Packers Perfect 13-0 After 46-16 Win Over Raiders
GREEN BAY, Wis. December 11, 2011, 07:50 pm ET
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Winning every week is one thing. On Sunday, Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers made a legitimate playoff contender look like a team that was ready to pack its bags. Rodgers threw for 281 yards with two touchdowns and an interception in less than three full quarters’ worth of work, Ryan Grant had two touchdowns rushing and Charles Woodson picked off a pass against his former team as the Packers trounced the Oakland Raiders 46-16. The Packers ran their record to 13-0 — leaving them only three games short of completing a perfect regular season. And they did it with a near-perfect performance. Carson Palmer threw for 245 yards with a touchdown and four interceptions for the Raiders (7-6), who looked like anything but legitimate contenders in the AFC West. With little actual drama in the game, the biggest concern for the Packers was an apparent left knee injury to wide receiver Greg Jennings in the third quarter. Green Bay defensive lineman Ryan Pickett also walked to the locker room after sustaining a head injury in the third quarter. Rodgers got an early rest in the blowout, as backup Matt Flynn took over late in the third. Oakland was playing without injured running back Darren McFadden, along with wide receivers Jacoby Ford and Denarius Moore. And the Raiders made plenty of mistakes to help an opponent that doesn’t really need it. Palmer threw an interception on the Raiders’ first possession, and Oakland committed eight penalties in the first half alone. And while the Packers’ play has been far from perfect for most of the season, especially on defense, this one was total domination. Green Bay had four touchdowns and a field goal on its first five possessions. Things got out of hand so quickly that the Raiders tried a fake punt midway through the second quarter. As was the case for most things the Raiders attempted Sunday, it didn’t work. Grant rediscovered his big-play ability for the Packers, breaking a 47-yard run two plays after Palmer threw an interception to rookie linebacker D.J. Smith on the Raiders’ first possession. The Packers were without injured running back James Starks, who had surpassed Grant in the Packers’ rotation. Until that play, Grant hadn’t looked like his explosive old self for most of the season. After a defensive stop, Rodgers directed a 10-play, 80-yard drive that ended with a 4-yard touchdown pass to Ryan Taylor — the rookie’s first career touchdown. Trailing 31-0 with about six minutes left in the half, the Raiders tried the fake punt. But Shane Lechler threw high to Rock Cartwright for an incompletion, and the Packers took over at the Oakland 28-yard line. The Raiders ran into more bad luck on the second-half kickoff, when Green Bay’s Randall Cobb appeared to step out of bounds during a 50-yard return. Officials said the replay system was malfunctioning, and the Raiders couldn’t challenge. But Jennings had to go to the locker room after hurting his left knee early in the third quarter, and the Raiders finally got on the scoreboard when Michael Bush ran for a 2-yard touchdown to cut the lead to 34-7. Packers outside linebacker Erik Walden scored on a fumble return late in the third quarter. Walden has been in trouble off the field for the Packers and was charged Wednesday with misdemeanor disorderly conduct-domestic abuse following an altercation with his girlfriend.
Packers Perfect 13-0 After 46-16 Win Over Raiders
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Cruising To Mars: The Rover’s Tasks
NASA launched the Mars Science Laboratory from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Saturday. The MSL is five times heavier than the rovers currently on Mars and has twice as many scientific instruments. It will take nine months for the spacecraft to reach the Red Planet, and there’s plenty of things for it to do before then.
Cruising To Mars: The Rover’s Tasks
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Using The Nearby Wellness Authorities
It might be perfect so that you can get license for that non emergency transportation services functions in the nearby regulatory authority from the state. As soon as you receive the license you are able to submit your get in touch with particulars towards the wellness authorities inside your state. They’ll usually be known as for sending this kind of transportation services personnel to both person customers and companies. As soon as your company is outlined within the get in touch with checklist o the nearby wellness authorities, you are able to make sure of getting contact in the authority or transportation services. This may certainly assist you to select up some fairly great company with out placing in a lot work. Also, in the event the nearby authorities are happy using the services, then you can certainly make sure or repeated calls from them on the everyday foundation. Therefore, as soon as you faucet the marketplace completely you’ll be astonished from the quantity of company which you could generate via non medical transportation services which may occasionally be within the quantity of air medical transport services.
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Accounting Company Will Help Companies Develop With Out Investing An Excessive Amount Of Cash
Employing the services of hedge fund accounting helps companies to develop with out investing an excessive amount of cash. A great accounting company guarantees the company is operating on the right track by caring for the monetary facet of one’s company. Regardless of the dimension from the company, a professional company offers advice to company proprietors to broaden and develop their company ventures. Even though, extra investments might be essential to develop, a great CPA company can help companies handle their money flows to make sure the minimal quantity is additional needed within the company. It’s a typical misperception which you shouldn’t employ the services of the expert accounting company to look after the monetary facets of your company. Around the opposite, most specialists suggest that company proprietors move around the monetary administration of their businesses to expert accountants. This is actually the most suitable technique to allow company proprietors to concentrate on their company and develop their businesses.
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Video: Chelan Gorge Teaser
Here’s the video Dan Patrinellis made of the first 2011 Chelan Gorge release this year - this is just a one-minute teaser video, it sounds like there will be a full one coming after this weekend’s final release. Notice the obvious sun and heat… big sigh.
I just saw this Chelan Gorge video Matt Kurle posted on Professor Paddle, this is a great one too. Sounds like it will be like 87 degrees again this weekend when a bunch of people head out there for what will apparently be the last release for a really long time, as in probably years.
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Gilad Hekselman: Wide-Open Reaction
The first casualty is the music stand.
“Sometimes you can’t avoid it,” guitarist Gilad Hekselman says. “The music is new or complicated. [But] seeing music in front of me can psychologically intimidate me. When there’s no music, and we’re just interacting on a social level, that gives an extra element to the music that I like.”
Hekselman brought his Hex Trio to WBGO to play music from his new recording, Hearts Wide Open. Joe Martin played bass. Marcus Gilmore attended to the drums. The circumstances around this event were largely unremarkable: They came, they played, they left. The music told a different story — engaging and risky, emotional and resonant, delivered with the demands of the moment. Control here, abandon there.
The Hex Trio is a working ensemble. The payoff for any kind of consistent touring schedule is a chance to refine the process: Keep what works, lose what doesn’t. Eliminate the barriers between each other and the audience.
“We didn’t have any music in front of us,” Hekselman says. “We know the music and each other. We can just close our eyes and just make music.”
The trio played three Hekselman originals: “One More Song,” “The Bucket Kicker” and “Brooze,” a twist on the blues form. The newest tune in the book, “A Part of the View,” belongs to Israeli composer Matti Caspi.
Sometimes the best music experience happens when nobody has the mandate.
“I like listening to all kinds of music,” Hekselman says. “My favorite is when there is a soloist, but everybody has a role in the band. It’s great to be a soloist, but I’m all about opening my ears and trying to catch what the band is doing — not always to respond to it thematically. Even if I decide to contrast it, I want to be aware of what’s happening, then decide to react to it or not.”
Gilad Hekselman: Wide-Open Reaction
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