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Benjamin McGee Jr.
Position: DE-DT
Height: 6-3 Weight: 250 lbs.
Born: January 26, 1939 in Starkville, MS
High School: Henderson
College: Jackson St. (school history)
Drafted by the New York Jets in the 5th round (35th overall) of the 1964 AFL Draft.
Drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 4th round (51st overall) of the 1964 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 44 (1926th overall since 1950)
2-time Pro Bowler (fine print)
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Shorewood - The drinks are on the house, your boss and co-workers have repeatedly assured you, and the wait staff is strangely efficient at topping off your wineglass.
Every time you look down it seems to have refilled itself, and every sip seems a vain attempt to empty it.
Before you know it there are two wineglasses dancing lazy circles around the table, and the realization dawns, strong as the wine.
You're drunk at the company Christmas party.
Too vigilant caterers, peer pressure, and the "bottomless wineglass" are some of pitfalls which, says Milwaukee-area etiquette expert and author of "A Year of Good Manners" Margery Sinclair, result in the number one holiday snafu: otherwise sensible people drinking too much at company and family gatherings before making fools of themselves.
There are ways to avoid the trap with tact, she says. Limit yourself to two drinks, focus on pacing yourself, or throw a soda into the mix. The ultimate sobriety saver? Discreetly tip your server at the beginning of the night and request your drinks be nonalcoholic. She says bartenders are usually happy to play along.
"They're saving expenses and making money," says Sinclair.
Don't stay too long
The second most common holiday snafu is arriving late, or worse, overstaying a host's welcome. Being as close as possible to on time is crucial, says Sinclair, and you should never strain your host's patience - or keep them up late into the night against their will. She says there is one universal indicator which means it's time to go.
"When you can smell the coffee," says Sinclair, "then you should already have left."
Third on the list of frequent etiquette slip-ups comes from receiving a surprise gift, and not having anything to give back in return. To avoid that awkward situation, Sinclair advises either following up with a gift of your own several days after the fact, or keeping an eye out throughout the year for little things to stock your "gift cupboard." She says a healthy gift cupboard should allow anyone to always have something on hand in the event of a surprise gift.
"You can go back and get it," says Sinclair, "and come back and hand them something."
Don't over correct kids
As a number of Shorewood children learned from Sinclair at the Shorewood Business Improvement District's "Stop, Shop & Restore" event Dec. 8, table manners are important. Yet, Sinclair says it's more important for adults not to go out of their way to correct children at the table.
"People don't learn well from embarrassment," she says, adding that, when in doubt, act natural.
"Etiquette is practical," says Sinclair. "Do the thing that makes the most sense."
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SHARON TWP.— An 81-year-old Wadsworth woman died Sunday after she was struck by a vehicle while walking on State Road.
The Medina post of the Ohio Highway Patrol reported that Vivian Bernhard was struck about 10:35 a.m. by a 1997 Plymouth Breeze driven by Joshua Smith, 27, of Brunswick. Smith saw her standing in the road and tried to avoid her but struck her as she started to cross the road, a patrol news release said.
Sharon Township Ambulance and Fire Department transported Bernhard to the hospital. Smith was uninjured.
The accident remains under investigation, but the patrol does not suspect alcohol or drugs to be a factor in the incident.
John Bernhard, 83, said his wife of 44 years "was a good woman who had a lot of friends."
"She couldn't hear very well," he said. "I guess she didn't hear the car coming. There's still investigating to do."
Vivian Bernhard belonged to the Medina chapter of the Order the Eastern Star Masonic Temple for 40 years, he said.
"She was my wife; I'll miss her," he said. "She was the one person I could depend on."
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The Los Angeles Clippers hit the road for their annual Grammy Awards Road Trip where they head east for the first of seven games in eleven days when they take on Carmelo Anthony and the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden tonight.
This is the Clippers second seven-game roadie of the season having gone 4-3 in December's earlier seven-game stint.
Los Angeles is coming off of a four-game homestand where they went perfect, even without all-star point guard Chris Paul who's nursing a separated right shoulder.
The Clippers (27-13) will seek their fourth consecutive win over the Knickerbockers tonight which includes a 93-80 in Los Angeles this past Thanksgiving Eve.
J.J. Redick scored a career-high 33 points and Blake Griffin added 23 as the Clippers rallied from a 17-point, fourth-quarter hole with five minutes left to beat Dallas 129-127 on Wednesday at Staples Center.
Matt Barnes had 25 points off the bench, and Jamal Crawford hit two free throws with 11 seconds remaining to give the Clippers the lead.
Darren Collison is averaging 17 points over the last five in place of Paul registering 13 points and 10 assists in the come-from-behind win Wednesday over the Mavs.
For a recap of Wednesday's thrilling Clippers win, click on the video with this story.
The Clippers signed 13-year veteran Hedo Turkoglu yesterday for added shooting punch off the bench.
The Knicks (15-24) have rallied to win five or their last six games and are, of course, led by Carmelo Anthony who scored 28 in the loss to the Clippers in L.A.
New York has center Tyson Chandler in the line-up. He was out of the first meeting because of a fractured leg.
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As climate studies saturate scientific
journals and mainstream media, with opposing viewpoints quickly squaring off in
reaction and debate, new findings can easily be lost in the noise.
But in the case of Darrell Kaufman,
Northern Arizona University Regents' Professor in Quaternary Geology and
Climate Science, and a study appearing in Nature
Geoscience, obscurity is an unlikely fate.
What Kaufman—the lead co-author of
"Continental-Scale Temperature Variability during the Last Two Millennia"—and
78 experts from 24 countries have done is to assemble the most comprehensive
study to date of temperature change of Earth's continents over the past 1,000
to 2,000 years.
By looking regionally, the
researchers found considerable complexity hidden within a global average. "We
wanted a new and ambitious effort to reconstruct past climate," Kaufman said of
the PAGES 2k network of researchers. "One of the
strongest aspects of the consortium study is that it relies on regional
Members of the consortium represent
eight continental-scale regions. They lent their insights about the best proxy
records—such as tree-ring measurements—to use for a particular region, and how
to interpret the data based on regional climatology.
While the study does not attempt to
attribute temperature changes to natural or human-caused factors, Kaufman said
the finding of a long-term global cooling trend that ended late in the 19th
century is further evidence that increased greenhouse gasses have had an
influence in later years.
"The pre-industrial trend was likely
caused by natural factors that continued to operate through the 20th century,
making 20th century warming more difficult to explain if not for the likely
impact of increased greenhouse gasses," Kaufman said.
While that sounds like a familiar
theme, the study's findings of regional variations are less well known. Because
of extensive participation by scientists working in the Southern Hemisphere,
Kaufman said, data from those regions broadened what had been a view previously
centered on Europe.
"We know the most about the
long-term temperature history in Europe, but we find that not every region
conforms with that pattern," Kaufman said. He noted that temperatures varied by
region against the backdrop of the long-term cooling identified by the study.
The regional focus on the past 2,000
years is significant for two reasons, Kaufman said. First, climate change at
that scale is more relevant to societies and ecosystems than global averages.
And second, "regional scale differences help us to understand how the climate
system works, and that information helps to improve the models used to project
future climate."
Kaufman's own research team added to
the strong regional input. His research in Alaska and elsewhere formed part of
the dataset. "The questions that my team hopes to address involve the larger
climate system, and our research contributes one piece of the global puzzle,"
he said.
In another of the study's major
contributions, the entire database on which it was based has been tabulated and
will be made available publicly for further analysis. Kaufman and his co-authors
have posted the data along with frequently asked questions about the study on
the PAGES project website.
"My co-authors and I look forward to
seeing the data used by others in future analyses because science moves forward
with well-informed alternative interpretations," Kaufman said.
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JWC TO AN UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT; 31 January 1849; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18490100-JWC-UC-01; CL 23: 215-218
[late January 1849]
I daresay you never heard me mention a Mr. M.? He was introduced to Mr. C. by Emerson while in London. Mr. C. (Carlyle) had heard of him long ago from John Sterling, and liked him, and invited him here.1 We found him on acquaintance a man of considerable faculty, unappreciated where appreciation was really important for him—by publishers. He wrote clever things that nobody would print and give him money for, while the hundred and twenty pounds with which he and his wife and one child2 came to London two years ago (!) was slowly but surely melting away, although he did what he could to eke it out by writing sermons for preachers who could not compose them at first hand.3 When he first came here he was within ten pounds of starvation, still, however, keeping up the appearance of a gentleman. Mr. C. exerted himself for him in several directions—wrote to Lady A.4 about him, &c., &c., but all without result. One day Mrs. Macready applied to me for a private teacher for one of the boys too nervous to be sent to a public school. I recollected M. as likely to suit, though teaching was not his calling, and Mr. C. wrote a letter in his praise to Mrs. M., and after communicating with Mr. M. in America, M. was engaged by them three weeks ago to teach the little boy two hours a day, at a salary of £65 a year.5 They are so liberal always, these darling Macreadys! I was glad to have helped to put him in a way of keeping soul and body together. Well! on Thursday night of last week he came to tea, as he was in the practice of doing at long intervals, but asking at the door if we were alone was told by Helen "Yes, but not expecting visitors." Whereupon he turned to go away, saying he would come back another time, and Helen, with her usual extraordinary want of tact, instead of letting him go, said, "Stop till I tell Mr. Carlyle," and rushed in upon Mr. C. just risen from the sofa, where he had been sleeping, cross as people are with after-dinner sleeps, and bothered with the prospect of having to entertain a certain——from Manchester, whom we had invited to tea at the request of G———.6 You know his horror of having to speak to different sorts of people at one time; this, in the mood he was in, was enough to make him forget that M. was poor, very proud and sensitive, as poor men of unrecognized genius are apt to be, and anxious to avoid the complication, he answered her question "Was Mr. M. to come in?" with a sharp, "Say I am engaged, and hope he will return soon." Which message I heard at the top of the stairs with a shudder, for I felt how the man would interpret it into unwillingness to produce him before one's fine people. My first impulse (always the best) was to run downstairs and let it go no further, and insist on Mr. M. coming in. But I hesitated in fear of the sour looks and after-scold, and in the moment of hesitation the man was dismissed to walk back four miles! That was Thursday. On Tuesday morning Mr. C. received a letter from an unknown individual at B.7 (the native place of M.'s wife) to the effect that "understanding Mr. C. had been some time acquainted with the the late Mr. M, the writer would be greatly obliged by some particulars of his sudden death, which he had just heard from M.'s mother-in-law."8 You may figure the shock! There was more in it for me than a sudden death of an amiable, clever man. A horrible suspicion darted through my mind—had he committed suicide?—perhaps that night he had come in an emergency to ask some favour of the only man he thought his friend, and he was turned away because there were visitors—was not this enough to sting such a sensitive creature to the quick? Might it not have been the last drop in his cup of bitterness that made it run over and spill his life? I would not suggest this horror to Mr. C.; but I saw that something of the sort was in his own mind, and that doubled my apprehension. I must be off to see into the thing, to help the poor widow with money at least. C. encouraged me to go. Darwin had appointed to drive me to the Pantheon9 that day—after a basket. I could not wait his time. I would go up to him in the omnibus, and get him to drive me to the street near ———— square10 where the unfortunate man had lived. To lose no time, before starting I wrote a hurried note to Lady A., telling what had happened, sure that she would offer money for the widow. Darwin was shocked at my story. He begged as a kindness to be told how much money I should like given. At least I hoped to get her provided for. And with this one clear idea in my head we drove to the house, the belief of a suicide gaining on me all the way. At the door I felt so physically sick that I could hardly get out of the carriage. I knocked myself very softly, and was opened to by a stupid servant girl. I asked, "How is Mrs. M.?" "As well as could be expected." "I wish to see her," I said. "Will you take me to her at once? If you ask she may refuse, as I am an entire stranger to her, and I must see her." The girl stared. "But Mrs. M. is gone!" "What! gone for good? to B———?" "Oh no; she is only gone a little way to buy mournings." "Mercy of Heaven!" I thought, there are women whom the skies falling could not drive from their "three thousand punctualities." But I was not going to be turned back by my romantic disgust, the woman might need money all the same, all the more indeed. Meanwhile, how should I put any question on what so much of my peace really depended. "Now, in what manner did your master die?" While I hesitated the girl said, coolly, "But Mr. M. is in the house; you may see him." I positively staggered as if a pistol had been fired into me—she could never mean the body. Yet these London lower orders are so fond of showing bodies, or was it a father or brother come up to bury him. I durst not let myself go to the hope that the man was alive after all. "Take me to him," I gasped out, and followed her upstairs into a poor bare, clean little room where a pretty child sat writing at a table, and behind it stood the dead man as alive as could be. I did not throw my arms round his neck and cover him with kisses—rather a wonder, you will say. I merely clasped my hands together and cried out, "Oh my God: I am so glad?" and then burst into tears.11 If you just try to conceive the sudden revulsion of feeling you will not find this very silly. The man's stupefaction I shall never forget; he evidently thought me gone mad, for he said soothingly, "Mrs. Carlyle! how are you? I hope you are quite well." I sat down and took out my cry, unable to give any more detailed explanation than in broken words, "They wrote you were dead. I came to comfort your wife." "Oh, not at all, I assure you. I am very well, thank you, very well." "But your mother-in-law said you were dead!"


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A follow-on contract for three 'production' versions for astronaut training were referred to as LLTV 'lunar landing training vehicles'.
The LLRV could take off and land under its own power, reaching an altitude of about 1,220 meters, hover, and fly horizontally. A fan turbojet engine provided a constant upward push of five-sixths the weight of the vehicle to simulate the one-sixth gravity of the lunar surface.
The LLRV's, humorously referred to as "flying bedsteads," were created by a predecessor of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center to study and analyze piloting techniques needed to fly and land the tiny Apollo Lunar Module in the moon's airless environment. (Dryden was known as NASA's Flight Research Center from 1959 to 1976.)
Success of the LLRV's led to the building of three Lunar Landing Training Vehicles (LLTV's) used by Apollo astronauts at the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, TX, predecessor of NASA's Johnson Space Center.
Apollo 11 astronaut, Neil Armstrong first human to step onto the moon's surface said the mission would not have been successful without the type of simulation that resulted from the LLRV's and LLTV's.
When Apollo planning was underway in 1960, NASA was looking for a simulator to profile the descent to the moon's surface. Three concepts were developed: an electronic simulator, a tethered device, and the ambitious Flight Research Center (FRC) contribution, a free-flying vehicle. All three became serious projects, but eventually the FRC's LLRV became the most significant one. Hubert Drake was credited with originating the idea, while Donald Bellman and Gene Matranga were senior engineers on the project, with Bellman the project manager.
After conceptual planning and meetings with engineers from Bell Aerosystems, Buffalo, NY, a company with experience in vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft, NASA issued Bell a $50,000 study contract in December 1961. Bell had independently conceived a similar, free-flying simulator, and out of this study came the NASA Headquarters' endorsement of the LLRV concept, resulting in a $3.6 million production contract awarded to Bell Feb. 1, 1963, for delivery of the first of two vehicles for flight studies at the FRC within 14 months.
Built of aluminum alloy trusses and shaped like a giant four-legged bedstead, the vehicle was to simulate a lunar landing profile. To do this, the LLRV had a General Electric CF-700-2V turbofan engine mounted vertically in a gimbal, with 4200 lb of thrust. The engine got the vehicle up to the test altitude and was then throttled back to support five-sixths of the vehicle's weight, simulating the reduced gravity of the moon. Two hydrogen peroxide lift rockets with thrust that could be varied from 100 to 500 lb handled the LLRV's rate of descent and horizontal movement. Sixteen smaller hydrogen peroxide rockets, mounted in pairs, gave the pilot control in pitch, yaw, and roll. As safety backups on the LLRV, six 500-lb rockets could take over the lift function and stabilize the craft for a moment if the main jet engine failed. The pilot had a zero-zero ejection seat that would then lift him away to safety.
Flight Operations
The two LLRV's were shipped from Bell to the FRC in Apr. 1964, with program emphasis on vehicle No. 1. It was first readied for captured flight on a tilt table constructed at the FRC to test the engines without actually flying. The scene then shifted to the old South Base area of Edwards. On the day of the first flight, Oct. 30, 1964, research pilot Joe Walker flew it three times for a total of just under 60 seconds to a peak altitude of ten ft (3 m). Later flights were shared between Walker; another Center pilot, Don Mallick; the Army's Jack Kleuver; and NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, pilots Joseph Algranti and H.E. "Bud" Ream.
NASA had accumulated enough data from the LLRV flight program at the FRC by mid-1966 to give Bell a contract to deliver three LLTV's at a cost of $2.5 million each.
In Dec. 1966 vehicle No. 1 was shipped to Houston, followed by No. 2 in Jan. 1967, within weeks of its first flight. Modifications already made to No. 2 had given the pilot a three-axis side control stick and a more restrictive cockpit view, both features of the real Lunar Module that would later be flown by the astronauts down to the moon's surface.
When the LLRV's arrived at Houston, where research pilots would learn how to become LLTV instructor pilots, No. 2 had been flown just 7 times while No. 1, the veteran, had a total of 198 flights. In Dec. 1967, the first of the LLTV's joined the FRC's LLRV's to eventually make up the five-vehicle training and simulator fleet.
Three of the five vehicles were later destroyed in crashes at Houston - LLRV No. 1 in May 1968 and two LLTV's, in Dec. 1968 and Jan. 1971.
The two accidents in 1968, before the first lunar landing, did not deter Apollo program managers who enthusiastically relied on the vehicles for simulation and training.
Donald "Deke" Slayton, then NASA's astronaut chief, said there was no other way to simulate a moon landing except by flying the LLTV.
LLRV No. 2 was eventually returned to Dryden, where it was on display as a silent artifact of the Center's contribution to the Apollo program.
AKA: Apollo LLTV; Lunar Lander Test Vehicle; Lunar Landing Research Vehicle.
Altitudes to between 18 and 21 m (60 and 70 ft) and flight duration up to three minutes were attained. Additional Details: here....
A major limiting factor, however, was the normal weather conditions at Houston, where such a training vehicle would be located. A study showed that in order to use a maximum peroxide load of 544 kg (1,200 lbs), the temperature could not exceed 313K (40 degrees F); and at 332K (59 degrees F) the maximum load must be limited to 465 kg (1,025 lbs) of peroxide. On the basis of existing weather records it was determined there would be enough days on which flights could be made in Houston on the basis of 544 kg (1,200 lbs) peroxide at 313K (40 degrees F), 465 kg (1,025 lbs) at 332K (59 degrees F), and 354 kg (775 lbs) at 353K (80 degrees F) to make provisions for such loads.
On March 11 representatives of Flight Research Center (FRC) visited MSC to discuss future programs with Warren North and Dean Grimm of Flight Crew Support Division. A budget for operating the LLRV at FRC through fiscal year 1966 was presented. Consideration was being given to terminating the work at FRC on June 30, 1966, and moving the vehicles and equipment to MSC. Additional Details: here....
General Electric would update the LLRV CF-700 jet engines at their Edwards AFB facility rather than at Lynn, Mass. The change in work location would mean an earlier delivery date and a significant cost reduction. The updating would make the engines comparable to the production engines and would add an additional 890 newtons (200 lbs) of thrust.
The session commenced with an estimate of time required to perform each of the functions on the preflight checklist. Review indicated that preflight might be shortened in several ways:
On flight 1-34-94F the lunar simulation mode worked perfectly and no drift was encountered during more than one minute of hovering flight. The landing was made in the simulation mode for the first time on this flight.
The discussions centered around MSC's needs for two LLRVs and two LLTVs and the critical nature of the proposed schedules; alternatives of assembling a second LLRV ; clarifying the elements of the work statement; and preliminary talks about writing specifications for the LLTV.
From a schedule standpoint, it was decided that both LLRVs would be delivered to MSC on September 1, 1966. MSC planned to check out and fly the second LLRV (which needed additional systems checkout) with their crew and pilot on a noninterference basis with LLRV No. 1, the primary training vehicle.
Gilruth concurred with the recent decision to assemble the second LLRV and said MSC planned to support the assembly and checkout of the second vehicle with engineering and contractor personnel assigned to the Flight Crew Operations Directorate.
Gilruth expressed appreciation for the effort expended by FRC in initiating a three-month study contract with Bell Aerosystems to provide drawings for a follow-on vehicle and indicated MSC planned to contract for Lunar Landing Training Vehicles in June 1966.
Kamanin reviews the organisational structure of the NII-TsPK Gagarin Centre. There is a commander, three deputies, 700 staff, and 12 MiG-21's for flight training (8 single-seat combat aircraft and four two-seat trainers). There are three training tracks for the cosmonauts: Orbital, Lunar, and Military.


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The power of gospel music and his gifted voice have taken the U.S. Dream Academy's founder and CEO, Wintley Phipps, around the world and placed him before audiences that have included the last five Presidents of the United States.
But while performing for inmates — often times young men and women in their early 20s spending the next 10, 15, or 20 years in prison — Phipps found the audience he still considers his most important: young people visiting their incarcerated parents. He saw the hope washed away from their eyes by tears. In its place, there seemed to be nothing – certainly nothing that would prevent them from making their parents' mistakes.
Phipps began to work for the day when he could translate this transformative experience into the U.S. Dream Academy. "After a church concert in Longview, Texas, I shared my vision of the Dream Academy, long before it became a reality," Phipps recalls. "The pastor asked if he could pray for me. He ended his prayer with these words, 'Lord, fill up his eyes with the eyes of the children of prisoners.' Their eyes continue to fill up my eyes, and I remain committed to doing all I can to be a blessing to these vulnerable children."
What began as a dream for Phipps now encompasses the dreams of thousands of elementary and middle school children, sparking the support of national figures such as Oprah Winfrey and former President Bill Clinton, among many others. "So many more have come to see this vision and work diligently to help young children build skills, character, and dreams for their future," says Phipps.


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Armandolas wrote:For how many days/weeks, months/years in a row you dont leave home to take some fresh air?
Did you ever thought of going out with a gun and shoot some kids in a school?
If yes, how many would you go for?
Would you suicide after, or would u just come back home to complain a bit more about dice?
What do you think about strapons?
b00060 wrote:I am looking forward to answering these. All except the tasteless ones about school shootings.
So I replied: f*ck you Buck! I'll take my coffee black if I want!Buck Mulligan wrote:damn you and your Paris fads.
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Customer Spotlight: Land O'Lakes
By Kellsey Ruppel-Oracle on May 31, 2012
Land O'Lakes, Inc. is one of America's premier member-owned cooperatives, offering local cooperatives and agricultural producers across the nation an extensive line of agricultural supplies, as well as state-of-the-art production and business services. WinField Solutions, a company within Land O'Lakes, is using Oracle WebCenter to improve online experiences for their customers, partners, and employees. The company's more than 3,000 seed customers, and its more than 300 internal and external sales force members and business partners, use Oracle WebCenter to handle all aspects of account management and order entry through a consolidated, personalized, secure user interface. Learn more about Land O'Lakes and Oracle WebCenter by reading this interview with Barry Libenson, Land O'Lakes chief information officer, or by watching this video.


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October 20, 1998
UCLA Quick Facts
Overall Record: 7-9
Pac-10 Record: 6-3
Rankings: 25 AVCA/ NR VB mag
Last year's record: 17-13
Head Coach: Andy Banachowski
Career Record: 836-197 (32nd year)
This Week's Schedule UCLA travels to the state of Oregon to begin the second half of Pac-10 Conference play. The Bruins play at Oregon State in Corvallis on Friday in the Pac-10 match of the week to be televised live by Fox Sports, then travel to Eugene for a Sunday afternoon match at Oregon. Friday Oct. 23 at Oregon State 7:30 pm Televised live on Fox Sports Net Sunday Oct. 25 at Oregon 1:00 pm
Porter Named Pac-10 & AVCA National Player of the Week UCLA freshman outside hitter Kristee Porter (Tyler, Texas) was named the Pac-10 Conference and AVCA National Player of the Week after helping lead UCLA to three victories, including an upset of No. 4 ranked UCSB. For the week, Porter hit .321 and recorded 80 kills, 39 digs, five blocks and four aces. She averaged 6.67 kills, 3.25 digs and .42 blocks per game in 12 games played. Against the Gauchos, Porter tallied career-highs with 38 kills and 24 digs to go along with two blocks an ace and a .412 hitting percentage. She had 22 kills, six digs, two blocks and a .279 hitting percentage in a four- game victory over Washington, and finished the week with 20 kills, nine digs and three aces in a three-game win over Washington State. Her 38 kills against UC Santa Barbara is the second highest single-match total at UCLA, just five shy of four-time AVCA All-American Natalie Williams' record of 43 set in 1991. She also posted 24 digs against UCSB to become the first freshman and only the fifth player ever in UCLA history to record over 30 kills and 20 digs in the same match.
Porter becomes just the second freshman to earn AVCA Division I National Player of the Week honors. Stanford senior Kerri Walsh earned the honor in 1995.
Recapping Last Week
UCLA Wins Three Home Matches, Including Upset Of No. 4 UCSB . The Bruins extended their win streak to four matches as they posted three victories at home during the week. UCLA started things off with a five-game come-from-behind upset of No. 4 ranked UCSB, then defeated Washington 3-1 and swept Washington State. The victories over the Washington schools marked the first time since 1995 that UCLA defeated both schools in the same weekend. The Bruins are now 5-0 at home this season.
10/14 Won 2-2 (13-15, 9-15, 15-10, 15-3, 15-11) vs. No. 4 UC Santa Barbara In a tremendous night of women's volleyball action, UCLA battled back >from a two-game deficit to upset fourth-ranked UCSB. UCLA's Kristee Porter registered 38 kills and 24 digs on the night making her only the fifth player in UCLA history to record over 30 kills and 20 digs in the same match and the only freshman in the prestigious club. Her 38 kills is the second highest single-match total in UCLA history, just five shy of the all-time record. Setter Erika Selsor became the first freshman with over 80 assists in a match and finished third on the all-time list with 88 assists on the night. Bruin sophomore Elisabeth Bachman also enjoyed a career-high performance as she drilled 24 kills and hit a match-high .477 in the match. Senior Chaska Potter provided a career-high 25 digs. UCSB's Charlene Conley posted a career-high 29 kills, while Roberta Gehlke added 26 kills. All together five players enjoyed 20-plus outings in the match.
10/16 Won 3-1 (15-6, 15-3, 7-15, 15-8) vs. Washington The Bruins broke a four-match series losing streak by defeating the Huskies 3-1. UCLA rookies Kristee Porter and Ashley Bowles again took center stage as they led the team with 22 and 20 kills, respectively. The Bruin sophomore middle blockers continued to be hot as well, as Elisabeth Bachman hit .387 with 15 kills and eight blocks and Amy Nihipali hit .391 with 13 kills. Setter Erika Selsor provided 60 assists, put away three kills and collected 11 digs. Washington's Kristina Laffling totaled a match-high 23 kills, while Leslie Tuiasosopo posted a match-high nine blocks.
10/18 Won 3-0 (15-8, 16-14, 15-9) vs. Washington State UCLA registered its second sweep of the season to extend its win streak to four matches. Despite the three-game match, Bruin rookie Kristee Porter totaled 20 kills for the eighth time this season and the third time this week. Sophomore Elisabeth Bachman hit .382 with 16 kills and five blocks. Freshman Ashley Bowles registered her eighth double-double with 11 kills and 12 digs. Setter Erika Selsor dished 55 assists. The highlight for Washington State was the 16 kills effort of senior Jennifer Stinson who became only the seventh player in WSU player to register 1,000 career kills.
This Week's Opponents .
Oregon State "Beavers"
Current Ranking: Unranked
1998 Record: 11-9 Overall; 1-8 Pac-10
Series History: UCLA leads the series 26-0 Most Recent: The Bruins defeated the Beavers 3-1 on Sept. 27 in Pauley Pavilion. In 1997, UCLA swept the series, taking the first meeting 3-2 in Corvallis and the second showdown 3-1 in Pauley Pavilion. Notable: Oregon State's current nine-game losing streak began with a 1-3 loss to the Bruins back on Sept. 27.
University of Oregon "Ducks"
Current Ranking: Unranked
1998 Record: 6-14 Overall; 1-8 Pac-10
Series History: UCLA leads the series 28-1 Most Recent: UCLA defeated Oregon 3-1 at Pauley Pavilion on Sept. 25. In addition, the Bruins swept the Ducks twice last season in both Eugene and Pauley Pavilion.
Notable: UCLA is 11-1 when playing in Eugene.
Recent Bruin Notables . Erika Selsor is the first freshman in UCLA history to have over 80 assists in a single match. She posted 88 vs. UCSB to put her name third on the all-time best list behind Holly McPeak's outings of 97 and 95 during the 1990 season. Elisabeth Bachman also enjoyed a career-high performance as she drilled 24 kills and hit a match-high .477 against UCSB. Bachman has posted incredible numbers in the last four matches hitting .533, .477, .387 and .382 with three double-figure outings and no less than three blocks in each match. As the only fourth-year senior on the squad, and the team co-captain, senior Chaska Potter's presence has been a stabilizing force to the young Bruins. Her action had been limited due to injury until the Arizona match, when she earned the starting nod at opposite hitter. The Bruins are 4-1 with Potter in the lineup. She registered a career-high 25 digs vs. UCSB and has double figures in digs in four of the five matches she has started. Freshman Ashley Bowles has reached double figures in the last 12 outings and has double-doubles in the last five straight.
Brief Bruin Overview . This year's theme of "Winning Hand In Hand" builds on the foundation of excellence which is second to none. The UCLA women's volleyball program is joining hands in a quest to bring home its seventh national title. The 1998 Bruins combine nine newcomers, including the second ranked recruiting class in the nation, with nine returners, including a pair of redshirts from last year. This year's squad is extremely young with six sophomores, one junior and only two seniors. Three freshman received the starting nod in the season opener at Hawaii and six have already made significant contributions. Captains for the season are senior Chaska Potter and sophomore Elisabeth Bachman.
Youthful Bruins . One half of the 18-player UCLA roster is made up of freshman, including the second-ranked recruiting class in the nation, and six more are sophomores. Needless to say the starting lineup is dominated by underclassmen. In fact all three of the Bruins upperclassmen have been hampered by injuries thus far. Seven rookies have already seen action and five have earned starts, including three mainstays (Erika Selsor, Ashley Bowles and Kristee Porter) who have played every game. Although several people have seen action in the opposite hitter slot, the remainder of the starting rotation belongs to a trio of sophomores. Middle blockers Elisabeth Bachman and Amy Nihipali have owned the starting nods inside while defensive specialist Michelle Quon has shared the rotation with one of them.
Seniors Key Turn Around . A major factor in the Bruins recent success is the return of both seniors to the lineup. Co-captain and fourth-year Bruin Chaska Potter returned to the starting rotation at Arizona as the opposite hitter, while second-year Bruin Mandi Lawson returned as a defensive specialist in the same match. The Bruins lost at Arizona in five games and went on a four-match win streak since then. Potter had been hampered by a shoulder injury, while Lawson had a pulled muscle.
Rookie Report . As the starting setter, Erika Selsor has not missed a rotation and is averaging 13.08 assists per game. Outside hitter Kristee Porter leads the team with 290 kills and ranks third in the conference with a 4.75 per game average. Outside hitter Ashley Bowles is right behind Porter with 255 total kills and a 4.18 per game average (eighth in the Pac-10) and leads the team with 166 digs and a 2.72 per game average.
Angela Eckmier has seen considerable action (24 of 61 games) in the opposite slot and earned the starting nod in Chicago. Lauren Hogan started the first two home matches. Taylor Rodger and Danielle Ryba have also seen action.
Double Dips . The hottest player on the court, freshman Kristee Porter has notched 20-plus kills in eight of the last 10 matches and has reached double-figures in 12 consecutive outings. Porter also notched her fifth double-double in incredible fashion as she registered 38 kills and 24 digs against UCSB to become the first freshman and only the fifth player in UCLA history to record 30-kills and 20- digs in the same match. Earlier in the season she fell just shy of the prestigious 30-kill and 20-20 clubs with 29 kills and 18 digs at Stanford.
Fellow rookie Ashley Bowles was the first Bruin to register double figures in kills this season when she notched 21 against Ohio State. Bowles has also posted double figure kills in the last 12 matches, including five more 20-plus outings. She has a total of 13 double-dips thus far and owns eight double-double (kills and digs), including the last five outings. Bowles also came close to the 20-20 club with 20 kills /18 digs at Stanford and 20 kills/17 digs vs. Washington.
Sophomore Elisabeth Bachman has reached double figures in kills in eight matches, including the last three outings. Her career total in this category is now 19. She fell just shy of a triple-double vs. Oregon when she registered nines in kills, digs and blocks. Bachman posted a career-high 24 kills against UCSB.
Senior defensive specialist Mandi Lawson reached double-figures in digs for the first three times in her Bruin career this season. She notched 11 at Santa Clara , 12 at Stanford and 13 against UCSB. Fellow specialist, sophomore Michelle Quon improved her career-high with 13 digs vs. UCSB and has reached double figures in digs on seven occasions this season.
Setter Erika Selsor has notched five double-figure dig matches, including a career-high 16 against UCSB. Rookie Angela Eckmier notched her career-high 12 digs at Santa Clara. Senior Chaska Potter put up her first double-digit performance with 10 digs at Arizona and has reached double figures in the last three matches. She notched a career-high 25 digs against UCSB.
Sophomore middle blocker Amy Nihipali reached double figures in kills twice last week and has four double-digit matches in her career.
Building Blocks . Sophomore Elisabeth Bachman posted a new career-high nine blocks (two solo, seven assisted) vs. Oregon. She equaled that mark with nine assisted at Arizona and put down eight in three other matches. Bachman is currently ranked seventh in the Pac-10 Conference with an overall blocking average of 1.36. She is averaging 1.63 blocks per game in Pac-10 matches. Eleven of her 16 solo blocks have come during conference matches. Fellow sophomore Amy Nihipali put down three solo blocks in three straight matches and had four at Cal. She now leads the team with 20 solo blocks, 14 of those coming during Pac-10 matches. Nihipali has improved her blocking average tremendously during conference play recording 37 of her total 56 blocks against league foes. She tied her career-high by registering eight blocks (3 BS, 5 BA) at Arizona State.
Coach Banachowski . A great teacher of the game, UCLA head coach Andy Banachowski achieved one of the highest honors possible when he became the first women's volleyball coach to be inducted into the national Volleyball Hall of Fame as a coach last year. Now in his 32nd season guiding the Bruins, Banachowski is not only the owner of more victories than any other NCAA Division I women's coach, but also mentor to numerous individual success stories during and after college. He has led the Bruins to six national championships, top-four national finishes in 20 of the last 27 years and compiled 30 or more victories in seven of the last 10 seasons.
Bruin Sidelines . Sophomore outside hitter Celeste Peterson underwent knee surgery during the spring and has not made sufficient progress to be cleared to participate yet this season.
Redshirt sophomore outside hitter Jennifer Wittenburg will undergo surgery this week, thus her status is not yet known. Rookie Taylor Rodger missed the Chicago and Bay Area trips due to a strained muscle, then suffered a sprained ankle which caused her to miss further action. Her return date is not yet determined, but could be soon. Senior defensive specialist Mandi Lawson missed the Bruins' home opener due to a pulled muscle, but returned to action at Arizona. Senior outside hitter Chaska Potter saw limited action due to a shoulder injury until the trip to Arizona when she was cleared for full action. She has started every match since, and is a key the Bruins recent win streak. Junior Tamika Johnson has been slowed by injuries all season and missed the Arizona trip with the flu. She has been cleared to return, but must now contend for playing time.
Elite Performances . Freshman outside hitter Kristee Porter gave Bruin fans a night to remember when she drilled 38 kills and recorded 24 digs in leading UCLA to a come-from- behind five-game win over No. 4 UC Santa Barbara on Oct. 14. Porter's kill total is the second highest in UCLA history, just five shy of the 43 posted by Natalie Williams against Hawaii in 1991. Porter is the first freshman in Bruin history to drill 30-plus kills. In addition, Porter joined a very elite group as she became the first rookie and only the fifth player in UCLA history to notch 30- kills and 20-digs in the same match. Other members of the 30-20 club are Liz Masakayan (three times), Jenny Evans, Elaine Youngs and Kara Milling.
Rookie setter Erika Selsor etched her name deep in the UCLA all-time leaders lists when she provided 88 assists vs. UC Santa Barbara on Oct. 14. With this accomplishment, Selsor became the first freshman in UCLA history to have over 80 assists in a single match and put her name third on the all-time best list behind only Holly McPeak's outings of 97 and 95 during the 1990 season.
Selsor also became only the seventh player and third freshman in UCLA history to notch 70-plus assists in a single match when she tallied 70 at Stanford on Sunday, Sept. 20. The fact that this was a four-game match makes it even more rare as that has only happened six times in the total of 22 matches with 70-plus assists by a Bruin.
Bruin Honors: Bowles Named All-Tournament in Hawaii .
Earning All-Tournament honors in her first collegiate tournament, freshman Ashley Bowles (Manhattan Beach, Mira Costa High) is already establishing herself as a force in the UCLA lineup and in the nation. Bowles was impressive in each outing during the weekend, and posted her best numbers (21 kills, .395, 9 digs) in UCLA's 2-3 loss to Ohio State. She hit .299 and totaled 39 kills for a team- high 3.55 kills per game and added 19 digs over the weekend en route to the honor.
New Promotion For Home Matches . The most spirited fan at each home match will receive a "Fan of the Game" prize. Big 5 Sporting Goods is sponsoring the "Fan of the Game" promotions for the weekend matches giving away $25 gift certificates to Big 5 and volleyballs autographed by the 1998 UCLA women's volleyball team to the most spirited fan.
Pac-10 Conference Standings
School Pac-10/ Overall
Stanford 9-0/ 14-2
Arizona 7-2/ 16-2
Washington State 5-4/ 8-7
Arizona State 4-5/ 7-9
Washington 3-6/ 4-9
California 2-7/ 6-12
Oregon State 1-8/ 11-9
Oregon 1-8/ 6-14
Bruins In The Pac-10 Stats
Hitting Pct. Bachman 6th .337
Assists Selsor 3rd 13.08
Blocks Bachman 7th 1.36
Kills Porter 3rd 4.75
Kills Bowles 8th 4.18
Aces Quon 10th 0.28
Bruins in the Rankings
AVCA/USA Today VB magazine
Preseason 18 14
Week 1 (9/8) 20 NR
Week 2 (9/15) RV NR
Week 3 (9/22) NR NR
Week 4 (9/28) NR NR
Week 5 (10/5) RV NR
Week 6 (10/12) NR NR
Week 7 (10/19) 25 NR


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"The mail gal was just here. She goes, 'Oh, I have to deliver this to you here. Every time I come up here, it's the best place anywhere.' There's nobody who comes up here … who doesn't go, 'What a spot.' There's something that touches people."
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In New Hampshire's North Country and all around the state, I meet many people like this. They know what they're about, and where they live is a big part of that. They have something of the reach of the land within themselves. That's why Lynne Placey can say no to $500,000 and why Rod McAllaster will not sell his farm at any price. Their roots are deeper than your pockets.
The Northern Pass has fueled fierce debate within New Hampshire. In "Battle Lines," a November/December 2011 story by Ben Hewitt, Yankee examined both sides of the project. Read more about The Northern Pass, including an interview with Gary Long, president of PSNH.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) plans that shipping of vaccine to Panama City should start in October according to Dennis Cookro, Acting Director of the Bay County Health Department.
CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has recommended that certain groups of the population receive the H1N1 Swine Flu vaccine when it first becomes available. These target groups include pregnant women, people who live with or care for children younger than 6 months of age, healthcare and emergency medical services personnel, persons between the ages of 6 months and 24 years old, and people ages 25 through 64 years of age who are at higher risk for H1N1 Swine Flu because of chronic health disorders or compromised immune systems.
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Everyone knows this is the centennial year of Fenway Park, but perhaps the most amazing part of the Red Sox story in 1912 is that they christened the new ballyard with a World Championship over the New York Giants. As they entered Gotham City on October 7, 1912, the New York Times recounted their arrival. When they disembarked at Grand Central Station, cheers went up from onlookers, attesting to the fact that, as the Times said:
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Exhibition catalogue for a solo exhibition by Patricia Bellan-Gillen at the S. Tucker Cooke Gallery, UNC Asheville from February 18 – March 22, 2011. There is also a catalogue essay by Ruth K. Meyer.
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Jan. 28, 2013
TEMPE -- The Arizona State University Sun Devils finished up the 2012 season with a 62-28 rout over the Navy Midshipmen in the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl. Arizona State made its 26th bowl appearance and its second in the past two seasons in taking part in the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl. It was the Sun Devils first appearance in the bowl game. ASU now holds an all-time mark of 13-12-1 in bowl games, dating back to its first bowl appearance in 1940, a scoreless tie with Catholic University in the Sun Bowl. The Sun Devils finished the season with an 8-5 record (5-4 Pac-12) under first-year head coach Todd Graham. ASU is now 569-362-24 (.608) on the gridiron in its history.
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--At 8-5, the Sun Devils posted their first winning season in the regular season since going 10-2 in 2007
---ASU has the longest winning streak (3-0) to end the season in the Pac-12, second only to Stanford (8-0)
-ASU ended the season with three straight wins for the first time since 1978 and just the 14th time in school history (1957, '58, '59, '65, '66, '67, '68, '70, '71, '72, '73, '75, `78).
-ASU beat Arizona and won a bowl game for the first time since 2005 and just the eighth time in school history (1970, '71, '72, '73, '75, '78, '05, '12).
-Arizona State was one of just four Pac-12 teams to win at least three conference road games this year with its 3-2 mark, doing so for just the fifth time in the program's Pac-10/12 history. Oregon, Stanford and UCLA also won at least three league road games.
--Marion Grice found the end zone 19 times this year, tying him for third on ASU's all-time single-season touchdown list with Woody Green (1972) behind just Wilford White (22/1950) and Terry Battle (20/1996). His 114 points on the year tie him for fifth on ASU's all-time single season scoring list behind White, Battle and placekickers Thomas Weber and Mike Barth
--ASU tight end Chris Coyle set the school record for single season tight end receptions with 57, one more than Zach Miller had in 2004. With five touchdown receptions, Coyle finished tied for third with four others in single season TD receptions for a tight end. Miller and Joe Petty hold the school record with six
--ASU finished the year tied for tenth in fewest penalties per game at 4.23 and eighth in fewest penalty yards per game at 34.92. The Sun Devils finish dead last (120th) in the FBS in both categories last season
--Quarterback Taylor Kelly's 67.1 completion percentage this season (241-for-359) is a school record (300+ passes). He passed Brock Osweiler, who set the record last season at 61.8. Kelly finished tied for second with 29 single season touchdown passes with Mike Pagel (1981). He finished one behind Andrew Walter, who holds the record with 30 (2004)
--Defensive lineman Will Sutton became ASU's sixth winner of the Morris Trophy and the 18th consensus All-American and first since 2007. Sutton also became the fifth player to win the Pac-10/12 conference Defensive Player of the Year award
---Running back Cameron Marshall finished his career in sole possession of seventh place on ASU's all-time rushing list with 2,700 yards. Marshall also moved into sole possession of fourth place on the school's all-time rushing attempts list with 580
--Of the 14 times in NCAA FBS bowl history that a team has scored 60-plus points in bowl games, ASU head coach Todd Graham has been responsible for three of them. He is the only coach in history to record 60-plus points in a bowl game multiple times as he did it twice with Tulsa and with ASU this past season.
LAST TIME OUT: The Arizona State University football team put it in the left lane with the hammer down early and often on Saturday as the team routed Navy, 62-28, to win the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl in San Francisco. A 34-7 halftime lead set the tone for a dominating third quarter that saw ASU score four touchdowns to blow the game open even further - three of which coming in 55 seconds or less as the team set a new school record for points scored in a bowl game. The 28 points was the most scored in a quarter in ASU bowl history. The Sun Devils finished with 648 yards of total offense - over 50 more than the team's previous highest total this season of 593 yards against Colorado and among the top-10 highest-grossing offensive games in school history and the most since putting up a school record 773 yards against Northwestern in 2005. At 9.6 yards per play today, the Sun Devils with just shy of the NCAA Division I bowl record of 9.9, set in the 2011 Orange Bowl by Stanford. Marion Grice had 159 yards on 14 attempts with two touchdowns and finished his season with 19 touchdowns - the third highest single-season scoring tally in school history. The performance garnered him the Offensive MVP honor for the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl.
-The Sun Devils broke 20 Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl records
-The 62 points scored by the Sun Devils are the most in Kraft Bowl history. The previous record was 44 set by Florida State in 2006.
-The 21 points scored in the first quarter by the Sun Devils is tied for the most in Kraft Bowl history with Boston College in 2003.
-ASU broke or tied seven Pac-12 bowl game records in the contest and moved into second place in four other categories
-With 36 first downs, the Sun Devils tied the previous NCAA Division I Bowl Record with two other teams (Oklahoma in the 1991 Gator Bowl in a 48-14 victory over Virginia and Marshall in the 2001 GMAC Bowl in a 64-61 double OT victory over East Carolina). The number sits second in NCAA history after Nevada posted the new NCAA Division I Bowl Record in the New Mexico Bowl with 39 against Arizona to open the 2012 bowl season.
-ASU's 380 rushing yards vs. Navy was the most since 405 vs. Oregon on Nov. 15, 1997...
-The 648 yards of total offense most since 679 vs. Rutgers in Insight Bowl on Dec. 27, 2005...
-ASU's 37 passing yards fewest given up since 33 at Nebraska on Aug. 24, 2002
GOLD RUSH: ASU finished the season averaging 205.5 yards per game on the ground, which is the second-best mark in the past 25 seasons (since 1988). Only the 234.1 yards per game put up by the 1996 Sun Devils are better. ASU moved ahead of the 200.0 yards per game in 1997 following a dominating effort at the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl. ASU's 380 rushing yards against Navy were the most since posting 405 against Oregon in 1997.
STRIKE FIRST...STRIKE FAST: ASU made a habit of scoring first this season, doing so 11 times in 13 games. ASU finished 7-4 in such contests following the win against Navy. The Sun Devils scored on five consecutive possessions against Utah to start the game and put it away early. Arizona State scored on six of its first seven possessions against NAU, four of its first five against Illinois and three of its first four against WSU for similar results. The Sun Devil scored on their first nine possessions in the rout against Navy in the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl. ASU did itself favors early in games this year, outscoring opponents 145-69 in the first frame and was 7-0 when shutting out the opposition in the first, doing so against NAU, Illinois, Utah, Cal, Colorado, WSU and Navy. In addition, ASU made a habit of taking little time to score on the year. The Sun Devils didn't have a scoring drive longer than three minutes in routs over the Fighting Illini, Cougars and Midshipmen (23 total drives), their longest lasting 2:59. The quick-hitting offense has been the staple of this year's team, with 58 of ASU's 75 offensive scoring drives this season coming in three minutes or less.
PUSH 'EM BACK: ASU prided itself on its aggressive defense through this season, forcing 117 tackles for a loss of 497 total yards - a 9.00 TFL per game mark that led the nation. To put that in perspective, the entire ASU team only had 76 total tackles for loss during the 2011 season and no student-athlete logged double digits in the category where this year's team had five that accomplished the feat (Will Sutton, Carl Bradford, Davon Coleman, Chris Young). Not only did ASU get into the backfield, but it was a team effort as 20 different players logged a TFL through the year. As a whole, ASU had a combined 155 defensive plays that went for a loss or no gain out of 953 offensive plays the opposition ran. That equates to an impressive 16.3 percent of the plays run by opponents this year not advancing beyond the line of scrimmage. If you tack on incomplete passes to the mix, then ASU has forced 341 plays that did not result in positive yardage (35.8 percent of opponent's plays from scrimmage).
AN IMPRESSIVE YEAR: On the topic of tackles for loss, the Sun Devils set some serious marks this season. The team's 117 tackles for loss were right in the mix of some of the great defenses of the last 15 years. In that span, Pat Tillman, Jeremy Staat and friends, who posted 117 tackles for loss in 1998 also adding 111 in 1996 and 1997 and 102 in 1999. Those marks rank as the highest in school history. Five players on this year's team posted double-digit TFL numbers. Only the 2000 squad (97 total TFL) had five players in double digits in school history. To put that number in perspective, no player on the 2011 Sun Devil roster tallied more than eight tackles for loss on the season.
SACK LUNCH: While those years of Archuleta and Friends had some impressive TFL numbers, they pale in comparison to the sack count ASU put up this season. The Sun Devils had 52 sacks this season, a mark that trails only the 1978 Sun Devils, who had 64, and ties with the 2002 ASU team that also had 52. At 4.00 sacks per game, the Sun Devils finished just behind Stanford (4.07) for second in the nation. ASU had two Sun Devils with over 10 sacks this year (Will Sutton) - a feat that had not been achieved since the 1994 season.
A SUTTON IMPACT: Perhaps no player on ASU's roster has earned as much praise from Todd Graham as junior defensive tackle Thomas Weber in 2007 and the first defensive player since Terrell Suggs in 2002. Sutton had at least one tackle for loss in every game he played this season. Sutton posted 23.5 tackles for loss on the season (led team and fourth-most in ASU history), 13.0 sacks (led team and fourth in ASU history) and 63 total tackles (seventh on team). Sutton is finished the season ranked second in the nation at 1.92 TFL per game and third in the nation with 1.08 sacks per game and also led the Pac-12 in both. His 102 yards lost on sacks this year, including 23 in the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl (where he was named the Defensive MVP after posting 3.5 TFL and 2.5 sacks ), place him fourth on the school's single season yards on sacks list.
DON'T FORGET BRADFORD: When you have arguably one of the top defensive players in school history on your line, it can become quite easy for the exceptional play of some others to go unnoticed. One need look no further than Carl Bradford, who quietly put up numbers that rivaled Sutton all season long. Playing out of the Devilbacker position, Bradford finished the year with 81 tackles (fourth on team), 20.5 tackles for loss (second on team and 10th-most in school history) and 11.5 sacks. His three forced fumbles tied Sutton for most on the team and his two fumble recoveries tied Davon Coleman and Chris Young - helped the defense post five double-digit tackle for loss earners in the same season for just the second time in school history. His 1.58 tackles for loss per game was good for 11th in the nation this season and second in the Pac-12 behind Sutton. Sutton and Bradford's combined 44 tackles for loss are the most in ASU history and they are the first duo to record 20+ TFLs since Al Harris (22) and Bob Kohrs (20) in 1978.
GRICE, GRICE BABY Marion Grice is proving to be one of the top junior college additions to the conference as he led the team with 19 touchdowns (11 rushing, eight receiving) on the season. The mark matched the third highest single season total in school history alongside Cameron Marshall's 2011 performance and fall behind just Wilford White (1950, 22) and Terry Battle (1996, 20) on the all-time list. His 114 points on the year tie for fifth on ASU's all-time single-season points scored list. With 159 yards on 14 rushes and two touchdowns, Grice was named the 2012 Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl Offensive MVP. Grice had his fourth three-touchdown game in an MVP performance to lead the Sun Devils on a fourth-quarter comeback against Arizona in the Territorial Cup. Grice's knack for finding the end zone became commonplace, as he posted touchdowns on 19 of his 144 offensive touches this year (13.2 percent). Grice finished third in the conference at 8.77 PPG. His eight receiving touchdowns led the nation for receiving touchdowns by a running back and he finished tied for 14th in the country in total touchdowns. He became the all-time leader in running back touchdown receptions in the Pac-10/12 era for ASU. His four 100+ yard games this season led the team and his 6.6 yards per rush this year also paced the squad. Grice led the team in all-purpose yardage on the season with 1,104 yards.
THREE-HEADED MONSTER Aside from the impressive defense and great quarterback play from Cameron Marshall, Marion Grice and D.J. Foster. ASU running backs accounted for 31.4 percent of all the team's receiving yards this season. Of the 3,369 total receiving yards, running backs collected 1,057. Grice, Marshall and Foster also accounted for 35 of the team's 60 total offensive touchdowns. Grice had 19 (11 rushing, eight receiving), Marshall with 10 (nine rushing, one receiving) and Foster posted six (two rushing, four receiving). The trio averaged 5.3 yards per carry on the season (1,805 yards, 340 attempts). Grice, Marshall and Foster finished the season averaging 216.3 yards of total offense per game as a unit. The team is averaging 464.5 total yards per game.
FOSTER THE PEOPLE D.J. Foster came to ASU this season as what many considered the "gem" of the Sun Devil recruiting class and he has lived up to the hype. Foster was second on the team in all-purpose yardage with 1,026 yards this year (493 on the ground and 533 by air). Foster was also second on the team in yards per carry (4.8) for those with over 30 carries and is third in yards per catch (14.0). His ability to make what the ASU coaching staff calls "explosive plays" (rushes of 12 or more yards, receptions of 16 or more yards) helped him stand out amongst an offense full of talented players as he led the team in such plays with 31 total (18 receiving and 13 rushing). Foster's 38 receptions were the second-most receptions by a freshman in a season in school history (Zack Miller holds the record with 56 in 2004). His 533 receiving yards were the second most by a freshman in school history (Miller with 552 in 2004).
INTERCEPTION DARBY Junior safety Alden Darby leads the Sun Devils with three interceptions this year, highlighted by a 70-yard pick-six against USC. Darby ranks sixth all-time on ASU's single-season interception return yards list with 154. Nathan LaDuke has the record with 255. The interception against USC was the longest interception return for touchdown for ASU since Troy Nolan's 100-yard return in 2008 against UCLA. ASU finished the year with 21 interceptions, a mark that was tied for fourth in the nation.
WINNING BY WAY OF TKO (Brock Osweiler (minimum 300 pass attempts). With 29 touchdown passes on the season, Kelly ranks second in ASU single-season history and was just one shy of the school record set by Andrew Walter in 2004. Additionally, Kelly threw just nine interceptions this season and the .0251 interception percentage ranks second in school history among QBs throwing over 300 passes, behind only the .0238 percentage set by Andrew Walter in 2003 (10 of 421).
DUAL-THREAT QB Taylor Kelly's ability to extend plays was exceptional this seas, as demonstrated by his 516 net rushing yards on 134 attempts this year - a mark skewed by the fact that sacks count against his rushing total. If you take out sacks, Kelly would have led the team in yardage and yards per carry with 690 net rushing yards this season on 103 carries (6.7 ypc). Over the course of the season, Kelly had eight carries of 20 or more yards, easily the tops of the team ahead of Grice and Foster (3). Kelly accounted for 37 first downs on the ground on the year, a mark that also led the team.
SECONDARY A PRIMARY: ASU's secondary was among its driving forces this season. The unit finished the season ranked third nationally in passing defense (167.92) and 10th in passing efficiency defense (105.45), leading the Pac-12 in both. Not bad for a group that finished 11th and ninth, respectively, in those categories in the conference last season. In addition, the squad's 21 interceptions this year (giving some love to the linebackers, who had six of those and returned two for touchdowns) were tied for fourth in the nation. ASU had 11 different players record interceptions this season - a mark that ranks tied for second in the nation with USC behind SMU (12). Keelan Johnson led the way for ASU with five this year, including two against Washington State and he ranks tied for 17 in the country with .38 interceptions per game.
NOT PLAYING COY Chris Coyle's performance against Illinois (10 receptions, 131 yards, two touchdowns) garnered him honors as the College Football Performance Awards Football Bowl Subdivision Tight End Performer of the Week. Coyle finished third in the nation in tight end receptions per game with 4.38. His 57 receptions led the Sun Devils, as did his 696 receiving yards on the year. He took over the single-season tight end school record receptions at the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl, bringing down four catches in the contest (Zach Miller previously held the record with 56). Coyle finished with five touchdown catches on the year, one shy of the single-season tight end record set by Miller and Joe Petty.
MORE ON COYLE: Chris Coyle had a coming out party against Illinois, snagging 10 catches for 131 yards and two touchdowns. Those numbers put the junior in pretty select company at a school with a great history at the tight end position. His 10 grabs tie for the 15th-most ever by a Sun Devil in history and also put him in a tie with Zach Miller as the most single-game snags by a tight end in school history. In addition, his 131 receiving yards are the second most for a tight end in school history behind only Todd Heap's 170 yards against Arizona in 1999. Here's a look at how Coyle's game stacks up against the greats.
FAREWELL, BRANDON: A year removed from missing the entire 2011 season with an Achilles injury, Brandon Magee returned an interception 45 yards for his first career pick-six against NAU in the opener and that set the pace for a phenomenal senior season. He finished third on the team with 6.5 sacks on the season and was fourth in tackles for loss with 12.5. Magee saved his best performance of the season for Arizona however, logging a career-high 17 tackles (14 solo) and earning Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week honors. Despite his absence in the victory against Illinois, Magee currently led the team with 113 tackles on the season and finished second in the conference at 9.42 tackles per game. Magee's 81 solo tackles, including four in the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl, were the sixth most in a single season in school history.
BETTER SUITED FOR HANDKERCHIEFS: The Sun Devils haven't given the referees much reason to reach for their pockets this season. ASU was penalized just once for five yards against Illinois (on what appeared to be a purposeful delay of game to create some space for a punt). That marked the lowest single-game total since 2006, when ASU was penalized once for five yards against Washington State. Todd Graham took a team that finished dead last in the FBS in penalties per game and penalty yards per game last season and created a team that had seven of the 10 least penalized games for a Sun Devils since the 2006 season. On the year, ASU had just 55 penalties for 454 yards. ASU led the Pac-12 and finished eighth in the nation with just 34.92 penalty yards per game. Here's a look at ASU's lowest single game penalties since 2006, seven of which having come this year:
MARSHALL OF THE TOUCHDOWN: With his two touchdowns in his final career game against Navy, Cameron Marshall has rushed for 38 touchdowns in his career with Arizona State. He is one of only four Sun Devils all-time to score at least 30 touchdowns on the ground. Marshall holds sole possession of second on ASU's all-time rushing TD list, behind just Woody Green (43).
RETURN RECORD: Jamal Miles finished his career with 1,866 kickoff return yards. With a 31-yard return to start the game against Illinois and one other kick return, Miles passed Rudy Burgess (2004-07) for the top spot in Sun Devil history. In his prior three seasons in Tempe, Miles had returned 69 kickoffs for 1631 yards and three touchdowns. Miles totaled 788 of those yards last season, the second highest single-season total in ASU history. Miles' total was second only to the 879 yards that Burgess gained in 2007. Miles had 80 career kick returns, giving him an average of 23.2 yards per return. Burgess had 68 returns, with an average of 22.3 yards per return. Miles has three kick return TDs, while Burgess had one.
HOLDING DOWN THE FORT: The ASU defense did an admirable job of limiting opponents following turnovers by the offense. On the season, ASU's opponents scored on just 41.7 percent of their drives following an ASU turnover and have scored just seven touchdowns in that span on 24 turnovers. Conversely, the ASU offense put points in the bank on 70.0 of its conversion opportunities and scored 18 touchdowns off of 30 turnovers forced. ASU outscored opponents 139-58 in points off turnovers over the course of the season, despite posting just a middling +6 number in the takeway category.
JUST KICKING IT: Alex Garoutte saw his extra point streak come to and end right at the century mark (100) against Navy, though he finished the game 8-of-9 on extra point opportunities. He is now 111-of-113 in his career.
TAYLOR GANG: For the fourth time in as many years, the Sun Devil season opener featured a new quarterback under center. Redshirt sophomore Brock Osweiler (2011) as the fourth different quarterback to start on opening day since Rudy Carpenter started three straight from 2006-08. Sullivan and Threet were making their first career starts period, while Osweiler had made a start later in the season in 2009 and 2010. Since 1997, ASU quarterbacks making their first career start are 9-5.
According to research done by Jack Duggan at the University of Southern Mississippi, Arizona State is one of just 13 FBS schools that returned no quarterback with a start for the 2012 season. That list included: Akron, Arizona State, Boise State, East Carolina, Hawai'i, LSU, Memphis, Michigan State, Northern Illinois, Oklahoma State, Southern Miss, Stanford and Texas A&M.
PUT ME IN, COACH: Zach Miller (2004) and Will Sutton (2009) as the only true freshmen to start season opener at ASU on offense or defense. The NCAA began allowing freshman to compete in 1972, with the 2012 season marking the 40 year anniversary. In total, 29 Sun Devils saw their first Division I action and seven true freshmen played this season (Evan Goodman, Laiu Moekiola, Carlos Mendoza, Richard Smith in addition to Foster and Hood). The school record for true freshmen playing in season is 10, set back in 2008.
EARN YOUR KEEP: ASU has had 12 players score their first career touchdowns this season: Chris Coyle (reception), Chris Coyle added his first career TD grab against Illinois, which also served as Eubank's first career touchdown toss. For Kelly, his first passing touchdown was the first of many as he now has 25 on the season and Marion Grice's three-touchdown performances on four occassions this year set the pace for the 17 touchdowns he currently has - a mark that leads the team.
PIN 'EM DEEP: Redshirt senior punter Josh Hubner posted 20 punts on the year inside the 20 (out of 52 total punts) and is averaged 47.1 yards per punt, a mark that was good for first in the conference (with 40 or more punts) and second in the nation and also gave him the school's single-season record (46+ attempts).. He had 22 punts of over 50 yards this season, good enough to lead the Pac-12. The next closest in the Pac-12 was 16 by Colorado's Darragh O'Neill. Hubner has had monster games against Oregon and UCLA, averaging 52.8 yards per punt on nine attempts with three downed inside the 20. For those performances, he was honored by the College Football Performance Awards Punter of the Week for consecutive weeks. Quarterback Taylor Kelly also showed off his talents in the category, having eight pooch kicks this year with a long of 49 and downing the opponents inside the 20 on seven of those. Hubner was honored for his great season by receiving invitations to compete in the East-West Shrine Game and the Casino del Sol All-Star Game at the conclusion of the season.
LIGHT 'EM UP: With 108 points in its first two games, Arizona State set its highest tally through the first two games of the season in ASU history (now in its 100th season). The prior record was 94 points, under Dirk Koetter in 2005 as his team put up 63 points in a season opening victory against Temple before adding 31 in a tough loss against LSU. ASU finished the year with 499 points and the 38.4 points per game ranked ASU 14th nationally in scoring offense. That mark ranks fifth all-time in ASU history in the statistical category and was the most since the 1973 squad that scored 43.2 ppg. The 1972 squad holds the record at 46.8 ppg.
INFO-GRAHAM: So you want to know more about what Todd Graham brings to the program? Here's a couple more stats and tidbits about the ASU head coach to give you an idea. Special thanks Doug Haller (@DougHaller) of the Arizona Republic for all this information:
--Over his past four seasons prior to coming to ASU -- one at Pittsburgh and three at Tulsa -- Graham's teams rushed the ball on at least 53.4 percent of their total plays. In 2008, Tulsa rushed on 61.4 percent of its total plays. The 2012 Sun Devils rushed the ball on 59.1 percent of their total plays. In 2011, ASU rushed 44.5 percent of the time.
--Over the past seven seasons at Pitt, Tulsa, Rice and now ASU, only one Graham-coached team has ranked outside the top 50 nationally in sacks. In 2011, Pittsburgh averaged 3.31 sacks, which ranked third nationally. The Sun Devils averaged 4.0 sacks per game this year, the second-best mark in the nation
--In seven seasons, Graham is 22-20 in true road games. ASU was 3-3 in such games this year. In the previous four seasons, ASU was 5-16.
--In six of the past seven years, Graham's teams have ranked 39th or better nationally in fewest penalty yards per game. In 2008, Tulsa averaged just 37 penalty yards, which ranked 11th in the nation. In 2011, Pitt averaged 39.5, which ranked 18th. The Sun Devils average only 34.92 penalty yards per game this year, which was good for eighth in the nation.
FIRST IMPRESSION WAS GOOD: ASU's 63 points vs. NAU in the Todd Graham debut is the most by a Sun Devil coach in his opener, topping the 47 scored by Frank Kush's squad in 1958 over Hawaii. Not all openers were great for eventual great coaches though, as ASU's 1996 National Coach of the Year Bruce Snyder scored seven in his first game in a 31-7 loss to second-ranked Washington on Sept. 5, 1992.
ON THE BRIGHT SIDE: Despite a relatively rough outing otherwise, ASU allowed just 48 passing yards vs. Oregon, its fewest in a conference game since Nov. 2, 1996, when ASU's Pac-10 Conference title team allowed just 20 at Oregon State. The Sun Devils would top that Oregon mark by allowing just 37 passing yards to Navy in the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl - the third-lowest tally since 1996.
TAKE IT BACK: Rashad Ross took the second-half kickoff back 100 yards for a score vs. Colorado on Oct. 11, the second kick return for a touchdown in his short career. He also took one 98 yards vs. Boise State in the 2011 Las Vegas Bowl. ASU has had seven kickoff returns for a touchdown in the past three seasons, a span that started with Omar Bolden's 97-yard jaunt at No. 11 Wisconsin on Sept. 18, 2010. Ross is just the fifth player in school history to record a 100-yard kickoff return.
PUTTING ON A SHOW: ASU racked up a then-season-high 593 total yards of offense against Colorado, including 261 rushing yards and 332 passing yards. ASU's 593 yards is the most in a conference road game since it had 651 yards at Arizona on Nov. 23, 1996 in a 56-14 win that clinched an 11-0 regular season. The Sun Devils put up a whopping 648 yards of total offense against Navy in the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl, which was the most since logging a Pac-12 Bowl record 679 against Rutgers in the 2005 Insight Bowl against Rutgers. ASU now owns the two highest-grossing games in terms of yardage in Pac-12 conference history.
MORE ON PENALTIES: Todd Graham has had a knack for having some of the most disciplined teams in the nation when it comes to penalty yards. In each of his seven seasons as a head coach, Graham's teams have ranked as some of the least penalized teams in the country in both yards and penalties per game. In 2012, the Sun Devils finished 10th in fewest penalties (4.23) and eighth in fewest penality yards per game (34.9).
THE ALTERNATIVE DEFINITION OF "SCORING DEFENSE": Scoring defense is an official statistic credited to defenses based on how many points they allow per game. The ASU defense is re-writing that definition, having directly scored on four turnovers this season. ASU had three interceptions returned for touchdowns this year (Anthony Jones - 36 yards vs Oregon and Junior Onyeali vs Oregon State). The defense also had a blocked punt for a safety, giving the squad a total of 26 direct points. If you add in the points off turnovers that ASU offense has scored this season, the ASU defense had a hand in 165 of the 499 points (33.1 percent) scored for ASU this season.
NOT IN OSAHON's HOUSE: Junior defensive back Osahon Irabor was a force this year, collecting 14 passes defensed on the season to lead the team. What's more impressive is that he didn't have a single pass interference called against him all season. The 14 PBU's are the most by a Sun Devils since Justin Tryon had 16 in 2007. Irabor also posted his first interception of the season against Arizona.
FOR THAT MATTER, NOT KEELAN'S HOUSE EIther: Perhaps no player on the Sun Devils came on as strong down the stretch as senior safety and captain Troy Nolan had 10, followed by Mike Nixon with eight, Omar Bolden with seven, Josh Barrett with six and Justin Tryon with four.
ROAD WARRIORS: Todd Graham has had a lot of success on the road during his head coaching days, and this season with the Sun Devils was no different. ASU compiled a 3-2 road record in Pac-12 Conference games with victories against Colorado, Cal and Arizona - one of just four Pac-12 teams to do so behind Oregon, Stanford and UCLA. It was just the fifth time since joining the Pac-12 (1978) that the Sun Devils had won three conference games on the road.
END WITH A BANG: While ASU got out to several fast starts this season, the team closed just as impressively, allowing just 62 points on the season to anyone in the quarter and only gave up more than 10 on one occasion (14), in garbage time in the team's rout over Navy. ASU shut out six teams in the fourth quarter this year and outscored opponents 126-62 in the period.
A LOOK AHEAD: While the 2012 season had plenty of exciting games for the Sun Devils, the 2013 schedule is looking even more appealing. In 2013, ASU's football team will play the Pac-12 Conference Champion (Stanford), the Big 10 Conference Champion (Wisconsin) and the current No. 1 team and potential National Champion (Notre Dame).
A STRONG START: Sun Devil head coach Todd Graham was one of the only 11 coaches of the 28 coaching changes in the spring of 2012 to win eight or more games in 2012. Of those, only five first-year coaches led their teams to bowl victories (Graham, Rodriguez, Malzahn, Freeze, Sumlin).


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BMW is at the 2012 Beijing Motor Show to introduce two very interesting cars: the i8 Concept Spyder and the 335 Li. The i8 measures 4.48 meters in length and 1.92 in width and, in the comparison to the 4-seat coupe version, has a shorter wheel-base and has a folding roof in two sections. The brand new shape of its rear end uses an original see-through cover that allows the onlookers to see the two electric skateboards in the trunk, which reduce its capacity to just 100 litres. The combined output of its hybrid powertrain is rated at 354 hp. The electric motor alone produces 131 hp that get transferred to the front axle while its supercharged 3-cylinder unit delivers its 223 hp to the rear axle.
The i8 Concept Spyder goes from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) in just 5,0 seconds, reaching an electronically limited top speed of 250 km/h (155 mph). Its average fuel consumption is 3.0 l/100 km, while its range on electric energy alone is 30 km (19 miles). The car handles the traction between the two axles - giving priority to performance or economy - on the base of the cruising mode selected by the driver: the three options are Eco, Pro and Sport. The overall weight of the car is 1,630 kg, with a 50-50 weight partition on the two axles.
The BMW 335 Li is a sort of 'long wheel-base version' of the recent 3-Series F30, but it is way more spacious, especially in terms of leg-room. The car is powered by a turbocharged 3.0-litre engine and will be produced in China by the Brilliance China Automotive, the company that assembles the cars of the Bavarian manufacturer for the whole Asian market at their facility in Shenyang. It must be outlined that this is the first time that BMW comes up with a long wheel-base version of the 3-Series, although this particular model is not supposed to become available on other markets.
View the full BMW i8 Concept Spyder and 335 Li @ the 2012 Beijing Motor Show photo gallery