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Kevin Duffy: For Final 4 coaches, an appreciation of greatness
ARLINGTON, Texas -- When we talk legacy, we cite what's tangible.
How many national titles? How many Final Fours? How many pros? How many of them went in the first round?
When coaches talk legacy (which, by the way, they hate doing), they'll point almost exclusively to what cannot ever be quantified.
"Playing for a Hall of Fame coach in Rick Pitino, he was not a Hall of Fame coach when he was 32 years old," Florida's Billy Donovan was saying the other day. "Regardless of whether or not he would have ever been in the Hall of Fame, the impact he made on my life changed me in a lot of ways."
"I always think about when I coach," Donovan reiterated Thursday. "Can I make the same kind of impact with my players that he made with me?"
Donovan, 48, is Kevin Ollie's elder by only seven years, but it's been decades since he was in Ollie's spot, new to this whole head coaching thing.
As the story goes, Donovan was miserable working on Wall Street following a short stint with the New York Knicks, so he called Pitino and inquired about an assistant coaching position. He was by Pitino's side for five seasons, and then the head gig at Marshall, two hours east, opened up.
At 28 years old, Donovan became the youngest head coach in Division I. The players took to him immediately.
"It was supernatural," said Doug Schieppe, a former guard on Donovan's 1994-95 Marshall squad. "It was a pivotal point in shaping who a lot of us became."
Donovan inherited an 8-19 Marshall team and, with the same roster, transformed it into one that went 18-9. He said there wasn't any aspect of coaching that rattled him; Pitino had always heavily involved his assistants. According to Schieppe, Donovan's attention to detail was impeccable. The guy was 28, hardly older than his players, but this much was clear:
"I knew that he would do this," Schieppe said. "I didn't think it would be this fast, like they did in 2000 when they were already playing Michigan State (for the national championship), but you could just tell that he'd be where he is."
So today?
Billy Donovan is a Hall of Famer already. He's on the cusp of a third national title, which would catapult him to the company of John Wooden, Adolph Rupp, Bob Knight, Mike Krzyzewski and Jim Calhoun.
Rupp was 57 years old when he won No. 3. Coach K was 54. Calhoun was a spry 68. Wooden was 56, and he'd reel off seven more. Knight was 46, and he'd never win another.
That's life in college hoops. For all four coaches in Dallas this week, there's an appreciation.
"It's great to see our logo up there (on AT&T Stadium)," said Ollie, who reached the pinnacle in Year Two at 41 years old. "I'm not going to get it misconstrued or anything -- it's great to see that. But our job is not done yet."
Bo Ryan, at 66, took 15 years as a Division I head coach to get here.
"I look out there at our profession," Ryan said, "and think about all those coaches that haven't had a chance to coach in the Final Four who are as bright and as sharp and as tough and as good a mentor as anybody."
Added John Calipari: "I don't think we evaluate any coach based on Final Fours or national titles. We just know who can coach, who is a good guy, who gets their teams better, who cares about kids. We know those guys."
In Dallas, there appears to be four of those guys, their careers intersecting at different points. If Shaka Smart hasn't already been bumped from his throne as the sport's most sought-after young coach, a national championship for Kevin Ollie definitely finishes the trick. If it's Bo Ryan, who won it all four times at Division III Wisconsin-Platteville, his status as a top-tier coach, as we define it, will be legitimized.
And then there's Calipari: Five national semis (three if you're going by the NCAA records), a title and a unique gift for meshing 18-year-old egos in March. It's unlike anything in the history of the sport. No matter where you put Calipari on the 1-10 scale of sleaziness, you can't deny that he's damn-near a 10 as a college basketball coach.
Yet if we're speaking legacy, Donovan beats them all.
In just his fourth season at Florida, with his own recruiting class, Donovan pioneered No. 5-seeded Florida to the title game. Six seasons later, the nucleus of Joakim Noah, Al Horford, Corey Brewer and Taurean Green won it all as a No. 3 seed (they knocked off George Mason in the Final Four). The next year, they did it again.
Billy Donovan has now been to six of the past nine Elite Eights. Ridiculous.
Billy Donovan could join college hoops royalty this weekend.
"Although those things are nice to hear and they're great compliments," Donovan said, "the one thing I've always admired about a Dean Smith, a John Wooden, even Mike Krzyzewski, is how a player talks about those guys as coaches when they played for them."
He thinks back to Pitino at Providence.
"That, to me, is the essence that I want," he said, "because I know how it changed my life in such a positive way."
Twenty years later, Donovan's first team at Marshall is still feeling his effect.
Take Doug Schieppe, who earned his doctorate after graduation and held a private practice for seven years. He sold the practice in 2008 and became a teacher and basketball coach at his alma mater, Lebanon (Ill.) high school.
Schieppe names three others from the Marshall squad -- Shawn Moore, Michael Peck and Tink Brown -- who entered coaching as well.
So coaching greatness, the way Donovan categorizes it, can be quantified, it seems. Coaching greatness can be portrayed through stats and stories.
Or maybe not.
"The impact he had," Schieppe said, "I can't even put it into words."


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A pair of thieves who hit a police officer with their car in the western suburbs, took off on a high speed 125-mile police chase that ended in Wisconsin.
It started at 2:45 a.m. Saturday morning in Elgin.
Police were responding to a burglary call when they arrived at the Sam's Club at Randall and Bowes Road.
The suspects got into a silver Chevy pickup truck and sped off, hitting an officer in the process. It isn't exactly clear how the second officer sustained the injury.
The chase traveled through Hanover Park, then on the Elgin O'Hare Expressway, then Interstate 290, took that into the city and took the Kennedy Expressway north to the Edens, and took that interstate all the way to Racine County.
The silver Chevy pickup attempted to exit Interstate 94 about 15 miles north of the Illinois border at Durand Avenue in Racine County about 4:15 a.m.
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It's been a long time since I drove down Worcester's Main Street. And what I saw on that Dec. 30 drive turned my stomach.
It all started Dec. 27 when I visited a gas station in Sudbury to get my car inspected.
Before my car went in, the mechanic asked me for my cell phone so he could call to alert me of any obvious problems before the inspection. I went shopping for about 15 minutes and my cell phone did not ring.
When I returned to retrieve my car, I was shocked to learn that the mechanic had glued a Rejection sticker on my windshield. The car was rejected because of the color of the license plate – faded green lettering is not in regulation. I was shocked because the mechanic had not called me – since it did not seem to require a huge amount of investigation to see the license plate.
To replace that R sticker with an acceptable one, I needed to get new license plates. And the closest one to me is at 611 Main St. in Worcester. I thought I had 30 days to pass inspection but I did not want to wait on it. Unfortunately, by the time I got my rejection sticker, it was late Friday afternoon and the registry was about to close for the weekend.
I thought it would be fine to drive the car over the weekend. Unfortunately, on Sunday afternoon I was driving in Somerville when I passed a police cruiser sitting with its lights flashing in front of an X-rated video store. I passed the cruiser obeying the traffic laws and after a minute looked in my rear view mirror to see the police cruiser behind me.
After the officer threatened to arrest me for not pulling over immediately, he took my license and registration – refusing to take a copy of my inspection report. He returned with a written warning and told me that the R sticker on my car was an invitation for police to pull me over. I told the officer that I planned to replace the license plate the next day and got home without further incident after passing a police vehicle on the side of the road in Weston.
Monday morning I set off for Worcester. But before I left, I tried to unscrew my license plate, since I knew I would have to hand it in to get my new plates. Unfortunately, when I turned one of the screws holding the plate in place, it snapped – leaving only one screw keeping the license plate on the car. I drove to Worcester dreading the possibility that my plate would fall off and trying to figure out how I would be able to drive my car and get new plates without it.
Without incident, I got to Worcester and drove down Main Street. I had not driven there in decades. Sharfman's and the Worcester County Institution for Savings were gone. And office buildings along the street that I remember as having been occupied were empty and it was easy to see inside to the decaying wallboards and dangling ceiling wires inside.
I was pleased to find the Registry, but took two loops through the parking lot before realizing that it was full and that I had no idea where I would park. Though there were no signs, I lucked into the Registry's other parking lot, where I found a spot. Once I arrived at the entrance to the Registry, I encountered a line that was out the door and soon learned I would have to wait in that line to get the chance to wait in another line.
After half an hour in this "customer service" line I got a number that entitled me to sit and wait to talk with someone at the counter. And 40 minutes later, I had my new license plates and registration. I was able to screw the license plate onto the front but not the back – so I put the rear license plate in the rear window and hoped not to get pulled over.
I got back on Main Street and took another look at the decaying storefronts and empty offices – noticing a Denholms sign. I had not realized that this department store has been closed for 40 years.
Passing the sign brought back memories of the clear pipes along the walls of the shop floor. When a purchase was made, the store clerks would put the receipt and payment in a capsule that was about a half the size of a tennis ball can. Then the clerk would open a door of the pipe, insert the capsule, and a burst of air would whisk it away.
Back in Sudbury without incident, Sullivan Tire was able to install my rear plate. While there, one of the customer service professionals told me that when she visited the Worcester registry recently, two crack addicts got into a knife fight near her. Fortunately for her, the police stationed inside were able to break up the fight before blood was shed.
Happily, I was able to return to the Sudbury gas station and pass inspection. But as I think about the many Worcester leaders I interviewed in 2013 about the goal of filling vacant downtown offices with 3,000 professionals, I wondered how a trip down Main Street would pass the inspection of any business executive.
Would any professional services firm want to pair its brand and reputation with the images I saw driving along Main Street?
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Think DOJ Spying On Reporters Was 'Unprecedented'? Think Again
from the common-practice deptWe've already written about how the DOJ has a bit of history of spying on journalists' phone records without following the rules, and that was only scratching the surface. On Monday we showed that to be the case with the revelation about the questionable spying on a Fox News reporter. The DOJ didn't just spy on him, but also suggested he was a co-conspirator, for merely doing basic journalism. Over at Mother Jones, Julian Sanchez has an article, which was written prior to the revelation about Rosen, but talking about how everyone claiming that the DOJ's actions with the AP are "unprecedented" is probably wrong. The Justice Department has a variety of loopholes it can jump through to claim spying on reporters is legal. Often, this seems to happen because the FBI/DOJ seem to believe that they get to interpret the rules however they want to interpret them with little or no oversight:
Only in January 2009 did the FBI think to ask the Justice Department's in-house lawyers whether the press restrictions apply when reporter records are obtained through indirect means such as community of interest requests. Government lawyers said yes, but the FBI concluded it didn't have to tell the press in the specific case it had inquired about, because agents had not "understood at the time the subpoenas were issued that the subpoenas called for reporters' records."As he points out, the real story around all of this might not be the "unprecedented" nature of spying on reporters, but rather how common it is, without anyone knowing that it's happening (and while the DOJ's publicly stated rules suggest that this kind of spying won't happen).
The real scandal may be just how much snooping on the media the current rules permit. To fully understand the AP seizures, the media and the public need a clearer picture of the rules governing all forms of spying on media—and how often such info-grabs have happened. Maybe the seizure of AP records is an extraordinary case. Or maybe the only extraordinary thing is that we're hearing about it.So, instead of being outraged about just how unprecedented these events appear to be, perhaps we should be outraged over how common they probably are -- and how the DOJ appears to have a totally cavalier attitude towards spying on journalists.
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If you're confused about the impact of the legislative Democrats' tax swap proposal, don't feel bad. Everyone is. Some newspaper headlines played this week's report on the proposal from the legislature's non-partisan analyst as bad news for the proposal, since some middle-class Californians would pay more in taxes. Other reports emphasized that the state could benefit by cutting some taxes and raise other taxes -- the raises coming on taxes on personal income and vehicles that can later be claimed by taxpayers as federal deductions.
So what's the real impact? Reading the legislative analyst's report, the overall impression is: this tax swap could be very good for California, since it allows the state and state taxpayers to raise revenues while shifting some of the responsibility for paying that new money to the federal government. But the report also suggests that the legislature would do well to refine the proposal to minimize the impact on certain middle-class California taxpayers.
To review, the tax swap proposal is this: the state seeks to generate $1.8 billion in additional general fund revenues for the new budget years by reducing the state sales tax while increasing the vehicle license fee and personal income tax rates. Since the vehicle license fee and income tax are deductible on federal income tax revenues, the state should be able to increase revenues while not increasing the net tax burden.
The report casts some doubt on that last claim. LAO estimated that, for the 2011-2012 budget year, the tax swap proposal would generate $10.4 billion in additional tax revenue from income and vehicle fees but would cost the state $7.3 billion in lost sales taxes. That leaves $3.1 billion in additional state taxes that should be shifted to the federal government. Unfortunately, the report found, only about half of that $3 billion -- or $1.5 billion -- would be recovered by California taxpayers through federal deductions. So this isn't a wash -- it's a net tax increase of $1.6 billion on Californians.
That said, the legislative analyst likes the idea. It just suggests that different rate increases and numbers be used so there isn't a net tax increase. "Yet, the concept of redistributing the state's tax burden to increase the benefit of federally deductible taxes has merit. Our analysis was focused on using the specific tax rates suggested by the Conference plan. With different tax rates or other modifications, however, we believe there may be the potential to find a more advantageous solution."
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KIROV, Russia (Reuters) - Russian protest leader Alexei Navalny accused President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday of seeking "political revenge" against him after a court refused to throw out what he says are trumped-up charges.
On day two of his trial on theft charges that are punishable by up to 10 years in jail, the anti-corruption campaigner and protest organizer said Judge Sergei Blinov was biased. Navalny urged Blinov to recuse himself and send the charges back to state prosecutors for review.
The judge rejected both demands and pressed on with a trial in the drab industrial city of Kirov which Navalny says is part of a clampdown on the opposition since Putin's return to the presidency last May.
"First, this is political revenge for my and my foundation's investigations in the fight against corruption," Navalny, 36, told a packed courtroom after the judge announced his decisions.
"Second, it is political revenge for my and my supporters' campaign to 'Vote for any party except United Russia'," he said, referring to his opposition to Putin's party that he has branded "swindlers and thieves".
Addressing the judge calmly and clearly, and occasionally turning to face the court, he said: "The most important purpose of this case is to squeeze me out of the legal political arena."
Navalny, an organizer of the biggest protests since Putin rose to power 13 years ago, is accused of stealing 16 million roubles ($500,000) from a timber firm that he was advising in 2009 while working for the liberal Kirov regional governor.
The most prominent opposition leader to be tried in post-Soviet Russia, Navalny says he has done nothing wrong but is convinced he will not receive a fair trial.
Even a suspended sentence would bar him from elections, although opinion polls show little support for him outside big cities, meaning his ability to challenge Putin now is limited.
The Kremlin denies interfering with the judiciary or clamping down on opponents to crush dissent.
But two human rights groups issued damning reports on Putin's first year back as president. Amnesty International accused him of a witch-hunt against public dissenters and Human Rights Watch described the toughest crackdown on opposition since the Soviet Union broke up in 1991.
Tall and clean-cut, Navalny has been a thorn in the side of the government since starting to campaign online against state corruption in 2007. He established himself as a powerful speaker at anti-Putin demonstrations that flared 16 months ago.
Although the rallies drew tens of thousands of demonstrators at their peak, Putin won almost two-thirds of votes in the presidential election in March last year, and the protests against his long rule have dwindled since then.
The trial in Kirov, about 550 miles northeast of Moscow, began on April 17 but was adjourned until Wednesday to give the defense more time to prepare.
Many Russians say political life in the former Soviet superpower is so riddled with corruption that it is hard to believe Navalny is any better than the rest.
"I think it's more likely that he made some extra money for himself here, just stole it. I don't think it's political at all," said a Kirov housewife who gave her name only as Anya.
Others are simply not interested in the fate of a man who has failed to strike a chord with the millions of people in the provinces. Navalny is rarely shown on state television, the main source of news for many, except when portrayed in a bad light.
Since Putin's return to the Kremlin after four years as prime minister, two members of the dissident band Pussy Riot have been jailed, a prominent protest leader has been thrown out of parliament and another is under house arrest.
A dozen protesters also face sentences of up to 10 years over clashes with police at a rally on the eve of Putin's inauguration last May. Parliament has pushed through tough new penalties and fines for demonstrators who stray out of line.
Some supporters have drawn comparisons between Navalny and jailed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was convicted of fraud and tax evasion in 2005 after falling out with Putin.
In a newspaper column on Wednesday, Khodorkovsky said the charges against Navalny "would not stand up in an honest and fair court - their political motivation is obvious".
"The aim is to frighten and demoralize opponents and politically active voters, to cast peaceful civilian protest and the struggle for power through constitutional means as something marginal and extremist," he wrote in the daily Vedomosti.
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Why?:Keith Richards
A stranger to everyone, and the Rolling Stones' aging one-man chemistry set, Sir Keith Richards (knighthood pending) is an enigma's enigma. The Kent born guitarist--who teamed up with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones to form the Rolling Stones almost 50 years ago in the "acid age"--has a hazy past, filled with drugs, poontang, drugs, booze, cigarettes, music, and drugs. What follows is his autobiography, dictated totally in his own words. It is a rare look at the brilliant life of one of the most important participants in the Rock and Roll scene of the 1960s and beyond, and is a historical document of the era. Although Richards remembers 'sod all' from his rock and roll past, and perhaps the memories of this giant of the British scene may be a tad blurred, access to those memories emerged at random times during the writing of this book.
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|Yeah...er...have I started writing something? I said give me a suitcase of dollars and I'll start...Just need a fag and a bottle of Jack to get me started... It all happened..well..You see.. I can't have Mick saying the Stones was all his idea...because it wasn't...and...well there with these two birds, mormons apparently...we met....backstage at a little Jimi Hendrix gig. Ozzy was burning his pants on stage and singin' about hippies in Liverpool, then Mick turned round to me and said 'We can do better than those wankers Keef'...so we..just recorded some songs; became..fuckin' filthy rich ..and I've been completely out of me nutter ever since....
|I would like say a big FUCK OFF! for all them bloody candy men and dolly birds who gave me bad gears over the years...Yeah I hope your cocks have dropped off... what...? Also to me mum and dad for thinking about making me all those years ago...yeah...got to say thank you for that...
Only Chapter: The Autobiography of a Stone -- In me own words.
|Right, then! Lets see, hahaha! I was a bad fuckin' boy... ha! So was she!
|School was a drag! Said to me teacher, Go'n fook yaa granny! She went bloody bonkers!
|Met Mick outside of some pub. He was busking on the street with a harmonica. First time I heard live music. I asked 'im, what's that racket, then? He says, Its a fuckin' harp, mate! I says, harp? You mean they play these in 'eaven? Haha!
|Told the Old Man, I'll show you! And I bloody-well did!
|Years.. maybe months later.. hours.. met Mick on a train. I said. The Last Time I saw you, I sniffed all your paint thinner in art class...
|Learned me licks from that bloke, Alexis..!?
|What was her name? Some bird.. The Marquee, that's the place!
|Heard The Yardbirds; thought, that's how to play bloody guitar!? Told Alexis off!
|Something happened in 1963 Or it could have been 1964? A gig! Yeah!..The Last Time, what was that song..?
|Heard Hendrix; thought, that's how to play bloody guitar!? Told Beck off.
|Made a deal with some bloke, Lucifer, down on his luck - Wrote 'im a song. A hit is was!
|Brian, the poof, stole me Afghani gear, then fuckin' died. Serves 'em right..
|The States, Oh yeah, a lot happened, on the bloody road...fuckin' 'ell!
|Angels killed some fans over in, ah, over in Monaco...right by the casino.
|Mick said to me..do you like drugs? I said..does the pope fuck? Ha! And Mick says, don't know, mate! But I suppose he does shit in the woods! HAha!
|Got nicked! Thought, bugger this, I quit! Haven't been nicked since.
|Dropped acid with Mick. Ha! Always knew the wanker had the head of a pig.
|What was that tune? Something about Satisfaction.. bloody 'ell, I forgot the fuckin' name..
|1970s...can't recall...when did Nixon die? He got drafted and was killed in the war? No, that was Kennedy! And I started taking Brown Sugar in me tea.
|About 1974, something, had blood change in Switzerland. Or was it twice!?. That's why I look so bleedin' young.
|Got blasted one night.. then we played somewhere. Did that a few times too many.
|Met me idol, Chuck Berry, over in the colonies; I says to 'im, you're me idol! He looks me up and down and says, bugger off! - I fuckin' love the bloke!
|1980s...Same again. Roll me a joint and help yourself to the cabinet ..iced birds in the fridge...hahahah
|Got me a red belt in Ninjitsu – killed a horsefly - the bastard!
|I played naked in Buckingham Palace and got a medal from the Queen
|Snorted me Dad's ashes.. bloody waste!
|2003, no 2005, no three, Mick got Knighted, .. told the wanker off ..press even agreed!
|2005.. a boat somewhere.. fuckin' hot, it was..
|2000 somethin'.. played Rio.. 6 billion bloody fans came. That's what it looked like to me, and I was there, mate!
|2007.. decided, the older I get, the older I want to get.. told somebody..!?
|2008.. a coconut tree.. busted me arse.. no, me 'ead..
|2010...Johnny Depp says he ripped me off in the Pirates of the Caribbean. I says to 'em, who the fuck are you? Haha! Wanker!
|Today..Something that Bill mentioned that was funny. Said I'd been married and had children. Amazing...I was amazed ..like, when in the fuck did that happen???
|Is that enough to start with? Yeah...hahaha...come back tomorrow and it'll all be different. Now...that suitcase I was promised....? Good gear don't grow on trees! Know what I mean?
|Yeah I know it's all a bit brief but look..after all the stuff I done with my organs over the years.. it all blends into together like when you vomit after drinkin' a skinful...I had me kicks everywhere and on Route 66...yeah...hahahah...it's only rock and...junk, booze, birds... I mean, look at me! I'm bloody Peter Pan!
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The artist was born a Cree in Fort Chipewyan in northern Alberta in 1951. Orphaned at six years with the death of her mother from tuberculosis, she was raised in Edmonton by Marguerite Runck, an elderly German lady, at a time when "people did not take too kindly to Indians." She was also raised in the Catholic church, and with an atmosphere of prayer, dreams, and spirits imparted to her by this woman she affectionately refers to as "Grandma." Her upbringing this had a strong spiritual component, which facilitated the transition to a Native spirituality in the artist's adult life. Her schooling was not a residential school experience, but rather a conventional school situation with its presentation of a distinctly non-Native perspective coincided with her development as an artist.
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BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) B.J. Bailey scored 18 points, Mackey McKnight had 17 points and eight rebounds, and Lehigh held off Bucknell 65-62 to remain unbeaten in the Patriot League on Wednesday.
Holden Greiner had 12 points and seven rebounds for the Mountain Hawks (14-4, 4-0). Lehigh is 4-0 in conference play for the first time since 2005-06.
Mike Muscala had 15 points and eight rebounds for the Bison (16-4, 3-1), Joe Willman chipped in 15 points and nine rebounds, and Dom Hoffman scored 10 points.
Lehigh shot 10 of 18 on 3-pointers, while Bucknell was 2 of 14.
Ryan Hill's layup gave Bucknell a 55-50 lead with 7:16 remaining, but Lehigh's McKnight hit a 3-pointer at the 4:41 mark for a 59-58 advantage.
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FRANKLIN, Ind. – Franklin College today shut out a Heartland Conference football opponent for the third consecutive week – this time in a 56-0 decision over Rose-Hulman at Faught Stadium.
The Grizzlies, ranked 23rd this week in the D3football.com Top 25 poll, also captured their 23rd straight Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference victory – FC has won 46 of its last 49 league contests – improving to 5-0 in the conference this season and 5-2 overall.
The Engineers fell to 2-3 in the HCAC and 2-5 in all games.
FC deployed plenty of weapons this afternoon.
Junior quarterback Jonny West, the reigning HCAC Player of the Week on Offense, completed 22 of 30 passes for 352 yards and 3 touchdowns.
Junior split end Kyle Linville made 6 catches for 164 yards and 1 TD. Linville now has 12 touchdown receptions on the season, making at least one scoring catch in every game but one in 2012.
Freshman running back Cody Hess rushed nine times for 83 yards and a pair of touchdowns.
Meanwhile, Grizzly cornerback Zack Corpe shined both on defense and on special teams. The junior made three interceptions and broke up a pass in the defensive backfield and returned six punts for 85 yards, including a long play of 39 yards.
As a team, Franklin piled up 667 total yards of offense (222 net yards rushing and 444 in the air) to the Engineers' total of 181.
Hess started the scoring midway in the opening quarter, running in from 2 yards out to cap a 10-play, 92-yard drive.
Then the Grizzlies poured it on and all but put it away in the second period, scoring five touchdowns.
The assault began with West hitting senior split end Ben Hamlin with a 5-yard scoring strike. Then backup QB Grant Welp connected with senior wingback Keith Cunningham on a 49-yard catch-and-run TD play to put the hosts up 21-0.
West then returned behind center and found senior running back Luke Hamm open on a 65-yard pass play. After rushing for a score on a 1-yard sneak, West then closed out the second period with a 38-yard strike to Linville with a 1:26 left in the first half.
Franklin added a pair of scores in the third quarter when Hess rushed for 3-yard touchdown and senior wingback Damon Speck ran in from 15 yards out.
FC's defense, which held Rose-Hulman to just nine first downs and its 181 total yards, also was led by junior linebacker Jordan Segner, who had 6 total tackles. Junior linebacker Alex Van Cleve, Corpe and junior cornerback LaDarrius Calvin contributed 5 total tackles apiece.
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"Scientific research is an essential foundation for the implementation of any policy in favour of biodiversity. We need to improve data on biodiversity and its dissemination between the scientific community, policymakers and civil society both at the EU and global levels," urged Mr Gaston Franco, Member of the European Parliament (MEP) during the recent briefing session on IPBES, the new global science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services. The briefing report is now available.
The European Parliament (EP) in its latest resolution on Our Life Insurance, Our Natural Capital: An EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 has acknowledged the need for a higher political priority to biodiversity and the full understanding of the biodiversity value for this and future generations by policy makers and the whole society.
"Although not yet finalized, the discussions of the scope of the work programme of IPBES indicate a strong focus to support the implementation of the globally accepted Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, which is mirrored by the EU 2020 Biodiversity Strategy," noted Mr Thomas Koetz from the European Commission's Directorate General for Environment. He added that "IPBES will very likely provide important contributions to the implementation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy." The strategy outlines a number of actions to meet the EU's 2020 headline target for biodiversity and global biodiversity commitments. The improvement of knowledge on ecosystems and their services in the EU is among the planned actions with a number of efforts underway.
IPBES will synthesize and critically evaluate existing information on the consequences of biodiversity and ecosystem services' changes for human well-being. According to Ms Anne Larigauderie from DIVERSITAS and the International Council for Science (ICSU), the needs in terms of biodiversity research for IPBES include documenting current trends and improving our capability to make predictions that inform future choices.
She also stressed that the scientific community should work hand in hand with IPBES to produce relevant knowledge for IPBES, while Mr Pierre Commenville from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) emphasized that it is also critical for IPBES to rely on knowledge that is produced on the edges or outside of the academic scientific institutions. For example, the conservation community is a massive producer of knowledge, which includes databases, assessments and review processes, action tools and best practices that could all be made available for IPBES. The Platform should therefore benefit from efficient and active participation of civil society.
"In addition to scientific knowledge, IPBES provides an opportunity to integrate other useful knowledge in policy and decision making," confirmed Ms Maria Schultz from the Stockholm Resilience Centre at the Stockholm University. Indigenous, traditional, local and scientific knowledge systems are different manifestations of valid and useful knowledge systems which can contribute to the sustainable management of ecosystems.
Mr Salvatore Aricò from UNESCO suggested the approach of viewing science within society and society within science as crucial, while Mr Patrick ten Brink from the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) argued that IPBES is an opportunity to drive understanding and awareness of the roles and value of nature for people, society, and the economy and hence help develop the evidence base needed by policy makers. "IPBES and affiliated regional or country bodies are new players that have the potential to play an important role," said Mr ten Brink.
There is a broad experience in Europe on policy measures and it is important to ensure mutual benefit between EU Member States and IPBES by active participation. A number of national biodiversity platforms such as those in Germany, Belgium, France and Switzerland, can ensure an effective engagement. Mr Carsten Neßhöver from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) suggested building on the achievements in European biodiversity science integration and concluded that "networking European knowledge actively will not only profit IPBES, but also serve the European policy for the 2020 goals".
Held at the European Parliament in Brussels and chaired by MEP Gaston Franco, the briefing session on The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) - Reconnecting Science to Policy: Why? What? How? brought together international, European, national and regional actors. It was organized by the Secretariat of the EP Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development. The Secretariat is run jointly by IUCN and the European Bureau for Conservation and Development (EBCD), an IUCN Member.
All speeches, presentations and the report of the briefing session are available on the Intergroup's website.
For more information, please contact Anete Berzina regarding the briefing session or Melanie Lamaison regarding the Intergroup.
About IPBES
The Intergovernmental science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) intends to be an independent global body aiming to link scientific communities and policy-makers. Established on 21 April 2012 and to be based in Bonn, Germany, it will equal the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for issues directly linked with nature conservation, food security, sustainable development and human well-being. Measuring the latest trends of biodiversity and ecosystem services and identifying policy relevant tools, it will shape the international agenda and set the scene for legitimate and credible knowledge to inform policy making.


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Mentorship program aimed at promoting competitiveness
COLUMBIA, Mo. – As part of its efforts to grow small businesses across the state, two years ago the University of Missouri System launched the Advocacy-Mentoring Program for firms owned by women and minorities. The first graduating class of these organizations and their mentors will be honored today.
As four businesses complete the two-year program, five new firms will take their place.
The University of Missouri System's Advocacy-Mentoring Program has several goals, including increasing the number of competitive minority- and women-owned firms that wish to do business with one of the University of Missouri's four campuses. Women- or minority-owned businesses are defined as business entities in which 51 percent of the ownership interest, stock or otherwise, is minority or woman owned.
"The advice I received from my mentors was invaluable," said graduate Floyd Simms, founder and president of the small contracting company Simms Building Group in St. Louis. "I feel like this program really fast-tracked my ability to be competitive and work with the university."
The first mentor class was comprised of four firms — City Design Group and Simms Building Group of St. Louis and OBI Consulting Engineers and Pendulum Studio of Kansas City. Each business was part of a triad that included a mentor from a large firm and a university team leader from one of the University of Missouri's four campuses.
Simms, a 1991 engineering graduate from the University of Missouri-Columbia, was mentored by John Sutherland, vice president of River City Construction in Ashland, and John Neal, associate director of Campus Facilities and Construction at MU.
Simms, like the others who participated, also was helped by MBA students through a consulting class taught by Gregg Martin, PhD, associate professor of management at MU's Trulaske College of Business.
"We helped these businesses to understand where they stand relative to their competition in terms of promotions, pricing, services offered and service area," Martin said. "This was an excellent opportunity for our students to work with real businesses, to apply academic theory into practice."
The Mentoring-Advocacy Program was launched at the recommendation of the Women and Minority-Owned Business Enterprises Advisory Council, a volunteer group convened in 2007 to brainstorm ideas to increase the proportion of businesses owned by women and minorities that work with the university. That group, including departing and new members, also will be honored today.
The UM System has seen some growth in the ability of these businesses to compete, according to Jacqueline Hall Kelly, PhD, director of Minority Business Development with the UM System.
"The UM System has increased procurement, architecture and engineering and construction awards to minority and women-owned businesses to more than 9 percent, or to about $42.5 million," Kelly said, referring to data from the last fiscal year. "Although we have no mandates, each campus aims for at least a 10 percent participation rate with businesses owned by women and minorities."
Kelly added that the spirit of the participation goal is that the diversity among contractors selected by the university should reflect the diversity of the system's students, staff and the state of Missouri.
"This program aims to increase the potential supply of firms that can more effectively bid on university contracts while at the same time reinforcing our university's values of respect and diversity and furthering our mission to advance Missouri's economy," Kelly said.
The Advocacy-Mentoring Program helps businesses grow and become more competitive through strengthening their core business competencies; networking; and instructing them how to do business with the University of Missouri.
In addition to the mentoring program, the university has simplified the request-for-bid notification system, which is available to all businesses. Individuals who want to know about business needs at the four campuses can now sign up for notifications through email. The campuses also have begun marketing presentations with architects and engineers interested in university work who have not previously been hired or interviewed by the university.
"We're trying to do everything we can to bring some of these small firms into the fold," said Kelly, noting that small businesses based in Missouri make tremendous contributions to the local economy. "This is part of our commitment to growing Missouri's economy and being good citizens."
The Advocacy-Mentoring Program is just one example of the system's commitment to helping businesses grow, thereby improving the state's economy. Through University of Missouri Extension, small businesses can participate in free or low-cost assistance through Missouri Small Business & Technology Development Centers. Additionally, the University of Missouri has a statewide network of 10 research parks and business incubators, designed to help to faculty, entrepreneurs and businesses collaborate to move innovative research to the marketplace.
Click here to view the list of those honored at today's event.
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The following is a FAQ that I sometimes get asked, and it occurred to me that I do not have an answer that I am completely satisfied with. In Rudin's Principles of Mathematical Analysis, following Theorem 3.29, he writes:
One might thus be led to conjecture that there is a limiting situation of some sort, a "boundary" with all convergent series on one side, all divergent series on the other side—at least as far as series with monotonic coefficients are concerned. This notion of "boundary" is of course quite vague. The point we wish to make is this: No matter how we make this notion precise, the conjecture is false. Exercises 11(b) and 12(b) may serve as illustrations.
Exercise 11(b) states that if $\sum_n a_n$ is a divergent series of positive reals, then $\sum_n a_n/s_n$ also diverges, where $s_n = \sum_{i=1}^n a_n$. Exercise 12(b) states that if $\sum_n a_n$ is a convergent series of positive reals, then $\sum_n a_n/\sqrt{r_n}$ converges, where $r_n = \sum_{i\ge n} a_i$.
Although these two exercises are suggestive, they are not enough to convince me of Rudin's strong claim that no matter how we make this notion precise, the conjecture is false. Are there any stronger theorems in this direction?
Edit. For example, are there any theorems about the topology/geometry of the spaces of all convergent/divergent series, where a series is viewed as a point in $\mathbb{R}^\infty$ or $(\mathbb{R}^+)^\infty$ in the obvious way?


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As we open our eyes to 2012 and the new year, custom dictates we make the odd new year's resolution to try and keep (at least until the end of January!). We at No Sweat Shakespeare are going with the traditional drinking less and exercising more…but what new year's resolutions do you think Shakespeare's characters might make?
Our friends over at About Shakespeare came up with this intriguing concept, which got us thinking. We've listed a few of the best below…but what do you think? Pick a Shakespeare character, think of a a new year's resolution for them and share in the comments section below!
Here are a few of our favorite potential new year's resolutions for Shakespeare's characters::
Caesar: "Listen to my wife and stay home from work."
Claudius: "Steer clear of my brother's wife!"
Henry VI: "Stay out of foreign quarrels."
Juliet: "Stay off the drugs."
Falstaff: "Get home before the chimes at midnight."
King Lear: "Don't let my kids sweet-talk me."
Polonius: "Keep my nose out of other peoples' business."
Hamlet: "Try and get things done."
Polonius: "Spend more time supervising my kids."
Hamlet: "Stop worrying about losing dad all the time."
Lady Macbeth: "Be happy with what I've got."
What do you think? Share your thoughts on new year's resolutions of Shakespeare characters in the comments!


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I am back from my easter holidays. I hope you had some nice days too. There is something I wanted to share with you for a while now: it's the design blog CreativeMug made by my friend Elisa Vernazza and her husband Fabio Bernardi, two incredably talented italian graphic designers who are based in London. Read more about CreativeMug.
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Sonny Quach, representing Joe Rose and the Sylvester Cancer Center in honor of Jim Mandich, won the WQAM Celebrity poker tournament on Jan. 23.
The tournament, promoted by WQAM Radio, drew 60 players to the Big Easy Poker Room at Mardi Gras Casino. Players included team hosts Sid Rosenberg, Joe Rose and Channing Crowder. Others playing included the Marlins' Logan Morrison, the Dolphins' Will Allen and Panthers broadcaster Randy Moeller.
The win meant $1,120 for the center.
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When they're not barbequing koalas, Australia's Berry Brothers Motorsport rally a pair of Mitsubishi Evos through the country's billabongs and whatever. They took their cars sliding in front of some of the nicest cameras available, and we can't stop staring.
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Title: The Map of Bones {The Fire Sermon #2}
Author: Francesca Haig
Published: Harper Voyager March 2016
Status: Read from May 29 to June 01, 2016 — I own a copy courtesy HarperCollins
My Thoughts:
The Map of Bones picks up from where Francesca Haig's debut novel, The Fire Sermon, left off. Cass, Piper and Zoe are on the run following the deadly confrontation at the Silo between the Confessor and Kip, with the knowledge of the Alpha Council's horrifying plan for the Omega's.
Despite the dramatic ending of The Fire Sermon, the narrative in The Map of Bones is slow to start. We're almost a quarter of the way into the book before Haig introduces a new element to the story that finally prompts the characters to take action. From there the pace begins to pick up as Cass and her allies recognise the need to actively stand against the Council and pursue a new possibility for salvation despite the odds that are stacked again them.
I wasn't really a fan of Cass in the first novel and I found her to be no less frustrating here. Drowning in guilt and struggling with her visions, her thoughts are often repetitive and circular. Piper and Zoe serve as good companions but I found neither character to be particularly compelling.
What I did admire was Haig's descriptive writing and continued world building. She provides further detail about the cataclysmic events that destroyed the world and the twinning phenomenon.
Though I found The Map of Bones to be a somewhat dreary read, the story ends on a hopeful note and I am curious to learn how the trilogy will resolve in book three.
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KitchenAid® Grain Mill
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- Summary
Enhance the flavor and quality of your homemade baked goods by grinding your own fresh flours from wheat, oats, rye, barley and other nonoily grains. It's speedy and simple to do with the help of the efficient attachment, which attaches to the power hub of any KitchenAid stand mixer.
- Compatible with all KitchenAid stand mixers.
- Attaches to mixer's power hub for motorized operation.
- Designed to grind nonoily grains such as wheat, oats and barley into flour.
- Adjustment knob allows you to select the fineness of the grind.
- Two stainless-steel grinding burrs, one stationary and one moving, work together to create textures from coarse to fine.
- Dimensions & More Info
- Grinds up to 10 cups at a time.
- Includes cleaning brush.
- 8" x 3" x 6" high.
- 6 lb.I
- Use & Care
- Some assembly required.
- Wash disassemble unit before first use.
- Do not use to grind coffee and grains or nuts with a high moisture or oil content such as peanuts, sunflower seeds and soybeans.
- Use the brush provided with the attachment.
- Remove the thumb screws and the front plate and then remove the movable burr.
- Brush the movable and stationary burrs; wash with mild detergent and warm water.
- Do not wash the grain mill or any of its parts in the dishwasher.
- Use a towel to dry and then allow pieces to air dry. Do not reassemble until next use. If the burrs are not completely dry, grain may clog the attachment.
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Rated 4 out of 5 by CloudNineCook from Beer Brewer's Find! Mash in brewers. I am a home brewer and wanted to purchase a mill for my grains. Any mill is pricey but I have a KitchenAid and saw that they had a mill available so I thought I'd try it. You just want to crack the grain, not turn it into flour so use it at your largest setting. I purchased a bag to mash in from a local brew store and put all the grains in the bag. It does produce some flour so I feel if you put that grain in your mashtun, it may clog the drainage of the wort. Not sure though. I placed the bag of grain directly in the boil kettle and tried to keep the temperature at 154 to 156 to mash in. The beer was successfully brewed and projected OG and FG accomplished. I liked the mill. Did shut it off to cool as recommended precaution. Easy to clean. Slow but sure.Date published: 2017-02-11Rated 4 out of 5 by MarkB from Solid Product but one limitation. This is a well made product that will last for years. My main gripe is it won't do tipo-00 fine grind. Even at the finest setting the flour is still fairly coarse. The burrs are not easily replaceable and I could not find them on the Kitchenaid parts store. The manual says you are limited to 10 cups of flour before you have to take a break and let the motor cool down. I doubt that's an issue with the DC motor Pro-Line and commercial mixers though. As long as you don't need a really fine grind, then I would recommend this attachment.Date published: 2015-11-13Rated 3 out of 5 by wyobethy from Not for me. I was excited about having a non hand cranked grinder, however the finest grain setting on the grinder still produces a rather chunky flour. I hate to sift my flour because I don't want to remove any of the nutritional value of it, including the bran. I just wish it would do a finer grind. I will be looking to sell both my kitchen aid and grinder in exchange for a nutmill grinder since bosch recommends it and I already have a bosch mixer. Also a side note the attachment is hard to remove after use because it gets hot and expands.Date published: 2013-10-30Rated 4 out of 5 by JessicaND from Not Too Shabby The grain mill was one of the first KitchenAid attachments I bought. Even on the finest setting, the flour is going to have a little texture to it, so if you're expecting it to produce flour with the texture of white flour, you will be disappointed. However, the more times you run the flour through the mill, the finer it gets. My biggest "beef" with this mill is that it's messy. I recommend placing wide bowl as close to the end of mill as you can to minimize the mess. Some other things that people might find annoying are that the mill is extremely loud--as in REALLY loud, and it is slow. But if you are willing to put the grain in the mill and walk away and come back a few minutes later, this shouldn't be an issue. Overall, this is something I'm very happy with because it does the job and takes up minimal cabinet space in my kitchen.Date published: 2013-01-09Rated 2 out of 5 by AllieH from So disappointed I've wanted a grain mill for some time but felt guilty asking for such an expensive present for my birthday/Xmas. When I discovered that Kitchenaid had a grain mill attachment, I was so excited! I could finally get my grain mill for the fraction of the cost. I ordered this and anxiously awaited it's arrival. When I finally had the chance to use this for the first time, I found that even on the finest grind setting, the grind of the flour was so coarse that texture of the bread was unpalatable to my children. It did the job, seems very well designed, and is a very sturdy attachment but my expectations were not met wrt the fineness of the grind. I will be returning this item.Date published: 2012-09-09


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AUSTIN, Texas—Senior Brendan Kopp and
sophomore Sarah Pierson of the New England-champion Harvard sailing
team were recognized as All-Americans at the Inter-Collegiate
Sailing Association's year-end banquet Friday night.
Kopp, a team captain, was named to the list of All-America coed skippers and Pierson was selected as an All-America crew at the banquet following the conclusion of the ICSA/Gill Coed Dinghy National Championship, where the duo led Harvard to a fifth-place finish.
Pierson and Kopp placed second among 18 teams in the A division at the national regatta, just four points out of first place. They won three of their 13 races, placed in the top four on eight occasions and finished outside the top half of the field just twice.
The two athletes also teamed up for a fifth-place division finish to lead the Crimson to a third-place showing in the ICSA semifinals. The All-America duo previously keyed Harvard's first New England Dinghy Championship victory in 11 years by winning the A division in the league championship regatta and earned first-team All-New England honors.
2012 ICSA All-America Team
ICSA Coed All-Americans
Alec Anderson (Tortola, B.V.I.) – Roger Williams
Evan Aras (Annapolis, Md.) – Georgetown
Chris Barnard (Newport Beach, Calif.) – Georgetown
Sam Blouin (Tampa, Fla.) – Hobart and William Smith
Anne Haeger (Lake Forest, Ill.) – Boston College
Brendan Kopp (Fairfield, Conn.) – Harvard
Joe Kutschenreuter (East Troy, Wis.) – Wisconsin
Graham Landy (Norfolk, Va.) – Yale
Kevin Laube (San Diego, Calif.) – Stanford
Mac Mace (Newport Beach, Calif.) – College of Charleston
Joe Morris (Annapolis, Md.) – Yale
Ben Spector (Santa Clarita, Calif.) – College of Charleston
Oliver Toole (Santa Barbara, Calif.) – Stanford
ICSA Honorable Mention Coed All-Americans
Austen Anderson (Northport, N.Y.) – Hobart and William Smith
Sean Bouchard (Bermuda) – Roger Williams
Cam Cullman (Rye, N.Y.) – Yale
Joshua Greenslade (Bermuda) – St. Mary's (Md.)
Zeke Horowitz (Sarasota, Calif.) – College of Charleston
Colin Smith (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) – Brown
ICSA Crew All-Americans
Alyssa Aitken (Sandwich, Mass.) – College of Charleston
Sophie Bellacosa (Winchester, Mass.) – Roger Williams
Katy Canty (Vero Beach, Fla.) – Georgetown
Louisa Chafee (Warwick, R.I.) – Brown
Perry Emsiek (Corona del Mar, Calif.) – College of Charleston
Rebecca Evans (Cohasset, Mass.) – Georgetown
Molly Forbes (Edina, Minn.) – Wisconsin
Patrick Hession (Milton, Mass.) – Boston College
Hilary Kenyon (Wayzata, Minn.) – Georgetown
Chris Klevan (Norfolk, Va.) – Hobart and William Smith
Saverio Maldari (Andover, Mass.) – Navy
Heather May (Newport Beach, Calif.) – Yale
Laura McKenna (Palo Alto, Calif.) – Boston College
Kelly Ortel (Annapolis, Md.) – Stanford
Catherine Pelo (Scituate, Mass.) – Hobart and William Smith
Sarah Pierson (Winter Park, Fla.) – Harvard
Emily Reich (Oak Bluffs, Mass.) – Old Dominion
Kelly Stannard (Salem, Conn.) – Roger Williams
Stephanie Tong (Hong Kong, China) – MIT
Elizabeth Wilsterman (Winchester, Mass.) – Connecticut College
ICSA Women's All-Americans
Emily Billing (Clearwater, Fla.) – Yale
Sydney Bolger (Long Beach, Calif.) – Georgetown
Atlantic Brugman (Barcelona, Spain) – Connecticut College
Emily Dellenbaugh (Easton, Conn.) – Brown
Marlena Fauer (New York, N.Y.) – Yale
Anne Haeger (Lake Forest, Ill.) – Boston College
Amy Hawkins (Ocean Gate, N.J.) – Rhode Island
Morgan Kiss (Holland, Mich.) – Yale
Sarah Mace (Newport Beach, Calif.)– Stanford
ICSA Honorable Mention Women's All-Americans
Sky Adams (Santa Barbara, Calif.) – Brown
Mary Hall (Seminole, Fla.) – Navy
Deirdre Lambert (Cumberland, Maine) – Dartmouth
Natalie Salk (Jamestown, R.I.) – Tufts


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Sweet potato and almond butter give this soup a creamy, decadent texture.
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Along with recalls of wet and dry pet foods earlier this year, two raw meat diets were also recalled. Wild Kitty recalled four flavors of its raw cat food (chicken, turkey, duck, and tuna), and Bravo! recently recalled three lots of chicken and turkey pet food. Routine testing found Salmonella in the Wild Kitty foods, and both Salmonella and Listeria in the Bravo! foods.
Let's look at this issue in more detail. First, we should remember that the recalled raw foods are vastly outnumbered by the hundreds of canned and dry foods that sickened or killed tens of thousands of dogs and cats. How many animals got sick from the raw foods? Zero. On the other hand, the benefits of a raw meat diet are many. Skin, ear, digestive, allergic and immune-related diseases usually improve on a good quality, balanced raw diet. Weight issues will also improve, since a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet is what dogs and cats should be eating—not heavily processed, high-carb kibble containing synthetic chemical ingredients that pack on the pounds. Obesity itself contributes to many serious and even painful diseases such as diabetes and arthritis.
But there are always two sides to any story, and raw food has its potential drawbacks as well as benefits. Bacterial contamination and lack of balance are the ones most frequently invoked by veterinarians to prevent pet guardians from trying a raw diet. Let's talk about bacterial contamination first.
The bacteria Salmonella is the most commonly cited danger from feeding raw meat. However, even though this bacterium is a common contaminant of meat, eggs, and soil, it is not a significant threat to dogs and cats, due to the carnivore's shorter gastrointestinal tract and faster transit time (compared to humans). Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warnings typically emphasize the risks to frail people like infants, the elderly, and immune-compromised people (e.g., those with autoimmune diseases such as Lupus, or those on immune-suppressing drugs like steroids or chemotherapy).
However, according to experts—including the FDA—Salmonella does not pose any real threat to healthy animals. In fact, it's estimated that 30% of normal healthy dogs and 18% of healthy cats (virtually all of whom eat processed commercial pet food) are already carriers. One study showed that, even when 80% of meat samples were positive for Salmonella, 70% of dogs eating that meat tested negative, and none got sick. The vast majority of human cases are completely unrelated to dogs and cats. It is prudent, however, to avoid feeding pets non-organic raw ground beef, due to severe contamination problems in the meat packing industry.
Listeria is another common environmental bacteria. The vast majority of Listeria cases in people come from processed foods, like hot dogs, cold cuts, cheese, and raw vegetables. It is a fairly rare disease, since healthy people (and pets) are resistant and don't usually become ill from this bug.
Common sense says that handling raw meat diets for pets is no different from buying raw meat at the grocery store to make hamburgers for your family. By always following safe meat-handling procedures with all raw animal products, you'll virtually eliminate the risk of illness for your pet and your family.
Lack of balance is another concern cited by those who are against raw feeding. While it is not difficult to make your pet's food at home, it does involve education and commitment. For instance, plain meat is not a balanced diet, and can cause serious health problems. There's also something called "diet drift"—you might run out of a supplement and forget to buy more, and after a while, the diet really does go out of whack.
Even without making meals from scratch, there are easy ways to make sure your pet's diet is always fresh and balanced!
1. Pre-made raw meat diets. Only Natural is proud to offer more than a dozen raw meat diets for dogs and cats! There are both frozen and dehydrated diets that are easy to use, and great for your pet. Nature's Variety, Raw Advantage, Primal Pet Foods, and Northwest Naturals, and FarMore are the high-quality brands you can find here.
2. Complete supplements for raw meat. These products are easy to use; all you do is add fresh meat. There come fresh, freeze-dried and dehydrated; and with grains or without. Only Natural carries many excellent products from Sojourner's Farm ("Sojo's" to many), Honest Kitchen, and Dr. Harvey's. They'll save you time and effort, yet still allow you to control the quality of the most important ingredient, meat. Wysong's Call of The Wild supplement is also available for balancing raw meat diets.
Raw diets aren't for every pet. Animals with Inflammatory Bowel Disease and those taking immune-suppressing drugs should not be fed raw meat until the system has time to heal. You can cook raw meat or even raw complete diets without losing essential nutrients. As your pet's health improves, cook the meat less and less until your pet is ready to transition to raw.
Many raw recipes and diets are grain-free, but some dogs seem to do better with some grain. Cats typically do better without grains. Either choose a food that contains grain, or add a little cooked rice, couscous, or oatmeal. Food-allergic animals should avoid wheat and corn; animals with suspected gluten intolerance should avoid barley, rye, oats, and wheat. Experiment with alternative grains like amaranth, buckwheat, millet, spelt, quinoa and teff.
If you haven't fed your pet raw meat or "people" food before (or it's been a long time since you did), be sure to make all dietary changes slowly and cautiously. The whole digestive system has to restructure itself to digest the new food properly. To ease the transition, extra digestive enzymes and probiotics are helpful. Of course, these supplements are beneficial for all pets, no matter what they eat! Only Natural carries a wide variety of probiotics, enzymes, and combination products for you to choose from. To name just a few:
• Only Natural Pet Vital Digest, Prozyme, and Biozyme provide important enzymes to help your pet's digestive system break down the food properly.
• Ark Naturals Gentle Digest, NF Spectra Probiotic and Only Natural Pet Probiotic Blend supply friendly bacteria and nutrients to support proper absorption and elimination of toxins and bad bacteria.
• Pet Naturals Digestive Support for Cats and Dogs and Animal Essentials Plant Enzymes & Probiotics contain both enzymes and friendly bacteria.
Even if you don't want to feed a raw diet full-time, adding a little fresh meat to your pet's regular diet a few times a week, or feeding part raw and part regular commercial food, will go a long way toward better health for your pet.


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Canyons District necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 152 diseños de 47 diseñadores freelance.
As the first new school district to be created in Utah in almost 100 years, we are seeking a brand that unifies our community, reflects our natural surroundings, and forwards our vision for educational innovation.
Canyons School District
Canyons School District is located at the base of thepicturesque Wasatch Mountains. It was createdby a public referendum vote to split one of Utah's oldest school districts. A publiclogo design contest yielded six finalists, whose work we would like to inspireour official logo – please see the following links:
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