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Home security giant Protection 1 is up for sale for more than $1.5 billion, according to a Reuters news report this week.
GTCR, the private equity firm that bought Protection 1 in 2010 for $828 million has asked Morgan Stanley to help in the sales effort, the news service reported Aug. 4.
I've reached out to Romeoville, Illinois-based Protection 1 for comment on the report, which Reuters ascribed to unidentified sources.
Protection 1 is one of the largest full-service business and home security companies in the United States. As of the end of 2013, it had 1.5 million customers and $28 million in RMR, an increase of nearly 8 percent over the previous year, according to published reports. Revenues exceeded $429 million.
By contrast, home automation/home security company Vivint—which was acquired by The Blackstone Group in 2012 for more than $2 billion—ended 2013 with more than $42 million in RMR, an increase of 23 percent over the previous year. Provo, Utah-based Vivint, which has more than 800,000 customers, had in excess of $500 million in revenues in 2013, according to published information.
Stay posted. I'll be updating this story as I get more information.
Speco Technologies, a video surveillance manufacturer based in New York, may be best known for its analog solutions, but it is well into IP-based technology these days.
Today, Speco counts 25 of the largest and most sophisticated independent integrators in the U.S as its valued resellers, with Protection 1 as one of its marquee customers.
These are relationships the Speco management team has actively pursued. And, their pursuit of integrators has just begun, they say. The company's sales, engineering, marketing, training and management are eager to talk about what they're doing daily to increase the number of security systems integrators who turn to Speco for easy to use, innovative IP-based video technology.
I visited Speco this week, got a look at their headquarters in Amityville, the manufacturing and training operation and had a chance to hear Speco executives talk about their strategy.
In business since the early 1960s. Speco is a privately held business owned by the Keller family. The company went private on Sept. 10, 2001, the day before the horrific events of September 11, 2001.
Todd Keller, Speco president and owner, said the business employs about 100 people. In 2008 it broke $100 million in revenue, today it's "headed back to about $85 million" in 2014 revenue. The company is selling more products, but prices for many products have come down.
All of its products are assembled here at its headquarters in New York and most everything is engineered here or "outsourced in America." Keller and other management believe that being family-owned gives Speco an advantage over corporations. "We have the flexibility to pursue ideas, to engineer, innnovate, design," TJ Dickson, VP sales and marketing said, adding that Speco constantly tests and evaluates, and re-evalutates its products. It does the same with competitors' products, he said.
It has a warehouse in Amityville and a new warehouse in Reno, Nevada which it opened in April. This new warehouse houses $3 million in inventory and enables Speco to get products to distributors in the west much more quickly and inexpensively.
Corporations use "voice of the customer" Dickson said. "They hear the customer, but I'm not sure they listen to the customer." Because Speco is not a giant corporation, it is able to implement changes quickly, he said.
Speco is well known for some signature products: two way audio; Digital Deterrent; inventing (Keller says) the bullet camera; its wall-mounted DVR. It's also known for private labeling its products for customers large and small. Keller said he'd much rather have an installer's name on a product than Speco's name, saying that if they sell more "Speco wins."
Speco is also well known for its "Intensifier" technology, which several years ago made it possible for analog cameras to "see" in the dark and low light conditions. This September Speco is planning an "all out blitz" to launch its Intensifier technology built into HD IP cameras, according to Peter Botelho, EVP and GM at Speco Technologies.
"It will be a very aggressive launch aimed at a target group of integrators," he said. Botelho said Speco has taken its time and "worked to get it right." Some competitors have similar technology, he said, "but it doesn't perform like ours and when you add [Speco's lower] price point, this is a potential big win for us in IP," he said.
Speco also last week released its SecureGuard Plus, a VMS that "provides access to multiple DVRs, NVRs and IP cameras for remote viewing, playback and other functions." It does not have licensing fees. Botelho said that SecureGuard Plus is "all American programming, American processing, and an All-American idea" that was developed with input from the SecureGuard User Group, which consists of 15 to 20 integrators. He called SecureGuard Plus "a VMS with some serious plans to take it way beyond [the traditional] VMS." Future versions of this software will "have special features and integrate with some things that we believe others haven't thought of."
Where's Speco heading in terms of software engineering? Developing software that "runs all peripheral devices and does something with the all the data that's collected," Botelho said. "We are well positioned to move into that space," he said. Why? "More than anything we have a management team that has the ability to understand what's really happening at the installer level. ... and that comes from listening," Botelho said.
Speco "listens" in many ways. Its Tech Support department takes between 300 and 500 calls per day. At the end of every month, Speco takes the top 10 issues its Tech Support department has dealt with, assesses those issues, solves them with other department input if necessary and "turns them into a positive," Keller said.
It does the same thing with the products themselves. Speco has a 2 percent rate of return and defective rate of less than a half a percent. All of the returned products are assessed as well. If, for example, a number of products have been returned because they've been damaged by a lightening strike, this may not be a defect, but this is good information for Speco engineers to have as they design a newer version of the product, Keller explained.
Speco also "listens" to its customers during training sessions. It has invested significantly in bringing its dealers to its headquarters for training. This year it has done more than 100 trainings so far in 2014. It has had 10 different distributors, dozens of independent integrators and all of Protection 1's national account managers to its headquarters this year.
Trainings held at the headquarters are the most effective, Dickson said, because Speco has a chance to talk about the company as well as the products.
Botelho said he also sees the trainings as "built-in focus groups" where engineering, marketing or sales people can learn what Speco customers are looking for.
However, it's important, Dickson said, to be able to execute on what you learn from customers. He said Speco can do this and cited a recent example of an integrator who wanted a special feature on its wall-mounted DVRs, a button that would flash and alerting a local store manager to push the button to download video. "We had it done, designed and the software written within a week. They were blown away," Dickson said.
Tech publication Wired magazine may not focus too closely on alarm monitoring or residential security, but it does devote a good deal of ink to assessing network security threats, no matter what the context.
Just last month a writer for the magazine, Mat Honan, sketched a funny, dystopian picture of the connected home in revolt, commandeered by morally wayward hackers on some perverse quest for Internet notoriety. Identifiable only by screen names evoking bad 90s cyberpunk films, these lonesome code junkies are intent on doing everything from dousing homes by activating sprinkler systems to invading your privacy in all the imaginable ways in a home well stocked with cameras.
The piece, titled "The Nightmare on Connected Home Street," is of course meant to be hysterical: The narrator is jarred awake at four a.m. by the pulse of dub step music exploding out of his connected pillow. The vignette ends, a few hours later, with a bare and awesomely memorable paragraph: "The skylights open up. The toaster switches on. I hear the shower kick in from the other room. It's morning."
It's all just a thought experiment, but the piece is entertaining and well worth a read.
Interestingly enough, about a month later, Wired turned its attention to security again, this time focusing on concerns that, surprisingly, have nothing to do with Internet connected devices. This time, the article dealt with security vulnerabilities related to wireless home alarms, which, according to a pair of researchers cited in the article, could be comprised—the alarm being either suppressed (via "jamming") or made to deliver false signals. The researchers found identical problems with a number of brands.
The issue, according to the report, has to do with radio frequency signals. While the conversation is understandable for a layman, it can seem a bit arcane. In sum, the researchers found that the systems "fail to encrypt or authenticate the signals being sent from sensors to control panels," according to the report, "making it easy for someone to intercept the data, decipher the commands, and play them back to control panels at will." Would-be malefactors, the report says, can do this relatively easily.
The researchers cited in the article—Logan Lamb and Silvio Cesare—plan to present their findings at the Black Hat security conference, a computer security conference held in Las Vegas next week. I'm eager to here more about their findings and to see what kind of impact the research could have.
Just last month a writer for the magazine, Mat Honan, painted a funny dystopian sketch of the connected home in revolt, commandeered by morally wayward hackers on some perverse quest for Internet notoriety. Identifiable only by screen names evoking bad cyberpunk films from the 90s, these lonesome code junkies are intent on doing everything from dousing homes by activating sprinkler systems to invading your privacy in all the imaginable ways in a home amply stocked with network cameras.
The piece, titled "The Nightmare on Connected Home Street," is of course meant to be hysterical: The narrator is jarred awake at four a.m. by the blaring pulse of dub step music exploding from his connected pillow. The vignette ends, a few hours later, with a bare and awesomely memorable paragraph: "The skylights open up. The toaster switches on. I hear the shower kick in from the other room. It's morning."
Just last month a writer for the magazine, Mat Honan, sketched a funny, dystopian picture of the connected home in revolt, commandeered by wayward hackers on some perverse quest for Internet notoriety. Identifiable only by screen names evoking bad cyberpunk movies, these lonesome code junkies are intent on doing everything from dousing homes with sprinkler systems to invading your privacy through in-home network cameras .
The piece, titled "The Nightmare on Connected Home Street," is supposed to seem nearly implausible. The narrator is jarred awake at four a.m. by the pulse of dub step music exploding from his connected pillow. The piece ends, a few hours later, with the bare and awesomely memorable paragraph: "The skylights open up. The toaster switches on. I hear the shower kick in from the other room. It's morning."
It's all just a thought experiment, of course, but the piece is thought-provoking and well worth a read.
Interestingly enough, about a month later, Wired turned its attention to security again, this time focusing on vulnerabilities that have nothing to do with IP devices. This time, the article dealt with security concerns related to wireless home alarms, which, according to a pair of researchers cited in the article, could be compromised—the alarms either being suppressed (via "jamming") or made to deliver false signals. The researchers found identical problems among a number of brands.
The issue apparently has to do with radio frequency signals. While the conversation is understandable enough for a layman, it can drift into the arcane. In sum, the researchers found that the systems "fail to encrypt or authenticate the signals being sent from sensors to control panels," the report said, "making it easy for someone to intercept the data, decipher the commands, and play them back to control panels at will." Would-be malefactors, the report says, can do this relatively easily.
A vulnerability is a vulnerability, and certainly no security company wants there to be any possibility of a system being hacked. But it should probably be mentioned that while these techniques may come across as elementary to the reading community of Wired Magazine, these methods would probably be, for your run-of-the-mill burglar, well above the norm from a sophistication standpoint.
The researchers cited in the article—Logan Lamb and Silvio Cesare—plan to present their findings at the Black Hat security conference, a computer security conference scheduled next week in Las Vegas. For my part, I'll be eager to hear more about their findings and to see what kind of impact the research could have.
Viscount, the access control system that is software-based and does not have a panel, will be highly visible at ASIS, according to CEO Dennis Raefield.
Raefield joined Viscount at COO in December of 2013 and became CEO of the company, replacing Steve Pineau, in January of 2014. In February, Viscount "raised $2.4 million in new cash in a private placement." He's used that funding to "staff up" adding tech support and sales people including hiring Michael Pilato, as VP of sales and marketing. Pilato has worked for Schlage/Ingersoll Rand, Assa Abloy, Honeywell Security, and Sensormatic/Software House (now Tyco).
"We went from 26 to 36 employees," Raefield said. "We now have dedicated tech support from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on-call support 24/7," he said.
Viscount has been in business for 12 years, but its Freedom Encryption Bridge access control product is relatively new. It made traction with the federal government, in banking and it is installed at Microsoft's GSOC.
"Our biggest deal is with the Department of Homeland Security, the CIS (Citizens Immigration Services) Group. [Freedom] is installed all over the country in 30 different sites and the plan is to roll out 200 more sites in the next year," Raefield said.
Freedom is doing well for two reasons, Raefield said. "One. It's highly secure from hacking for a very simple reason. The traditional [access control] panel has a database ... that is highly vulnerable to hacking. ... What we did is very simple. We took that database out of the panel," he explained. "We use a little thing called a bridge that converts all information at the door ... sends it to the company's own computer. Our software is on their server and the server makes the decision [about access]." This makes the IT director much more comfortable than a traditional access control system where a security appliance that is out of the IT director's hands is hanging on the company's network, he said.
Because the Freedom access control system is behind a company's firewall, it is as secure as any other application on an end user's network, Raefield pointed out.
Raefield noted that the recent Target data breach which received so much publicity and resulted in the firing of the Target CEO "was not a frontal assault on the IT infrastructure" but rather a "backdoor breach"—the result of a stolen HVAC contractor's password. That kind of backdoor breach cannot happen with this access control system, he said.
The second reason the federal government likes Freedom, according to Raefield, is that "our little bridge is much less expensive that anyone's panel. ... "You take out the expensive control panel and the dedicated computer for security and you now have a significaly lower total cost of ownership," he said.
The security director now can worrry about physical security instead of managing hardware and computers, he added.
Viscount Systems did about $4.1 million in revenue in 2013. About $3 million of that came from Viscount's legacy telephone entry system, a product called Mesh Enterphone, which is used in highrise buildings. It's been a "stable bread and butter" product for Viscount for 12 years. Raefield is also investing in that product, making it "high end with a touch screen." It can also be integrated with the Freedom access control system. The remaining $1 million in 2013 revenue was from Freedom, which Raefield said went from $0 to $1 million in one year. Raefield expects Viscount, which is a publicly traded company based in Vancouver, to do "between $6 and $8 million" in revenue in 2014.
Asked about whether Freedom can be used as a managed access control system, Raefield said yes. "The long term strategy is that [Freedom] will be able to be managed on site, in the cloud, any of the above, because it's all software."
Viscount is currently working with major integrators such as Stanley, Convergint and Johnson Controls. At ASIS, the company plans to make its case from a big booth to the integrator community that "this is the next direction and a smart direction," Raefield said.
Pilato said that Freedom has been rigorously tested by the federal government, it has shown itself to be "secure, scalable architecture" and it's ready for wider deployment in the commercial market, in K-12 schools, in banking and elsewhere. "ASIS will be the official commercial launch of Freedom," Pilato said. "The commercial side of the house is ready for prime time."
I've written recently about Google's $3.2 billion buy of smart thermostat and smoke alarm maker Nest Labs, and then Nest's $555 million plan to buy Dropcam, which makes video cameras that stream video to a user's computer or cellphone. Also, Apple in June introduced HomeKit, its new home automation/home security framework.
Now, Samsung also may be making a home automation push with a $200 million buy of startup SmartThings, according to news reports.
The potential deal was first reported in TechCrunch.
Forbes says that SmartThings is based in Washington, D.C. and "sells $100 hardware hubs and provides a cloud platform to make the hundreds of smart gadgets out on the market talk to each other in one unified app."
Forbes notes that Samsung "already has many connected home appliances on the market." However, Forbes says SmartThings could enhance those.
"What the SmartThings technology could do is better connect its appliances to other third-party devices onto one central platform. This is what Apple looks to be aiming to do with its HomeKit and what Nest may one day achieve after opening up its API program to allow other devices to talk to its growing family of smart gadgets."
SmartThings, founded in 2012, has "tens of thousands" of SmartThings systems currently installed in U.S. households, Forbes said.
Interesting piece of news in my inbox this morning having to do with research that VMS provider Milestone Systems (recently acquired by Canon) is working on.
The VMS provider is working with Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Aalborg University, Securitas and Nabto, on a research project that looks at using video for operational intelligence.
The news release said that Milestone is putting some of the research into practice already. From the release: "Research that is ongoing in a 3-year project to develop technological innovations is already paying off: the latest release of Milestone XProtect 2014 launched a new metadata framework that vastly improves the speed of searching and analysis with the video software. … Milestone's software manages video for security uses, but can also support and optimize activities in production, logistics, marketing, sales, healthcare, intelligent buildings, environmental control, and other analytical applications. Thanks to the XProtect open platform architecture, other companies are integrating software applications with Milestone's video management software to adapt it for particular operational needs in different business sectors."
The Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation provided funding (DKK 15 million) for the project. The goal is "to interpret the recorded video material so the content can be described automatically."
In a prepared statement, Hans Jorgen Skovgaard, Milestone VP of R&D said:"We are still in phase one and expect to present to the market several new solutions for searching in metadata—the framework has already been released in XProtect 2014. During the next phases, we will do research among other things on how the software can learn to distinguish between normal and abnormal activity in video images. This means video surveillance can proactively give an alert before an incident occurs, and further enable use as a business tool in many more operational scenarios. … For example, if there is an accident or an assault at a bus station, the police or security personnel can search for the exact area where the incident happened by linking GPS coordinates with the video recordings from the buses, and within a few seconds they will have the relevant recording of the offender or other people involved." The release says that the metadata technology "can also be used with mobile phones as moving security cameras where GPS coordinates and compass information can be stored with the video. Operators thereby will know precisely where the video was recorded. Used in this way, mobile phones can increase security and safety, and threatening behavior can easily be proven. The technology can also be used as evidence of pollution emissions, for resolving insurance claims, or many other applications yet to be explored."
The BusinessDictionary defines "actionable intelligence" as data "that can be used to boost a company's strategic position against industry peers." But with a new partnership announced this week, Vivint is using data collected from sensors in smart homes to "identify actionable insights to enrich their customers' lives."
Provo, Utah-based home automation/home security company Vivint has partnered with Cloudera, which offers businesses "one place to store, process and analyze all their data," according to a July 15 news release.
Palo Alto, Calif.-based Cloudera provides businesses with "fundamental new ways to derive value from their data." In Vivint's case that means, according to the news release, that "for the first time, Vivint is able to apply a new lens to data generated from intelligent devices and systems embedded with sensors in and around homes." More than 100,000 data points "from smart sensors embedded in devices [are now] visible with Cloudera," the release said.
Brandon Bunker, Vivint's senior director of customer analytics and insights, put it this way in a prepared statement: "Vivint has been at the forefront of the connected home for decades, and now with the emergence of [the] IoT (Internet of Things), we are truly able to innovate by collecting and analyzing vast amounts of data from sensors embedded in our devices. We've taken that one step further with Cloudera and can now look across many data streams simultaneously for behaviors, geo-location, and actionable events in order to better understand and enrich our customers' lives."
Vivint has more than 800,000 customers using various third party, smart-enabled devices, the release said. Each home has from 20 to 30 sensors, it said.
Here, according to the release, is how Cloudera's services will make a difference with data from those sensors:
"Many of those devices come in the form of thermostats, smart appliances, video cameras, window and door sensors, and smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. Without a central internal repository to gather and analyze the data generated from each sensor, Vivint was previously limited in its ability to innovate and to add higher intelligence to its security offerings. For example, knowing when a home is occupied or vacant is important to security -- but when tied into the heating, ventilation and cooling (HVAC) system, you can add a layer of energy cost savings by cooling or heating a home based on occupancy. Similarly, by adding geo-location into the equation, you can begin to adjust temperature changes to a home based on the proximity to an owner's arrival, for instance, when the owner has a connected vehicle."
Such "actionable intelligence" would be a sellling point for Vivint because consumers can save from 20 to 30 percent in energy costs by turning off their HVAC systems when they're away or sleeping, the release said.
Vivint said it chose Cloudera because it has a proven track record and a very broad "big data ecosystem, to ensure support as more and more devices are connected to the Internet each day." The company also ensures the data's security, the release said.
And that traditional definition of "actionable intelligence," about boosting a company's position against industry peers?
Well, that's actually a part of the partnership too, according to Vivint. "This platform has differentiated our business and given us a tremendous competitive advantage," Bunker said in his statement.
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Entrenando privadamente con las fuerzas especiales, está perfeccionando sus habilidades de combate para continuar su trabajo dentro del Campus, persiguiendo y eliminando terroristas donde quiera que pueda—incluso mientras Jack Ryan padre hace campaña para convertirse en presidente de los Estados Unidos de nuevo.
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The challenge facing President Jack Ryan is an old one with a terrifying new twist. The international stalemate with North Korea continues into its seventh decade. A young, untested dictator is determined to prove his strength by breaking the deadlock. Like his father before him, he hangs his plans on the countrys nuclear ambitions. Until now, that program was impeded by a lack of resources. However, there has been a dramatic change in the nations economic fortune. A rich deposit of valuable minerals have been found in the Hermit Kingdom. Coupled with their nuclear capabilities, the money from this find will make North Korea a dangerous force on the world stage.
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According to Adam Rubin of the Daily News, "Wally Backman is expected to get an interview for the New York Mets' managerial vacancy, but he's highly unlikely to actually be the person selected."
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Last night, Jon Heyman of SI.com said on Twitter that he would be shocked if Sandy Alderson hires Backman, as it will show right away that he isn't running things, "and I don't see him doing that."
I think Healey is referring to my post yesterday, when I said, "In listening to people connected to the team, I'm starting to think Backman's chances of ending up with the top job are shrinking."
Keep in mind, I never said he wasn't a front runner or that he isn't going to get the job. I'm just saying, with talk of Alderson's inevitability, it is sounding like Backman's stock might be slipping a bit, if for no other reason than, from what I can gather, several types of names were discussed during Alderson's meetings, not just Backman's.
That said, I know he knows people close to Backman, and so I hope Healey is correct, since I would love to see Backman as manager of the Mets. He's not my only choice, as I'm intrigued by Chip Hale and others. But, admittedly, I'm an easy sell. I got to talk to Backman in Spring Training, and I was super impressed and inspired. This interview he did with Ted Berg got my attention too. Plus, as Mike Silva points out in this post on NY Basbeall Digest, Backman might be more of an Alderson-type guy than people realize.


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BGA Special: Scouting Mardy Gilyard
With all the waiver claims over the past few days, the Jets have acquired several players who are not exactly household names. I have therefore been looking at game footage to get a feel for what these guys bring to the table.
Mardy Gilyard is a playmaking receiver who put up huge numbers in college and made multiple highlight reel-worthy plays. He is probably more comfortable in the slot because he lacks the ability to get deep separation, but is a good athlete (39 inch vertical), with outstanding short area quickness (he posted a sparkling three cone drill time of 6.78 at his pro day). Why, therefore, did he find himself cut after just one year in the league?
Gilyard started out his college career at Cincinnati as a cornerback, but after being declared academically ineligible for 2006, he was converted to wide receiver, where he developed into one of the top receiving prospects in the 2010 draft. Some draft sites had him as a possible 2nd round pick, but he was eventually drafted by the Rams with the first pick of the fourth round.
With the Rams starved for wide receivers, Gilyard got plenty of opportunities, but he reportedly struggled to learn the system and his playing time on offense all but vanished after week six. Hamstring and wrist issues didn't exactly help matters, either. In 2011, the Rams added Mike Sims-Walker and decided that the likes of Danario Alexander, Mark Clayton and Danny Amendola bring more to the table, especially after Gilyard had some preseason struggles.
Gilyard is still a guy with bucketloads of potential, but there are obviously plenty of issues that are holding him back from being a consistent contributor at the NFL level. Let's look at his body of work as an NFL receiver and try and determine how he can help the team (assuming he sticks around) in the short term and potentially down the line.
Let's start by looking at what's been said about him in the media. He soon wore out his welcome by the sounds of things and didn't really help his cause by reportedly asking for a trade in May:
A guy that could not make it into games with a young QB and no WR help on the roster is not a guy other teams will want. Granted Gilyard has probably seen the light that his NFL future in not in St. Louis, but who is going to trade anything for this guy? Since I am not on the ground in St. Louis I have no idea what the deal here is, but it sounds like a kid with no work ethic, who possibly has a bad attitude and all that is a big red flag that this is not a kid any team will want on their roster.
He was given an opportunity to play at the start of his rookie year, so let's look back on his 2010 season as a whole and consider some of the issues that limited his playing time.
2010 Statistics
In basically six games (I think he saw one offensive snap in the second half of the season), Gilyard caught six passes for 63 yards. Disconcertingly, he was actually thrown at 15 times, so his catch rate was just 40%.
He returned 16 kickoffs for a pedestrian 22.3 yard average with one lost fumble. He also fair-caught one punt and was credited with two tackles.
Pass Catching
These were the catches Gilyard made:
1. Seven yards on an out pattern, where he fought to get to the marker, setting up the go-ahead TD on the next play.
2. Nine yards over the middle on a nice third and five route over the middle.
3. Four yards on a screen pass.
4. Five yards on a dump-off over the middle.
5. 17 yards on a downfield sideline catch, plus 15 yards for a facemask penalty as he was tackled.
6. 21 yards on a low, diving catch down the middle to convert a 3rd and 17 situation.
Some of the incompletions were as follows:
– Screen pass in the flat. Hit as soon as he caught the ball and dropped it, although he was better off dropping it because it would have gone for a loss.
– Timing was off on his route, as the pass came at him when he wasn't expecting it.
– Ran a deep corner route and had a step on the defender, but the throw was underthrown, perhaps because the QB expected him to curl his route back towards the outside.
– Miscommunication between QB and WR as the QB threw an out pattern, but Gilyard didn't break to the outside.
Kick Returns
– Gilyard had a 34 yard return in his first game, but this would prove to be the only time he gained more than 30 on a return.
– He broke a total of three tackles, all in his first two games.
– In week three, he lost a fumble which set up a touchdown.
– In week ten, he muffed a kickoff in the endzone.
Special Teams
– As a punt return gunner, he had a great highlight in week one. With two guys blocking him, he evaded them and got downfield and made a big hit on the return man, although in doing so he aggravated a problematic wrist injury.
– On another punt, he was only blocked by one guy and blew by him easily to down a punt at the four yard line.
– Gilyard wasn't called upon to run block much, but on two running plays, he motioned over to the edge of the line and made a cut block on a defender. In each case, he executed the block, but the defensive player was able to get back up and stuff the run for no gain.
– As noted above, he fair caught one punt.
– On one play, the Rams lost a fumble. Gilyard hustled over to the recovering player and tackled him, jarring the ball loose for a forced fumble, although the ball bounced forward and was still recovered by the defense.
After a season with a few flashes of potential but far too many mental errors, the Rams were hoping Gilyard would emerge stronger in his second season. Let's look now at how he fared in preseason.
2011 Preseason Statistics
Gilyard caught eight passes for 84 yards in the four games. He was only thrown to ten times, so his catch rate was a much more encouraging 80%.
As a kick returner, he averaged 23.9 yards on eight kicks and as a punt returner, he averaged 3.1 yards on 12 punts. He had one special teams tackle.
Pass Catching
Here are details of the eight catches he made:
1. 10 yards, as he made a catch in the flat and broke one tackle on a well blocked play.
2. 11 yards on a crossing pattern, as he broke a tackle to get to the marker.
3. 12 yards on a 3rd and six catch. He broke a tackle to get a couple of extra yards down to the 23 to set up the game winning field goal.
4. One yard on a screen. He had nowhere to go, although it looked like he might have perhaps telegraphed the fact he was getting the ball.
5. 14 yards on 3rd and nine as he caught a pass on a deep out route and hung on despite a big hit from a DB
6. Three yards on another screen pass where he had nowhere to run.
7. 17 yards on 3rd and 12 as he made a low sliding grab and smartly got up before he was touched to get a few extra yards.
8. 16 yards on 3rd and five as he ran a good post route to get a step on the slot cornerback.
The two incompletions he had were disappointing:
– A third and six throw went through his hands and, fortunately, was also dropped by the DB behind him.
– Dropped an easy catch on a crossing route.
Kickoff Returns
– He only managed to get back to the 20 yard line on two of his eight kickoff returns, although perhaps these wouldn't have been returned in a regular season game.
– On the other two, he went 32 yards to the 27 as his blockers opened up a hole for him and he broke a tackle at the 12 to get out to the 22.
– On one kick return, he fumbled and had it returned for a TD, but was ruled down.
Punt Returns
– 10 of his 12 punt returns combined for just five yards, as he kept catching the ball and getting hit immediately. Maybe he would have fair caught most of these in a regular season game, but felt the pressure to make something happen.
– On the other two, he made the first man miss and then eluded two tackles for 15 and caught the ball at the four yard line, made a stutter step move on the first guy to get to the outside and then broke a tackle to get 17 out to the 21.
– On one punt, he misjudged the flight of the ball and was leaning forward as he tried to catch it. He was lucky to recover the muff.
– On another punt, he fumbled after being hit immediately but his teammate recovered.
– He looked uncomfortable catching one other punt and made a falling catch.
– In total, he broke five tackles on punts.
Special Teams
– Operating as a punt gunner, he split a double team and made an immediate tackle on the return man.
– On another punt, he was in single coverage and got downfield easily to down a punt at the four yard line.
It seems the pattern continues. He had a couple of big third down catches and several broken tackles both as a receiver and a returner, but it was mental errors that plagued him. It's worth noting that the last two of his catches were late in the fourth game, by which point his fate was probably already sealed.
On the basis of what he has done so far in the NFL, Gilyard has shown flashes of potential, but has made so many mental errors that it's hardly surprising his coaches lost faith in him. He can run precise routes (witness…), but his issue was that he too often ran the wrong route. As a return man, there's no doubt he is elusive, but he constantly makes bad decisions, especially when catching punts. However, you only need to watch a highlight reel from his college career to see what he's capable of in the return game. Maybe he was just trying to do too much in an effort to kickstart his career, but there is no way I can envisage the Jets letting him catch a punt any time soon, no matter what Peter King says.
Where he can contribute right away is as a punt gunner. He excels at getting downfield and can tackle (perhaps thanks to his pedigree as a cornerback). I've always felt the ability to avoid blockers and get downfield on punts is a transferable skill that can manifest itself in improvements in route running. The Jets were starting to see flashes of that from Wallace Wright before he left.
Issues like poor work ethic are disconcerting but, in the past, his career has been on the brink of collapse and he didn't respond like a guy with a poor work ethic. After poor grades cost him his scholarship in 2006, Gilyard worked three jobs and overcame homelessness to pay for classes and keep his collegiate career alive. Now his pro career is on the ropes, does he have it in him to knuckle down in similar fashion and get back on track?
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Friday, September 19, 2008Lady Bisons remain perfect in A-Sun competition
Four for four or 12 for 12.
Whichever numbers you want to read they equal one thing – perfection.
The Lipscomb Lady Bisons are undefeated in Atlantic Sun volleyball matches. With a 3-0 sweep of Campbell Friday night in Buies Creek, N.C., the Lady Bisons won their fourth A-Sun match and remain unbeaten in sets with 12 straight wins. Overall the Lady Bisons, 6-6, 4-0 in the A-Sun, have won five straight matches.
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Campbell, 3-9, 1-2 in the A-Sun, lost 25-17 in set one, 25-14 in set two and 25-19 in set three.
"I thought we did a good job in sets one and two," Rosenthal said. "In sets one and two we got out to early leads and never looked back. In set three we got a lead and kind of let them back in."
The victory is even more impressive since this was the first athletic event played in Campbell's new John W. Pope Convocation Center.
"All of their sports teams were there because it was the first time they had seen the inside of the arena," Rosenthal said. "They had a great crowd. We talked about that beforehand. We had to take that energy that they had and use it for us."
Sophomore middle blocker Alex Kelly led the Lady Bisons in kills with a match-high 16. Sophomore outside hitter Katie Bradley added 11 and also recorded a career-high .409 hitting percentage.
"Alex and Katie both did a nice job," Rosenthal said. "I think a lot of it was set up by the work that Alex did early on. She really put on a show in the first two sets. The only to put it is she just crushed some balls. She really showed her prowess."
Senior libero Jessica Turner kept her double figures streak alive with a match high 20 digs. Since moving to libero she has been in double figures in digs in all five matches. Freshman outside hitter Katie Rose added 11 digs.
"Jessica has done a great job," Rosenthal said. "She goes about her business. She has really been a spark for our team."
Sarah Hill recorded 17 digs for Campbell.
"I thought we did a great job at the net," Rosenthal said. "And defensively, we were definitely on top of things."
The Lady Bisons return home Saturday morning and will enjoy a couple of days off before beginning work Monday in preparation for a road trip to Florida to take on North Florida Friday and Jacksonville Saturday.
"We are going to comp against a real big challenge with both North Florida and Jacksonville," Rosenthal said. "That will determine a lot for us."
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Cover potatoes with salted cold water by 1 inch, then simmer until just tender, 10 to 15 minutes. (Potatoes will continue to cook after draining; do not overcook or they will break apart.)
Drain potatoes and rinse under cold water until slightly cooled. Halve lengthwise and while still warm gently toss with 1 tablespoon vinegar. Cool potatoes to room temperature, then season with salt and pepper.
While potatoes cook, coarsely chop jalapeños and pulse in a food processor with cilantro, shallots, garlic, oil, and remaining 3 tablespoons vinegar until finely chopped.
Toss potatoes with salsa.
Cooks' notes: We cool the potatoes before tossing them with the salsa so the herbs won't discolor. Salsa may be made 1 day ahead and chilled, covered.
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Nutritional Info
- Calories250
- Carbohydrates43 g (14%)
- Fat7 g (11%)
- Protein5 g (11%)
- Saturated Fat1 g (5%)
- Sodium22 mg (1%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat1 g
- Fiber6 g (23%)
- Monounsaturated Fat5 g
- Cholesterol0


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Ever wonder how nuclear power is generated or what happens inside a nuclear power plant control room? Attend Braidwood Generating Station's Community Open House to find the answers to these questions and many more.
Braceville, Illinois - Ever wonder how nuclear power is generated or what happens inside a nuclear power plant control room? Attend Braidwood Generating Station's Community Open House to find the answers to these questions and many more.
The free event will take place Thursday, Sept. 13 from 4 to 7 p.m. at Exelon's Services and Training Center at 36400 S. Essex Road in Wilmington, Ill.
Employees will be on hand to talk with visitors about station operations and enhancements made at the station following last year's event at the Fukushima nuclear facility in Japan. Visitors can tour the plant's main control room simulator used to train reactor operators. An update on ongoing tritium remediation efforts will also be provided.
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"We look forward to hosting this event every year," said Braidwood Site Vice President Dan Enright. "This is a great opportunity for our neighbors to learn about nuclear power operations, and see how we generate clean and reliable power."
Braidwood Generating Station is approximately 60 miles southwest of Chicago. The station's two nuclear energy units can produce a total of more than 2,300 megawatts, which is enough electricity to power more than 2 million homes.
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UPDATE: Adam Schefter confirms this is for a second interview with Falcons Director of Player Personnel David Caldwell
It's hard to know what exactly this means, but we're totally at a loss. Is Woody sending a jet to grab Caldwell for a second interview with the Falcons executive later today? Is this the other candidate the Jets were "eyeing" according to Schefter's report on Sunday night?
Is this jet bringing back the new GM for an 11AM announcement and introduction later today? The jet is scheduled to arrive back in Teterboro at (UPDATED) 10:36AM this morning. This is no coincidence and it's too early to say, but it's clear that Woody's private plane is in Georgia this morning, and only one candidate that the Jets are considering lives in Georgia.


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It's remarkable that 1992's Team USA Basketball by Electronic Arts—then under the "EA Sports Network" label—is the only video game with a complete Dream Team roster after all these years. Especially when you consider that the 1992 United States National team added its final two players—Clyde Drexler of the Portland Trail Blazers and college player Christian Laettner of Duke, on May 12, 1992. This game came out later that summer.
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Cpl. John Helfer of the Monroe County Sheriff's Office, said the incident began as a two-car crash on the westbound lanes of the highway in Pittsford, when one car sideswiped another car about 8:30 p.m. Helfer did not identify the man killed.
The man stopped his car in the middle lane of I-490, got out and started pushing it from behind, Helfer said. A sport utility vehicle rear-ended the car, pinning the man between the two vehicles.
He was pronounced dead at the scene, Helfer said. The other two involved drivers were taken to Strong Memorial Hospital with minor injuries.
The paper also reports that Darren's father learned about his son's death from online news stories, and has yet to hear from police.
Darren Manzella, the outspoken openly-gay U.S. Army Sergeant whom we've written about extensively here at InstinctMagazine.com, passed away late Thursday. The details on the untimely loss of one of the hardest working activists who helped usher in a new post-"Don't Ask Don't Tell" era are still scant, but the reaction pouring in from both the LGBT and the military communities are heart wrenching.
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20 U.S. Code § 904 - Leave
(a) Entitlement; amount
Subject to the regulations prescribed and issued by the Secretary of Defense under section 902 of this title, each teacher (other than an individual employed as a substitute teacher) shall be entitled to cumulative leave, with pay, which shall accrue at the rate of one day for each calendar month, or part thereof, of a school year, except that if the school year includes more than eight months, any such teacher who shall have served for the entire school year shall be entitled to ten (or, if such teacher is employed in a supervisory position or higher, not less than ten and not more than thirteen) days of cumulative leave with pay.
(b) Saturdays, Sundays, holidays, and nonwork days
Saturdays, Sundays, regularly scheduled holidays, and other administratively authorized nonwork days shall not be considered to be days of leave for the purposes of subsection (a) of this section.
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If appropriate advance notice is given of the intended absence of a teacher, not to exceed three days of such leave may be granted for any purpose in each school year to such teacher.
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(2) who is an employee of the Federal Government or the municipal government of the District of Columbia who is transferred, promoted, or reappointed, without break in service, from a position under a different leave system to a teaching position,
shall be credited, for the purposes of the leave system provided by this section, with the annual and sick leave to his credit immediately prior to the effective date of such determination, transfer, promotion, or reappointment. Sick leave so credited shall be included in the leave provided for in subsection (a) of this section. Annual leave so credited shall not be included in the leave provided for in such subsection but shall be used under regulations which shall be prescribed by the Secretary of Defense.
(e) Excess of maximum amount of accumulated leave; reduction
In any case in which the amount of sick leave, which is to the credit of any individual under a different leave system immediately prior to the date on which he becomes subject as a teacher to the leave system provided by this section and which is included in the leave provided for in subsection (a) of this section, is in excess of the maximum amount of accumulated leave allowable under subparagraph (2) of such subsection, such excess shall remain to the credit of such teacher until used, but the use during any leave year of an amount in excess of the aggregate amount which shall have accrued during such year shall reduce automatically the maximum allowable amount of accumulated leave at the beginning of the next leave year until such amount no longer exceeds the maximum amount allowable under subparagraph (2) of subsection (a) of this section.
(f) Liquidation of unused leave upon separation
(g) Transfer of leave credit for teachers transferred, promoted or reappointed to positions under different leave system
In the case of any teacher who is transferred, promoted, or reappointed, without break in service, to a position under a different leave system, the annual leave, and any other leave earned or credited under this section, which is to his credit immediately prior to such transfer, promotion, or reappointment, shall be transferred to his credit in the employing agency on an adjusted basis in accordance with regulations which shall be prescribed by the Director of the Office of Personnel Management.
(h) Voluntary leave transfer and bank programs
The Director of Dependents' Education, in consultation with the Director of the Office of Personnel Management—
(1) shall establish for teachers a voluntary leave transfer program similar to the one under subchapter III of chapter 63 of title 5; and
(2) may establish for teachers a voluntary leave bank program similar to the one under subchapter IV of chapter 63 of title 5.
Only leave described in the last sentence of subsection (c) of this section (relating to leave that may be used by a teacher for any purpose) may be transferred under any program established under this subsection.
Source(Pub. L. 86–91, § 6,July 17, 1959, 73 Stat. 214; 1978 Reorg. Plan No. 2, § 102, eff. Jan. 1, 1979, 43 F.R. 36037, 92 Stat. 3783; Pub. L. 98–369, div. B, title II, § 2204,July 18, 1984, 98 Stat. 1059; Pub. L. 103–425, § 1,Oct. 31, 1994, 108 Stat. 4369.)
In subsec. (f), "section 5551 of title 5" substituted for "the Act of December 21, 1944 (5 U.S.C. 61b and the following)" on authority of Pub. L. 89–554, § 7(b),Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 631, the first section of which enacted Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Section was formerly classified to section 2354 of Title 5 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5 by Pub. L. 89–554, § 1,Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378.
1994—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103–425, § 1(1), inserted "(or, if such teacher is employed in a supervisory position or higher, not less than ten and not more than thirteen)" after "ten".
Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 103–425, § 1(2), substituted "Secretary of Defense" for "Secretary of the military department concerned" in concluding provisions.
Subsec. (h). Pub. L. 103–425, § 1(3), added subsec. (h).
1984—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 98–369struck out provisions which had directed that not more than seventy-five days of leave could be accumulated to the credit of a teacher at any one time under this subsection.
Transfer of Functions
"Director of the Office of Personnel Management" substituted for "United States Civil Service Commission" in subsec. (g), pursuant to Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1978, § 102,43 F.R. 36037, 92 Stat. 3783, set out under section 1101 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, which transferred functions vested by statute in Civil Service Commission to Director of Office of Personnel Management (except as otherwise specified), effective Jan. 1, 1979, as provided by section 1–102 of Ex. Ord. No. 12107, Dec. 28, 1978, 44 F.R. 1055, set out under section 1101 of Title 5.
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