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"You may think that you are some kind of god to these people. But we both know what you really are."
"What's that? A criminal?"
"Worse. A politician."
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Maybe comments like that from people are the reason we need gun laws. If you get all fuzzed up over a forum I shudder to think what you would do in real life with a real debate. If you can't spell it out in a forum what a different opinion would likely to cause (you to do what???) then what are you going to do in real life? Pull your squirrel killing shotgun?
How far can someone push someone else in a real debate until that person snaps and pulls a gun because he/she can do it (based on current laws)? Is your right to carry any type of gun and possible use it as thread superceedeng others right to have the freedom of speech or even the right to live?
I take responsibility for my firearms, and anything anyone does with them. I have talked about my brother in law, and I will have to check if he has been classified mentally ill, but honestly it doesn't matter if they have or have not, he should not be anywhere around guns. It has come up in conversation in my house that we can never put him up for one of those stretches that he constantly finds himself in without a place to stay.
I told my wife that I would have to move all my guns somewhere else, because who knows what he would do as soon as he got the chance?
http://news.yahoo.com/ind-man-47-guns-arrested-school-threat-164928349.htmlA northern Indiana man who allegedly threatened to "kill as many people as he could" at an elementary school near his home was arrested by officers who later found 47 guns and ammunition hidden throughout his home.
Von. I. Meyer, 60, of Cedar Lake, was arrested Saturday after prosecutors filed formal charges of felony intimidation, domestic battery and resisting law enforcement against him. He was being held Sunday without bond at the Lake County Jail, pending an initial hearing on the charges, police said in a statement.
Cedar Lake Police officers were called to Meyer's home early Friday after he allegedly threatened to set his wife on fire once she fell asleep, the statement said.
Meyer also threatened to enter nearby Jane Ball Elementary School "and kill as many people as he could before police could stop him," the statement said. Meyer's home is less than 1,000 feet from the school and linked to it by trails and paths through a wooded area, police said.
Police said in the statement that they notified school officials and boosted security at all area schools Friday the same day 26 people, including 20 students, were shot and killed at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.
No stricter regulations necessary, no problems, just keep on keeping on.
Terrorist attack count against the Anything Goes Thread: 4
Is it really that hard to understand that the literal thousands of laws on firearms we have today did nothing to stop this, thus leaving open the possibility of further legislation having no affect?
I saw a CNN report just yesterday (yes CNN) that said the AWB did nothing to curtail crime, is it that much of a problem when people ask for reasonable people to get together, maybe think outside the box and be able to come up with something that actually works?
Where have I said, or any other gun owner said no problems, just keep going?
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Andrea Saquin (left) and Dominic Sirianni (right) are the recipients of the Charlene Weiser Coder Memorial Teaching Scholarship. The 2011 graduates of Kane Area High School received the scholarship at commencement last month. Saquin also received the Pat Santilli Memorial Teaching Award and the scholarship given by the McKean County Chapter of the Pennsylvania Association of School Retirees (PASR).
Kendra Farnsworth, who will be entering the fifth grade at the Kane Elementary School, holds 14 inches of her hair that was cut for the "Locks of Love" program. Kendra, 10, is the daughter of Robert Farnsworth and Stephanie Korchak of 318 1/2 Poplar St., Kane. "Locks of Love" is a non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children who suffer from long-term hair loss due to a medical condition.
These three 2011 Kane High School graduates are among many to receive scholarships at commencement last month. The group and the scholarships not previously announced includes, left to right: Christine Mosier-- the Harold Carter Scholarship Phoenix Chapter 15 Order of Eastern Star and the Sybil Kane Nursing Award; Melia Brocious-- the Philip Imbrogno Scholarship and one of two VFW Post 1132 Ladies Auxiliary Scholarships; and Dominic Sirianni-- the Kane Area Education Association and the Parent Teachers Organization Scholarship, the Kane Players Scholarship and the David A.
The Pennsylvania American Water Company is installing new water lines in Kane. This work is for a new water line on West Hemlock Avenue. Mealy Construction of Tionesta is the contractor for the project on the north side of the street. A new water line also is being installed on South Fraley Street between Spruce Street and Pine Avenue. Large trees in the utility right-of-way on the east side of South Fraley Street already have been removed in preparation for the installation of the new water line.
The Howard M., Daisy W. and Gail L. Cleveland Scholarships were presented at the Kane High School commencement ceremony last month. Receiving one-year Cleveland scholarships are, left to right: Devon Dellen, Stephanie Salerno, Kathryn Bizzak and William Keesler. The recipients are 2011 graduates of Kane High School.
The Lutheran Home at Kane Nurses Scholarship was presented last month at the Kane High School commencement. Two of the three recipients are Christine Mosier (left) and Kathryn Bizzak (right). Jennifer Compton, who also received a Lutheran Home scholarship, was not present when the photo was taken.
The $2,000 Joe Stanko Memorial Scholarship was presented earlier this month at the commencement ceremony for the Class of 2011 at Kane Area High School. Taking part in the presentation are, left to right: Kara and Krysta Stanko, daughters of Joe Stanko; Evan Depto, the recipient of the memorial scholarship; and Diane Stanko, sister of Joe Stanko.
Steve Bowser (right), exalted ruler of the Kane Elks Club, congratulates Shelby Austin (left) as the recipient of the 2011 Elks $2,000 scholarship. The award was one of many presented at the Kane High School commencement earlier this month.
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Andrea Saquin (center) is the recipient of the Phyllis Horn Memorial Scholarship. She received the $1,000 scholarship at the Kane High commencement earlier this month. Taking part in the award presentation are Christy Horn (left), daughter of Phyllis Horn, and Nikky Ewing (right), granddaughter of Phyllis Horn.


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Efficacy and Safety Study of Botulinum Toxin Type A Against Placebo to Treat Spasticity in the Leg After a Stroke (PLUS)
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|Prospective, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Randomized, Multi-center Study With an Open-label Extension Period to Investigate the Efficacy and Safety of NT 201 in the Treatment of Post-stroke Spasticity of the Lower Limb
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The purpose of this study is to determine whether injections of Botulinum toxin type A into muscles of the leg are effective in treating patients with increased muscle tension/uncontrollable muscle stiffness (spasticity) after a stroke.
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Say you have a movie on DVD, but you want to watch it on your phone, tablet, somewhere else. You can "rip" that DVD—or turn it into a movie file on your computer—to play it wherever you want. Here's how to do it.
Blast from the past is a new weekly feature at Lifehacker, in which we revive old, but still relevant, posts for your reading and hacking pleasure. This week, we're updating our video guide to ripping DVDs.
Ripping a movie to your hard drive can seem like a complicated task, but it's actually pretty simple. There are a lot of ways to do it and a lot of different programs out there, but our favorite method uses a program called Handbrake. It's easy to use, it's available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, and it'll convert your file into compatible formats for any device, like an iPad or Android phone. The video above should walk you through the process, but you can follow along with these instructions.
- Head to Handbrake's homepage and download the program. Install it to your computer as directed.
- By default, Handbrake can rip unprotected DVDs, but most DVDs you buy from the store have copy protection. To get around this, you'll need to install libdvdcss. On Windows, you can download this file separately (here for 32-bit systems and here for 64-bit systems), rename it to libdvdcss.dll, and put it in your Handbrake program folder (C:\Program Files\Handbrake). If you're on a Mac, download this file and double-click to install it.
- Insert the DVD you want to rip, and open Handbrake.
- Click the Source button in the upper left-hand corner and choose your DVD drive from the list. It will start scanning your DVD, which could take a few minutes.
- When it's done, head to the "Title" drop-down menu in the upper left hand corner of the window. This is where you'll select which part of the DVD you want to rip. In the case of movies, it's usually the longest title, so just pick that one. If you're ripping episodes of a TV show, it's usually the 22 or 44 minute ones, and you'll have to rip them each separately.
- Click the Browse button on the right side of the window. Navigate to where you want to save your movie file, and type in a file name in the box. Click OK.
- Next, head to the bar on the right labeled "Presets". This is where you'll choose what format the resulting file will be in. If you just want to watch it on your computer, the "Normal" or "High Profile" preset is fine. If you want to watch it on something like your iPod or iPhone, though, pick the correct preset from the list.
- Hit the Start button at the top of the window. This will take awhile, so you'll probably want to grab a cup of tea.
- When it's done, you'll get a popup notification. From there, you can double-click on your movie file to watch it, or sync it to your device of choice. Enjoy!
It seems like a lot of steps at first, but it really isn't very difficult—especially after your first time through. Once you've installed the libdvdcss file, for example, you can skip that step in the future.
It's just a matter of picking the right chapter from the DVD and ripping it to the right format. Note that if you're going to be ripping a lot of DVDs, you can head to Tools > Options (or Handbrake > Preferences, if you're on a Mac), and hit "Browse" next to "Default Path" to choose a location for all the other movies you rip in the future. You can also click "Add to Queue" instead of "Start" and rip multiple files at once, which is great for ripping TV shows.
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"Kuiper studied the planets... at a time when they were scarcely of interest to other astronomers. But with new telescopes and instrumentation, he showed that there were great things to discover, which is as true today as it was then."
Gerard Kuiper is regarded by many as the father of modern planetary science. He is well known for his many discoveries, including:
Gerard played an influential role in the development of infrared airborne astronomy in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1967 the NASA four engine jet Convair 990 aircraft with an onboard telescope became available for infrared studies at an altitude of 40,000 feet. Gerard used it extensively for spectroscopy of the sun, stars, and planets, discovering things about them that could not be found from ground-based observatories. The Kuiper Airborne Observatory (1974) was named in his honor, as were craters on the Moon, Mercury and Mars.
Gerard was a demanding individual whose routine included hard work and long hours.
"He worked extremely hard himself, and he demanded the same dedication, devotion and seriousness from everybody around him," said scientist Dale Cruikshank. "If they didn't give that, or if they didn't perform, they ran afoul of him. That applied to students. It also applied to fellow faculty, technical associates and engineers -- anybody around him. But at the same time, he had a humorous side, a warm side, a personal side that was in some ways appealing."
One hundred years after Gerard's birth the New Horizons mission is on its way to the Kuiper Belt region of our solar system.
"Kuiper was one of the first scientists to focus almost exclusively on exploring the properties of planets," said Dr. Richard Binzel, New Horizons co-investigator and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). "His work laid the foundation for the spacecraft missions of the late 20th and early 21st centuries."
Gerard was born in the Netherlands in 1905 and was educated at Leiden University as an astronomer with a doctoral dissertation on binary stars. Gerard came to the United States in 1933 and obtained American citizenship in 1937.
He worked at Lick Observatory, Harvard, Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago and the University of Arizona. The Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, a research and educational unit in which many planetary scientists have been trained, was established under his guidance at the University of Arizona.
Gerard died in 1973 from a heart attack while on vacation in Mexico with his wife, Sarah Fuller. He was 68.
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To start off with, you always want to make sure that you have enough money saved up so that you can still afford to live within your means, even if you take a dive in the market and lose your job. For most people, that means waiting until you about a year's salary saved up. Next, divvy up a portion of that savings which you could live without—you're going to, especially if you lose with your investment. In fact, plan to lose, this way when you win, it's all the more sweet.
Next, you're going to have a lot of reading and planning to do. In fact, if you think you're going to learn how to invest in stocks today, you're way, way, way off the mark. In reality, you won't be investing in stocks for at least a few months. In the meantime, get your hands on some of the great reads such as The Intelligent Investor, The Interpretation of Financial Statements and Security Analysis, all three by Benjamin Graham, Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Philip Fisher, One up on Wall Street and Beating the Street, both by Peter Lynch and The Secret Code of the Superior Investor by James K. Glassman.
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As you grow accustomed with these works and theories (these are the foundations of Warren Buffet's theories on how to buy stock), you'll start to formulate your own ideas. Take these ideas and apply them to the stock market, but not with real money. Instead, simulate your investments and track your imaginary wins and losses on paper until you can realistically begin to predict the trends in gains and losses. Follow the news about each company and read their spending reports, their annual reports and their 10K and 10Q reports that each company files with the SEC. Look for companies with 10% or more annual increase in earnings over the past year with sales and equity going up and debt going down.
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Once you have your account open, build up a startup portfolio consisting of between 10 to 50 stocks. If you're investing in stocks during a bear market, look for blue chip stocks since these will provide the most return with the most safety, even during times when the market struggles. Apply your theories when choosing your companies, looking for growth, dividend payments and at least 30% EPS growth over the past decade. You also want to look for a debt to equity number that is under 1 and at least a 5 in high interest coverage.
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When you first learn how to buy stock, you'll likely hear and read a lot of advice—always consider your source. Don't take advice from a perennial loser in the market. Also:
• Keep your winners and don't buy more losers unless you have an excellent reason. As Peter Lynch said, get rid of the weeds and water the flowers.
• Stock tips are dangerous since they mostly come from people trying to get you to invest—they don't care if you win or lose after they get you to buy their stocks. Warren Buffet threw out every stock tip and newsletter he got. Likewise, stay away from stock market coverage—you're in this for the long haul, not to get scared.
• Never hesitate to consult with a stock broker if you have any questions.
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I found a passing mention of this technique of using a sponge with a small amount of ferric chloride on the Pulsar web site, and I was very skeptical that it could possibly work. So naturally, I tried it.
Whenever I have made circuit boards in the past, I did it just like most of us do. I put the ferric chloride into a small tub, dropped the masked circuit board into the solution, and rocked it back and forth for a long time. Even with fresh, strong ferric chloride solution, it would usually take at least 10 minutes for the copper to be removed. As the solution grew weaker, the etch would take longer and longer.
A few months ago, I discovered the 1-part pool acid (muriatic acid) to 2 parts hydrogen peroxide method of etching a circuit board. You will find lots of wonderful Instructables on this method. That method works great, and it made me mad that I spent so much money and effort with ferric chloride over the years when I already had all the chemicals I needed right at home to use this method. The down sides of the acid and hydrogen peroxide solution are that the muriatic acid can cause skin burns and is a little dangerous and damages things that it contacts. Also, I found the etching solution to be quite aggressive which was great for fast etching, but I ended up with severe undercutting and partial obliteration of the traces, and the solution tended to be more corrosive to the resist materials I used, and partially dissolved the mask away during the etch.
This weekend I tried this sponge and ferric chloride method to etch 3 Arduino shield boards I am prototyping for our RFID-enabled member access system at TechShop (TechShop is the 15,000 square foot membership-based DIY workshop with locations in Menlo Park CA, Portland OR and Durham NC). I was so impressed with the success of this technique that I decided to write it up as an Instructable.
The method I will now show you gives you the advantages of all the other methods, and none of the downsides. Specifically:
o You get a fast etch (much faster than either method I know of),
o You use a tablespoon of solution, so disposal problems are eliminated
o A small bottle of ferric chloride will last for hundreds of boards
o No tank or tub is needed, no heating or agitation
o Undercutting is practically non-existent, and the resist stays in place
o There is no need to try to reduce the amount of copper being etched
o The etch is so fast that it is actually exciting to watch and show your friends!
Let's get to it, shall we?
Where did you get that copper clad pcb? I really like the clear-ish base layer and the contrast with the copper. I looked for it and can't seem to find it. All the boards I have found have a yellow base layer.
Hi maxchu765...
I got that at a local scrap metal supplier called Alan Steel here in the San Francisco Bay Area. What an awesome place that is!!! They have huge piles of these large PCB sheets (maybe 12" x 18") for $1 per sheet. It is double-sided so you can either use that to your advantage, or just use some extra ferric chloride or other etchant to remove the unused copper from the back side. These PCBs have the clear epoxy core as you are asking for, and they are really thin and lightweight and great for tiny projects that need to be light.
Unfortunately, Alan Steel doesn't do mail order or online ordering...just local.
Hmm, I paid $2 each. 'Personalized' pricing, perhaps. Still an order of magnitude cheaper than what I see on Ebay, though.
To anybody considering picking some up: the sheets stocked by the front desk are a little beat up. There are cleaner ones on the other side of the warehouse, covered in cardboard. Those are a little heavier (270 grams for a 20"x12" sheet, instead of 230 grams), but don't have a label. The plastic (it says "glass-resin") core in either one is pretty flimsy (though it says the core is 42 mils thick). The copper is 1 oz.
I have the powdered FeCl3, how should I mix it to get the same results??
hi,, what a nice one.. ahmmm,, does it still works if i use photo paper???? please answer.. thank you..
You probably shouldn't wash that sponge in the sink as the environment hazard from the process is the copper, not the ferric chloride, and washing the sponge means that you are still pouring the same amount of copper down the drain. You should collect the sponges and dump them in a hazardous materials dump. Advantage is that it's smaller amounts compressible solid waste so it's easier to handle.
I would recommend that you add the Edinburgh Etch method as well and possibly try the cleaner option altogether of etching inside a zip lock bag using a cheap soft rubber roller as follows:
No gloves or sponge needed. Materials needed: two Ziploc bags (preferably the "Easy Zipper" type), piece of sand paper (about 220 grit) and a hand-held brayer. Simply put one Ziploc bag inside the other (for leak-proof security). Take your board and while holding it on a 45º angle, run it over the sandpaper on all edges and both sides if a double-sided board. The objective here is to round-off sharp copper edges to further prevent any leakage through the bags. Now insert your board (single or double-sided) followed by pouring in an ounce or two of Ferric Chloride. Close each bag letting as much air out as possible. Using a standard 4" SOFT RUBBER brayer (not the hard rubber type), roll it over the board with good pressure, back and forth. This roller idea to squish-out the etchant sitting on top of the board. If the board is double-sided, flip the bag over about every 30 seconds. Key to this technique is to be consisant in the rolling with moderate pressure to squish-out the etchant. This method is just a tad slower than the physical wiping of the board, but it is still much faster than any of the conventionl etching tanks on the market!
I've etched by immersion and generally it takes 12-15 minutes to etch the boards I use. I tried using the sponge method today and after 8 minutes I still have a copper clad board (less copper to be sure, but still continuity all around the surface. Did I miss something? I know etching is noticeably faster is the Ferric Chloride is heated which I didn't do here...
Thanks for the tut... You mentioned in one of the comments that you're now using a vinyl cutter to create the resist and I was thinking about the same thing for an etching project, but I want a very deep etch and wondered if you have any experience with how long the vinyl can be submerged in the ferric chloride.
To get the deep etched result I want, I have used a sharpie and suspended the copper pipe in a FC bath over a hot plate (to warm the FC and speed up the process) and it took 1.5 hours. For the most part the sharpie marker stayed on the metal, but I could tell it was not going to last much longer so I took out my pipe. The etch was OK, but not as deep as I wanted to see so I was thinking the vinyl method might give a clearer result. Plus the vinyl would wrap very nicely around the pipe.
Thanks for your response,
I think the vinyl will stay on as long as you need it, since the adhesive is not water-based.
Good luck!
do you know how thick your copper boards are?
I just tried to etch my first board and it took me an hour and about 8 oz of ferric chloride to get the board finally etched.
I put the copper clad board into a plastic container, poured in ferric chloride, and then jostled the container for about and hour, wiping it down a sponge periodically.
I think my copper board might have been too thick because it seems like I have way too much "spent" copper chloride.
What is your opinion on all of this?
My PCBs were 1/2-oz copper.
You don;t need to submerge your PCB in the FC. You only need to wet your sponge and continuously rub the PCB with the sponge. Resist the urge to submerge it in the FC!!!
ok xD I will try this again soon without submerging the board in Ferric Chloride.
Thanks for the quick response!
The board that I want to make is mostly copper, and not much traces, because I'm using it as a contact switch. I was wondering if I should use a Q-Tip instead of a sponge. I'll have to try this on a smaller less expensive board first.
You could definitely use a q-tip (cotton swap for those not in certain countries) for localized etching. I would create artwork to separate that section from the rest of the board.
Good luck!
Thanks for the tutorial. We tried this using an iron and glossy photo paper and we had a very hard time getting our lines to stick to the copper. We cleaned the boards thoroughly and turned the iron up high (It actually seemed to be melting the paper slightly).We are doing this for a school project and would really prefer not to have to purchase a laminator to do this. Are there any other tricks to getting your design to stick well, such as a specific type of paper? We were wondering if the paper used to transfer images on to t-shirts would work well.
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I don't know about t-shirt transfer paper...I would doubt it would work for this application.
The type of laser printer you use really matters a lot. I used an old HP 1100 until it died. I tried a Brother and it failed completely...no toner would transfer at all. So I am going to go back to a current-model HP laser printer and see if it works.
The only paper I have found that really works great is some that I purchased that has a dextrin coating called Pulsar:
I just found this article on how to make your own dextrin-coated paper:
The great thing about dextrin-coated paper is that it accepts the toner quite well, and transfers the toner through the laminating process nicely, but when you put it in water, the paper comes right off leaving the toner behind on your bare PCB. With other types of paper, you have to scrub the paper off until the fibers come loose from the PCB.
By the way, Harbor Freight sells a 9" hot laminator for $30...I'm not sure if it would be hot enough for this type of work, but you could try it and take it back if it doesn't work. Here is the link:
Good luck!
Very nice tutorial. It says to simply rinse out the sponge containing the ferric chloride. Is there any danger rinsing it down a metal sink, or should it be squeezed out into a chemical waste bin?
Hi samzimmer...
The issue with the used ferric chloride has been beaten to death already. Please read the previous comments.
Maybe you could put the ferric chloride on the sponge and then microwave it to heat it up. Be careful and don't burn yourself, and use your "NOT FOR FOOD" microwave oven for this. Doesn't every maker have one of those in their garages or sheds? ;)
But, just to make sure, the etching is properly done, I tested if the etched surface is still conducting and as it turns out, it is. As conducting as a copper itself. Well, I went on to test the conductivity of Ferric Chloride itself which is actually very close to a metal. Now, I think some of Ferric Chloride might have stuck on the surface which is conducting the thing.
How do I resolve this problem? How do I clean the PCB if the problem is what I think it is?
Ferric chloride is water soluble, so you should be able to give your etched board a rinse and it should be down to the bare copper and fiberglass substrate.
That's interesting that you discovered that ferric chloride is electrically conductive. I wonder if it is conductive when it is new and fresh, or it is conductive because of the copper that it consumed. I know that copper oxide is highly conductive, and I'm using that phenomenon for a different project to teach electronics to kids, but that's another Instructable. ;)
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Its not much help, but I would take it to a landfill on one of their hazmat days, although its not illegal to dump it.
That said don't forget you are using a tiny fraction of the FeCl3 solution that the "traditional" method calls for per. PCB (and I bet lots of that solution goes guess where?). Also, the small amount of solution that is used using this method gets diluted many times over will probably not effect house pipes to any measurable degree. Just flush with lots of rinse water after each session.


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What the heck is a "passive lens"?
Is that what we used to call a "welding shield lens"?
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Passive as in not an auto darkening lens....
I think it is really good for the money. As mentioned it is the same shell and head gear as the high dollar A/D helmets. If you ever want to upgrade to a auto darkening helmet in the future all you have to do is purchase the lens pack and place it in that hood. Just make sure you are sitting when you check on the price of the A/D lens pack. Lets just say you could probably buy a lifetime of fixed lenses for what the pack costs.
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Passive lens. Opinions?
Not the thread hijack, but if I was to get a titanium and wanted to get a gold lens, do they make a lens that would fit. It's a 4x4 lens correct? Can't seem to find a 4x4 gold lens.
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Ok cool. And yes passive as in fixed shade or not auto darkening. Next question: where can I get different colored lenses?
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harris welco makes a nice bluish lense (glass) its gold but looks bluish/white when you get the arc going.. omni-view use to make awesome plastic gold lense that looked more white with an arc, but its getting harder to find them
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Is there anything other than gold around anymore? I heard about a blue one thats supposed to be really awesome but I dont think theyre around anymore.


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Forestville is the natural place for a grassroots organization like Food for Thought to be planted and to flourish. The Northern California town sprang up, naturally, around the lumber industry, and its scenic Russian River location subsequently drew tourists over timber interests.
Located about seventy miles north of San Francisco, gay vacationers discovered Forestville's serene mixture of trees and water, and some visitors decided to stay for the affordable housing and accepting, bucolic community.
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"No one coping with a life-threatening illness should ever have to worry about where their next meal is coming from," said Executive Director Ron Karp. Donor Laurie Plant added, "It's bad enough to be hungry, let alone sick and hungry."
While an HIV diagnosis is no longer the death sentence it often was 25 years ago, "It's still not a walk in the park," said Lisa, a heterosexual mother who was diagnosed when she was pregnant, on Halloween 16 years ago. Single, straight dads and moms like Lisa have joined the 650 clients Food for Thought helps annually.
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"My kids love going to the garden in the summer, to pick blueberries and to eat cherry tomatoes," said the married mother of three, who asked to be referred to as Gabby. "They get to ask questions about food, and explore." Food for Thought provides groceries for her whole family, via deliveries or pick-ups, as well as holiday meals and Christmas presents.
"If they didn't exist, I don't know what I'd do," said Gabby, who is Latina -- another growing clientele population that includes monolingual Spanish speakers.
Like Lisa, Gabby thinks of Food for Thought as a second family. Both women speak glowingly about staff registered dietician Nina Redman, who offers one-on-one nutrition counseling as well as recipes and cooking classes for clients and their children. Nina taught Gabby how to put vegetables into meals without her kids knowing, like using thin strips of zucchini and carrots as spaghetti, and other healthy tips such as choosing brown rice over white.
Nina encourages nutritious and organic eating to boost the immune system, to support the GI tract, and to help the body's response to infection, medicine and therapies.
"More of us are living longer," said Lisa, "but not necessarily healthier because of the side effects of the drugs."
Nina added, "Because of this longevity, good nutrition is especially essential to combat diabetes, high blood pressure and kidney disease."
In addition to the side effects of medicine and related chronic conditions, proper eating can mediate the long-term challenges of the virus like "accelerated aging, plus stress and psychological implications like depression and anxiety that accompany a highly complex and stigmatized disease," added Rachel.
"Stigma is the secondary disease, after HIV," said Lisa, who has trained at the AIDS Leadership Academy and is currently attending U.C. Berkeley. "At Food for Thought, you leave stigma and worries outside. There, you're a human, not a status."
Food for Thought's active volunteer corps of about 500 "Food Fairies" assists in the food bank and garden, and also helps run the organization's Sebastopol store of collectibles and consignments. Now in its fifth year, the "FFT Antiques" space was bequeathed by supporter Randall Thompson and is open seven days a week.
Lisa's son and Gabby's brother volunteer in various areas, and sometimes her mom makes tamales to donate, or brings in apples from her tree.


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Picture Pages: Learning As You Go
Michigan's run game started out with a thud, with a series of short gains and even the occasional Dread Pirate TFL rearing its ugly head. As with the Notre Dame game, the problems due to were a mélange of errors from lots of people. And as you might expect against Miami, most of them were mental issues.
People have asserted that Miami was dropping an eighth guy in the box and that guy was blowing up the Michigan run game. That's simplistic; these days spread-oriented offenses are looking at one or zero deep safeties on every play. The eight man box is something you have to deal with as a coach, and anyway when you're playing Miami it shouldn't matter.
Michigan's issues were largely assignment-based, with the occasional bad block thrown in; the tailbacks were better but still had issues. The nice thing is that as the game went along we saw Michigan correct some of those those problems and start moving forward. Mason Cole in particular was evolving right on the field, hampering two plays with errors and then executing in near-identical situations just a few minutes later. One was mostly executing a block; this one was about IDing the guy he needs to address.
Which Guy Needs Help? Not That One.
This is actually the first play of the game. It comes from the 50 after the least interesting successful Dennis Norfleet kick return ever (run to the right until the kicker stops you), and Michigan comes out in an ace set. Miami has a 4-3 under on the field (sort of; their SAM is 190-pound Lo Wood) and will roll a safety down for guy #8.
Michigan's going to run inside zone and things are going to go pretty well all over the field with the exception of Mason Cole and AJ Williams trying to handle the backside DE.
This is your presnap setup:
There's a one-technique NT and a five-tech SDE. The SDE is splitting Cole and Williams down the middle, and the play is going to the top of the screen. It is very hard for backside blockers to do anything with a guy who is 1) lined up playside of him when 2) they get no help. This is about to happen to Williams.
I'm not entirely sure why this guy is free to fly down the line and blow this play up. The other DL are handled by Michigan's OL driving guys lined up a half-step to the playside of them. It seems like he figures that the OLB is going to be there to clean up anything that breaks behind him, so gap integrity is for suckers. (Michigan will get a bunch of waggles off this tendency, as Miami isn't using that OLB to contain hard upfield.)
On the snap Magnuson hops over a half-gap to get the nose; Cole goes to his zone a gap over without touching anyone and then starts helping on Magnuson's block. Williams is going for this DE:
Williams does not get the DE even a little bit, and with Miami DL set up to the outside on the frontside of the play Green is correctly going right up the gut, something that looks promising as Michigan gets movement on the DL.
The problem:
Williams was put in a tough spot here; even so this feels substandard. Annoying the guy, pushing him so that he's on the correct side of the LOS, maybe cutting him: all of these things are better than escorting him to the RB.
A yard later it's clear that Michigan has cleaned out the DL; one linebacker shot a gap and is going to help tackle here but without the space constriction provided by the Williams block-type substance shooting that gap is a dangerous game to play that is 50/50 to put the tailback one on one with the safety for all the yards.
Green falls forward for two as Magnuson finishes pancaking the NT. Cole ended up not really doing much of anything on the play.
And the slow version:
[After THE JUMP: something that goes better]
Picture Pages: MLB Is About Mitigation
Ryan under the microscope [Eric Upchurch]
Hello. As per usual, a game against a tomato can causes me to dig up something negative because I figure that the bad things that happen against weak teams are more likely to recur than the good ones. I'm not being negative, I'm being useful!
After this opening paragraph it may not surprise you that I didn't think Ryan had a particularly good game as Michigan's MLB. There were a couple of opportunities to contrast him with Desmond Morgan on similar plays that didn't come out well for Ryan. To the stillmobile!
Taking on blockers
App State had one drive of any consequence before Michigan started throwing third stringers on the field. That was a 75-yard march on which they ran an old Rodriguez staple, the "belly," repeatedly for good yardage.
Belly is designed to attack the soft underbelly of the backside of a defense facing inside zone. The end gets optioned off and then the goal of the defense is to use the backside DT's natural desire to shoot the gap to the playside against him. This usually sees the backside tackle get a free release on a linebacker on a quick-hitting play. (A quick google search indicates that this is Rodriguez-exclusive terminology, so your local guru's verbiage will vary.)
This was tough for Michigan to defend as aligned because the backside DT saw zone action and went GRRAAAH at it, driving himself way out of the play because he's Willie Henry and he is 1) strong and 2) not yet super disciplined. This put linebackers in bad spots, facing free OL while trying to shut down a ton of space.
Here's Morgan in that situation:
It feels like Michigan is a little misaligned here, with the linebacker shaded to one side against a formation that has no TE.
On the snap Beyer is let go and must respect the keep, so he flows upfield. Henry will get his own momentum used against him and get way out of the play, which I have designated by putting a frown at the end of his line. Morgan has an OT coming at him and a problem.
Beyer plays the mesh point well, inducing a give but forming up near the LOS so he can respond to a handoff. Henry is about to leave.
Here is the the key thing for Morgan on this play: he takes the contact. He in fact initiates the contact despite not having much forward momentum (which it is hard to get on a quick hitting play like belly). He impacts the OL and rocks him back:
Note that the guy next to him is Henry, who is trying to fight back to the play by giving ground. Also note that if Henry was anywhere near where the line would like him to be, Beyer is tackling as people wall up.
The back actually bounces off the OL…
And then a bunch of guys tackle him after six yards.
This is not a good result and I think Morgan's original alignment had something to do with that. He ends up taking the block to the inside instead of square and that gives the back room to the outside when otherwise this could have been a third down coming up. But: tough job in a lot of space. I gave him a half point for slowing down what could otherwise have been bad.
[After the JUMP: Jake Ryan tries his hand.]
Picture Pages: Blowing Up The Inverted Veer
Michigan couldn't get yard one with the veer against Nebraska, and most of them ended up with an unblocked Nebraska player blowing up Gardner. It is time to look at them. For some reason. Why didn't I start a blog about 1980s hairstyles? 1980s hairstyles never make you want to rub your face in gravel.
I digress. The first one comes on Michigan's first drive. A late blitz has just seen a power O slanted to and blown up for a one yard loss; it's second and eleven on the 24.
Michigan comes out with an H-back and two tailbacks in a twins formation, which necessarily means that the slot receiver is not an eligible receiver. Nebraska responds with 7.5 in the box, with the gray area defender just about splitting the difference between Funchess and the tackle.
On the snap Bosch pulls and the gray area guy sits and stares the backfield down.
Michigan shows veer action with Kerridge leading Toussaint to the outside; Michigan blocks the playside end, which would mean they're expecting to option the slot defender except 1) Kerridge is out there, so they're using one of their blockers on him anyway and 2) Gardner does not appear to be reading him but something further inside, if he's in fact reading anything. Gardner's awareness of this slot defender seems to start after the mesh point.
You can see that Gardner's helmet is not pointed at the slot defender as he starts making his decision:
What's he reading? Is he reading anything? I don't know. it doesn't seem like it. Watch the video in real time to get a feel for it. Toussaint does react like a guy who might get the ball, juking the blitzer, so I guess they're reading something. What is unclear.
Meanwhile, Kerridge is expecting the slot guy to contain upfield; instead he shoots upfield inside of him hard, too hard for him to adjust to.
Gardner pulls and seems to sense a disturbance in the force now; he goes straight upfield.
Toussaint dodges the blitzer, running into Gardner; Kerridge is prone, Gardner starts stumbling, and his momentum is taking him into the chest of an unblocked LB.
It's now third and nine, and Gardner's soul is now worn 1% more.
Items Of Interest
Optioning no one. We're back here, in year three. Michigan has a rudimentary read option game on which their QB doesn't know what to do too often and gets plays blown up, but here we're back to last year's Alabama game, where the defense made it so that Michigan's option plays didn't actually option off a defender, with similar results. No matter what happens on the edge here, the play still spends Kerridge and Toussaint on one defender and leaves an unblocked guy.
It would be one thing if I'd ever seen this fullback on the edge thing work. I have not. At best it's wasted him as he blocks a guy shooting up on the edge who is trying to contain Toussaint; at worst:
I'm about to get some comments about how this is Gardner's issue or Kerridge's issue and that Borges can't be held responsible for the results of this play. Sure. Any one play can be traced back to some execution error by the offense.
These posts are an effort to explain trends I'm seeing in the offense with particular plays, though, and this kind of half-ass option is par for the course. Michigan cannot get the fullback to be useful on these read option plays, and hasn't made him useful for three solid years.
This is the kind of stuff Denard papered over by being Denard. Even when Michigan was eviscerating Ohio State two years ago, they weren't really optioning anyone and it was left to Denard to make the magic happen against an unblocked dude at the LOS:
Michigan was fortunate that was a freshman Ryan Shazier on one leg. When you don't have Denard and you've turned your quarterback's ribs into a fine paste already, you no longer get 41 yard touchdowns and instead your unblocked dude gets a tackle for minimal gain, or more likely a loss.
They've had Kerridge for three years now and Gardner that long and Toussaint that long and they still can't get them to execute a real option. Either they're not trying or they're not coaching. And either way…
How is this supposed to work? It seems like the idea here is for the slot guy to run himself upfield outside of Kerridge to maintain a force back inside and then for Gardner to hit the gap between him and the rest of the defense. Nebraska beats that idea by using the slot guy super-aggressively.
How do you make this play work? Nebraska understood that Michigan's formation meant Funchess was not eligible; the gray area defender had no thought of a pass and ended up blowing up the play. But you can still make this work since Nebraska is sitting so deep with the safeties. Michigan has two options here: shooting Kerridge at the LOS, leaving Toussaint to his own devices, or using Kerridge to attack the slot defender and put Toussaint on the edge into acres of space.
This is the kind of thing you could come back to later with a tweak and bust a big gain. Clearly there were no big gains on this day. This design isn't necessarily bad; the inability to see what Nebraska is doing and get rock to their scissors at some point is. I mean, if you get this again and block the dude the defense has no force player, which means you get a lot of yards. This move by Nebraska violates a cardinal tenet of sound defense and works because they win on RPS, and if you probe at what they're doing here you can beat that. Instead Nebraska just kept chewing up Michigan's offense.
Hooray covered slot receiver. Hooray. I will never understand the point of that. If Michigan had some package where the ability of the H-back to get to the backside of the play meant something, okay. Instead you get nothing and if the D recognizes it, as they seem to here, you're playing 10 on 11. Temporary voluntary red card.
Again, maybe this is some sort of genius but since I've never seen it do anything productive it just seems dumb.
Picture Pages: Whoops, Nope, Totally Packaged
So yeah, I concluded yesterday that the quick fire throw to Gallon in the second quarter was a presnap read, not a true packaged play, and then about two plays into the remainder of the UFR, Michigan runs the same thing with the cornerback showing blitz presnap and M runs it after he backs out. Timing: I do not have it.
To the screenshots!
It's first and ten; Michigan's trying to respond to Indiana drawing to within one and has first and ten on their own 23. Same setup as the last play: 3 wide, Gallon alone to the boundary, IU in their nickel-ish package. This time the corner is indicating blitz.
On the snap, though, he backs out. Gardner's checking on Gallon, seeing if he's got the hitch.
When it become clear that the CB is not coming, he changes his plan. Taylor Lewan has the same idea, as his initial reaction was to pick up the corner. He's flared out to do so, and now has to frantically try to get back into the play and block someone who's trying to defend what's actually occurring.
Which is a handoff.
Now: Lewan's flare has borked a couple of things. See 98 below? He is being doubled and will end up three yards downfield, where it is ideal for him to go in the eyes of the offense.
The other DT, though, is being single blocked by Glasgow and if he chooses can decide to go upfield of him to the outside, which he does. Glasgow locks him out and pushes him past the play; Toussaint has one lane straight up the middle. Bosch deals with a DE well, but there's no one for an ILB.
That's unfortunate, since a guy dealing with him is a big gain with the other LB on a pass drop he's convinced to take by Funchess releasing into the slot LB. Even if he doesn't take this the backwards direction of the other DT would make it difficult for him to get to the hole.
Lewan tries to recover; can't quite; Toussaint makes the guy miss, which gets him a decent gain before the shuffling backside end comes down from behind to tackle.
Five yards.
Items of Interest
Nope, totally packaged. Gardner's first option is the hitch in the event of a CB blitz, and he decides that it's not there, so he hands off. Post snap read determining run or pass is the Smart Football-approved definition of a packaged play. Packaged.
An old bugaboo. This harkens back to some oddities Michigan had in their plays like this a couple years ago. When they ran the inverted veer in 2011, Michigan would often block the guy they were supposedly optioning with the pulling guard, leaving Denard to beat a guy if Michigan was going to pick up anything. This happened not infrequently, but it seemed pretty weird that you'd run an option and not option anyone.
This is a version of that old problem: Lewan flares out to block the corner when Michigan has a plan to deal with that. They're optioning him and they still block him, or would if he didn't back out into pass coverage. That leaves one of the ILBs free.
The rest of the line blocks it like they should if the corner blitz was coming; seems like someone on the OL made an adjustment to the blitz IU ostentatiously showed and backed out of.
A minor place. I don't want to make any grand conclusions from these two plays. A number of programs from the Okie State/WVU Hologorsen tree will build large chunks of their offense around packaged plays; Michigan has only dabbled in this department under Borges. They're still dabbling. The OL blocks this goofy because they are not on the same page as the play concept. If the guy making the line check understands that the corner is never a threat, this is a nice gain that doesn't require Toussaint to get his Hart on.
This isn't the first time they've tried these things—I remember pointing out a package to Smart Football a couple years ago. That didn't work, and it seemed like it got put on the shelf because the coaches weren't enthused with Denard's ability to read post-snap. Devin executed both of these; could they have been a test run for Michigan State?
Probably not, but here's hoping they've got something up their sleeve.
Bosch check. This was about par for Bosch's day. He got decent to good movement on his guys, probably better than Magnuson on average. Hopes were consistently tempered by the guy next to him, as when Lewan latched onto a dude he all but threw the dude into his teammates, ninjas-attacking-hero style. Indiana's terrible. He'll get a trial by fire next Saturday.
An accidental RPS. The other ILB's pass drop here is an interesting offshoot. He's reading Funchess and sees him release, and so goes to cover, as Funchess blocks (or attempts to block) IU's hybrid space player. That leaves the OL five on five in the box, which should be a profitable situation.
Every time a DE shuffles like this I want Gardner to pull, which is probably irrational. I don't think he should, but I have this visceral thing where it's like GO GIT EM, because is anyone in that position really keeping up with Gardner on the corner? I say no, especially when you've got Funchess bothering the slot LB. All DEs are shuffling and Gardner has beat them all around the edge. Sometimes there's help out there; that is the only thing that keeps these plays down.
Triple option? On this play it's asking a lot of him to read the corner and then come across the field to read the end, so the pull here is almost certainly not something that he has in the toolbox anyway. So, no, just a single option I think. The read option nature of the play does let you sort of option off two guys, though, except "optioning off" the corner is really just nerfing the corner blitz.
Picture Pages: The Dumbest Play In The History Of Football
I don't think I'm exaggerating. It's second and eight after one of Michigan's most successful RB runs of the night. Michigan trails 21-10 with six minutes left in the second quarter. They put some dudes on the field and move them around. When we come back from Matt Millen saying something about something, this process has already started.
Houma and Chesson are switching spots. What this is supposed to do to the defense remains unknown, because it did not happen. Now… there's something odd about this play. Since we don't ever see the outside WR, I don't remember if that's Funchess or Williams or whoever, but Michigan puts him off the screen to the field. Also…
They have no left tackle. They have put their left tackle at super right tackle.
I think this is a run.
Penn State thinks this is a run. They have eight guys in the box against six blockers.
ESPN's camera man thinks this is a run, zooming almost to the box before they even snap the ball.
It's a run. Specifically, it is a zone stretch to the boundary. Because this is the only run it could possibly be, Penn State is prepared for this. Kalis gets driven back. Bryant and Glasgow don't scoop the backside tackle (not that it really matters since there is an unblocked guy in the cutback lane and another unblocked guy checking Gardner).
This looks familiar.
Kalis finally finishes losing his guy, who pushes Toussaint to the edge of the field, where a ninth Penn State defender—a safety lined up over a formation that cannot have a tight end emerge from it to threaten downfield—comes up to tackle for loss…
…if Kalis's guy doesn't do it first.
Third and ten.
Items of Interest
This is the stupidest play in the history of plays. You can't pass because you don't have a right tackle and refuse to throw perimeter screens no matter how blitheringly open they are…
all of these occurred in the first 20 minutes of the game
…and Penn State knows this, so they put eight in the box against six blockers and have a safety overhanging who knows 100% that he has no immediate pass threat to deal with.
I mean, you can see the entire PSU D on the field here:
There is a wide receiver outside of Gallon. Only the dumbest playcall in history could allow a D to align like this and be successful.
You really confused them, though. Having Chesson and Houma switch places is the cherry on top here. Yeah, you fooled 'em up real good right there. Now Penn State's eight in the box against 5 OL and a WR is eight in the box against 5 OL and a FB. Green fields ahead, boys.
They're setting them up for something! If you don't have an automatic check to whatever your clever business is when you see two DBs on 3 WRs, you fail.
Line didn't do well, but whatever. Kalis gets blown up here, but since Michigan just told Penn State the play they were running it's not really the focus.
The bigger picture. This was insane and far from isolated. Michigan kept running tackle over stuff against a defense that was stuffing it even after Taylor Lewan went out. They asked AJ Williams to play left tackle, and because of Borges's increasingly legendary stubbornness they allowed Penn State to align in formations that doomed their crammed-together paleolithic run game without either testing PSU's young and not very quick corners or taking the buckets of free yards these alignments provided.
The bubble screen stuff took on a life of its own over the course of the last year, and it's come up again—a screenshot of Michigan's first snap of the first overtime screaming for a bubble has made the rounds of every message board. To reiterate, the bubble is a constraint: it prevents the defense from lining up in certain ways and thus simplifies your life as an offense since defenses can't pack the box as much without getting free yards on their face. Borges's allergy to getting the ball to guys in a ton of space went from annoying to crippling in this game.
How can anyone have faith in a guy who looks at this when he needs a field goal to win…
…and doesn't throw a bubble because it's not what Vince Lombardi would do? It boggles the mind. A lot of things lost this game for Michigan. Al Borges is high up on that list.
Picture Pages: He Just Used Power, Part 2
Last time, Michigan grinds out six yards on their first snap by using POWER.
Michigan's second snap against Minnesota was more of the same, but a little lighter. Chesson replaced Butt, and Minnesota responded by covering him. They also shifted their line towards Lewan instead of away. The end result was much the same except Michigan didn't have an opportunity to block the last guy because Minnesota didn't have a linebacker bail.
Yes, Michigan can go nuts in the passing game against this kind of alignment, and would later; this drive—this game—is about establishing something even if it's not the most efficient way to go about doing things. After Akron and UConn you can understand this line of thinking.
With the line shifted to Lewan, he's going to kick the guy outside of him, leaving Schofield and Kalis to double the playside DT; Bryant and Kerridge will again lead through the hole.
On the snap, Bryant pulls out and heads around as the double is initiated; Bryant is out so quick that he's almost running into Devin Gardner:
This is a notable improvement from last year. Between the above frame in the next, Schofield blasts the playside DT such that he starts falling inside of Kalis. He'll end up moving to the second level, and picking up the WLB since that guy is not shooting a gap. Unfortunately, someone is shooting a gap: Hageman.
Hageman just about beats Glasgow clean. There is a little bit of delay here that prevents him from swallowing the play in the backfield; this is still pretty bad. But the gap is even more enormous this time at the handoff point. It stretches almost from the hashes to the numbers as Michigan pounds the two playside DL away from each other:
This time Minnesota has sufficient bodies in the hole to deal with it as all three linebackers demand a body. Hageman is threatening enough from behind to force Toussaint to alter his path a bit, but with Kerridge latched onto one linebacker, Bryant about to pop a second, and a cavern to operate in he doesn't slow down the fatal step.
That safety is unaccounted for, though, and waiting two yards downfield.
Toussaint pounds out some YAC.
Items Of Interest
Sometimes you can do everything right and get five yards. At the end of the day there's always one more defender than you have blockers. Here every block save Glasgow's gets executed and contact is still made two yards downfield.
This is both a reason not to get too worried about YPC in this game and wonder about the long-term viability of the tackle over buddy cop movie. When you can execute every block just right and get five yards the opponents is overplaying you like whoah and you are either so confident you are able to get these five yards on every play or locked in a 12-10 death struggle kind of game. Here it turns out to be the former, as Michigan scores touchdowns on 5 of 8 drives, albeit with a lot of help from third and long conversions to Funchess after their grind game clunked out.
However: as mentioned in the last post, tackle over was literally 90% run in this one and when they ran it was 83% run to the tackle side. Is this configuration powerful enough to grind these yards out against actual defenses? Can Michigan get enough play action off of this to keep defenses honest and get the big chunk plays they'll have to if a ton of their offense is grinding out four yards against a stacked front? Is this anything more than a get-healthy gimmick effective against a terrible defense?
I don't know.
This is what Bryant expected to see on the last play. He pulls around and whacks the MLB, like he did on the last play; this time the MLB is not already being blocked because a differently-aligned Minnesota defense scrapes the MLB past Schofield releasing downfield. This is one of those things that may come with experience: the ability to improvise profitably.
Meanwhile, Bryant gets there, hits a guy, woot. This is night and day from last year's guards.
Glasgow did get smoked. Hageman's pretty good, though, and he was very quiet in this one. Hageman's play didn't end up making a tackle but I think it did impact the outcome of this play because…
Toussaint puts his head down and takes what he can get. With all this room Toussaint can threaten both sides of Kerridge's block, and we've seen him dip inside to pop out before. This would be an excellent time to do that if he was not being chased by an angry 300 pound man. As it is he just runs directly upfield into the safety and runs him over for near first down yardage. That's the when-in-doubt solution, and it's the one Toussaint took consistently in this game.
Speaking of which. The bye week seems like it was spent telling Toussaint that if he does not go hard north and south he will be dipped in uncomfortably warm pudding for hours at a time. This is the kind of run where bounce-it hesitation gets you clubbed and there is a guy waiting that he can see; previously he might have tried the thing I mentioned above and gotten tackled at the line. Instead we're talking about the yards he gained after contact instead of trying to calculate how many he lost by trying to avoid it. Thumbs up.
This is now Lewan's day. This is play two. The rest of the game is basically this for Lewan, whether it's pass or run: hello, overmatched donkey about 60 pounds lighter than me. It is time to go out to the numbers. I gave him a ton of half-points that maybe should have been full ones.


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It is observed on the third Friday in September and is one of six days that the POW/MIA flag can be flown.
The flag was created by the National League of Families as a symbol of concern for those missing in action or held as prisoners of war.


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