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No. 85,279
1. To determine whether a robbery has occurred as opposed to a theft with attendant violence, the individual factual circumstances must be carefully reviewed.
2. In order to constitute a taking for the purposes of determining when a robbery is completed, the prospective robber must have obtained at some particular moment the complete, independent, and absolute possession and control of the property desired adverse to the rights of the owner.
3. In determining when a robbery is completed, if the possession of the would-be taker is imperfect in any degree, or if his or her control of the property desired is qualified by any circumstance, however slight, the taking is incomplete.
4. Under the facts of this case, the taking of the property was not complete when the violence was done to the victim. Therefore, a robbery, rather than a theft, was committed
Appeal from Wyandotte District Court; THOMAS L. BOEDING, judge. Opinion filed May 25, 2001. Affirmed.
Reid T. Nelson, assistant appellate defender, and Jessica R. Kunen, chief appellate defender, for the appellant.
Sheryl L. Lidtke, assistant district attorney, Nick A. Tomasic, district attorney, and Carla J. Stovall, attorney general, for the appellee.
Before PIERRON, P.J., GREEN and BEIER, JJ.
PIERRON, J.: Jessie L. Bosby appeals his convictions for aggravated robbery, burglary of a building that is not a dwelling, automobile burglary, theft, and criminal damage to property. Bosby received a controlling term of 95 months' incarceration. He argues there was insufficient evidence to support his conviction for aggravated robbery. We affirm.
Bosby and his codefendant, Nathaniel Jones, stole a pickup truck. They drove past the residence of Rosellen Barry and noticed that the van normally parked in the driveway was gone and that the garage had no door. Bosby saw a riding lawn mower in the garage and decided it was a "perfect day to get the mower."
Bosby backed the truck up to the garage. Jones got the lawn mower while Bosby lowered the hydraulic lift on the back of the truck. They put the lawn mower on the hydraulic lift, loaded it on the truck bed, and shut the tailgate. Bosby said he saw Barry approaching after he was already in the driver's seat trying to release the emergency brake to get the truck moving. Bosby testified, "We were already in the process of leaving when she came out." The emergency brake handle was broken off and only wires remained. Bosby poked his finger on the wires and it began to bleed. Bosby said Barry began hitting him across his back through the open window of the truck. He said that he tried to get the truck moving with the emergency brake on, but the truck died when he let the clutch out. Bosby testified that he fumbled with the wires in the broken steering column, but the blood from his finger made it hard to hold the wires.
Bosby testified that as he attempted to start the truck again, he felt somebody on his back, but did not know if it was Barry or Jones. He said he did not witness any confrontation between Barry and Jones. Bosby finally got the truck started and "bounced" it onto Leavenworth Road. However, the truck died and would not start. Bosby was able to release the emergency brake and the truck coasted down the hill and came to a stop. Bosby and Jones unloaded the lawn mower and hid it in the woods, intending to come back for it later. They were apprehended shortly thereafter.
Barry had a different version of the facts. She was cooking supper in her kitchen when she saw two men loading her lawn mower onto a flatbed truck in her driveway. Thinking the men had made a mistake and that they should be loading the neighbor's mower for repairs, Barry went outside to tell them of their mistake. Barry said the men had already loaded a push mower and the riding lawn mower was on the lift being loaded into the truck. Barry said both lawn mowers were in her garage before the men took them, and the garage did not have a door because it was being replaced.
Barry testified that when she came outside, Bosby headed for the front of the truck. As she approached, Jones quickly pushed the lawn mower onto the truck and got into the passenger side. Barry said the truck was not running when she first went outside. She testified the driver's side door was open and she stood in the doorway to tell them they had the wrong lawn mower. Barry saw Bosby messing with the steering column and she realized they were stealing the lawn mowers. She heard Bosby say, "Damn, we're in trouble now."
While Bosby leaned forward to start the truck, Barry said Jones hit her in the face. She fell to the ground and Jones came out of the truck, landed on top of her, and tried to hit her in the face, but she blocked his punches with her arm. Bosby finally started the truck again and Jones jumped back into the truck. The two headed down the driveway towards the street. Barry said she grabbed her child's roller blade skate and threw it at the truck, and her son shot paint balls at the truck. Barry immediately called 911.
The jury convicted Bosby of two crimes involving Barry's lawn mower -- aggravated robbery and burglary of a building that is not a dwelling, and three crimes involving the stolen truck--automobile burglary, theft, and criminal damage to property.
Bosby argues the evidence was insufficient to support a conviction for aggravated robbery, as they allegedly did not use force to take the property. He contends the force was used after the taking was completed and that a robbery was not committed.
Our standard of review is to interpret the aggravated robbery statute, K.S.A. 21-3427, and determine if the facts in this case constitute that crime as a matter of law. We review the facts in the light most favorable to the prosecution An appellate court's review of conclusions of law is unlimited, similar to our review when interpreting a statute. See State v. Donlay, 253 Kan. 132, Syl. ¶ 1, 853 P.2d 680 (1993).
Bosby contends the evidence shows he obtained peaceable possession of Barry's lawn mower and he used no force during the theft. He contends any force used by Jones was subsequent to taking of the property and used only to effectuate the escape. At most, Bosby argues his acts constituted the separate offense of theft and a charge of aggravated battery against Jones. Thus, he requests we reverse the aggravated robbery conviction.
The State argues the taking of the lawn mowers from Barry's presence was not complete until after force was applied by Jones. The State maintains the physical blows to Barry constituted the force the defendants decided to use in order to complete their taking of the lawn mowers from Barry's presence.
The issue herein involves the difference between robbery and theft. The parties support their analysis from the same general set of cases.
Aggravated robbery is a robbery committed by a person who is armed with a dangerous weapon or who inflicts bodily harm on any person in the course of the robbery. K.S.A. 21-3427. Robbery is the taking of property from the person or presence of another by force or by threat of bodily harm to any person. K.S.A. 21-3426. To establish the charge of robbery, the State must prove there was a taking of the property from the person or presence of the victim and that such taking was either by threat of bodily harm or by force.
The court in State v. Miller, 53 Kan. 324, 36 Pac. 751 (1894), considered whether the force required in a robbery must precede the taking of the property. The facts were that Miller went into a laundry to pick up a shirt. When the proprietor opened the cash drawer, Miller grabbed some money. The proprietor caught Miller's hand while it was still in the drawer and released it only when Miller cut the proprietor's hand with a knife. Miller ran for the door but was caught by the victim, who released his hold only after being stabbed in the abdomen.
On appeal, Miller argued that the violence was merely for the purpose of breaking away from the victim and that, if he took the money, he had it in his possession before any violence occurred. The Miller court disagreed and adopted the general rule that to constitute the crime of robbery, it is sufficient that the violence to the person and the taking be contemporaneous. Under the facts, the court concluded Miller had not obtained complete possession of the money before using the violence on the proprietor. The court noted there was evidence Miller cut the victim's hand in order to remove his own hand containing the money from the cash drawer. The court stated:
"Nice questions may and do arise as to just when the possession of the owner of articles not attached to his person, but under his immediate charge and control, is divested, and it may well be doubted whether a thief can be said to have taken peaceable possession of money or other thing of value in the presence of the owner, when the taking is instantly resisted by the owner, before the thief is able to remove it from his premises or from his immediate presence." 53 Kan. at 328.
In State v. Aldershof, 220 Kan. 798, 556 P.2d 371 (1976), two women were sitting in a booth in a tavern. Lighting was poor by virtue of a power outage. While one of the women was gone, Aldershof went to the booth and grabbed both the absent woman's purse from the table and the other woman's purse from her lap. The woman at the booth pursued Aldershof to the parking lot and grabbed his shirt. He turned, hit her in the eye, and fled. He was convicted of robbery.
On appeal, Aldershof argued that the evidence showed no force or threat during the taking of the purses and that the purses were taken by stealth; therefore, the crime was a theft, not a robbery. The State argued the crime was robbery as the taking was still in progress when the victim was hit in the parking lot. The Aldershof court discussed the law of theft and robbery:
"We are inclined to follow the general rule recognized in State v. Miller, supra, that to constitute the crime of robbery by forcibly taking money from the person of its owner, it is necessary that the violence to the owner must either precede or be contemporaneous with the taking of the property and robbery is not committed where the thief has gained peaceable possession of the property and uses no violence except to resist arrest or to effect his escape. We believe that the test should be whether or not the taking of the property has been completed at the time the force or threat is used by the defendant. This must of necessity be determined from the factual circumstances presented in the particular case before the court." 220 Kan. at 803.
In Aldershof, the taking of the purses had been completed when the thief snatched the purses and left the premises of the tavern. Any violence occurring after the thief left the tavern with the purses under his control "could not convert the theft into a robbery, although it may well have been the basis for a charge of battery under K.S.A. 21-3412." 220 Kan. at 804.
In State v. Long, 234 Kan. 580, 675 P.2d 832 (1984), Long had entered a sale building where Wolf sold milk. The building was open to the public with customers helping themselves to the milk in the display case and dropping payment into a locked, slotted money box mounted on a wall. Wolf was not in the sales room but saw Long drive up and park. She went into the sale building to tell him more milk would be available soon. When Wolf entered the room, she observed Long crouched in front of the money box, which had been pried open. Long had his hands in his pockets and Wolf observed a dollar bill on the floor beneath the money box. Wolf positioned herself in the doorway to prevent Long from leaving. She asked Long twice what he was doing, but he made no response. Long walked toward Wolf, shoved her arm out of the way, forced himself by her, and drove off in his car. Long was convicted of robbery.
On appeal, Long argued that the force used against Wolf occurred after the taking to effect his escape and therefore was not sufficient to constitute a taking by force as required by the robbery statute. We agreed in State v. Long, 8 Kan. App. 2d 733, 667 P.2d 890 (1983), but the Kansas Supreme Court reversed. Applying the Miller rule, the Long court held the ultimate question was whether the taking of the money from the money box was completed prior to the appellant's exit from the sale building. Acknowledging that "[n]o established set of guidelines exists which can be readily applied for a quick and easy answer to this question," the court stated:
"Prior Kansas cases are not in accord with one another and as such do not provide much assistance in determining when a taking is completed. Some of these cases imply a taking is not complete until the property has been removed from the premises of the owner, whereas others indicate the taking is accomplished at the moment the thief, with the intent to steal, removes the property from its customary location." 234 Kan. at 583.
After reviewing some cases involving issues of whether the appropriate crime was theft or attempted theft, the Long court stated:
"As these cases demonstrate, inherent difficulties exist in determining when possession attaches to constitute a completed taking for a robbery conviction under K.S.A. 21-3426. Commission of the crime of robbery is complete when the robber takes possession of the property, as the element of asportation is no longer required to complete the crimes of theft or robbery. See, e.g., State v. Knowles, 209 Kan. at 678; State v. Aldershof, 220 Kan. at 804. The defendant takes possession of the property of another when he exercises dominion and control over the property. 4 Wharton's Criminal Law 472 (14th ed. 1981). Earlier cases have recognized the term 'possession,' as it relates to theft or possession of stolen property, imports more than an innocent handling of property; the term denotes control, or the right to exercise control and dominion, over the property. State v. Knowles, 209 Kan. at 678; State v. Brown, 203 Kan. 884, 885-86, 457 P.2d 130 (1969). See also State v. Porter, 201 Kan. 778, 781, 443 P.2d 360 (1968), cert. denied 393 U.S. 1108 (1969); State v. Phinis, 199 Kan. 472, 430 P.2d 251, [overruled on other grounds State v. Milow, 199 Kan. 576, 433 P.2d 538] (1967). 52A C.J.S., Larceny 6, states:
'[I]n order to constitute a taking the prospective thief must have obtained at some particular moment the complete, independent, and absolute possession and control of the thing desired adverse to the rights of the owner therein.
. . . .
'If the possession of the would-be taker is imperfect in any degree, or if his control of the thing desired is qualified by any circumstance, however slight, the taking is incomplete and the act is only an attempt.'" 234 Kan. at 585.
Upon application of these rules and cases to the facts, the Long court concluded that "a thief does not obtain the complete, independent and absolute possession and control of money or property adverse to the rights of the owner where the taking is immediately resisted by the owner before the thief can remove it from the premises or from the owner's presence." 234 Kan. at 586. The court concluded Long did not obtain actual possession of the money and the taking was not completed until he by force overcame Wolf's efforts to stop him from making his exit from the sale room. 234 Kan. at 586-87.
In State v. Dean, 250 Kan. 257, 824 P.2d 978 (1992), Dean drove to a full-service service station and asked the attendant to pump gas into his vehicle. When the attendant asked for payment, Dean made a gesture under his coat jacket which made the attendant believe Dean had a gun. The attendant jumped back and Dean drove away. The aggravated robbery charge was dismissed before trial. On appeal, the court considered whether Dean's ordering the pumping of gasoline prior to payment and immediately leaving the presence of the owner without payment by the use of threat or force constituted robbery or merely theft. The Dean court applied the following rule:
"To constitute the crime of robbery, it is necessary that the violence to the owner of property must either precede or be contemporaneous with the taking of the property. Robbery is not committed where the thief has gained peaceable possession of the property and uses no violence except to resist arrest or to effect his escape." 250 Kan. 257, Syl. ¶ 2.
After reviewing Miller, Aldershof, and Long, the Dean court concluded that Dean had not left the premises or even attempted to drive away before he used force. He made his threat to prevent resistance to the taking and not as a means of escape and, therefore, the facts supported the charge of aggravated robbery. The dismissal was reversed, and the case was remanded for further proceedings.
Commission of robbery is complete when the robber takes possession of property; the element of asportation is not required to complete theft or robbery. See K.S.A. 21-3426; State v. Valdez, 266 Kan. 774, 785, 977 P.2d 242 (1999). The test of whether a robbery has occurred is whether the taking of the property has been completed at the time the force or threat is used by the defendant. Aldershof, 220 Kan. at 803. The court in Valdez stated: "In order to constitute a taking, the prospective robber must have obtained at some particular moment the complete, independent, and absolute possession and control of the thing desired adverse to the rights of the owner therein." 266 Kan. at 786.
As demonstrated by the discussion above, cases of this nature are very fact sensitive. "The test is whether or not the taking of the property has been completed at the time the force or threat is used by the defendant, which must be determined from the factual circumstances in each case." Aldershof, 220 Kan. 798, Syl. ¶ 2.
In the present case, under whichever factual scenario is believed, a robbery was committed. Bosby and Jones had not made good their escape from Barry's property when she either attacked them or they struck her preemptively. They used force to complete their taking possession of the property and removing it from the owner's presence and inflicted bodily harm in the process. This constituted an aggravated robbery. See Annot., 93 A.L.R.3d 643, 647.


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Medicial Mistakes?
How many people each year suffer some type of preventable harm that contributes to their death after a hospital visit?
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Interviews with People Who Make a Difference: Life After Life
Interview with Raymond Moody
as interviewed by Daniel Redwood DC
Raymond Moody
is a scholar and a joyful soul. He first attained widespread recognition with the publication in the mid-1970's of
Life After Life,
his best-selling work on the near-death experience (NDE). He has pursued this subject in his subsequent works
Reflections on Life After Life
The Light Beyond.
A native of Georgia, Dr. Moody is a professor of psychology at West Georgia College. His academic credentials are particularly impressive, indicative of a lifelong love of learning. He has earned not one but two Ph.D.'s at the University of Virginia, one in philosophy and the other in psychology. In addition, he has a medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia.
Moody is a much sought-after speaker both in the Americas and in Europe, having established a justly deserved reputation as a knowledgeable surveyor of the frontier areas of human consciousness. He was the one whose research with hundreds of near-death survivors first established the startling frequency of the experience of floating above the body, being drawn to a white light of unspeakable beauty, and feeling a peace which no words can truly tell.
As Moody observes in this interview with Dr. Daniel Redwood, the near-death experience transcends cultural boundaries, appearing with minimal variation in people throughout the world. People who return from the brink of death after these experiences lose their fear of death, and in most cases find themselves adopting a new perspective on life.
Dr. Moody can be reached at the following address:
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Raymond Moody Interview
: How do you reply to someone who says that the near-death experience of white light and transcendent peace is simply a consequence of oxygen deprivation in the brain?
Raymond Moody
: When I first heard about this, I assumed it was something like that, shock to the brain and so forth. I know many physicians, literally from all over the world, who have investigated this phenomenon, and they all started with that assumption. All of us, in talking with the people who have had these experiences, have come around very much in our views.
The classic definition of a hallucination, of course, is that it's an apparent sensory experience without a corresponding external event. That is, a person sees or hears something when there is not really anything there. But with these near death experiences, we have many cases where the patients, while they are out of their bodies, are able to witness something going on at a distance, even in another part of the hospital, which later turns out by independent verification to have been exactly as the patient said. So this is very difficult to put together with a simple physiological or biochemical explanation.
Another thing that makes me feel that the experience is something beyond just a hallucination, is that the profound effects of these experiences on people are just so amazing. They have this complete confidence that what we call death is just a passage into another level of reality.
I think that no final answer, though, can be settled on to the question you asked, because ultimately in this frontier area of the human mind, there aren't any experts there that can give us the answer. There is no conventionally established way yet to determine the answer. Everybody is going to have to look at this and make up his own mind in his own way. All I can do is speak for myself and my many colleagues in medicine who have looked into this, and we're all convinced that the patients do get a glimpse of the beyond.
: Have you found similarities in the content of near-death experiences even among people from widely differing cultures? Does an Australian aboriginal experience the same thing as a steelworker from Indiana and a shepherd in Afghanistan?
Yes, apparently so. It's quite interesting. Something I certainly wouldn't have suspected, but the cultural variation of this thing seems to be remarkably narrow. There is just not that much variation. Now I myself have not looked at cases from outside the Western Judao-Christian tradition, but colleagues of mine have. I have gotten letters from the Orient, from China, Japan and India, describing identical experiences, letters from both experiencers in these cultures and from physicians who have reported on these experiences. From time to time in anthropological writings and even preliterate cultures, there have been anthropologists who have found these experiences among the particular group they were studying, and report to us that they are the same as what we find in emergency rooms in the West.
: Are the increasing number of reports that we have all heard about of near-death experiences in recent years due to advances in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or the fact that people feel more free to talk about it?
My impression is that it's primarily the former. If you go back into history, you find plenty of these cases. They are in historical writings. Gregory of Tours wrote a book,
The History of the Franks.
The Venerable Bede's
The History of the English Church and People.
These were from very early writings, several hundred years A.D. Plato describes a case. Hieronymus Bosch did a painting which portrays this theme in the 1500's. There are scattered cases in the medical literature even, beginning in the 19th Century. And a Swiss mountain-climber geology professor named Dr. Albert Heim in the late 1800's had a fall, and he had a mystical experience on his way down that profoundly changed his life. So he became interested in this topic, and inquired among his fellow mountain-climbers and found many near death experiences, again identical to what we hear today.
So this has been going on for a long time, but I think that as you suggested, what we find now is that the techniques of CPR are just so widely available and so sophisticated that we're rescuing a very much larger number of people who have had these experiences from the brink of death.
: What percentage of people do not experience the classic ascension into the light when having a close call with death, such as in a severe automobile accident? What is different about these people?
Well, studies vary on that, and it's interesting that the percentage of people who have such experiences gets higher, the closer they were to death. In the study of Dr. Fred Schoonmaker, who is chief of cardiovascular medicine at St. Luke's in Denver, he interviewed a large number of patients that he had personally resuscitated, and he found that about 60% of the patients who underwent a resuscitation had an experience of this nature. This is comparable to the findings of Dr. Ken Ring and Dr. Mike Sabom, who studied patients who as a group were perhaps less critically ill, and had been unconscious and near death, and found that about 45% of them had had these experiences.
But that still leaves unaccounted for the question of why some do and some don't. We really don't know. Many of the facts that I think we would suspect-- the age of the patient, the particular cause that brought them to the point of death, whether they were male or female, prior religious training and beliefs and so on--none of these factors seemed to make any difference. So we just don't know what it is.
Dr. Bruce Greyson, in a study he did a few years ago, came up with some evidence that it might perhaps be whether or not the patient surrenders at this point of death, and he believes, based on some of his findings, that perhaps the patients as they are close to death, reach a point where they surrender, and that those are the ones that go on to have the near death experience.
: Do you feel that reincarnation is metaphorical or literal? What is your idea of the survival of the soul?
I definitely think that yes, reincarnation is metaphorical, but not in the sense that some might believe. First let me say that I don't know whether there is reincarnation or not, and I have done a lot of work with these past life regressions and so on. From the point of view of just giving evidence, I can't say either way.
But if you are asking me about my feelings and my intuitions, I would have to say that if I were forced top guess on the issue, I would say yes. But I do still believe that it would be metaphorical in the sense that I think the process is much more complicated than we can even express in ordinary language. When we are talking about it in this dimension, we have to use a linear form of expression and conceptualization, but my feeling is that when we get over on the other side, all these linear categories that we use--evidence, time sequence and all of that--are totally different. Reincarnation is probably a far more complicated experience than we can probably even imagine right now.
: Have you seen people helped by past-life regressions?
No doubt about it, yes. That's been quite remarkable to me. As I started with this, I didn't really intend, wasn't really thinking of it as a therapeutic procedure. I was exploring it as an altered state of awareness, and what really surprised me as I got into this was that the people who underwent these regressions would feel greatly benefited by this, and that they would feel they came to understand themselves in a new way, perhaps understanding some of the difficulties and neurotic conflicts that they were experiencing in this life.
: Do you feel that there is any danger in pursuing past-life information? Under what circumstances should this be done, and what qualifications, if any, do you feel are necessary for the guide or therapist?
Well, to answer your latter question first, I think the criteria for a guide are pretty much in flux and flow, and certainly none of the customary trainings in this society give anybody any special expertise in this field. What we face in this culture, I think, is that we have so systematically excluded ourselves from altered states of awareness in the Western culture for so many hundreds of years, that there are just going to have to be a few brave souls who will look into this and wade into it, and then can help the rest of us as we enter into it
. You ask about the dangers. I think there are for sure dangers, and I see them all the time. One is certainly inflation of the ego and a kind of elitism that you see--the people who talk about
past lives, and in
past life this and in
past life that, and it becomes an ego trip. Some of them seem to want to exclude others by puffing themselves up about all of this. But by and large, that's certainly a minority, a distinct minority of people.
And then too, there's the danger that I think the Tibetans expressed, that as one enters into this and starts exploring around in the spiritual dimension, a lot of things come up which the Tibetans say, and I begin to believe in a way, are distractions to the real path. By that I mean, I've heard this Eastern doctrine that when past lives start emerging, you just don't pay too much attention to them, because there are other things beyond that that you want to find. I think it's fine as these past life experiences emerge to be interested in them , and to look into them and to learn what one can about oneself from them. But at the same time we need to realize that it is a stage, and that if we spend too much time puzzling over the details of our past lives then we're going to miss what's going on in this one.
: How has your work with near-death experiences and past life regression affected your academic career as a psychology professor at West Georgia College? Has any pressure been exerted upon you to pursue less controversial areas of research?
No, that would be a nice story, to be able to portray myself as a persecuted martyr, but it really has not happened.
: I'm glad to hear that.
I happen to be in a very liberal college where the persons in my department are very interested themselves in altered states of awareness. I think that the irresponsible thing to do would be to portray this as some sort of conclusive scientific evidence. I think that as long as one pursues these topics with the perspective that they are altered states which can teach us a lot about ourselves, I don't see how anybody could really object to that.
: In the years since your first book came out, do you perceive an increasing openness among people in this society to this information?
No doubt about it. I was in Europe not too long ago, and I went to eight countries. In every country, physicians there brought articles to me that they had written for their own medical journals on their own research on near death experiences. So what we can say that this has contributed over the past 15 years, is that it is now an accepted matter of fact that persons close to death, a large proportion of them, have amazing lifechanging experiences which take a common pattern.
But now the next step is the interpretation of these experiences, what they ultimately mean. That's not even a matter for the medical community to decide. It's not for medical doctors to decide whether there's life after death., The point of the interest in the medical field about these is simply that whatever account we want to give of them, they clearly occur. So we need to be prepared for this in order to explain to the patients and support the patients and so on, and reassure them that they are not alone.
: What in your current work fascinates you most?
What I love to do is, I love to explore the frontiers of the human mind. One thing that's so fascinating to me is that I'm 45 years old now and I have gone through two doctoral degrees and I have always been very interested in the human mind. I can remember sitting out on the front porch at my grandmother's house at age 3, and puzzling about consciousness. This has been a lifelong pursuit for me, and one thing that I am continually astounded by is that a week hardly ever passes by that I don't come across some amazing new dimension of the human mind, or some phenomenon that I have never heard of before.
One that I'm pursuing with great interest right now is the much-despised activity of crystal-gazing, which our society has succeeded in portraying as just a fraudulent activity or a hoax, which I had assumed myself until about three years ago. Now I know from delving into this phenomenon that it has a very rich history, an amazing history, that involves quite a dramatic, unusual and intriguing dimension of human consciousness. I have no idea whether any of these visions pertain to events of the future. I don't feel myself qualified to even begin to try to prove or establish something like that. But, the phenomenon of crystal gazing, and the visions that people have, undeniably exist and also can have some really intriguing applications.
Especially if you go back into the history of thought, it's amazing how many of the great creative geniuses of history have used hyponogogic states as an adjunct to their work.
: Who are some of these people?
Edison, for example, used hypnogogic states to get his ideas. Robert Louis Stevenson got his ideas and stories while in the hypnogogic state. George Sand used it for writing her novels. Charles Dickens, and the list goes on. And yet in our society we have just totally ignored this fascinating technique.
: Must one use a crystal to enter the hypnogogic state?
No, as you look back into the history of this phenomenon, many different forms of viewing devices have been used. Tibetans gazed into clear lakes and saw visions. They also used oracular mirrors. So did the shamans. Many shamanic cultures used mirrors for crystal gazing. The Aztec priests used obsidian mirrors and balls for their crystal gazing. In medieval times in Europe and also in India, where such technology was probably very expensive, scryers would use the thumbnail, a drop of oil on the thumbnail, to induce these visions.
So there's a wide variety of techniques for doing this, and it can be very simply taught. I have found in my experiments with it that it's possible to teach about half the normal population, and very quickly. And once they do learn it, they feel they benefit from it very much, both in learning about a dimension of themselves that they are not normally aware of, and also in terms of increased relaxation and increased access to their creative processes.
: How have you personally benefited from it?
I've found it's a marvelous adjunct to creative work. I've been writing some stories that I have seen in the crystal ball, and have been using it in some quite interesting ways in my writing. I find it's really beneficial.
Daniel Redwood is a chiropractor and writer who lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He is the author of
A Time to Heal: How to Reap the Benefits of Holistic Health,
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Just nice to see the Holmgren walk away from the Seahawks last home game as a winner.
Yes, while I am ready for a coaching change, it was very nice to see Mike get a win in his last home game. It also does not take away from him hands down being the best coach in team history. His success relative to the franchise's history is without question. I am grateful for his tenure as he brough stability and respectability to a franchise that had little before his arrival.
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Marqise Lee, wide receiver
It would be foolish to think USC can replace someone who holds or shares 24 school records and needed only three seasons to be the all-time leader in receiving yards (3,655). Despite this, Lee was less than 100 percent most of last season so replacing him might not be as traumatic as imagined.
Dion Bailey, safety
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Marcus Martin, center
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Xavier Grimble, tight end
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Mittal and Arcelor - do they fit?
London, U.K. - 30th January 2006 One thing you can say about the Mittal family is that they think big, and they never fail to surprise! The announcement of a bid for Arcelor came out of the blue for most industry analysts. Mittal's strategy has always been to grow by acquisition – the world's biggest producer has never yet built a steelworks – but the target this time was certainly unexpected.
The synergy
From an operational point of view, there are clear advantages to both companies in a merger of this sort. The regions of the world where they would have significant market share include the established markets of North America and Europe, together with the growing emerging markets in South America and Africa.
Mittal on their own just do not have the facilities in Europe to challenge the high-end auto market, despite making flat products in Romania, Poland and the Czech Republic.
Arcelor, on the other hand have only a small foothold in the North American flat products market and have little in-house supplies of iron ore. (This was about to change however – see below).
So, apart from in Asia, the two combined would be dominant in high-value production and this would be complimented by Mittal's low-cost commercial steel production in central Europe and elsewhere. They would be getting closer to the "one-stop-shop" (though the value of this can be debatable).
One of the relatively few markets where they compete is in heavy sections in Europe. However, Mittal are meant to be closing their heavy section mill in the Czech Republic – as part of the restructuring plan agreed with the EU at accession.
In general, Arcelor have the "richer" product mix – with average revenues per tonne much higher than those of Mittal Steel. This is because around 70% of their output is flat products (much of it cold rolled) and stainless steels, whilst Mittal's mix includes about 20% of low-value semi-finished products.
Another aspect of synergy is related to the availability of "in-house" raw materials. Along with their steel company acquisitions in Kazakhstan, Ukraine, North America and Bosnia Mittal obtained significant reserves of iron ore. They are actively planning new mines in Africa and South America. By contrast, and if the Dofasco bid does not go ahead, Arcelor have very little. This is an area where cost savings will occur – both through the redirection of raw materials as well as stronger purchasing power with respect to external suppliers.
What does it mean for Arcelor?
After a disappointing year when they failed to acquire Kryvorizhstal and (initially) Erdemir, things were just starting to go well for Arcelor. They came to a deal with Oyak, the buyers of Erdemir, for a minority stake and have just won control of Dofasco. These two investments give them an extension into other parts of Europe, complementing their existing facilities in Turkey, a foothold in the North American high-end market, and a source or iron ore in the shape of Dofasco's Canadian mines.
In many ways, this gave them most of what they were looking for – certainly for now. A successful integration of these companies into their existing network would have reinforced their position as the world's No 2 steel maker, and probably the world's No 1 in the quality market.
What does it mean for Mittal?
Although there are significant gains for Mittal Steel, one cannot help wondering whether their bid is partly for defensive reasons. The last thing they wanted was Arcelor to win Dofasco – and the timing of the bid must have been affected by Arcelor's success in beating TKS to this acquisition.
That said, they gain improved R&D and product development abilities as well as quality steel making in Europe. They also get a different image. Until now (and with some exceptions in North America) they have thrived on turning around bankrupt or poorly managed companies. They have done this very successfully, but the problem is that the flow of such companies has slowed in recent years as the transition process and related privatisations have dried up.
This has meant them turning to more established companies. If they had wanted to enhance their position in Europe, and had chosen Corus or Riva as their target, one would have been less surprised. Either would have led to an easier ride with competition authorities and would have been easier to absorb. Arcelor, on the other hand, is big and rather corporate in the way it operates. How the cultures blend together will be a key element of whether the bid (if successful) leads to extracting the promised synergy.
Arcelor's board will be miffed that there was less communication prior to the announcement and this will make it more difficult to secure a smooth transition in the event of their offer being accepted by shareholders.
What does it mean for the industry?
For years analysts have been complaining of the lack of consolidation within the industry. Lack of production discipline during times of weak demand is certainly one of the reasons for volatile prices. Any increase in consolidation may therefore benefit the whole industry.
It will also spur on the other big companies to look for suitable partners. The world has four main regions when it comes to steel production.
China is obviously the largest and will not be greatly affected by the merger. (Both companies have interests there but even when combined they will still be small players in the Chinese market.) If anything, it may encourage the companies and the Government to move faster in consolidating what is a very fragmented sector.
The big Japanese and Korean companies dominate the rest of Asia, albeit alongside many smaller producers. Nippon Steel, JFE and POSCO are all in the current top-10. They will be nervous that they are falling behind the global giants and, if the merger goes ahead, might be encouraged to forge links with a European or American producer.
Russia is still the big net-exporter of steel. It has cheap ore, coal and other energy and its companies are looking to expand beyond the region. They need good finishing end facilities - close to the market but where steel making costs are high. They will either look to pick up smaller stand-alone mills, or integrated companies where it might be advantageous to close their heavy end.
Finally there is the rest of the world. The big companies are Corus, TKS, and Riva in Europe; Nucor and US Steel in North America; and Gerdau in both North and South America. These companies will certainly be looking for partners in the coming months and years in order to be able to compete with the potential new giant.
So, do they fit?
The answer, of course, is yes in many ways: certainly in terms of geographical and product coverage, and certainly in terms of the raw materials benefits accruing to both companies.
On the other hand, the Group will be "big" but not terribly "focussed". Arcelor have in the past valued their focus, perhaps more than anything, whilst Mittal have been prepared to produce any steel product that can turn a profit.
As, described above, the irony is that Arcelor were just getting their act together in terms of increasing their size but retaining their focus. They will fight hard to promote that vision to their shareholders.
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Both your historical and scientific arguments against this "saying" are impressive. However, I would like to make the following points:
1. Like any saying of this sort, it was meant to exaggerate the condition - in this case, the temperature (e.g. It's hotter than Hell) - and really doesn't need a scientific argument to either prove or disprove it.
2. Regarding the term brass monkey - the boys (and they were boys) who carried powder and cannon balls on sailing ships were called powder monkeys. So it would follow that the device that held the cannon balls (and powder) might well be called a "monkey" - and if made of brass, a "brass monkey".
You have to realise that these (and many other) nautical sayings were originated by semi-literate, but highly imaginative, sailors who didn't know or care about the niceties of science. So even if the devices which held the cannon balls were made of wood, it is not too far fetched to think that someone thought up the saying "It's cold enough to freeze the balls of a brass monkey" while pondering his ill-luck at being in freezing seas in the North Atlantic - or while spinning a yarn to his shipmates.
As someone who has been at sea with the more literate - but equally imaginative - modern sailor, I can't help but think this phrase has a valid nautical origin. And to pooh-pooh it as a "nautical version of an urban myth" seems a bit patronising!
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A few weeks ago, Gartner released their MarketScope for Wireless LAN Intrusion Protection Systems. The paper is designed to provide an evaluation of the currently available WIPs solution and, as you might guess, Cisco is one of the featured vendors.1
I spent several weeks, working behind the scenes to provide customer references and content for Gartner. During that effort, I was struck by the level of innovation Cisco has introduced into wireless security. Real innovation that works in the real world. We not only offer two levels of wireless intrusion protection, we also deliver three ways to deploy those solutions.
Cisco's backend intrusion detection and prevention is built into every Cisco wireless network deployment, providing always-on security and preventing wireless threats from connecting to the wired network. This level of security requires no licenses and no additional equipment. Pretty generous, I think and no doubt why more than 70 percent of Cisco WLAN customers use this WIPS capability.
Leveling up to Cisco Adaptive Wireless IPS provides security optimized for the wireless environment. Using the Cisco Mobility Services Engine, aWIPS is able to locate, identify, and mitigate over-the-air security threats—even if they're only transmitting intermittently. Through the Mobility Services Engine's location capabilities, aWIPS is able to discern whether intrusion signatures are multiple rogues or one rogue detected by multiple access points. That'll eliminate a lot of nervous moments.
While these solutions provide a great range of capabilities, it's the deployment models I really thought showed leadership.
The basic monitor mode uses one set of access points to provide wi-fi and a second set of access points to monitor for rogues and other threats. It's a good solution for deployments that need full performance wi-fi and always-on, full-spectrum security. But, with twice the number of access points, this level of performance carries a price.
This is where most vendors stop. Not Cisco. We introduced an overlay technology called Enhanced Local Mode. In this deployment model, one set of access points provides wi-fi and security. Essentially, the access point toggles between the two functions. Wi-fi some times, security some times. This model is a great option if cost is the primary concern. Sure, you lose a little wi-fi and security performance but, for many applications, the result is more than enough. And the savings are worth it, especially if on-channel protection is the priority.
The third model—Shared Monitor Mode—uses our Aironet 3600 access points and a special, plug-in security module. Using this tandem, you can deploy a single set of access points and get full performance and security. No compromise in performance yet with half the access points—and their installation—of the monitor mode deployment.
Combine the two levels of security with the three deployment options and Cisco can provide the level of wireless security that fits any company's performance and security needs, and budget. I think that's the kind of innovation everyone likes. Innovation that works for them.
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As we're knee-deep in the Republican "veepstakes" (oy, how we loathe that word), conservative eminence gris George Will says forget about former Florida Guv Jeb Bush. In two words: Too soon.
"If Jeb Bush is to be Romney's running mate, it would mean that in seven of nine presidential elections there would be a Bush on the Republican ticket," Will said Sunday on on ABC's This Week. "And it gets hard to argue that we're not a tribal society at that point."
Tribal? Hmmm.
G. Will's faves are someone like Louisiana Guv Bobby Jindal or Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, someone "young" and "conservative."
"Mr. Romney needs some kind of excitement," he said.
Here's video of the man whose eye wear reassuringly tells us it's always 1983 somewhere (The Veepstakes discussion starts about 11:40….and check out the recently-fired-at-CurrentTV- Keith Olbermann on the bipartisan panel. Talking to people who disagree with him politically — for a change — agrees with KO):


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Jets ride power play past Panthers, end home skidby Patrick Williams
WINNIPEG -- The Winnipeg Jets ended the Florida Panthers' five-game winning streak with a 5-2 victory Friday night at MTS Centre, and in the process put an end to their own lengthy victory drought at home.
Two power-play goals by Tobias Enstrom and Blake Wheeler 33 seconds apart in the first period broke open a 1-1 game that saw Winnipeg hold leads of 4-1 and 5-2 by the end of the second period.
The Jets took advantage of a Florida team that was tired after arriving in Winnipeg at 3 a.m. Friday following a 4-2 victory against the Ottawa Senators on Thursday.
"I thought that we played a good first period," Jets coach Claude Noel said. "We came out hard. We tried to take advantage of their travel and second [game] in two nights."
The Jets' 25th-ranked power play, which went 2-for-4 against Florida, has found traction lately, scoring in five of the team's past six games (7-for-23) after an 0-for-22 slide in seven games. Often a momentum-halting source of frustration this season, the Jets used their power play to build energy against the Panthers.
"Any time you score on the power play creates a lot of momentum for your team," Wheeler said. "To get a couple, that's almost icing on the cake. We really fed off that and were able to carry that over and sustain a bigger lead, which is nice."
The win ended the Jets' six-game losing streak (0-3-3) on home ice. They had not won at MTS Centre since a 3-2 shootout victory against the Philadelphia Flyers on Nov. 15. It was their first home regulation victory since a 5-0 win against the Nashville Predators on Nov. 8.
Florida (14-18-5) had won seven of its past eight games before Friday. The game wrapped up a four-game Canadian road trip for the Panthers, who return to South Florida for a five-game homestand that extends into January.
"It was a good road trip for us," forward Shawn Matthias said. "We needed that. We got three big wins in tough buildings. [This loss] is disappointing. At the end of the day, we've got to build on that."
The Jets (16-16-5) play three of their next four games on the road, including Sunday against the Vancouver Canucks.
Matthias opened the scoring 7:45 into the game with his fourth goal, ending a 14-game goalless drought. Nick Bjugstad also scored for Florida.
The Jets scored three unanswered goals to end the first. Rookie defenseman Jacob Trouba tied the game at 1-1 with his first goal since his NHL debut against the Edmonton Oilers on Oct. 1. Enstrom's second goal of the season and Wheeler's 12th extended the Jets' lead to 3-1.
Evander Kane and Michael Frolik each scored his ninth goal in the second period. Rookie center Mark Scheifele had two assists to extend his point streak to five games (three goals, four assists). Jets defenseman Dustin Byfuglien also had two assists.
Panthers goaltender Jacob Markstrom made 27 saves his first appearance since Nov. 5. Markstrom, whom the Panthers recalled from the San Antonio Rampage of the American Hockey League on Dec. 12, has allowed four or more goals in three of his past four NHL starts.
Jets goalie Ondrej Pavelec, who lost to Florida 5-2 on Dec. 5, stopped 21 shots.
"You need every win," Pavelec said of the Jets, who remain eight points behind the Minnesota Wild for the final wild card spot in the Western Conference. "It's the same for me; winning is a good feeling. But we need way more than this win. We have to keep going."
Matthias bounced the puck through Pavelec's skates following a Byfuglien turnover in the Winnipeg defensive zone to give the Panthers the early lead.
Trouba scored to tie it while the teams played at 4-on-4. The goal came after a slew of penalties resulted in 3-on-3 action. The 19-year-old skated the puck from the point into the low slot before shoveling a shot that snuck through Markstrom's pads.
Enstrom's one-timer on a bouncing puck during a 5-on-3 power play at 15:24 of the first period gave the Jets a 2-1 lead. Wheeler made it 3-1 on a 5-on-4 power play at 15:57, deflecting Zach Bogosian's left-point shot.
"They came out really hard in the first, and basically won the game in the first period," Panthers interim coach Peter Horachek said.
Kane increased the Jets' lead to 4-1 at 1:03 into the second period. Frolik scooped up a Florida turnover at the Jets blue line, moved the puck down the right boards into the Florida zone and sent a pass across the slot to Kane, who lifted a shot over Markstrom.
"We put an emphasis on that start tonight," Wheeler said. We knew they're on a bit of a road trip, and the second game in two nights is never easy, so that start was huge for us. We had a tough game in Buffalo (on Tuesday, a 4-2 loss), and our group was champing at the bit to get going again. We were excited to play tonight and get the opportunity to get the bad taste out of our mouth."
Bjugstad cut it to 4-2 at 5:55 when he snapped a shot past Pavelec's glove. It was his seventh goal. Frolik made it 5-2 with a snap shot that beat Markstrom with 2:07 left in the second.
With three wins on their Canadian road trip, the Panthers head home armed with some hard-won confidence and experience. Horachek chose to use the loss against the Jets as a building block for a young and inexperienced team that he assumed control of Nov. 8 after Florida fired Kevin Dineen.
"For us, it's the learning, the progress and moving forward in this situation," Horachek explained. "We're learning how to win. We're learning how to handle situations. Even tonight, you're learning to deal with adversity. You're coming in, you're a little bit tired. You're in that situation where they come out strong, they get some calls, they get some 5-on-3 [situations], so you're learning from that. This is part of the process where you're learning to win."
"You've got to learn to deal with that in all the buildings you're going to play in," Horachek added. "We're going to see this again. It's a process that I think that our guys are moving forward with and learning how to be winners."


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Many are familiar with the Birmingham-Southern's move from NAIA to NCAA Division I-AA to NCAA Division III in a span of just seven years. The Panthers were successful within the NAIA for decades before deciding to make the jump to the NCAA Division I ranks in 2000.
However, by the time they had passed their requirements in the D-I probationary period, BSC president G. David Pollick made the decision that the program would better fit the Division III model. Coupled with that decision was the addition of football in 2007 to boost enrollment and tuition dollars. Putting the pigskin back on campus would be the first time the school sponsored football since 1939.
For fifth-year head coach Eddie Garfinkle, it didn't take long to make the Panthers into a winning program.
"They actually hired Joey Jones initially, and I came with him. I had been coaching in high school at the time with him. We recruited and played in the SCAC that first year with all freshmen," said Garfinkle.
Jones, an Alabama native and who had even played for "Bear" Bryant and the Crimson Tide, was lured away to start the football program at Southern Alabama.
That prompted the promotion of Garfinkle, who has immediately built the Panthers into a formidable South Region program.
Birmingham-Southern was ranked No. 15 in Sunday's poll with a 5-0 start and a 1-0 record in its new conference, the Southern Athletic Association. Garfinkle has slowly progressed the Panthers, improving their win total each season since taking over for Jones in 2008. Last year, the Panthers posted a 7-2 overall record and left the SCAC with a 4-2 record.
Garfinkle said the key to steady improvement has been the Division III model of recruiting and retention.
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"The school and the administration is very supportive of us, and we are in a great geographical location. The campus sells itself," he said. "We can dip into Florida and Tennessee, and we've really been able to do a good job of keeping guys here, and that's been a major key for us."
Among the players that he's kept is senior running back Shawn Morris. Morris rushed for 1,449 yards and 17 touchdowns last season on the way to first-team All-America honors while helping the Panthers earn a national ranking for the first time since reinstating the program.
Morris suffered an injury during BSC's Sept. 22 game with Rhodes, but it didn't deter the Panthers' backup tailback Joe Moultrie from filling in the void. Moultrie finished the game for Morris with eight carries and 37 yards in a 16-2 win over Rhodes, but excelled to new heights in his first start of the season Saturday with 96 yards on 15 carries and two touchdowns in a 49-21 win over Austin College.
Morris is a four-year letterman for the Panthers in his senior year while the junior Moultrie has had the task of backing up one of the best rushers in the country the past couple of seasons. However, last year as a sophomore, Moultrie made the most of his chances with six touchdowns and 421 yards on 76 carries.
This season, he continued to prove a valuable spell back, scoring three touchdowns in his reserve role in the first three contests.
"Last year Joe did a really good job, and we rotated him in some. But when Shawn went down, we had all the confidence in the world him, and he did a heck of a job," said Garfinkle.
While a talented back may struggle with second on the depth chart, Moultrie said he has embraced it.
"I see it as an opportunity. Our running back core as a whole wants to be a group that doesn't miss a beat when one goes down," Moultrie said. "That's what we strive for, we want to have a work ethic that is just as great as the man in front of us. When Shawn went down, I knew we wouldn't miss a beat."
That experience as a sophomore also played a role in his success filling Morris' void the last game-and-a-half.
"I not only got the experience on the field that I needed last year, but in the film room. I knew what I needed to do, and being behind a player like Shawn, getting to shadow him and following his work ethic prepared me," Moultrie said.
Morris is 5-foot-6 and nearly 200 pounds, with his head coach describing him as a "mini Trent Richardson." Moultrie is a taller, but lighter back at 5-foot-10 and 165 pounds.
Garfinkle said the size gives them different styles of running, but their speed is comparable. Moultrie said the two are very similar to each other.
"We both have that X factor," he said. "At any time we could break for a long run, or we can get the hard two or three-yard runs."
The Panthers turn their attention to one of the perennial powers on Saturday as No. 6-ranked Wesley College will play host to BSC in Dover, Del., at 1 p.m.
Moultrie said that the Panthers have a chance to be noticed nationally after the program has had steady improvement the past few years.
"At the beginning of the season we approached every game like we're going to take care of this one, and not overlook anybody," he said. "Well this week, it's the same, but we know that we have to prove ourselves all over again. We've had to prove that we could compete with the SCAC teams like Trinity; we did, and now we have to go to the national level and prove we can compete with teams that have been around a while and have had consistent teams year in an year out."
Morris has been cleared to play Saturday against the high-powered Wolverines calling for Moultrie's return to back up. But, Moultrie is not shaken.
"My mindset has not changed at all. Eventually [Shawn's] going to come out and need a break, and then I'm going to go in and take the reins," he said. "Our mentality is that no man is higher than the team; he's going to do what he's going to do, and then I'm going to do everything I can to make sure we don't miss a beat when I fill in."
These types of life lessons that Moultrie is learning along with discipline and responsibility are ones that he said he attributes to his education at BSC and participation with the Panthers' football program. Moultrie is an elementary education major and wants to join the coaching ranks when he graduates.
"I know what I've learned will help me professionally, but even now it's helped me with my job. I worked at a country club this summer and I found myself showing up to work meetings five minutes early or getting to work five or 10 minutes early," he said. "That repetition and discipline was taught to me by being a member of the football program, and my education here has taught me to perform my best at whatever I do and to be accountable for myself."
Garfinkle said that he knows he has a special player in his program.
"Well that's the thing that immediately stands out is how great a person he is. The success that he's had, he's worked hard for and he deserves it," he said. "Joe had to overcome a lot to get here; he's one of only two in our program that came from the inner city Birmingham school systems. So when he came in, he may have not had the academic training that our other students have had, so he worked harder, and he works hard in the weight room and in the practice field."
If Pollick, the school's president who departed in 2010, said that the move to Division III was more fitting for Birmingham-Southern, then it is student-athletes like Joe Moultrie who reinforced his efforts.
Bailey bolsters the Cru again
LiDarral Bailey has been the model of efficiency for the No. 2-ranked Mary Hardin-Baylor Crusaders this season, but especially the last two weeks. The senior signal-caller completed 29 of 33 passes for 516 yards, six touchdowns, no interceptions, and added 88 rushing yards and two scores on the ground for good measure. Bailey earned a plethora of weekly awards by setting a school record with 333 passing yards and four touchdowns in a rout of Sul Ross.
Millsaps D-line dominating through four contests
Millsaps' defensive front has averaged six sacks per game through four contests, which equals 24 for you math majors (no pun intended). And interestingly enough, those 24 sacks stack up third in all of NCAA football behind only DI-FBS Tulsa (26) and D-II East Central Okla. (25). Joiner Stewart and Zach Bell lead the charge with 5.5 and five sacks respectively.
ASC opens league play
UMHB, Louisiana College, Texas Lutheran and Hardin-Simmons all opened up with wins Saturday in the league's opening week of intra-competition. The game of the week could be how Sul Ross rebounds from a two-week roller coaster ride that saw them defeat nationally-ranked Trinity followed by a 48-point loss to UMHB. Mississippi College will play host to the Lobos in Clinton, Miss., at 2 p.m.
SAA features two big games
If you read the feature you know that No. 16 Birmingham-Southern (5-0) will have its hands full with No. 6 Wesley College (3-1) Saturday in Dover, Del. But, Sewanee (2-3) debuts with its first-ever SAA contest against Centre (3-2, 0-1) Saturday at home at 2 p.m.
Trinity was back on the board with a 30-22 win over Rhodes heading into its bye week while Rhodes of the SAA will take on independent Austin College (1-4). However, the game of the week is between undefeated Millsaps (4-0) playing host to No. 24 Huntingdon (4-1).
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