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CLINTON, MS - On a night when the Mississippi College defense scored three touchdowns, it was the offense that came up big in the end with a 77-yard touchdown pass on 3rd-and-10 from sophomore Jonathon Redd to senior Alex Archer with just 1:19 remaining to clinch a 31-24 win over Webber International on Saturday night at Robinson-Hale Stadium.
The MC defense (1-1) returned two fumbles and one interception for scores, as well as racking up five total turnovers on the evening. For the Choctaws, the three defensive touchdowns matched the number of scores for that side of the ball over the last two seasons combined.
The pass defense was impressive, led by junior Keith Villafranco with two interceptions, including the one that clinched the victory in the final seconds. Junior Stephen Miner returned a pick for a score on the evening as the Choctaws only allowed 97 passing yards.
"Our defensive style is that we want 11 guys going towards the ball at all times," said Villafranco. "We executed the gameplan tonight, and it paid off. This was a lot of fun tonight, and it gives us a lot of confidence going forward."
"Our defense did a great job tonight," said Head Coach Norman Joseph. "The offense finished things off, and we were good in the kicking game. It was a total team win. What a great atmosphere to play in tonight. Our crowd was fantastic, and the guys really responded."
On the night, Archer caught seven passes for 153 yards and one touchdown, including the game-winning score. The injury-riddled senior from Shreveport, LA has seen his perserverance pay off with 10 total catches for 202 yards this season.
Sophomore Josh Williams opened the scoring for MC with a 24-yard fumble recovery for a touchdown in the first quarter. Senior Chris Campbell nailed a 40-yard field goal and the Choctaws took a 10-0 lead into the second quarter.
Webber got on the board to open the second quarter when Corey Jackson caught a three-yard pass from Jeffrey Wayner, and the lead was cut to 10-7.
Freshman Joseph Comeaux scored the second defensive touchdown of the night on a 20-yard fumble return in the second quarter to push the lead back to 17-7. The score would remain the same heading into halftime.
The Warriors gave MC a taste of their own medicine to open the second half as Silas Lopez returned an interception 47 yards for a score and the lead was cut back to just three points at 17-14.
Miner answered with his 15-yard interception for a touchdown to end the third quarter with a 24-14 lead for the Choctaws. The Bryam native has two fumble recoveries and a pick in the first two games of the season.
The Warriors would not go away, however, as Brendan Deshiel rushed in from four yards out to cut the score to 24-21 with 11:13 remaining. After an MC fumble, the defense stood tall and forced a 19-yard field goal by Mason Prater of Webber to tie the game at 24-24.
After the game was tied, both teams missed chances to take the lead as Campbell missed a 41-yard field goal for MC and Prater saw a 40-yarder go wide right with just 1:45 remaining.
That set the stage for Redd and Archer's heroics. After MC gained no yards on first and second down, Webber called a timeout to try to save time for their offense to win the game. Coach Joseph had other ideas as he sent Archer streaking down the middle of the field and Redd found him for the game-winning score.
"It means so much for Coach (Joseph) to have the confidence to throw me the ball at the end of the game," said Archer. It really made the last three years of injuries worth it for that play."
The Warriors moved the ball to midfield, but Villafranco stopped all thoughts of a comeback with an acrobatic interception at the MC 16-yard line.
Redd had another good game for MC under center, completing 23-of-35 passes for 264 yards and the one score. Freshman Therion Robinson led the way on the ground with 71 yards on 10 carries.
Senior Dominick Puckett had a team-high nine tackles for the Choctaws, including eight solo stops. He also had one of MC's eight tackles for loss on the night.
The Choctaws will be back in action next Saturday when they travel to Livingston, Ala. to face Division II West Alabama at 6:00 p.m.
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CLINTON, MS - On a night when the Mississippi College defense scored three touchdowns, it was the offense that came up big in the end with a 77-yard touchdown pass on 3rd-and-10 from sophomore Jonathon Redd to senior Alex Archer with just 1:19 remaining to clinch a 31-24 win over Webber International on Saturday night at Robinson-Hale Stadium.


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They made a ton of 55 chevrolet 2 door cars. This car is a 2 for post at that, and they tend to sell for a bit less than the hardtop. I watch them on ebay often, and 63k is deffinetly outside the norm. I wonder if someone jumped in to get the bidding up
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2012 Tour Stop #23 - The World Food ChampionshipsNovember 4, 2012
Something has to be pretty big to keep us on the road past October as usually, the Jack Daniel's World Championship is the last stop for the Great American BBQ Tour. This year the biggest and baddest contest was going down in Las Vegas, so we just had to be a part of it! The World Food Championships brought seven different categories together to crown one ultimate World Food Champion! The best BBQ teams, sandwich artists, burger makers, chefs, side-dish professionals, recipe aficionados and chili teams came together in Las Vegas to compete at Bally's for the grand champion title of their category and for the ultimate chance to square off against the other six category grand champions at the Final Table held at Caesars Palace!
Christine and I parked the GABT trailer right off Las Vegas Boulevard and were surprised at the amount of people who walked the sidewalks. I think we were told that nearly 40,000 people walked by our spot daily! True to Las Vegas style, we saw plenty of Transformers, Kiss look-a-likes, Flintstones, showgirls, oh yeah… and Elvis.
I had the opportunity to take over the main stage from DJ Chef, who was in charge of spinning songs both days to keep the crowd engaged, in order to give out the Reser's® awards. I also got to do a couple of infomercials for Thermoworks! I introduced folks to the oven thermometer and showcased the Super-Fast™ Thermapen™ along with everything else I had packed in my super secret case of Thermoworks goodies!
Because this was such a big event, Christine and I set up both of our KCBS tents for sampling to the record breaking crowds! No one was shorted samples from Reser's®, Smithfield®, Castle Wood Reserve and Weber® Sauces and Seasoning!
Las Vegas is a party town, and to follow suit, the World Food Championships hosted VIP parties each night. Friday night was the VIP burger event, complete with custom recipes showcasing some very creative sliders! Saturday night, after most of the individual awards had been handed out, was a VIP party out by Bally's pool that featured dishes representative of each of the seven individual categories.
At the end of Saturday night, they announced the top ten BBQ teams from the main stage. Big Papa's Country Kitchen from Naples, Florida won Reserve Grand and Butcher BBQ from Oklahoma took home the Grand Champion title. Additionally, Butcher BBQ went on to compete against the other six category champions on Sunday at the Final Table! In the end, the last person standing was Robert Butler, winner of the Sandwich category, who presented a pulled pork sandwich to the Final Table judges. Black Pig BBQ was also present at the Final Table, representing the Recipe category. All in all, I would say that the world of BBQ was well represented at the World Food Championships!
Huge congratulations must go out to Mike McCloud and all of his team from MMA Creative and Trybe Targeting for pulling off this massive endeavor. It will be exciting to see what the future holds for the World Food Championships in the years to come!


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Indiana still a strong No. 1 in men's hoops
New York, NY – Indiana remained the top team in men's college basketball and not much changed in the latest Associated Press poll after a quiet week.
The Hoosiers received 44 first-place votes and a total of 1,580 points from a nationwide media panel. Indiana has held the top spot since the preseason poll was released in early November.
Duke again picked up 20 first-place votes to keep the second spot in the poll and is followed by Michigan, Syracuse, Florida, Louisville, Ohio State, Arizona, Kansas and Illinois. Florida and Louisville swapped places from last week, and Illinois moved up three places to 10th after beating Gonzaga on Saturday.
The second 10 consists of Cincinnati, Missouri, Minnesota, Gonzaga, Georgetown, Creighton, New Mexico, San Diego State, Michigan State and UNLV. Gonzaga dropped four places from 10th after the 85-74 setback to the Illini in Spokane.
North Carolina, Notre Dame, Wichita State, Oklahoma State and North Carolina State are the last five teams ranked.
There are no newcomers this week.
Just one game matches a pair of ranked teams this week, as Florida visits Arizona on Saturday night.


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DENVER Exhaustive suggestions for how marijuana should be grown, sold and taxed finally are in the hands of the elected officials who will decide how to regulate the newly legal drug.
A task force made up of pot advocates, law enforcement and government regulators released its report Wednesday. The task force looked at everything from labeling standards to recommendations for keeping the drug away from children.
The task force report is just a series of suggestions. The final marijuana regulations will be made by state lawmakers, who have created a special marijuana committee to look at nothing but pot regulation.
Marijuana remains illegal under federal law. The U.S. Department of Justice has not said whether it will sue to block Colorados law.


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Cable's Latest Great Idea: Speed Up Programs So They Can Stuff More Ads Into Every Hour
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The latest example of cable industry tone deafness? With cable and broadcast ratings continuing to fall, more and more people have been complaining that the industry increasingly likes to speed up programs notably so more ads can be stuffed into every hour. By speeding up Seinfeld by about 7.5%, for example, the industry can manage to deliver an extra two minutes of ad time during the program:
This has been going on for a while, and as complaints in this Reddit thread attest, another favorite tactic has been to heavily edit some programs for the same purpose. Fans of particularly popular programs tend to be the first to notice that their favorite content is now edited or accelerated, which may drive them to look elsewhere for a better quality version of that product (piracy, Netflix). Behold, even many executives in the cable and broadcast industry appear to be aware that adding more ads and degrading the quality of your product might not be the greatest idea for an industry at the cusp of a major competitive sea change:
"It is important for us to consider the effect this is having on the viewer experience," said Jackie Kulesza, executive vice president and director of video at Starcom USA. "We want to ensure our message is seen by receptive viewers."..."They are trying to deal with a problem in a way that is making the problem bigger," said Chris Geraci, president of national broadcast at media buyer Omnicom Media Group of the practice of increasing the commercial loads to make up for declining ratings."Except the cable and broadcast industry has repeatedly shown it's not really worried about the "viewer experience." Why? Because for all of the bitching the public does about their cable company and its historically abysmal customer service, the industry knows the vast, vast majority continue to pay them an arm and a leg for bloated bundles of miserable programming that barely gets watched. Even as cord cutting accelerates, the industry isn't worried; plan B is to abuse its monopoly over the broadband last mile to ramp up deployment of broadband caps, recouping their lost pound of flesh via broadband overage fees.


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Browsing Freshmeat tonight, the premier online Linux software repository, I came across to these two great (and brand new) applications, ReBorn and ReZound. Reborn, a Rebirth clone that will soon become open source according to the developer, provides a software emulation of three of Roland's most famous electronic musical instruments. It got me thinking as to how much more viable Linux is today as a professional (or semi-professional) audio platform than it used to be two years ago. Update: On a related multimedia notice, WinAMP 3.0 for Windows was released yesterday.
While ALSA, and especially OSS, still have some limitations, it seems that a number of great audio apps are emerging. Unfortunately, with only 4-5 exceptions, the same do not apply for professional 3D/rendering/video/vector-imaging applications though. Linux still does not have something similar to Apple's iMovie or personalStudio for simple users, or Adobe Premier, or Cinema4D/Bryce/etc or a really professional DTP system, or something with the power of Illustrator/FireWorks/Freehand.
However, let's browse together these great audio apps that are available today. Some of them, might actually need a helping hand to get further developed.
- ReBorn - A Linux version of the Windows/Mac program ReBirth, providing a software emulation of three of Roland Corporation's most famous electronic musical instruments: the TB303 Bassline, the TR808 Rhythm Composer and the TR909 Rhythm Composer. Also thrown in are four audio effects, individual mixers and a programmable sequencer. ReBorn is fully compatible with the ReBirth .rbs song file format. (UPDATE: The project is now dead due to legal issues.)
- ReZound -Aims to be a stable, open source, and graphical audio file editor primarily for but not limited to the Linux operating system.
- Anthem - An advanced open source MIDI sequencer which allows you to record, edit, and playback music using a sophisticated and acclaimed object oriented song technology.
- Ardour - A professional multitrack/multichannel audio recorder and DAW for Linux, using ALSA-supported audio interfaces. It supports up to 32 bit samples, 24+ channels at up to 96kHz, full MMC control, a non-destructive, non-linear editor, and LADSPA plugins.
- DAP - A comprehensive audio sample editing and processing suite. It currently supports AIFF and AIFF-C audio files, 8 or 16 bit resolution, and 1, 2 or 4 channels of audio data. The package offers comprehensive editing, playback, and recording facilities including full time stretch resampling, manual data editing, and a reasonably complete DSP processing suite.
- GNUsound - A sound editor for Linux/x86. It supports multiple tracks, multiple outputs, and 8, 16, or 24/32 bit samples. It can read a number of audio formats through libaudiofile, and saves them as WAV.
- Bristol - A synthesizer emulation package. It includes a Moog Mini, Moog Voyager, Hammond B3, Prophet 5, Juno 6, DX 7, and others.
- Audacity - A cross-platform multitrack audio editor. It allows you to record sounds directly or to import Ogg, WAV, AIFF, AU, IRCAM, or MP3 files. It features a few simple effects, all of the editing features you should need, and unlimited undo. The GUI was built with wxWindows and the audio I/O currently uses OSS under Linux. We recently reviewed its version 1.0.
- TerminatorX - A realtime audio synthesizer that allows you to "scratch" on digitally sampled audio data (*.wav, *.au, *.mp3, etc.) the way hiphop-DJs scratch on vinyl records. It features multiple turntables, realtime effects (built-in as well as LADSPA plugin effects), a sequencer, and an easy-to-use GTK+ GUI.
- LAoE - A graphical audiosample-editor, based on multi-layers, floating-point samples, volume-masks, variable selection-intensity, and many plugins suitable to manipulate sound, such as filtering, retouching, resampling, graphical spectrogram editing by brushes and rectangles, sample-curve editing by freehand-pen and spline and other interpolation curves, effects like reverb, echo, compress, expand, pitch-shift, time-stretch, and much more.
- MidiMountain - A sequencer to edit standard MIDI files. Its easy-to-use interface should help beginners to edit and create MIDI songs (sequences), and it is designed to edit every definition known to standard MIDI files and the MIDI transfer protocol, from easy piano roll editing to changing binary system exclusive messages.
- GNoise - A GTK+ based wave file editor. It uses a display cache and a double-buffered display for maximum speed with large files. It supports common editing functions such as cut, copy, paste, fade in/out, normalize, and more, with unlimited undo.
- MusE - A Qt 2.1-based MIDI sequencer for Linux with editing and recording capabilities. While the sequencer is playing you can edit events in realtime with the pianoroll editor or the score editor. Recorded MIDI events can be grouped as parts and arranged in the arrange editor.
- Rosegarden - An integrated MIDI sequencer and musical notation editor. The stable version (2.1) is a simple application for any Unix/X system. The development branch (Rosegarden-4) is an entirely new KDE application.
- KGuitar - A guitarist suite for KDE. It's based on MIDI concepts and includes tabulature editor, chord construction helpers, and importing and exporting song formats.
- Swami - An instrument patch file editor using SoundFont files that allows you to create and distribute instruments from audio samples used for composing music. It uses iiwusynth, a software synthesizer, which has real time effect control, support for modulators, and routable audio via Jack.
- SoundTracker - A pattern-oriented music editor (similar to the DOS program 'FastTracker'). Samples are lined up on tracks and patterns which are then arranged to a song. Supported module formats are XM and MOD; the player code is the one from OpenCP. A basic sample recorder and editor is also included.
- Tutka - A tracker style MIDI sequencer for Linux (and other systems; only Linux is supported at this time though). It is similar to programs like SoundTracker, ProTracker and FastTracker except that it does not support samples and is meant for MIDI use only.
- amSynth - A realtime polyphonic analogue modeling synthesizer. It provides a virtual analogue synthesizer in the style of the classic Moog Minimoog/Roland Junos. It offers an easy-to-use interface and synth engine, while still creating varied sounds. It runs as a standalone application, using either the ALSA audio and MIDI sequencer system or the plain OSS devices.
- Cheese Tracker - A program to create module music that aims to have an interface and feature set similar to that of Impulse Tracker. It also has some advantages such as oscilloscopes over each pattern track, more detailed sample info, a more detailed envelope editor, improved filters, and effect buffers (chorus/reverb) with individual send levels per channel.
- SpiralSynth Modular - An object orientated modular softsynth / sequencer / sampler. Audio or control data can be freely passed between the plugins, and is all treated the same.
- gAlan - An audio-processing tool for X windows and Win32. It allows you to build synthesizers, effects chains, mixers, sequencers, drum-machines, etc. in a modular fashion by linking together icons representing primitive audio-processing components.
- Xsox - An X interface for sox. Record or play many types of sound files. Cut, copy, paste, add effects, convert file types etc.
- Voodoo Tracker - A project that aims to harness and extend the power of conventional trackers. Imagine self contained digital studio; complete and ready for your modern music needs. Additionally Voodoo will provide an interface that is designed for live performances.
- SLab - Direct to Disk Audio Recording Studio is a free HDD audio recording system for linux operating systems, written using Tcl/Tk. SLab can record up to 64 tracks.
- BeatForce - A computer DJing system, with two players with independent playlist, song database, mixer, sampler etc. It was planned as a feature enhanced Linux replacement for BPM-Studio from Alcatech.


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Cryer, Robert (2006) Sudan, Resolution 1593, and International Criminal Justice. Leiden Journal of International Law, 19 (1). pp. 195-222. ISSN 0922-1565
Cryer, Robert (2006) Of custom, treaties, scholars and the gavel: the impact of the International Criminal Tribunals on the ICRC customary law study. Journal of Conflict and Security Law, 11 (2). pp. 239-263. ISSN 1467-7954
Cryer, Robert (2009) Prosecuting the leaders: promises, politics and practicalities. Göttingen Journal of International Law, 1 (1). pp. 45-75. ISSN 1868-1581
Calamita, N Jansen (2009) The British bank nationalizations: an international law perspective. International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 58 (1). pp. 119-149.
Deazley, Ronan (2003) The myth of Copyright at Common Law. Cambridge Law Journal, The, 62 (1). pp. 106-133. ISSN 0008-1973
Enonchong, Nelson (2002) Foreign state assistance in enforcing the right to self-determination under the African Charter: Gunme & Ors v. Nigeria. Journal of African Law, 46 (2). pp. 246-258.
Enonchong, Nelson (2002) The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights: effective remedies in domestic law? Journal of African Law, 46 (2). pp. 197-215.
Enonchong, Nelson (2003) Human rights violations by the executive: complicity of the judiciary in Cameroon? Journal of African Law, 47 (2). pp. 265-274.
Enonchong, Nelson (2007) The harmonization of business law in Africa: is article 42 of the OHADA Treaty a problem? Journal of African Law, 51 (1). pp. 95-116.
Lee, James (2009) Confusio: reference to Roman law in the House of Lords and the development of English private law. Roman Legal Tradition, 5. pp. 24-46. ISSN 1943-6483
McIvor, Claire (2001) Liability in Respect of the Intoxicated. Cambridge Law Journal, 60 (1). pp. 109-127. ISSN 0008-1973
McIvor, Claire (2006) The Use and Abuse of the Doctrine of Vicarious Liability. COMMON LAW WORLD REVIEW, 35 (4). pp. 268-296. ISSN 1473-7795
McIvor, Claire (2010) Getting defensive about police negligence: the Hill principle, the Human Rights Act 1998 and the House of Lords. Cambridge Law Journal, 69 (1). pp. 133-150. ISSN 0008-1973
McRae, Leon (2013) Admitting offenders with antisocial personality disorder to a medium secure unit: a qualitative examination of multidisciplinary team decision-making. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, 24 (2). pp. 215-232. ISSN 1478-9949
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Rodriguez-Blanco, Veronica (2003) A defence of Hart's semantics as nonambitious conceptual analysis. Legal Theory, 9 (2). pp. 99-124.
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(DENVER) — For Robert Sullivan, it is a heartbreaking insult on top of an already horrible nightmare.
Sullivan's granddaughter, Veronica Moser Sullivan, was the youngest person killed in the movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colorado. He says the last pictures ever taken of the smiling six-year-old were stolen in an apparent burglary.
"There's a huge hole in my heart from the loss of my granddaughter, and it seems to be getting ripped more," Sullivan told Denver ABC affiliate KMGH-TV.
Sullivan says burglars pried open a window Tuesday morning to get inside his Denver home, taking money, jewelry and cameras. Memory cards in the cameras had irreplaceable images of Veronica at her kindergarten graduation, playing at a park and eating ice cream. Sullivan says he just wants the memory cards back, and does not believe the thieves meant to take the photos.
"Anybody who has any connection or any knowledge of this, please return the memory cards," Sullivan told KMGH. "I'm not sure what the future holds, but I keep hoping things will get better."
Twelve people were killed and 58 were wounded July 20 when a gunman opened fire at a crowded midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises at the Century 16 theater.
Veronica's mother, Ashley Moser, was paralyzed when she was shot in the neck and stomach.
James Holmes, 24, is in custody, facing 152 counts of murder, attempted murder and additional charges. His public defenders believe Holmes is mentally ill. He has not entered a plea.
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South Dakota State's John Stiegelmeier on South Dakota Win, Youngstown State Match-up
Another week, another must win for South Dakota State, with the Jacks margin of error razor thin, as they close out the regular season Saturday at Youngstown State, knowing a win puts them in the FCS playoffs for the second straight year.
Last weekend, SDSU (7-4) ran its win streak to three with a 27-12 win at South Dakota. It was a game that saw the Jacks show great balance on offense (175 yards passing, 140 yards rushing), but several key defensive plays secured the win after the offense turned the ball over twice and the special teams had a field goal blocked.
A couple of sacks and a Winston Wright 80-yard interception return for a touchdown sealed the victory in Vermillion:
The victory is the latest in what has become a very successful month on the calendar for the SDSU program. Since joining the Missouri Valley Conference, the Jacks are 10-4 in November, thanks to a number of different factors:
Saturday's game at Youngstown State (8-3) will be the fourth straight 'must win' for the Jacks to keep their post dreams alive. Is there any concern that this stretch of game is putting too much pressure on the players?
South Dakota State's defense is 2nd in the Missouri Valley Conference in fewest points allowed, and they will be put to the test Saturday going up against the #2 scoring offense in the league.
The Jackrabbits will be facing a veteran quarterback Saturday, as Kurt Hess leads the Penguins after being limited last week against North Dakota State with an ankle injury. The senior has thrown for nearly 7,000 yards in his career.
Hess has never beaten SDSU in his career (0-3), and has been picked off four times in the last two meetings with the Jacks, but Stiegelmeier says don't let that fool you:
On offense, South Dakota State needs to find a way to exploit the worst pass defense and worst overall defense in the Missouri Valley Conference, while still being able to run the ball:
Kickoff in Youngstown is 1:00pm Saturday.
The Jackrabbits have won five straight against the Penguins.


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In total, we raised 376,000 won, more than double what we were able to collect last year. Over half of that was thanks to the efforts of Marie and Greg and the wonderful generosity of the teachers and staff of Eunhaeng Elementary School and Seohae Middle School in Siheung City. Thank you so much for your help!! All of the donated money went to the Korean Sexual Violence Resource Center in their efforts to help raise awareness and help victims of sexual violence.
Marie shook up all the tickets for us, so they would be well mixed, and then Greg did the honors.And the winner of Ugly Blanket #2 is .... our very own Angie!! She's currently in Australia but will be back in Korea in February. It seems fitting that she would win this blanket, since she is the one who initiated this idea of knitting an ugly blanket for charity. Our other winners were Riah, who received a skein of gorgeous handspun, and Eunhaeng Elementary's music teacher, who received a braid of fiber. Presumably this will go to her daughter, whom Marie taught to spin at her winter Fiber Camp last year. ^_^ Both of these prizes were donated by the lovely Etsy seller, The Good Sheep.
I'll leave you with some more pictures of the blanket in all its wonderful glory. Thank you so much to everyone who donated, both in time, money, and ugly yarn/squares. The KSVRC was so excited to hear about our project, and it was a lot of fun to organize. I hope you guys had as much fun as I did, and I can't wait to do it again next year! In the meantime, work on some squares and save your extra cheon-wons for tickets... ^_~
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My hypothesis when studying notes of congratulations/cachers of the month/ listed cacher statistics that both geocaching.com and the Manitoba Geocaching Society place more emphasis and give more credit to cache finders than cache hiders.
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Im glad you brought this up.
The MBGA board has had several discussions in the past about whether we should publish some kind of a must do caches list, the idea being it would recognize the hider for putting out an awesome cache, but more importantly, would be a starting point for a new cacher or a visitor to Manitoba. We always ran into the same roadblock though. We were concerned that a hider who didnt make the list might feel left out and it also brought up the thorny issue of having the MBGA judge whether a cache is good or not. Thats not the role of the association.
We recently changed the way we tabulate the Top 10 Hiders list. We felt that including archived caches in the Top 10 Hiders count didnt show the current state of hider activity, so we changed the list to only include active caches in the hide count. The list only includes active members of the Manitoba Geocaching Association.
The Featured Cache to some degree recognizes great hides. MBGA members and board directors suggest caches to include in the rotating Featured Cache on the MBGA web site. Caches are added to, and removed from, the Featured Cache list periodically and it gives some dynamic content to the MBGA site.
The Cacher of The Month isnt chosen to recognize achievements in hiding or finding caches. There really isnt any specific criteria for choosing a CotM other than we try and pick a team that the MBGA membership might find interesting to read about. This could include a long time member of the Manitoba caching community, a team that is very active in hiding or finding, or just a really colorful character
Sometimes the previous CotM picks the next one, sometimes a member suggests a team, and sometimes the board all shout out names.
The MBGA also publishes monthly 100 cache finding milestones.
The forum is the voice of the membership and the Congratulations thread is very popular for recognizing the achievements of piers. Members have also started Favorite Cache and Manitoba Must Finds threads in the forums. From time to time a cacher visiting Manitoba will post to the forums asking which caches they should find. Members are always encouraged to use the forum for discussions and announcements of interest to Manitoba Geocachers.
The Manitoba caching community is a very creative one, and were always looking for new ideas to get people interested in Geocaching in Manitoba and hiding great caches. Were open to suggestions if the association should be doing more to recognize hiders.
I came for the caches, but I stayed for the people!
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Location: Manitoba
Posted: Aug 31, 2009 5:00 am
Post subject: Our voice
As a team of 5 members with one vote we'd still prefer to see the lists be ALL hidden caches BY active members of the MBGA just as the finders list is ALL found caches BY active members of the MBGA. Then the two lists are balanced. Currently we feel they are not.
Another question is are the lists also narrowed by FOUND and HIDDEN IN Manitoba geographically for either? We have hidden and found of course outside so do they count for either or neither?
We have been brainstorming ways to motivate hiders and will be implementing them as soon as we can find the time. Wait and See.
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Posted: Aug 31, 2009 5:38 pm
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In some ways I agree with the Queen that it would be nice to see the top 10 list include ALL hides, but then I question if someone like PBD should really be listed in the the top 10 when they have archived most of their caches now and are no longer active. By showing only the active hides, it maintains a current top ten list, rather than a historical one. It also highlights those hiders that are able to maintain a large number of hides.
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Posted: Aug 31, 2009 7:30 pm
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Simple solution... List top 10 lists for both most caches ever hidden and most caches hidden still active.
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Location: Manitoba
Posted: Sep 01, 2009 1:57 am
Post subject: Like Candace and Will's idea
In the example given then if any cacher or caching team is not an ACTIVE member then his/her/their stats wouldn't appear.
Historically PBD did place many of the caches that added to our first and second year found cache numbers which ironically and many of those hides were adopted by others which often we could refind at the same location thus adding to our found numbers. Sounds circular.
Personally we loved PBD's hides and his hides had the best contents for kids-mine still talk about his caches-he was one of the pioneers and like his hides or not he still contributed to the sport!
We just agree with Candace and Will - simple and to the point both historically and current would be satisfying.
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Location: Winnipeg
Posted: Sep 01, 2009 3:52 pm
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You could also reward people for hitting milestones in hiding in a similar fashion to the find milestones...obviously maybe every 10 instead of 100 but conceptually it might work to encourage hides and recognize those that do place new caches out for others to find. My only concern would be people placing caches indiscriminately just to boost their number of hides...ie quantity vs quality.
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Location: Whellams Lane, Winnipeg
Posted: Sep 01, 2009 4:23 pm
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Yes, like them or not, PBDs hides were a significant contribution to the sport. In 2005, when there were less than 400 caches in Manitoba, PBD had placed over 50 caches!
And yes, the Queen is right, there is discrimination between finders and hiders.
Our 4802 finds would dwindle to 1707 if you only used active caches in Manitoba. That would put us in second place after ertyu or maybe even father back, but it would be almost impossible for the MBGA to maintain a list of finders of active caches in Manitoba.
As candaceandwill suggests, maybe MBGA should at least maintain two lists for hiders; 1. everything, 2. Active Manitoba only.
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Posted: Sep 06, 2009 5:15 am
Post subject: And to prove Geocaching.com discriminates too
Trying to put some incentives in place for hiders in Manitoba we hid several caches for HIDERS.
Typically Five - Great Hides Series
A cache by 1Queenand4Jokers Hidden: 9/5/2009
Size: (Small) Difficulty: Terrain: (1 is easiest, 5 is hardest)
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We have hidden this series of caches to encourage Cache Hiders. The cache is a black tobacco can hidden at posted co-ords. Use stealth. Parking nearby. This is a composite hides cache. In order to log this cache online your caching team must have hidden at least one each of five unique types of hides. The cache must be listed under your caching name and show up as your hide. There are 11 possible types, however some are grandfathered.
Cache TYPES most cachers can HIDE are Traditional, Mystery/Puzzle,Multi,Letterbox, Geocaching Event,Cache In Trash Out Event,Wherigo and Earthcache.
Previous Caches that also count
If you have hidden 5 different TYPES of the above caches you may find the cache and log it. If you are a cacher from OUT OF PROVINCE and you are close to having hidden 5 types you may find it and post a note and then log it upon completion of this composite cache.
Sometimes cachers host events together but to keep this logging simple we insist that the cacher who has it attached to their cache name be the one who counts that event.
As a note we ourselves have not completed the combination of five. We are at 4 types so far.
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September 5 by onecrazycanadian (1 found)
I wanted to check with my peers before I answered you. I have taken a look at both of the caches you have in the queue right now. Unfortunately I will not be able to publish either of them as is. The reason is that the requirement to hide a cache in order to log a find is not allowed. Since both of your Great Hides caches require the cacher to hide caches or have hidden caches in order to log a find neither of them are publishable.
If you were to make the hiding of caches optional I could probably find a way to publish them with a little rework. As they are I can't do it.
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September 5 by onecrazycanadian (1 found)
There are a couple of things that I need to check on. I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
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September 5 by 1Queenand4Jokers (2781 found)
Please inform me if I have listed the logging rules clearly enough or if I should improve on them. Thank you. We will be hiding several more with the hiding emphasis.
So NO we can't list any of the three we hid. Didn't find anything in the rule book about it and thought if one could do 1-9 and A-Z Bingo for finders and also impossible scuba caches or Wherigo that you have to have a specific GPS for that perhaps we'd be allowed to do milestone hides like 50 caches hidden etc. but no. Discouraging yes.
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Hmm, interesting. At least it's got them (the reviewers) thinking.
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Posted: Sep 06, 2009 2:41 pm
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Fantastic idea 1Q4J,
onecrazycanadian wrote "the requirement to hide a cache in order to log a find is not allowed" - is this written somewhere here?
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Posted: Sep 13, 2009 2:52 am
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The main problem have hiding as a requirement is that some people will hide garbage and never maintain it.
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My comment had nothing to do with Manitoba geocachers. It had to do with geocaching.com's perception of requiring someone to hide 1, 10 or even 100 caches in order to claim a find on another cache.
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|Smathers, George A. (George Armistead), 1913-2007
|George A. Smathers Papers
|The papers of George A. Smathers (Democrat - Florida) documenting his service in the U.S. Senate.
|184 Linear feet. 347 boxes.
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|Researchers should consult with Special Collections staff before using the collection because there are access restrictions. See the Access note for more information.
|Items from this collection have been digitized and are available online in the UF Digital Collections. For more information please see the note below.
George Armistead Smathers was born on November 14, 1913 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Because his family had a lengthy history of political involvement, Smathers was groomed for politics at an early age. He was named for his father's uncle, George H. Smathers, who had served as the President of the North Carolina State Senate. His father, Benjamin Franklin Smathers, began his political career as a page for that uncle and later was appointed as a county judge. Additionally, Benjamin's younger brother, Bill, served as a U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1937-1943.
Smathers moved with his parents to Miami, Florida, when he was six. He grew up in Magnolia Park, and was successful in both academics and sports while a pupil in Dade County Public Schools. He graduated in the top quarter of his class at Miami High School and served as the captain of the track and basketball teams. He was elected Senior Class President and named Outstanding Athlete of Dade County in 1931. He hoped to play college football at the University of Illinois, but his father refused, arguing that if George was to enter politics he needed to attend the University of Florida in order to meet boys from all over Florida. At UF, Smathers was the captain of both the basketball and track teams. He also was the captain of the debate team, president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, president of the student body, and campus manager for Claude Pepper's 1938 Senate reelection campaign.
Smathers graduated with a law degree in 1938, and returned home to Miami. He practiced law for six months in his father's firm before he was appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney. He was married in 1939 to Rosemary Townley, who gave birth to their first son, John, in 1941. During World War II Smathers served in the United States Marine Corps from 1942-45, including an 18-month rotation overseas in the South Pacific. His second son, Bruce, was born in 1943 while Smathers was overseas.
In 1946, Smathers was elected to the first of two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, defeating long-standing incumbent Pat Cannon. While in the House, Smathers traveled extensively to Europe and Latin America, developing an interest in Latin American countries that would later become a central focus of his Senatorial career. Smathers also became friends with many people who would become prominent politicians, including John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, and Gerald Ford. He became particularly close to Kennedy; they had adjacent offices while in the House together, and he served as a groomsman in Kennedy's wedding to Jacqueline Bouvier.
Smathers ran for the U.S. Senate in 1950 in a historic race against the incumbent, Claude Pepper. The 1950 Democratic primary election has long been considered one of the most contentious in Florida history. Smathers entered the race at the behest of President Truman who was angered by Pepper's efforts to remove him as the Democratic candidate in the 1948 election. Smathers focused on Pepper's foreign policy positions, particularly Pepper's failure to condemn Soviet postwar aggression. Smathers also criticized Pepper's support of universal health care and labor unions. Race factored into the campaign with both candidates accusing the other of being soft on segregation. Smathers defeated Pepper handily and entered the Senate in 1951.
Smathers served as the junior Senator from Florida for three terms until his retirement in 1968. Throughout his Senatorial career, he was recognized for his involvement with Latin American and Cuban issues. Smathers is credited as one of the first to push for U.S. involvement in Latin American countries as a preventative measure for stopping the spread of communism into the Western Hemisphere. He also was one of the first to raise alarms about Fidel Castro's government and Cuba's ties to the Soviet Union. Smathers sought to provide aid for the improvement of the infrastructure and quality of life in Latin American and Caribbean countries, arguing that their well-being and stability was beneficial to the U.S.
Although he was more moderate in many respects than other Southern Democrats, and despite his close friendships with Kennedy and other northern Democrats, Smathers did vote faithfully with the Southern bloc on most of the divisive social issues in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1956, Smathers signed the so-called "Southern Manifesto," which denounced the U.S. Supreme Court decision to integrate public schools racially. He voted consistently against meaningful civil rights legislation, and spoke in favor of segregation and states rights.
Smathers was known to friends and opponents as "Gorgeous George," and he was known as much for his ability to make friends and connections as he was for his work on the floor of the Senate. Although he was not a high-ranking member of any of the major Senate committees during this service, Smathers was successful in using his positions on committees such as Foreign Relations, Finance and Taxation, and Commerce to protect and expand Florida interests. He was a powerful advocate for the Florida sugar and citrus industries, particularly pertaining to trade and competition with Latin America. Smathers also served as chair of the Democratic Campaign Committee. In this capacity, he traveled around the country soliciting contributions to be used for various Senatorial campaigns.
During the 1960 presidential election, Smathers was placed in an interesting position when his majority leader in the Senate, Johnson, and his best friend in the Senate, Kennedy, both decided to run. Rather than having the two men potentially split the Florida vote, Smathers urged both men not to campaign in Florida and he entered the race as a candidate for the nomination. He was named as Florida's "favorite son" and received the votes of the Florida delegation at the National Democratic Convention during the first round of voting. When it became clear that Kennedy would get the nomination, he quickly bowed out and urged the delegation to vote for Kennedy. During the subsequent campaigning, Smathers managed Kennedy's campaign in the Southeast.
Smathers retired from politics in 1969, at the end of this his third term in the Senate. He resumed practicing law in Miami and Washington, D.C. He died on January 20, 2007.
The Senatorial Papers of George Smathers date from 1934 to 1994, primarily covering his eighteen years in the U.S. Senate. In addition to correspondence and legislative files, which make up the majority of the papers, the collection also includes speeches, press releases and media files, campaign material, news clippings and photographs. His papers provide an interesting perspective on the major historical events and political figures of the 1950s and 1960s. As with all political collections of significant size, the materials cover a wide range of subjects. Prominent people and subjects include John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, the civil rights movement, Latin America, Cuba, the space race, communism, the Cold War, the citrus industry, Interama, the Cross Florida Barge Canal, and the Everglades.
The collection is arranged into nine series, or groups, of documents. The Correspondence and Legislative Files make up the bulk of the collection. These files consist of correspondence, legislation, reports, news clippings, memoranda, and subject files. Smathers' Senate office staff originally organized his files according to the File Code of the U.S. Senate, and this arrangement has been maintained as much as possible (for more information, please refer to the series description for the Correspondence and Legislative Files).
The Speech and Reference Files series consists of speeches, statements, Congressional Record inserts, notes, and reference material such as news clippings. The Press Releases and Media Files include official releases, recorded statements, and statements made in television, radio and print media. The Campaign Files are sub-divided into four groups, one for each of the elections in 1950, 1956, 1960 and 1962. There final four series, which are smaller in size, include Latin America and Cuba Materials, News Clippings, Photographs, and a Miscellaneous series.
Although the papers are grouped into these logical series, according to function or format, it should be noted that information on particular topics can be dispersed throughout the collection and researchers may find relevant materials in several series. For example, information pertaining to Latin America can be found throughout the collection because there are legislative files, speeches, press releases, and other materials on that subject.
With the exception of the Correspondence and Legislative Files, which are filed according to the Senate filing scheme, the files in each series are arranged alphabetically and/or chronologically.
The collection is open for research. The presence of constituent mail in this collection requires mediated access. Researchers must consult with Special Collections staff before using the collection and must agree in writing to the following conditions: Congressional constituent mail is considered a type of privileged correspondence. Reproduction of constituent mail in any format is prohibited. Further, researchers using constituent mail must agree not to divulge the names or addresses of constituents or provide information that could conceivably identify constituents.
The Spessard Holland Papers at the University of Florida will be of use because Smathers and Holland were fellow Senators for the entirety of Smathers' tenure.
Digital reproductions of items in the Smathers Papers are available online via the University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC). Please read the Permissions for Use statement for information on copyright, fair use, and use of UFDC digital objects.
Due to its large size this descriptive finding aid has been broken into several pages, but an alternate full version of the finding aid is available at http://www.library.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/Smathersfull.htm. Warning: The file size for the full finding aid exceeds 1,200 Kb and download time may be affected.
[Identification of item], George A. Smathers Papers, Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
The Smathers Papers were donated to the University of Florida by George A. Smathers.
The collection originally was processed in the 1980s by department staff. In 2006-07, further processing was completed in order to improve access and create a detailed finding aid to the materials. Additional materials were added to the collection in 2008-2010.
Correspondence and Legislative Files, 1946-1969
|Correspondence, legislation, news clippings, reports, memoranda, and subject files generated or accumulated during Smathers' service in the U.S. House, 1946-1950, and the U.S. Senate, 1951-1969. The files in this series were originally arranged according to the File Code of the U.S. Senate. Under this scheme, each branch of the government and the various offices and departments under each branch were assigned a particular number code. For example, the President was assigned Filing Code 1, the State Department was assigned Filing Code 2, the Treasury Department was assigned Filing Code 3, etc. Although the filing code numbers are no longer maintained in this finding aid to the Smathers Papers, the arrangement still exists. The files primarily are arranged chronologically and then, within each year, they are arranged according to the Filing Code. As such, files dealing with the President normally are located at the beginning of each new year, followed by the State Department, followed by the Treasury Department, and so on. Please note that although Smathers' activities on various committees are documented in part by this series, the official committee records are maintained by the federal government.
|Prominent people and subjects covered in this series include John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, the civil rights movement,
Latin America, Cuba, the space race, communism, the Cold War, the citrus industry, Interama, the Cross Florida Barge Canal,
and the Everglades. Materials pertaining to many of these individuals and topics can be found throughout this series, as they
often spanned more than a single year or session of Congress. Also note that many of these subjects also are covered in other
series in this collection. For example, materials pertaining to Latin America also can be found in the speeches, press releases,
campaign material, etc. In 1957, Smathers was appointed to the Democratic Party Senate Campaign Committee by Party Leader Lyndon Johnson. The series is an excellent source on Party affairs in Florida and the nation.
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Speech and Reference Files, 1934-1968
This series contains reference files maintained by Smathers as well as copies of speeches he gave. Much of the material was used as background material for public appearances, but also as a ready reference file for major topics. Correspondence related to the topics can sometimes be found as well as news clippings, magazine articles, and handwritten notes. The series also contains prepared statements and remarks made on the Senate floor.
The series begins with materials generated before Smathers won election to Congress in 1946 which includes material from his student days at the University of Florida, his time as a federal attorney, and from his 1946 election. After 1946, the files are arranged chronologically and then alphabetically.
Speeches made after Smathers left the Senate will be found under Miscellaneous.
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Press Releases, 1955-1968
|This series includes press releases made by Smathers throughout his career. Additional press releases may be found in the
speech and reference files, media files, and campaign materials within this collection. Files are arranged chronologically.
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Media Files, 1958-1968
|This series includes recorded statements, press releases, and statements made in television, radio and print media. Related
materials may be found in the speech files, press releases, and campaign materials within this collection.
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Campaign Files - 1950 Election, 1934-1958
|Files pertaining to the U.S. Senate election in 1950, particularly the primary election race between Smathers and Claude Pepper.
The correspondence, campaign literature, and related documents deal with campaign support, key men and women, major campaign
issues, voting records, itineraries and engagements, advertising, and the press. There are numerous files documenting the
mud-slinging nature of the campaign, including copies of the publication, "The Red Record of Senator Claude Pepper." Note
that there are photographs and other documents pertaining to this campaign that can be found in other sections of the collection.
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Campaign Files - 1956 Election, 1951-1957
|Files pertaining to the U.S. Senate election in 1956. Includes correspondence, campaign literature, and related documents
dealing with campaign support, key men and women, major campaign issues, voting records, itineraries and engagements, advertising,
and the press.
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Campaign Files - 1960 Election, 1956-1960
|Files primarily pertaining to the Presidential election in 1960 in which Smathers was named Florida's Favorite Son and nominated
for President. Most of the documents are related to Smathers' campaigning efforts on behalf of Kennedy. Files are arranged
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Campaign Files - 1962 Election, 1961-1963
|Files pertaining to the U.S. Senate election in 1962. Includes correspondence, campaign literature, and related documents
dealing with campaign support, key men and women, major campaign issues, voting records, itineraries and engagements, advertising,
and the press. Files are arranged alphabetically.
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Latin America and Cuba Materials, 1936-1962
|This small series contains a variety of materials pertaining to Latin America and Cuba. Pease note that these topics were
a major focus for Smathers throughout his career, and as such, they are covered extensively in all of the series in this collection.
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News Clippings, 1949-1960
|This small series of news clippings primarily pertain to campaigns, but the files were maintained separately by Smathers'
office so the original organization has been retained.
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Photographs, 1941-1968
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Miscellaneous, 1941-1994
|This series contains materials that were filed separately from the rest of the collection because of format considerations as well as material added to the collection between 2008 and 2010. The latter includes family records, personal and business correspondence, political and personal memorabilia, speeches delivered after 1968, and biographical materials. Much of the material in this series was generated after his Senate career. Biographical materials include manuscripts of an unpublished autobiography and a book on the 1950 Senate election as well as notes from Bruce Smathers' research on the 1950 election and oral history interviews with George Smathers.
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Further Reading
|Clark, James C. Red Pepper and Gorgeous George: Claude Pepper's epic defeat in the 1950 Democratic Primary. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011.
Crispell, Brian Lewis. Testing the limits: George Armistead Smathers and Cold War America. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999.
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States with more intensive regulation of gun ownership, sales, and storage tended to have lower rates of gun-related fatalities, researchers said.
With state-level gun laws from 2007 to 2010 rated on a "legislative strength" scale, states in the top quartile had gun-related fatality rates more than 40% lower than states in the bottom quartile (adjusted incidence rate ratio 0.58, 95% CI 0.37 to 0.92), according to Eric Fleegler, MD, MPH, of Boston Children's Hospital, and colleagues.
The lower rates applied both to homicides and suicides, they reported online in JAMA Internal Medicine.
However, the researchers cautioned that their "ecological and cross-sectional" study design cannot establish a cause-and-effect relationship between gun regulation and deaths.
"Further studies are necessary to define the nature of this association," they wrote.
In an accompanying commentary, Garen Wintemute, MD, MPH, of the University of California Davis, also stressed the study's methodological limitations.
"Ecological studies of association are inherently weak ... [and] correlation does not imply causation," he wrote. He also pointed to other flaws in the study design, including its reliance on anti-gun organizations for data on state gun legislation.
"In the end, [the study authors] provide no firm guidance," wrote Wintemute. "Do the laws work, or not? If so, which ones? Should policymakers enact the entire package? Some part? Which part?"
But Wintemute also noted that the study's limitations were not entirely the fault of Fleegler and colleagues. He noted that federally funded research into the roots of gun violence has almost completely disappeared, thanks to opposition in Congress.
In the study, Fleegler and colleagues gathered CDC data on firearm-related causes of death in each of the 50 states from 2007 to 2010. Total rates ranged from 2.9 per 100,000 population in Hawaii to 17.9 per 100,000 in Louisiana. The national average was 9.9 per 100,000.
"Legislative strength" of gun laws was calculated in two ways. For the study's primary analysis, states received one point for each of 28 possible gun laws. There were five categories: dealer regulations, background check and permit requirements for gun buyers, child safety mandates, bans on assault-type weapons, and restrictions on guns in public places. Specific laws ranged from requirements for gun dealers to obtain state licenses to a minimum age of 21 for buying guns.
In a secondary analysis, Fleegler and colleagues used a weighting system for such laws developed by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, which has worked with another group advocating stricter gun regulation, the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, to monitor state-level firearm regulation.
Under the Brady Center scoring system, laws on background checks and buyer permits (so-called Brady checks, a key element of the Brady Center's advocacy) are given extra weight and the total possible score was 100.
In the primary analysis, using the 28-point system for legislative strength, median scores from 2007 to 2010 ranged from 0.5 in Utah to 22.5 in Massachusetts.
Fleegler and colleagues calculated that states in the top quartile of gun regulation (score range 9 to 24) had 6.64 fewer firearm-related deaths per 100,000 relative to the bottom quartile (score range 0 to 2).
Nearly all the difference was concentrated in gun suicides, in which the difference between top and bottom quartiles was 6.25 deaths per 100,000. The difference in homicide deaths was 0.40 between top and bottom quartiles.
Nevertheless, when adjusted for differences between states in age, racial makeup, poverty and unemployment rates, educational attainment, population density, and nonfirearm violence fatalities, the difference in rates was significant for both suicides and homicides.
Incidence rate ratios between top and bottom quartiles of gun regulation strength in the primary analysis with these adjustments were as follows:
- Suicide: 0.63 (95% CI 0.48 to 0.83)
- Homicide: 0.60 (95% CI 0.38 to 0.95)
These associations did not change substantially in the secondary analysis using the weighted Brady Center scoring system, Fleegler and colleagues indicated.
On the other hand, when the data were further adjusted for rates of household gun ownership, the association between gun regulation strength and gun-related deaths disappeared entirely, for suicide as well as homicide.
Firearm ownership and gun-related deaths were very closely correlated, the researchers found, with each 10% increment in the rate of ownership corresponding to an increase of about 2.5 deaths per 100,000 (P<0.001).
Fleegler and colleagues also calculated that Brady checks were the only category of gun regulation significantly associated with homicide rates. Each one-point increase in scores in the Brady check category was linked to a 9% lower rate of gun homicides (incidence rate ratio 0.91, 95% CI 0.84 to 0.99).
Suicide rates were significantly associated with scores in three categories: Brady checks, assault weapon bans, and laws on guns in public places.
The study was supported by the Joyce Foundation.
Study authors and Wintemute declared they had no relevant financial interests.
- Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD Emeritus Professor, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner
Primary Source
JAMA Internal MedicineSource Reference: Fleegler E, et al "Firearm legislation and firearm-related fatalities in the United States" JAMA Intern Med 2013; DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.1286.
Secondary Source
JAMA Internal MedicineSource Reference: Wintemute G "Responding to the crisis of firearm violence in the United States" JAMA Intern Med 2013; DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.1292.


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|Hog and Pork Production is a discontinued merit badge. Hog and Pork Production was first offered in 1928 and was replaced by Hog Production in 1958 which as then replaced by Animal Science in 1975.
Merit badge requirements
- 1. Visit five or more farms and name and describe two to five breeds of hogs found on the farms visited.
- 2. Confer with meat market men and from their instruction draw a diagram of a hog, and mark and name the parts for butcher classification and sale of pork products.
- 3. Explain the different users of hog products for both commerce and food.
- 4. Salt at least 2 pounds of pork or smoke 2 pounds of ham, and explain method.
- 5. Describe life history of one breed of hog observed at fair stock show or on farm.
- 6. Write out a balanced ration for fattening hogs, and give reasons for its preparation.
- 7. Explain fully symptoms of hog cholera and preventative measures used.
- 8. Name the different kinds of food rations needed for hogs from weaning time to market.
Comply with the 4-H Club or Home Project Requirements in the Pig Club.
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Medicine has long been a popular career path for the best and brightest students, but most U.S. doctors today are unhappy in their jobs—and 90 percent are unwilling to recommend the healthcare profession to others.
Growing doctor dissatisfaction comes as millions of Americans have new access to health coverage under the Affordable Care Act, and there are not enough physicians to meet this new demand.
Forty-three percent of doctors say they are considering retiring due to transformative changes happening in the U.S. health care system, according to surveys by The Doctors Company, a physician liability insurer.
Primary care doctors are stretched thin, spending more on processing insurance forms and spending less time with patients. The average 'face time' between physician and patient is only about 12 minutes.
More doctors are abandoning the profession—joining MBA programs to transition into management, or taking jobs in finance or elsewhere. Young medical professionals select high-paying specialties, aiming for early retirement. Suicide rates for physicians are higher than those of the general public.
Why are doctors so dissatisfied with their jobs? How have recent changes in health care made life harder for primary care physicians? Is health care becoming a less desirable profession? What can be done to keep doctors from burning out?
Dr. Lotte Dyrbye, MD , Professor at Mayo Clinic. She has authored many studies looking at the well-being of both med students and physicians in practice
Dr. Stephen Schimpff, MD, internist and former CEO of University of Maryland Medical Center, author of the upcoming book "The Crisis in Primary Care"


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Longtime Borger Coach Hunt inducted into TABC Hall of Fame
This past Saturday, former longtime Borger High School Boys Basketball Head Coach Duane Hunt was honored as part of the 2012 class entering the Texas High School Basketball Hall of Fame.The Hall of Fame banquet ceremony took place in San Antonio, during the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches (TABC) clinic. Hunt spent 23 seasons coaching the Bulldogs where he had a 507-206 record, which included two state runner-up finishes in the late 1970's. During his 26-year coaching career he took three teams to the state tournament and had a 548-236 overall record.Hunt graduated from Oklahoma City University where he played for Coach Abe Lemons.Hunt was one of the original organizers of Texas Association of Basketball Coaches (TABC) and was helpful in starting the Academic All-State teams and the state top 20 rankings.From 1982-83, Hunt served as the president of the TABC.In 1989, he retired from coaching to become director of missions for the Larry Jones International Ministries. He and his wife Deanna have traveled to 68 countries on six continents.Hunt also has served as the Immediate Past President of the Fellowship of Baptist World Ministries.Other inductees into the 2012 class include former Randall girls coach Jim Wilcoxson, former Canyon player/University of Texas Assistant Women's Coach Lynn Davis Pool, Belton player Billy Wilbanks, UIL Contributor/Announcer the late Phil Ransopher; and A&M Consolidated Coach Sue Betts.


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I have used McGill snowflake punch, Martha Stewart Edge Punch Arch Lattice, and I can't find the name of the other one but I have used it on the sides of the image. Look at the beautiful light pink Satin 5/8 " Ribbon, Basic Grey Pearls, bakers twine, crystal snowflake. I have also used stickles and have sewn my card. All of the edges have been inked with Tim Holtz distressed ink. The image has been colored with my copic markers.
Most of the items I have used to make this card can be found at Michelle's Scrapbooking and more. Just click on the item in my listing and it will take you to the product.
Can you see that cute little mouse under the mailbox ??
Well, Now I didn't make a true card. I have made a holder for a pull out tag. Lets have a look at that now..Now just how fun is that!
I have also included this fun ittle card in a few challenges:
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The Simple Case For Obama's Impeachment
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other High crimes and Misdemeanors.
A very simple case can be made for the impeachment and trial of Barack Obama. He has committed a crime worthy of impeachment, one so simple and yet so obvious that no Democrat would dare defend his crime during a Senate Trial. No liberal talking head or Hollywood celebrity could excuse it either.
It is a crime that he has been committing for so long that there is no one in our country who could excuse what he has done. But first, we need to ask ourselves what did the founders determine is a high crime. Because that will be the only argument the Democrats might use to save him from being convicted and removed from office.
Believe it or not, Andrew Johnson was impeached but not convicted of violating the Tenure in Office Act. It was written to prevent Johnson, a Democrat, from removing from his cabinet Republicans (particularly Edwin Stanton, the Secretary of War) that Lincoln had put in his cabinet, and replacing them with Southern Democrats without the permission of the Senate. Andrew Johnson was impeached by the house, but he was not convicted and removed by the Senate. He was impeached for trying to remove Edwin Stanton and was almost convicted by one vote short of the two thirds majority required to remove a sitting president.
Andrew Johnson's reasons for removing Stanton were very simple. Stanton, along with General Sherman and several black ministers, came up with a plan to give the freed slaves in the south "40 acres and a mule" to compensate them for their bondage; and Johnson fired him for trying to implement it. Oddly enough, Johnson was the only senator from a seceded state, Tennessee, to remain in the Senate during the Civil War, and in a stroke of brilliance by Lincoln was chosen as his running mate on the "Grand Union" ticket because he was a Southern Democrat. The sole reason he was impeached and almost convicted was an act written by Congress to protect Lincoln's Cabinet members from being removed and replaced with Democrats.
Most people don't realize that Richard Nixon was never impeached; and yet when we think of impeachment of a sitting president, Nixon always comes to mind. Nixon quit rather than put the nation through the spectacle that the Watergate hearings had become. Nixon waited until he had effectively won the war in Vietnam and signed a peace treaty with the North Vietnamese before he did quit. But after he had left, the Democrats in Congress cut off all aid to South Vietnam and signaled to the North that they would allow no US troops to stop their invasion of the South, erasing Nixon's legacy and condemning South Vietnam to communist oppression.
Bill Clinton was impeached for lying before a Federal Grand Jury in a court case about his sexcapades with various women who sued him for sexual harassment. He escaped conviction and removal because of the actions of a young lawyer and senator from North Carolina by the name of John Edwards, who did the deposition of Monica Lewinsky for the Senate's trial. The irony of those actions would not be revealed until Edwards himself ran for President in 2008 against Barack Obama for the Democrat nomination.
Johnson was almost convicted of breaking a law specifically designed by Congress to prevent him from firing Lincoln's Secretary of War, Nixon was almost impeached for attempting to bug the Democrat Party campaign offices in Washington and covering up his involvement, and Clinton was impeached for lying in court to a Federal grand Jury–but wasn't convicted because a man with an equal sexual appetite convinced the Senate that everyone lies about sex. To remove Obama from office, what he has to have done has to be so egregious that none can condone it.
Lying about Libya isn't going to do it. Breaking the War powers act in Yemen, Sudan, Libya, Syria, Pakistan, and other places isn't going to do it. Spying on millions of Americans without a warrant isn't going to do it. But what will do it is a crime so simple and yet so massive none will challenge it.
Barack Obama has being using the Social Security number of a dead man. Every piece of paper he has had to put his Social Security number on is an act of fraud against the United States government because that number belongs to Harrison (Harry) Bounel, whose SSN is the one Obama has used his entire life. For whatever reason (and you can be the judge), in 2012, the Social Security Administration refused to identify Harry Bounel's Social Security Number, even though Mr. Bounel died in 1981 in Hawaii. The Social Security Administration sought to protect his privacy.
Even now, there is a court case trying to force this issue into the spotlight and verify that Obama's Social Security number belongs to someone else. If it succeeds, all hell will break loose; and Obama will have to explain why he has used someone else's social security number his entire life. And, he could become the first president in our history removed from office through impeachment and conviction.


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The famous first bars of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto summon four fortissimo horns to urgently blare a four-note descending figure and then leap. The full Los Angeles Philharmonic punctuated that leap Thursday night about as adamantly as I can recall having ever heard it. An industrial strength timpani thump added emphasis.
Like a musical high five, the concerto's opening proclaimed Gustavo Dudamel's return to Walt Disney Concert Hall for a month, his first time back since his proud European and New York tour with the orchestra in March.
But it didn't proclaim for long. Or should I say it really proclaimed for Lang Lang? After a couple of repetitions of Tchaikovsky's tattoo and a heraldic cadence, the pianist entered by spectacularly shooting off fireworks of glinting arpeggios. His thunderous octaves shot out brilliant sonic shards. The first percussive chords boomed about adamantly as I can recall having ever heard them.
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It now became clear that Dudamel had to begin big if the L.A. Phil hoped to hold its own against a stellar Chinese pianist who makes his own rules.
What a performance this was. I can tell you what happened, but not why it happened. Lang reinvented Tchaikovsky. Dudamel, who will lead a Tchaikovsky festival next season, happily gave the pianist the rope he needed. Whether Lang hung himself is a matter of opinion. An open mind was a good idea.
By now a goodly portion of the world with access to any form of media and advertising has an inkling of Lang's extraordinary technique and his gift for showmanship. He's been called a clown by serious pianists. On the occasions when he takes himself seriously he deserves to be called a great pianist. But you never know what to expect.
On Thursday night Lang approached Tchaikovsky's concerto as a jazz musician might a session. He had his part so well mastered that it had become second nature — that already being a phenomenal accomplishment. So he messed around, giving the impression at least that he was trying out new ideas on the spot.
Accenting notes not meant to be accented, he created a new rhythmic character, just as a jazz player does. Classical music tradition doesn't allow him to go so far as to add his own harmonies, so he voiced chords to point out dissonances not normally noticed. He mooned over lyrical passages, lost in the stars.
He was lost in himself too, when he began to conduct once or twice, as though he were Ellington and the L.A. Phil was his band. And Dudamel let him.
Funny things happened. Sometimes the orchestra sounded thrown by all this fresh commotion. The winds brought out dissonances of their own, intentionally or not. Solo lines in the ensemble occasionally had an arresting improvisatory quality. This was not a tidy performance and occasionally went over the top. But the interpretation was alive to the moment and never dull.
For the second half, Dudamel led Carl Nielsen's Fourth Symphony. A half century ago, it had seemed that a Nielsen revival, spearheaded by Leonard Bernstein, would make the Danish composer's six symphonies standard repertory. That never happened.
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Zubin Mehta and Esa-Pekka Salonen championed Nielsen in Los Angeles to little avail and until Thursday, the L.A. Phil hadn't played a Nielsen symphony in well over a decade. Now it is Dudamel's turn. He became a Nielsen enthusiast while serving as music director of Sweden's Gothenburg Symphony, where the composer himself had conducted.
Written between 1914 and 1916, the Fourth, which Nielsen named "The Inextinguishable," is a testament to survival at a time when the world was at war. The score begins in a furious rush and ends with the white-knuckle antiphonal onslaught of pairs of timpani on either side of the stage.
Although the 35-minute symphony's four movements are played without a break, it is a symphony of interruptions. Instrumental groups are constantly breaking in on each other, like warring factions. Only with the insistent timpani whipping dissenters into submission is unity achieved.
But the Fourth is not all battle cry. Harmonies are odd. The orchestral colors are as adventurous and intricate as the flavors of modern Danish cuisine. Melodies are as seductive as Danish lovers.
Unfortunately, the orchestra seemed to have an unusual off night. Dudamel went for a thickly clotted sound (his recording of the Fourth with Gothenburg is more focused). But the L.A. Phil produced power aplenty, and that was enough to ensure that — unlike the fires now raging in the Southland — that the symphony remain an "inextinguishable" force of nature.
Los Angeles Philharmonic with Lang Lang
Where: Walt Disney Concert Hall, downtown L.A.
When: 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 1 p.m. Sunday
Tickets: Sold out
Information: (323) 850-2000 or http://www.laphil.com
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After the 48-hour basketball bender that is the first round of the NCAA tournament, a single game to start off the 2nd round is just what the doctor ordered. UCLA-Villanova starts the fun at 1:05PM.
If you're so inclined, here are the tournament previews for the teams involved. I'll be back in a while to set up the other second round matchups.