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Keeping Honeybees (page 2 of 2)
by Marla Spivak
Tools You Need
A veil, coveralls, and a smoker are basic tools for beginning beekeepers.
Most beekeepers have complete protective gear, which includes a veil to protect the head and face, white coveralls to protect clothes, and gloves and boots to provide some sting protection. A smoker is essential to calm bees while you work around them, and you'll also need a hive tool -- essentially a pry bar -- to separate boxes that bees glue together. The cost of this gear amounts to about $140.
Basic Bee Care
Care boils down to providing your bees with food, water, and sufficient hive space. Bees' food, which they collect from flowers, is pollen for protein and nectar for carbohydrates. The bees convert the nectar to honey within the hive. If you live where some flowers are always blooming, you simply make sure the bees are located near enough to find them. If you live where no flowers are in bloom for periods of time, you'll have to supply supplementary food -- pollen patties and sugar syrup -- for your bees. If you overwinter your hive, don't harvest all the honey from the hive. Again, check with local beekeepers to determine how much honey must be left for the bees to survive on for the winter.
Water is another matter. Bees need it every day. If you can't place the hive near a natural source, you'll have to provide water, ideally from a slowly dripping faucet or a dish with a piece of screen on the water so the bees can land. You don't want your bees crowding around a neighbor's swimming pool or garden sprinkler looking to quench their thirst.
When bees outgrow their hive space, they tend to swarm. Swarming is colony reproduction. The queen and half of the bees fly off to begin a new hive, and the remaining bees raise a new queen and continue reproducing. Beekeepers can prevent their colonies from swarming -- and avoid losing honey production -- by providing ample hive space. Add new brood boxes when the first box is full of bees; add additional honey supers to encourage the bees to expand their hive and store lots of honey.
Bee Problems
Honeybees suffer from two parasitic mites that were inadvertently introduced to this country in the 1980s from Asia, and from occasional diseases infectious only to honeybees. Because of the mites, many bee colonies that normally lived in trees and abandoned structures have been lost, so virtually the only honeybees existing are those owned by beekeepers. The mites don't affect other bee pollinators, such as bumblebees and leaf-cutting bees. All bee pollinator populations are low because of habitat destruction, pesticide use, and their own sets of parasites and diseases. You can see why beekeeping is very important for pollination, particularly in locations where there are no other beekeepers.
To obtain up-to-date information on how to control mites and diseases, check with the state apiarist, university extension personnel, or a local beekeeping association. Make sure the treatments you use are registered as safe, and follow label directions exactly.
Within the research community, there is a great effort to breed bees with natural defenses or resistance to mites and diseases. For example, bees that display "hygienic" behavior readily remove diseased and parasitized brood (immature bees) from the hive, which prevents the spread of infection through the colony. However, to date no bees within the United States are 100 percent resistant. At some point, the bees will require treatments, so keep current on which are the safest and most effective.
Beekeeping is at once both simple and complex. Use catalogs and information sources, and check with local experts. But most of all, get started. That's the best way to learn.
Marla Spivak, an entomologist at the University of Minnesota, specializes in apiculture.


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The wood is wet. Sadly, this is not a euphemism. The wood is wet despite my purchasing of a large, sturdy and reinforced tarp the exact color of the Green Bay Packers. It's wet despite my diligent carting of it via wheelbarrow down the steep, stony incline to the villa. It's wet despite my careful stacking of it in neat piles according to shape and size on the villa's porch. It's wet despite my thoughtful piling of it next to—but not too near to—the tiny fireplace that burns said wood, my sole source of heat in this stony Tuscan lonesome.
That's not strictly true, actually. There is water that is hot most of the time, or at least as often as there are sunny days, which here in Tuscany is usually. There is also a small, somewhat ineffective portable heater, likely German in origin, that I use sparingly in my large stony bedroom. I turn it on for an hour as I get into bed. It emits an orange glow that gives at least the affect of warmth, if not the experience of it.
When I returned to Gotham from Italy last June, I found myself in an abject funk of impressive length and weight. It was a Great Blue Whale of a funk, and I swam in its belly like Jonah for a good, painful six weeks. I was surrounded by funk, unable to press my fingers to anything but its solid, mucousy walls. A thick miasma of funk stood between me and my friends, me and my dog, me and my city, me and all that I had once remembered loving.
Clearly the only way to extricate my self from my funk was, I thought, to get back to Italy. I must eject myself out of this funky butt and find myself whence I came. Which is to say, here, in Italy, the land of loss. And thus I am living alone for five weeks in the middle of Nowhere, Tuscany, relying on a fireplace for heat.
This seventeenth-century villa has made yet more vexed my relationship with fire. I was very young, three or four, when my best friend's house went up in flames. It stood two doors down from my own. I stood outside and watched it burn, as did the whole neighborhood. There are few flame-retardant metaphors for a quick swallowing up of a home by fire. There are beasts and there are juggernauts and there are giant jaws with gnashing flaming teeth. There are balls of fire and walls of fire and tunnels too. So many metaphors used so often, and all crumbled to ashy cliché.
My friend's house was eaten by fire, consumed by it, nearly utterly. Her family watched, she in jammies; her parents in that interstitial state of dress that adults affect between work and bed. This generational clothing divide was mirrored by the people in the neighborhood who stood back and let the firemen do their work. The house burned bright, fast and black; it flamed out, like a marshmallow on a stick.
No surprise then my worrisome relationship with fire. About ten years later, my own house would catch fire—some faulty electrical connection in the baseboard heater would send a fast lick of flame up a wall, creating the possibility for an artful renovation. It was a happy accident, eventually, but the night it happened, I lay on the damp grass of my lawn in the black of an April night and wretched. There wasn't much to do but give into the nausea.
The night I arrived here at the stony lonesome from Rome, I carried the groceries in with my friend, who had to drop and dash to take care of her multiple kids, and nervously lit a fire in the board-game-sized fireplace. The plan originally was to stay with here another friend, here in this beautiful, bohemian, rambling villa that telescopes out magically like the Weasley manse in Harry Potter. But this friend found a job up in Piemonte, and so it's just me in this three-centuries-old five-bedroom house.
It is a beautiful house. The first thing I wanted to write about it was this phrase: I want to share this with you. This Montalcino sunset seen from the porch, all lambet apricot and lavender greys: I want to share this with you. These stone floors, old as my nation: I want to share these with you. These grapes growing on the arbor, steps from my door: I want to share them with you. This night sky speckled as a robin's egg, this quiet that's deep and inexorable as water, this air that's fresher than homemade bread, this wide bed and its butter-thick down comforter: I want to share it with you.
It's a testament to the searing, inescapable and tedious cold that this romantic vision lasted, oh, about five days. Not coincidentally, it ended the same day that I accidentally set a hillside on fire.
I'd say it wasn't my fault, except that I grew up with wood stoves and ashes in Vermont. I know well and true not to throw out live embers. I'd say I thought all the ashes were out, but I wasn't entirely certain, and I thought to myself as I threw the ashes on the compost pile that the soup-stock-spent vegetables I'd put on the pile at the same time would extinguish any embers. I might have seen a flash of orange; I might not have. In the hideous 20/20 that is hindsight, who can say.
I threw the compost and the ashes on the pile. I went out running. I returned, panting and sweaty and breathing rough, so I decided to cart yet more wood from the pile down to the house. As I approached the crest of the hill with the wheelbarrow, and I heard it. That snap, that pop, that crackle, those flames. And then I smelled smoke. And then I saw great fat billows of smoke wafting like a child's drawing off the hill.
I ran down the hill, past the pomegranate tree, the persimmon tree, the vegetable garden, and I saw a sheet of fire from the compost pile rising up the hill, a great amber tiger of flame, about the area of a very spacious Manhattan studio. Vicious hot, the flames spread like wildfire because that's exactly what it was. A wildfire, and I was perched on the brink of becoming the accidental arsonist Foxy Knoxy.
My Italian cellphone wasn't working. And even if it had been, the Montalcino fire department is whimsical about answering phone calls. And even if someone did answer, there was no counting on their speaking English. And even if they did speak English, I didn't know my address. I did a quick mental calculation of running back to the house and Skyping my friend to have her call for me. I fast imagined the Montalcino fire department showing up, some motley crew of hip-wader-booted Italians, and as fetching an image as it was, I shoved it out of my head and ran for the hose.
Which didn't reach.
I saw a bucket abandoned by the apple tree, half full of water and bobbing with a few citrus fruits. I tossed the contents on the fire and heard a satisfying hiss. For an hour and a half, I ran back and forth toting buckets of water, foot by foot, bucket by bucket, ragged breath by ragged breath, putting out the fire. After about an hour, only the compost heap itself was smoldering. I took it apart, poured water on its archeological layers, and only then did I call my friend. She came over, surveyed the toasty mess, and phoned her friend on the local fire brigade.
"Mia amica ha avuto un piccola conflagrazione," she said.
A little conflagration, indeed. I put it out, this fire. I started it, but I also extinguished it by myself, a snapping, blazing metaphor for how I'm living my life right now. I made it, I made it go away.
Today, almost two weeks later, my feet are cold and the ambient beauty of this legendary whatever has dimmed. There are, however, little tufts of green grass growing amidst the toasted black on the hillside. Looking forward with the great, panting eager, I've already made my reservation for my hotel in Rome, a city where any fire I come across won't be made by me, a city with heat and hot water and well-dressed men. In two weeks, I'll be there.
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President Barack Obama will turn 53 years old on Monday, August 4. He has chosen to vacation at Camp David during his birthday weekend. It's the first time he has been to the Camp David retreat since he was there last year to celebrate his 52nd birthday, according to a UPI report on Saturday. Prior to his departure on Marine One, he played another round of golf at Joint Base Andrews.
The morning trip to the golf course with friends in suburban Maryland has become somewhat of an annual birthday tradition for Obama. This year, even though the skies threatened to open up and bring rains on his game, Obama and his friends completed an entire 18 holes of golf before the rains came. His accompanying friends were Bobby Titcomb, Greg Orme, and Mike Ramos. According to the White House, which revealed the names of the fellow-golfers, Obama has been friends with all of them since his childhood in Hawaii.
The White House claims that Obama and his team finished with the winning score in a field of eight other golfers. Also customary of the president's doings on his birthday weekends, his three friends joined him on Marine One. They have gone to the presidential retreat in the Catoctin Mountains to Camp David with him. The other golfers – who have not been identified – as well as Cornell McClellan, President Obama's personal trainer - are traveling to Camp David by automobile.
According to the Star Tribune, it is not known if First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha will be joining the president for his two-day get away from Washington, D.C. After the golf and downtime with his friends, he plans on returning to the White House on Sunday afternoon. Apparently, he will be at the White House on his actual birth date.
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BYDGOSZCZ, Poland - Former Stanford stars Chris Derrick and Elliott Heath helped the United States to its best finish since 1984 and freshman Thomas Graham exceled in the junior race to represent the Cardinal well at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships on Sunday.
Derrick placed 10th and Heath 30th to help the U.S. (50 points) to the silver medal, ahead of the third-place Kenyans (52) and trailing only Ethiopia (38) in the men's senior race.
Graham, a native of Cary, N.C., who is redshirting at Stanford this season in cross country and track and field, was 40th in the men's junior race, running much of the way with a bloody nose. He helped the U.S. to fourth place.
Graham clocked 23:27 over the 8-kilometer (4.97-mile) course and was the fifth U.S. finisher. The U.S. scored 106 points. Ethiopia, led by winner Hagos Gebrihwet's 21:04, won the junior title with 23, followed by Kenya at 26 and Morocco with 65.
Derrick '12, a 14-time All-America at Stanford, was second among Americans, running 33:23 over the six-lap 12K (7.46-mile) course. Along with sixth-place finisher Ben True, the U.S. placed two runners in the top 10 for the first time since 1986.
"It was really hard," said Derrick, the reigning U.S. champion, to usatf.org. "I felt good for the first two laps, and started to push a little bit. It might have been the cold, but I really couldn't see that well over the last few laps. I knew Ben was up there, and that I needed to get in the top 10 if we were to have a shot at a medal."
Heath '11, a nine-time All-America, was timed in 34:11.
"I don't think I quite realize what an accomplishment this is," he said to usatf.org. "We had six guys in the top 35, and in the past few years, it seems that's where our first guy is."
Kenya's Japhet Kipyegon won the men's senior title in 32:45 and Ethiopia's Hagos Gebrhiwet won the men's junior race in 21:04.
Kenya swept the team titles in the women's races, scoring 19 points in the 8K senior race and 14 in the 6K junior. The U.S. placed fourth (90) and sixth (105), respectively.
Kenya's Emily Chebet won the senior title in 24:24 and Kenya's Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon won the 6K (3.73-mile) junior race in 17:51.


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I'd like to confess to a truly wine geek fantasy: I want to know what all the great varietals taste like. As grapes. Yep. I want to eat the major varieties raw. There's something about tasting the grape before the wine that fascinates me. I don't know why, but it's there. So over the years I've encountered the jovian Muscat grapes in my supermarket, as well as the trendy Champagne grapes. But other than that, I'm embarrassed to say, I haven't made much progress on my fantasy. Which is silly, really, because I certainly know enough winemakers to have done this a while ago. Heck, I live 40 minutes from the nearest major appellation. But I've been lazy or embarrassed or just too busy.
But today I was driving home from a tasting event in Napa, and something in me snapped. Maybe it was the atmosphere. The sun was slanting low and golden on the vineyards, which themselves had started to turn gold and amber and flame as the days shorten. Many had been picked already, but there were still many that had lush full bunches of fruit dangling below the colorful leaves. I watched them go by in my peripheral vision for a while as I cruised down Oakville Crossing, and then, suddenly in a fit of impetuousness, I swerved my car off the road, hopped out, and strode out into the nearest row, whereupon I reached down, plucked off a few (4 to be exact) plump ripe Cabernet grapes and popped them into my mouth.
Yep. Trespassing AND Theft. There's got to be a circle of hell for wine drinkers who steal fruit. Even if they can make a lame excuse later that it was all for journalistic purposes. Ahem.
I've learned enough about winemaking and wines to have an intellectual understanding of what wine grapes are like, but I have to say I wasn't really prepared for the experience of eating some ripe Cabernet. Which is to say -- it didn't taste the way I expected. I knew that in general wine grapes don't taste like the wine, but damned if I didn't sort of expect it to. I also know that almost all red grapes are white on the inside, but I was still taken aback. I mean, I was standing there, looking at ripe cabernet and no matter how much intellectually I understood that it wouldn't, I sort of imagined these plump little berries would burst with deep red, vaguely cabernet-like goodness in my mouth.
Needless to say, that wasn't the case.
There's not much to a ripe Cabernet grape when you get right down to it. They're small (about half an inch in diameter) and even though they're firm and plump, they don't have much inside them. A couple of seeds, which must take up 20 to 25% of the internal space in the berry, some firm, juicy, clear insides, and a very thick velvety skin. When I put one in my mouth and chewed, my teeth first met the resistance of this skin, and then the berry popped in my mouth, although rather than exploding with juice, it sort of deflated, with the skin mostly intact. As I chewed, the flavors were a nice mix of the watery, grapey sweetness that you get from any good grapes (though not nearly as sweet as your normal table grape), mixed with a tangy, yes, even aromatic, flavor of the skin, which was definitely not like any grape I've had before.
I chewed right through the seeds as well, which imparted a slightly woody quality to the whole mouthful, but not in an unpleasant way. I could definitely eat a whole bunch of these sitting in the afternoon sun, I thought to myself. But then I remembered where I was. Opus One might forgive me for a couple of grapes, but a whole cluster might be pushing it. So with sticky hands, a slightly guilty conscience, and a big-ass grin on my face, I jumped in the car and headed on down the road.
That takes care of Cabernet. Now on to the rest !
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BEVERLY HILLS—Blue Circus Entertainment's Saw: A Hardcore Parody is full of shocking twists and turns, but the tables were turned on the masterminds behind the film at the official release party last Friday at Aqua Lounge in Beverly Hills. Jaws dropped when the event caught the attention of mainstream Saw franchise creator James Wan, who showed up give the film a nod and meet the man who parodied his creation.
Girls & Corpses magazine was there to unveil the new fall issue with stunning cover model Andy San Dimas, and the cast and crew of Dick Chibbles' Saw: A Hardcore Parody joined in to celebrate the movie's second pressing after it sold out in record time.
The excitement rose with the unexpected appearance of original Saw franchise creator James Wan, and director Mike Mendez (Gravedancers, The Convent) amidst the crowd of scantily-clad beauties and top Adult industry players. A smile was seen on Wan's face from the time he walked in the door to the end of the party when he left.
"I was utterly shocked to see him walk in the door; it was an honor to meet James," said director Dick Chibbles. "Then, to my surprise, he asked me for my autograph."
The cast and crew posed with Wan and Mendez for a number of photos up on the stage.
The press was there in force along the red carpet and inside the event. The entertainment included Maria the Snake Babe from Las Vegas showing off her amazing collection of rare reptiles, the crowning of the Girls & Corpses Miss Skanksgiving Pageant winner, and amazing side show feats of the human body performed by Murrugun the Mystic, who took the stage and wowed the audience with sword swallowing, hammering nails through his head, and skewering his flesh like a human pincushion. For his finale, he invited the audience to come up and staple money to his body with a real industrial staple gun. James Wan joined in the fun and stapled a $20 bill to Murrugun's forehead.
"The night was insane. We would like to congratulate Lilly Lashes who won the Miss Skanksgiving beauty competition over 10 other writhing babes, and then paraded on stage with her human skin sash, bone crown and golden cock trophy. What a night!" said Rob "Corpsy" Rhine, Deaditor-in-Chief of Girls & Corpses magazine.
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"I was very excited to play Det. Humpsey in this production, it was an incredible opportunity," said lead actress Syren DeMer. "The party was full of energy and it was wonderful to see the cast and crew all together again, it was such an unforgettable evening."
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Catholic League president Bill Donohue looks at Hollywood's treatment of the apocalypse in "The Book of Eli" and "Legion"; the former opens January 15, and the latter a week later: By all accounts, "The Book of Eli" puts a positive spin on Christianity. The lead character, Eli, is played by Denzel Washington. Following a nuclear war which... [Read more...]CELEBRITY CRUISES STIFFS CATHOLICS
Bill Donohue explains why the Catholic League is sharply critical of Celebrity Cruises: Ten days before Christmas, we learned that Celebrity Cruises had just announced that beginning in 2010, it would no longer have priests on board to celebrate daily and Sunday Masses. We immediately followed up by questioning the cruise line about its new policy.... [Read more...]BOB SHRUM THROWS MUD AT BISHOPS
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Catholic League president Bill Donohue calls attention to the decision of President Obama to renominate Dawn Johnsen to head the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel: Most of the critics of Dawn Johnsen focus on her strong pro-abortion record. While that is disturbing, a pro-abortion president can be expected to staff his administration with... [Read more...]ATTACK ON PIUS XII IS UNSEEMLY
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on an article by Deborah Dwork and Eric Greenberg criticizing the Catholic Church for pursuing the cause of sainthood for Pope Pius XII; it is published on the website of today's Philadelphia Inquirer: Deborah Dwork is a specialist in Holocaust studies at Clark University, and Rabbi Eric Greenberg is... [Read more...]BRIT HUME'S CRITICS ARE REVEALING
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Recently we published an article outlining the actions being considered by NATO to reassure the eastern NATO states that NATO would defend their sovereignty. In that article we noted that "President Obama has asserted publicly that he will not allow a US 'military excursion' into Ukraine against Russia." It is highly unlikely that Russia will make any aggressive moves against the Eastern European NATO states because Russia' actions in Ukraine have followed a pattern similar to that of its interventions in other parts of the former Soviet space over the past 25 years.
This pattern broadly consists of three categories of activities: the organization of ethnic Russian or pro-Russia social and political groups and movements in the country in question; the deployment or support of informal or unofficial security forces in key areas; and finally the launching of military operations. In the first two steps the Russians are laying the political groundwork for the eventual intervention. They are also testing both local and foreign responses before the actual intervention takes place.
In each such intervention the goal has been to keep independent-minded or Western-oriented territories that Russia views as within its sphere of influence away from the West and within the Russian sphere.
Fears of the second and ultimately the third phase grew this weekend as pro-Russian" gunmen" (there is informed speculation that these gunmen are actually Russian Spetznatz soldiers) conducted a series of coordinated assaults on police stations and security buildings in many Ukrainian cities. The goal appears to be occupation of critical infrastructure / facilities to enable the third phase—formal military operations.
In what is probably the prelude to a full invasion by the Russian military, masked men armed with AK-74 assault rifles and stun grenades seized two police stations and an intelligence headquarters in eastern Ukraine. The gunmen also set up checkpoints along local roads and began barricading the buildings.
The operations were accompanied by a statement by Russia's foreign minister, that Ukraine was "demonstrating its inability to take responsibility for the fate of the country".
The White House warned Russia against further military action.
"We saw similar so-called protest activities in Crimea before Russia's purported annexation," said Laura Lucas Magnuson, a spokesman for the White House National Security Council. Vladimir Putin, the country's president, should "cease all efforts to destabilize Ukraine", she added.
These recent activities are most likely a strong test of nerve for the Ukrainian security forces, who know that any serious bloodshed could give Russia the desired pretext to intervene to "protect" pro-Russian elements.
In an effort to threaten the European Union (EU) Russia increased the gas price for Ukrainian consumers by 80% saying Kiev was no longer eligible for previous discounts. A large proportion of the natural gas which EU states buy from Russia is pumped by way of Ukrainian territory. Therefore if Russia makes good on a threat to cut off Ukraine for non-payment of its bills, customers further west will necessarily have supplies disrupted. The Ukraine and the EU are working out ways to keep supplies flowing to EU states, and for those countries to then pump the gas to Ukraine by reversing the flow in their pipelines.
The Russian foreign ministry said its natural gas would increasingly be sold to Asia, as part of a strategy of turning away from a Europe, which the Russia considers unfriendly. 'It seems to me they (the Europeans) just don't understand. The politicians are behaving ... in a very short-sighted way.'
As we progress into spring when military operations in the Ukraine are not hampered by the weather will we see an invasion of the Ukraine? The Russian model when coupled with the administration's unwillingness to support Ukraine would suggest that it is not a question of if, just when.
I just finished reading Tom Clancy's book "Chain of Command" where a strong President resists a Russian invasion of the Ukraine and forces the Russians to withdraw. I recommend it as reading in light of the present situation.


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Appellate rules define how a decision in Federal district court or Minnesota district court may be brought to one of the thirteen Federal Courts of Appeals or to the Minnesota Court of Appeals or Supreme Court for a re-hearing, possible reversal, or referral back to the trial court. Separate procedural rules exist for appeals to the Federal courts and to Minnesota courts. Once a case has been accepted on appeal, there are in addition rules for proceeding within that court. The United States Supreme Court has its own internal rules of procedure, as do the several Circuit Courts of Appeal and the Minnesota Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals.
Procedural rules are mandatory, both the appealing party and the responding, opposing party must understand and comply with the rules. A case will not be accepted on appeal if the rules are not followed. There are many tools to help understand the requirements of appellate procedure. This guide focuses on the rules of appellate procedure in the United States Court of Appeals, the Minnesota Supreme Court, and the Minnesota Court of Appeals. It focuses on sources which contain or explain the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure and the Minnesota Rules of Appellate Procedure. It also includes references to the local rules of the several federal circuit courts.
Access to some of the electronic resources included in this research guide is restricted to University of Minnesota students; some electronic titles are restricted to law students.
Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure
The Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure were drafted by the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, adopted by order of the Supreme Court on December 4, 1967, transmitted to Congress by the Chief Justice on January 15, 1968, and became effective on July 1, 1968. Uniformity in appellate procedure was perceived as a need ten years earlier when Congress passed "An Act to Empower the Judicial Conference to study and recommend changes in and additions to the rules of practice and procedure in the Federal courts" (P.L. 85-513, 72 Stat. 356 (1958). The rules have been amended several times since their original adoption, and rules with their amendments are printed by Congress as House documents. The appellate rules were substantially rewritten and restyled in 1998.
Appellate rules are organized topically into seven titles, first by the source from which the appeal originates; district court appeals are followed by Tax Court appeals, then administrative agency appeals. These are followed by rules for extraordinary writs and for habeas corpus proceedings and proceedings in forma pauperis. Then the Rules provide general provisions (Rules 25-48) relating to computation of time, format of briefs, costs, and the ability of each court to promulgate local rules. Selected sample forms appear at the end of the rules.
Chief Justice Earl Warren appointed an Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules in 1960 as part of the interest at that time generally in rule-making activity and specifically in uniformity in appellate rules. The Advisory Committee prepares a brief note for every rule or amendment when it is proposed. It is important to read the committee note at the end of each rule because the note provides an official explanation of the rule's intent. Most publications of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure include the Advisory Committee notes following each rule (e.g. United States Code, United States Code Annotated, United States Code Service discussed below). Recent proposals to amend the rules can be found in Federal Rules Decisions also discussed below.
Unannotated Rules
The Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure are widely available in unannotated form. This form is a useful easy reference to check rule requirements or to verify citations to the rules, but it does not provide helpful explanations or interpretations of the rules. "Deskbooks," softbound volumes typically including all procedural rules related to practice in one jurisdiction, are heavily used by practitioners. Unannotated Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure also appear with statutory compilations or as supplements to treatises on appellate procedure.
Recent rule changes appear in supplementation to United States Code Service (Primary KF62.1972.L38), United States Code Congressional and Administrative News (PRIMARY KF48.W45), and United States Supreme Court Reports (L.Ed.) (Reporters KF101.A313).
Annotated Rules
When an in-depth explanation of a rule is needed, it is useful to consult annotated versions of the rules. Annotations often provide detailed discussions for each rule. In some works, however, the annotations consist only of brief citations to other sources containing explanations and judicial interpretations of the rules. The following treatises and encyclopedias on appellate procedure provide substantive annotations for the rules:
The following works to not themselves provide commentary, but they do offer numerous references to commentary and judicial interpretation of the rules.
Supreme Court Rules
The United States Supreme Court has its own rules of procedure for cases being appealed to and heard in that court. These rules are included in many of the titles mentioned above, both annotated and unannotated.
Local Federal Appellate Court Rules
In addition to the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, appellants and respondents must observe local rules within each Court of Appeals. Rule 47 of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure gives each Court of Appeals the authority to promulgate such rules, and each Court has done so. It is important to know these rules and to observe them. Sources that provide local rules for each Court of Appeals include:
Deskbooks for individual states in addition to providing that state's court rules also contain the local rules of the federal Circuit Court of Appeals for that state. For example, Minnesota Rules of Court—Federal (PRIMARY, REFERENCE OFFICE, & RESERVE KFM5929.A193) provides the rules and procedures of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Local rules of the Circuit Courts of Appeals are also available on LexisNexis (Legal > Federal Legal > U.S. > Find Statutes, Administrative Materials & Court Rules > Court Rules > Courts of Appeals Rules All Circuits). The file name is CIRRUL. On Westlaw the local federal appellate rules are in the US-RULES database. On the internet, links to the rules are available at: http://www.llrx.com/courtrules and at the websites for the individual circuit courts.
Digests, Court Reports & Citators
The Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure and the fair process of appealing from state and federal trial courts have been frequently interpreted by federal courts. It is possible to locate such cases by using West's Federal Practice Digest and the Supreme Court Digest under the topic "Appeal and Error." An alternative source for finding Supreme Court cases is the Digest of United States Supreme Court Reports, Lawyers Edition under the topic "Appeal." A number of specialized reporters, digests, and citators focus specifically on the federal rules of procedure, including the appellate rules.
Additional Sources
To find other works containing the text of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, commentary about the rules or individual rules, or references to cases that interpret the rules, search MNCAT Discovery Catalog. The title search—federal rules of appellate procedure—is useful. Or, try the LC subject heading search appellate procedure followed by the jurisdiction you need. Other good LC subject heading searches, again followed by the appropriate jurisdiction, include: appellate courts, briefs, judicial opinions, and oral pleading.
First approved by the American Bar Association House of Delegates in 1977, the Standards Relating to Appellate Courts (KF8750.A944 1994) were amended in 1994. They address appellate court structure, appellate review, and how the appellate process can be better and more efficiently managed.
Internet Sources
An excellent site containing links to nearly all court rules available on the internet is www.llrx.com/courtrules. The Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure are also available at Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute.
Minnesota Rules of Appellate Procedure
First promulgated in 1967, the current Rules of Civil Appellate Procedure superseded the Civil Appeal Code (MSA 605.01-225). Rule 101 defines the scope of the rules: they govern procedure in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals in civil cases, in proceedings for review of administrative orders, and in criminal cases to the extent that these rules are not inconsistent with the Rules of Criminal Procedure and with several statutes. Rules 28 and 29 of the Minnesota Rules of Criminal Procedure describe the procedures for appeal of criminal convictions; in Minnesota all appeals of first degree murder convictions go directly to the Minnesota Supreme Court, bypassing the Minnesota Court of Appeals. Appeals in juvenile proceedings are governed by Rule 21 of the Rules of Juvenile Delinquency Procedure.
Unannotated Annotated Rules
Annotated Rules
Digests, Court Reports and Citators
The standard tools used to find and update Minnesota case law can be used to find cases which interpret the Minnesota Rules of Civil Appellate Procedure.
Internet Sources
As previously mentioned, the Minnesota Rules of Civil Appellate Procedure are available from the judicial branch's website at http://www.mncourts.gov/default.aspx?page=511#appellate. Another useful source for understanding the appellate process is the source Standards of Review from the Minnesota Court of Appeals: http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/casofrev.pdf.
Looseleaf Services, Texts & Periodicals
Looseleaf Services
In addition to the titles listed in the Annotated Rules sections above, there are several treatises that may be useful in gaining a better understanding of the rules and the appellate process. MNCAT Discovery Catalog subject heading searches under appellate procedure followed by the jurisdiction you are researching provide access to many texts. Helpful texts on federal and Minnesota appellate procedure include:
Periodical articles can provide helpful information about recent developments in appellate procedure, important cases, and recent rule changes. In addition to Westlaw and LexisNexis, LegalTrac and Index to Legal Periodicals & Books may be used to locate such articles by keyword, subject, author, article title, popular names of cases or statutes, citations of cases, rules, and statutes. It is also possible to key in a specific procedural rule to find articles about that rule; try "rule" and "appellate" and the number of the rule in a keyword search. Periodical titles that may be particularly relevant to appellate procedure include:
If your interest is appellate procedure in a particular state jurisdiction, focusing on the journals or law reviews from that state may also be useful.


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NBA Pick: Charlotte Bobcats +3.5 (November 30th 2012)
The Charlotte Bobcats are certainly undervalued in the early going of the 2012-13 NBA season. Nobody expected this team to be 7-7 at this point, but the fact of the matter is that this is an improved roster with a head coach that is finally getting the most out of his players.
The additions of Ramon Sessions (16.5 PPG, 4.3 APG), Ben Gordon (13.5 PPG, 42.9 % 3-Pointers), Michael Kidd-Golchrist (11.0 PPG, 6.4 RPG) and Jeffery Taylor (7.5 PPG) have made a huge difference for this team. Returning starters Kemba Walker (16.5 PPG, 5.6 APG) and Byron Mullens (13.1 PPG, 8.4 RPG) have taken their games up a notch as well.
Charlotte is 5-3 at home this season. It is allowing just 96.1 points per game on its home court, which is significantly better than their road mark of 105.7. They have already won more home games this season than they did all of last year (4-29).
The 76ers are 0-4 ATS in their last 4 games overall. Philly is 5-13 ATS in its last 18 road games vs. a team with a home winning % of greater than .600. The Bobcats are 4-0 ATS in their last 4 games following a S.U. loss. Bet the Bobcats Friday.
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Big Show beat Mark Henry to win the World Heavyweight Championship at tonight's WWE TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs pay-per-view from the 1st Mariner Arena in Baltimore, Maryland. Show got the win after attacking Henry with chairs and delivering the WMD.
Once Henry "recovered" from Show's finisher, he took Big Show out in a post match beat down.
This led to Daniel Bryan coming out, cashing in his Money in the Bank briefcase and pinning Big Show to win the World Heavyweight Championship in less than 10 seconds.
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Richard Reacts: I didn't like how Big Show ended Mark Henry's run. The match was terrible and completely lacked any type of crowd reaction. The only way I can give it a pass is if Henry is legitimately injured. As for Daniel Bryan "cashing in" and winning the belt, I think it's awesome. Bryan is the best in-ring worker in the company, however, I have legitimate concerns about what type of title reign he's going to be given. Can he make it until Wrestlemania XXVIII? There's nothing I've seen that would indicate he will based on how he has been booked in WWE so far.


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He came out of the box throwing. And when the game was on the line, he did the same thing. The Baltimore Ravens are Super Bowl champions because Joe Flacco is their quarterback.
Oh, you can pick a variety of heroes and catalysts for the Ravens' 34-31 win over the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Dome on Sunday night.
You can talk about key runs and clutch catches and a final goal line defense that shut the 49ers down in the final seconds just when they seemed about to stage one of the more dramatic comebacks in Super Bowl history, coming all the way back from a 28-6 deficit at the start of the third quarter.
You can even talk about a 34 minute delay early in the third quarter caused by power outage in the Superdome which seemed to work better for the 49ers than the Ravens.
But the difference early and the difference late was Flacco, the much talked about, often maligned quarterback for the Ravens.
Flacco threw three TD passes, completed 22 of 33 passes for 287 yards and was voted the MVP. Just as he did when he went on the road and led the Ravens past the Denver Broncos and QB Peyton Manning and just as he did when he went to New England and helped the Ravens beat Tom Brady and the Patriots, Flacco was the better QB, the better leader, the difference maker.
How else to explain a QB who throws 11 TDS and 0 picks in the playoffs when the pressure is the highest and the stakes are the greatest?
Flacco was great early throwing 3 TD passes as the Ravens sprinted past the 49ers to a 21-6 halftime lead which grew to 28-6 when Jacoby Jones raced 108 yards with the second half kickoff to build the Ravens lead to what looked like an insurmountable 28-6 edge.
But he was also good enough at clutch time when he kept a drive going with a key third down pass for a first down to Anquan Boldin which allowed the Ravens' Justin Tucker to kick a 38-yard field goal to extend the Ravens lead to 5 points with 4:19 remaining.
"It's unbelieveable," said Flacco as he made the post game round of press conferences after the game. "When you start playing spots, you go out in the school yard, you dream of being a Super Bowl champion. We made it happen."
Yes, they did. The Ravens lived on the edge all season, barely making the playoffs. But once it was post season time, it became Flacco time.
Is Flacco Joe Montana or Tom Brady with multiple Super Bowl wins? Not yet. But in his first five years in the NFL he has as many wins as either of those QBs and his career is just starting to peak.
Is he and elite QB, worthy of a $100 million type contract the New Orleans Saints recently gave Drew Brees?
Yes and yes and he will get that type of money when the celebrations quiet down and Flacco and the Ravens can talk about the business part of the deal which has made the Ravens a Super Bowl champion and an elite team–at least in January and February
"Can we all agree that Joe Flacco is elite," said Ravens coach John Harbaugh.
When asked if he was now the leader of this team now that linebacker Ray Lewis has ridden off into retirement with the Super Bowl victory that was such a motivating factor.
"No doubt about it," said Flacco. I'm going to lead this football team. But there is not a closer knit type of guys that I've been around."
Super Bowl XLVII is now part of history. It will go down as a great game, which matched the hype. It will go down as the Harbaugh Bowl, a battle between John and Jim (49ers coach) who matched their coaching talents against each other on the biggest stage in sports.
It will down as the Ray Lewis farewell tour. It will go down as the first time the San Francisco 49ers lost a Super Bowl in five tries.
But it will also go down as the game that Joe Flacco emerged as an elite NFL quarterback.
And right now no one will argue the point.
© 2013, Mark. All rights reserved.


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Stupid Secrecy?
So I picked up my redacted copy of Operation Dark Heart on the way to catch a flight to DC this week. It's a real page-turner, all-right, once you get past the author's navel-gazing descriptions of his youth.
There's been a fair amount of hoopla about the USG's "censorship" of the contents. I'm not certain that vetting memoirs written by an individual who once held a security clearance (or rather, back-pedaling after failing to adequately vet in the first place) is really analogous to burning books as a political statement, as some would argue.
But I do agree with Hudson Institute's Gabriel Shoenfield, quoted in the Times, that on the face of it this is just plain stupid. Assuming the redacted portions actually contain sensitive information, and given that a few original copies do remain in existence (parts of one were published by the NYTimes), the redacted version essentially demonstrates precisely where in the text those nuggets are buried and what the government is presumably concerned about. Moreover, in timing these acts of censorship to coincide with Banned Book Week and carrying out the destruction of the first print run in the most media-circus-friendly way possible, the Pentagon has basically ensured that Operation Dark Heart will sell like hotcakes.
On the other hand, since I respect as well as fear my government, I can't help but wonder whether we should be taking these acts of seeming stupidity at face value. Read more…


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With roots in Niagara Falls, roots/folk singer/songwriter Beth Moore music has many similarities with raging free waters of the Falls. Her vocals are free, a force nature with a contrasts of tender to the frenetic. Within the open spaces of this environment, you have a great mix of influences for this emerging roots influenced folk music artist. Beth celebrates her debut album "The Road" release at Mitzi's Sister on January 26th, 2011
In the past 5 years, Beth has been fine-tuning her craft through writing, performing, and experiencing the life of a solo artist. With her sound catching on with her local scene, Beth decided to leave Niagara Falls for big lights of Toronto. She's performed over 200 shows across Toronto's and other cities developing her emerging folk style that's like a lyrical heartland that's wise beyond her years.
"I write about what I know, and I do it as honestly as I know how," says Beth. Her music is being noticed by folk fans and reviewers alike, garnering her critical praise.
As well, in late 2010, Beth Moore was invited to work on a a U.S. based documentary film called, "A Second Knock At The Door" by 5414 Productions. Her music is featured throughout the documentary that is set to open in Spring/Summer 2011. From a promotional clips found on YouTube, you can tell that her music is well suited to this moving piece.
Her debut LP 'The Road' is released on January 26th, 2011. Listening to the songs on the album, it's clear her singing show a developing a rich layered sound within her voice. Her vocals have a bluesy heartfelt feel that charms with mature reflective lyrics. Beth also shows a sensitive side adding depth to the lyrics of her songs: Love Now, So Far So Good, etc. A highlight is the punchy rockabilly/folk song ,"Red and Blue".
For a singer/songwriter, Beth has emotive vocals with a high IQ, depth and range. Her music brings a "sweet and sour" aesthetic, yet it's never bland. Indie labels need to take a good look at her because she her sound is reminiscent to early Sarah Harmer, Jen Grant, etc. So if you want to see Beth Moore perform, come check out her album release at Mitzi's Sister on the 26th. I mean c'mon…what else are you going to do on a Wednesday night?
A Second Knock At The Door (Promo)
Awards: Nominated in 2009, 2010 for over 4 Niagara Music Awards & 2 Toronto Independant Music Award; claimed the title of NMA 2010 Adult Contemporary Artist of the Year; nominated for 2 Toronto Independant Music Awards in 2010 for best song for 'the road' and best folk artist; collaborated with Jason Lupish to make two Music videos for her songs ' The Road ' and 'So Far So Good'.


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Hello Readers, Please check out this brand new reflection on the Spring 2007 Book Tour for "The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia." This article includes photos from the road, the highlights of the trip, best stories, and descriptions of the audiences, discussions and receptions along the way. I also go […]
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Today, Spreader Snow Plows are the workhorse and
backbone for keeping the rails clear of snow and
ice during Winter months for the new high-priority
double stack trains crossing Donner Pass.
Since originally built in the 1960's, the Jordan
Spreaders have basically been unchanged. In
September 2009, the team undertook the monumental task of completely rebuilding the MEGA machines - before Winter sets in.
Witness the drama and difficulties incurred along the way. The 4031 and 4032 were completed and deployed on the first day of the "storm of the decade" in 2010. In the end, the dedicated crew may have prevailed, but would it plow snow?


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There is a piece of .net C# code which use Reflection to create an instance using
Activator.CreateInstance(). This is an old piece of code and runs on the top of Enterprise Library. Is it a better idea to replace this with Dependency Injection to create objects? Is there any Pro's and Con's for either approach?
There is a piece of .net C# code which use Reflection to create an instance using
It probably depends on a number of questions:
It's also worth pointing out that DI frameworks will just use reflection under the hood anyway to create objects at runtime.
As a general approach I think that you can replace a code that use
For example if you have the following code:
You can replace with something like
Another approach that can be used is to invert the dependency (Inversion of Control) and let the main component decides what components to inject. This is the recommended approach in most situations. From the main you can register the correct implementation and let the Dependency Injection do it's work.


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ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) -- Deputies in central Florida say a baby bear was struck and killed on Interstate 4.
Orlando television station WKMG reports a woman heading eastbound hit the bear about 1 a.m. Wednesday. Deputies say she pulled off at a nearby rest area.
She was not injured.
Authorities say the bear weighed about 125 pounds.
No further details were immediately available.


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Need A New MDLOps
To enable people who wish to make new lightmap-enabled module MDL files, we need the following:
"texture1 <texturefile>"
"lightmapped <0 or 1>"
(if you know of anything else we would need for this, let me know)
I've managed to at least get another texture filename printed in the .mdl file by doing a copy of the bitmap code, but it doesn't get read by the game. So we need an actual programmer lol.
Anyone out there who can code? ;)
What are you talking about? I'm not understanding what you need.
Lightmap texture files are mentioned in the module MDL files & stored as "texture1 <filename>" in the uncompiled ascii MDL (none of our tools can decompile/compile MDLs to have this option or lightmapped). "texture0 is the same as "bitmap", so its not needed. If we can get these lightmap texture names stored in the module MDL and then successfully read by the game, then we can make our own module MDLs with lightmaps instead of without.
After some digging through NWN stuff, "Lightmapped <0 or 1>" is to tell the game that this MDL uses lightmaps, so load the lightmap texture from the second texture mentioned.
We need MDLOps updated to decompile/compile these options, then we can worry about adding these to NWMax.
You know, I tried to find that lightmaps for dummies thread... man I really suck at searching even though I do really try. :\
Thanks heaps for the link. :D
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I am trying to do a fresh install of Windows-7 RTM. The machine keeps locking up at the same point of the install.. .
- Finishes Copying Files
- Finishes Expanding Files
- Finishes Installing Features, etc.
- Freezes at "Completing Installation"
Is there any way I can debug the install to figure out why its dying?
Installing to a newly formatted 1 TB WD-Caviar Black drive. 4 GB, Quadcore AMD 9850 Black edition.


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|Vandals look to keep winning
MOSCOW - The Idaho women's basketball team will look to ride the momentum of its recent Western Athletic Conference road sweep of Denver and New Mexico State as it hosts Louisiana Tech in the Cowan Spectrum on Jan. 17 for a 6 p.m. tipoff.
Both Idaho and LA Tech enter Thursday's game at 3-2 in the WAC and are in a three-way tie for second place in the league with Utah State. Idaho sports a 6-10 overall record while the Lady Techsters are 7-8 in 2012-13. Idaho has never beaten LA Tech in 15 tries, but the Vandals have come close at home in recent years. The last four meetings in Moscow have been decided by seven points or less, including two four-point LA Tech victories and one in overtime.
The Lady Techsters are under fifth-year head coach Teresa Weatherspoon, who is 80-41 at LA Tech. Kelia Shelton leads the team in scoring and rebounding with 14.1 points and 6.7 boards per game. The Lady Techsters average 57.9 points per game and shoot 37 percent from the field but just 27 percent from 3-point game, making 3.3 3s per game.
While the Vandals are led by junior Alyssa Charlston in scoring, rebounding, field goal percentage and double-double for the second straight year, Idaho brings a balanced offensive attack to the table. Five Idaho players are averaging better than 8.0 points per game in WAC play, including three with 12 or more points. Idaho makes 8.3 3-pointers per game, the 10th best total in NCAA Division I, but proved it can win without the 3-ball in its most recent outing, beating NMSU 57-51 despite going 4-of-17 from long range in the game.
The Vandals will wrap up the week against UT Arlington on Jan. 19 at 6 p.m. Fans on the Palouse can catch the action on KMAX 850 AM with pregame show beginning at 5:45. Live stats and a live video stream of both games will also be available online at www.GoVandals.com.


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Game 19: No. 13 Arizona (15-3, 5-1) at Oregon State (11-6, 3-3)
Date: Saturday, Jan. 22, 2005
Time: 5 p.m. PST
Location: Gill Coliseum (10,400), Corvallis, Ore.
Radio: Wildcat Radio Network (Brian Jeffries/Ryan Hansen)
TV: FSN (Steve Physioc/Marques Johnson)
Game Data: No. 13 Arizona (15-3, 5-1 Pac-10) travels to Corvallis, Ore., to take on Oregon State (11-6, 3-3 Pac-10) Saturday evening ... The Wildcats outscore the opponents by 7.9 points per game in conference play ... During the Lute Olson era, UA is a league-best 127-65 (.661) in Pac-10 road games ... In road games this season, Arizona posts a +5.4 rebound margin ... Following this road swing to Oregon, six of Arizona's next eight games are at home.
The Rankings: After winning two games last week, Arizona jumped to No. 13 in the Associated Press Top 25 and to No. 12 in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Polls. UA has been ranked in 295 consecutive AP polls released during the regular season only.
Arizona Head Coach Lute Olson . . . is in his 22nd season at Arizona and his 32nd overall as a college head coach with a career record of 726-252 (.742) and 534-160 (.769) at Arizona ... He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Sept. 27, 2002 ... Olson became the 16th coach in basketball history to tally 1,000 career victories (covering all levels) on Dec. 11, 2004 ... Olson recorded his 700th collegiate victory on Jan. 3, 2004, and became Arizona's career victories leader (510) on Jan. 17, 2004 ... He has the second-most Pac-10 wins (295) in history, trailing UCLA's John Wooden (304, 1949-75) ... Olson has the second-best conference winning percentage (.776/295-85) and second-most league championships won (10) in Pac-10 history (minimum three years), trailing only Wooden (.810/304-74/16 titles) ... During his 22-year tenure at Arizona, the Wildcats have won one national championship (1997), played in the national championship game (2001), participated in four Final Fours (1988, 1994, 1997, 2001), won 10 Pac-10 Conference titles, four Pac-10 Tournament crowns (1988, ?'89, ?'90, 2002) and been to the NCAA Tournament for the past 20 years, which is the longest active and second-longest streak in NCAA history (North Carolina, 27)... He also led Iowa to the 1980 Final Four ... Olson has been named the Pac-10 Coach of the Year seven times (1986, ?'88, ?'89, ?'93, ?'94, ?'98, 2003), the Big Ten Coach of the Year twice (1979 & ?'81) and directed the UA program to the nation's best winning percentage over the past 17 years (449-111/.802) ... In his collegiate career, Olson has produced 47 NBA Draft picks, including 28 at Arizona ?- 21 alone since 1990 ... He's led UA to 17 consecutive 20-win seasons and has 26 overall in his career, making him one of only five head coaches in NCAA history to record 25 or more 20-win seasons... Under Olson, the Cats are 317-32 (.908) in McKale Center and have won 245 of its last 262 home games ... He is assisted by Jim Rosborough, Rodney Tention and Josh Pastner ... Olson is 37-7 against Oregon State.
Last Time Out: Salim Stoudamire, Channing Frye and Hassan Adams combined for 57 points, 18 rebounds, eight assists and seven steals in leading the Wildcats to the 74-66 win Thursday at Oregon. Stoudamire scored 20 of his game-high 27 points in the first half as Arizona built a double-digit lead. After an Oregon run cut a 15-point lead to two with just over eight minutes to go, Arizona answered with big shots of its own as it regained control of the contest.
Scouting Oregon State: The Beavers enter Saturday's game with an 11-6 record (3-3 Pac-10) after an 88-66 win Thursday vs. Arizona State. OSU shoots 44.1 percent from the field (419-of-951), posts a -2.5 rebound margin and outscores the opposition by 1.3 points per game. Individually, five Beavers average in double figures, led by David Lucas, who averages 16.1 points per game. Nick DeWitz leads the club by averaging 5.4 rebounds per game.
The Series: Saturday's game marks the 57th meeting of the two schools with Arizona holding a 40-16 series advantage. UA has won seven of the last eight meetings in the series, which dates back to Jan. 28, 1975, but the Beavers captured the last meeting, a 90-84 triumph in Corvallis on Feb. 21, 2004. All-time, Arizona is 23-5 in series games played in Tucson, 16-11 in Corvallis, and 1-0 in neutral-site games. For more series information, please see page 104 of the UA basketball media guide.
Last Meeting: Oregon State 90, Arizona 84, Feb. 21, 2004: Oregon State's David Lucas and Chris Stephens combined for 44 points in leading the Beavers to a 90-84 victory. The Wildcats managed to do a few things right ?- a 52.7 field goal percentage and a 39-25 rebound advantage among them ?- but committed 20 turnovers, which led to 21 OSU points, in an otherwise listless performance. Channing Frye collected 18 points and a game-high 13 rebounds and Hassan Adams chipped in 14 points and seven rebounds.
Road Sweeps: After defeating Oregon Thursday, Arizona puts itself in position to do something it hasn't done in more than a season: sweep a Pac-10 road trip. A win Saturday would give the Wildcats its first road sweep since Feb. 27-March 1, 2003, when UA swept the Bay Area. Since the start of the 1999-2000 season, Arizona has swept of 10 of 21 possible road swings. In that span, the Oregon trip has proven to be very difficult, as the Cats are 6-5 on this trip (counting Thursday's win) with just one sweep (2003). The road swings break down like this: Washington: 9-1 (4 sweeps); Bay Area: 9-3 (4); Oregon: 6-5 (1); and Los Angeles: 5-5 (1).
Picking It Up: Over his last five games, Salim Stoudamire is shooting 54.4 percent (31-of-57) from the field, including an impressive 56.7 percent (17-of-30) from behind the arc, and averaging 20.0 points per game. In the 10 games since sitting out the Marquette game on Dec. 18 for disciplinary reasons, the 6-foot-1 senior is averaging 18.4 points per game and shooting 60.5 percent (49-of-81) from the field, 65.3 percent (32-of-49) from behind the arc and 92.3 percent (36-of-39) from the line. Incidentally, Stoudamire's improved accuracy has helped the Wildcats as a whole shoot 46.7 percent (266-of-569) from the field in that span, an increase of 29 points over the team's season FG percentage.
More on Salim: With his 14-of-24 shooting (.583) from behind the arc in the last three games, Stoudamire is the nation's leader in three-point field goal percentage at .567 (55-of-97). Of his 165 field goal attempts through 17 games played, nearly 60 percent 97-of-165/.588) have come from three-point range. While the season is only half over, Stoudamire's .567 three-point field goal percentage trails only Steve Kerr's 57.3 percent mark (114-of-199) in 1987-88 in the UA single-season record book.
Heating Up: The Wildcat offense has increased its productivity in Pac-10 play by averaging 81.2 points in the first six games. Additionally, Arizona is shooting 45.2 percent (176-of-389) from the field in that span, a figure that is 19 points higher than its overall field goal percentage of 43.3 percent. Incidentally, UA is 4-0 this year when shooting 50 percent or better from the floor.
It Counts in the Boxscore: By limiting Oregon to 39.3 percent shooting (11-of-28) in the first half, Arizona was able to outshoot the Ducks by a 45.0-42.1 percent margin. While it may not seem like much, it does continue a season-long trend that has seen the Wildcats post a 9-0 record in 2004-05 when outshooting the opposition.
Other Contributions: Much has been made lately of Salim Stoudamire's outside shooting, but it was the work of several other Wildcats down the stretch that made the difference on Thursday. Following a 15-2 Oregon run, Mustafa Shakur hit back-to-back buckets a minute apart, Ivan Radenovic knocked down a trey at 2:31 and Chris Rodgers worked free for a lay-up at 1:09 that enabled Arizona to regain control of the contest and eventually put it out of reach.
Taking Advantage: One of the keys to Arizona building a 13-point halftime lead was its ability to get to the free throw line. The Cats were put into the bonus with just over eight minutes to go in the opening half and made 9-of-11 charity tosses to close the period. On average, UA makes 2.5 more free throws per game than the opposition.
Winning the tight Ones: Thursday's win improved Arizona's record to 7-1 this season in games decided by 10 points or less. By comparison, the Wildcats were only 7-9 in that situation last season.
It's a Family Thing: With his cousin in attendance, Salim Stoudamire moved into sole possession of second place on the Arizona career three-point field goals list with 277. His first of five treys in the game moved him past cousin Damon, who knocked down 272 treys at Arizona from 1992-95. With the effort, Salim moved fifth place on the Pac-10 career three-point field goals made list.
The Century Mark: Channing Frye earned the 100th career start Thursday against Oregon. All told, Arizona is 78-22 (.780) with Frye in the starting five. Incidentally, Frye moved into fourth place on the UA career rebounds list at 839 after grabbing seven against the Ducks.
Good First Step: Arizona's 42-29 halftime lead Thursday was indicative of the team's trend of getting out to an early lead. Through 18 games, Arizona is 10-1 when leading after 10 minutes of play and 12-1 (3-0 Pac-10) when leading at the half. The Wildcats post a +7.3 first half scoring advantage in 2004-05.
An All-Around Guy: In an oddly quiet manner, Hassan Adams continues to display a solid all-around game. Thursday against the Ducks, the 6-foot-4 junior tallied 13 points (his 50th career double-figure game), six rebounds, six assists and a career-high six steals. In those 30 minutes of action, Adams committed no turnovers. He has already set a new career high with 49 assists this season, while his team-leading 40 steals is only six shy of another career best. Adams is averaging 2.2 steals per game, the highest figure for a Wildcat since Jason Terry averaged 2.8 pilfers per game in 1998-99.
Steady: Mustafa Shakur gave the Cats exactly what it needed on Thursday: a steady hand at the controls from the point guard position. In addition to hitting the two big shots mentioned earlier, the 6-foot-3 sophomore finished with five points, four rebounds and four assists. In what was an intense affair, Arizona committed just 10 turnovers.
Collecting Caroms: In addition to a game-high 27 points Thursday, Salim Stoudamire was also active on the boards by grabbing five rebounds. The five rebounds were his second-highest total of the season.
Controlling the Glass: Arizona is 11-1 this season when outrebounding the opposition, and five times the squad has posted at least a +10 rebound margin. UA has outrebounded 12 of 18 opponents in 2004-05. Last season, Arizona was 16-4 when outrebounding the opposition.
Scoring 80: Perhaps no statistic is more telling of UA success, as the squad is 130-16 (.890) since the start of the 1997-98 season when scoring at least 80 points. The Cats are 6-0 this season when topping the 80-point plateau.
Always on the Run: Arizona has made a name for itself with an ability to embark on some large scoring runs. Eight times during the 2004-05 season UA has posted a scoring run of more than 15 points. Here is a look at the list:
21 points ?- 29-8 run over 8:58 vs. Manhattan, Dec. 21
19 points ?- 27-8 run over 8:10 vs. Wright State, Nov. 18
19 points ?- 22-3 run over 8:49 vs. Richmond, Dec. 30
18 points ?- 20-2 run over 8:11 vs. San Diego, Nov. 16
17 points ?- 25-8 run over 10:15 vs. Eastern Washington, Dec. 28
16 points ?- 18-2 run over 5:00 vs. Wyoming, Nov. 30
16 points ?- 23-7 run over 5:59 vs. Manhattan, Dec. 21
16 points ?- 21-5 run over 5:12 vs. Arizona State, Jan. 2
Early Signees: Coach Olson and his staff signed three student-athletes to National-Letters-of-Intent during the November early signing period. Fendi Onobun (F, 6-7, 215) from Houston, Texas, Alief Taylor High School; J.P. Prince (G, 6-6, 183) from Memphis, Tenn., White Station High School; and Marcus Williams (F, 6-6, 190) from Seattle, Wash., Roosevelt High School, will join the squad next fall.
Up Next: Following tonight's game, Arizona returns home for the first of four consecutive games at McKale Center. UA hosts Washington on Jan. 27 with tip-of scheduled for 6:30 p.m. MST on Fox Sports Net.