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Who Is The Houston Texans Most Important Player?
Which Houston Texan is the most instrumental to the team reaching its goals?
That's an interesting question. The Texans have several talented players on both sides of the ball, thus the lofty Super Bowl expectations.
The fans are talking Super Bowl. The players are talking Super Bowl. So the media is talking Super Bowl.
Houston Texans and Super Bowl in the same sentence is very new feeling. Fans hope the feeling will become familiar.
Heavy expectations weigh heavily on the shoulders of mortals but such is life for those who have the ability to get it done in the NFL.
So who has the most weight on their sculpted shoulders?
Is it Brian Cushing?
You can make that argument. With Mario Williams in Buffalo and DeMeco Ryans now in Philadelphia, it's his defense now. He is the veteran. The fourth year linebacker will be the new leader on defense.
The talent around Cushing is young. Brooks Reed and Connor Barwin are still growing in their careers. Whitney Mercilus is obviously a rookie.
Without Cushing, the defense will not be a championship defense. Houston would still be a playoff team though.
Is it Arian Foster?
Foster is certainly Houston's best player, in my opinion. He is the best running back in the NFL. He is the perfect runner for the one-cut, zone blocking scheme. Foster led the league in rushing two years ago and perhaps would have again this past season had he not missed the first three games inhibited by a hamstring injury.
However, if if was a fifth then we would all be drunk.
He was paid like a top back this off-season because he deserved a pay day.
But he has a competent backup behind him. Ben Tate could run for 1000 yards if given the opportunity. There are reports that the Cleveland Browns offered the Texans a first round draft pick for Tate.
If Foster were hurt or gone, Tate cold carry the full load. He is not the Texan's most valuable player.
QB vs Receiver
The argument for Andre Johnson is valid. There is limited talent around him at the receiver position. If Johnson is hurt, the position looks very below average. They would be one of the worst in the league in fact.
The front office is abiding by the "hope" creed in terms of pass catchers. Rick Smith "hopes" Lestar Jean is a good player. It's a good possibility given the team's evaluation acumen but not something to bet on. Kevin Walter has regressed for the past two seasons. Beyond that, everyone else at the position is a rookie.
Without Johnson, the Houston offense is not dynamic though the same could be said for Matt Schaub. The Texans scored fewer points per game with Schaub out.
There is no hope with Schaub out though.
With TJ Yates at the helm, we knew the endgame. This team was too good defensively and in the running game not to compete on a high level but everyone knew the Texans weren't title contenders once Schaub went out. Yates locked onto his number 1 receivers. He was not particularly accurate. He just was not what a team close to a title needed.
Without Johnson, the Texans aren't explosive. Schaub would need to utilize their tight ends over the middle of the field.
But without Schaub, the Texans are an average team. Not because he is their best player, because he is their most important player.
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Two of downtown Buffalo's largest construction projects are showing significant signs of progress.
At the new corporate headquarters of HealthNow New York, parent company of BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York, crews are putting the finishing touches on the $115 million project. Officials said all 1,200 of its employees should be in the facility by mid-August.
"We're on schedule," said Linda Soltis, BlueCross Blue Shield director of external affairs.
Construction on the 469,000-square-foot building along West Genesee Street behind Buffalo City Hall began two summers ago. HealthNow is leaving its current Main Street headquarters to make way for Canisius College's expansion plans.
While HealthNow's information technology team has started to move into the building, the bulk of the company's employees will be shifting to the new corporate address in early August. The entire move should take about 10 days, Soltis said.
Meanwhile, crews are prepping for demolition of one of the last standing buildings on a site that will be home to a $130 million federal courthouse.
The 100,000-square-foot Erlanger Building, which overlooks Delaware Avenue and Niagara Square, will be demolished as crews get ready to start construction on the 10-story, 264,000-square-foot courthouse. The new building is expected to open in three years.
Preliminary work, including gutting the building's interior, is under way.
The Erlanger Building had been owned by Lawley Service Insurance Group of Companies, which anchored the complex. Lawley moved north on Delaware Avenue to the Pleu Building.
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With one week to go before the due date of our first child, my husband and I have been walking round in a haze of fear and exhilaration. We regularly turn and gaze at each other with slightly frightened, portentous expressions, before one of us breaks the spell by saying: "Thank God we went to Thailand."
Recent research has highlighted how important it is to take a break at regular intervals throughout the day. When a three month survey was undertaken at Sheffield University involving 850,000 people they found that responses, rapid perception and decision-making were better, more effective when people avoided cramming intensively and applied a looser, more relaxed approach.
I nearly choked on my coffee last week when I read an article in the Washington Post entitled "Why I hate Sheryl Sandberg?" How could this be? Isn't she the bible for all smart women my age? Didn't I internalise her mantras? Preach her words to my friends? Quote her stats to my husband? So how could this be?
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I have come to accept that feeling guilty is just a part of parenting that will never go away. It's one of those, "you're damned if you do, you're damned if you don't" type of things that you just have to accept and live in harmony with and trust yourself that you are always doing your best for your children. YOU are enough.


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WASHINGTON — Airline flight delays cost passengers more than inconvenience — $16.7 billion more — according to a study delivered to the Federal Aviation Administration on Monday.
The FAA-funded study looks at the cost to passengers for flight delays in 2007, the latest year for which complete data was available when researchers began working on the study.
Unlike past studies of the impact of flight delays, researchers looked more broadly at the costs associated with flight delays, including passengers' lost time waiting for flights and then scrambling to make other arrangements when flights are canceled.
The cost to airlines for delays was $8.3 billion, mostly for crew, fuel and maintenance. Overall, the cost was $33 billion, including to other parts of the economy. But one finding of the study is that more than half the cost associated with flight delays is borne by passengers.
Those costs likely were lower in the three years since 2007, due to the weakened economy. Air travel peaked in 2007 before the economy went sour. And so did flight delays and cancellations. In 2007, 1.3 million domestic flights were delayed and 119,000 flights canceled, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
Last year, 85,000 flights were delayed and 63,000 canceled. Mark Hansen, a civil and environmental engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who led the study, said he believes 2007 is a more representative year "since we think that the weak economy isn't a permanent thing."
There will always be flight delays due to mechanical problems or weather, but they can be significantly reduced by expanding the capacity of the nation's airports and air traffic control system. The FAA is in the midst of a program to modernize the air traffic control system, replacing World War II-era radar with satellite-based technology. The program is expected to cost government and industry about $40 billion.
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The Washington Post first reported the study's findings on Monday.
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In issuing its annual report on human rights issues to the European Union on Thursday, the European Parliament recommended that gay men and lesbians be allowed to legally marry and adopt children, Agence France-Presse reports. The report, which was adopted against the wishes of the main parliamentary group, the conservative European People's Party, also said that overall the human rights situation across the 15-member European Union had deteriorated in 2002. It urged the EU to abolish all forms of discrimination, either legislative or de facto, against gay men and lesbians, notably in preventing them from marrying and adopting children.
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Finding that winning mindset
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June 25, 2014
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It has not been a great week for English sport but if you look at where the national football and rugby team are, they are poles apart. For me, English club football has got to the stage where it is bigger than international. If that ever happens in English rugby, we may as well pack our bags and go home. I'd never watch another game of rugby again.
But thankfully, for the English rugby players, everything is geared towards playing for their country. They now face a career-defining 18 months but what is stopping them from reaching the level of the All Blacks is mindset.
Over the course of three Tests, England put the best team in the world under huge amounts of pressure. That's great to watch but the issue is the drop-off level. When the All Blacks drop-off, it is 5%, for England it is 25%. We've heard the phrases regarding a young team and the continual improvement but there has to be a point where the coaches pick a group, stick with them and move forward. They want a team of players who can give 100% no matter what, no matter where.
The players now have a four or five-week break. For me, after losing a series, it was a case of putting a brave face on. My friends used to take the mick out of me telling me I didn't really work but a defeat goes with you everywhere. I hated losing, it's even worse when you have a time away to think about how games slipped away. But they need to bottle that hurt. English rugby has had a good season but they must take that next step. They must develop a mindset for the next 18 months where everything in their work and personal life is geared towards performance.
When they are on the beach, with their family, at their rugby club or in a restaurant there must be a little niggling thought in the back of their mind about how they are going to get better. There can be no let-up, they must say to themselves 'this is how I am going to be from now on'. They must move into that zone with the World Cup a year away. Some will be there already, but others will still be working out how to get there.
There will be times when they have to suffer a little embarrassment for long-term reward, sometimes they will have to do things they don't really enjoy, it's about sacrifice. If they are not happy with a part of their game, they must speak to the coaches. England are blessed with a fantastic coaching staff and players must pick their brains if they have any doubt. You cannot go into a World Cup expecting to win if there are any little worries about performance in your mind.
That's where the All Blacks are at the moment. There are some players who may not be world class, but they have an inner-belief which gives them an extra 10%. That's how we were in 2003, a lot of the guys had that mindset, England rugby was their world.
England have the players at their disposal who can do that. The tour would have seen Stuart Lancaster learn a huge amount but there are still more questions than answers in some positions and no more so than in the centres. The England coaching staff have to work out their best combination there, develop it and largely stick with it over the next 18 months. At scrum-half they have Ben Youngs and Danny Care and they remind me of the Dawson/Bracken battle we had going on back in 2001.
There are still question marks on the wing but Marland Yarde was outstanding. At fullback, Mike Brown is the only English player at the moment who I can honestly say will be in the starting XV for the first game of the World Cup.
In the pack, they would have been really pleased with how Rob Webber went in the front-row and there are so many quality players to come back in that area. In the locks Geoff Parling was also fantastic and they have a nice headache in the back-row.
I cannot fault Chris Robshaw, he was outstanding and a truly tremendous rugby player but I'm not sure of the mix. I think Billy Vunipola has the potential to be a brilliant No.8 while Matt Kvesic, who played so well against the Crusaders, has a real chance to put the pressure on Robshaw. He went from Worcester to Gloucester last year and was a bit of a damp squib but with new management at Kingsholm he needs to have a big season.
So the potential is there, England have the players and it is positive. The team have the fans behind them, I think the press is behind them but it's now a transitional period from potential into delivery and that's all down to mindset. That is an area where the biggest gains can be made in the shortest possible time.
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A new understanding of the earliest eras in the history of the universe has been developed by scientists at Penn State University. Using techniques from an area of modern physics called loop quantum cosmology, developed at Penn State, the scientists now have extended analyses that include quantum physics farther back in time than ever before -- all the way to the beginning. The new paradigm of loop quantum origins shows, for the first time, that the large-scale structures we now see in the universe evolved from fundamental fluctuations in the essential quantum nature of "space-time," which existed even at the very beginning of the universe over 14 billion years ago. The achievement also provides new opportunities for testing competing theories of modern cosmology against breakthrough observations expected from next-generation telescopes. The research will be published on 11 December 2012 as an "Editor's Suggestion" paper in the scientific journal Physical Review Letters.
"We humans always have yearned to understand more about the origin and evolution of our universe," said Abhay Ashtekar, the senior author of the paper. "So it is an exciting time in our group right now, as we begin using our new paradigm to understand, in more detail, the dynamics that matter and geometry experienced during the earliest eras of the universe, including at the very beginning." Ashtekar is the Holder of the Eberly Family Chair in Physics at Penn State and the director of the university's Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos. Coauthors of the paper, along with Ashtekar, are postdoctoral fellows Ivan Agullo and William Nelson.
The new paradigm provides a conceptual and mathematical framework for describing the exotic "quantum-mechanical geometry of space-time" in the very early universe. The paradigm shows that, during this early era, the universe was compressed to such unimaginable densities that its behavior was ruled not by the classical physics of Einstein's general theory of relativity, but by an even more fundamental theory that also incorporates the strange dynamics of quantum mechanics. The density of matter was huge then -- 10 to the 94 grams (10^94) per cubic centimeter, as compared with the density of an atomic nucleus today, which is only 10 to the 14 grams (10^14).
In this bizarre quantum-mechanical environment -- where one can speak only of probabilities of events rather than certainties -- physical properties naturally would be vastly different from the way we experience them today. Among these differences, Ashtekar said, are the concept of "time," as well as the changing dynamics of various systems over time as they experience the fabric of quantum geometry itself.
No space observatories have been able to detect anything as long ago and far away as the very early eras of the universe described by the new paradigm. But a few observatories have come close. Cosmic background radiation has been detected in an era when the universe was only 380-thousand years old. By that time, after a period of rapid expansion called "inflation," the universe had burst out into a much-diluted version of its earlier super-compressed self. At the beginning of inflation, the density of the universe was a trillion times less than during its infancy, so quantum factors are much less important in ruling the large-scale dynamics of matter and geometry.
Observations of the cosmic background radiation show that the universe had a predominantly uniform consistency after inflation, except for a light sprinkling of some regions that were more dense and others that were less dense. The standard inflationary paradigm for describing the early universe, which uses the classical-physics equations of Einstein, treats space-time as a smooth continuum. "The inflationary paradigm enjoys remarkable success in explaining the observed features of the cosmic background radiation. Yet this model is incomplete. It retains the idea that the universe burst forth from nothing in a Big Bang, which naturally results from the inability of the paradigm's general-relativity physics to describe extreme quantum-mechanical situations," Agullo said. "One needs a quantum theory of gravity, like loop quantum cosmology, to go beyond Einstein in order to capture the true physics near the origin of the universe."
Earlier work with loop quantum cosmology in Ashtekar's group had updated the concept of the Big Bang with the intriguing concept of a Big Bounce, which allows the possibility that our universe emerged not from nothing but from a super-compressed mass of matter that previously may have had a history of its own.
Even though the quantum-mechanical conditions at the beginning of the universe were vastly different from the classical-physics conditions after inflation, the new achievement by the Penn State physicists reveals a surprising connection between the two different paradigms that describe these eras. When scientists use the inflation paradigm together with Einstein's equations to model the evolution of the seed-like areas sprinkled throughout the cosmic background radiation, they find that the irregularities serve as seeds that evolve over time into the galaxy clusters and other large-scale structures that we see in the universe today. Amazingly, when the Penn State scientists used their new loop-quantum-origins paradigm with its quantum-cosmology equations, they found that fundamental fluctuations in the very nature of space at the moment of the Big Bounce evolve to become the seed-like structures seen in the cosmic microwave background.
"Our new work shows that the initial conditions at the very beginning of the universe naturally lead to the large-scale structure of the universe that we observe today," Ashtekar said. "In human terms, it is like taking a snapshot of a baby right at birth and then being able to project from it an accurate profile of how that person will be at age 100."
"This paper pushes back the genesis of the cosmic structure of our universe from the inflationary epoch all the way to the Big Bounce, covering some 11 orders of magnitude in the density of matter and the curvature of space-time," Nelson said. "We now have narrowed down the initial conditions that could exist at the Big Bounce, plus we find that the evolution of those initial conditions agrees with observations of the cosmic background radiation."
The team's results also identify a narrower range of parameters for which the new paradigm predicts novel effects, distinguishing it from standard inflation. Ashtekar said, "It is exciting that we soon may be able to test different predictions from these two theories against future discoveries with next-generation observational missions. Such experiments will help us to continue gaining a deeper understanding of the very, very early universe."
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A Los Angeles public school district superintendent named John Deasy assumes you wouldn't want to. After not one but two teachers were arrested for this kind of abuse at one of the schools he oversees, Miramonte Elementary, Deasy has replaced the entire staff for the remainder of the current term.
Everyone who works at the school, from the principal all the way through the cafeteria staff, will be removed as officials look into the extent of the abuse and offer counseling to everyone affected by the abuse. The staff will continue to be paid during the investigation, according to Deasy. "The last thing I'm worried about is a budget issue. The No. 1 thing I'm worried about is the students."
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January 19, 2011 5:38 by Sam Potter
Business 101: What's more important, profit or debt? Answer: Neither – business is all about cash flow. Both profit and debt are irrelevant in the short term if your cash flow falls below or rises above a certain point.
Obviously, that's a bit simplistic, but it came to mind when we heard two pieces of news this week. Both concerned major UAE companies, who have been through tough times but have announced that they hope to return to profit in the coming year.
Let's start with the biggie, Dubai's "flagship conglomerate" and all round behemoth, Dubai World. According to a Reuters report this week, the giant company expects to see recovery in its most critical businesses this year. These include ports and free trade, apparently.
"The board of directors voiced confidence in Dubai World's ability to achieve significant recovery in critical areas … including ports, dry docks and free zones … and has strong expectation of achieving profitability goals," the Dubai government said via a statement Monday. According to the report the budget for Dubai World and its subsidiaries was passed by the board, and it aims to "strengthen the overall financial performance and raise the efficiency of its units to achieve high profitability in the coming period."
Second up, Aldar Properties expects a return to profit by the end of 2011, according to Dow Jones. "In the coming year, you will see that the company will be in black at net profit level for 2011 and 2012 as well," Shafqat Malik, the company's chief financial officer, told investors on a conference call. Aldar has posted losses for four consecutive quarters."We don't expect that the market will remain like this–there is a future," said Malik.
Aw, that's actually pretty nice. 'There is a future.' Kipp likes it. And you know what? It's true. We said yesterday that all everything needs is a little time, and unless the Mayans and our blog was right, all will be healed.
But Aldar and Dubai World are of course still burdened by massive debts; Dubai World has had to reach agreement on $25 billion of liabilities, while Aldar has just been rescued by the Abu Dhabi government to the tune of $5 billion, give or take. Hence our little Business 101 nugget: Profit is all well and good, but it means nothing if you don't look at the bigger picture, and that includes debt. And of course, that all important cash flow.
Nonetheless, for Aldar and Dubai World, a return to profit will be a welcome relief. Hopefully a little profit will mean that cash flows into the company, as opposed to out of it.
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Aldar has let go of its best talent, how in the world will it rebuild its business as an assett management and program management co. for govt. projects is anyones guess!
pipe dream….with 20,000 new residential units coming online this year, the recovery is atleast two years away.
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Shootout Woes Continue for Anaheim Ducks
Anyone looking for a little playoff-style hockey a few weeks before season's end had to search no further than the Honda Center on Friday night, as the Anaheim Ducks played host to the Pittsburgh Penguins in an all inclusive knockdown, drag-out fight for two points.
Most of the game was a battle that, with a 31-17 shots on goal advantage and score that never saw Anaheim trailing, the home team had all but stolen. And then a late third period goal by sniper Evgeni Malkin on a controversial call tied the score at 2-2 sending the Western and Eastern Conference leading teams to overtime and eventually a shootout.
The statistics of the situation favored the Penguins from the start. In a total of six shootouts played this season (not including Friday night), Pittsburgh has only lost two, ranking them the second best shootout team in the NHL. On the other end of the chart, the Ducks have only won two of their seven chances this season, leaving them with the fourth worst percentage in the league.
Predictably enough the results favored statistics as the Penguins sealed their victory with highlight worthy shots by Sidney Crosby, Chris Kunitz and Brandon Sutter. Equally reel-worthy goals came from Anaheim's Corey Perry and Teemu Selanne, but no goals from Nick Bonino, Kyle Palmieri, Jakob Silfverberg and captain Ryan Getzlaf sealed the Ducks' second shootout loss in a span of three days.
A team only stays in the shootout as long as their goalie's talent will allow, and while Jonas Hiller was stellar through regulation, even stopping one of those infamous Crosby breakaways in overtime, the Penguins' offense didn't necessarily give him a run for his money on Friday night.
While on the other side of the ice the Ducks' shots during the first 60 minutes left Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury spinning, splitting and all but standing on his head to keep his team alive. Ironically enough, Fleury did end up standing on his head during the shootout in a cartwheel poke save off of Palmieri's shot.
The loss was difficult for Anaheim. Pittsburgh's own Brooks Orpik even stated after the game the win probably should have gone the other way. But NHL rules are NHL rules and unfortunately for the Ducks the late-game momentum shift didn't play out in their favor.
So how does Anaheim pull themselves out of their shootout woes? Simple — figure out a way to beat the 60 minute buzzer with a hard- fought win. And for the No. 1 team in the NHL, this problem shouldn't be difficult to solve.
Jessica Bradley is an Anaheim Ducks writer for RantSports.com. Follow her on Twitter @jessiebear23 or add her to your network on Google.
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Local boy takes home national shuffleboard title
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OCEAN CITY — Alec Helm, 14, of Ocean City, recently won the title of National Junior Shuffleboard Champion.
Helm competed in the 2012 National Junior Shuffleboard Championships in Lakeside, Ohio and won first place in the boys 15 and under division. Helm will be sophomore at Ocean City High School in the fall and has been playing shuffleboard for the last five years.
His mother Cathy Helm explained, "Alec began playing shuffleboard by chance five years ago while we were vacationing in Hilton Head, SC. Now, he plays as a member of the Ocean City Shuffleboard Club, where he also serves as their first webmaster."
Cathy Helm and her son drove to Ohio for the competition. He was invited to attend the 2012 International Championships later this month in Seattle, but will not be attending. He also qualified for the Junior Internationals for 2013.
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