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Mike Florio talks with Broncos Executive VP of Football Operations and Hall of Fame quarterback, John Elway about his teams turnaround season and their focus headed into the playoffs. Then, Florio takes calls and tweets from NFL fans.
Steelers center Maurkice Pouncey missed all of last season after breaking his leg in the preseason and coach Mike Tomlin said earlier this offseason that he wasn't sure if Pouncey would participate in OTAs as a result.
Pouncey's rehab appears to have gone well because he took every snap with the first-team offense as the Steelers kicked off the final segment of their offseason work on Tuesday. Pouncey said his leg feels 100 percent healthy and he isn't planning to hold anything back in practices after his long stay on the shelf.
"I'm 26 years old, man," Pouncey said, via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "I'm doing everything. I don't need time off. I'm [ticked] off I missed a lot. I'm ready to go."
Pouncey also confirmed that he required multiple surgeries to repair the leg, adding that he's "happy to be out here now." Happy will likely be a fitting description of the Steelers' mindset if Pouncey remains on the field for the entire 2016 season.
Monday's release of a Congressional report critical of the NFL for allegedly trying to influence the direction of a National Institutes of Health study about detecting Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in living brains has led to a variety of responses from the league and its medical advisors.
Commissioner Roger Goodell echoed many of those previous responses during a Tuesday press conference when he was asked about the report.
"I take a much different position to that on several fronts," Goodell said. "One is our commitment to medical research is well documented. We made a commitment to the NIH. It is normal practice to have discussions back and forth with the NIH. We have several members that are advisors on our committees — Betsy Nagel, Rich Ellenbogen —who have had experience with NIH or worked with NIH. It is very important to continue to have that kind of dialogue through appropriate channels, which our advisors have. That's a standard practice. We have our commitment of $30 million to the NIH. We're not pulling that back one bit. We continue to focus on things our advisors believe are important to study. Ultimately it is the NIH's decision."
Goodell went on to say that he did not think it was "appropriate" for the report to be released without speaking to those aforementioned medical advisors and took issue with the report referencing Ellenbogen and others as reaching out on behalf of the NFL.
In a follow-up question about NFL players not trusting the league on concussion issues, Goodell said that it was something the league has to do better at and pledged to "continue to find ways to make our game safer." He also said that the league has to "make sure people understand the facts" about the effects of head trauma, something that's been difficult given how often the league and outside groups find themselves on opposite sides of the issues raised by research.
Commissioner Roger Goodell said little on Tuesday about a potential move of the Raiders to Las Vegas. Raiders owner Mark Davis said plenty.
"I'm excited about it," Davis said in comments televised on NFL Network. "It's a new market. It's got the potential to be a really exciting market. . . . The Raider fan in Northern California get upset a little bit when we talk about going to Los Angeles, and the L.A. fans get a little ticked off at the fans in Northern California, so it seems like Las Vegas is a neutral site that everybody's kind of bought into. It will unite the Raider nation more than divide it."
Asked if this means he's given up on staying Oakland, Davis said, "No."
And then he said this: "I've given my commitment to Las Vegas, and if they can come through with what they're talked about doing, then we'll go to Las Vegas."
So, yeah, it looks like Davis is ready to leave. And it looks like the only way he'll stay is if Oakland wakes up and puts together a plan sufficiently viable to get at least nine owners to vote against approving a move to Las Vegas.
Last year, the Buccaneers not surprisingly made a former Florida State quarterback the first overall pick in the draft. This year, the Bucs surprisingly used a second-round pick to acquire kicker Roberto Aguayo.
"It's special to have another Seminole on the roster," quarterback Jameis Winston told reporters on Tuesday. "We've got a lot of Gators on this roster so I'm glad we've got Roberto with me."
So why is Aguayo such an attractive option?
"Other than he's automatic, he's competitive as well," Winston said. "He's always having fun out there. He has a different swagger for a kicker. He's always focused but he likes to have fun doing it."
This doesn't change the fact that the Bucs are bring criticized for taking Aguayo so high in the process.
"Opinions are always going to be out there," Winston said. "I'm just happy to have Roberto on this team. Just like a lot of people had opinions about me when I first came out and first started the season, like Roberto's going to do, he's going to shut them up. . . . We came in together at Florida State so we always were close. I always knew he was good because we always used to say that Florida State 2012 class was the best class to ever come through Florida State, so we always stood by that. We always were good buddies."
Winston's comments come a day after the man who put that recruiting class together once again said "never say never" about making the leap to the NFL. With team ownership showing increasing impatience with the team's inability to contend on a regular basis, there may eventually be one more addition to the Tallahassee reunion.
Packers coach Mike McCarthy ensured that running back Eddie Lacy's physical condition would be a running storyline this offseason when he said shortly after the team's playoff loss to the Cardinals that Lacy "cannot play at the weight he did" in 2016.
There were varying reports and responses from the Packers about how much of that weight the team wanted Lacy to lose, but the mandate for the third-year back was a clear one. On Tuesday, McCarthy was asked about how the process has gone.
"So far, so good," McCarthy said, via the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "I don't know [how much work Lacy has left to do]. Eddie will be fine. I believe he'll hit the target that we're looking for when the lights come on."
One of the ways that Lacy worked to drop weight was by hooking up with P90X founder Tony Horton. Horton told the newspaper that Lacy reached out to him early in the offseason and that he agreed to it despite having "never done anything quite like that before."
"But I knew I could help him, and I knew what he was struggling from, and I think we both agreed in our meeting that he needed sort of a new perspective and a new approach," Horton said. "And we got along really great. We just met each other up in San Francisco the week before the Super Bowl. And we said hey, let's give this thing a try. Come hangout with me in Jackson Hole and then after that stint is done we'll come back to LA and continue it there. We just got along, you know what I mean? We laughed a lot and we worked hard and we ate clean food and just took care of business, you know?"
Horton said Lacy made dietary changes and started taking supplements for the first time. Should Lacy bounce back with a big 2016 season after that offseason work, Horton will probably be getting more calls from NFL players in offseasons to come.
Cowboys guard Ronald Leary is staying away from the team's organized team activity (OTA) practices because he wants to be traded, per multiple reports.
Leary signed his restricted free-agent tender worth $2.553 million in hopes of facilitating a trade, possibly during the draft, and the Cowboys took some calls from interested teams. But no deal got done, and Leary has remained away from the team's offseason program.
Leary was the team's starting left guard in 2013 and 2014 but made just four starts last season. He was inactive for the 12 games he didn't start.
If no trade is made, Leary would have to show up for the team's mandatory June minicamp or risk being fined because he signed his tender in April. Leary, 27, broke into the league as an undrafted rookie in 2012 and became a starter after spending his rookie season on the practice squad. Maybe the Titans losing starting guard Byron Bell to an injury at the start of their OTA workouts will eventually give him the trade he's seeking.
The Super Bowl will be coming back to Miami in 2020 and the Dolphins would love to play in it on their home field.
If they do, a pair of players who signed contracts with the team on Tuesday could be part of making it happen. The Dolphins announced that third-round wide receiver Leonte Carroo and seventh-round tight end Thomas Duarte have agreed to four-year deals with the team.
Carroo is the latest addition to a receiving corps that has been remade since the end of the 2013 season. Jarvis Landry, DeVante Parker and Kenny Stills have all joined the team since then and Miami drafted Carroo and Jakeem Grant this season.
Duarte could factor into the receiving mix as well at some point after playing as something of a wide receiver/tight end hybrid at UCLA. With Carroo and Duarte under contract, the Dolphins only have third-round running back Kenyan Drake left to sign from their draft class.
The NFL is back in Los Angeles. The Super Bowl is coming back, too.
League owners voted Tuesday to award Los Angeles Super Bowl LV in 2021. It will be played in the shiny new stadium being built in Inglewood for the return of the Rams.
Also Tuesday, separate votes awarded Super Bowls to Atlanta in 2019 and to South Florida in 2020.
Super Bowl LV will be the eighth hosted by Los Angeles and the first since 1993, when the Cowboys routed the Bills at the Rose Bowl. The first Super Bowl was played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
With stadium renovations underway, Miami is getting another Super Bowl.
The NFL's owners voted today to award Super Bowl LIV in 2020 to South Florida, which edged out the other finalist for that year's game, Tampa.
Dolphins owner Stephen Ross has spent significant money to renovate New Miami Stadium, which has previously hosted Super Bowls XXIII, XXIX, XXXIII, XLI and XLIV (under various other names). Miami is a popular destination for the Super Bowl, but the stadium had become dilapidated in recent years and wasn't up to the standards that the NFL looks for in a Super Bowl venue.
Now the stadium is in the process of major renovations, and the Super Bowl is on the way back. This will be the 11th Super Bowl to be played in the Miami metropolitan area, the most Super Bowls of any host city.
It hasn't quite reached the scorched Earth response of the NFL after the New York Times article in March, but the league is taking an aggressive stance after a Congressional report suggested they were trying to steer concussion research.
In a letter sent to Representative Frank Pallone Jr. of New Jersey, Dr. Richard Ellenbogen (who co-chair's the league's head, neck and spine committee) continued to defend his research, and disputes the notion that the league steered research funds to get the result they wanted.
"Dear Mr. Chairman and Ranking Member Pallone," the letter read. "Yesterday a report from the minority staff of your committee was released to the media alleging that I and others participated in an effort to influence an NIH grant selection process. Nothing could be further from the truth. Unfortunately, I was not afforded the simple opportunity to make this plain to your staff members, despite the fact that my contact information was provided to them and my willingness to engage with them on any question was made clear to them. I find this basic lack of fairness, combined with the disregard for the opinions and reputations of the medical professionals named in this report, to be unworthy of the important committee that you lead. At a minimum, I hope you can understand my profound objection to this maligning without so much as the courtesy of a direct question to me by your staff.
"To be clear, I am not and never have been paid by the NFL nor have I ever received funding through the research grant dollars in question. I am a physician on the front lines of this issue, treating kids and counseling parents every day on understanding concussions and repetitive head injury. I feel passionately that there is urgent work ahead to fill the tremendous gap in funding and support on this issue.
"Medical professionals can and always will discuss priorities and debate protocols; that is healthy and appropriate. I believe strongly that there is a vital need for a longitudinal study that tracks the impact concussions have over many years. We need to better understand the long-term risks of traumatic brain injury. I made clear to the NIH that this should be a priority. The advancement of science and research in this field is of critical importance – and we must work to together to understand what it is telling us and how we must adapt accordingly.
"I regret that your minority staff report did nothing to further momentum on these goals and the understanding of these important scientific questions."
The league's response had previously been measured, but it's clear they're beginning to take the offensive again, at the suggestion they're trying to achieve the result they want by virtue of money.
A torn ACL ended the season of Patriots running back Dion Lewis in November, but it's not expected to affect him this year.
Mike Reiss of ESPN reports that people close to Lewis say he's about a month away from being able to play in a game, which means that he should be ready for training camp and the preseason, and certainly before the start of the regular season.
Lewis suffered the torn ACL on November 8 and had surgery on November 18, so he has been rehabbing for about six months. The Patriots will likely take it slow with him in Organized Team Activities and training camp, but it wouldn't be surprising to see him get some preseason carries, and he looks like a lock to play in the Sunday Night Football opener against the Cardinals.
Lewis was playing well before he got hurt last season, averaging 4.8 yards a carry and catching 36 passes. He and LeGarrette Blount will likely split first-team reps in the Patriots' backfield this season.
New buildings get Super Bowls, and Atlanta is the latest beneficiary.
NFL owners just voted at their meeting in Charlotte to award Super Bowl LIII to the new Falcons stadium, the latest example of new facility being rewarded with the biggest game of the year.
Atlanta and New Orleans were the finalists for the game, with Miami and Tampa eliminated from the process on earlier ballots.
New Orleans had limited its bid to just the 2019 game (other cities were also bidding for 2020 and 2021), meaning it will be at least 2022 before they're back in the mix for the game.
Atlanta previously hosted Super Bowl XXXIII, which featured an incredible game between the Titans and Rams, but also an ice storm that crippled the area in advance.
In many respects, the NFL has become its own worst enemy in the so-called War on Football. Typically, that happens when the league and people connected to it unreasonably downplay the risks associated with the sport. One team executive has potentially harmed the league's interests by going to the other extreme.
Asked during an appearance on WGR 550 whether Bills G.M. Doug Whaley believes receiver Sammy Watkins is injury prone, Whaley painted with the broadest possible brush.
"This is the game of football," Whaley said, via Harry Scull Jr. of the Buffalo News. "Injuries are part of it. It's a violent game that I personally don't think humans are supposed to play."
That's the kind of statement that could prompt plenty of humans to prevent their offspring from playing football. Making the words even more jarring is that Whaley drove directly into a ditch under the guise of trying to justify his faith in Watkins, for whom Whaley gave up the ninth overall pick in 2014, a first-round pick in 2015, and a fourth-round pick in 2015 to acquire.
Coach Rex Ryan was later asked about Whaley's remarks, which apparently haven't gathered much traction thanks to the brouhaha arising from the franchise's goofy new media policy.
"I can say this, I love the game, I think it's the greatest sports," Ryan told reporters. "I know it's the greatest sport, it's the greatest game and we all know how I feel about it."
Previously, it was believed that Whaley's job may be riding on whether the team makes it to the playoffs this year. Tuesday's gaffe may have sealed his fate, barring the team's ability to perform what would be the superhuman task of winning a Super Bowl.
Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald fulfilled a promise to his mother and received his college degree recently, which might not be necessary to his post-football employment options but certainly won't hurt them.
Not that it's clear when Fitzgerald might be ready to move into a different line of work. Fitzgerald's future beyond the 2016 season has come up at points this offseason because it is the final year of his contract and the wideout said Tuesday that he "honestly" doesn't have any idea about how long he's going to keep playing.
"I really don't look at it like that," Fitzgerald said, via the team's website. "I look at it as a day-to-day. I feel good every day, waking up and going to practice. Last year I was able to stay healthy. That puts you in a different state of mind when you are able to get up and do everything you are capable of doing. There's a long way to go before that would even be a point of discussion. I'm just enjoying this and trying to make this the best year yet."
Fitzgerald is coming off an excellent season punctuated by his dramatic touchdown catch to beat the Packers in overtime of their playoff matchup. If he's healthy and continues to produce in 2016, it's difficult to think he'll just ride off into the sunset although it appears a final answer to that question isn't right around the corner.
The NFL didn't move its quarterly meeting from North Carolina to protest the controversial bathroom law known as House Bill 2. But that doesn't stop the owners who showed up in Charlotte from making their views known while in town.
49ers CEO Jed York did so on Tuesday, strongly.
"The San Francisco 49ers are deeply concerned about North Carolina's recently-enacted House Bill 2, which overturned protections for LGBT people and sanctioned discrimination across the state," York said in a statement, via Matt Maiocco of CSNBayArea.com. "HB 2 does not reflect the values of our organization, of our country, or the majority of North Carolinians."
York also gave $75,000 to Equality NC, a statewide organization that promotes equality and justice for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens.
"We firmly believe that discriminatory laws such as HB 2 are bad for our employees, bad for our fans, and bad for business," York said. "We believe that HB 2 will make it far more challenging for businesses across the state to recruit and retain the nation's best and brightest workers and attract the most talented students from across the country. It will also diminish the state's draw as a destination for sporting events, tourism and conventions, and new business activity. "
The law requires people to use the bathroom that reflects the gender on their birth certificate. All political views aside, we're still waiting to hear more about how the law is going to be enforced.

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Hello , I ve been trying to write a script for calculating coverage per gene,unsuccessfully(!) ,and I found now that is nicely done by GATK ! I would very much need to use this calculation of depthOfCoverage for each gene but I cannot find the geneList needed in the format explained here. I have a RefSeq gene list downloaded from UCSC table which contains RefSeq name ,cds_start & end and "chr" information. Is this acceptable? I want to do it for exons falling inside the genes, which I have downloaded from : ftp://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/technical/reference/exome_pull_down_targets/ (phase3), so this would be my Intervals List. It contains only chr info and start-end. I have also calculated for my bam files the bedtools-genomecov with option of "bedgraph" ,so I wrote a script to calculate mean coverage for each exon whose reads fall onto. Is the calculation of DepthOfCoverage done in the same principle ? Moreover I cannot find in UCSC a table which combines RefSeq name with used gene Name. Is it combined in this genesList you provide from GATK? Can you guide me where I could find the exact url for /humgen/.../geneList.txt or if mine could work ,and if exons table is ok with only these 3 columns ? I m a registered member, as for writing in the forum. Is there any extra procedure needed to access your database ? Thanks in advance !
I am using GATK through the Galaxy main server to analyze variations from whole-genome re-sequencing of various samples of non-model species (nematodes worms). I would like to know whether it is possible to have with Galaxy's GATK tools a kind of pileup (base per base or intervall, like .bed) of genome indicating specifically which base where callable or not by Unified Genotyper (UG), such as "CallableLoci". The log & metrics files generated by UG in Galaxy give the general statistics of callable loci, but there is no such a file giving a detailed information of the eligibility of each base.
In the same kind of idea, I would like to get a per-locus-depth of coverage (which can partially help answering my previous question, although it does not take into account all the filters used by UG such as base quality, mapping quality, etc.). This tool is available on Galaxy. However, I am performing 3 rounds of BQSR to get my final vcf file. Shall I calculate the depth of coverage using the first BAM file before BQSR or the last recalibrated BAM file obtained in the 3rd round of BQSR? I don't think BQSR alter the coverage score, so I would say this shouldn't matter. Am I right?
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I have a set of CNV regions, and I would like to see how much my samples are overlapped with those regions. So I used DepthCoverage from GATK and fillted the interval parameters with my CNVs.
ERROR MESSAGE: Badly formed genome loc: Contig 3 given as location, but this contig isn't present in the Fasta sequence dictionary
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Al Hajjarayn is a stunningly high town built on a rocky outcrop in the Wadi Doan area of Hadramaut and looks as though it may topple off, taking its 400 year old houses with it.
Wadi Doan is one of the tributaries of Wadi Hadramaut, about 60km from Shibam.
Al Hajjarayn has steep winding streets, with small shops selling honey, which the area is famous for.
The architecture is similar to that of Shibam, except the houses are not as tall and Al Hajjarayn, being smaller, is more attractive. As you walk around you notice the lovely gold colour of the buildings and the incredibly ornate doors
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The majority of the credit in McDonald's 18-14 victory Friday night over Mineral Ridge should go to the Blue Devils' defense.
It ended a three-game losing streak in the rivalry for the Blue Devils.
"It feels great; it feels wonderful," McDonald coach Dan Williams said. "Our kids played to the end. It was one of our main goals was to beat Mineral Ridge. The senior class was focused. They came in and rose to the occasion."
McDonald's defense not only held the Rams to 176 total yards of offense, but came up with two huge stops on Ridge's final two drives of the game, including one in which the Rams were gifted an extra down by the officials.
"We had our backs against the wall," Williams said. "Things happen; they got five plays at one time. Our kids just kept fighting. We kept answering the bell."
In the fourth quarter, Mineral Ridge (4-2, 1-2 Inter-Tri County League, Lower Tier) drove down to McDonald's 14-yard line. On third-and-6, Rams quarterback Jonathan Baker was dumped for a 4-yard loss and Ridge was also hit with a personal foul penalty, which should have made it fourth and 25. However, the officials ruled it was still third down.
"I don't know," Williams said about the extra down. "We chart our plays; we chart every down. That was the fifth play. Luckily it didn't cost us."
McDonald (4-2, 2-1) held on the next play and forced a punt. The Blue Devils took over on their own 11 with 6:05 left and burned 3 Ω off the clock. Mineral Ridge drove to the McDonald 27, but Josiah Lovejoy intercepted Baker in the end zone to end the Rams' hopes with 1:21 left.
"Josiah Lovejoy made a great play at the end of the game to seal the deal," Williams said.
Mineral Ridge led 7-0 and 14-12 but was unable to hold the advantage. Coach Doug Velasquez said it came down to his team not doing the job on defense.
"We just had to stop them and get them off the field," he said. "We didn't make the right adjustments. We didn't make the plays when we needed to."
Matt Morrell led the Blue Devils with 136 yards on the ground, while Ben Carkido was 4-for-5 passing with a pair of 1-yard TD rushes.
"Matt's a heck of a runner for us," Williams said. "Matt's a good player. Put it in his hands and let him make plays. He did a nice job holding the football, especially late in the game."
The loss was a blow to Mineral Ridge's playoff hopes. The Rams entered Friday sixth in Division VII, Region 23's computer ratings.
"We've just to stay doing our stuff," Velasquez said. "We've got to get back to running the football and I think our kids are there. We've got to learn from this loss and move on."
I was at that game and I dont know if the refs messed up or the McDonald staff missed something. I never comment on this stuff and this is my first time but here is what happend and i think i'm right but who knows. Maybe someone who knows the correct rules can say. Mineral Ridge had the ball, 1st down was running play. 2nd down was a running play and there were 2 fouls the the refs called, one on each team, which the way i understand it offset each other and they replayed 2nd down.,Then there was an incomplete pass by Ridge and there was a penalty at the end of the play against Mineral Ridge. Then on 3rd down they ran the ball. then it was 4th down and Mineral Ridge turned the ball over on downs. So yes Mineral Ridge did get 5 plays but one of the downs didnt count. My questions is. should the refs not have replayed the 2nd down? Someone who knows high school rules please exlpain who was right here. The refs or McDonald?posted 2 years, 7 months ago


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In this article, a robust adaptive control scheme for robotic manipulators is designed based on the concept of performance index and Lyapunov's second method. Compensators are selected for a given feedback system by using a quadratic performance index. Then the stability of the system is proven based on Lyapunov's method, where a Lyapunov function and its time-derivative are derived from the selected compensators. In the process of stabilization, stability bounds are obtained for disturbances, control gains, adaptation gains, and desired trajectories, in the presence of feedback delay due to digital computation and first-order hold in the control loop. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


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I am running into an issue where co-managers are breaking my JSON deserialization process. It seems that when you have a co-manager it adds a new object level instead of following Managers -> Manager -> Properties
With the Co-Manager it goes Managers -> Manager -> [0] -> Properties
Anyone run into this and if so what was the fix?
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public ActionResult Index()
OAuthSession session = (OAuthSession)Session["oAuthSession"];
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Hi Matt -
This is consistent with how the JSON is returned. It is the same when you have multiple leagues or multiple players. For example, if you are querying teams within a league, I would expect the format to come back:
Fantasy Content -> Teams -> Team [0]
Fantasy Content -> Teams -> Team [1] etc
You would then have to cycle through the Team array for each team to get the info.
This would be consistent for a team that have multiple managers as well.
I can help if you're using PHP, otherwise I don't know enough to help you processing the array.
I am using .NET with in the MVC framework. It actually appears to be the way that the JSON.NET library is assigning objects vs the model that I am using to provide them to the view, so I am going to have to change that I believe. I do not run into the issue with multiple leagues though which is strange. It is only happening with the co-managers.
I will keep digging!
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90,000 shares 'purchased' for the ENTIRE day representing about $ 126,000 BUYING power. This demonstrates that ONLY tiny players are buying this WORTHLESS stock. There are NO buyers with ANY influence buying this LOSER, NONE! This is a 'bottomless pit' company capturing those naive,
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Passing along some sound bites from Bill Belichick's postgame press conference after the Patriots' 31-21 win over the Denver Broncos.
On his team's strong first half: "It was a combination of taking advantage of our scoring opportunities, getting the ball in the end zone. We came close there at the end of the half; we just weren't quite able to get that in there on second and third down. I think I can do a better job of that, just managing that situation. And then after the exchange of possessions to start the third quarter, you know, we had the touchdown there, so it was kind of a big swing there at the end of the half where we had the points and we exchanged those possessions in the third quarter, but we had more possessions than they did, so it was a really good clock management there in the second quarter. I would have liked to get a touchdown out of it, but … we moved the ball consistently, we ran the ball well, threw it well, we had some balance, picked up some third downs and did pretty good in the red zone, but we can always be better."
On going for a 4th-and-5 from the Denver 37 early in the fourth quarter:
"Trying to pick it up. It was too long for a field goal. The ball was on the 30-whatever yard line, so we were just trying to pick up the first down."
On why he decided against punting at that time:
"Because we didn't have very far to go. We would have gained some yardage if we punted it, possibly, depending on how good the punt was. We would have had to protect it and that. I thought we had a good chance to pick it up there; we just didn't do a good job on it."
On his team's offensive tempo and if it was faster normal:
"I think that we tried to up-tempo it a little bit to keep them from substituting. They were able to substitute in at times, but I think at other times they couldn't get them in. It looked like they had to hold them. When they weren't substituting, then we could get a little bit better idea of what they were going to do with the group that was in there. When they start subbing, it's hard to tell exactly what group they're getting to. Are they subbing one for one or are they putting a different personnel group and all that? When they keep the same guys out on the field, then we can have a pretty good idea of what they're going to do from that package. They got in and out of some stuff, like we expected they would, but we felt like the tempo helped us control the game a little bit."
On the performance of rookie cornerback Alfonzo Dennard:
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On what goes through his mind when he sees Tom Brady and Peyton Manning on the same field:
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Ding got off to a great start with breaks of 58 and 62 to take the opening frame but Robertson hit back with an unanswered 70 to level the match.
After sharing frames three and four, Ding seized the momentum by taking a topsy-turvy fifth 80-45 and followed it up with a break of 75 to leave him one away from victory before a century break assured his passage to the final four.
Barry Hawkins came from 4-2 behind to knock out world number two Mark Selby.
Selby had looked in total control after a series of impressive breaks, including a second frame century, but Hawkins hit back in stunning fashion as he levelled the tie with a break of 140.
And it was Hawkins who stole the decisive ninth frame, winning it 79-25 to set up a semi-final with Ding.
In the earlier matches Xiao Guodong and Michael Holt both reached the semi-finals of a ranking event for the first time.
Xiao delighted the home fans with a come from behind 5-4 victory against Mark Davies after having been 4-2 down at one stage.
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Holt produced breaks of 85 and 64 before a run of 80 in the final frame sealed the victory.
Xiao and Holt will now meet each other in the final four.
Quarter-final results:
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Posted on 10/30/2010 11:21:15 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
Columbus, Ohio (CNN) - Retiring Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, said Monday that the upcoming lame duck session of Congress should work together on a handful of key issues to demonstrate a commitment to problem-solving rather than partisan bickering.
He suggested that in the lame duck session, the 18-member bipartisan debt commission should endorse recommendations to help repair the country's deep budget deficit. He called on lawmakers to listen to the commission and have "the courage to move forward and do the tough things that need to be done for our country."
"Once we are elected we ought to come together and find out those things we agree on and not concentrate on those things that we disagreeing on," he said. "My position has always been if the president has something that I think is in the best interest of the country, we should come together. It doesn't make any difference whether he gets credit for it or not. The American people want us to work together."
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The first thing they need to "agree" on is that their are way too many illegal alien freeloaders in this country.
Get lost !!! You crying little weenie...you!
Please let the door hit him several times on the way out!
No, please DO let the door hit you on the way out.
How many of the Republicans for which many will be voting between now and Tuesday will share this same view, I wonder?
>> [Voinovich] called on lawmakers to ... have "the courage to move forward and do the tough things that need to be done for our country."
Like cutting spending? Go for it georgie boy!
...but somehow, I don't think that's what big-government stooge Voinovich has in mind.
This POS has caused enough damage!
The new congress had better not "reach across the isle" unlees they have a subpena or an invitation to a duel in their hand!
Just retire, George.
I just don't seem to recall hearing this prior to the 2008 election...
Ask these RINO's if they think it would have helped to find agreement with Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Mussolini. Couldn't we all just have gotten along with mad men? Then ask these clueless RINOs if they think they can suck up to the Taliban and Al Qaeda and reach an agreement. Same difference with getting along with RATs who, IMO, are out to destroy our country, destroy our Constitution, steal our freedom and eliminate our future.
I don't think just getting along is an option with our known and proven enemies, What do you think?
Voinovich check!! One more RINO target!
We're keeping a list!!
The real problem DC is going to have is finding someone to pay for all this. I won't
On Strike!
I just don't seem to recall hearing this prior to the 2008 election...
I just don't seem to recall hearing this prior to the 2008 election...
Did he break down weeping and sobbing like a little girl after this speech?
Oh, right, you actually mean 'the liberals lost the election, so let's raise taxes on our way out.'
I, for one heard much anger with Voinovich prior to '08.
With McQueeg running, we all had bigger fish to fry.
Welcome to FreeRepublic!
No doubt the Republicans will stand against Obama/Reid/Pelosi more than this Congress!!
I'm talking about the "reach across the aisle" rhetoric.
Voiceinabitch needs to GTH out if town, and shut his pie hole.
He and his elitist prig colleagues had better start ramping up ther retirement plans. By 2014 we will be getting rid of the rest of the RINO has beens like him.
COMPROMISE ,on the abandonment of American excetionalism, compromise on a 14 Trillon dollar deficit just because a bunch of Liberal Fascists borrowed our freedom into a hole?
The left started this demographic warfare, and we are now in the battle to win it. That can NOT be forgotten.
However, Voiceinabitch, but for his infamy, can and will be forgotten.
We want jobs, and the repeal of Obama Death Care.If we do not get these, there won't be much government.No one will obey it.
He estimates it will take five or 6 elections to get enough conservatives in to get the job done. We have to fight the Marxists and the rinos,it won't happen over night.
A lot of our representatives still don't get it. I think we will need a few more rounds of housecleaning if we are successful Nov 2.
Voinovich is right, but only to the extent that we should work with Obama's side when they want to do the right thing despite their ideology. We should work with them in cutting wasteful spending. We should work with them in funding our troops to win the war on terror and protect our country. We should work with them on cutting taxes and allowing our fellow Americans to keep more of their own money.
However, to the extent that they want us to split the difference and only nationalize half of private industry instead of everything, only gut half of our constitutional rights instead of all, or only fund the murder of a half million unborn children each year instead of a full million, we must not yield to vacuous calls for "bipartisanship". Bipartisanship should mean supporting those portions of the agenda that both parties support, not us giving the far left wing of Obama's party half of what they demand this year and half of what is left next year until they achieve their goal of absolute power.
Ridicule, revile and discredit them , including RINOs.We will get along fine as long as the leftists do what they are told by the people.
No more of this elitist double talk about getting along. THE DEMS LOCKED OUT THE REPUBLICAN CAUCUS FROM LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE ON THE HEALTH CARE BILL!!!! The Dems voted yea on it without even having read it????? And now we are supposed to get along after that BILL shows a process/penalty confiscation of wealth, seizable by the IRS????
AND IT NEEDS TO BE MANDATED THAT ALL Members of Congress get EXACTLY the same health care as the people, if the health care bill is NOT repealed.
THATS WHERE WE START. Thats the first bill we pass.
Get lost and good riddance!
Isn't this that pathetic crybaby from a few years ago?
Thank you for your kind welcome, and let us hope that they will stand against Obama/Reid/Pelosi.
in 1992 an audit was done of the department of education they could not account for 70% of its budget.
Also in the same year, they did an audit of the IRS and they could not account for 66% of its budget.
United Nations, World Bank, WTO, IMF, and all other foreign aide.
Bye RINO and please feel free never to run for any office again.
Bullsh## no compromises! period. repeal and defund!
Let me get this straight: A mugging victim should negotiate with the mugger to determine how many times you get whacked over the head the next time you get mugged.
Idiot RINO.
Agreed. Many battles ahead. But worth it.
No. They should work with us.
Boehner, or someone, should be telling Obama and the 'rats right now, that if the People give us the majority in The Peoples' House of Representatives, we expect the democrats to cooperate with us and put politics aside, that the country can not afford a president so stubborn as to bog down essential business of the country. Period.
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stock), after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated
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a distribution to Lone Star, the use of proceeds from this offering to redeem
any of the PIK toggle notes would be deemed to be the payment of an indirect
dividend to Lone Star from the proceeds from this offering.
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our larger competitors may have an advantage over us through stronger buying
power and more significant capital resources.
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United States and a non-union work force. As of October 2, 2013, we operated 684
stores serving many key metropolitan areas in Florida, Georgia, Alabama,
Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, North Carolina, and
Tennessee under the
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banners. We believe we are the sixth largest conventional supermarket operator
in the United States based on number of stores and the second largest
conventional supermarket operator in the eight states in which we operate based
on aggregate number of stores in these states. We strive to differentiate
ourselves from our competitors by providing our customers with a value
proposition that combines conveniently located and well-maintained stores
(averaging 40,000-50,000 square feet), with a strong focus on customer service,
high-quality food products, and prices that are competitive with other
supermarket operators in our markets. For the fiscal year ended December 26,
2012, we generated approximately $8.5 billion of net sales, approximately $103.1
million of net income (including approximately $7.6 million of tax expense) and
approximately $366.1 million of adjusted EBITDA. For the 40 weeks ended October
2, 2013, we generated approximately $7.7 billion of net sales, approximately
$221.8 million of net income (including approximately $59.0 million of tax
benefits) and approximately $349.7 million of adjusted EBITDA.
We have experienced substantial growth in recent years through a combination of
organic operating initiatives and acquisitions. We have achieved strong
financial results during this period, as evidenced by the following:
. Through October 2, 2013, we achieved positive pro forma comparable store
sales growth in 18 of the last 19 quarters.
. We have achieved average pro forma comparable store sales growth of 2.7%
over our last seven consecutive quarters.
. We have grown our store count from 207 stores at January 1, 2011 to 684
stores at October 2, 2013, and we anticipate that, after giving effect to
required divestitures, our pending Delhaize transaction and the recently
completed Piggly Wiggly transaction will expand our store count to as many
as 847 supermarkets.
. We have increased our net income and adjusted EBITDA from fiscal year 2008
when we had a net loss of approximately $88.8 million and adjusted EBITDA
of approximately $136.6 million, to net income and adjusted EBITDA of
approximately $103.1 million and $366.1 million, respectively, for fiscal
We operate a network of attractive, well-maintained stores and seek to locate
our stores in high-traffic areas that are in close proximity to residential
neighborhoods. We operate our business as a single unit with a single management
team, but we operate under different banners in different markets. We generate
revenues by selling an assortment of grocery products, including dry and canned
groceries, frozen items, produce, dairy, meat and seafood, bread and baked
goods, and other fresh product offerings. In addition, a majority of our stores
include pharmacies.
On March 9, 2012, we acquired Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. for a total cash purchase
price of $559.3 million. The Winn-Dixie acquisition significantly expanded our
store base and geographic market area, with no overlap in markets between BI-LO
and Winn-Dixie. The Winn-Dixie acquisition has allowed us to realize significant
cost savings. We have achieved over $180 million of annual run-rate cost savings
from operational improvements and synergies to date and expect to realize
moderate additional cost savings prior to completion of the integration. We have
incurred approximately $75.8 million in upfront integration-related costs
through October 2, 2013, and we anticipate we will incur modest additional costs
through completion of integration. Consistent with our strategy of reducing
operating costs and reinvesting these savings in the business to stimulate
customer traffic, we are investing a portion of these cost savings in
merchandising and pricing initiatives to drive sales.
On May 27, 2013, we entered into the Delhaize merger agreement, pursuant to
which we agreed to acquire 155 operating supermarkets (subject to regulatory
approvals, which may require divestitures) under the "Sweetbay", "Harveys", and
"Reid's" banners, for $265.0 million in cash and the assumption of all related
lease liabilities, including approximately $92.0 million of capital lease
liabilities. Based on information provided by Delhaize, for the 52-week period
ended December 29, 2012, we believe the 143 operating supermarkets we expect to
acquire net of divestitures generated approximately $1.6 billion of revenues. In
addition, based on information provided by Delhaize and our management's
estimate of allocable corporate costs, we believe that the average per store
operating performance of these 143 operating supermarkets for the 52-week period
ended December 29, 2012 was substantially equivalent to the average per store
pro forma operating performance of our stores for fiscal 2012. The financial
information relating to the Delhaize business being acquired is based on
information provided by Delhaize, has not been audited or otherwise been subject
to auditor review, and does not give effect to any additional store divestitures
that may be required. We expect the Delhaize transaction to be completed in the
first quarter of 2014. In addition, on November 12, 2013, we completed the
purchase of 22 Piggly Wiggly operating supermarkets for a purchase price of
approximately $40.7 million in cash. These transactions, covering stores located
in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, will further build on the strength of
our BI-LO and Winn-Dixie stores and will expand our customer base. Following the
closing of the Delhaize transaction, we believe we will be the fifth largest
conventional supermarket operator in the United States based on number of
We believe our customer relationships, merchandising initiatives and experienced
management team, combined with our focus on operational excellence, have
positioned us to deliver strong financial results.
Our executive offices are located at 5050 Edgewood Court, Jacksonville, Florida
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February 21 2011 09:15PM
Sheldon Souray cleared re-entry waivers earlier today, meaning that none of the NHL's 29 teams felt he was worth the remainder of $2.25 million for this season and the entirety of that figure for 2011-12. What happens next is ultimately known only to the Oilers brain-trust, but a buyout seems like a decent possibility.
More Kids in the Hall
February 21 2011 08:18AM
The Oilers already have their Jacks and Kings on the wing rolling over the next decade. They lack 6's and 7's and could use a complete defenseman and a workhorse 2-way C of the future. If they are to trade Hemsky and Penner, Steve Tambellini should be looking for a very specific return--young NHL players with a wide range of skills.
Robin Brownlee
February 20 2011 01:21PM
CALGARY, AB -- Talk is always cheap, especially as the NHL trade deadline approaches, and buzz persists that Dustin Penner and Ales Hemsky of the Edmonton Oilers are in play.
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February 20 2011 07:28AM
I dreamed you paid your dues in Canada, and left me to come through
I headed there right away, I knew exactly just what to do
These dreams of you, so real and so true
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February 19 2011 04:07PM
Overcoming a 3-1 deficit? Taylor Hall with a natural hat trick? A third win in a row? Our loins are positively buzzing with glee.
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