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"The player development is the main thing I like (about Michigan)," Williams said. "You can see that they develop their players. They get them in the gym and they work them hard. And their hard work pays off."
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Monday Presser Transcript 10-3-11: Brady Hoke
Brady Hoke
News bullets and other important things:
- Barnum is still day to day.
- Woolfolk is fine, even though he may or may not have been limping at the end of the game.
- Cam Gordon will practice more. Sounds like he has to fight for his job back.
- McColgan should be back for Northwestern.
- Hoke voted for Michigan to be in top 25.
Press Conference
Opening remarks: "It was good to start the Big Ten season winning the football game on Saturday. It was good to keep the Brown Jug. I think the score got painted on this morning at eleven. It's good to have the Jug here in Ann Arbor.
"Everything gets tougher. Northwestern, they're 2-2 as you all know. They lost a heartbreaker down in Champaign last week, but they have a football team that's very well coached. Pat's probably as good a coach as there is in the league and a guy that feels strongly about that program, being an alumnus of Northwestern and being a tremendous player there. I also think when you look at them from an offensive and defensive standpoint, they're a team that's going to play physical. They're going to play 60 minutes of football. Defensively, they run very well to the ball. Offensively, Persa was back, played most of the game, was pretty productive. But Coulter is also a guy who's moved them offensively and done a nice job. So when you look at it and playing away, we haven't been away. It'll be a little bit different for us because we've been fortunate enough to play five games in Michigan Stadium."
Does being tied for second in the country in ppg allowed mean anything to you? Also, can you point to any tangible improvements in the defense between the spring and now? "Well, it's like anything else. It doesn't mean anything right now. I mean, none of those things matter. We're 1-0 right now. I think when you look at our front the last two weeks, we've been a little more disruptive. That's enabled the linebackers to do their job. I think we put a little bit more pressure at times on the quarterback. We still don't blitz worth a dog, period. And that's got to improve. Guys are playing together. I think they're understanding the roles. I think the defensive staff has done a good job in preparation, and the guys are doing a good job preparing themselves."
How did Denard look in the passing game on film? "I think mechanically he was better. I think the routes were better. I think the timing of the offense was better. There was a good tempo and good flow when you look at him and his footwork and all those things that are part of the mechanics of throwing. I think it was better. I thought it wasn't bad versus Notre Dame, either. I think he's a prideful guy, he's a competitive guy … He wants to be good for his teammates."
How do you work on timing in practice? "Well it's just the routes and the timing, and if it's five-step or three-step drop, from the gun or under center. Just the mechanics of that and when the ball should be thrown, on what step."
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Minnesota Postgame Presser Transcript: Brady Hoke
(players tomorrow)
Brady Hoke
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Misdirection plays were a big part of offense. Will we see more? "Maybe. It just is kind of the offensive package. It's kind of, when you have a quarterback that threatens people because of his ability to run, that's part of it. That stuff is like the old counter play, which you don't see a whole lot of people running anymore. It's a lot of traction one way and then going back the other way."
Talk about Denard's passing. Is that more like what you see in practice? "Yeah. The sky's never going to fall. We're going to make it through. He throws the ball well, and we like how he throws the ball. [He] set his feet well and we ran good routes and completed some balls."
Talk about the intensity of tackling and sacks. "I think Jerry Montgomery has done a tremendous job with our front, and the pride that a guy like Van Bergen or Martin have in how they play is a big part of it. I think this whole thing is a process what the kids are going through and how you do things. I think it's just one of the things that we emphasize and they really did a nice job on some of those things. As far as tackling goes, if you fit the defense right, and wherever the support is or the cutback player -- all those different intangibles you have to have on defense -- I think you tackle better."
Talk about Denard/Devin formation. What kinds of problems can that create for defense? "They're both pretty talented. I think who's back there in the backfield with them have some talents. It's just something that Al has had for a while and something that we thought would be a good thing to do."
Talk about Vincent Smith. "He does everything you want him to do, when you look at him as a football player and how he prepares and his toughness. All those things that -- Vince is a guy that you can count on. If he makes a mistake or doesn't do something as well, it's not because of lack of effort or lack of toughness. He's done a good job for us."
How pleased are you at the 58-0 effort to start your Big Ten career? "It has nothing to do with my career. It really has to do with these kids and that jug, and keeping that jug in Ann Arbor. And us going out to play better football every time we take the field whether it's tomorrow when we practice or if it's on game day. Believe me we have a lot of mistakes from a personnel standpoint. We take a daggone penalty, and that's my fault. We didn't have a guy out there on the punt team. You can't do that and win championships, and that's my fault."
Why did you choose this game to unleash all this offensive creativity? "You work on it during fall camp, you put it to bed for a little bit, but you work on it so the kids have a knowledge of it so when you bring it back out, it's just something we thought was a good time to bring out."
What was your reaction when Borges brought the 2-QB package, and is this the most complete game you have played this season? "Well Al and I have talked about that package in March? April? And believe me, Al Borges is very, very creative. So that's not just that package. I'm sure his creativity will show up again. We played probably our best game to this point, but the schedule is -- we're going away. We're going on the road. We haven't been on the road. They don't know how we like to travel. And I say we as a staff. They have an idea, but there's a lot of unknowns out there, and there's a lot that we have to get better."
Did you practice any jug security so you wouldn't drop it, and does a game where everybody gets to play give you a boost in practice the next week? "I'll answer the second question first. No question the morale of your football team -- those other guys, and I'll use an example: Richard Ash, I don't know how many plays he got, maybe four or five. But he goes down there on that look team and does a tremendous job down there and has the ability to come out there and play some. I would think he would feel pretty good about that. So I think that's always important. You get guys live reps in games.
"Jug security is always at a premium."
(more after the jump)
How did the game plan defensively change for you after you learned Marqueis Gray wasn't going to play? Also, how did your defensive front do against Shortell? "We really didn't change it at all. We do a lot of things by personnel groups, what personnel groups they have in. So all the calls were based on those groups. So they would have had the same calls if Marqueis would have been in there. So there was no change at all."
Is the confidence level of players high enough where they expect to win a Big Ten championship? "I hope so."
Are you eager to get this Michigan team out on the road, and will it give you and your staff a better indication of where they're at? "We like playing at home. Now if Dave can do a 10-game home schedule, it would be wonderful. It's pretty convenient. I'm kind of interested in seeing how we react. I really am. To see what we're made of -- see our mentality, our mental toughness, see if we're business-like in how we go about the work that we have to do, and the preparation and all those things."
The defensive line wasn't where you wanted it to be. Talk about progression? "I think they were disruptive. That's what I like and that's what you have to do if you're a guy who plays up front. As you look at the schedule and you look at teams you're going to play, I think there's some offensive lines in this league that are pretty stout. We've got to make sure that we're making our gains and our progression on a daily basis with great urgency and intensity."
Three things: Troy Woolfolk looked like he was limping. What did Denard have done to his arm? How did Schofield play? "I didn't notice Troy limping, so that's new to me. Denard had a boo-boo. Schofield I imagine did okay in there. I can't tell you for sure because of not [having watched] the film yet."
Helmet numbers? "That was my decision, and we will have those numbers on there throughout the rest of the season when we get into Big Ten play because we want to honor the guys who wore those numbers before, and the 42 championship teams. And the guys who have represented Michigan. It's important to us."
McColgan was out. "He got banged up a little bit." Is it serious? "Week to week, day to day."
Did you sense more physicality up front? Also, how did Fitz Toussaint run? "I think, up front, you try and gauge yourself. Molk's played a lot of football, and I kind of, being a defensive line coach, I like watching other defensive lines and how they play and how we block them. I thought there was football being played at the point of attack. And … why are you laughing at that? It was pretty obvious football was being played. But you could hear it. You could feel it and sense it. When you look at your line and you look at, if the back has to start making his decision and his cuts further back from the line of scrimmage, then you're not doing a good job. And you could see when Shaw and Fitz and those guys were coming, they got more downhill, pressed the line of scrimmage more, and that tells you those guys were working hard. Fitz, I thought he ran well. He's a tough little burger who did a nice job." [ed-M: I doublechecked the video: he definitely said 'burger.']
Re: Two-QB formation. How much does that help that other teams have to prepare for it? Also, what's that called? "Uh, you know, two quarterbacks, whatever. It doesn't matter what it's called. It really is, yeah. People have to prepare."
Talk about your secondary and how guys like Avery and Countess are playing. "Well, you know. Courtney and Blake, and there's Raymon Taylor, [who] is going to be a good football player also. Our young guys have done a good job. It starts in my opinion with Jordan Kovacs and his leadership and his directing traffic out there. I think they have a lot of confidence in each other. I think there's a chemistry. I think J.T. has done a nice job. When he focuses in, he's pretty doggone good. I think there's number one, there's some competition, because there's a lot of guys in that room that all want to play."
Talk about Thomas Rawls? "It was good to get Thomas some carries. He's a freshman that's learning the game of football at the Division I level. I think he's got some skill sets that are pretty good. I think you saw some of that today. So it was good to see him out there."
Gibbons was 3/3. "Someone has said that he's kicked really good during fall camp. Ahem. Someone did. We've got a lot of confidence in him, and hopefully that injects even more confidence into him."
Denard was 11/11 before his first incompletion. He's a pretty confident guy, but how important is it to re-establish that confidence that he can be a succesful passer? "Yeah, because all he hears is he's not. Not from us, but other people. (Ed: Looking at you, buddy.) I think getting off to a good start helps us with the run game so much. People want to put nine guys, and they played a lot of quarters, and they were doing a lot of good stuff with their safeties depending on where the back was. And then they changed during halftime, which is good coaching. Bill Miller's a good defensive football coach. It was good, and being able to throw the ball was a big part to our offense.
Can you be successful in the Big Ten relying on Denard to get most of your yards? "I don't think so. You become too one-dimensional. People are creative. We're going to play a lot of good coaches and some teams with very good personnel. When good coaches give good personnel the game plan and scheme, they can be a problem. The ability for our running backs to do a nice job running with the football and the ability to do a nice job in the passing game is a big part of it."
As a defensive coach, you must love a shutout. "Right."What did you like specifically, and what can you improve on? "Yeah. They broke two runs that got outside that shouldn't have. Then they fumbled. We got fortunate at the end [when] They fumbled the ball -- and the daggone end doesn't squeeze when the tackle blocked … Just simple. Basic. Football. Stuff. That we didn't do. As many times as we've done drills and as many times -- that's unacceptable, because that's a discipline that you have to have."
Greg Mattison said during the halftime radio show, "An average defense comes out and goes downhill during the second half." Were you concerned about a letdown during the second half? "I think we communicate with them pretty well. I think Greg and his staff -- I think we challenge them. This was a first step to what the goal of this football program is and has been, and that's a Big Ten championship. You can't go out there in the second half and slop around and not tackle well and not have an urgency and not have an intensity. That doesn't get you any better. You go backwards, and I'm not a believer in going backwards."
Wednesday Presser Transcript 9-28-11: Brady Hoke
News bullets and other important things:
- Troy Woolfolk is, once again, fine.
- Ricky Barnum didn't practice yesterday. He's questionable.
- Cam Gordon is practicing a lot better but still trying to work himself in.
- Brandon Herron is also fine.
- Team hasn't started tapering physicality of practices yet.
- No decision on Justice Hayes' redshirt yet.
- Hoke is being all weird about the punting situation, but Will Hagerup looks better in practice according to all observers named Angelique Chengelis.
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"We got a new table. It's rusty --" Rustic. "It's rustic."
Opening remarks: "We had a very good practice yesterday. I thought both sides of the ball we had a lot of energy. I thought it was physical -- how we want to be physical during the course of competing against each other. I thought that was good. I thought game-plan wise I think they responded well to those different things that you do, so it was good."
Are you going to be less physical now than you were in camp to keep players healthy? "Not really. Not too much. Not right yet. As you get into the marathon that a season is, you may lighten up a little bit later, but this isn't the time for us to do that."
Was Troy Woolfolk able to do everything? "Yeah. I think I was asked Saturday, and Sunday he did everything. And he did eveything yesterday."
Ricky Barnum? "I'm not saying he's out, but he's trying to take care of that ankle." Is he practicing? "Not today. Er, not yesterday, let's put it that way."
How much is Cam Gordon practicing? "A lot. He's just working himself back into it. He did some good things yesterday. I think he feels better."
How difficult is it to stay intense and also pick up new schemes mid-season? "Well the schemes -- they're new to a standpoint of how you want to tweak your base things to take advantage of an offense. From a defensive standpoint, most of the offenses are different, but I think when you look at a guy like Cam. He had a pretty good spring. What he did during the summer was pretty good from what I can tell. Fall camp, until he got hurt, he was fine. He's a smart kid, so he's in tune with everything that's going on. Learns well. So for him it's maybe not as difficult as it is for someone else."
Brandon Herron? "He did everything. He's fine. He's 100%."
Thomas Gordon said Will Campbell needs to get lower. What does he have to do to take that next step? "I'm glad Thomas is coaching him up. I really am. Thomas is right. Will just has to -- and this happens with a lot of guys who are big guys, and they're big in high school where technique and fundamnetals are taught and they're important, but it's just one of those things where he's got to play lower. He's got to be more consistent with that part of it. His get-off the football is something he's got to be conscious about and make good habits with."
You say Mike Martin plays with great leverage. Is that what you want Will to do? "Well yeah. But Mike, when he has a bad play in there, it's usually because his knees start to lock out and they don't bring their feet with them. This is a good conversation because it's D-line play and that's what I like to talk about, so I can do this all day. But that part of it with Mike, I thought, last week he did his best job with it. Will did some real good things in there. And he's improving."
Craig Roh's good performance two weeks in a roh (do you see what I did there?), is that a better sign than just seeing it for only one week/flash in the pan? "Well I think you always have to be guarded, and you always have to make sure the consistency you want from your players is there. Craig takes it very seriously when he works and he prepares from the mental side of it to the physical stuff that we do."
Is it harder to build consistency with front four than with an individual when you're trying to get max effort? "Well it starts with that individual pride and ownership of who that guy is. We talk about that quite often. And then there's always a unit pride that you want to have. I always think, and we always think that kind of permeates through that unit."
Is this team better suited to play against a mobile quarterback because of Denard? "It probably helps. I think our team, facing Denard and Devin both, and Russell Bellomy -- I mean, he's a little slippery. So when you look at it that way, there's some familiarity with what we do, which is kind of a great thing because of what we do with the spread part of it and out of the gun to what we do with the I-back stuff. I think it really helps us as a team."
What do you tell your defensive linemen when you play against a running quarterback? "I think gap integrity is always important in part. The critical thing to me is you have to chase the rabbit. You have to stay after it through the whistle because you see a lot of those guys make plays on cutbacks and those kinds of things, and you have to be a part of the 11."
Are you going to look at other Big Ten games any differently now that divisions are in place? "You know, I was asked that once before. I don't think so. Maybe I need to go back and look at it. But within the framework of the divisional play and crossover play, I don't see much difference."
Depth is a concern, particularly in the trenches. How does that affect you during the year? "It affects you in practice. It does. Guys you have to bring up on both sides of the ball. Guys who might be fighting for two and three in there who are down. They have to go over, so you take a good look from your look teams. That's one reason we do so much against each other. I started doing that when I went to Ball State because of the competitive nature of going ones on ones, twos on twos, and the speed and all those things."
What's the situation at nickel? Two weeks ago you had Raymon Taylor but then last game it was mostly Thomas Gordon. "We'll use both. Raymon's a young guy who's learning. Thomas is more of a veteran, obviously. We'll use both guys, though. I think they both are doing okay. Not quite what we need."
Are there any other freshmen that haven't played at all that still could? "Good question. I hate to count anybody out because you never know. You get guys twisted up and those kinds of things and you never know when that's going to happen."
Is it safe to say that Justice Hayes will redshirt? "I wouldn't say that yet."
What's punting situation? "What do you guys think?" Angelique only saw a couple yesterday. "I think they were both punting well yesterday." Would you say one has a leg up on the other? "Not yet. That's pretty good, I like that. You're giving him good material, Angelique."
Are you a stats guy? Mattison said yesterday he's not much of a stats guy. "Huh uh. Why?" Well Idunno … "No no no. I'm not asking you why. My point is … no. I mean, the only statistic that's important is the outcome and winning. So no."
Mattison also said he wasn't pleased with Jake Ryan down the stretch. Is that because there were some one-on-one situations he didn't win? "Oh, I think that's part of it. I think we have a high opinion of Jake, and at the same time we have to remember he's a redshirt freshman. He can do some good things. He can make plays, and part of that is he runs around the field and plays with good effort. He's always not doing exactly what Jake should do in the framework of the defense, but he has an opportunity, because he plays hard, to make up for those things. That's contagious, a little bit, and he's got to keep growing with everything that we do."
Have there not been enough carries for Thomas Rawls for you to properly evaluate him? "I think we gave him a pretty good look during the course of camp. And then he got banged up a little bit. Fred does a nice job of rotating those guys through, number one, to keep them healthy. Because we do compete against each other. I think the second part of it is trying to see where guys are at."
Are you resigned to the fact that Denard's your lead back? "You could say that probably. But he carries the ball. I know that. But I don't know if I'd consider him a back, personally."
Borges said if he has two backs running for over a hundred yards combined, he can live with that. Do you agree? "Sure. Sure. I'm fine with that. And again I go back to the statistic that counts: Winning."
Monday Presser Transcript 9-26-11: Brady Hoke
Brady Hoke
News bullets and other important things:
- Weekly tailback musical chairs update: Fitz and Smith. No mention of anyone else.
- Cam Gordon still not 100%.
- Barnum is questionable for Minnesota at the moment.
- Woolfolk was up and running last night.
- Two of Denard's bad throws were the result of bad routes.
- Justice Hayes didn't dress because he had a "bump."
- Hagerup has to compete to get his position back. (I have a feeling this is nominal, but we'll see.)
Press Conference (filmed)
Opening remarks: "Again, as always, thank you for coming out. This is really loud.
"Ahem. It's good to win football games. It's bad to lose games, so it was good to win. I thought from a perspective as a team, I thought we played as well as we have to this point for the first quarter and maybe three quarters. Then I think we struggled a little bit for one reason or another from an offensive standpoint. You can't turn the ball over four times. That does nothing for you as a team, and I thought defensively they hung in there and they played hard. I thought our front played probably their best football to this point of the year.
"It's got to get much better as we get into Big Ten play offensively. Three-and-outs and turnovers in the third quarter -- time of possession affects your football team in a lot of ways … momentum and all those things. So we have to do a much better job executing and being more consistent blocking at the line of scrimmage. We've got a lot of work ahead of us.
"In the kicking game, I thought Matt Wile did a nice job punting the football, and I thought his kickoffs -- he really placed the ball well. He had one kickoff that was in the middle of the field, but everything else I thought he did a tremendous job. And that was a good sign of a guy that's maturing as a freshman."
Is Will Hagerup's suspension over, and does he have to compete to get his position back? "They'll compete. We're going to compete in everything we do. I think that's an important part of your development as a program. I think that's how you improve as a program. They'll compete during the week."
Cam Gordon dressed but did not play -- at this point is it his conditioning or is the injury still affecting him? "I think he's just not 100% yet. I think he's just not where he needs to be yet."
13 for 13 in the Red Zone. What makes you so successful there? "I don't know if there's a magical answer. I mean, I think part of it is always you have some pretty good luck. Things are going well. I think we're blocking it decently. I think the different options that Al presents to some degree within the offense makes [us] a little bit tougher to defend."
Denard's incompletions. You said it wasn't all Denard. When you look at the film did you see problems with other things, too? "It's definitely not all him. I mean, route running -- we blew two routes. We didn't convert on another route. That's part of it. He's got a lot of pride, and he's going to also help himself with some of the technical and technique -- fundamental parts of being a little more patient with his feet and doing a good job with that."
What led to strong start against SDSU, and how do you replicate that? "It'd be great to replicate it every week. I think we had a great week of practice. I think our preparation was good. From a defensive standpoint, they really did a nice job of preparation. I thought Greg did a nice job with the plan, and Al did too."
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San Diego State Postgame Presser Transcript: Brady Hoke
(Players tomorrow.)
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You downplayed the fact that this was your old team, but postgame you hugged SDSU players, etc. Talk about how this game was different. "Well, it still was Michigan playing San Diego State, so that doesn't change. Obviously there's some great kids on that football team and great individuals. They work hard, they play hard, and that part of it is, I guess, being a human being. There's a love that you have for those guys that you've coached and you've been around."
How much did you feel D-line today? "I thought the run game, from that standpoint -- I thought they were disruptive. I thought the backers were able to flow pretty decently. There was some pressure on the quarterback, some of the play action. I thought the transition from run to pass was pretty decent, especially Mike and Ryan did a nice job. And Craig Roh you could feel out there."
The non-conference schedule is over. Can you talk about where this point is right now vs. where you want it to be? "We can't turn the ball over four times, I can tell you that. That's disappointing. We ended up a minus one. Defensively we caused three turnovers, and then we turn it over four times. You can't win anything -- you can't win your pop warner league if you turnt he ball over. WE were fortunate to get out to a decent lead in the football game, and I thought our defense kept us in the game because we tried to get it away."
The decision to go for it on fourth down? "I just thought our defense was playing pretty good, to be honest with you. I think it gives your kids some confidence [that] they know you have confidence in them."
For defense to come out and set the tone with three-and-out. How good was that? "It was a big deal, number one, in how we covered the kick. Kickoff coverage has been a little thorn in our side. Greg talked about with the defense before we left the hotel about that first possession, that first series how we want to play as a defense. We talk about the Michigan defense and wanting to be a Michigan defense."
Can you assess Denard separately with his running and his passing? "I think he ran the ball pretty daggone well. He makes some things up as he goes, which I wish I could do … sometimes I do do. He really did a great job running the football. Thought he did a good job managing the offense. It'll be interesting when I talk to Al tomorrow about some of the check plays because some of the different looks Rocky's gonna give you, which are a lot. That's not an easy defense -- Andy Dalton had plenty of problems with it a year ago. It's not an easy defense to try and figure things out, but he did a good job there in the run game. I think throwing the ball -- I don't know if one sailed on him a little bit, but I'm not sure about the route at this point, if this was run to the specifics of what it needed to be run. I think the one he tried to find a hole in there, you know, probably just made a bad decision."
Talk about the pressure on Lindley. "I have the utmost respect for Ryan -- for how he studies the game and how he plays the game. I think it's like all quarterbacks. You want to get as much rpessure as you can. It's that fine line. They throw the fade down here in the fourth quarter and that's going to be a touchdown if they hold onto it. It's a fine line to how much zone you want to play to how much you want to try and get after him."
What's Troy Woolfolk status, and talk about Blake Countess? "Troy, he tweaked the ankle that he tweaked earlier in the season. I'm sure that's day to day. If I know Troy, he'll come out tomrrow and do everything that we'll do. I thought Blake, he's a young guy. He's a talented young guy. He's done a good job of -- he has great pride in his performance. He gets himself ready to play."
Smith fumbled but was then in on the next series. How important was it to show confidence in him after a mistake? "Fred has a lot of confidence in him obviously, and I've got a lot of confidence in him. I want to see that play. I know he was fighting for an extra yard or two or whatever. I don't know where he got loose with the ball or a hand punched it through. I don't know. I'm glad Vincent Smith's on Michigan's football team."
The turnovers gave you bad field position, but the defense only gave up seven points. Thoughts? "Well, I mean, that's [why] those guys are on scholarship at Michigan -- to play defense. That's what we talk about. It doesn't matter what the offense does. I'm on my scholarship. I'm Ryan Van Bergen, defensive end, and I'm at Michigan to play defense."
They got on your side of the field eleven times and scored only once. Are you relying on turnovers or are you just that kind of defense? "Well I think we all would like to be that kind of defense. I think we all stress turnovers -- how to get ourselves to the ball and angles and punching it out or ripping it out. But I don't think that's a bad thing that we've been able to create them. I don't know if it's such a good thing that the field position battle for a good [part] of this game, we were getting our tails kicked. I thought the Wile kid in the second half did a tremendous job of punting the football, and that was great to see."
Field goal situation? "I think it's one bad kick, and I can tell you from how he planted -- not that I'm Garo Yepremian and know much much about the kicking aspect -- but he just didn't plant it well and kind of pushed it."
Is there a difference between San Diego State's physicality and Michigan's? "No, I don't think so. I know one thing about how those guys on that other team are coached and how they're going to play with a physicalness on both sides of the ball. They're going to get helmets and bodies to the ball, and they're going to be aggressive on the line of scrimmage."
Denard had a great first half but an interesting second half. How important is it for the offense to put together a solid four quarters? "Well, I think it's obviously important, but it wasn't all Denard. We had enough -- from the turnover standpoint and then [not] blocking the line of scrimmage like we'd like to. I don't think we did it as well in the second half, and that's disturbing because championship teams have a way of improving during the course of the game and finishing games, and we didn't do that."
You mentioned Denard had bad decisions throwing. What about his footwork? "I said he had a bad decision. He may have had more, but I want to see what plays he got us into, and that's something the quarterback never gets credit for. He obviously got us into pretty good quarterback iso play depending on what they were bringing. I thought the one throw where he tried to throw it maybe into too many people with the different color jersey [was not good]."
Does his bad day passing spoil the good day he had on the ground? "No. I don't think so. We won the game. And I'm not being sarcastic, but I think it's something [about which] we'll have good conversion tomorrow. We'll point out things whether it's his feet and those kinds of things or -- again with that one route, I don't know if the route was totally run the way we coach it to be run."
What were your conversations like with the SDSU players after the game? "It's great to see them. Those conversations are personal."
Now that it's over, how does your mindset change for the Big Ten season? "I don't know if it changes because you prepare to win every game. I don't know if your mindset and how you go about your job for those kids [insert suitable verb] any differently. We're going to be in there tomorrow and put this game to bed as coaches and players and move to Minnesota."
Four weeks in, is there anything about this team good or bad that surprises you? "I like how they like each other. I've been around teams that don't like each other. I like how they like each other -- if they like each other enough and respect each other enough, they're going to play for each other. And that's a powerful thing. When they play for each other and they play for Michigan, that's a powerful thing.
Wednesday Presser Transcript 9-21-11: Brady Hoke
News bullets and other important things:
- Vincent Smith is starting at RB.
- Thomas Rawls is second or third on RB depth chart.
- Russell Bellomy is scout team QB to simulate Ryan Lindley.
- Matt Wile hit a 59-yard field goal in practice.
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Greg said yesterday that he's asking the Michigan defense to play perfect. What does that mean? "I think perfect means perfect, and it's a part of what you want to be. You'd like to go out and play a perfect game. When you say that, you have high expectations for each individual out there for a specific position and for the defense itself. Whether it's playing your base package, your sub packages, whatever -- if they're doing exactly what thye're supposed to do with the best of their abilities with great effort and toughness."
Will Vincent Smith be the starting running back? "Yeah, I would think so. And Fitz had a good day yesterday, too. Both those guys ran the ball hard. Rawls ran the ball hard. He had some snaps in there. I think we're still trying to find what the magic combination is."
Don't want to be running back by committee, but is there a point where you want to see just one guy to establish rhythm? "I think there's a point, but I can't tell you on the 21st of September that we know when that point's going to happen. I think there's good things that they all do, but at the same time, we want that guy who's going to play a perfect game."
Where does Rawls fit into the depth chart right now? Would he be second or third? "Probably somewhere in there."
Mike Shaw has gotten fewer carries. What's going on with him? "He has to be a little more consistent in everything that we do. He'll have his time in there. There's a lot that goes along with being a back besides running the football, and we've got to be a little more consistent in those areas. He's working his tail off. That's the encouraging thing."
How important is running back pass protection in a week like this? "It will be very important. This is unique. You never know what Rocky Long's going to have in store for you. Working for him for six years on the defensive side of the ball, he's going to have something you haven't see and something a little different."
Rocky Long does funky things with defense. As his head coach did you talk about those things with him? "We ran it at Oregon State. Believe me I still have playbooks from that, not that it helps, because he's evolved quite a bit from the basics. Number one, the personality of that team and the quickness of that team -- the thing that you equate it to from a defensive standpoint, when you play midline option to use a true triple option, your defense has to catch up a little bit with the tempo and the speed. I think it's the same way offensively three or four possessions in, trying to have a clear understanding of what the defense is doing and catching up to that speed."
What do you do for the scout team? "Well they've been working like heck. They gave them a great look yesterday. Roy Manning, the GA who runs it, did a great job of preparing them for it. Credit to those kids on the look teams -- they did a nice job."
You have a quarterback still in his first year getting used to the offense. How difficult is it to prepare for such a unique defensive set? "When you look at your schedule, I think there's a uniqueness to every defense. Some of that may be if you're going to be a man team, a man free team, a tampa 2 team … He did a nice job yesterday. What we ask a quarterback to do, getting in and out of things, that's a good start."
Is it a problem that you don't have anyone on the scout team who can throw the ball as well as Lindley? "Well, Russell Bellomy throws the ball pretty well. So that's a plus. I really think the pride that those guys are really getting when it comes to giving you great looks. We reward those guys who do the best job every week. We've had two guys a lot of the time, which is good. I think they're doing a daggone good job. In fact one guy came up to me and apologized after practice because he didn't think he did a good enough job. That tells you a little bit about their consciousness of helping the football team."
How would you assess tight end play up to this point? "I think we're doing okay. Kevin's a really good tight end to do both -- blocks at the point of attack well, runs good routes, catches the ball well. Brandon's coming along well. Steve we've used both at fullback and tight end. Ricardo hadn't gotten any playing time yet, but he gets some good work with them. He's escobar for us this week and doing a nice job of running the routes and the speed and those things. I think they've been pretty good."
You looked a little mad when team when over to student section after the Eastern Game. How come? "I wanted to score a touchdown at the end instead of a field goal." Is that something you're going to allow the team to do? "Yeah it's fine. I mean, the students are important. I hope they will get there early. We need a lot of noise."
Greg said that he's been very hard on Craig Roh, and about a week ago he saw a different player. "I think if you'd ask Craig, he'll tell you his best week of practice was last week. It's amazing -- how you practice is how you play. That's always a battle, Angelique. Angelique, is it your birthday? Are you 39? 29?" I'm still younger than the head football coach at Michigan. "So is everybody else! But, uh, no, that's something that you always push and you always want. You're going to play like you practice, and that's what he did."
How has he practiced this week? "Good. He's been good. He's got a lot of pride and ownership of you are, and pride and ownership of who you represent."
Is part of that breaking bad habits and rebuilding them? "We all have habits, good or bad. I think the expectations that we have for the kids and what they have for themsleves are always different. We're coaching pretty hard but fair. We love them and kiss them on the cheek when they do things the right way, and kick them in the butt -- not literally, please understand that." So you do kiss them on the cheek? "I do. Yeah."
Is there a lot of emphasis on special teams coverage? "Yeah. Part of that's placing the ball. Part of that is doing a good job of lane recognition and the block recognition at full speed. Wasn't as bad as you think, and I hate saying that. I think the kids have a lot of pride, and they don't like if we think they didn't do as well as they could."
Wile hit a 59-yarder in practice. Would you try such a long field goal? "Yeah. Yup."
You want defense to be perfect. At what point would you say they were perfect or had a perfect game? "Hm. I don't know. I don't know." Have you ever said that about any of your defenses? "Nope."


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How to increase your bench,
By: Doug Daniels
I would be pretty safe assuming that everybody out there would like to add to his or her bench press. The normal route is extra or different work on the pushing muscles like the pecs, delts, and triceps. This is fine, but how about exploring a totally different route and work your pulling muscles or back harder?
Most top benchers include some back work in their routine like lat pull-downs, rows, etc. Though the back muscles do not directly push the bar up in the bench press, they add stability and act as 'launching pads' for the pushing muscles. I always knew that but I never really appreciated their contribution until just recently. Yeah, even us PL USA writers don't know everything all the time.
I decided to increase the amount and intensity of back work in our routines for a few months with no particular bench press benefits in mind. So my training partners, Jim Vrabel and Ed Boncela and myself undertook a type of 'back blitzing' routine once a week where we hit our back with 20 sets. After 6 weeks, we all noticed that our benches were consistently moving up without any real explanation. The only thing that really changed was our increased dedication to working our backs. Ed was the first to hit on that and he was right. The weights felt lighter and we had fewer workouts with no progress.
You may be thinking that 20 sets of back work is just too much, and if not handled correctly, it may be. First, schedule a period of 6-8 weeks in your off season to dedicate to your 'back blitzing'. Blitzing during a period too near a contest could be disaster and result in burnout. Work the back between your squat and deadlift workouts or hit it after your deadlifts or squats. You also may think that your lower back will surely tire with all this extra work, but this is not so if you limit your back work to moves that doesn't stress your lower back. Let's look at what our 2-month workout generally looked like.
Since the back structure is so large and complex, for the best results, it's preferable to hit the back from many angles through several exercises for more complete development. We would always start with wide grip chins for 3 sets. Chins are best to start with because if you do them later, you will be too tired to get many reps. For those of you who can't do chins, try wide grip lat pull-downs until you build your strength level up. Next we would do 3 sets of T-bar rows on a machine that supported our lower backs. These are good for the upper and mid back. Next we'd turn to 3-5 sets of dumbbell or trap bar shrugs with a full range of motion up and down. If you're really strong in the traps, do either high reps or use a barbell, but shrug in a full range of motion. Next we'd add 4-5 sets of close grip lat pull-downs with a 'V' or triangle shaped bar to the sternum. After that, we'd do 3 sets of medium grip (palms facing each other) pull-downs. The finishing move was 3-4 sets of one-arm dumbbell rows with your knee on a weight bench for lower back support. This move is best done with a medium weight. That would add up to about 20 sets of back work that hit the back muscles from just about every angle and didn't stress the lower back.
We generally used lifting straps for most of these exercises. Lifting straps are invaluable for back exercises. Without straps, most lifters can't hold on to the weight for the whole set. The most valuable feature of straps is that they let you pull more with your elbows and lats than with your biceps, that are the weak links of the chain. Think pull the elbows back or down, depending on the exercise, not pulling with your biceps and you'll notice better gains. You may use a little less weight at first, but you will be reaching your target muscle group to a higher degree than you did before.
I also believe that when working your back, you're better off using a moderate weight. You can 'feel' the move better and again, work your target muscles harder. It will also permit better form, which is critical for best results.
Twenty sets or so may seem like a lot and you may think you need to be on a heavy drug cycle to get through them, but that's not the case. By emphasizing the back in the off season when your training intensity and workload is relatively low, your recuperative powers will be better able to accommodate this workload. If 20 sets are out of the questions, try 10-12 sets, concentrating on chins, T-bars, shrugs, and V-bar pull-downs. In addition to extra back width and thickness, you'll notice increased bicep and forearm power and size. You may want to ease into this routine over a period of 2-3 weeks, starting with 10 or more sets. Even after you finish the 6-8 weeks, you may want to maintain a higher amount of back work in your routine. Reps are up to you, but we kept them around 6-10 and worked hard.
I hope I created a little interest in the importance of back work for the bench press. It isn't just pecs, delts, and triceps after all. I didn't mention that increased back development would have positive effects on your squat and deadlift too. So next off-season, try to backing up your bench.
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I'm going to try doing that. I just recently started a Pull/Push split, so this should work nicely for my BP. Thanks for the article.
I like you sig. too.
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might try increasing my back workout to up my bench thx for the info
That is one of the worst routines I have ever seen in my life.
A perfect example of terrible application of good theory.
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As the ground battle between Israelis and Palestinians intensifies, it looks like a cyberwar might also be happening.
The basics are the same: A uniform, a helmet, boots, a rucksack, and a rifle. But that's about the only similarities between what a D-Day soldier and one in Afghanistan took into combat.
Updated for 2014, the modern soldier carries a range of state-of-the-art communications gear, personal protection, and powerful weapons into combat.
One is easier on the lungs, one on the planet, and two use compounds from fireworks. Any one of these being tested by the US Army could replace the WWII-era smoke grenades still in use.
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News and notes on the restaurant scene from dining critic Carol Deptolla
Pizza Man adds experience with hiring of chef and general manager
The new Pizza Man is stepping up its game as it assembles its team: The restaurant has hired Lake Park Bistro chef de cuisine Zachary Baker as its executive chef and Mason Street Grill certified sommelier Heather Korte as its general manager.
Pizza Man, the landmark restaurant that operated on E. North Ave. from 1970 until it was destroyed by fire in 2010, is due to reopen in June at N. Downer Ave. and E. Belleview Place.
Besides Baker's and Korte's depth of knowledge in their fields, restaurant owner Mike Amidzich said, "They're used to dealing with large amounts of people." The new restaurant will seat 225 when the patio is included, in contrast to the old restaurant's 55 seats.
Baker has been at Lake Park Bistro more than three years; two of those years, he's led the kitchen of the Bartolotta group's French restaurant as chef de cuisine. Before that, the Door County native spent seven years at Bartolotta's flagship Italian fine-dining restaurant, Ristorante Bartolotta in Wauwatosa, five of them as sous chef.
Baker said the chance to be more involved in running a restaurant and having a hand in its profitability was appealing, as was the return to Italian food. "It's my favorite cuisine to be working in," he said.
Much of Pizza Man's previous menu will return, such as the wild boar ravioli and the artichoke-cream cheese pizza. It will have more salads, and Baker said adding some small plates and smaller entrees would be considered.
"The dining culture has changed the last three or four years, since Pizza Man has been out of business," Baker said.
Wine clearly will be a key component at the new restaurant; the previous incarnation's extensive wine list received Wine Spectator recognition for 20 years. While Baker said he's not considering specific pairings for the new menu, "You have to be mindful, make sure it's all wine-friendly food."
Owner Amidzich said the addition of Korte, a Level 2 certified sommelier, will make the restaurant's wine acquisitions "more analytical" and focused.
The wine list again will concentrate on California wines -- "It's been my staple," Amidzich said -- but he expects Korte will bring in more boutique wines.
Pizza Man eventually would have 150 to 200 wines available by the glass; Amidzich doesn't expect that the new restaurant will ever approach the old restaurant's 600 wines by the glass.
Amidzich added that Korte has "tremendous skills in training" restaurant staff, and that he's intent on having wait staff thoroughly trained before the opening.
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My only ask/suggestion/plea for Pizza Man is that they serve their red wine by the glass at a decent temperature. So many restaurants serve red wine (esp. by the glass) at room temperature, which is a travesty. I don't want it refrigerated, but 58-60F would be nice.Hide replies
Lol at "a travesty'. You're at Pizza Man, not Sanford. Try to assimilate.
Well Pizza Man has a Wine Spectator "Best of" awarded wine list. one of the few in the city. The wines are not inexpensive. They do serve the wine in a high quality Riedel stemware. So yes, "Playergotgame" is correct, that discerning wine patrons, who go to Pizza Man especially for the wine list, and can pay up to several hundred dollars for a bottle, should be served the reds at "cellar temperature," which is in the mid 50 degree range. If they were selling jug wine at $ 5 a glass, it would be different. I've also had red wine served at "room temperature" around the city, in other words, 70 degree-ish or higher: when a bottle of good wine is stored at that temperature, it cooks. This is a common mistake that occurs in mid range Milwaukee restaurants, and apparently people who don't know any better think that's OK. It's not.
Fortunately, they just hired two people who know wine and will be sure that the wine service is correct. When these restauranteurs charge top buck for wine, knowledgeable customers will expect the wine to be served properly.
And I expect that when they reopen, given the ambitious scale of the new place and the experience they have hired, food prices will be higher and this will not be a cheap pizza joint for the after bar crowd. That's OK with me.
I would ask the customer what temp they wanted their wine at and would serve it at that temp. Not hard to do.
If the wine isn't stored at "cellar temperature," or in the 40 degree range for white, 55 degrees for red, the wine will "cook" and go bad in the bottle. The prices charged at PM are high enough that a customer should expect proper storage. When properly stored, a newly opened bottle will not be at "room" temperature of 70 degrees, no matter what the customer wants. They could heat up your wine in the microwave if you want to drink it warm though.
Artichoke ala Mode, please. Yum yummy yum yum.
A HUGE loss for Lake Park Bistro and Mason Street Grille!
Good Luck to you both and Mike!
Can't wait!
"Life is better when you're drinking great wine!"
Does this mean the food won't be greasy and suck?
The conche appetizer was the best in North America! Please keep that, and even offer a larger portion for an entree. I'd like the conche appetizer, the conche entee, and perhaps something with conche for desert!
Great catch for Pizza Man on both counts but I am going to really miss seeing Heather's smiling face at Mason Street Grill....


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Editor's note: The trailer for "Give and Take" was released recently. The film is set to premier July 29.
About nine years ago, Town of Tonawanda actor Bonnie Jean Taylor recalls, she and fellow classmate Mel Ende at Kenmore West High School envisioned what it would be like to make movies together someday.
Taylor was interested in acting and Ende was more interested in what went on behind the camera.
Fast forward about a decade and Taylor and Ende found themselves working on the same movie — "Give and Take" — currently being filmed in locations throughout Western New York, including the City of Tonawanda. Taylor plays the lead role of Ellie, and Ende co-owns ND Studios, which is providing lighting and technical work for the production.
The actress said she was surprised to run into Ende at one of the first scenes they shot.
"She was in my math class and I remembered how we used to talk about how when we were grown up she was going to make movies and I was going to star in them," Taylor said with a laugh, pointing out that they weren't at all paying attention to the math lesson.
Ende said Taylor was practically in tears the day on set when she recalled their dream as teenagers.
"I was like, 'Oh my gosh, I remember.' It's pretty great that the studio's been able to work with her finally," Ende said.
The two just wrapped up shooting on the film "Give and Take," written and produced by another Kenmore West graduate, Gail Golden. She said a handful of the cast and crew all hail from the school; some were brought on board because of that connection, with others it was just happenstance.
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By Tim Graham
The Buffalo Bills won't have to worry about Wes Welker when they host the New England Patriots on opening day, and might not have to cover Rob Gronkowski either.
NFL Network gadabout Albert Breer reports Gronkowski, the former Williamsville North star, will undergo back surgery next month and miss part of training camp.
The surgery was expected, but you have to wonder how many scalpels Gronkowski's body can take and whether repeated operations will derail a potential Hall of Fame career.
Back surgery forced him to miss a season for the University of Arizona. Ankle surgery hobbled him for the postseason of his second year with the Patriots.
He had four previous surgeries this offseason on a broken left forearm with a recurring infection issue.
Gronkowski and Welker have been route canals for the Bills' defense.
Gronkowski has scored at least one touchdown in all six games he played against his hometown team. He has 30 receptions for 449 yards and nine touchdowns. That pace would bring this season stat line: 80 catches, 1,197 yards and 24 touchdowns.
In a dozen games for New England against Buffalo, Welker scored only two touchdowns but produced on par with overall stats that made him the NFL's most prolific target over the past six years.
Welker had 84 receptions for 948 yards in those dozen games against Buffalo, an average of seven catches for 79 yards. His average game for the Patriots was 7.2 catches for 80.2 yards.


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6 Critical Changes to Note When Filing Your 2013 Taxes
Wealthy taxpayers will see the most changes in the tax code.
For many people, filing taxes for 2013 is going to look a lot like filing taxes for 2012. Changes were minimal this year and, unlike in 2012, Congress did not muck up the system with a lot of new last-minute laws.
Still, some taxpayers will see changes in 2013 and, if you're in certain categories, you'll feel those changes.
"People in high-income brackets are going to get killed this year," says Jeff Schnepper, author of "How to Pay Zero Taxes." "The big changes this year are hitting the high-income earners."
Those changes include an increase in the capital gains tax, a Medicare surtax, a new Net Income Investment Tax and limits on itemized deductions for high earners, plus an increase in the top tax rate.
[Read: 8 Errors You're Likely to Make on Your Tax Return.]
Expect to hear a lot of complaining and maybe see some discussion in Congress once the effect of those changes becomes clear, says Kelly Phillips Erb, a tax attorney in southeastern Pennsylvania. "Rates are reverting back to where they were 10 years ago before the Bush tax cuts," she says. "No one has felt yet how painful that's going to be."
The highest tax rate, for taxpayers who earn more than $400,000 a year, rises to 39.6 percent this year from 35 percent last year. Those same taxpayers will see the maximum capital gains rate rise from 15 percent to 20 percent, plus they'll be hit by new taxes and loss of deductions.
"All of these combined are going to boost tax levels in a way that I don't think people are expecting," Phillips Erb says. "People that make a lot of money are going to pay a lot of taxes and are going to complain a lot."
The change that is likely to have the greatest effect on taxpayers outside the top brackets is the rise in the threshold of medical expenses required to deduct those expenses. Previously, taxpayers could deduct medical expenses that reached 7.5 percent of their income. The new threshold is 10 percent. "More and more people are not going to be able to claim medical expenses," Phillips Erb says.
Same-sex couples who married in one of the states that recognizes such marriages (or in another country) are now required to file as married, either filing jointly or married filing separately. That's true even if they live in a state that does not recognize their marriage as legal.
[Read: 5 Reasons to File Your Taxes Early.]
Taxpayers who claim the home-office deduction now have an easier way to calculate that deduction, although the easier method may not garner as large of a deduction. However, it does require less record keeping. Taxpayers also have the option of sticking with the old method.
Few significant deductions vanished this year. But 2013 is the last year taxpayers can get a tax break on energy-efficient home improvements, donating an individual retirement account to charity, state and local sales taxes or supplies purchased by teachers. If you sold your house in a short sale or lost it to foreclosure in 2013, the discharged debt does not have to be claimed as income. But for 2014, unless Congress makes changes, Americans who lose their homes to foreclosure or sell them for less than they owe will owe income tax on the forgiven debt.
You can see the official IRS guidance on changes for 2013 tax returns on its website.
The government shutdown has delayed the start of tax-filing season by 10 days, but the Internal Revenue Service will open its doors to returns starting Jan. 31. As usual, taxes are due April 15, although filing for an extension can delay that to Oct. 15 for procrastinators.
Here are six changes to be aware of when filing 2013 taxes.
• The threshold for deducting medical and dental expenses rose from 7.5 percent to 10 percent of adjusted gross income, meaning that to deduct medical expenses, those expenses have to equal at least 10 percent of your income. The exception is for taxpayers 65 and older, who retained the threshold of 7.5 percent.
• The mileage rate for business travel is 56.5 cents a mile, up from 55.5 cents last year. For medical use or moving, the mileage rate rose from 23 cents to 24 cents a mile.


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Governor Mark Warner says he is pleased with a special one day session of the Virginia General Assembly.
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The Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton metropolitan area ranks among our country's "best-performing" cities in a new report.
"The 2012 Milken Institute Best-Performing Cities Index ranks U.S. metropolitan areas by how well they are creating and sustaining jobs and economic growth. The components include job, wage and salary, and technology growth. In most years, these give a good indication of the underlying structural performance of regional economics."
The Lehigh Valley moved up one spot in the national ranking -- improving its position from 66 in 2011 to 65 in 2012.
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- 55th in five-year job growth
- 60th in one-year job growth
- 89th in five-year salary growth
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- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, Calif., vaulted 50 spots from last year to lead our Best Performing Large Cities Index, a position it last held in the 2002 rankings.
- Texas metros didn't dominate the rankings quite as much as last year but still took three of the Top 10 positions and seven of the Top 25.
- Tech centers performed well, holding 12 of the Top 25 positions. In addition to San Jose, Austin-Round Rock, Texas; Raleigh-Cary, N.C.; Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV; Salt Lake City, Utah, and Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, Mass., were in the Top 10.
- Logan, Utah-Idaho remained the best Small City for 2012 with the help of a thriving technology sector.
- Holland-Grand Haven, Mich., enjoyed the biggest surge, rising 108 spots.


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Sunday, March 05, 2006Kevin Perri (South Bend, Ind./Adams H.S.) went 3-for-5 with a homerun and six runs batted in but Austin Peay's offense was even better as the Governors defeated Valparaiso 16-10 to take the rubber game of the weekend series on Sunday afternoon in Clarksville, Tenn.
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Lottery officials say the second Powerball winner is a man in his 30s from Fountain Hills, Ariz.
The man bought one of two tickets in last week's record $577.5 million drawing, but he isn't stepping into the spotlight just yet.
The Arizona Lottery said Friday the winner opted to take the cash option of $192 million. He declined to take part in the news conference held Friday in Phoenix.
The ticket was sold at a convenience store in Fountain Hills, northeast of Phoenix.
Lottery officials wouldn't release the name or address of the winner.
The Arizona Lottery says the other winning ticket in last week's $588 million Powerball jackpot has been claimed.
But officials say the Arizona winner has declined to take part in Friday afternoon's scheduled news conference in Phoenix, and the winner's name wasn't going to be immediately released.
The ticket was sold at a store in Fountain Hills, northeast of Phoenix.
The winner has opted to take the cash option of $192 million.
A Missouri mechanic and his wife came forward on Nov. 30 to claim their half of the multistate Powerball prize.


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Nintendo Wii Reviews
Nintendo brings Super Paper Mario to the Wii platform and gets stellar reviews in the process.
Stylized, funny, violent, and entertaining, The Grim Adventures Of Billy & Mandy is right up our alley.
The Tony Hawk series has been around for a while, but the Wii is making everything new again. Read on for the full review.
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Description of Physics Graduate Student Expected Progress to Ph.D.
This document describes the Physics Department's expectations for the progress of a typical graduate student from admission to award of a PhD. Because students enter the program with different training and backgrounds and because thesis research by its very nature is unpredictable, the time-frame for individual students will vary. Nevertheless, failure to meet the goals set forth here without appropriate justification may indicate that the student is not making adequate progress towards the PhD, and will therefore prompt consideration by the Department and possibly by Graduate Division of the students progress, which might lead to probation and later dismissal.
Course Work
If a student has taken courses equivalent to Physics 209, 211 or 221A-221B, then subject credit may be granted for 209, 211 and/or 221A-221B via a course waiver form available at Student Services (372 LeConte). Students must meet with the UC Berkeley instructor at the beginning of the semester for course approval. If the instructor agrees that the student has satisfied the course requirement elsewhere, he/she will sign the course waiver form and turn the signed form into Student Services (372 LeConte) for the student's file. The student must also take and pass the associated section of the preliminary exam. Please note that official course waiver approvals will not be granted until after the preliminary exam results have been announced. If course waivers are approved, units for the waived required courses do not have to be replaced for PhD course requirements. If a student has satisfied all first year required graduate courses elsewhere, they are only required to take an additional 19 units to satisfy remaining PhD course requirements. (Note that units for required courses must be replaced for MA degree course requirements even if the courses themselves are waived; for more information please see MA degree requirements).
In exceptional cases, students transferring from other graduate programs may request a partial waiver of the 19 elective unit requirement. Such requests must be made at the time of application for admission to the Department.
The majority of first year graduate students are Graduate Student Instructors (GSIs) with a 20 hour per week load (teaching, grading and preparation). A typical first year program for an entering graduate student who is teaching is:
Students who have fellowships or who have covered some of the material in the first year courses as undergraduates may choose to take an additional course in one or both semesters of their first year.
Many students complete their course requirements by the end of the second year and in general students are expected to complete the requirements by the end of the third year. An exception to this expectation is that students who elect (with the approval of their mentor and the head graduate adviser) to fill gaps in their undergraduate background during their first year at Berkeley often need one or two additional semesters to complete their course work.
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The role of the faculty mentor is to advise graduate students who have not yet identified research advisers on their academic program, on their progress in that program and on strategies for passing the preliminary exam and finding a research adviser. Mentors also are a friendly ear and are ready to help students address other issues they may face coming to a new University and a new city. Mentors are expected to meet with the students they advise individually a minimum of once per semester, but often meet with them more often. Mentors should contact incoming students before the start of semester, but students arriving in Berkeley should feel free to contact their mentors immediately.
Student-Mentor assignments continue until the student has identified a research adviser. While many students continue to ask their mentors for advice later in their graduate career, the primary role of adviser is transferred to the research adviser once a student formally begins research towards his or her dissertation. The Department asks student and adviser to sign a mentor-adviser form to make this transfer official.
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Rich Macke has been named Senior Publisher of The Orange Leader and The Port Arthur News.
Macke, who has led the Port Arthur newspaper since February 2012, assumes the role of publisher for The Leader with the departure of Eric Bauer.
"I look forward to getting to know and working alongside the community in Orange," Macke said. "Community news is the core of a local newspaper. It's important that The Orange Leader be the local information source for the community it serves, and I will work diligently to continue that focus."
Before his arrival in Port Arthur, Macke was publisher of the Woodward, Okla., News. Originally from California, he has 30 years of experience in the newspaper industry, in jobs in production, advertising and circulation.
The Leader and The News are both owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc., of Montgomery, Ala.


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text: In "Bob's New Suit," a family deals with a series of intersecting dramas. Bob and Jenny (Hunter S. Bodine and Hayley DuMond) decide to get married just as Bob's sister Stephanie (Shay Astar) announces she is transitioning from female to male and will now go by Steve. Their parents, Polly and Buster (Suzi Bodine and John Bennett Perry), struggle to take it all in as Buster deals with escalating health issues.


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Sports Wagons - The wave of the future?
It looks like a monster... but that area under the hatch is very small... the cool styling sacrificed a lot of space. Externally it sizes up with the Freestyle, not the Legacy. I'll take my Malibu Maxx... second choice Pontiac Vibe. the Audi A3 is cool looking though and proabably will hold up well. Subaru makes nothing but ugly cars. The WRX STI is very fun to drive... but what a dog!
My buddies 1984 IROC Z28 cornered like it was on rails... Eagle GT's... it was fast and fun. More recent versions of the Camaro... 1999 Z28 w/ LS1 and 6 speed handle just as well, and none of your sport compacts at comparable price could even think of keeping up with it... no way, no how. And if you want to dump a lot of cash lets compare your favorite entry with any late model Corvette.
I don't see how that fits into a thread about sport wagons. Those were barely a 2+2. And the Corvette? :confuse:
Camaro was great in a straight line, but throw some curves at it...last time I went too Summit Point on a track day the live axles were the ones sliding off at the carousel.
You can't play that game, though, else we'd all be driving around in Excursions. There's always something out there bigger than you.
Size is one factor, but not necessarily as important as many people think. Look at my Miata, for instance, tiny as it is the actual death rates are average, no worse. Then look at Corvettes, Mustangs, and Camaros - horrible death rates, far worse than average.
Driver demographics have a bigger effect, by far, than the size/weight of the car.
njswamplands Posts: 1,760yes when was the last time you saw a minivan throwing it sideways around the corner? ok ok i promise to stop doing that.
juice it is also what the vehicle invites you to do. i am sure you bring more speed to your miata because it invites you versus the forester which does not enjoy high speed cornering. i notice my personality changes depending on the vehicle setup.
in the minivan, the handling makes me drive really sane. the forester xt makes me have fun in bad weather and straight line acceleration. my supercharged mr2, well it just brings out the devil in me.
I'm actually much more likely to drift in the Forester because it's easier to control, plus I do it in the snow where it's not ruining the tires.
The Miata will snap to oversteer if you let off the throttle and aren't very careful, since it's harder to control.
We got some snow so I did some tail-wagging in the Forester just yesterday.
dudleyr Posts: 3,426I am ashamed to admit that I was doing 4 wheel drifts with opposite lock in the snow with my old minivan (first gen Odyssey). Sure is a lot of fun with snow tires.
Warning though - I tried it once with snows on just the front, and that really makes the vehicle tail happy. The back tires constantly want to pass the front. I would never advise anybody to use just two snows on a fwd vehicle - must use 4.
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By Mike Harrington
As you would surmise, I have been deluged with comments/questions/criticisms/attaboys/epithets and everything in between in the wake of yesterday's Sabres season-ending press conference. I read them all and regular followers of my Twitter feed know I do my best to answer as many legitimate requests/opinions as possible.
In this case, however, that's pretty much impossible. But there have been many solid questions, many repeated times over, that it's probably best to answer them here. Some thoughts in no particular order:
---1). Ticket talk -- The No. 1 question people wanted asked was obviously the status of Darcy Regier and it was the first question asked and answered. By far the No. 2 inquiry was to demand answers about what in the world the Sabres were doing with a ticket price hike being announced in the face of a non-playoff year -- and with letters about the details arriving on Fan Appreciation Day.
After the presser, I got all kinds of crazy comments about people wanting to know why so much time was spent on tickets! Say what? The first thought is those people must not be ticket holders. The second is that Ted Black tied reasoning to the NHL CBA and the team was harshly criticized Sunday by the New York Post. We had similar concerns but held them until we could ask Black about them Monday. Black's insistence that the Sabres needed to qualify for revenue sharing brought more follow-up questions because it flew in the face of the owner's long-stated platform (since the owner doesn't speak to the media and thus the fans, I'm omitting his name here).
2). The owner's absence -- Play the audio or video. The subject took six minutes of a 46-minute event. To say it dominated the event is silly. It just produced the most dramatic video and audio that got replayed over and over again on TV and radio. The question was asked by veteran Channel 2 reporter Scott Brown and not by The Buffalo News in the wake of what happened with the owner two weeks ago at HarborCenter, nor did it receive much mention in today's paper. It got an excellent 3-minute piece or so on Channel 2. This is not a Buffalo News issue. The owner's unwillingness to speak on major topics regarding the franchise is a huge issue for all media outlets that cover the Sabres, both print and broadcast. He's heavily involved in major hockey decisions and consulted on all of them. He should speak on them.
Fans who say "Ted Black is the owner's spokesperson" had a somewhat valid point -- until yesterday. When Black said he is Darcy Regier's equal and not his boss, that really made the what-does-the-owner-think-of-Lindy question irrelevant and sent us to new territory: It showed that the owner himself was retaining Regier and thus should have been present to explain his decision. Black had no business talking about the subject since he apparently had nothing to do with it.
3). More hockey questions? -- There were plenty of them. And too many people saying, "Ask Darcy Regier why he should have a job." Silly. He has a job because the owner continues to give him one. You have not seen the hockey questions asked in the last week -- or the ones asked of Regier yesterday after the presser. We will talk to Regier again when they decide on a coach, and again in advance of the draft. Probably multiple times. There are plenty of hockey questions to come. This isn't the only 45 minutes we'll have with him. It will likely be the only 45 minutes you see start to finish.
4). Contentious nature -- Press conferences got this way all the time when my career first started before the Internet turned everything into a live-streamed, live-broadcast, live-ttweeted event and they still do. How about the one in Edmonton last week with Kevin Lowe? The Toronto media with Brian Burke? Ask Yankee writers about postgame with Joe Girardi, especially early in his career. Same thing. How about the crazy St. Bonaventure press conferences during the welding scandal of 2003? So many examples. This one was seen by so many people that it was jarring to them. It's not jarring to the media at all.
But the next person on Twitter who invokes the late great Jim Kelley or Larry Felser -- whom we just buried yesterday -- being "ashamed" of the media yesterday is getting blocked. You don't know them. We do. Do any of you know how many times Kelley and John Muckler threw down for instance? How about the haymakers Felser and Hank Bullough threw? Or the battle that ensued when Kelley showed up at the Aud for practice one day to find no team and was greeted by Scotty Bowman, informing him practice was at Sabreland? How would the vile sections of Twitter react to Kelley-Hasek today?
Kelley and Felser would have been saying the media has been too SOFT on the Sabres for too long. I knew them for over 20 years. You don't.
5). Ted Black -- He was doing his job trying to represent the team answering questions. He had no reason to apologize to me for doing his job. It was a bad day in front of the camera for Ted, one of the few he's had since he's been in his position. He's taking too many bullets for the absent owner and it's wearing on him. I have no issues with Ted whatsoever. Could sit down with him today no problem. All this "feud-feud" talk is from people who don't understand how journalists and sources interact. Did Lindy Ruff and Ron Rolston or players like Ryan Miller and Steve Ott take and answer questions with zero issue the next day from reporters they had blown up at a day before? Absolutely.
6). Final word: So you're all mad at the Sabres and the media gets harsh with them and it's the media's problem? The media hasn't missed the playoffs in 7 of 11 years, or two straight since the silent owner rode in on his white horse and cried at the sight of Gilbert Perreault. Before the presser, I got many warnings from fans along the lines of "don't be soft on them." Then afterward, it's too rude/too harsh/unprofessional. Sorry, can't have it both ways.
If there are other topics, comment here. I can always add to the post if needed.
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National Council of the Judiciary – constitutional organ safeguarding independence of courts and judges.
The organisational structure of the Country before 1989 lacked in institutions and legal mechanisms which would guarantee realization of the principle of judicial independence declared in the Constitution of 1952. The Constitution and acts oriented courts' activity on the protection of the then organisational structure of the Country. Constitutional regulations stipulating that judges are appointed and dismissed by the National Council upon the motion of the Minister of Justice were not conducive to the development of judicial and court independence. The choice of judges and creating the whole human resources policy in the judiciary were governed by these institutions.
Organisational transformations, which took place in 1989, triggered a completely new understanding of the role and position of administration of justice in a democratic state ruled by law. Judicial independence became indispensable for legitimization of the judiciary being a guarantor of human rights and freedoms.
Independence of the judiciary exceeds political sphere. It influences stability of the country, its economy, as well as fulfils other important social aims. Therefore, independence of courts and judges is not an aim for its own sake. It serves for achieving important aims of the society based on rules of justice. These arguments triggered the need for establishing a new body in Poland, namely the National Council of the Judiciary.
The concept of creating the National Council of the Judiciary was developed as a result of a political agreement reached during "round table" meeting, and provided for the creation of constitutional body consisting of representatives of all three powers – legislative, executive, and judiciary. The Council's concept followed experience of Western Europe countries.
In the Act of 7 April 1989 on the amendment to the Constitution it was adopted in Art. 60 that the appointment of judges is a prerogative of the President acting upon the motion of the National Council of the Judiciary.
The National Council of the Judiciary Act adopted on 20 December 1989 stipulated that the Council safeguards independence of judges and courts. Current organisational structure, scope of activities and work procedure of the Council are stipulated in the Act of 12 May 2011 on the National Council of the Judiciary and the Resolution of the National Judicial Council of 22 July 2011 regarding the regulation of the detailed procedure of the National Council of the Judiciary. The most important powers of the Council are:
adopting resolutions regarding applications to the Constitutional Tribunal to examine compliance with the Constitution of the Republic of Poland of normative acts within the scope concerning independence of courts and judges,
considering and evaluating candidacy for holding a judicial post and presenting to the President of the Republic of Poland applications for appointment of judges of the Supreme Court, Chief Administrative Court, common courts, provincial administrative courts and military courts,
applying to the Disciplinary Commissioner with requests for initiating disciplinary proceedings with respect to judges and appealing against judgments of disciplinary courts of lower instance,
considering applications for retirement of judges, expressing consent to continue to hold the post by judges who have attained 65 years of age,
considering applications of retired judges to return to judicial post,
appointment of the Disciplinary Commissioner of common courts,
expressing opinion on appointment and dismissal of presidents and deputy presidents of common courts and military courts,
carrying out inspections of the court or vetting of the work of a judge, whose individual case is subject to consideration by the Council.
The National Council of the Judiciary is a collective authority. The first composition of the National Council of the Judiciary was established at the session held on 23 February 1990. Stanisław Zimoch, judge of the then Provincial court in Łódź was appointed the Chairman of the National Council of the Judiciary.
The National Council of the Judiciary is composed of 25 members. The Council is composed of: the First President of the Supreme Court, President of the Chief Administrative Court, a person appointed by the President of the Republic of Poland, Minister of Justice, four sejm deputies, two senators, ten judges being representatives of common courts, two judges of the Supreme Court, two judges of administrative courts and a judge of the military court. Similarly to the majority of other European countries, the composition of the Polish National Council of the Judiciary is mixed, whereas judges constitute the majority. Such a composition of the Council gives an opportunity of a direct responsibility of country's political structures for the functioning of the judiciary and at the same time guarantees a proper extent of independence.


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We want the children of The Village to have a deeply rooted confidence in the character of God so they passionately follow Him through good and bad times. Our hope is to partner with parents in the discipleship of their children by providing environments, curriculum and resources that center on the gospel and teach the nature and character of God.
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Kids' Village
Kids' Village is a place where kids spend time learning and worshiping through song, story and study during weekend services. Song and story take place in a large group where 1st - 5th graders gather together. Study takes place in small groups where kids of the same age open the Bible and learn from each other and their leader.
If you're visiting for the first time, you will need to fill out a registration card to receive a check-in tag and security stickers. The stickers serve two purposes:
- Parent Paging – If we need you during service, the number on your sticker will be displayed in the Worship Center.
- Child Pick-up – You must present your portion of the sticker before we release your child.
Feel free to bring the registration card already filled out to save time. Children may be checked in 30 minutes before service begins, but they may only be dropped off 15 minutes early and once their leader arrives.
Special Needs
If you have a child with special needs, we would love to partner with you in ministering to your child. Please talk to a Children's ministry staff member or contact the Special Needs ministry for more information.
Family Resources
Scripture is clear that parents have been given the joy and responsibility of raising their children in the ways of Jesus. We desire to partner with you as you disciple your children. One of the ways we do this is by providing resources to help you talk with your children about the gospel.
Family Discussion Questions
Each week we provide Family Discussion Questions that correspond with the Kids' Village lesson. This resource includes questions to help you review the Bible story with your child and suggestions for how to apply that story at home. They are available in the Children's Parents group on The City.
Child Baptism
We treat the baptism of children with special care and have created a class to help parents walk through the process with their children. For more information, visit our Baptism page.


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Derbyshire travelled to Horsham in Sussex for their fourth away match in this competition. The forecast was not too promising, but the match started on time with Wayne Madsen winning the toss and choosing to field first.
Rana Naved-ul-Hasan was making his debut as an overseas player for Derbyshire. Sussex started briskly with seven fours being hit in the space of twenty-four balls. During this time Mark Turner had bowled the dangerous Ed Joyce, and then Tim Groenewald took two wickets in his fourth over.
With Sussex on 40 for three their batsmen concentrated on keeping their wickets intact and they added only 18 from the next six overs. Gatting and Yardy looked to accelerate but, when Gatting, having hit two sixes, was well caught by Madsen at extra-cover off David Wainwright, the score had reached 102 for five.
Three overs later the umpires brought the players off for a persistent drizzle which gradually became more intense, making the chance of a resumption, even with a reduced number of overs and target under the Duckworth/Lewis method, quite unlikely.
Soon after five o'clock, the umpires confirmed that this was indeed the case and the match was abandoned with each team taking one point.
Sussex 111 for 5 (24 overs) (JS Gatting 24, MH Yardy 22*; TD Groenewald 3 for 30)
Derbyshire did not bat
Match Abandoned – Derbyshire (1 point) Sussex (1)
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The Maria Fareri Children's Hospital at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its Family Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
The hospital welcomed back past patients to the hospital lawn, where there were bounce castles, a clown, opportunities to take pictures, face painting and more.
Maria Fareri Children's Hospital at Westchester Medical Center is the only neonatal intensive care unit in the Hudson Valley and Fairfield County at Level IV, the highest level. The hospital receives transfers from community hospitals from around the region, and cares for the area's smallest and sickest newborns


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Morning Routine
- Get up and get dressed to lace-up shoes; fixing your hair and face
- Look at your posted reminders in the kitchen and bathroom
- Read your FlyLady emails
- Recognize the negative voices and change them. Remember, you are FLYing now!
- Put out your Hot Spots for two minutes
- Five-minute Room Rescue (pick any room in the house). Set your timer and go!
Before-Bed Routine
- Keep your sink shining
- Lay out your clothes for tomorrow
- Put out your Hot Spot. It will make you happy in the morning!
We have already been using our timers for two minutes and now five minutes. Today we are going to learn the power of just 15 minutes. You can do anything for 15 minutes. This is all about getting started and giving ourselves permission to stop when the timer goes off. You cannot restart the timer either. This is not a race to finish in 15 minutes, either! The timer helps to keep us focused on what we are doing.
Now, set your timer for 15 minutes and go gather up all the trash you can find to throw away and put it in the garbage can outside. Then set your timer for another 15 minutes and sit down and put your feet up and read a favorite magazine until the timer goes off.