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Ask Ed: On Finding the Next Ben . . . or Brady
Good morning,
Your Ask Ed questions for the weekend:
--- YOU: You, Kevin Colbert, and many others have talked recently about how Ben has shown no signs of slowing down and that he could go strong for another 4-5 years. While it's true that he's playing as well as ever, and that his body seems to be holding up despite the hits he has taken and injuries he has suffered for the last decade, it's not his body I am concerned about. It's his brain.
How many reported or officially documented concussions has he suffered? I feel like I can count at least 2-3 on the field concussions on top of the one he suffered in the terrible motorcycle accident in 2006.
When you also consider his personal feelings on the issue, which you quoted in your article after the Seattle game last year, and how some players are choosing health over football (most recently with the Bills' A.J. Tarpley), it makes me seriously wonder if Ben is one more serious concussion away from walking away.
I'm not suggesting this means the Steelers should try to find Ben's replacement now as many have suggested, but I am afraid that Ben's career may end sooner than he, or any of us, would like it to.
As a lifelong Steelers fan, I would hate to see it happen. But I would also hate to see another Steelers legend putting the rest of his life in danger just to provide us all with a few more fleeting moments of excitement and happiness on Sundays.
ED: While I do not want to diminish your concerns about the health of football players, you could make the same generalization about virtually every one of them, especially those in their 30s. All players have had concussions, whether they were documented or not. You can get a concussion riding a bicycle, playing softball, or on the playground as a kid. One of these days, there may be laws that we must all wear helmets when we walk outside our doors.
You say you would hate to see another Steelers legend putting the rest of his life in danger just to provide us with more excitement, then what do you propose? Should the sport be banned? Should they make mandatory retirement for any player with two or three documented concussions, no matter what age? Should players not be permitted to play beyond 30? And while we concentrate so much on the dangers of brain injuries, what about other injuries? Did you know that both L.C. Greenwood and Dwight White died prematurely after complications from back surgeries necessitated because of their days playing football?
Football is and always has been a rough sport as many sports are from auto racing to baseball and rugby and all kinds of winter sports, not to mention the occasional track athlete who gets speared by a javelin. A man was killed while skiing at Seven Springs this winter, run over by an out of control skiier. Did you know that? If it had happened while he were playing football, you would not have missed it.
They're trying to make football safer, but unless they remove the contact from it, it always will be a rough sport. Is it dangerous? Everything we do is relative in that sense, some riskier than others. Living in a cocoon might help solve some of it, if that's how you want to live.
--- YOU: If your nose guy is playing 30% of the time it's because he's not good enough. If a guy is quick and can push he can play a lot. Not saying we should, just saying we should consider.
ED: No, the nose tackle plays 30 percent of the time because that is how the Steelers play pass defense. They pull the nose tackle out of the lineup and insert an extra defensive back. Now, if you deem your nose tackle to be better than one of your ends in those pass defenses, then I suppose you could keep him on the field and remove either Stephon Tuitt or Cam Heyward. But they have determined those two are forces in those defenses, so why would you have someone else play? Yes, I can see a rotation to keep them all fresh and that certainly could happen if they get someone like that as a nose tackle. With the draft so deep in defensive linemen, though, they might be able to get that player in that second or third round.
--- YOU: Inferring that it's hopeless to replace Ben, or to have a replacement in place, is going too far. Ben's good, but not that good ... yet. Many good and great QBs have been later round choices.
ED: Other than Tom Brady, I doubt you will find many good and great quarterbacks as late-round draft picks, at least in modern football.
--- YOU: You wrote: "The Steelers will not look to draft Ben Roethlisberger's successor this year and they may not be in position to ever do so because it's hard to find the next great one when you continue to draft in the 20s." Hard, yes, but two words clearly show it's not impossible: Tom Brady. Though, as you say, there's no need to work on that problem yet.
ED: The example of Tom Brady has been used so much that people actually believe you can find a Hall of Fame quarterback in the sixth round. Name me another. I have a series of two-word answers myself to clearly show it's improbable: Landry Jones, Dennis Dixon, Omar Jacobs, Brian St. Pierre, Tee Martin – and that is just in this century.
--- YOU: I haven't noticed the Steelers being in the business of signing the offspring of former players, but also not sure how many opportunities they had to do so. With Mel Blount's son Akil trying to make his way into the league, what are the odds he opens camp in Latrobe?
ED: Akil Blount started the past three years at inside linebacker for Florida A&M, where he also made third-team all-conference and ran back two interceptions for touchdowns. He is listed as 6-2, 238 pounds with a 40-time of 4.6. NFLDraftScout ranks him 25th among inside linebackers and a possible free agent signing. It would surprise no one if the Steelers signed him afterward if he is not drafted or at least invited him as one of the tryout players in their spring practices.
Tomlin: 'Can't Find Players Sitting in Office'
Good morning,
Mike Tomlin received a compliment the other day for his hard work on the draft and it came from one of the longest-running hard workers in the NFL.
Gil Brandt, who turned 83 last month, was the Dallas Cowboys' first player personnel director when they came into the league in 1960 and is still hard at it as a senior analyst for NFL.com along with his regular radio appearances on the Sirius NFL Network. He's no stay-at-home, travling to pro days, combines and he lines up all the college prospects for the NFL draft-day show.
So, Brandt knows a hard working football man when he sees one and he told me that Mike Tomlin outworks them all.
"Tomlin has the best attitude,'' said Brandt after running into the Steelers coach any number of times this spring.
"I said, 'Coach, you're everywhere.' He said, 'Gil, I can't find any players sitting on my chair in my office.'
"The guy is very accommodating. At Baylor, for example, a bunch of people wanted to take his picture and everything."
He did.
If the Steelers do not draft well, it will not be for a lack of effort, Brandt said.
"I'll say this, the Steelers work, they're out there everywhere. The head coach, the GM and some places they have Keith Butler and four other coaches with them."
As for who they might draft in the first round, Brandt believes "they've identified him" but is not privy to the answer.
He did predict one characteristic of their first-round pick that won't come as too much of a surprise to anyone who follows the team:
"I think the Steelers are going to take a defensive player player."
Onto some Stuff:
--- You may have noticed that the announcement about the timing of the NFL schedule announcement was made last night and the announcement of the schedule will be tonight at 8 p.m. Nice of them to do it around the Penguins playoffs and this afternoon's Pirates game.
--- Brandt says the moving of the draft TV show from New York to Chicago, where it will be held for the second straight year, was a brilliant one.
"Chicago seems to be magical place to have the draft. New York is fine but there were 200,000 people in Chicago for the draft last year.''
Brandt, of course, remembers the old days when the only ones who showed up for the draft were the coaches and personnel men and a few reporters. Now, all the coaches and personnel men stay in their home cities and call in their picks.
"In 1960, we drafted in a ballroom and guys came in with their Street & Smith football books, and the Pittsburgh newspaper."
--- There are at least two players in this draft, at areas of the Steelers biggest needs too, that could be high rewards for those who might want to take them, but they come with injury risks. They include safety Karl Joseph of West Virginia and cornerback Kendall Fuller of Virginia Tech. If both had been healthy, the Steelers might not have had a chance to draft them at No. 25. As it is, they may have a shot at either. They put red dots on the injured players, some more red than others.
--- There also are those players who have had what we call "off field" problems. The Steelers have had at least one of those in for a visit recently, Robert Nikemdiche, a 6-3, 294-pound defensive end from Mississippi.
He would have been one of the top 10 players drafted if it were not for those "off field" issues that included him falling out of a hotel window, where investigators soon found drugs in the room.
After the various issues the Steelers have had with players and drugs (marijuana) recently, if they would draft this kid, they should have their own heads examined.
Your Twitter questions answered
Let's get right to it on this hump day. Here are your Twitter questions and my answers.
From Michael
Q: does this draft have a bearing on the Steelers picking up Jarvis Jones' option or has it already been decided?
A: I think that's already been decided one way or the other. I don't know exactly how they'll proceed, but if they draft an outside linebacker in the top three rounds that's probably the signal that Jones will be playing his final season with the Steelers. If they don't, I would imagine Jones would be with the Steelers in 2017. I just don't foresee a scenario that they go into 2017 with only Arthur Moats, Bud Dupree and Anthony Chickillo under contract. So it has to be Jones or a relatively high draft pick with some promise that they can groom.
From Bobby Bentley
Q: do you believe we look at a veteran safety even if we select one high in the draft?
A: I don't think so. They had a chance to do that in the prime part of free agency and passed on Eric Weddle. So I think they'll go with Robert Golden and the guy they choose in the draft who will be the long-term answer. I don't think there is any reason to bring another veteran in. Golden is a veteran, and he gained some valuable experience last season when he filled in for Will Allen and in the dime package late in the season.
From Eugene:
Q: Ray, so how many picks will be defensive and how many on the offense side?
A: I'm saying 5-2 defensive at least. Could be 6-1.
From Billy Nguyen
Q: do you think the Steelers will cut any vets (Timmons etc.) prior to training camp?
A: I don't think Timmons is in danger. If the Steelers have players under contract at this time of year they usually keep them. If they want someone to take a pay cut or want to cut him they usually do it in March. Troy Polamalu retired around this time of the year last year. But that was a unique scenario because the Steelers wanted to give him time to make a decision. Now, I think they might ask Timmons to sign a contract extension to lower his cap hit for 2016, but I don't think he's in danger of getting cut. The one veteran who I think could get cut, or at the very least take a big pay cut, is Cortez Allen. I just don't see how they keep him after what's happened the past two seasons, especially with his salary. If they get the CB they want in the draft I don't see why they would keep Allen.
From Colonial
Q: outside of injuries, biggest obstacle steelers will have to overcome during the season?
A: I think beating the team on their schedule that they're supposed to beat. Every year they seem to find ways to lose to teams who aren't in their league. Last year it was the Ravens twice. In previous years there were losses to Tampa, Oakland, Cleveland, etc. They have to eliminate those types of losses so they're 13-3 and in contention for the top seed in the AFC rather than 11-5 or 10-6, sneaking into the playoffs and playing on the road.
From Calhammer
Q: Only 1 Steeler visitor Tuesday? How many are teams allowed now 30?
A: Yes, teams are allowed to play host to 30 prospects at their facility. I think the Steelers are at 26 now, so four more to go between now and the draft.
From SP
Q: the Browns are now big on analytics. Are the Steelers looking at SpARQ, KEI, and HIG factor in prospects?
A: Well, if the Browns are doing it the Steelers had better follow them because they are the leaders of the NFL… The Steelers have a director of analytics. His name is Karim Kassam. I wrote a story on him last summer and what he does for the Steelers.
From Jefferson Street Joe
Q: What are the chances they extend Wheaton before the season? I see him having a breakout year. At worst he's a solid starter.
A: Wheaton is not a priority this offseason. David DeCastro and Le'Veon Bell are. Wheaton might be a solid starter, but the Steelers have always had a next man up mentality when it comes to the No. 2 receiver. Most guys in that role over the past decade have left via free agency. They don't pay two receivers top dollar. Mike Wallace left after the Steelers paid Antonio Brown. Emmanuel Sanders left because they didn't want to pay him what he got on the open market. The same will likely be true of Wheaton. They've done such a good job of drafting and developing receivers that it shouldn't be a big issue.
First-round CBs can be risky picks
The draft is a little more than two weeks away and there is a growing sense the Steelers will select a cornerback in the first round for the first time since 1997. But like any other position in the draft taking a cornerback in round 1 has its risks.
Here is a list of the first-round cornerbacks over the past five years:
Patrick Peterson
Prince Amukamara
Jimmy Smith
Morris Claiborne
Stephen Gilmore
Dre Kirkpatrick
Dee Milliner
DJ Hayden
Desmond Trufant
Xavier Rhodes
Justin Gilbert
Kyle Fuller
Darqueze Dennard
Jason Verrett
Bradley Roby
Trae Waynes
Kevin Johnson
Marcus Peters
Byron Jones
For every Patrick Peterson there are Justin Gilberts, D.J. Haydens and Dee Milliners.
The Steelers actually got lucky in 2014. They would have taken Gilbert if he was there when they selected at No. 17. The Browns took Gilbert with the No. 8 pick and the Steelers got Ryan Shazier instead.
That's looking like a fortuitous turn of events. Gilbert has been a colossal bust in Cleveland and Shazier, if he can stay healthy, has All-Pro potential at linebacker.
Evaluating corners can be dicey for NFL teams. NFL passing games are more intricate and corners are asked to do more than they do in college. There is a lot of drafting on potential.
"It can be [difficult] because you look at what corners are asked to today in the NFL," said Dane Brugler, a draft analyst for nfldraftscout.com. "The NFL wants press corners that can get up in your face and press receivers. You don't see that a lot in college football. I don't think the finer points of the position are being taught. Guys make it to the NFL without great understanding of the position. A lot of players have the traits you look for. Gilbert has the traits. There's just more to it. Just like there is more to it at quarterback or running back. If you don't have a corner who is fundamentally sound, you'll be in trouble. There will be CB busts even in this class. It happens every year."
The trick for the Steelers, if they go that route, is to find the right player for their system.
*Would the Steelers go to the trouble or trying to smokescreen other teams with picks late in the first round by bringing in Robert Nkemdiche for a visit Monday? Or are they seriously interested in the troubled defensive tackle from Mississippi?
Nkemdiche was suspended for the Sugar Bowl after he was arrested for possession of marijuana late last year in an Atlanta hotel room. Then Nkemdiche didn't do himself any favors at the NFL combine when he attempted to throw Mississippi offensive tackle Laremy Tunsil under the bus by telling the assembled media that Tunsil was in the hotel room with him. Tunsil is the likely No. 1 pick in the draft.
I doubt the Steelers would invest a first-round pick in a troubled player such as Nkemdiche, but I wouldn't rule him out later in the draft. The Steelers took a calculated gamble on Martavis Bryant when they selected him in the fourth round of the 2014 draft. Bryant helped the offense soar to new heights the past two seasons. But after several failed drug tests he won't play in 2016 and maybe never again for the Steelers.
It could be that type of gamble with Nkemdiche, who is regarded by many draft analysts as the top player in the draft. I don't see the Steelers pulling the trigger in rounds 1, but they've rolled the dice before on players with off-field issues. Not a lot, but they've done it. And Bryant is proof of the good and the bad that can come along with taking such a risk.
*Nkemdiche was one of seven college prospects who visited the Steelers Monday. In case you missed it, three more safeties came in. That's now 10 safeties who have visited the Steelers during the predraft process.
By contrast, the Steelers have only played host to five cornerbacks at their facility. But remember, Kevin Colbert and Mike Tomlin have been visiting with the top corners on the road at their respective pro days. Just because the some of the top corners haven't been to Pittsburgh doesn't mean the Steelers aren't interested in them.
Robert Nkemdiche among prospects visiting Steelers today
The Steelers continued to shuttle defensive players through the UPMC Rooney Sports Complex today as they played host to another seven college prospects. One of them is the most controversial player in the draft.
Defensive tackle Robert Nkemdiche is regarded by many as the top player in the draft, but he is in danger of falling out of the first round due to some off-field issues.
Nkemdiche, who played at Mississippi, was charged with marijuana possession last year and was suspended for the Sugar Bowl after police found seven marijuana cigarettes in his hotel room.
Nkemdiche was widely regarded as the top pick in the draft before this incident. He's had some other off-field issues as well.
The Steelers also played host cornerbacks Ken Crawley and Cyrus Jones, safeties Karl Joseph, Justin Simmons and Sean Davis as well as receiver Pharoh Cooper and linebacker Dadi Nicholas.
The Steelers have played host to 10 safeties, five cornerbacks and five defensive linemen so far. They have can bring in six more players before the draft. They have played host to 24 players the past two weeks.


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March 31, 2014
Two years of planning and fundraising paid off with a two-week project in Guatemala for a group of Bradley engineering students. Two teams of students each spent a March week in the village of Nuevas Ilusiones to oversee and help in the construction of a freshwater well, a storage tank, and installing a water purification, storage and distribution system.
The village of 350 in northern Guatemala lacks infrastructure to retain and store water for use during the region's five-month dry season. Members of Bradley's Engineers Without Borders chapter worked to develop a self-sustaining system that will reliably provide safe water for the community year-round.
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We need a new design for our website that better represents the tone and positioning of the brand and existing marketing collateral. The current site doesn't look professional; it is inconsistent from page to page; and it doesn't communicate the value proposition of the company in a visually appealing manner.
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• Primary Needs: Full-service vending solution, choice of product to meet the needs of employees and customers, healthy food options
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We are looking for a new homepage design, plus 4 interior pages.
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Homepage – "Home"
1 Overall design should be clean, fresh and uncluttered
2 Logo (provided) - Overall design should be complementary to logo design – colors, theme & fonts
3 Image(s) that represent vending (healthy snacks and drinks)
-Open to new image recommendations
-Food images should feel fresh
-Equipment images should look modern and high-tech
4 Value proposition and marketing copy (provided)
5 Navigation buttons or menu to four interior pages
6 Area for dynamic, rotating content – testimonials, news or special offers
7 Call to action (provided)
-Should be easy to see – and accessible from every page
-We would like to move the "Contact Us" form to the homepage if it can be done in a way that doesn't clutter the page too much [http://www.beachcitiesvending.com/C…ct_Us.html]
Interior Page 1 – "Products"
-Design should support the ability to search/see different product types from 4 categories (meals, snacks, drinks, healthy choices)
Interior Page 2 – "Equipment"
Interior Page 3 – "FAQ"
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A drawer full of letters at PRESS, a hybrid teaching and gallery space for letterpress printing in North Adams.
Jarvis Rockwell, son of Norman Rockwell, stood next to an early self-portrait that hangs in his studio on Main Street.
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Jeep Pants - Trail HeadPosted in News on October 7, 2013
A couple of months ago I posed a question on my @ChristianHazel1 Twitter account. Yeah, I have a Twitter account. Stop laughing…my boss made me. Anyway, I asked "If your Jeep wore pants, what kind would they be?" The responses ranged from the hilarious to extremely clever. A couple of my favorites were "ragged and oil stained," "Wranglers," and "diapers...it leaks like hell, always needs something to eat, and won't take care of itself." But in almost every case, the comedy, intelligence, and plain ol' down-to-earth spirit of the replies underscored what I already knew: At the end of the day, Jeepers are primarily good people with good values and fundamentally aren't too different from each other.
I bet that if I had posed the same question to Hummer owners I would've gotten answers like "expensive ones," or "a designer brand that's better than yours." Range Rover guys would probably answer "really, really expensive ones," or "ones with more useless pockets than yours...that are really, really expensive." BMW X5 people would simply answer "Tight ones…you can see my junk, right? 'Cause that's what I'm going for." And Mercedes G-wagon folks…well, I think in this country their crowd is more apt to wear skirts so the question probably wouldn't be applicable. But you get my point. I'm not here to bash devotees of other brands. Well, at least not more than I just did.
The Jeep-in-pants thing was just one of the many random, obtuse thoughts that pass between my ears numerous times on any given day. I usually try to ignore most of my brain's internal white noise of this type, but the pants thing seemed uniquely analogous to that four-letter word from which we all suffer: Jeep. I was originally going to go off on a tangent exploring how some Jeeps I see are the equivalent of a dude in Daisy Duke shorty-shorts cut so high the pockets hang out of the bottoms. Or maybe something about other Jeeps being the automotive equivalent of assless leather cowboy chaps or retro hip-hugger Levis 501s. But ultimately there's a larger truth behind this the Jeep/pants thing. At least in our seven-slat world, the kind of Jeep you drive and the kind of pants you regularly wear parallel your style, personality, and character. With brands like Hummer and Range Rover the parallel seems only to highlight your tax bracket.
Person who works with their hands? Dickies or Carhartt work pants. Person who wrenches on their own stuff? Oil-stained overalls or maybe some tattered jeans with holes in the knees. Person who wheels their Jeep every chance they get? Pair of short or long cargo pants. Person with a good white-collar job? Pair of clean khakis or maybe some newer jeans. The point is all of these pants fit equally well atop the driver seat of a Wrangler or Cherokee or even vintage CJ. That's not necessarily the case with those other brands I made fun of.
And to this end, Jeeps are something of a melting pot with regard to what archetype their owners fit. You're just as likely to run into a $250,000-per-year executive in a Jeep as you are a $15,000-per-year student. You can't pigeonhole exactly what type of pants you'll find a Jeep owner wearing, but one thing is invariably certain—they'll put 'em on one leg at a time. 'Cause Jeep people are real people. But as Jp's Feature Editor Verne Simons points out, please don't actually make pants for your Jeep. It would look bad, and they'd probably get all caught up in the driveshafts or tires.


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Torrey Smith's first NFL training camp has been about adjusting to a new offensive system and a different level of expectations.
After an entire offseason of presuming he would be a backup as a rookie, Smith felt his NFL world change in a matter of days when Derrick Mason signed with the New York Jets and Malcom Floyd stayed in San Diego.
The second-round pick out of Maryland is now preparing himself to start beyond Thursday's preseason opener at Philadelphia. Smith is ready to line up in the spot vacated by Mason, the franchise's all-time leading receiver, when the Ravens kick off the season against the Pittsburgh Steelers in 32 days.
"I know I'm not going to make every catch," Smith said. "I know I'm not going to get every assignment right. But I'm going to be a playmaker."
Former New York Jets wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery visited team headquarters Tuesday, but the Ravens haven't aggressively pursued him. This might be a signal that the Ravens are ready to start a rookie wide receiver for the first time in six years.
Ravens coach John Harbaugh said one of the reasons why the team drafted Smith and Tandon Doss (fourth round) was because they were receivers who "would get up to speed quickly."
The Ravens wouldn't be the first team to rely on a rookie wide receiver to produce immediately. Over the past three seasons, 14 receivers have caught at least 45 passes in their first seasons. Tampa Bay's Mike Williams topped all rookies in 2010 with 65 catches and 11 touchdowns, so it's not unprecedented for young wide outs to make a strong first impression.
"I think he's going to have to make an impact," quarterback Joe Flacco said. "What kind of impact? We don't know yet. He's going to have to play, and get out there, and kind of learn as he goes along. So, he's going to have to make an impact, and I'm pretty sure it's going to be a good one for us."
When Smith first met with reporters at training camp, he made a point of saying, "Obviously, I am not Derrick. I am not a veteran. I am not the leading receiver in Ravens history."
The Ravens, however, don't want Smith to be Mason. They want him to be the receiver that can compliment Anquan Boldin's style. He has shown a knack for getting behind cornerbacks on deep routes and turn quick passes into big gains throughout training camp.
Some draft experts graded Smith as a first-round talent after he averaged 15.7 yards per carry last season at Maryland and ran the 40-yard dash in 4.43 seconds at the NFL combine (fourth-fastest among receivers).
But he lasted until the end of the second round, the fifth wide receiver taken behind A.J. Green (Cincinnati), Julio Jones (Atlanta), Jonathan Baldwin (Kansas City) and Titus Young (Detroit).
"My mind set throughout the draft is where you get picked is just where you start," Smith said. "It's about where you finish. I want to be the best player I can and show everyone I belong at this level."
Smith is trying to break the Ravens' rocky track record when it comes to drafting wide receivers. No rookie receiver has ever caught more than 44 passes for the Ravens and only one (Mark Clayton) has recorded more than 28.
Boldin, who has become the mentor to the Ravens' receivers, put his support behind Smith.
"I think he's one of those guys that are capable of stepping into that No. 2 spot," Boldin said.
The challenge has been increased for Smith because the lockout eliminated all of the offseason workouts. He didn't get on the Ravens' practice field until July 28.
"I think I will be prepared," Smith said of starting on Sept. 11. "The biggest thing is just making sure I can execute. You can't play well if you don't know what you're doing. I feel like I'm doing better, and I'm getting better each and every practice. I'm playing faster each and every practice because I'm really getting the playbook down. I'm just excited about the opportunity. You just have to take advantage of it."
twitter.com/jamisonhensley CatchesYardsTouchdowns2008 Eddie Royal, Denver919805DeSean Jackson, Philadelphia629122Davone Bess, Miami545541Donnie Avery, St. Louis5367432009 Austin Collie, Indianapolis606767Percy Harvin, Minnesota607906Jeremy Maclin, Philadelphia557624Michael Crabtree, San Francisco486252Mike Thomas, Jacksonville484531Hakeem Nicks, N.Y.Giants477906Johnny Knox, Chicago4552752010 Mike Williams, Tampa Bay6596411Jordan Shipley, Cincinnati526003Dez Bryant, Dallas455616Only 14 rookie wide receivers have caught at least 45 passes in a season since 2008:


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Treats for Shavuot
Daniel Rogov
Shavuot (in Hebrew, [i]Shavuos[i] in Yiddish and among many Ashkenazi Jews) is one of the joyful holidays of the Jewish religion, celebrating among other things the anniversary of the day God gave the Torah to the Israelites gathered at Mount Sinai and falls this year on Wednesday, 8 June..
No one questions the importance of Shavuot in Jewish life but, with the holiday coming rapidly upon us it is appropriate to ponder on the fact that no one seems to know precisely why it is considered traditional to celebrate the holiday by eating dairy dishes. Some say that such dishes remind us that the Torah is as sweet and nourishing as milk and honey. Others claim that the tradition honors the Israelites who were wandering through Sinai and gave up meat dishes as a sacrifice just before Moses ascended the mountain to receive the Torah. Some students of the Kabbalah say that dairy products have a special purity, one that reminds us that if we are faithful to the Torah we will eventually attain paradise.
Whatever the reason, the habit is a delicious one. Although the dishes that most often come to mind on the holiday are cheese-filled blintzes (crepes) and chesecakes, there is no reason why dairy dishes need be made only for desserts. Some of the following recipes are appropriate as first courses, others for lunch or breakfast and yet others for dessert. Unless otherwise noted, each of the recipes is designed to serve 4 - 6.
Cream Cheese Quiche
1 cup cream cheese
1./4 cup butter, softened
2/3 cup sugar
2 eggs
generous pinch of nutmeg
1 23 cm. (9") pie shell, partially baked and
placed on a baking sheet
In a mixing bowl beat the cream cheese, butter and sugar together
until the mixture is smooth. Beat in the eggs and nutmeg and then
pour the mixture into the pie shell. Bake in the upper part of a
medium-hot oven until the pie is done. (The pie will be done when
it has become puffy and browned and when a sharp knife plunged
into the center comes out clean, about 25 - 30 minutes of baking).
Serve hot, at room temperature or cold as a first course or for
Fried Cheese Balls
2 eggs, separated
1/2 cup each milk and flour
1/4 kilo Swiss-style cheese, grated
1 Tablespoon Parmesan cheese, grated
2 teaspoons onion, grated
pinch of grated nutmeg
salt and pepper to taste
oil for deep frying
In a mixing bowl beat the egg yolks until frothy and then add
the milk, mixing well. Gradually add the flour and beat until
smooth. Beat the egg whites until stiff and then fold the milk
mixture into the egg whites. Add the remaining ingredients and
stir gently but well.
Drop the mixture by teaspoonsful into hot deep oil and fry,
turning, until just golden-brown. Drain and serve immediately
as an appetizer.
Cheese Fritters
4 cups cottage cheese
3/4 cup flour, sifted
4 egg yolks
2 Tablespoons sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
butter for frying
sour cream for serving, well chilled
Place the cheese in toweling or cheesecloth and carefully
squeeze as much moisture from it as possible. Rub the dry cheese
through a sieve. In a mixing bowl combine the cheese, flour, egg
yolks, sugar and salt. Knead together well and roll into 7 1/2 cm. (3")
thick tubes. Refrigerate for about 1 hour and then slice the
rolls into 2 1/2 cm. slices.
In a skillet melt just enough butter to fry the slices and fry
until golden brown on both sides. Serve hot with the sour cream
as an appetizer or for a light meal.
Honeyed Cheese with Berries
350 grams (12 oz) cream cheese, softened
6 Tablespoons dry white wine
5 Tablespoons honey
1 kilo (2.2 lbs) whole blackberries or blueberries (may used tinned)
2 Tablespoons confectioners' sugar
Place the cream cheese in a mixing bowl and gradually add and
beat in the wine. When the wine is beaten in, add the honey and
beat in well. Add the berries and stir them gently into the
mixture. Chill for 1 - 2 hours and then serve in chilled glasses
or bowls that have had their rims dipped in the confectioners'
sugar. (Serves 6 - 8 as a dessert).
Spanish Cheesecake
Adapted from a recipe by Penelope Casas
For the dough:
1 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 Tablespoons vegetable oil
For the Filling:
2 eggs
250 grams (9 oz) cottage cheese
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon dried ground mint
1/4 teaspoon ouzo, arak or pastis liqueur
3 Tablespoons honey
1 teaspoon rose water
powdered cinnamon, as required
Make the dough by mixing the flour and salt and stirring in the
oil and 2 1/2 Tablespoons of water. Roll the mixture out and fold in
three, as you would a letter. Roll out again and fold and roll 2
more times. Place the dough into a 20 centimeter (8") loose-bottomed
cake or quiche pan, making sure the bottom and sides are covered
with the dough.
In a mixing bowl beat together the eggs, cheese, sugar, mint and
ouzo. Spread the mixture on the dough and bake in a medium oven
until the filling is firm (about 40 minutes).
Mix together the honey and rose water, sprinkle this mixture
over the pie and then dust with cinnamon. Serve warm. (Serves
6 - .
Pumpkin Cheesecake
Based on a recipe from The American Harvest
Restaurant at New York City's Vista Hotel
15 grams butter, melted
8 gingerbread cookies, crushed into fine crumbs
1 kilo cream cheese, at room temperature
1/4 kilo sugar
5 eggs
1 1/2 teaspoons grated orange rind
1 1/2 teaspoons grated lemon rind
.1 kilo pumpkin puree (may use tinned)
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 teaspoons ground anise
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoons ground coriander
50 milliliters sweet cream
50 milliliters sour cream
3 Tablespoons Bourbon or Scotch whisky
100 grams walnuts, chopped finely
Brush a 25 centimeter cake tin with the melted butter and then
coat evenly with the cookie crumbs.
Cut the cream cheese into small pieces. In a large bowl whisk
the cheese until it is creamy and then gradually beat in the
sugar. Continue beating until the mixture is very soft and no
lumps remain. On a low speed beat the eggs one at a time and then
beat in the grated orange and lemon rind together with the
pumpkin, cinamon, nutmeg, anise, cloves and coriander. Add the
sweet cream, sour cream and whisky and beat until the mixture is
smooth throughout.
Pour the mixture into the cake tin, sprinkle over with the
choped nuts. Place the cake tin in a large roasting pan, pour in
boiling water that will reach halfway up the sides, set in the
center of a medium oven and bake for 1« hours.
Remove from the oven and place on a rack to cool completely.
Refrigerate for at least 8 hours (may be stored, refrigerated for
up to 2 days). To unmould, dip the cake tin into very hot water
for about 30 seconds, taking care that the water does not come
overthe top of the ake. Run a knife carefully around the edge and
then invert the cake onto a board. Invert again onto a serving
place so that the nuts are on top. To serve, dip a wide cake
knife in hot water to cut each slice. (Because the cake is quite
soft do not expect the slices to be perfect). (Serves 12 - 14).
Spinach Salad with Feta Cheeseּ
1 clove garlic, cut in half
1/2 kilo spinach, washed and picked over well
2 hard boiled eggs, sliced
1 medium onion, thinly sliced
1 tomato, cut in wedges
1/2 cup feta cheese or Bulgarian cheese, crumbled
6 Tablespoons olive oil
2 Tablespoons red wine vinegar
1/2 teaspoon each oregano, salt and pepper
1/4 teaspoon powdered mustard
With the garlic clove rub the inside of the salad bowl well.
Tear the spinach by hand and drop it into the bowl. Add the
eggs, onion, tomato and cheese and toss gently.
Combine the remaining ingredients in a jar, cover and mix well
by shaking. Pour the dressing over the salad, toss the salad well
but gently and serve. (Serves 4 - 6).


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Sincell necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 230 diseños de 52 diseñadores freelance.
We're a family oriented startup working towards the dream of working full time for ourselves. We're part way there and we need your help to make it the rest of the way.
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We've been waiting a long time for this so we'll do our best to give timely constructive feedback.
Our products target a range of users, but primarily we target consumers and very small businesses. We've done a lot of products targeting marketers/promoters in the past, although we're hoping to focus on designers and small business owners in the future. So its a pretty wide range of users.
There are some beautiful designs on this site, and we're excited to see what you can come up with. We have some basic requirements, but you guys and girls are the experts so everything we provide is meant as a rough guideline only.
We think we'd like a logo with both our company name and some type of image each of which can stand alone and be identifiable.
Our old logo was just our name in a font named Bauer. We do like the font quite a bit so it wouldn't be a bad thing if the final design included that font or a similar looking one. I'll attach a sample of it as well. Once again not a requirement just an idea.
It'd be nice to have a couple colors or gradients. Maybe a solid color on the company text and colors on the image. We'd like it to look like a professional software company logo. If anything err on the side of fun rather than stuffy. Also we've always used shades of blue so that would probably score a few bonus points.
As for things not to do, we're not big fans of animals being included in the logo. Also probably not overly 3-D, but once again you guys are the professionals so if you have a design you think we'll like, go for it.
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So, 579 or 571 … neither of which divides evenly by 8. Considering the edging is three-quarters finished … this is a tough call.
Oh no!!!! That is an awful lot of stitches… I feel for you.
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any which way!! dearie
I'm all for finding some way to increase and faking it.
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Whirlwind Day for Penske Fill-In Hornish
Sam Hornish Jr. was sitting in a television studio in Charlotte, N.C., on Saturday afternoon, giving his prediction on who would win that night's race at Daytona International Speedway, when the cell phone in his pocket began to vibrate. Appearing on a live Speed network program, he didn't have the opportunity to answer it. He checked his messages after the program ended and before he was supposed to tape another segment to air the next day.
"I said, 'Hold on, I have to make a call real quick,'" Hornish said. "And then I was like, 'Nope, I can't.'"
Thus began the whirlwind that landed the regular Penske Racing Nationwide Series driver in the seat of the No. 22 Sprint Cup car for Daytona's summertime 400 miler. The Penske team was informed Saturday afternoon that AJ Allmendinger was suspended temporarily for failing a random drug test conducted the previous weekend in Kentucky, and it needed another driver for the No. 22 on short notice. The natural was Hornish, a former Indianapolis 500 champion with 110 Cup starts. The problem was getting him to Daytona in time to start the race.
Hornish finished 10th in Friday night's Nationwide race at Daytona, after which he returned home. His phone began to buzz during the first segment of "Speed Center," which aired from 4 to 4:30 p.m. Saturday. When he finally checked his phone, he found a message from Penske operations director Mike Nelson.
"They said, 'We think we might need you [Saturday night],'" Hornish said. "I said, 'OK.'"
Hornish called Walt Czarnecki, Penske's executive vice president, who informed the driver that his services would indeed be required. A member of Hornish's Nationwide crew was dispatched to pick up a firesuit while the driver headed to the airport.
The drive took 20 minutes. Once there, Hornish said he waited another 45 minutes for Penske's private plane to get him. In the air, he changed into his firesuit -- the Alliance Truck Parts version from his Nationwide team -- and tried to hydrate the best he could.
"We sat there and had no idea what was going to happen from the time that I left Charlotte to when I got to Daytona," he said. "All the way up until the plane took off, we didn't know if we were going to make the race in time. I said that I would tell the pilot to fly faster, but I'm pretty sure that he was going to have the throttle pinned the whole way down."
It was going to be close. The Penske team had enlisted Kenny Wallace as an emergency standby. "It was one of those deals where we flew in, I half expected to see race cars going around the track," Hornish said.
Instead, he touched down in Daytona, where the airport is conveniently adjacent to the race track, to find a police escort waiting for him. "It's kind of a weird thing when you land in an airplane and you see cop lights that are out there for you," he said.
At about 7:30 p.m., just as the invocation was being issued, a black SUV -- led by a pair of police motorcycles with blue lights flashing -- sped through a back gate of the garage area, whisking Hornish to pit road. The No. 22 team quickly put Hornish's seat and steering wheel in the car while he thanked Wallace for being on standby. Penske teammate Brad Keselowski came over and spoke to Hornish shortly before the engines fired, and over the radio, crew chief Todd Gordon thanked his driver for all he had been through to make the race.
"Appreciate you helping out here, Sam," Gordon said. "... Appreciate the effort you took to get here."
"A little bit different day for me," Hornish responded, "doing TV and then getting in an airplane and driving a race car. I'll try to be as smooth and smart as I can be, try to make sure that we have something for the end and get you guys as many points as we can."
Hornish had to start at the rear because of the driver change, but by Lap 34, he had worked his way into the top 20. He fell back some after a pit stop, then on Lap 81 wound up in the backstretch wall after a tire went down on him, shredding the quarterpanel in the process. The team lost 10 laps in the garage making repairs, and Hornish finished a disappointing 33rd place.
"We had a good car," he said. "We were just trying to be smart and bide our time, and we ended up cutting down a tire, and that basically ended our race. That's unfortunate because I feel like these restrictor-plate races give you opportunities to go out there and make something happen at the end. We just barely made it past halfway when the tire let go on us and ripped the quarter off."
Although the No. 22 team made changes in the car to accommodate Hornish, the race was something of an arduous effort. Hornish said his headrest was a little off, his steering wheel was a little off and he didn't have enough advance notice to properly hydrate or fuel himself for a Cup race on a very hot Florida day.
"All in all, I couldn't have asked for much more in that short of a time period," he said. "... But I knew I was going to be off a little bit because I wasn't able to take all the steps you would normally take to be in one of these hot races."
NASCAR announced Saturday afternoon that Allmendinger's "A" sample from Kentucky has tested positive for an undisclosed banned substance. The driver had 72 hours to request that his "B" sample also be tested. If that also fails, or if Allmendinger declines to have it tested, he would be suspended indefinitely until undergoing further examination or treatment.
Saturday night, there were no indications of who would be in the No. 22 car next weekend at New Hampshire. If it's Hornish, it can't be a more challenging situation than the whirlwind he faced at Daytona.
"I don't know if I should say I'm happy to be here or not," Hornish said. "It's definitely not the kind of race I wanted to have. I got to do a lot of things I've never gotten to do before -- put a race suit on in an airplane, get an escort in to the track. ... But all in all, thankful for the opportunity to come down here and run."


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Pharma Asset Management: Sizing Up the Global Secondary Market
As pharma and biopharma companies deal with turbulent times, they look to a more sophisticated (and even real-time) secondary market to help manage equipment and assets. An industry expert surveys the scene, and provides smart shopping and selling advice.
The drug industry has been in tumult for many years now, with the recent economic downturn only compounding the problem. With companies downsizing, outsourcing, and generally struggling to find the right global footprint, they've been challenged with moving and managing their facilities' physical assets.
"These activities require companies to make decisions on whether to redeploy assets into growth areas or to sell them from existing businesses into the global marketplace," says Romie Castelli, Senior VP of North American Sales for GoIndustry DoveBid, which specializes in surplus asset management, direct sales, auctions, and exchanges of pharma and biopharma equipment. Recently, Castelli says, high - quality lab and production equipment has become more available in the secondary market, providing opportunity for companies looking to liquidate or acquire certain types of physical assets. In this interview, we talk with Castelli about what's happening out there. We also get his tips on smart shopping and selling in secondary equipment.
PhM: Given all the M&A activity and plant closings, there must be a lot of good equipment available on the market. How has this affected equipment prices in general?
R.C.: That is correct. We have seen a major shift throughout the process, as major biotech and pharmaceutical companies look to recoup their return on investment for assets. As well, these same companies are looking to proactively manage their assets' lifecycle—whether it is redeploying assets internally or selling the assets in the global marketplace.
Companies are looking to establish a strategic partnership that can provide this solution with minimal downtime to their human capital resources. This is where our value comes into play—by providing customized asset management solutions that are tailored to clients' requirements. For example, utilizing our AssetZone software, clients can now identify and redeploy or sell assets on a real-time basis. This type of technology has helped cause a major influx of biotech and pharmaceutical equipment into the secondary market.
The development of the secondary market has provided buyers a unique opportunity to acquire working condition equipment with service records for less than 50%-70% of the acquisition cost. This has caused a direct ripple effect on new equipment prices. OEM's and VAR's now have to directly compete with the secondary market equipment prices. For the past six years, we have seen a trend of mainstream organizations and companies including major university, research institutions, and even global pharmaceutical corporations looking for equipment in the secondary market. They understand the need to have multiple equipment procurement channels. This helps buyers reduce the equipment acquisition lead time—instead of waiting weeks or even months for delivery of a new piece of equipment from the original equipment manufacturer, a used item could be shipped and installed within a matter of a few days.
PhM: What kind of equipment is still moving well, and what isn't? (Are there specific pieces from specific OEMs that are hot items that you can name?)
R.C.: Analytical equipment such as HPLC's and mass spectrometers move extremely well. Brand names like Agilent, Waters, and Thermo are highly sought after. Higher-end instrumentation like NMR's and complex/custom robotics, while very costly to purchase new, tend to move more slowly in the secondary market and take longer to find the most suitable buyer.
PhM: Is it fair to say that biopharma production equipment is in high demand, but there's low demand for traditional chemical pharmaceutical equipment?
R.C.: We see the demand on process equipment based on age and condition rather than manufacturing type. However, there is high demand for both late model chemical and API equipment, but less demand for the same equipment with more than five years of age. The sale cycle is generally longer to sell older chemical pharmaceutical equipment. These are all factors that the seller must take into account when trying to sell these types of assets.
PhM: You mentioned that the market for R&D, laboratory assets has remained strong despite the down economy. What accounts for this, and are there certain pieces of equipment that are particularly in demand?
R.C.: As you look at the various stages of drug discovery and development for biotech and pharmaceutical companies, you notice that the common types of equipment that have constantly moved from project to project are the R&D and laboratory assets. They are mobile and can fit into multiple applications with minimal enhancements. This has directly benefited the secondary market with large influxes in working-condition equipment.
With this large amount of supply there has been an equal amount of demand for cost-effective equipment procurement channels from small and medium business, to foreign companies and educational institutions. Many of these organizations start off as buyers and become sellers in the future, and vice-versa. In addition, the continuing investment from venture capital firms and new spin-off entities created from M&A activities has provided a consistent supply of buyers and sellers.
The asset types that have the greatest market activity are general laboratory and analytical equipment. These lab assets tend to be more generic in nature, have a broad appeal, and are cost effective to ship globally.
The key types of equipment often offered in the secondary market include:
- General laboratory equipment such as centrifuges, microscopes, autoclaves, etc.
- Analytical equipment including HPLC, NMR, and mass spectrometry
- Pharmaceutical processing that includes presses, blenders and blowers
- Packaging and support equipment
PhM: What are manufacturers doing with the assets that they can't sell off? Are they getting savvier about redeploying them?
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Luther Coggin, Toni Crawford, Wilfredo Gonzalez, Ann Hicks, and Judith Solano
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Chair Hicks called the meeting to order. She asked for a motion to approve the minutes. The motion was offered and the minutes were approved unanimously.
Chair Hicks asked Provost Giordano to discuss the item on tenure and promotion. Dr. Giordano said that with regard to promotion and tenure, each member of the group had been reviewed by their department, the chair of the department, and the dean of the college. At each level, administration was advised about whether the person had met expectations for promotion, tenure or both.
In those cases where a person did not receive consistent votes of approval, the provost met with all participants and had dialogue with them about what had guided them when they made their decisions. He said that those who were up for tenure and promotion, those who were only up for tenure, and those that were only up for promotion were included in the committee members' packets. For each of these cases, the university committee had agreed that the candidate met expectations for promotion and tenure, tenure or for promotion, with one exception. One person was not given vote of confidence by the department's chair, dean, or the university committee. The provost agreed with the pattern of consistent votes in all cases.
Dr. Serwatka noted that the Educational Policy Committee vote was only for tenure; promotion decisions were for information only. Chair Hicks asked for questions or comments. Trustee Solano moved to accept the tenure nominations. The motion was seconded by Trustee Gonzalez and approved unanimously.
Vice President Giordano noted a list of special legislative initiatives under attachment 4. He said the University was requesting funding for the initiatives from next year's legislative session. The requests fell into three categories identified by the Governor, the Legislature, and the Board of Governors as the highest priorities for universities in terms of producing more undergraduate degrees due to these areas' critical impact on sustaining services and contributing to the economic growth of the state: nursing, education, and information technology and engineering.
In nursing, the issue was the incapacity to accept more students due to lack of professors and facilities on campus, as well as the lack of internship placement opportunities. The University was asking the state to fund more professors and hoped to receive special budgeting to support a new program for nurse anesthetists. UNF was committed to the nurse anesthetist program with or without the funding from the state and had already been approached by Shands with an offer to loan hospital staff members as faculty.
Provost Giordano said the problem with both education and engineering and technology was more difficult. In those two areas, the issue was student attraction. Not enough students were interested in these two high need degree areas. In education, the University proposed supporting different ways of obtaining alternative licensure for those with four year degrees in areas other than education, allowing teachers to take the additional coursework necessary for certification while they were actually teaching. The University planned to undertake this initiative with or without the requested funding from the state.
Trustee Gonzalez brought up an idea he had mentioned at a previous meeting some time ago. He noted that the Peace Corp had approximately 7000 volunteers worldwide, many serving as teachers in some capacity. Often, though they had degrees, the degrees were not in education. Trustee Gonzalez suggested becoming one of the institutions involved in training these volunteers to become teachers with the idea of attempting to attract the volunteers back to Florida upon completion of their service in the Peace Corp. He also recommended trying to get the list of returning volunteers in an attempt to recruit from there. He said he had contact names in Washington, DC that he could provide. Provost Giordano said he would look into Trustee Gonzalez's ideas.
Regarding information technology and business, Dr. Giordano said there had been a downturn of interest in degrees in those fields. UNF sought funding to add and change tracks in those areas to generate interest and better fulfill some of the state's needs.
Trustee Coggin asked if university administration had quantified the cost of expanding the nursing programs. Provost Giordano said the College of Health was currently developing a strategic plan that would give those figures along with a timetable.
Trustee Crawford moved to approve the recommendation. The motion was seconded by Trustee Solano and approved unanimously. Chair Hicks noted that President Delaney was not able to attend the meeting as he was representing the University in Washington, DC with the other state university presidents.
Ms. Lina Monell, director of Equal Opportunity Programs, was asked to give a brief summary of the FEEA report. She said the University was required to submit the report annually to the Office of Equity and Access. The report was required in that office by June 30 after approval had been obtained from the Board of Trustees. She noted that parts 1 and 2 required no action; there were no new equity policies and procedures or incomplete items or actions.
Ms. Monell then provided a review of the remainder of the report beginning with graduate enrollment and completion rates. Total graduate enrollment had dropped by almost 3 percent but the University did see an increase in enrollments of Spanish, Asian, and American Indian graduate students, though there had been a decrease in the number of African Americans enrolling in graduate programs. She noted that this number tended to fluctuate, but when viewed over a five year period had been gradually increasing overall. With respect to graduate completion rates, the University had seen a drop in completion overall. The number of African Americans completing graduate programs had increased but there had been a decrease in the number of Hispanic graduates; she believed this may have been mostly due to the decline of a program in Belize.
The next section dealt with FTIC enrollment, retention, and graduation rates. Ms. Monell said there was good news with regard to enrollment rates as the University had seen a significant increase in the number of African American, Hispanic, and other minority enrollments. The University had remained rather stable over the previous six years, but several outreach initiatives from the Office of Admissions had resulted in the larger increases over the past year. The same was true for retention of minority students due to strategies being used by that office to benefit all students. Currently Black students were retained at a higher rate than White students while the retention rate of Hispanic students was slightly below that of White students. Ms. Monell said that, for students tracked over six years, Black students were lagging behind with respect to graduation, but other minority groups were exceeded White students' graduation rate.
In response to a question from Chair Hicks, Ms. Monell said that retention was considered one year after enrollment while graduation was tracked over a six year period. Retention rates were currently better than graduation rates. Trustee Crawford verified that non-traditional students were not counted in these rates. Dr. Serwatka said a study might be needed to determine if minorities took longer to graduate, which might, in turn, affect the totals for graduation rates.
Ms. Monell moved to the section on athletics. She said enrollment rates for females had been growing steadily over the last few years, as had the percentage of females participating in athletic programs– at about 1 percent per year, which was consistent with the gender equity plan. She said a corrective action plan for two items where the University had not been in compliance, coaching and locker rooms, had been initiated last year. To address the lack of coaching support for the women's teams, money had been budgeted to hire a coach. Candidate interviews had begun and Athletics expected to hire a coach by July 1.
Locker rooms would remain an issue until funds had been obtained to build appropriate facilities. However, modifications had been made in existing facilities in the meantime. The final issue in athletics was financial assistance through scholarships. Scholarship dollars for the women's teams continued to increase, though still at less than the desired rate.
Part 6 dealt with employment. Three groups were tracked: senior level administrative positions, academic administrative positions, and faculty. In senior level administrative positions there was a deficiency in the number of Black administrators; in academic administrative positions more females and minorities were needed. With regard to faculty, the issue was somewhat harder to address and the University had to wait for faculty members to retire to try to meet those goals. UNF was able to meet seven of eleven goals. In some cases, offers were made to minorities and were declined, but the University was continuing to make attempts and was seeing positive results. In consultation with the deans and the provost, new goals had been set for 2004-2005.
In response to a question from Trustee Gonzalez, Ms. Monell said that all recruitment for faculty positions went through her office. She said the University did not have a problem in the recruitment area and had success in making offers to minorities. However, because of the very competitive nature of such hires, minorities had often accepted positions at other institutions offering better salaries.
Trustee Solano noted that section 5, part 6, related to the evaluation, promotion, and tenure section of the faculty handbook, was outdated and no longer correct. However, the handbook itself could not be updated until agreement had been reached in collective bargaining. Dr. Serwatka suggested including a preface that said that the policy was incorrect but could not be updated and explaining why this was the case.
Trustee Crawford asked if UNF would be penalized by the state for any of the report findings. Dr. Serwatka replied that the University had, in fact, received accolades because of the increase in minority representation for entering freshmen. Trustee Crawford complimented university administration for the efforts made to ensure minority representation.
Trustee Gonzalez moved to approve the report and Trustee Crawford seconded the motion. It was approved unanimously.
Provost Giordano spoke of academic learning compacts (ALCs). He reminded the group of discussion at the last BOT workshop on defining what the University would do to meet the spirit of ALCs, as well as the procedures to be employed and a timetable for implementation. He noted that, though implementation had already begun in some departments, the schedule for the rest of the University would take place primarily over the coming academic year. He directed trustees to attachment 6 to see the proposed policy, which defined the objectives and had been drawn from the directives received from the state. The material also outlined the plan for meeting the initiatives on UNF's campus. The specific ALCs for each program would eventually be posted on the web. He said university administration was asking the Board to support the proposed policy.
Trustee Crawford asked if the ALCs would basically be considered outcomes. Dr. Serwatka said that was correct. In response to a question from Trustee Gonzalez, Dr. Serwatka said that issues of whether the needs of the disabled and minorities could be addressed would be program specific. For instance, students graduating from education programs should be able to address the needs of minority students, whereas this might not be an issue for other programs. Trustee Crawford verified that each program would be submitted to the state. Dr. Serwatka acknowledged that was the case and said that the ALCs must be available to students. They would at least be available on the web, but would probably also be available in a catalogue of some sort, somewhat like a syllabus for the program, as Trustee Gonzalez had suggested.
Trustee Solano moved to approve the item, which was seconded by Trustee Crawford and passed unanimously.
Provost Giordano discussed the proposed reorganization of the department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice. The faculty of the department had voted for a split into two departments. Sociology and Anthropology would remain together as one department and Criminal Justice would become a separate department. Nine faculty members would move to Criminal Justice and fifteen would remain with Sociology and Anthropology. He said the area of criminal justice had grown rapidly over the last several years and was expected to continue to do so.
Dr. Hallet discussed the history of the Criminal Justice Department and the emergence of criminal justice as an area of study at the turn of the twentieth century. He said Criminal Justice had become a separate department in many institutions across the country due to its size and distinct concentration and in order to better meet the needs of its students.
Provost Giordano requested the group's support for the proposed split, noting that the department faculty, the dean, he, and the president all supported the reorganization. Trustee Coggin moved to recommend the split. Trustee Solano seconded the recommendation and it was approved unanimously.
Chair Hicks thanked everyone for participating and the meeting was adjourned.
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