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The Indesit RAA24 is a freestanding fridge freezer that has a 230 litres gross capacity and comes in a white colour. The RAA24 has been rated A+ for energy efficiency and boasts an innovative auto defrost feature that ensures the fridge freezer element can perform efficiently by preventing any ice build-up and affecting its performance. The RAA24 is only 55 cm wide, which makes it slimmer than most fridge freezers and is perfect if you have a reduced space. The RAA24 features a fridge net capacity of 187 litres and a freezer net capacity of 43 litres. This fridge freezer comes with full width salad crispers, safety glass shelves, an egg tray and a maxi bottle shelf that has a wider design to hold large and bulky bottles, even 2 litre ones along its entire length, perfect for water and party drinks storage!

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Garfield Smith was born in Campbellsville, KY. He was a 6'9" center on the Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) basketball team, 1964-1968. Smith played in 67 games and was the school's 3rd all-time leading rebounder. He was one of the first three African American basketball players at the school. (The other two were Bobby Washington and Toke Coleman.) Smith was selected by the Boston Celtics in round 3 of the 1968 NBA draft. He played with the Celtics for two years, then played for one year with the San Diego Conquistadors, an ABA team. Smith played in a total of 134 games and scored 428 points during his three seasons. In 2012, Garfield Smith was inducted into the Eastern Kentucky University Hall of Fame [more info.]. For more see Garfield Smith at the databaseBasketball.com website.
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This is a discussion on Rifle questions... within the Related Gear & Equipment forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; I know this isn't a rifle forum, but I'm looking to invest in a rifle. I own an AR 15 but would like some thing ...
I know this isn't a rifle forum, but I'm looking to invest in a rifle. I own an AR 15 but would like some thing more adequate for hunting.
My criteria is that the rifle must be adequate for hunting, but also useable for survival situations where I will be on foot, moving and walking and hunting.
I think .308 is the caliber I'm looking at, but if you have a reasonable opinion on another caliber, I'm all ears. I've been looking at Kimber's lineup, as well as Remington and savage. What are the opinions on here?
Also, if you have a forum to recommend, please do. Also tell me why you recommend. I'm not interested in "you need these 12 weapons, and here's why" responses. I can reasonable carry one more weapon and caliber of ammo and remain mobile.
Currently I have an AR 15, 1911, .22 survival rifle, and need a medium to large game rifle. That's all.
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The government should be afraid of their people not the other way around.
I would look into the mossberg MVP. It is a bolt action that takes magazines. If you get the .223 model it will take your ar15 mags. Would be sufficient for hunting out to a few hundred yards. And would be easy to carry around as a survival rifle and just keep some ar15 mags in a pack and you dont have to keep reloading every 5 or so rounds.
Remington 700. Was going to be what I would suggest. One of the best shooting .308s you can find.
Look at the Ruger American series. Good prices and a big option on calibers.
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My father gave me his remington 700 chambered in 30.06 from the 60's. I love that rifle. I recently bought another 700 as a range / varmint rifle chambered in 223. Can't go wrong with them in my opinion.
You say you want a hunting rifle. Do you have any game in particular that you are looking to hunt? What is the longest distance that you want to be able to, or are likely to shoot that game at?
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Considering they just recaled a crap ton of the model 700s for firing withouth hittign the trigger I say get a older model on that ..
AR-10 is a 308 AR
And the MVP and other ruger 223 or 308 rifle would imop make dangy all around guns
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A lot depends on what you want to hunt. A .270 Winchester, .308 Winchester or .30-06 Springfield are great all around hunting rifles for most of the larger game in North America. Ruger and CZ also make some great rifles. A good scope helps for longer range shots. A Marlin or Winchester lever-action 30-30 with iron sights has probably taken more deer that any other cartridge/rifle combination.
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The people recommending the Rem 700 to you, are recommending one sweet rifle. Traditionally thought to be one of the very best mass production rifles.
I myself love them. I have had several, and taken a number of white tail with them.
And I sold them all. There are allegations that they are unsafe. Currently there is ANOTHER recall on them. Having to do with trigger issues.
If it was only me, I may well have kept my 700s. But I have a son. I could see either him or me, having the gun malfunction, and fire (when it should not fire), and one of us ending up dead. I couldnt live with that.
THEN, there was the thought of keeping them but not using them (which didnt make much sense), but was also potentially deadly. What if I were suddenly out of the picture, and my son, or his son not knowing of a defect, were killed or injured with them? So, I sold em.
I replaced them with a Tikka T3. And love it. Tikka T3 Rifles
I'm just breaking in a Ruger Gunsite Scout for the same reasons as yours. A poor man's AR10. So far so good but I'm not done with the process.
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What if the Hokey Pokey IS what it's all about?
I hunt with a Remington 700 in 243, works well for me in the heavy brush of the South were the longest shot would be 150yards.
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I have to laught at the 700 they put a new trigger system in it cause the old one fire for no reason or when you closed the bolt then the new one does the same thing
"Remington Arms Company, LLC ("Remington") is voluntarily recalling Remington Model 700™ and Model Seven™ rifles with X-Mark Pro® ("XMP®") triggers, manufactured from May 1, 2006 to April 9, 2014."
BREAKING: Remington Recalls Model 700 and Model Seven Rifles for Trigger Trouble | The Truth About Guns
so avoid the XMP trigger ones .. Least you want the gun that will in fact maim on its on ..
Remington's investigation determined that some XMP triggers might have excess bonding agent used in the assembly process, which could cause an unintentional discharge. Therefore, Remington is recalling ALL affected products to fully inspect and clean the XMP triggers with a specialized process.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. H.L. Mencken
"Vous ne les laisserez pas passer, mes camarades"
"We're surrounded. That simplifies our problem of getting to these people and killing them."Chesty Puller
Well, let me head off in a different direction and suggest a lever-action rifle for your hunting and survival needs. Depending on what you're hunting, the Marlin 336/Winchester 94 chambered in .30-30 will take most North American game with decent shot placement out to 150 yards, maybe a little farther. These are fairly light and compact rifles that you can tote all day. Put a low-power scope on 'em or a good red dot, or keep it rugged with a receiver sight. Four inch accuracy at 100 yards with factory ammo, maybe better with your favorite handloads is something you can count on, without needing a bipod or a scope that costs more than the gun.
It's not the gun that the Rem 700 is, but if you don't need MOA accuracy out to 300 yards, you're not knocking down grizzlies or moose, you might get by with lighter artillery. Just something to weigh.
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Found out about this car the other day... Just what I been wanting... A 1950 Chevy coupe.... Man when I first seen it,, I had to have it. The best part about it... My wife said.. GET IT !!!! :eek: I found one she likes. :thumbup: NOW !!!! That can also mean a bad thing.. :( She like's it a little to much.. :eek: :pain: :boxing But it's all good... :D Now I need to get this thing on the road ASAP... :mwink: Time to have one I can enjoy for a while.. Been to long .. :sweat: So let the fun times Begin.. :mwink: Time to burn some AMP'S.. :D
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Now it's time to give this one a new home... :thumbup:
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Nice.. I'v been thinking I should take my '51 out and get it good enough to put on the road. I actually could use it as a back up vehicle/ cruiser..
BTW, if your getting rid of the curb feelers. don't wreck them. there worth about $100 each
Nice score, good clean body and the wife said yes, think it only happened once at my house. So I did. :thumbup:
Sweet project Randy, :thumbup: i had a 51 back in the day really love those old rides.
Great find. Love the 49,50 Chevy coupes. You sure have the base for any options you want to pursue. Looking forward to watching the build.
looks good, ever since street rodder mag did the build up on that body style it has really gone up on my list of cars i would like to have.
my old neighbor had a nice one when i was in my 20's so i think alot about them anyway :D
it makes it alot easier around the house if its for the wife :thumbup:
Thanks guy's.... Really glade I found this one.. It's a keeper.. I want to keep it simple for now.. It will be custom.. Been wanting one like this for a while now.. It will be on the ground, ''Sweet & Low'' ... :mwink: A nice cruiser... :thumbup:
I'm taking it down to bare metal right now..Have a lot done so far.. :sweat: :drunk:
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Theres a big surprise :D :thumbup: :P
looking at what you get done, you make me feel like a bump on a log. :thumbup:
i dont see where you find time to be on here. :confused:
Nice car, I love that era, Chev's and Oldsmobile's. I would find a bigger 6, split the manifolds, multi carbs, windshield visor, skirts, suicide knob, all the old 60's stuff. Too cool, I know you'll come up with a good looking car. :thumbup:
Very Very nice car :D
Great find :thumbup:
Should make a great Ride :)
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Nice score, makes it even better when the wife likes it
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Thanks guy's.... Found a few things hiding under the paint that May need a little bit of my help.. :mwink: Nothing bad at all so far... Great score indeed...
This is what I have plan for it... Something a long these lines... I won't be chopping it right now... But it will be in the build a little later... :mwink: :thumbup:
Hey Randy, Cool find, hope you got a good deal on it. That is exactly the vehicle thats on my next build list. I can't seem to ever get the current projects finished, yet always have ideas for future builds.
Always wanted a '55, but prices have gotten stupid on a decent roller. This is what led me to looking at '49-'54's. I am sooo jealous you found a nice one local. You got all the luck. Is the drivetrain still stock? If possible, could you do some drivetrain photos so I can see what it takes to do a big block/t400 conversion. :thumbup: olnolan
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For those of you waiting for a generation 2 Chevy Volt, Voltec CUV, coupe, or any other vehicle based on the Volt's powertrain, you may have to hold on for three more years.
Last week, several media outlets picked up on a quote given at the Frankfurt motor show by GM of Europe head Nick Reilly, who said 2015 is the year to look forward to for Volt derivatives.
"We won't do it with this generation, and that will run to 2015," Reilly said in response to a question by Automotive News about whether GM will build variations on the Volt platform. "You'd have to wait until after that until you see it."
Although the media are just now cuing in on Reilly's statement, we commented on similar hints in August when he said the second generation Ampera would not be out until 2015, and we noted at the time this could mean the Volt is included too.
It would seem now our hinted-at guess was right but even we did not suppose GM would put a moratorium on all Voltec variations.
Reasons provided by Reilly were GM needs that long to recoup expenses incurred from building the Volt, given a slow U.S. Volt ramp up, and limited sales in other markets of variations of the Volt and its sibling, the Ampera.
As has been also reported, GM is working to get the Volt's production costs down. It is particularly focused on reducing the single biggest cost driver – the expense of its thermally managed lithium-ion battery pack.
Reilly confirmed GM has made significant headway on this front, without specifying how, and said the battery is now estimated at around $8,000 for the second generation car.
But the knife of cost cutting and conservativeness seems to be slicing into what began as an outrageously bold initiative to build the Voltec platform – and what enthusiasts hoped would quickly lead to a series of vehicles based on the pioneering Gen 1 Volt.
Perhaps the misbegotten EV1 introduction and recall over a decade ago, and more recent financial woes from a bankruptcy and bailout have also contributed to a conservative stance.
At any rate, it would appear GM again wants to take the electric vehicle tech lead with the Volt, although this time without overstepping boundaries or repeating mistakes.
Speaking of which, GM executives have also said the company is working hard to build a "fortress balance sheet." Although GM has the cash to buy back the 26 percent share of its own stock held by the U.S. Treasury at a discount compared to the IPO price, it has resisted this move as well.
Perhaps considering the pain GM endured being cash poor, its desire to preserve capital on a few major fronts is understandable – or will some consider its latest decision to delay Voltec introductions to be a vote of limited confidence in their marketability?
We don't know. What do you think? Do you think it is possible Reilly's pretty unambiguous quote could nonetheless be proven incorrect?
Or do you think the chance GM took on quickly building the Volt during tight times was big enough, and promoting it and the Ampera will be enough, as GM plots a more sedate course through to 2015?
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Artist and gallery owner shoots for $250,000 prize
Rockford resident Carol Black couldn't be more proud of her son Stephano Sutherlin, who, despite living in Little Rock, Ark., couldn't pass up the change to compete in ArtPrize. Sutherlin, who owns his own art gallery, Little Rock 17, has submitted "Steam to Diesel" as his ArtPrize entry. The three-piece work is a painted history of Michigan's locomotives.
Sutherlin began his career by joining a traveling circus, then explored the world in the Navy, and is a professional courtroom sketch artist. He grew up the son of a train conductor. His unique background and lifelong interest in trains compelled him to create "Steam to Diesel."
Sutherland's wife, Ashley Polk Sutherland, said the process of creating the work led to long interaction with Sutherland and his father. "It was a great bonding experience," she described.
She said she believes the work will speak to a great many people. "There is a fascination with trains by people of all ages," she said. Her father in law, especially, is one to admit he doesn't understand or appreciate abstract art. This he loves.
Polk-Sutherland said she and her husband were thrilled to hear about the first ArtPrize last year and would have loved to participate then. Unfortunately they were unable due to deaths in their respective families. This year they look forward to coming home to Grand Rapids to see it all first hand.
"ArtPrize is unique because it is juried by the public in venues throughout the city," said Polk-Sutherlin. "Some people call it American Idol for artists."
Last year the contest brought 250,000 visitors to Grand Rapids to view pieces created by artists from over 40 states and 20 countries.
"It's a huge honor for me to participate in one of the largest art contests in the world," said Stephano. "The ArtPrize experience so far has been amazing. I have met incredible people and organizations through my research, including C&O Historical Museum in Virginia and CSX Railways, who bought C&O in the 1980s."
The three-canvas piece "Steam to Diesel" was inspired by Stephano's love of trains and travel. His hope is the tryptich will invoke a sense of nostalgia in combination with the history of early train life in Michigan.
"I'm looking forward to sharing my childhood memories of railway travel through my painted version of locomotives to the many Grand Rapids visitors this fall," said Stephano.
"Steam to Diesel" will be displayed at Independent Bank, 86 Monroe, September 17 through October 9, when Art Prize ends. It can also be viewed on Facebook, "Steam to Diesel" by artist Stephano Sutherlin.


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The month of September continued to be a great learning experience as we begin to see the evolution of staff use of their iPads. We continue to offer training for staff and have transitioned from large group, centralized training like our Tech Boot Camp to targeted, on-site sessions at each building on a weekly basis – a total of 15 of these sessions were held in September. The training is moving toward building-specific needs. We have demonstrated the use of QuickOffice HD, ShowMe, talked about synchronizing calendars, and shown the process for mirroring the teacher's iPad to their classroom projector. General problem solving also takes place at these sessions — it is an opportunity for teachers to gather and share the new things they are learning with one another.
Here are a handful of examples of how staff are using iPads in the first month of school.
- Our 7th grade science teachers have purchased a frog dissection simulation app and are preparing to implement this as a station for students to use during lab time in the coming months. They like the fact that the app they've selected allows students to make connections between the frog's biology and the human body.
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- One elementary teacher shared how the ability to take attendance on her iPad frees her SMART Board in the morning so that students can begin to interact with the "morning meeting" message on the SMART Board as soon as they walk in the door as opposed to waiting until after the teacher had taken attendance on her classroom computer. This makes a more fluid start to the school day. Even if just five minutes are saved per day, this equates to 14.5 hours per year that can be devoted to additional instruction!
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Listening to the short speech with which Gordon Brown introduced the current election campaign, I was struck by a faint sense of déjà vu. It was not that one had heard the words before, rather that the convoluted mental processes that seemed to lurk behind them seemed curiously familiar.
Some other great statesman, perhaps, addressing his country at a time of trial? Some bygone ideologue putting his cards squarely on the table? No, the person whom Mr Brown most reminded me of was Grimes, headmaster of St Custard's, Nigel Molesworth's alma mater in the series of books by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle, emceeing the prize-giving at the school sports. Outwardly, all is seemly calm. A marginal crib to the headmaster's "reel thorts", on the other hand, reveals a rising scent of panic.
"Each year" Grimes begins – spellings follow the original – "it is my privilege to introduce the charming lade who give away the criket bat balls spoons cups etc". The "reel thorts"at this point run "lucky I got 'em back from the pornbroker hem-hem". The "charming lade" is, of course, Mrs Grabber, whose son is, conveniently, victor ludorum. "Mrs Grabber I think you will all agree showed where her sons talent came from in the parents potato race..." By this time the "reel thorts" are a bleak "How long can I go on with this?"
All this seemed curiously reminiscent of Mr Brown's message to the voters. "I come from an ordinary middle-class family in an ordinary town," he began, which might be decoded as "my speech-writers have advised me to emphasise my lack of social distinction in the hope that it will contrast favourably with the plummy-voiced toff over the way". He then asked for "a clear and straightforward mandate to continue the urgent and hard work securing the recovery, building our industries for the future, and creating a million skilled jobs over the next five years". This meant: "We have not, alas, been nearly so successful as we might have been in our stewardship of the nation's resources, but let me assure you that the other lot will only ruin things even more". At the moment, Mr Brown's sales pitch is based on what might be known as the Belloc stratagem: "Always keep a-hold of nurse, for fear of finding something worse". He will have to do better than this.
Already the media have begun to line up a series of vox pops anxious to enlighten the public on their choice of party. As an experienced election-watcher, I always doubt the value of these exercises, if only because of the hulking motivational chasms that loom into view. Half the participants seem to be gripped by professional self-interest – NHS staff worrying about the NHS, teachers worrying about education cuts – and the other half so scrupulously disinterested as to render their fervour rather unworldly.
Even worse, perhaps, are the surveys of first-time voters. I always date the extreme right-wing views I held as a teenager to interviews with three 18-year-olds that appeared in the Daily Mirror shortly before the October election of 1974. The first, a bespectacled undergraduate, declared that he would be voting Conservative because of his parents and what he had read. The second, a cheery lad in a beanie hat, plumped for Labour under pressure from his gran – "She's Labour mad". The third, a woman, remarked that she would be voting Liberal because she "liked Jeremy Thorpe". What, my autocratic younger self wondered, was the point of giving at least two of these young people the vote if those were the reasons they came up with for voting?
Worse even than this, though, will be the file of celebrity voters whose views are sought in the final week of the campaign. Here the last words belong to Evelyn Waugh, who, asked by the Spectator how he intended to vote in the general election of 1959, replied that he would not presume to advise his Sovereign on her choice of ministers.
If one can predict anything about the next three and a half weeks, it is that some of the dirtiest local campaigns will be fought by the Liberal Democrats. Not long ago, I listened to an illuminating Radio 4 feature about by-elections, in which a succession of Tory and Labour activists stepped up to concede that, while they might have done some questionable things in their time, the sharpest practice always came courtesy of Mr Clegg and his helpers.
This was borne out by a publication called the "Norwich Mail", which flopped through letter-boxes here in Norwich South the other day. "The choice is clear," it insisted. "It's between hard-working local Lib Dem campaigner Simon Wright or Labour's Charles Clarke." The Conservatives apparently "cannot win", while the Greens "came a poor fourth in the last General Election in Norwich South, and came an even worse fifth in last year's by-election in Norwich North".
What this piece of analysis omits is the fact that in last year's council elections, the Greens topped the poll in this constituency. This, though, can be explained away as spin. Quite thoroughly inaccurate, on the other hand, is a bar-chart purporting to show "the result last time". Here the orange Lib-Dem bar trails the red Labour oblong by perhaps a centimetre, with the Conservative bar fading into insignificance. You would think from it that Mr Clarke's majority was a scant couple of hundred votes. In fact, as a glance at Robert Waller and Byron Criddle's invaluable Almanac of British Politics soon demonstrates, Mr Clarke received nearly 16,000 (37.7 per cent), the Lib Dems 12,252 (29 per cent) and the Tories a by no means disgraceful 9,567 (22.7 per cent). The bar chart, consequently, is horribly misleading. Pundits believe that Norwich South is a four-way marginal. On this evidence, it would serve the Lib Dems right if they came fourth.
Like several other commentators, I was charmed to read the defence of the public library system offered by Keith Richards. "When you are growing up, there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully," the Rolling Stones' guitarist has been quoted as saying, "the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you."
Reckoning up my own private charge-sheet against the administrations of the past 13 years, failure to safeguard the health of the public library system, by ensuring that the main amenities present are books and silence in which to read them, comes surprisingly near the top. The worst New Labour ministerial performance I ever witnessed – against some pretty stiff competition – came from the then libraries minister David Lammy in an address to the Royal Society of Literature. It wasn't just that Mr Lammy was so conspicuously not up to his questioners' fighting weight, or that he persisted in saying "customers" when he meant "readers", merely that he seemed to regard a library as a kind of glorified coffee-shop.
Not long after listening to him, I was invited to a conference organised by the Queen's English Society, at which an eloquent black girl got up and denounced the modern library system. She was fed up with the shelves of books filed under ethnic minority interest, she maintained: she wanted to see what white writers were up to. As for the banks of computer screens and the chatty teenagers sending emails to each other, she'd quite like some peace and quiet in which to do her homework. "Libraries gave us power," the Manic Street Preachers famously declared in "A Design for Life". There is a terrible irony in the spectacle of the Labour Party trying to take that power away.
I was amused to read that the actress Gemma Arterton's Gravesend vowels proved too much for the director Stephen Frears, who cast her in his forthcoming adaptation of the Posy Simmonds comic strip Tamara Drewe. According to Ms Arterton: "I went into this meeting and he went: 'Oh dear, oh dear. Why do you speak like that?'" Ms Arterton's defence of her locution was "That's where I'm from." Mr Frears is supposed to have countered: "Well, you're going to have to sort that out." Oddly enough, despite coming from a part of the world with an instantly recognisable local accent, my sympathies are with Mr Frears. The sheer ugliness of certain local accents is a byword among people who don't speak them – I never met a non-Merseysider prepared to defend Scouse. Opinion polls tend to back this up: one of the reasons many call-centres operate out of Tyneside, apparently, is that people find Geordies reassuring. Ms Arterton's problem, alas, is that in the past 40 years all the old Home Counties accents have been overlaid with bastardised Cockney. Meanwhile, anything that can see off Estuary English gets my vote.Reuse content


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Divers could take their photo with Father Christmas this morning, against a donation for l-Istrina.
The event was organised by the Emergency Response and Rescue Corps at Hondoq ir-Rummien in Gozo.
L-Istrina, being held tomorrow, is Malta's major charity event, organised by The Malta Community Chest Fund.
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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – For the third time in as many home matches this season, Northern Arizona swept both singles and doubles to cruise to a 7-0 victory over Eastern Washington on Saturday morning inside Flagstaff Athletic Club East. The Lumberjacks improved to 4-1 in the Big Sky while evening their overall record at 9-9, with Eastern Washington falling to 5-16 overall and 1-6 in conference play.
NAU got off to a great start with its easiest doubles win of the season. At No. 3, senior Aimee Oki and sophomore Alice Walker, playing together for the first time this season, eased their way to an 8-1 win over Eastern Washington's Rocio Norena and Jessi Steele. The Lumberjacks would add 8-2 wins at No. 1 and 2 to easily take the doubles point.
Singles play would be dominated by the home team as well, starting with a 6-0, 6-0 whitewash from NAU senior Edit Suhajda at No. 1. Fellow senior Orsi Golovics would notch a 6-1, 6-2 victory at No. 2, while sophomore Malia Wahinepio and senior Yumi Hasegawa would record straight-set wins at No. 3 and 4, respectively. Walker, filling in for sophomore Nicole Perez, scored an impressive 6-1, 6-1 win at No. 6, while Oki would outlast Eagle freshman Helon Ricks, 7-6, 5-7, 1-0 (11-9) at No. 5 to complete the NAU sweep.
Northern Arizona will conclude its home schedule on Sunday at 9 a.m. against Portland State. Seniors Golovics, Hasegawa, Oki and Suhajda will be honored in a pre-match ceremony.


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I wore mine curly, but mine's not really big or anything. I love love love that you want to keep it natural -- DEFINITELY go for it. In terms of keeping it tame, well... Are you CG? If not, or if you are but are desperate for it to look good, I'd say cheat. Load it up with products, silicons, whatever WORKS. It's one day, after all! You might have a couple of bad hair days immediately after, but I'm sure you won't do any permanent damage! I'd also do a deep condition or oil treatment 1-2 days before, because my hair always looks nice and shiny and non-frizzy immediately after one obviously.
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The chief financial watchdog this week warned financial advisers who encourage the over 50s to unlock their pensions that several were breaching strict guidelines when they advertised on TV, newspapers and Ceefax.
The Financial Services Authority said it was taking enforcement action against two firms of advisers. They could be forced to pay hefty fines in the new year.
In the summer Jobs & Money highlighted how firms were encouraging people to cash in their pensions without adequate warning of the risks. Adverts claiming pension pots can be used to pay debts or even to go on holidays have appeared on daytime television, the holiday pages of Ceefax and several national newspapers, including the Guardian.
The regulator suspected that many people, usually men, over 50 and out of work, were being encouraged to cash in their pension to top up their low income. They receive 25% of their pension pot as a lump sum and and an annual pension income via an annuity. The annuity is a fraction of the income they would expect to receive if they retired at 65, partly as a result of large fees charged by the firms and the way pensions accelerate in the later years.
Figures show a man aged 50 with a total fund of £133,333, assuming 6% growth and today's annuity rates, would lose out if he took his pension early. His lump sum of £33,333 would come with an annual income of £5,101.
Even without any further contributions he could have a lump sum of £59,695 at 60 years old and an annual income of £11,546.
The regulator warned advisers in January that it would be monitoring their activities. This week David Kenmir, the FSA's director of investment firms, said in his letter to advisers: "A key risk with pension "unlocking" is that the consumer's pension will be reduced over the longer term and may be insufficient for the consumer's needs in retirement. We have noted a number of promotions where there is inadequate mention of this risk or of the balance between consumers' need for cash now against the need for pension income either now or later.
Some advertisements appear to actively promote pension unlocking as a way of providing funds for short-term wants rather than needs e.g. purchasing a holiday or new car without balancing the advert by setting out the risks. Many others do not make it clear that this is unlikely to be suitable for most consumers," he says.
Many of the promotions for unlocking pensions are emotive and light hearted, he says, "and in some cases this approach undermines the risk warnings and implies to consumers that the decision to unlock their pension is trivial or unimportant. Demand for pension unlocking is likely to remain while high rates of unemployment and low pay persist among large parts of the over 50 year old population. Rising indebtedness, the dismal outlook for pension annuity income at 65 and the government's confusing state pension top up benefits, are also tempting older workers to tap their pensions for ready cash.
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By JOSE M. ROMERO
One of, if not the hottest, soccer tickets in the world is in Seattle this weekend, where the Sounders will host their biggest Cascadia rivals the Portland Timbers on Sunday.
Ticket sales have surpassed 66,000 for the match, according to a Seattle Times report. CenturyLink Field, already the site of some of the largest soccer crowds for any match in the sport's American history, will be packed once again. And this time, for a regular-season match between a playoff team, the Sounders, and a team just trying to finish the MLS season on an upbeat note, the Timbers.
A sellout, the Sounders first-ever capacity crowd at the downtown stadium, is expected. The crowd will break the record for the largest at a Sounders match — 64,140 came to say goodbye to Kasey Keller last October — and will push the mark for the largest crowd for any soccer match in Seattle history. That was 67,052 against Manchester United last summer.
The Sounders won't get to the record for the largest crowd at any MLS match ever — 69,225 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., to see the inaugural L.A. Galaxy match — but Sunday's crowd could move into second place all-time.
Sunday's game (9 p.m. ET on ESPN) will be at least the sixth match seen live by at least 60,000 fans in Seattle alone. Crowds of 60,000-plus have also turned out for friendlies against FC Barcelona and Chelsea (2009) and earlier this year against the Galaxy.
The Cascadia championship is also on the line. A win for the Timbers will clinch the regional trophy given to the team with the most points among Portland, Seattle and Vancouver, despite the Timbers' underachieving season. If the Sounders win, they'll leapfrog into first place in the Cascadia Cup standings with nine points from six matches against Portland and Vancouver.
Wow, another person who has no idea what they are talking about.
I think the point is that the cap puts sufficient restrictions on salary to make your margin of error with players that much smaller. You have to make your payroll count, or you will end up like TFC.
I cross 3 rivers and a mountain range to go to Sounders games. I know a guy with season tickets who lives in Eastern Oregon and drives five and a half hours to go to games.
Up Cascadia!
Beautiful city, well run franchise, nice stadium, great support. As a Galaxy fan, I am highly encouraged and optimistic about MLS and the game in the country….. developments in the PNW play no small part in this. Big ups from a soccer fan first.
(to the above…… for the love of the game, and yourplayers, natural grass needs to be addressed… it just plays to big a role in the game itself not to…. small gripe at this point in the game though.)
You must be jealous that only Man U can draw that much in the EPL.
Soccer is headed for the big time. Now if only the mainstream press would pay attention. I'm a Galaxy fan and get the LA Times and their coverage of the Galaxy and Chivas USA is pretty pathetic. Much of the time for away games they'll rely on AP for stories of their games, sometimes they don't even report things like US Open cup games. And this is one of the better newspapers in the country, but their sports editor is myopic. This is all too common for US papers.
Why would they pay rent, the stadium was built for them and they have played there more games than anyone using the stadium ?
The editors grew up with Football, baseball, hockey… think if soccer got the same ink/pixels even as hockey it would make a huge difference
Turd Bradley
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The turf does totally suck. What is stopping them from at least putting in grass when its not nfl season? You think with all the money in seattle they could afford to make grass work. I am sure nfl players would prefer grass too.
Still even with the turf, 66k, makes me so proud.
You're assuming that all Sounders fans were Sonics fans? I hate basketball.
Century Link is an awesome stadium. Why change?
Fwiw even though timbers army ticket allotments were capped,any timbers fans could still buy tickets on the open market. There were no geographical restrictions placed on the sales. If the timbers wanted to send 10k, they could have.
Stadium landscapers tell us it would take 6 months for grass to "root" properly. Since there is not a 6 month period where Century Link isn't being used, there isn't time to lay down grass between seasons and other events.
All this is besides the fact 3 major sports teams are currently using the stadium; grass would never hold up to that abuse.
I can understand players clamoring for grass surfaces but I've never understood why so many fans make such a big deal. The game is hardly unwatchable in Seattle.
I love all the people not from Seattle telling us what we would like.
I really hate having a 5 to 10 minute walk if I take the bus. I really hate the stadium is in Downtown and there are so many places to pre funk. I really hate that it is load in the stadium.
Someday US soccer will wise up and bring a match up here and realize playing against El Salvador on a good turf with a minimum of 36K being the majority USA fans will be better than playing at Rio Tinto. or other places (I use Rio Tinto because I went to that game) with a less than full stadium and half the crowd rooting for El Salvador.
Dale Chihuly
You must be nuts.. all of those convenient bars and places to party before and afterward.. ? 66K?
I'll take the burbs any day
And MLS takes what, 30%?, right away.
This is good for the league.
I was actually with the ECS at the last match with my son, but neither of us had any problems at all. My season tickets are very close to the away supporters and we all have to use the same restroom. I've never seen or had any problems with them at all. The whole "hostility" thing is way overblown, mostly on the part of the various supporters groups that have a few boneheads that think they're hooligans.
You sound no better than troll artist commentators on OregonLive.com
I'm guessing (and this is purely a guess, no insider information or anything) that in terms of organized support, there will probably be somewhere between 1500-2000 PDX fans. Now, how many will be scattered throughout the stadium? There I couldn't tell you.
You need to look up "multnomah stadium flood" on google images. The first image is what naturally happened in the past, and you think grass will do any better so close to the water table?
I've read a lot of really stupid comments on various forums throughout the years, but that might be the capper.
People go to Sounders games because they love soccer, not because the tickets are cheap and they've got nothing better to do.
As much as I hope the Sounders crush the Timbers beneath their collective bootheel, I couldn't agree with you more.
Jesus. Go read the freaking Wikipedia page, or the Century Link website. The stadium was built *for* soccer as well as football. It's been that way since the very first design stages.
Get over it. It most likely never will. And the only people who give a damn are from somewhere else.
CenturyLink's turf needs to be replaced annually, with the cost shared by both the Sounders and the Seahawks (the Huskies should be chipping in as well, right now).
Easy there knuckles. Tad bit defensive perhaps? It ain't keeping me up at night, believe me. However, the Sounders players DO give a damn. As temporary residents, I guess you count them as not from there or I guess they aren't important, I mean after all afterall, they only have to perform on the shite, right?
What does Hanaur think? Seems to me he gives a damn. "For sure the turf is an issue, there's no getting around it," said Seattle general manager Adrian Hanauer. "We're certainly actively looking at a lot of different alternatives.".
And anyone who watches a game and has a scintilla of knowledge of the game can't help but notice it.
There are lots of calls to have the USMNT play there regularly…. if you count yourself as one of those, you should care, because until the turf is gone, it ain't going to happen. Personally, with that change, I think it would be awesome. I'd buy a ticket tomorrow.
As I said above… lots of admiration for the Club, but there is always room for improvement. 1 star turf is a good place to start. Cheers.
I always think it is funny when people mistake SSS for a 25k seat stadium.
Sure, the Clink is oversized for most of S#ittle's games and would be a little silly if they were only getting crowds on the order New England or Chivas … but they are not, they lead the league in attendance. DCU COULD rival them as RFK is capable of holding many more than what they open up (they put 50someK in there for WC'94 right?). Same with New England as their stadium COULD hold this 65+K too. But neither of those teams get anywhere near those numbers, not even half of Seattle numbers – which is why building a 25k stadium which is purpose built makes sense for them. Why would Seattle go out and build another 45,000 seat stadium when they already have a SSS that is a little too big but not cavernously empty like other places.
Portland undershot big time when they re-did the stadium. Much of that had to do with political pressure and money (there are still Portlanders bitching and moaning about the City spending $22 million on a facility it owns to make it a SSS while Paulson kicked in $38 million himself to upgrade a facility he doesn't even own). The other issue was space given that the stadium is surrounded on all 4 sides by city streets and an existing large building that isn't going anywhere. The city is making 6% ticket taxes and it penciled out to pay off the bonds if the Timbers averaged 14k fans a game. Instead they have over 20k a game, 14,500 season ticket holders with a waiting list now over 7,000 for season tix. They could have easily put in another 10,000 seats and been fine (though I suspect just under selling out right now if it was a 30k stadium given the horror show of a season).
Can't wait to go to a game there some day! Love that we have this kind of spectacle in the MLS finally.
So, anyone who has paid attention realizes that every single stadium in the NW US is turf. Luckily it isn't the old style flat indoor/outdoor brillo pad that we used to have. The reason is simply the temperatures, rain and American football.
JeldWen used to have grass and it was always a mud bowl with the exception of mid-summer and then nobody played on it while it was being rehabbed. It has long since been rumored that OJ Simpson would have won 2 Heisman's if not for a #1 USC 3-0 loss at Oregon State in 1967 when the grass field better resembled a hog pen than a football field and neither team could do anything but fumble and fall down all day long.
Portland shares JWF with Portland State's football team. The floor of the stadium is built below the water table (there is a creek running through it which is channeled into a pipe right under the playing surface). The City owns the stadium, not the Timbers and PSU football isn't going anywhere. There is literally almost zero chance that ownership arrangement will change due to the contract signed when the MAC club sold the stadium to the city (they have to sell it back to the MAC club if they ever sell it).
Same issues in Seattle with the Seahawks playing there. NW weather doesn't really dry out and the grass doesn't really start growing until about mid June. You'd have to play on turf until then, put in temporary grass for about 10 weeks, then pull it out again when the Seahawks started tearing it up and the fall weather came around again making it a mud pit. That isn't long enough for a real grass pitch to mature and be a reasonable surface.
Vancouver essentially has a semi-indoor stadium where you'd have to put in some multimillion dollar growing system for grass to remain. The temporary grass fields that were brought into JWF for the women's world cup and a WCQ in the 90s, to the Silverdome in 1994 were poor surfaces – arguably worse than turf.
I do find it funny how many people complain about turf. Is it the same? No. But modern turf is light years better than the artificial turfs I played on in the 70s and 80s – those were flat and felt like an abrasive dish pad when you went down on them.
MLS and the NW franchises have a lot better places to spend their money (better players, better players, better players) than spending millions and millions on elaborate drainage systems, grow lights and building new stadiums for Football teams so they don't come tear up the grass.
with an unbalanced schedule, away-ticket allocation was also unbalanced:
Seattle had two games at VAN and PDX…each time, the home team gave us 750 seats, which equals 1500. that's why the official allocation to PDX is 1500, as it was for VAN last month. that makes it even. however, i bet there are around 3000 Timbers fans there, much like there were more than 1500 'Caps fans in Seattle.


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Opening The Old Testament
God Has Made Laughter For Me, Sorry About You! Reflections on Genesis 21:1-18
Lectionary Reflections
Genesis 21:1-18
June 22, 2014
Today we hear a slice of that rich family saga of Abraham and Sarah, the patriarch/matriarch of Israel, the founding couple of the people of YHWH. It is nothing less than remarkable that it is precisely this cockeyed pair that serve as the forebears of God's chosen ones. The Holy Family they are not! We Christians have been steeped in the portraits of Mary and Joseph, parents of the savior, Jesus, with their golden crowns, their patient and struggling waiting for the holy birth in circumstances of pain and danger. Yet, both Abraham and Sarah offer a very different picture. Somehow, that picture is far more familiar to us if we are willing to face its hard truth.
Abraham is, not to put too fine a point on it, a weaseling pathetic little twit. He receives the promise of YHWH and is sent to the land of hope, taking with him his aging wife and his nephew Lot. No sooner has the tiny family arrived in that land that they are faced with a terrible, if familiar, crisis. There is a famine, and food must be sought in the place where food is almost always to be found, Egypt, with its wonderfully regular gift of the river Nile. Abe and Sarah wisely decide to head west to Egypt, but before they enter the land, Abram (he is named Abraham later in the story) devises a nasty little scheme, a plot that is designed for one purpose—to save his own skin. "Say you are my sister," he says to Sarai (she is named Sarah later in the tale), so that it may go well with me and that my life may be spared because of you." If this sentence were not Holy Writ, we might take it for a self-serving lie. Well, Holy Writ or no, let's call it what it is: a self-aggrandizing bit of prevarication on the part of the patriarch. And even that later retelling of this story in Genesis 20, wherein Sarah is described as being Abe's half-sister, does not vitiate the obvious lie that this Genesis 20 statement is: Sarah is plainly not Abe's sister; she is unequivocally his wife.
Pharaoh swallows the lie and quite innocently grabs the lovely Sarai for his harem. But he soon discovers that Abe has in fact lied and hands Sarai back to her husband. The great story of God and the chosen people has gotten off to a most ignominious start! Of course, that long story pivots on the reality that Sarai can have no children; she is barren, as Genesis 11 drops into the tale almost as an afterthought. But YHWH has vowed that from the loins of Abraham and the womb of Sarah will arise a "great nation" (Gen. 12). Just like the YHWH of the Bible to choose one of the Middle East's infertile couples to ensure a great nation!
And yet here is the beginning of the point of the story; human beings on their own have a tendency to muck things up in the most appalling of ways. As Abe and Sarah approach the Nile, he lies about her. And so we tend to do when left to our own devices; we are usually far more concerned with our own lives than with the lives of others, even those we claim to love.
So we ought not be surprised that after the exhausting wait for a child of the promise to be born, after Abe is one hundred years old and Sarah not far behind, that instead of universal and continual joy and pleasure at the miraculous birth we get instead more pain, more anger, more self-serving behavior. This time it is Sarah's turn. Well, the story of the birth begins joyfully enough. When YHWH shows up at the patriarchal tent at the oaks of Mamre, disguised as one of three desert travelers (Gen. 18), God promises Abe that when the spring comes around next year, Sarah will have given birth to a son. Upon hearing that promise, Sarah, listening at the tent flap, chortles delightfully to herself; "Shall I, an old woman have pleasure?" The days of sexual delights are over, she rightly thinks, given her and her husband's prune-faced visages. But, surprise, surprise, it happens as YHWH had said. The crabbed couple has a son, and Abraham names the boy Isaac, which in Hebrew means laughter. What else would you call a child if you had one when you were a hundred years old?
John C. Holbert is the Lois Craddock Perkins Professor Emeritus of Homiletics at Perkins School of Theology in Dallas, TX.
Holbert's column, "Opening the Old Testament," is published every Monday on the Progressive Christian portal and the Preachers Portal. Subscribe via email or RSS.


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The idea behind The Blitz? Former Playbook scribes (and current FOS staffers) Mark Harrington and Nirav Dalal provide a fans' eye breakdown of the upcoming game. They discuss and debate pertinent issues, matchups and injuries, and — of course — provide their predictions. They also take an overview of the entire weekend in college football.
Like a pair of (undersized and very slow) outside linebackers, they pin back their ears and get after it. Sometimes they come through with big hits, other times they miss. But they always enjoy themselves.
ND: Penn State loss has left fans scratching their heads wondering how could that have happened. The answer to that question is far more complicated than one simple thing. The Lions must address some of the errors quickly in order to face a Michigan team that is playing well and is starting to get momentum.
MH: The loss to Indiana was a tough one, particularly given the blowout fashion to what was a 2-2 squad. The Hoosiers are not a good team against the run and yet Penn State was pass happy against them, placing the pressure on Christian Hackenberg.
Who: No. 18 Michigan at Penn State
When: Saturday, October 12 at 5:00 pm ET, 2:00 pm PT
Where: Beaver Stadium in University Park, PA
Series: Michigan leads 10-6
Line: Michigan favored by -2.5
ND: Even with Texas struggling, I always find the Red River Shootout to be something special. Oklahoma is on a roll and has seemingly found their QB in Blake Bell – aka the Belldozer. Mack Brown, the coach for Texas, is pretty much a lock to get fired but if his Longhorns lay an egg in the Cotton Bowl, his career at Texas most certainly over.
MH: There are a couple of other major matchups on both coasts. In the Pac-12 No. 2 Oregon heads to No. 16 Washington as the Huskies look to bounce back from a tough 3-point loss to Stanford. In the SEC, No. 17 Florida heads to No. 10 LSU as the Gators open up a tough three game stretch against ranked opponents.
ND: The big game on the West Coast is the Oregon and Washington game. Both teams have storied rivalries with their in-state foes but fans of both schools will tell you that this is game is equally as important. The Ducks have been killing their opponents in the first half and benching the starters by the third quarter. Meanwhile, Washington has been in some tough games and almost had a great win against Stanford. But, I like Washington in this game to knock off the No. 2 Ducks. Oregon's opponents have won a grand total of 4 games this year. Washington, on the other hand, has the third toughest schedule so far facing teams with a combined record of 10-2. With Keith Price throwing the ball and Bishop Sankey running the ball, the balance of the Dawgs will be the difference in this game.
MH: As much as I like this No. 19 Northwestern team, I think the Wisconsin Badgers are finding their rhythm and learned a lot from their loss last week to Ohio State. The Badgers will have to play tough against Northwestern's No. 22 rushing offense, but they seem to have the horses to plug up lanes and make the Wildcats take some chances. Given the game in in Madison and the Badgers are coming off a bye could be major pluses for the Wisconsin squad.
ND: Offensively, the Lions have not established an identity outside of going to Allen Robinson. Christian Hackenberg continues to put up big numbers but a detailed view shows that he's holding the ball a little too long and he's not looking to the tight ends as much as he should. Penn State has, arguably, the best TE group in the nation yet they have only accounted for 27 catches for 319 yards. Those are the numbers for Kyle Carter, Jesse James, Adam Breneman and, before his season-ending injury, Matt Lehman. As a comparison, Allen Robinson alone has 11 more catches, almost double the receiving yards and five TDs more than all five TEs. The offensive line has struggled in run blocking, as was detailed in FOS exclusive Frame-Game analysis this week. Compounding the problem has been Coach O'Brien settling on a way to engage all three talented running backs in a meaningful, effective way. After Zach Zwinak gets a rhythm going, he sits on the pine while Bill Belton gets a series or two. Then Zwinak returns and then, eventually, Akeel Lynch gets a turn. Additionally, how and when the Lions run the ball has become very predictable. The Lions need to mix it up and they need to stick with the hot hand series after series.
Defensively, coach John Butler has to figure out the problems and quickly. From a lack of pass rush to linebackers over-running plays to the secondary being out of position to a lack of tackling in space, the Lions are struggling all over the field. The Lions will need to get pressure on QB Devin Gardner and they need to be able to do so with the front four without having to rely on blitzes. It's time for DaQuan Jones to step up and dominate this game. Meanwhile, the secondary has to play closer at the snap and they have to make better open field tackles. Adrian Amos has been very quiet this season and the Lions need him to force turnovers and make plays at the line of scrimmage in run support. Bottom-line is that the entire defense needs to step up and they have to play faster and with more discipline.
MH: Numbers aside, which looked good on paper, Hackenberg largely played like a freshman last week. He is, so that is part of the deal, but his timing was off as he consistently waited too long for things to develop and surprisingly seemed to ignore his progression through various points of the game. As you alluded to, Nirav, Penn State is basically one-dimensional right now in the passing game. Teams will double up on Robinson as they have seen he is the one target who can consistently make plays. As I said last week, the tight ends and other receivers have to step up and get into the game. When it comes to the running game, you nailed it – PSU has three talented backs but seems to lack a strategy on how to use them consistently and effectively. Although the offensive line had issues with their run blocking, I am still baffled as to why O'Brien seemed to abandon the run game against a Hoosier team that has struggled all season against the ground game. Defensively, the Lions are out of sorts in terms of even the basics of tackling. It's not clear or simple what the answer is, but the defense has to start playing more consistently. Jones has to lead the charge, but he cannot do it alone. He needs the entire line to start getting consistent pressure on the pocket to flush and contain Gardner. That's a tall order, but getting to him is a major factor in the defense finding success.
ND: The Wolverines are not really missing a beat with the graduation of Denard Robinson. QB Devin Gardner is able to run the ball effectively, but, more importantly, is that he has a good arm and is able to get the ball downfield. The running attack of the Wolverines is quite impressive. Gardner will run the option and is fast and long. Fitzgerald Toussaint is the experienced running back but keep your eye on Derrick Green. Green is a big, big boy that is able to move the pile and bust tackles. These three backs are key in Michigan's offensive attack as their ability to move the ball improve, that opens up the play action game. Jeremy Gallon is a very talented undersized kid. He may only be 5'8", but he is a very strong route runner and has great hands. I expect Michigan to pound at the interior of the Penn State line and then attack the perimeters with short, high percentage passes to see if the Lions can tackle in space.
On defense, the guy to watch is Blake Countess. He is second in the nation with four interceptions. He lines up at the right corner spot and will probably be tasked with slowing up Allen Robinson. Overall, Michigan lines up in a 4-3 formation with all three linebackers being very active. Desmond Morgan from the Mike LB spot is leading the team in tackles with 34 total tackles. However, the defensive line for Michigan has not been able to create pressure on their own. It is the linebackers and the secondary that has been able to get to the QB. This will require Hackenberg and the receivers to make the right reads and exploit the blitzes.
MH: In my opinion, Gardner's arm makes him more dangerous than Robinson ever was. He is a multidimensional threat and can beat you with his legs or arm. Michigan will likely want to run a lot to control the clock and that means they have several options. Green can wear down lines and that is bad news for Penn State unless they can wrap up early and often.
The opportunity here is for the offensive line to create opportunities against the Michigan front. Hackenberg has to be in-tune with the U-M blitzing packages which means the TE safety valves have to be open. Michigan's linebackers are quick and disruptive and have to be accounted for on every snap. O'Brian cannot ignore the running game though and have to play to the strengths of his backs. Lynch could have an impressive showing in this game if given the opportunity. PSU needs some big runs here in order to keep the pressure off the pocket by keeping the Michigan front seven guessing.
ND: The Wolverines will look to establish the run against the Lions and then will fire passes all over the field once the LBs are on their heels. Therefore, the matchup to watch is the Wolverine runners – Toussaint, Gardner and Green – against the front seven for the Lions. Can Penn State make more plays at the line of scrimmage? That's one of the many things to tune in to watch.
MH: I think an interesting matchup will be Penn State's running game, assuming the PSU staff uses it, against the front seven of the Wolverines. The Lions have three solid run weapons and have to start strategically using each of them move the ball effectively.
ND: The Lions have to get back to playing disruptive defense. That means getting pressure on the QB, stripping the football, making plays at or behind the line of scrimmage and confusing the entire offense. The Lions have to play energetic and they have to play smart.
MH: I shouldn't be saying this at nearly the midpoint of the season, but the Lions have improve on fundamentals – tackling, reads, routes, etc. They have to get each of these down pat to be able to focus on elevating their overall play on both sides of the ball.
ND: The Lions have not played a tough schedule and have still managed a 3-2 record. The balance and explosiveness of Gardner will help the Wolverines make the Whiteout crowd feel awfully blue.
Michigan 31, Penn State 23
MH: Whiteout or not, this game will be a tough one for Penn State to manage if they continue on the trajectory they've been on. The Lions have to show tremendous improvement in a very short time, but I fear there isn't enough time for the Lions to get to where they need to be. I hope they surprise me though.
Michigan 28, Penn State 20
Until next time,
Fight On State!


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Roth was a passenger in the truck with the crew that had been traveling nearly 200 miles, from a job in Carrollton, Ohio, back to the company shop in Anmoore, after starting work at 4 a.m. the previous day.The Roth case was featured Monday in a New York Times story that examined what experts say are the increasing dangers for natural gas industry workers in the rush to drill in the Marcellus Shale in areas like Northern West Virginia.The Times reported that, over the last decade, more than 300 oil and gas workers like Timothy Roth were killed in highway crashes, the largest cause of fatalities in the industry. Many of these deaths could be blamed at least in part on oil and gas exemptions from highway safety rules that allow truckers to work longer hours than drivers in other industries, according to the Times report.The Times said oil and gas industry fatality rates are seven times the national average for all U.S. industries. Nearly a third of the 648 deaths of oil and gas workers from 2003 through 2008 were in highway crashes, according to an analysis of federal data researchers at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. By contrast, highway crashes caused roughly one-fifth of workplace fatalities across all industries in 2010.In the Roth case, Crystal Roth is suing Grand Junction-based Energy Services LLC and its president and chief executive, Keri Gray, along with a shell company that Gray allegedly formed when Energy Services lost its federal Department of Transportation registration numbers for repeated safety violations.The DOT declared Energy Services' safety rating unsatisfactory in July 2010, the lawsuit says, and permanently revoked its commercial registration in November 2010. 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Panel: Sandusky fits violent predator status
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – The former Penn State assistant football coach convicted of sexually abusing boys has been recommended for designation as a sexually violent predator, a legal status that would require lifetime registration with authorities, according to a person who has read an assessment board's report to a judge in the case.
The recommendation from the Sexual Offenders Assessment Board was disclosed to the Associated Press on Thursday by the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the report's confidential nature.
Jerry Sandusky, 68, was convicted in June of sexually abusing 10 boys over a 15-year period. He is jailed awaiting sentencing and maintains his innocence.
Sandusky, given his age and the serious nature of the crimes of which he was convicted, is likely to receive a sentence that will keep him in prison for life. No sentencing date has been announced.
Prosecutors said Sandusky used his status as a Penn State football icon and the charity for youth he founded to attract victims. He was arrested in November after a grand jury investigation that also led to charges of perjury and failure to report suspected abuse against university administrators.
The Sandusky scandal tarnished the legacy of Joe Paterno, the Hall of Famer who put Penn State on the U.S. collegiate sports map and coached the Nittany Lions until his firing in November days after his former assistant was arrested on child sex abuse charges. Paterno died of lung cancer in January.
Penn State's football season opener Saturday will be the first since 1965 not featuring someone with the last name Paterno on the sideline. Paterno's son and former longtime assistant coach Jay Paterno no longer tutors the quarterbacks.
A spokesman for the attorney general's office declined to comment Thursday, and Sandusky's defense attorney, Joe Amendola, did not return phone and e-mail messages seeking comment.
Pennsylvania law designates certain offenders as sexually violent predators if they are considered to have mental abnormalities or personality disorders that make them likely to engage in predatory sexually violent offenses.
If prosecutors pursue the sexually violent predator status and Sandusky opposes it, Judge John Cleland will decide whether it is merited.
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Eight young men testified against Sandusky, describing a range of abuse that went from grooming and manipulation to fondling, oral sex and anal rape when they were boys and included acts that occurred inside Penn State team showers.
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