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Welcome to National Trail Mix Day!
National Trail Mix Day features a high energy, tasty treat for the trail or snacks. You can buy packages of trail mix at a store. Or, you can make up your own, using the ingredients you like best.
When you head out to a campout, a hike or to go biking, take the Trail Mix along with you. It provides the extra energy boost to keep you from getting tired and running out of energy along the trail. Don't limit trail mix to the trail. It is also good at campouts.
Here is a fun way that the Boy Scouts make Trail Mix:
Ask each hiker or camper to bring a box or bag of their favorite cereal, nuts, pretzels, raisins, dried fruit, M&Ms, etc. For younger hikers or new members of the group, it's best to provide them with a list of the types of food that can go into trail mix. That way, the inexperienced hiker won't bring something that can not be easily carried. At the campout or before the hike, bring the group together and mix all the food in a big, big bowl. Put the mix into sealable baggies and pass them out to each hiker.
Tips: When making your own trail mix, avoid messy items that leave your hands sticky. Also avoid too many salty items. For example, unsalted nuts are better than salted ones.
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Orange Watch Part II - 2015 SU Football Game-by-Game Preview and Predictions (thejuice; Bierman)
Item: At first glance, the schedule, heavy with ACC road games on the backend, the ever-present weekly fear of inevitable injuries that occur in every game, and which sidelined some key players during August preseason camp, makes it hard to forecast the 2015 Orange gaining the six wins needed for a slot in one of the record 42 bowl games (including the College Football Playoff championship game) on this year’s list. But with an improved offense, a young defense that will get better each week, better special teams play, the schedule’s flip-side with zero travel in September and a decent chance to get out to a rare 3-0 start (for the first time since going 4-0 in 1991), halfway to the bowl minimum of six, this year’s squad could end up seeing a repeat scenario from 2013, needing a win in the season finale versus arch-rival Boston College in the Dome to seal a bowl trip and continue the development and improved recruiting of Scott Shafer’s first three seasons.
Part II – The second half of the season beginning with game seven follows in schedule order. The first half of the season which ran last week, is here.
Let’s see, in this decade alone Pittsburgh has now had eight head coaches (three of whom were one game bowl interim positions), or exactly one more than Syracuse has had dating back to 1949, Ben Schwartzwalder’s first season. Following in the footsteps of Dave Wannstedt, Mike Haywood (from Dec. 16, 2010 until Jan. 1, 2011 when he was fired after his arrest on domestic violence charges which were later dropped), Phil Bennett, Todd Graham, Keith Patterson, Paul Chryst, and Joe Rudolph, is Pat Narduzzi, a long time coaching fraternity buddy of Scott Shafer’s dating back to their days together at Rhode Island from 1993-95, coming over from Michigan State where he was the defensive coordinator for eight seasons. If the Panthers, who have a ‘big three’ on offense in quarterback Chad Voytik, running back James Conner, and wide receiver Tyler Boyd (one game suspension vs. Youngstown State in Saturday’s opener for a June DUI arrest), and a solid mix of returnees and newcomers on defense play up to their potential, they just might create some noise in the Coastal Division. As for the continuation of their longtime rivalry with the ‘Cuse, other than a 14-13 SU win in the Dome in 2012, Pitt’s won every game dating back to ’04. That dominance, however, is weakened a bit when down 23-14 midway through the fourth quarter; Terrel Hunt leads one drive ending in a 46 yard Cole Murphy field goal to cut the lead to six, then with just over 1:00 left he hits H-back Erv Phillips with a short pass and he scampers 22 yards for a touchdown to win it 24-23 mimicking the final score from the other ACC win over Wake Forest a month earlier. Don’t look now, but Syracuse is one win away from bowl eligibility in October with five tough games to play. (5-2, 2-1)
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The Saga of Robert Washington Jr Serves as a Cautionary Recruiting Tale (PS; Poliquin)
He'd given our town a wink and a nod back in April, some 10 months before any official contract could be signed and roughly 17 months, at the earliest, before he'd ever lug a football for Syracuse University.
He was a junior in high school, 17 years old and, as a four-star-rated wunderkind, the recipient of scholarship offers that, if piled one on top of another, wouldn't be cleared by a show horse.
Robert Washington, Jr., then, always did amount to a tenuous bet for SU and its followers.
He could get hurt. He could fall off the academic wagon. He could listen to the Sirens from other schools, change his mind and break huddles elsewhere, perhaps closer to his North Carolina digs.
(And, oh by the way, he could really-and-truly show up in Central New York, climb into his Orange garb and be thoroughly unremarkable, which is the fate of most recruits, no matter how highfalutin.)
But, no. We media types wrote/yapped our many glowing reports. The fans prepared themselves for a savior. Discussion, no matter how flighty and/or heretical and/or stupid, began of resurrecting No. 44.
And all for a potentially fickle North Carolina teenager living more than 700 miles from the Carrier Dome who not only couldn't sign any letter-of-intent for nearly a year, but had not yet attended his junior prom.
Well, look at the saps that so many in our midst have now become.
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Syracuse by Position (watertowndailytimes.com; Manganiello)
Syracuse football kicks off its season on Friday. Here’s a positional breakdown of the 2015 roster.
SU BY POSITION
Quarterback
The Orange have the privilege of returning fifth-year senior signal caller Terrel Hunt. Hunt has started 18 games the past two seasons, but he threw just one touchdown in five starts before losing his season to a broken fibula in October. Offensive coordinator Tim Lester plans to run Hunt a lot less than ex-coordinator George McDonald did last year, when Hunt collected six rushing scores, but as a result took an unnecessary beating. With 418 career passing attempts under his belt, Hunt is the ideal stopgap for Lester’s first full season while underclassmen Austin Wilson and Eric Dungey wait in the wings. Lester said Wilson has “a cannon” and the redshirt sophomore heads into camp as the No. 2. Dungey, a true freshman out of Oregon, has shocked Hunt with his development in camp, however, and he could find his way into the backup role before all is said and done.
Running backs
Lester’s offense splits this group into two camps: backs and hybrids. The Orange have been tight-lipped about what exactly differentiates the two positions. The hybrid or expressback position will line up all over the field. Lester has stressed the intellectual demands hybrid entails, and that the position will be used in both the running and passing game. Speedster Erv Phillips inherited the starting job after piling up 727 all-purpose yards in limited time as a freshman in 2014. Junior Ben Lewis caught 24 balls last season, and the 6-foot-2 former wideout has transformed his body in order to play hybrid. Junior running back Devante McFarlane and George Morris II will split carries from the start. Meanwhile, a gaggle of freshman — namely Dontae Stricklandand Jordan Fredericks, but also hybrid Tyrone Perkins and tailback Jacob Hill — are poking their heads around in search of playing time.
Wide receivers
Hunt and sophomore Steve Ishmael have been working for months on their timing and dedicating themselves to the new offense. Ishmael caught 27 passes for 415 yards and three touchdowns last season, but ironically his best work was done in the wreckage left behind following Hunt’s injury. Look for Ishmael to exceed Jarrod West’s team-leading 49 receptions in 2014 with more stability on the ball. Junior Brisly Estime has bounced back from an injury-riddled sophomore season with an impressive camp, and the blazer has reportedly supplanted junior Alvin Cornelius as the No. 2 target. Redshirt sophomore Sean Avant has been called the best route runner on the team, and 6-foot-5 sophomore Jamal Custis has Lester’s attention as a red zone weapon.
