa for family and friends since older kids who knew me are already hunting for inconsistencies because of their doubts. One family Christmas out in the country, I got tired tugging on the costume in a barn so I didn't bother changing my distinctive boots. I didn't even manage to make one pass sauntering by the house before a nephew said "that's Uncle John because he has those snow boots."
I learned the hard way not to get too cute with the kids. I was performing at a Sun staff Christmas party when I noticed that the next child coming to my lap had been launched by our Queen's Park columnist.
"So here's a Blizzard," I said and scooped the tot up. He returned to his mother and informed her that "Santa must work with you because he knew my name."
I liked kids with long shopping lists and not the little indoctrinated girl who wished for "world peace." I liked kids who got so awestruck they didn't know what to say. In fact, there is something mystical about the little child who still believes. If only more did.
I played Santa at Queen's Park in the middle of the Tory reign. Naturally I wore a blue Santa suit because I said that everyone knew that it was the Conservatives who brought the goodies.
I gave the Lieut Gov. a rubber bill because I said that everyone knew that under the Tories, pensioners really had to make a dollar stretch. One opposition leader was given a hunting knife so he could protect himself from his own caucus. Bill Davis, not yet recognized as one of our best premiers, and various ministers, were given assorted rude gifts dreamed up by the most malicious members of the Queen's Park Press Gallery.
At the party afterwards, a midget-sized Tory backbencher came up to a group of reporters that included me without the Claus costume and asked them to point out Downing because he had been such a rude jerk about the Tories as Santa that he was going to beat the crap out of him. "That's what we do up north," he said.
I assured this partisan bantam rooster that Downing didn't seem to be around anymore but not to worry too much about him because everyone knew he was a jerk.
And we all laughed as the drunken MPP wandered off on his vain search, not realizing that Santa can't be thrashed because he comes armoured with the wonder and fantasies of generations of children who have made him one of the great legends in a world that has never needed his message more of peace and good will and kindness for at least one miraculous night of the year.
The strangest setting for my Santa impersonation was a Cuban resort where after staff and guests kept calling me Santa as I walked the beach with rum in hand, because of my size and my beard bleached whiter than normal by the sun, the management rented a Santa suit and made me part of the evening entertainment.
It was going to be a lot of fun, I thought, and it was until the next few days when I noticed pint-sized figures scoping me out suspiciously at the swim-up bar and at meal time. So I acted as prim and proper as I could be at a Caribbean resort, not wanting to send some kids home with a nice myth exploded.
As I've learned, parents can be nastier than the kids if you screw up any part of the act, from the
"ho ho hos" to not dropping a squirming wet infant.
I confess as a back-sliding Baptist that I still love the Biblical Christmas, the Christ Mass that started it all, cherish the carols after years in a choir, and can still recite everything about the birth story, but to me there is also a giant part of the holiday that has nothing to do with Christianity.
Santa is part of the commercialization, the secularization of Christmas, that I welcome because it allows everyone to celebrate without getting their knickers in a twist on the grounds of religion.
The two warm halves of Christmas can exist without this contrived nonsense about saying "season's greetings" instead, and concerts devoid of Christmas, and the elevation of the minor festival of Hanukkah to please our Jewish friends, and the contrived Kwanzaa invented to publicize black culture that is more an activist propaganda message than a celebration.
When aided by Sun readers I sponsored 43 "boat people" into Canada and then looked after many of them for a year, I kept religion out of it. No mention of church or Christmas to the men and women and kids who had grown up without any form of worship except honouring ancestors. Christ was just as unknown to these immigrants as Santa. They were still adapting to their first snow.
Then I came to one of the houses I rented for them and found a decorated Christmas tree and the kids happily going off to Christmas concerts at a church and their school. They loved everything about the commercial Christmas that too many love to pontificate against. Their modest east-end community had embraced them and folded them into the Christmas merrymaking which helped ease every single one of them into their lives as successful Canadians.
Another gift from Santa!
Posted by John Downing at 2:54 PM
Tim G, said...
Wonderful story John you are a great writer.
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Albrecht II. von Hohenlohe († 27. Juni 1372 in Würzburg) war von 1345 bis zu seinem Tode Fürstbischof von Würzburg.

Albrecht II. im Familienkontext
Albrecht II. stammte aus dem schwäbisch-fränkischen hochadeligen und weitverzweigten Geschlecht derer von Hohenlohe (siehe auch Liste hochadeliger Familien in Franken). Seine Eltern waren Albrecht von Hohenlohe, Herr auf Uffenheim, und Adelheid von Berg-Schelklingen. Nach der genealogischen Zählung innerhalb der Familie ist der Vater Albrecht II. († 1312), die Zählung beim Sohn als Albrecht II. bezieht sich auf den zweiten Würzburger Bischof namens Albrecht. Die Familie stellte mit seinem Bruder Friedrich von Hohenlohe fast zeitgleich den Fürstbischof von Bamberg (1344–1352) und sein Onkel Gottfried III. von Hohenlohe war einer der Vorgänger von Albrecht II. auf dem Würzburger Bischofsstuhl mit der Amtszeit von 1314 bis 1322. Das Stammwappen derer von Hohenlohe zeigt in Silber zwei übereinanderstehende, rechtsschreitende schwarze Leoparden mit niedergeschlagenen Schweifen.

Albrecht II. als Bischof
Albrecht II. wurde 1345 vom Domkapitel einstimmig als Bischof gewählt und vom Mainzer Metropoliten, vertreten durch den suspendierten Bischof Heinrich III. von Virneburg, bestätigt. Dennoch versuchte Papst Clemens VI., Albrecht I. von Hohenberg als Nachfolger Ottos zu bestimmen. Albrecht I. schickte Bevollmächtigte nach Würzburg, die die Geschäfte übernehmen sollten, was aber nicht gelang. Entgegen der Darstellung von Lorenz Fries scheint Albrecht I. selbst das Bistum nie betreten zu haben. 1349 wurde Albrecht I. Bischof von Freising, womit auch der Streit um den Posten in Würzburg sein Ende fand.

Trotz eines immer umfassenderen fränkischen Landfriedens, der auch in der Zeit Albrechts II. erneuert wurde, waren sich Albrecht und sein Bruder Gottfried als Bischof von Bamberg mit dem Burggrafen von Nürnberg Johann II. einig, den dazwischenliegenden, zu einem beachtlichen Territorium angewachsenen Besitz derer von Schlüsselberg, heute Teil der Fränkischen Schweiz, zu zerschlagen. Bereits unter Otto II. von Wolfskeel hatte sich dieser Konflikt schon einmal angebahnt. Letztlich wurde der Letzte und Mächtigste seines Geschlechtes, Konrad II. von Schlüsselberg, auf seiner Burg Neideck belagert und starb 1347 durch den Beschuss einer Blide. Ein beträchtlicher Teil des Schlüsselberger Besitzes ging dann in den gemeinsamen Besitz des Würzburger und Bamberger Hochstiftes über, darunter nach der Aufteilung vom 12. Mai 1349 die Burgen (Nieder-)Senftenberg, Thüngfeld, Ebermannstadt, Schlüsselfeld, Neideck, Waischenfeld, Streitberg und Greifenstein.

Mit der Ausbreitung der Pest in Europa im Jahre 1347 entstand auf der Suche nach Ursachen der Mythos von Brunnenvergiftungen durch Juden. In Würzburg kam es 1349 zu Verfolgungen, und der Bischof soll die Juden von Meiningen zum Feuertod verurteilt haben. An der Stelle der Synagoge wurde später die Marienkapelle errichtet. Die Pest brach 1350, 1356 und 1363 erneut im Würzburger Raum aus; unter diesem Eindruck entstand der Würzburger Totentanz.

Albrecht II. erwarb 1354 die Burggrafschaft Würzburg von den Grafen von Henneberg.

Das Verhältnis zum Papst Innozenz VI. wurde durch die Ermordung von Johannes Guilaberti stark belastet. Der französische Kleriker Guilaberti sollte die Nachfolge über die Pfründe des 1354 verstorbenen Domherrn Wolfram Schenk von Roßberg antreten, jedoch wurden seine Bevollmächtigten am 28. März 1357 im Main ertränkt. Zu den Verdächtigten zählten Bischof, Dompropst, Domdekan und die Inhaber der Pfründe. Diese wurden zu einem Prozess vorgeladen, erschienen aber nicht. Daraufhin wurde der Bischof von Rouen, Peter Kardinal Foresta (auch Pierre IV. de la Forêt), zur Untersuchung nach Würzburg entsandt. Er wurde dort allerdings misshandelt. Der Konflikt endete damit, dass Guilaberti die Pfründe in Besitz nahm. In der Zeit von August 1366 bis Dezember 1367 wurden Bischof und Kapitel vom Papst wegen anderer Differenzen exkommuniziert und suspendiert.

Das Bistum galt 1366 als erheblich verschuldet, auch die zahlreichen Verpfändungen unter Albrecht II. schufen keine merkliche Milderung.

Albrecht II. wurde im Würzburger Dom bestattet.

Literatur
 Alfred Wendehorst: Das Bistum Würzburg Teil 2 – Die Bischofsreihe von 1254 bis 1455. In: Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte (Hrsg.): Germania Sacra – Neue Folge 4 – Die Bistümer der Kirchenprovinz Mainz. Berlin 1969, ISBN 9783110012910. S. 76–97.
 Hermann Hofmann: Das Lehenbuch des Fürstbischofs Albrecht von Hohenlohe, 1345–1372. Schöningh, Würzburg.

Weblinks
 Eintrag zur Familie im Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg

Einzelnachweise

Familienmitglied des Adelsgeschlechts Hohenlohe
Römisch-katholischer Bischof (14. Jahrhundert)
Bischof von Würzburg
Deutscher
Geboren im 13. oder 14. Jahrhundert
Gestorben 1372
Mann