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COLUMBIA (AP) — A company that handles moves for some military members in South Carolina and Georgia is being accused of inflating costs and overbilling the federal government, allegations that could potentially result in millions of dollars in penalties and fines.
Covan World-Wide Moving Inc., and an affiliate, Coleman American Moving Services, Inc., move soldiers to and from South Carolina's Fort Jackson and Georgia's Fort Gordon, according to the lawsuit.
The companies are paid on the weight of the shipments they handle. According to the lawsuit, initially filed in 2012 but only unsealed last month, Covan and Coleman inflated the net weight of the shipments — gross weight of the packaged belongings, minus the weight of shipping crates — and then sent the exaggerated invoices to the federal government.
Relying in part on information from several Coleman employees acting as whistleblowers, the U.S. Department of Justice said the falsified paperwork sometimes resulted in billing the government for thousands of excess pounds.
Covan is based in Ogden, Utah, and works with Coleman's facilities in Augusta, Ga. Attorneys for the companies have said in court papers that the meritless claims should be dismissed and don't contain enough specifics on alleged misdeeds.
"The government's allegations are woefully lacking in particularity concerning the time, place and manner of allegedly fraudulent claims," they wrote. "Plaintiffs' plan here appears to be to attempt to 'flesh out' their claims of fraud through the process of discovery."
The lawsuit was filed in federal court in South Carolina, but the government said the overbilling is likely happening throughout the companies' nationwide network, part of a "corporate policy designed to fraudulently increase corporate profits at the expense of the United States."
Court papers included anecdotes regarding service members' moves to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where government officials had also become suspicious of the accuracy of weights in the companies' shipments. Upon further review, according to the government, Covan, Coleman and their affiliates consistently overbilled the U.S. by 9 to 10 percent of a shipment's actual weight.
"Defendants' false claims scheme has resulted in a substantial loss to the United States and its taxpayers," the government wrote.
Since 2009, according to prosecutors, the companies and their affiliates have billed the federal government for $723 million worth of shipping and relocation services for members of the armed services.
If found guilty, the companies could face millions of dollars in fines for each inflated invoice. An audit found more than 430 instances of overbilling, according to the lawsuit.
No hearings have been scheduled in the case.


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Update on Closures Coming to Java 7
It was announced yesterday that closures would be added to JDK 7. Mark Reinhold made the announcement at the Devoxx conference. Before today, Sun could not reach a consensus on the inclusion of closures in JDK 7. Three proposals for closures were submitted to Sun over the last few years. With the JDK 7 schedule extended to September 2010, Reinhold seems to think that now is the time to bring closures to Java.
A few more details about the closures announcement for Java 7 surfaced today. According to Stephen Colebourne's blog, Mark Reinhold's Devoxx announcement indicated that "JDK 7 closures will not have control-invocation statements as a goal, nor will it have non-local returns. He [Reinhold] also indicated that access to non-final variables was unlikely. Beyond this, there wasn't much detail on semantics, nor do I believe that there has been much consideration of semantics yet."
Here's a strawman syntax for closures that Mark Reinhold wrote on his plane ride to the conference:
// function expressions
#(int i, String s) {
return i + s.length();
// function expressions
#(int i, String s) (i + s.length())
// function types
#int(int, String)
The syntax resembles the FCM closure proposal, but Reinhold made it clear that he was using FCM as an example and not endorsing it. Joseph Darcy from Sun said the closures would be "Smaller than BGGA." A few weeks before the conference, Neal Gafter, a co-author of the BGGA closure proposal, wrote a simple specification for closures in Java.
Mitch Pronschinske replied on Wed, 2009/11/18 - 6:11pm in response to: Collin Fagan
Silvio Bierman replied on Wed, 2009/11/18 - 8:08pm
Collin Fagan replied on Wed, 2009/11/18 - 9:11pm in response to:
Ryan Developer replied on Thu, 2009/11/19 - 8:53am
When will people realize that the majority of Java programmers aren't nearly as dissatisfied with the language as functional programmers seem to think? Give me NIO2, properties, a better date & time API, multi catch, the "elvis operator", USB & Serial ports on all OS's, and Java EE 6 instead. Hopefully once Oracle takes over Sun they will have the money and manpower to increase the pace of enhancement to the Java language. Since JDK7's release date has been pushed way out, maybe they can finally include these kinds of useful features.
Sven Reimers replied on Thu, 2009/11/19 - 1:25am
Alex Miller replied on Thu, 2009/11/19 - 2:12am
Armin Ehrenreich replied on Thu, 2009/11/19 - 4:08am
int variable = 10;or when separating declaration and definition:
int (^nameOfClosure)(int) = ^(int argument) { return argument * variable; };
int (^exampleClosure)(int);
exampleClosure = ^(int argument) {
return argument * 12;
Liam Knox replied on Thu, 2009/11/19 - 4:48am in response to: Silvio Bierman
Look at the history of other language usage, for example C++ or even Corba, in the real world and you will see its not just question of picking up the next 'great' language and starting again. It is often slightly more technically and politically complex than you infer
Closures will help Java developers although there is controvesy. I personally believe it is excellent news.
Karl Peterbauer replied on Thu, 2009/11/19 - 6:34am in response to: Liam Knox
Silvio Bierman replied on Thu, 2009/11/19 - 11:24am in response to: Liam Knox
Armin Ehrenreich replied on Thu, 2009/11/19 - 12:20pm in response to: Silvio Bierman
Ryan Developer replied on Thu, 2009/11/19 - 12:51pm in response to: Armin Ehrenreich
Karl Peterbauer replied on Thu, 2009/11/19 - 1:28pm in response to: Silvio Bierman
GeekyCoder coder replied on Thu, 2009/11/19 - 2:27pm
There are many good valid points either in freezing Java or adding 'compelling' feature to Java language.
I like to give my point of view too.
I support the idea that Java as a language need to evolve by adding 'marketable' and 'useful' feature. Although freezing Java does not make it any less popular in near future since there are already huge investment in Java-written software, Java language need to have good 'attractive' feature to continuously entice new programmers and retain developers to build Java application. If change is inevitable, why does that not apply to programming language as well ? Beside, it is also in the best interest for companies that bet on Java technology for their business like Oracle, IBM, to continously make Java as attractive development language since a greal deal of their software are written in Java-only language, and will need Java programmer to maintain and enhance them. Moreover, if these companies are continue to use Java for their future project and new product, why then not improve Java to leverage on existing skill and experience ? After all, at the end of the day, what matter most is application get developed and programmers are happy to use and to exploit Java's feature.
Moreover Java to some is also both a passion and testbed for language innovation, and by improving the Java language, it also make for more interesting Java-derivative language (eg Groovy), . Perhaps it is the hope that Java still has promising life and innovation ahead in term of language feature that spurt more attractive language, library and framework. For example, library and framework are updated to exploit Generic, var-arg, Annotation, and the same will happen for Closure.
Eventually language will be overtaken by another better and popular language but if the language's life can still be prolonged by adding marketable feature, then why not ? If Java becomes marketable and popular, the programmer too will become marketable and in demand too. I hardly believe that Java will become the future Cobol as long as it continue to evolve with 'marketable' feature.
Let nature takes its course on Java but Java itself should not standstill to await its fate.
My wish-list for Java7 => G-String / Multiline string, closure
GeekyCoder coder replied on Thu, 2009/11/19 - 2:42pm
Why do we not want Java language to evolve when other alternate languages (eg Groovy, Scala, Fantom, JRuby) are continuously evolve with interesting and marketable features ? To say that Java should stay stagnant for reliability purposes , and that other languages can be used for Java's lackof feature (eg closure) are quite ironic because what make those latter languages anymore reliable with continuous change ?
Armin Ehrenreich replied on Thu, 2009/11/19 - 3:13pm in response to:
Liam Knox replied on Thu, 2009/11/19 - 8:49pm in response to: Silvio Bierman
I would also say thay both Generics and Annotations have done this too for Java.
If you think that Closures add less value, i.e. by way of complexity, then clearly you would advise otherwise. Presumably as you like Scala you like Closures. Again, you have to think real world though. Yes it would be great to pick up Scala and use it everywhere from now, but that is not going to happen and preventing Java improvement based on this premis is plain wrong.
Look how evolution works interms of iteration and mutation, small step, big step you should get the general idea. Software languages have synergy to this.
Chris Knoll replied on Fri, 2009/11/20 - 10:19am
Can we please boot the people that are comming up with these stupidly terse synatx ideas?
In the old days, it was nice...you could read the code naturally and it made sense.
It started with the : operator....would 'foreach' have been such a problem? But it's the 'extends' keyword in other languages.
Now we have this #. Isn't that a way to mark a line a comment?
why's it so hard to type:
function x(int y,string z);
If they want to save characters, how about we rewrite the whole laugnage syntax...let's start with variable declarations...here's how we can map it out
int = .
string = $
bool = ?
float = %
double = %%
new = +
Think of all the typing savings!
. x = 4;
$ y = "Love the savings!"
Someone tell me...WHY does java additions need to look like objective-C? It didn't start out that way, and making the new things model some other language just makes the whole thing look like a hodgepodge of disjointed ideas. It's like we have the wrong decision makers at the helm...
Silvio Bierman replied on Fri, 2009/11/20 - 12:50pm in response to: Liam Knox
Rogerio Liesenfeld replied on Fri, 2009/11/20 - 4:17pm in response to: Armin Ehrenreich
Personally, my hopes lie with JavaFX Script. Scala has no chance in the long term, IMO...
Liam Knox replied on Sat, 2009/11/21 - 6:05am in response to: Silvio Bierman
But they can thrive only if the language and its standard library have been designed around themis absolute nonsense. This has been couter proven by the addition of Annotations and Generics to the language. Also the predominant librarys are now not the ones bundled in rt.jar, but in the opensource world like Spring, Google-collections, etc, etc. If these players adopt closures, which I am sure they will, we will see far simpler and more powerfull librarys. I would also say the success of Scala is largely dependent on how the opensource community adopts it, so far I havent been impressed.
Armin Ehrenreich replied on Sat, 2009/11/21 - 5:27am in response to: Rogerio Liesenfeld
Armin Ehrenreich replied on Sat, 2009/11/21 - 6:19am in response to: Chris Knoll
Joerg Wassmer replied on Sat, 2009/11/21 - 7:56am
Mario Fusco replied on Sat, 2009/11/21 - 10:08am
This proposal provides more or less the same set of features offered by lambdaj (actually lambdaj has also curry that seems missing in this spec). The only advantage i can see here is a nicer syntax.
But I took 3 days to develop closures in lambdaj, while (if everything will go as claimed and I am not sure of that) it will need about 3 years to have the same stuff in jdk7. Indeed I remember I am participating to discussion about closures since late 2007 and now they are telling us that we will have them in late 2010.
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The big interview: Joan Plaza on why Žalgiris is back in business, recruiting methods and dealing with goals & pressure
This season in the Euroleague, it is very difficult not to talk about the dramatic change Žalgiris has gone through since you took over. What is the most important aspect you changed in Kaunas: The "mentality", as you mentioned several times?
We changed mentally. Players used to be troubled a lot by what had happened in the previous season. They always thought they were going to lose – against Efes, Olympiacos or anybody… It is something I do not allow, wherever I am. When I coached in Spain – Joventut Badalona, Real Madrid or Sevilla – our goal even when on the road was always trying to get the win. So at a team as legendary as Žalgiris, we work a lot on our mindset, to improve our chances of winning on the road and also at home. We work on a lot of things, but that in particular.
When you signed with Žalgiris this summer, a lot of people, including myself, were shocked. A lot of people wondered how you were convinced to work for Žalgiris because everybody knows that you are strongly committed to your principles. And Žalgiris is not famous to comply with that recently.
Everybody told me I am crazy to take this challenge, true. I talked to two or three top level coaches, whom I consider the best in Europe. I also talked to a person of the Euroleague organization. Everybody told me not to go to Žalgiris. It is a big challenge for me.
When I was younger, I needed to climb the ladder through all those different divisions. I coached every single category in basketball, from younger generations, even six to seven year olds, to senior level. When I was coaching in the Spanish first division in Badalona, Madrid or Sevilla, I always thought that I needed to coach outside of Spain in order to progress. I don't know anyone among the greatest European coaches who only coached in their home country. They go abroad, and if I pretend to be one of the better coaches in Europe, I need to do the same.
It is true that there was no great opportunity before Žalgiris opened this door for me. Maybe other people do not consider this the best option, but I believe in my chances here. I also talked openly with the owner of this club, starting with the very first meeting. I talked about my conditions, my red lines. If they respect that, I can do a good job here.
During the press conference after your victory against EA7 Armani Milano, you mentioned the importance of keeping players ambitious every day. Isn't it impossible to maintain those ambitions in a marathon like the Euroleague? How do you handle it?
I do not know what other coaches are doing but I suffered a lot in order to reach this point. I cannot imagine where this is going to end up. I think the first thing I need to try is to provide some kind of stability for this team. I am on a team that has had ten coaches in the last four years. I am on a team that has had no less than 20 to 23 players in the last years. I am on a team that has had many staff changes, too. So I need to provide the team with stability first and foremost, in order for us to improve. This way, players realize that we can be competitive and that we can beat every opponent in every competition. But this is not enough. We need to be ready for losses as well, but we must compete even if we lose tonight here in Istanbul. I am going to be proud of my players even if we lose tonight. What matters is competing all the way including the last two or three minutes of the game, leaving everything on the floor and not allowing ourselves to make excuses.
We have had a really bad week so far, without the chance of practicing with the whole team. But great teams such as Žalgiris, Efes, Fenerbahçe, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Panathinaikos, etc. cannot use such thing as an excuse. We also had a lot of problems last month, being without Javtokas, Klimavicius, dealing with the departure of Kalnietis, and in the last weeks, the Lavrinovic brothers' injury problems… We had relatively young players carrying a lot of responsibility for the first time in their careers. And yet, I still don't want to hear excuses. If we lose, we lose. But we lose while competing. Only then we can define new goals, new challenges to survive and keep ourselves on track. There are 16.000 people behind us in Kaunas. Other teams don't have that. We have good reason to be competitive every single day.
Now players believe in you. We have seen some incredible defensive efforts from players we wouldn't expect that from. What is your secret?
As I have always said: I have no secrets, no magical powders. I just try to be as fair as possible. I know that some of the players I am coaching are around 33, 34 years old, close to 35. Some other players are around 20. I do not treat them any different, never! I ask for the same things from every single player. They know that I don't treat American players any different than I treat Lithuanian players.
My plan, my style is to be consistent in a way that seven footers like Jeff Foote and the Lavrinovics need to defend 12 meters away from the basket. If you don't give them an absolutely perfect reason to do it, they are going to give up. They are going to tell you "Coach, I cannot do that", "I cannot be that aggressive", "I cannot defend that far away from the basket" because most coaches, and that is perfectly understandable, establish their big men in the middle of the paint to block and alter shots. But that is not my style.
They need to feel convinced about your knowledge. During the pre-season, we worked a lot on that point. I showed them a statistic from the best teams in Europe over the last five years. The best teams perform well on offense but even better on defense. They are consistent at home. In the last years, Žalgiris lost most of their Top 16 home games. That isn't possible for a great club like Žalgiris. Therefore we need to be solid at home. We cannot lose at home. For that we need to be consistent on defense. They know that we have rules about who helps who when someone is in trouble. But they need to show me that they are giving 100 percent on the floor, not just on offense.
What was your main recruitment strategy in the off-season? There were restrictions, such as ongoing contracts, budget limitations and a limited pool of domestic players that have the ability of playing at such a high level. What were your priorities?
Well, the club's number one priority was to create a team with almost twelve Lithuanian players. They had some troubles in the past creating quality teams. The first thing that the club owner and sportive director asked me to do was to build a Lithuanian team. I could have accepted or not accepted this task, but I agreed to try. It is a double challenge for me. There is no team in Europe which plays exclusively with domestic players.
I asked them to try to sign the better ones. We weren't able to do it because some of them preferred other offers – our budget is below last year's after all. After that, we were aware that we may lose in talent a little bit, but that we needed "human capacity". I did not want a franchise guy like Jordan Farmar or a Terrell McIntyre type who you can adjust your team offense to. I prefer to have players who can help create good chemistry. I wanted players who can help the team on both ends of the floor.
When recruiting, I talk to their former coaches, their parents and sometimes their girlfriends. I never stop talking to persons that can provide fundamental information on a player's personality. My employers usually prefer more marketable players, who everybody enjoys watching, who sell tickets. I worked very hard to convince those people that we needed to have a team, with ten players – maybe not as spectacular, but players with good mentality.
We also know how crazy Lithuanians are about their national team and consequently their young home grown players. You are expected to improve those players' games while at the same time competing in extremely tough competitions. You also have enormous experience – from Badalona to Sevilla – in working with young players. What do you think about this subject? What is your opinion about how to succeed in this area?
When they signed me, they asked me many different things. The biggest point was that they were worried about the quality of the next generation of Lithuanian players who represent both Žalgiris and their country. They are aware of the fact that their key players are getting older, same as in Argentina, Spain, etc., and that they needed to begin to play the players from the new generations. In my career, like you said, I showed that I am willing to do that. In Badalona with Raul Lopez, Alex Mumbru and Rudy Fernandez. In Real Madrid, I pushed to improve the likes of Sergio Llull, Pablo Aguilar, Bojan Bogdanovic, Nikola Mirotic. Satoransky, Sastre in Sevilla. In Badalona we traditionally push players to grow up by, for example, putting them into the starting five. This is what I try to do here.
I think Lithuania is not respected enough. They are just three million people and played in all six Olympic Games since their independence! And they are playing close to the top! It is incredible. In my opinion we need to push all players to improve but not by playing them just one or two minutes. We participate in three different competitions and there are enough games for them to play minutes and grow. For me, it is nothing new; it is just a new challenge. I try to help them improve while competing in tough competitions such as the Euroleague, VTB and LKL. I think there is enough quality talent. Also, the conditions here in our gym allow us working long hours per day.
If the players are ready to work, so am I, because I don't know how long I will stay here, whether they will cut me around Christmas or whether they will cut me in the summer. I don't know what is going to happen, considering this club's past. Coaches don't stay here for long. I'm trying not to think too much about what could happen. One of my challenges here is to push players like Juskevicius, Lipkevicius, Kuzminskas, Foote, Delas and all these guys, including two players from the junior team, who we have started to work with.
There are a lot of factors there, but the main thing is giving young players the playing time, right?
Yes. Those young players are starting plenty of games in the Euroleague, VTB League and LKL. They know they are not going to be left on the bench. Doing it any other way would not be my style.
What do you think is wrong with Real Madrid? Coaches are coming and going there, and looking at recent years, you stayed there the longest.
Real Madrid is not only the biggest club but also the biggest platform. There is a joke that says you need to win games before you have even arrived! The moment you are signing the contract, you are expected to win. That kind of pressure is both exciting and tough to deal with. Coaches really need to be ready for this battle. I was born and lived in Barcelona. I know that working for FC Barcelona brings a lot of pressure, a lot. But the difference between Barcelona and Real Madrid is: the entire country creates pressure on Real Madrid, from south to the north and the entire world. I travel around the globe for conferences and other things – everybody is watching Real Madrid, talking about Real Madrid. In Barcelona the pressure is coming mainly from Barcelona itself, plus the rest of Catalonia. Of course people outside Catalonia have expectations, but we cannot deny that Real Madrid is the biggest club in the history of European basketball, with the most European titles. Everybody expects them to win, and you need to be prepared for that.
I am absolutely happy with my time there. I was the first Catalan coach of Real Madrid. When I started, I knew that it may last for just a few months if things didn't go well. But we won a lot. We had the best record in ACB history. I think people understand my style after my time there. There were 15.000 people in the arena for the first time back then. People knew that we didn't have a huge budget, maybe two to three times less than it is now. But we were giving our best. And players were improving.
One of the guys that I appreciate a lot is Kerem Tunçeri, who is one of the best point guards in Europe. But at the same time, we needed to keep pushing and growing players like Llull. There was also Raul Lopez at the point guard position. No one knew him then, a player coming from the second division. I knew him from Menorca and Manresa. I kept pushing him to become a better player, at the same time we were fighting for the championship.
I don't think we had any large margin losses during my whole time with Real Madrid. And people understood that we were integrating new players back then. Players such as Mirotic were improving. They were no mercenaries, they were there long-term. There is a lot of pressure but if you believe in your style, like myself, you can make it there for three, four years. I think I am the third longest working coach in Real Madrid history. We didn't win every title, but people would see that we were giving our best. As I said, if you believe in your style and handle the pressure well, you can survive there for multiple years and I hope Pablo Laso wins a lot of titles there.
Is there a logical explanation about the way coaches have been treated there? This approach doesn't take them anywhere, unlike Barcelona, who are more consistent and are doing well in the last years. The departure of Ettore Messina in particular was miserable.
When they told me Messina is coming to replace me, I told them that I understand why they would fire me, if it was for Ettore Messina, or Zeljko Obradovic, or one of the other top coaches in Europe. There was a new president at that time and I understood that they were only looking for the very best. Ettore and Zeljko are the two best coaches in the last twenty years in Europe. It is easy to understand that they were looking for the best.
It is true that Real Madrid needs time and patience to improve and finally dominate again. But this kind of patience is so difficult to get at Real Madrid. You need to be really prepared before you arrive and understand what the fans expect. It requires that maybe the players you are signing are not the best ones but they should be the best ones in the future, and they need to understand that they are stars. There are many things you need to be aware of. That is the only explanation about Messina's time.
There are coaches like Ettore Messina, Zeljko Obradovic, Aito Garcia Reneses, David Blatt, the best ones. I believe 100 percent in what they are trying. As a coach I can see what they are going for technically, tactically, but other people cannot. They are trying to integrate players that are going to be fundamental to their success in the future. But the pressure of the media, the pressure of the fans… that pressure on the players and the club is immense.
It is true that nobody backed me back then because I had only been an assistant coach (of Bozidar Maljkovic) before. When I left, I said I would keep working hard in order to one day coach again for a great club like Real Madrid. And now here I am – at Žalgiris.
Do you think Real Madrid can win the Euroleague this season? Actually, can this style win? They sacrificed shot selection, decision making for a high game pace. Also, defense is a lower priority than before…
It is difficult to know from the outside what they are really going for, their actual goals. As for Žalgiris, we are the second best scoring team in the Euroleague but also one of the top three to four defensive teams. We cannot do things in any different way. Offense helps you win many games. But if you want to win titles, you also have to defend well. You need to be consistent. I think they know that the same way as I do or even better. They will keep improving on that point. Maybe that is their approach, winning titles by scoring loads of points, but I really don't know.
If they win the Euroleague, can it be a revolution like Žalgiris '99? Would it influence the styles of other teams significantly, thus creating a new trend?
I spend a lot of time talking to my assistant coaches who are head coaches right now, like Zan Tabak in Poland. As a coach you need to be aware of your capacities 100 percent, to know what to sell. You cannot cheat the players, you cannot cheat the fans. As I have said already: I have no magical powders, no secrets. I began coaching a long time ago, in 1977. I kept improving, defining my own philosophy with the help of Boza, Manel Comas, Aito and many of them. My philosophy is quite consistent on that, but it always depends on the coach at the helm. Everyone has their own philosophy on the subject of basketball.
Can we expect an autobiography from you, considering you have already written novels?
Well, talking about novels, my first novel is translated to Lithuanian. It is incredible that somebody believed my work would be selling in Lithuania. My second novel is hopefully going to be published in Spain in spring. I really believe my first novel could be translated into English as well. But the point is, I suffered a lot in my career to arrive at this point. I worked a lot but nobody gave me a chance until I arrived at Real Madrid. Now I take part in conferences for companies and many other organizations because my life is a good example that you need to be persistent, you must never give up.
The truth is: we need to eat, we need to provide money for our families, but we also need to enjoy what we are doing. There were many times when I was really close to throwing the towel. They said "you are not earning money", "you are alone on the hill", "nobody believes in you"… Now it is easy to use me as an example. But that is not accurate. People cannot wait for 30 years for one great opportunity. I work at changing tires, because I need to put food on the table. I work in a jail, because I need to put food on the table.
I hope that I will keep working for great teams such as Žalgiris, Real Madrid, Joventut Badalona, Sevilla and become one of the best coaches in Europe. Everybody has those dreams, but people that have reached this point have not achieved that just by talking. I am the first Spanish coach to work outside the country at this level for years. I may be 3.000 kilometers away from my family but I am going to accept it if I want to be one of the best. I don't want to change my character.
Also, I want to help the people around me, I want them to be happy. If I do it without changing my personality, I think I would consider myself successful. I am different than other coaches and I may write my own biography in the future, when I'm old enough to answer all these questions.
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This is the order in which i have narrowed down my draft short list at Number 24! Dennis Schröder is Brandon Jennings with maturity at a young age with a more consistent jump shot. Great decision making natural skills and the moves of Jamal Crawford ! Tony Parker speed and can get to the hole for self or draw and pass! He can learn the NBA game rather fast because he was born a point guard! Still growing Ht. WT and wingspan / speed don't Lie!
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If you want Chris Paul type skills and can't get him as a Free agent, well this is your can't miss kid!
.Dennis is a very good defensive player," [Billy] McKinney said. "I think that's one of the things he's going to get better at. He has good point guard skills, as well. He has a good all-around game.
"He's 19-years-old right now. He has a tremendous chance to grow as a player, but in stature, as well. Physically, he's going to get stronger as he competes with grown men now."
Summit report : Terrific ball-handling skills, a lightning quick first step, excellent speed in the openfloor, and a penchant for getting teammates involved, Schroeder did an outstanding job in both transition and in the half-court, getting to virtually wherever he wanted on the floor. He executed his team's offense effectively, doing a good job of pushing the ball inside when needed, and finding teammates constantly spotting up on the perimeter or cutting to the rim for a layup after blowing past his man.
2nd Shane Larkin safe pick if available 3rd Tony Mitchell SF/PF if both are gone, versatile impact potential (Wilson chandler with Josh Smith wings!)
remember passing on Brandon Jennings i'm not a fan of his but a fan of real point guard potential!


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Earlier this week, Patrick Stevens, in his D1scourse blog (Washington Times), compiled a list of the jersey/pants combinations that Maryland football has used since 2005. I wondered what their record was for each uniform combination, and fortunately, TerrapinStats.com has easy-to-use lists of season-by-season results. It doesn't look good for everyone who's excited about all-black uniforms.Jersey/Pants W-L %
Black/White 4-1 .800
Red/White 16-6 .727
Red/Red 4-3 .571
White/Black 3-3 .500
Black/Red 1-1 .500
White/Red 5-7 .416
White/White 6-11 .352
Black/Black 0-4 .000
What does this all mean? Not much, unless you're superstitious. Just fun statistics to kill time until the Miami game.
Combinations with White jerseys do worse, since we tend to wear those on the road. We tend to wear Red/White for all the non-conference home games against weaker opponents, so we ran up a lot of wins in that combination. We only wear Black/Black for big games against top opponents like WV, VT, and FSU, hence the poor record for that combination. I'm not sure why Black/White does so well; we have worn those exclusively for ACC home games, but we haven't used that combination since 2008.


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I'm going to keep posting reminders about this, but I wanted to announce the Reds DC tailgate party against the Nationals at RFK before the Thursday game from 5-6:30pm.
I will be bringing my little weber grill along and grilling burgers. My burgers are fresh, handmade, none of that frozen crap, and chock full of good stuff. I'll be concocting a special "Reds burger" for the occasion.
I'll also be bringing some pitchers of Homers, the delightful Bailey's Irish Cream/strawberry ice cream drink I concocted to honor our young number 34's Major League debut. Bring your own beer - I'm not rich.
I hope that everyone in the DC Metro area will attend the tailgate party. Please spread the word. I know Brendanukkah and blee will be going to the games, but I'm not sure if there are any other DC lurkers out there. Heck, why don't some of you out-of-towners come and visit dumpy old RFK - it will be your last chance!


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Take a moment and consider what goes through your mind as you're setting up for a shot in the hack. Start by imagining your skip at the far end holding the broom. Envision your teammates standing close at hand, waiting to sweep.
The base of your curling ice is made, and the white paint is on and sealed in. Are you ready to paint the circles and run your lines?
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NIS File Insight mistakenly flags my MSI installer as a threat by saying it has no digital signature.
After NIS File Insight started flagging my MSI as a threat, i started applying the File Insight function to a series of MSIs from various publishers. It seems only heavy weight software companies (e.g. Microsoft, Sun, Norton) knew the secret way to get File Insight to recognize even the existence of a digital signature.
This is obviously a bug, and, from surfing through this message board, not a new one. Exactly two years ago, the same issue was reported with screenshots:
Can someone please look to this bug?
It's been more than a week of emails and petitions to various departments at Symantec and still no one will address my questions. The closest I got was an email suggesting that I digitally sign my file to avoid False Positives! In other words, I'm arguing with a computer or someone who doesn't read my emails.
This Norton File Insight is really making things difficult for me. I'm trying to sell my software online. I duly sign my application with a certificate issued by a trusted authority after a proper background check of my business. I'm pulling my hair out. Has anyone had similar problems with Norton File Insight or the support team at Symantec?
Well, I was able to get tech support on the phone. I was told that the problem is with the website - that I have to have to submit the website to Norton Web Safe for inspection. I said that makes no sense - how does verifying a file's digital signature relate to the website it came from? The tech support person said that verification is tied to the website.
Even if this is true, it still makes no sense. If I had some malware, I could just get my website inspected and then post some malware for download. The better avenue is to have Norton File Insight recognize that the file is digitally signed. It is very, very rare that malware is digitally signed with a certificate issued by a trusted authority. IE9's SmartScreen filter recognizes this (and recognizes that my MSI is digitally signed). So, what's going on?
So, I'm just waiting for my website to be verified as safe and then I'll do this ridiculous test on whether Norton File Insight will verify that file is safe only because it came from a safe website.
So, my website is safe according to norton, but same old nonsense with the MSI.
Why isn't every small software developer up in arms about this?
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You might want to look into having your software whitelisted with Symantec. Here is the information:
White-listing works for about a day. As soon as I post an update to my software, the white-listing status is gone.
I will say one thing in Symantec's defense: they do provide some good customer support. Now that I have the correct phone number, I can get to a human pretty quickly who does try and help me out. I'm waiting on a call-back from a higher-up on this issue.
Hi Chris,
I can confirm that digital signature verification for MSI files has been added in Norton 2012. Until it releases, there are some other steps I'd like to take to ensure that any FP problems with your software are resolved. Can you send me a PM with details about your site and how I can download your files?
So in the meantime your product impugns the reputation of my company? This is not acceptable. Verifying digital certificates is arguably the single-most important step in checking for malware. Malware simply are not digitally signed with certificates issued by trusted authorities. To not check for digital certificates is a basic flaw of Norton File Insight. And come on, this is easy to fix with a patch and it's been at least two years. This is unacceptable.


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7Hey, the Official American Idol Promo Portrait is Here!
So let's take a good, hard look at this now, huh? Let's talk about how Randy, though a long-time staple of the show, looks so, so out of place in this picture? And how Mariah's got the typical "stand to the side" thing (because DUH, it's supposed to make you look skinnier and THAT'S ALL THAT MATTERS IN THE WORLD) going on hardcore, and how Ryan Seacrest is just laughing at the whole thing because he's making bank and doesn't give a putrid rat's ass who likes whom and whatever, and then you have Nicki Minaj. Who literally (not virtually) makes me want to die each and every time I look at her stupid mug, pulling stupid faces. Is this what American Idol's been reduced to? A plethora of Nicki Minaj faces? Last, you have Keith Urban, who, though has only been on the job for about a week, is probably already reconsidering everything, and that's saying a lot, guys. It's saying a lot because he lives with Nicole Kidman, and her drama and weird faces pretty much trump everything. 'Til now.
Also, remember how we were talking about that feud that's happening already between Mariah and Nicki? Well come on. It's not happening, of course. From MTV:
MTV News paid a visit to the "Idol" set at Lincoln Center on Monday (September 17), and the judges — including Minaj and Carey — were all smiles, immediately putting to rest tales of bad blood between the two.
"How are we gonna feud in two days? A feud takes a little longer to spread out [than that]," Mariah responded, laughing, when asked if she and the YMCMB rapper were seeing eye-to-eye.
"It's fun, it's music, it's singing, it's laughter," she added, while Minaj chuckled along with her, looking amused at the beef rumors.
No, Minaj is looking amused not at the beef rumors, but at the mention of the word 'beef'. How do you think she got all that ass, anyhow? Don't tell me that's not some kind of weird bovine injectible or something, gosh.
Really, the only thing I can say about all of this is is goodnight and goodbye, American Idol. That and, "Please don't make me write another post about you ever again, OK?"
September 18, 2012 at 5:30 pm by Sarah
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Fake fun squad if I ever saw it.
They must have given Mariah a bonus check if she agreed to let this walking parade float share the spotlight with her.
keiths pretty good on the voice. encouraging, seems to know his stuff and gives constructive feeback. seems, since im pretty tone deaf and never hear when someone is off key, pitch and all that stuff unless they are really really bad and cant sing at all.
Isn't it Blake Sheldon on the Voice?
god, i fucking hate nikki minaj.
Can't that stupid Nikki Minaj take a normal picture for fks sakes!?
yeah, enough with the sex doll faces, crikey minaj. annoying to the max.


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Since BeauTrichful Magazine has been released, I've read every edition, and even have had feature articles in their Spring 2013 and Summer 2013 editions. This quarter, I was lucky enough to be chosen as the cover and feature story for the Autumn 2013 release. Inside the magazine, you'll see my article about how trich is my "gift", read inspirational stories from many other people who also have trich, check out a makeup tutorial for creating thicker lashes, and see tons of before and after photos of people who are making changes in their lives to overcome this disorder.
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One of the scariest things for Browns fans in the transition from Mike Holmgren to Joe Banner was Banner's decision to switch defenses. It isn't that Cleveland Browns fans have that much of a preference, other than they have a preference against switching schemes all the time. You know, continuity and all that? The Browns were a 3-4 defense with Romeo Crennel and Eric Mangini before switching to the 4-3 for Pat Shurmur's two-year tenure under Mike Holmgren. That defense was young and thought to be on the rise when Joe Banner fired Shurmur, Dick Jauron and proclaimed to Terry Pluto that the Browns needed to run the 3-4. Now that the Browns have fired Rob Chudzinski and are again searching for a new coach, the rumor mill is churning out Jim Schwartz' name. He's a 4-3 guy.
NFL Rumors: Heckert, Shurmur Could Be Reunited With Andy Reid In Arizona
Mike Jurecki, a talk show host and reporter out of Phoenix, is reporting that not only are the Cardinals closing in on hiring former Eagles head coach Andy Reid for their head coaching opening, but they are looking at former Browns general manager Tom Heckert for their general manager vacancy as well. There's one other nugget too: Pat Shurmur might be reuniting with Heckert sooner rather than later.
Michael Bidwill interviewed Ray Horton today, focusing on Andy Reid/ Tom Heckert joining the Cardinals. Reid could bring Pat Shurmur as OC.
— Mike Jurecki (@mikejurecki) January 1, 2013
Heckert, you will recall, spent nine years in Philadelphia in various positions, while Shurmur was there for ten seasons as a tight ends and quarterbacks coach under Reid.
Jason La Canfora also supports these rumors and adds that Browns offensive coordinator Brad Childress could be headed there as a quarterbacks coach.
However, not so fast, says Mary Kay Cabot of The Plain Dealer.
My sources are telling me that former #browns gm Heckert very unlikely to end up in Arizona w/ Reid.
— Mary Kay Cabot (@MaryKayCabot) January 1, 2013
I do expect former #browns gm Heckert to land a gm job but not in Arizona. He has interviews lined up.
— Mary Kay Cabot (@MaryKayCabot) January 1, 2013
Related: #1 Moment of 2012: Haslam and Banner Replace Lerner and Holmgren
Brandon Weeden and Browns fans left looking for answers
The six-foot-four-inch, rocket-armed rookie leads the NFL in batted passes by a wide margin, having added four more to his first-year resúmé in his most recent loss. Said to have been mature beyond his class, having leadership qualities unparalleled, Weeden is nearing 30 years of age. But what he has in measurables and intangibles, he lacks in instinct and whatever quality it is that allows one to learn, manicure and progress over time — let's call it adaptability. When asked what Weeden plans on doing to rectify this glaring, season-long issue, he offered the most telling of quotes.
"I don't really know," Weeden said. "It's been one of our better plays. I don't have an answer for you."
While We're Waiting… Thankful for Jeremy Pargo
Today, as a special version of While We're Waiting, I wanted to go team-by-team as I share what I'm thankful for here in November 2012. For more WFNY thanks, stay tuned at 10 a.m.
Cleveland Cavaliers
I'm thankful for a very pleasant Thanksgiving Eve surprise in new Cavs point guard Jeremy Pargo: "Pargo's 28 points was surprising enough, but it was doubly impressive considering that he was matched up against Jrue Holiday, who is one of the better point guard defenders in the NBA. Pargo had no trouble getting his shot, though, as he shot 11-19 from the field and 4-8 from three. He also added four assists and five rebounds." [Jordan Sargent/SB Nation Cleveland] [Read more...]
Shurmur talks about improving communications
Browns head coach Pat Shurmur, from yesterday's session with the media-
I can't tell you exactly. I know exactly why. There were a couple situations getting the right people in the game, getting the play to the quarterback in a timely fashion and then him calling it properly. That's the string of events. There were a couple times yesterday that didn't get done. I'm absolutely responsible for that. We'll make changes here and we'll streamline some of things. That's what's nice about the bye week. It's about the Browns. It's about whoever you're team is you focus on, 'What can we do better as we move forward?' We just happen to have the latest bye of the season. For instance, we'll look at third and ones, what we can do better, the people we use, the plays we run as we move forward to make that absolutely better. We're going to do that.
(On why the plays didn't get in on time) – I mentioned about the communication. That's something that we're going to talk about. I'll take full responsibility for all of it. I think we can streamline some things to help the players execute better. That's about what I'll say about that.
(On the play calling process) – Brad (Childress) and I call the game. I send in the play to the quarterback, and then he calls the play in the huddle. That's it. (It's) very simple.
(On the conversations between himself and Childress) – We talk about what the plays are going to be. We have them written down, we just don't make them up as we go. Then there's also getting different players in the game because we use multiple players. There's a lot that goes on. That's where we need to be better than we were the other night in all of that and make sure it happens.
[Related: On squandered opportunities and disappearing good will]
Weeden has no comment on three burned timeouts
I believe Jeff Schudel asked Cleveland Browns quarterback Brandon Weeden what the cause of using three timeouts because the team seemingly couldn't get a call in by the end of the play clock.
Weeden quickly said, "I'm not.. I'm not going to comment on that." Then he gave this look.
Who knows why Weeden wouldn't comment, but you have to think that if he thought it was his fault, based on his previous willingness to take responsibility, that he would have done so.
[Related: Shaky decisions haunt Browns as they lose and say hello to the bye]
WFNY Podcast – 2012-10-26 – Craig and Rick preview Chargers matchup
Once again, Craig and Rick preview the matchup of the week. We also discussed the post I did about Pat Shurmur remaining for the rest of the season.
- Pat Shurmur and his tenure
- What are the benefits of not switching coaches mid-season?
- Trent Richardson and his running style
- The pass and run mix
- The Chargers and their loss to the Broncos
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Brad Childress Never Saw a Snap of Josh Gordon Before Draft
Every week, it seems that Brad Childress' press conference delivers some peculiar nugget about his eccentric, old-school coaching style. This week's special: He never had seen Josh Gordon play before he officially became a Cleveland Brown:
(On what he saw in Gordon before they picked him in the Supplemental Draft)- "I never saw a snap of him. I got off a cruise boat and somebody said, 'We signed Josh Gordon,' and I said, 'Who's Josh Gordon?'"
(On if he's being serious of about not knowing who Gordon was)- "Honestly, yeah. That was Tom (Heckert) and Pat (Shurmur)."
(On where he went on his cruise)- "Where did I go? What do they call it? Western or Eastern Caribbean, I can't remember right now. I don't know my islands very well, but it was my wife and I."
Childress did also mention that Gordon has evolved and improved significantly lately, but it wasn't clear what the coach's initial expectations may have been. Never change, Chilly, never change.
Hat tip to Dawgs By Nature for posting these Browns quotes earlier this evening.
[Related: Brad Childress: 'There are a lot of times … that I don't look at halftime stats']
Brad Childress: 'There are a lot of times … that I don't look at halftime stats'
During his usual Thursday news conference, Browns offensive coordinator Brad Childress was badgered with questions about the team's run/pass imbalance thus far on the season. His answer to checking the balance of playcalling may surprise you:
(On if seeing an imbalance in the run and pass in the first half affects how he calls the second) – "Not usually, because we're tending to script our openers. It takes us through the first quarter, sometimes into the second quarter. We have a pretty good sense of where we're at. It's not like one of those 'Hey, let's throw it, throw it, throw it, throw it', or 'let's run it, run it, run it, run it.' We'll never get into that. There are a lot of times, Tony (Grossi), to be honest with you that I don't look at halftime stats. You're doing it by the way you feel like you need to play to win the game."
(On if he's ever surprised when he sees the stats) – "I'm never surprised. There are times I think I've told you, that you guys were talking about numbers of plays for Trent when he first came back. We're mindful sometimes of things like that. Sometimes we'll count carries or touches, but that certainly hasn't been the case for the last three weeks."
Tony Grossi, the former Plain Dealer reporter and current ESPN Cleveland scribe, later penned an article with these quotes saying that this play-calling discrepancy "makes no sense." This particular comment also was a hot topic on 92.3 The Fan on Friday.
According to Team Rankings, the Browns currently rank third in the league by passing on 69.2% of their offensive plays this season. Only New Orleans and Oakland have passed it more. The Browns also lead the NFL with a 73.4% mark in the past three games, something Childress specifically pointed to in his comments.
[Related: NFL News: Josh Cooper will, in fact, be added to Browns roster]
What should the Browns do with receiver injury situation?
The Cleveland Browns have had receiver problems for as long as anyone can remember at this point. Anyone talked to Kevin Johnson lately? Former Browns receiver and returner André Davis is only 33. Maybe he still has something in the tank. Kidding aside, it felt like the Browns' receivers were developing this year early on as we got looks at Mohamed Massaquoi, Greg Little, Travis Benjamin and Josh Gordon. Plus, we had the promise of pesky Jordan Norwood and Josh Cribbs making appearances in relief. …And then there were none. Or at least that's the way it feels.
Mohamed Massaquoi is presumed to be out this weekend along with Travis Benjamin and Jordan Norwood. That leaves Greg Little, Josh Gordon, and Josh Cribbs. Add in the presumed call-up of Josh Cooper from the practice squad and the possibility of recently re-signed Rod Windsor and you can at least fill out the lineup, I guess. But, that's a whole lot of guys without a whole lot of experience or meaningful recent playing time, so what should the Browns do? Here are some suggestions. [Read more...]
Depth Chart Demands: Is it Josh Gordon's Turn?
While the coachspeak could be overflowing with hyperbole, Cleveland Browns offensive coordinator Brad Childress went on the record to say that rookie wide receiver Josh Gordon is entering the weekend coming off of his best practice as a professional.
Potentially sensing more of an opportunity given the injuries to fellow receivers Mohamed Massaquoi and Travis Benjamin, the 6-foot-3-inch Gordon is slowly becoming more comfortable in his role, playing quicker and thinking less.
"I didn't see any hesitation, I didn't see him thinking about anything," Childress said regarding the 21-year-old Baylor product. "He's doing all of thing things that you expect to see from a professional receiver."
On the young season, Gordon has a mere seven receptions for 93 yards — his lone 16-yard reception against the Balitmore Ravens last Thursday came by mere fluke as it went through the hands of Greg Little and progressed down field where Gordon happened to be coming out of a come-back route. [Read more...]
Grossi: Is Childress calling the plays?
Tony Grossi pointed it out on Twitter1 that Brad Childress might have tipped his hat that he is calling the plays. From Brad Childress' session with the press yesterday…
(On how he would assess the offensive line with run blocking) – "If we're calling it and sometimes I haven't done a great job of calling it as much as I need to, it has been okay. I wouldn't say we've been overpowering, but then again that's driven by lack of calls."
Whether that means he's actually calling the plays or not, I don't know. I presume Pat Shurmur is still making the final call, but that Childress' voice is loud and clear in his head and they are collaborating. I'm sure many fans will just assume Childress is calling all the good plays.
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PFT: Mock Draft 2.0 Gives Browns Trent Richardson, Brandon Weeden
The bell continues to ring around the country for the Browns to select Trent Richardson in the draft. This is despite the fact that conventional wisdom constantly repeats things like, "you can't draft running backs that high!" The fact is that the new rookie scale combined with the layer of polish on Trent Richardson seems to be something of a game-changer.
PFT really unleashes a surprise with their selection of Brandon Weeden at #22 though. Their comment?
Weeden won't struggle to defeat Colt McCoy in a camp battle.
I think that is a little hard to say. Like McCoy or not, there were some mitigating factors for last season that could work to McCoy's favor coming in this year's training camp. McCoy has presumably been working toward the singular goal of solidifying his spot with the Browns this season since the last one ended. That includes thinking about the offense and working on getting better at running it. So even if there is some kind of talent gap in Brandon Weeden's favor and even if he also is more mature than McCoy by some chance, to think that anyone can definitively say McCoy is toast is presumptuous. McCoy should at least have a "first mover advantage" to capitalize on a definition that folks from business school will recognize.
As always, we'll see. I have my doubts about McCoy too. I might just not be willing to say I don't have more doubts about the 28-year-old QB from Oklahoma State no matter how good he looks on YouTube.
[Related: Click here for highlight videos of Weeden (and Richardson) in action]
Mike Mayock is right about Ryan Tannehill and the Browns… sort of
The comments to our headline post about Mike Mayock's opinion of Ryan Tannehill turned out to be a discussion of what it means for something to be newsworthy. In the case of Mike Mayock's opinion, as someone who has invested pretty heavily in the Browns, I would rather know it than not know it. That doesn't mean I believe it all, but it is an important part of the equation of how I go through my life as someone who follows the Browns closely. It sets a precedent not only for players who could potentially become a part of the Browns, but also the critic who puts the opinion out there. In this case, after reviewing Mike Mayock's statement and really thinking about it, I am left to agree with him… sort of.
The sentence that everyone keeps repeating is when Mayock said, "I think Cleveland has to take (Tannehill) at No. 4 and if they don't Miami is sitting there at No. 8." I actually agree with that, but let's re-formulate the sentence a bit, shall we? Mike Mayock said so much about Tannehill other than that one statement that I think it is important to boost the clarity for him. [Read more...]
Updated: With RG3 Gone, Browns fans prefer McCoy, Blackmon
With the blockbuster trade between the St. Louis Rams and Washington Redskins now completed, all that's left to do for Browns fans is figure out the best way forward. We conducted a poll today to do just that.
First of all, on the trade itself Browns fans overwhelmingly agree that they are happy the Browns didn't pay the exorbitant price that St. Louis was asking. 69% of Browns fans agreed that the Redskins are welcome to the second pick at that price. A mere 11% of fans think the Browns should have paid whatever cost. Finally, 20% of Browns fans claim they never wanted RG3 to begin with.
As far as what the Browns should do moving forward, the results were less decisive, but decisive nonetheless. 60% of Browns fans are fine with one more year of Colt McCoy with more weapons. 17% of Browns fans would like the Browns to sign Packers free agent backup QB Matt Flynn. 13% of Browns fans want the Browns to find a QB in the draft, with 4% of those hoping for a first rounder. Finally Jason Campbell was preferred by 3% of Browns fans and only four people (not percent, but two people) would like Kyle Orton. 7% said they didn't know, but something else. [Read more...]
NFL Free Agency: Matt Flynn unlikely to be tagged by Green Bay Packers
As the deadline for using the franchise tag approaches Monday at 4 PM it becomes less and less likely that the Packers will use their franchise tag on Matt Flynn. The Green Bay Press Gazzette seems to think that Packers GM Ted Thompson will not take the risk.
If they tag Flynn, though, they would have to make room for his $14.4 million tender, at least for a brief time, on March 13. That would require personnel moves, such as releasing players and restructuring contracts, before 3 p.m. March 13.
For all the Matt Flynn fans amongst Browns fans this is good news. Certainly you have to think the Dolphins have the inside track on Flynn should he become a free agent with former Packer offensive coordinator Joe Philbin as the new coach in Miami. Fans and media types have also mentioned Miami as a destination for Peyton Manning should the Colts cut him loose.
So we'll see. For now, it appears that one hurdle to Flynn's availability in free agency is close to being cleared as the franchise tag deadline approaches quickly.
For more on Matt Flynn and the Browns…
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NFL Draft: Bullet point thoughts on RG3 and the Browns
On a day where I'm having trouble thinking about anything but the crazy news out of the next town over from me, I am trying to distract myself with RG3 stuff. And I find it all confusing.
- I've said it before, and I know the logic isn't sound, but I have a lot of trouble figuring out how it makes sense to trade up with massive compensation for the Rams for the consensus second best quarterback in the draft.
- The logic stinks because some years Eli Manning and Phillip Rivers come out together and everyone wins. [Read more...]
While We're Waiting…Brad Childress As Coordinator, Indians Prospects, Casey Kotchman At First Base
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Minnesota Vikings' expert comments on Brad Childress: "Childress came to Minnesota as a respected, well-like coordinator from Philadelphia, but he may have come down too hard on players while trying to instill some institutional control after the Love Boat scandal that rocked the organization under Mike Tice. If Childress can return to the more relaxed, personable coach he was under Reid, he may be able to build something with the Browns and whatever quarterback he rides." [Tim Yotter via OBR]
NFL Rumors: Donovan McNabb Being Linked to Cleveland Browns
Veteran NFL quarterback Donovan McNabb has been in the news and some around the league feel that his next suitor could be the Cleveland Browns.
WKNR 850AM mid-morning radio host Tony Rizzo tweeted live from Indianapolis that three separate sources have linked the former Philadelphia Eagle quarterback to three of his former superiors in general manager Tom Heckert, current Browns head coach Pat Shurmur and recently-hired offensive coordinator Brad Childress.
In a recent interview at the Super Bowl's radio row, McNabb went on record to say that he endorsed the Browns' addition of Childress and, while mentioning current Browns quarterback Colt McCoy, that he and Shurmur will "do a great job together."
In an inteview with Super Bowl Live on the NFL Network this past Wednesday, McNabb stated that he has three teams wherein he could "add a little flavor" if there was mutual interest. Given that the Browns continue to be among the handful of teams that have yet to commit to their quarterback for the long term, there will continue to be a mosaic theory which will place any available quarterback into the Cleveland-based rumor mill until a final decision is made.
McNabb, 35, was selected second-overall in 1999. The Browns selected quarterback Tim Couch with the first pick that very year.
[Related: Grossi: Kevin Kolb Would Top Browns' Wish List Upon Release]
Hillis Will be Back if He Wants to Be Back
According to a report by Mary Kay Cabot yesterday Peyton Hillis might have done enough for the Browns to reverse previous course and consider bringing the big bruiser back. While I don't doubt that with Hillis' late-season surge after finally getting healthy enough to get on the field, I am not sure how much exactly he has proven in terms of dollar signs.
In November Tony Zarella from 19 Action News reported that the Browns were offering three years for $16.5 million with $3 million fully guaranteed. Other reports/rumors came from LeCharles Bentley that the Hillis camp was seeking somewhere in the neighborhood of $10 million guaranteed. Obviously at that time the Browns and Hillis' people were very far apart. [Read more...]


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Sheehan: Rays Should Trade Kazmir
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Barack Obama's new Ambassador to London has no place lecturing Britain on staying in the EU
President Obama's new man in London, Matthew Barzun, has barely been in the country a week, and he's already lecturing Britain on staying in the EU. Barzun, whose main qualification for the job is his past role as chief fundraiser for Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign, had this to say in his first British media interview, telling the London Evening Standard:
"We would benefit by a really strong UK voice in a strong EU," he says. Citing Obama's stated aim to make the world "more peaceful, more prosperous, more just", he adds: "Europe is the first place we turn for that. We like a cohesive, strong Europe that is working with us around the world."
Barzun is sending an early signal that a key function of his Ambassadorship will be to press Britain not to leave the European Union. The Obama administration, which is deeply Eurofederalist in outlook, views a British exit as a threat to its interests, and is keen to bang the drum warning the UK against exhibiting Eurosceptic tendencies. His remarks echo those of his predecessor, another big Obama donor, Louis Susman, who warned a group of British MEPs back in January 2011: "Let's be clear: all key issues must run through Europe." More recently, in an interview with Adam Boulton on Sky News, Susman declared that "frankly we don't think it's in our interests" for Britain to leave the EU.
Barzun, whose experience in Britain is close to zero, is clearly off to a flying start as US ambassador, intervening in a major domestic political issue, one that will feature prominently in the 2015 general election. It would be like the British Ambassador to Washington telling Americans what their position should be on immigration. He is also clearly out of touch with what most British people think on Europe. According to one recent poll, a mere 13 percent of Britons would "definitely vote to remain in the EU." And he's pushing a foolhardy US policy, advanced to varying degrees by previous American administrations, of supporting a doomed European Project. If Britain does leave the EU, it would be the best development for the Special Relationship since Margaret Thatcher swept into the Reagan White House in 1981. An independent Britain, freed from the yoke of Brussels, would be a blessing for both Britain and the United States.
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A fire that damaged a home in Sioux City's Riverside neighborhood is being blamed on a small butane torch that was left burning in the kitchen.
The fire at 21-38 Fairbank Street Sunday afternoon did substantial damage and rendered the house unlivable.
Investigators say today that a butane torch ignited combustibles in the kitchen, doing significant damage to the kitchen and smoke damage throughout the rest of the house.
Nobody was home at the time and nobody was injured.