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The Spaulding High School football team is experiencing a significant challenge with the first day of practice looming on Aug. 8.
It's the kind of challenge a coach embraces.
Officially, 132 players have signed up for the 2012 season, more than quadruple the team's roster at the end of the 2009 season. Of that number, 57 are returning players from the team's 2011 D-II playoff team and 75 are brand new players, including 57 freshmen.
No, this isn't a misprint. The numbers are real.
The problem is that the program's numbers have increased so significantly that 60 new helmets need to be purchased. At $170 a whack, that's more than $10,000.
"It's a good problem to have," said Spaulding athletic director and football defensive coordinator Kevin Hebert. "Of course, you don't budget for something like that. The big thing is we're not turning kids away."
But the team needs more helmets. According to Hebert, the football team annually receives $4,000 to $5,000 from the school district to fund new equipment and to recondition existing equipment.
Hebert said helmets have a shelf life of 10 years, at which time they are sent to the football boneyard: no ifs, ands or buts. Some helmets had to be retired this year in addition to the spike in the numbers for new players.
Last year, Spaulding started the season with 70 players and ended with 82. The 2010 team ended the season with 50-plus players, and in 2009 the roster was reduced to a shade over 30 for the Thanksgiving Day game.
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"Kids are buying into what we're doing," said first-year head coach Claude Gagnon, who as the offensive coordinator in 2011 was the architect of the Red Raiders' effective multi-back scheme that was instrumental in the team's second-half turnaround. "Kids are talking. They like what we're doing."
Gagnon said the team will do an overnight camp in Moultonborough with four or five other teams, Aug. 17 to 20, a camp he and Hebert took kids to when they both were at Somersworth.
"It's good for bonding and team building," Gagnon said.
Gagnon just returned from UNH coach Sean McDonnell's Wildcat Football Camp. He said at least 15 Spaulding players participated in that camp.
"Kids are going to camps all over," he said.
Players are currently doing what Gagnon calls "old-school, blue-collar" workouts. They involve flipping 300-pound tires, swinging sledgehammers and doing push-ups.
Some of the younger kids aren't big enough to flip the tires, so they pull a double-team to get the job done.
"It's old-school team bonding," Gagnon said.
Which is why numbers are on the rise and expectations are running high.
In the four years previous to 2011, the Red Raiders went 3-40 overall and won just one Division II game. Last year, they started 0-4, won five straight D-II games to make the playoffs for the first time since 2006. They ended at 6-6 overall, including a 24-21 loss to Dover in the D-II playoffs on a last-second field goal. Spaulding beat Somersworth in the annual Thanksgiving game, 28-6.
The Red Raiders expect more of the same this year.
The lion's share of the fundraising for the extra helmets will fall on the football boosters club. It cannot hope to raise $10,000, so they have come up with a campaign to ask local businesses to buy one helmet each, said Tricia Kertanis of the Booster Club.
The purchased helmet will allow for each business to have an advertisement in the football program and the business listed at the home games on a special board.
"It's hard to know how many kids will stay," Hebert added. "And we may get more. But we're thrilled with the numbers."
Already, according to the booster club's David Ouellette, the boosters are seeing community support. Some families are pitching in to get a helmet, one neighborhood pooled resources to help with the purchase of a helmet, and Poor People's Pub in Sanbornville donated the funds for two helmets.
"The community has been extremely helpful," Gagnon added. "I'm impressed with that."
Spaulding has made just two playoff appearances in the past 17 years and hasn't won a playoff game since 1993 and a state title since 1990. But you can feel that the worm is turning.
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If you are interested in helping out the Spaulding football team by purchasing a helmet or making a donation, call David Ouellette at 603-833-0391 or 603-330-0314.
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HOUSTON – Toronto FC may have cornered the UK player market of late since the arrival of new manager Ryan Nelsen from the English Premier League. But it's the Houston Dynamo who are cashing in more than any other MLS team from British imports.
In the last two and a half years, the Dynamo have hit on several overseas transactions and their last two moves – for Englishman Giles Barnes and Scotsman Andrew Driver – have already resulted in MLS contributors.
"As a young British guy growing up, the buzz was about the Premier League and the Championship but I think it's kind of changing a little bit," Driver told MLSsoccer.com. "The impression everyone has now is that [MLS] is a good league. It's certainly not a step down for anyone anymore. Actually it's a step up. The standard has improved so much.
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"The realization of playing in the Championship kicked in and it wasn't something I wanted to continue," Barnes said. "I thought about going abroad as well, but I thought this was the place for me to come and so far I think I was right."
With Barnes interested in testing the overseas market last summer, the Dynamo were tipped to his availability by an agent/scout. The Dynamo immediately threw their hat in the ring and after a brief trial — which is a rarity for foreign prospects -- Barnes was in a Dynamo uniform in July.
"When it comes to Britain, obviously we've made some relationships over the years," Kinnear said. "You do rely on word of mouth, too. I know quite a few people over in Great Britain who can give a rundown of players and we've used those people before and maybe we'll use them again.
"So far we've had a little bit of luck with these two guys [Barnes and Driver]."
Driver and Barnes have been breakout players for Houston this year, showing off the skills and technique that attracted the Dynamo's attention. Between them they've scored seven goals and been a major part of a Dynamo team that's gotten off to its best start in franchise history at 6-4-2.
And similar to how MLS Designated Players like David Beckham, Thierry Henry and Robbie Keane put MLS on the map in the UK and opened players' eyes to the US top flight, Barnes and Driver could be trendsetters in their own way.
"To come over here is quite hard. I think you've got to realize you've got to be of a certain standard to come over here and you've got to play with some hunger," Barnes said. "My phone goes off on a regular basis with people wanting to come over asking can I help them or can I speak to someone. I tell them 'I can try to help you, but you've got to be wanted to come over.' That's something that a lot of people didn't realize."
Added Driver: "The standard [in MLS] has improved so much. You look at America and the country it is, there's no way it can't get big."
Darrell Lovell covers the Houston Dynamo for MLSsoccer.com.

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RALEIGH, N.C. and PITTSBURGH, December 4, 2013 – FLAG Therapeutics Inc. and Duquesne University today announced an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement for two novel classes of small molecule, water-soluble drugs designed to target and destroy cancer cells: anti-angiogenic/anti-tubulin (AA/AT) compounds and folate-targeted anti-cancer (FTAC) compounds. The agreement represents one of the largest licensing ventures in Duquesne's history and encompasses the career portfolio of renowned cancer researcher and Duquesne professor Dr. Aleem Gangjee. A vast library of compounds and an intellectual property portfolio protected by over 50 US and international patents and patent applications are included in the deal.
The AA/AT compounds included in the agreement are the first compounds ever to combine the dual-action of the two major classes of anti-cancer drugs into a single molecule. An emerging understanding of tumor vasculature highlights the importance of simultaneously attacking tumors with both drugs, but current treatment combination regimens often miss the window of opportunity due to different dosing schedules and pharmacokinetics. FLAG Therapeutics' dual acting AA/AT compounds deliver a simultaneous anti-angiogenic and anti-tubulin assault on the tumor. By attacking the tumor when it is most vulnerable, FLAG hopes to increase drug efficacy while decreasing the potency of the anti-tubulin activity for improved tolerability. In addition, FLAG's AA/AT compounds are designed to circumvent the two major mechanisms of drug resistance (P-glycoprotein (PGP) and β-III tubulin overexpression) that limit the utility of current therapies.
The second class of drugs, FTAC compounds, is designed to selectively bind to sites found almost exclusively on certain cancer cells and interrupt cell multiplication. Traditional anti-cancer drugs indiscriminately kill cells as they divide, the result being that while rapidly dividing cancer cells bear the brunt of the toxic activity, fast dividing normal cells (blood cells, mucosal linings and hair follicles) incur collateral damage. FLAG's FTAC compounds are engineered to specifically and selectively bind to targeted cancer cells to avoid harming healthy cells.
Frank Sorgi, Ph.D., president and chief executive officer of FLAG Therapeutics, stated, "I am pleased to partner with Duquesne University to further develop AA/AT and FTAC compounds. Dr. Gangjee is a highly respected researcher, and FLAG is honored to be in the position to advance his discoveries from the bench, into the clinic, and ultimately to individuals in need of new cancer therapeutic treatment options." Dr. Sorgi continued, "We already have identified lead clinical candidates, each supported with encouraging comparative in vivo data versus current therapies, and we look forward to rapidly advancing these compounds into clinical trials."
Dr. Alan Seadler, associate provost for research and technology at Duquesne, commented, "We feel this licensing agreement provides the best possible strategy to develop the discoveries of Dr. Gangjee and hopefully provide life-saving drugs to people battling cancer. We are particularly pleased to be working with FLAG Therapeutics to reach this goal."
About FLAG Therapeutics
FLAG Therapeutics Inc., headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, is an early-stage oncology company focused on the development of therapies based on two novel classes of small molecule, water-soluble drugs. In vivostudies suggest that both classes of compounds, anti-angiogenic/anti-tubulin (AA/AT) compounds and folate-targeted anti-cancer (FTAC) compounds, hold the potential to treat multiple cancer types with greater safety and efficacy than conventional therapies. FLAG Therapeutics has obtained exclusive worldwide rights to these compounds from Duquesne University. To learn more about FLAG Therapeutics, please visit www.flagtherapeutics.com. Information on FLAG Therapeutics' website is not incorporated by reference into this press release.
About Duquesne University
Founded in 1878, Duquesne is consistently ranked among the nation's top Catholic research universities for its award-winning faculty and tradition of academic excellence. Duquesne, a campus of more than 10,000 graduate and undergraduate students, has been nationally recognized for its academic programs, community service and commitment to sustainability. www.duq.edu.
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An evacuation order has been issued for residents of Kempsey on the NSW mid-north coast as the Macleay River rises to flood the central business district.
The order, and another for low-lying parts of Port Macquarie, comes as a low pressure system moves down the NSW coast bringing high winds, flooding and heavy rain.
The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) has predicted the Macleay River at Kempsey Bridge will peak near 7.3 metres at 6am (AEDT) on Sunday with further rises possible.
It said the levee at Kempsey would be overtopped at about 9pm on Saturday, causing inundation of the CBD.
The State Emergency Service (SES) issued a warning to CBD residents not to delay their evacuation as roads could be congested or closed.
"You could become trapped and need rescue. Remaining in flooded areas is dangerous and may place your life at risk."
The SES urged affected residents to go to friends or relatives or evacuation centres that would be set-up at Kempsey High School.
An evacuation order has also been issued for low-lying parts of the Port Macquarie CBD, Settlement Point and North Shore areas, Hibbard Drive, Fernbank/Oaks Creek and low lying parts of Westport.
The BoM predicted the Hastings River will peak at 1.9m at the Settlement Point gauge at 10pm on Saturday with further rises possible.


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Washington: Though setbacks may happen, real progress is taking place in Afghanistan, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in Brussels today.
In a news conference at NATO headquarters, Rasmussen discussed a recent trip to Afghanistan's Helmand province, once a Taliban stronghold, to visit International Security Assistance Force service members and meet with Afghan officials.
Rasmussen said he saw a significant shift from NATO control and operations to Afghan forces in charge of security.
"The Afghan army and police are in charge of three quarters of the province," he added. "They are already conducting nearly all the security operations. ISAF's role has already shifted to training, advising and assisting."
Rasmussen stressed that in places such as Helmand, Afghan forces "are doing the job."
Now, the challenge for NATO and partner nations shifts from doing the mission to sustaining the effort, he said. "That means providing the training they need in leadership," he told reporters. "That means specialized skills such as logistics, management and maintenance."
The ISAF mission ends at the end of 2014, and Rasmussen acknowledged that the mission will not be easy. "There will be hard fighting. There will be casualties, and there may be setbacks," he said. "But already Afghanistan's forces are stronger than they have been at any other moment in history. They will continue to grow stronger, more effective and more experienced. And we are determined to support them through 2014 and beyond."
Security is just one aspect of progress in the country, he noted. Local governments are taking hold in Helmand, the secretary general said, and elected district councils are investing funds in development.
"This is the Afghan people's chance to take control of their security and to take control of their destiny," he added. "I believe, and the Afghans with whom I spoke believe, that this is a chance which they must seize."
In the Afghan capital of Kabul, Rasmussen said, he met with young Afghans who are committed to a democratic and stable country.
"A new generation has emerged in Afghanistan," he said. "This young generation wants a new way of life, not a return to the dark days of the past. The Afghan people have tasted freedom and seen what progress can bring. In the future, the enemies of Afghanistan must not only fight a strong Afghan army, they will also have to fight the aspirations of the Afghan people toward freedom, peace and prosperity."


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It began with an earthquake. What hit San Francisco in 1906 was one of the worst natural disasters in American history. Once the water mains broke, there was no way to fight the dozens of fires caused by ruptured gas mains, except by dynamiting buildings in the fire's path, which made things worse. The fires lasted for days. More than three thousand people died, including the city's fire chief, who fell two stories after the dome of the California Hotel crashed into the fire station. Most of the city was destroyed. Economic aftershocks were felt as far away as London. Twelve insurance companies went bankrupt, and, after a gold shortage and a doomed scheme to corner the copper market, the Knickerbocker, the second-largest trust in New York, failed, setting off the Panic of 1907. The New York Stock Exchange nearly collapsed. So did the United States Treasury.
The Panic of 1907 contributed to the passage of the Sixteenth Amendment, in 1913, which granted Congress the right to levy an income tax, and to the establishment of a central banking system, the Federal Reserve. Both the Sixteenth Amendment and the Federal Reserve will be a hundred years old in 2013. Hoopla is not anticipated. Not especially controversial a century ago, the tax and the bank lie at the core of a now popular account of American history in which 1913 was the real disaster, the original "fiscal cliff." This year, the Republican Party platform included a call for the Federal Reserve to be audited—stopping short of Ron Paul's promise to "end the Fed"—and a provision for the Sixteenth Amendment to be repealed.
It's possible to think of the election of 2012 as a referendum on the role of government in the economy, and many people do, except that it's difficult to have a referendum about the future when there's so much disagreement about the past. This month, the federal government is trying to prevent a disaster of its own making: on January 1, 2013, unless Congress can agree to a plan that the President is willing to sign, the budget will run on austerity autopilot—across the board, taxes will increase and spending will be cut, by seven hundred billion dollars—which, worst case, could trigger a global economic crisis. One reason the situation has come to this is that politicians don't like to talk about taxes, except to use them the way a matador uses a red cape. Those interested in getting voters to seethe will find no means easier. Read their lips.
Taxes dominate domestic politics. They didn't always. Since the nineteen-seventies, almost all of that talk has been about cuts, which ought to be surprising, because more than ninety per cent of Americans receive social or economic security benefits from the federal government. Americans, though, find it easier to see what they pay than what they get—not because they aren't paying attention but because the case for taxation is so seldom made.
Damning taxes is a piece of cake. It's defending them that's hard. "Taxes are what we pay for civilized society," Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., said, nearly a century ago. (His words are engraved on the front of the I.R.S. Building in Washington.) No one's said it better since. And that, right there, is the problem.
Taxes, which date to the beginning of recorded history, are payments made to a ruler in exchange for military protection, public services, and civil order. In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing trade made medieval monarchs rich and funded the early-modern state. Then a series of political revolutions began that led to monarchs ceding the power to tax to legislatures.
One of those revolutions lies behind American independence. Early Americans, though, didn't only deny the king's right to tax; they questioned the legislature's. When American colonists challenged Parliament's right to tax them, Edmund Burke predicted chaos, "a perpetual quarrel." Meanwhile, another kind of debate had begun. "The expenses of government, having for their object the interests of all, should be borne by every one," the French minister Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot remarked, "and the more a man enjoys the advantages of society, the more he ought to hold himself honoured in contributing to these expenses." Adam Smith expressed much the same view in "The Wealth of Nations," in 1776: "The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities."
In the United States, there existed a kind of property decried in England and France: a property in people. Both liberals like Turgot and conservatives like Samuel Johnson observed that Americans' ideas about taxation had everything to do with their attachment to slavery. In "Taxation No Tyranny," Johnson argued that the right to tax had been "considered, by all mankind, as comprising the primary and essential condition of all political society, till it became disputed by those zealots of anarchy, who have denied, to the parliament of Britain the right of taxing the American colonies"—zealots who happened to be "drivers of negroes."
The Constitution grants Congress the power "to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defence and general welfare," except not "direct taxes," unless levied in proportion to population, as assessments on states. The Constitutional Convention nearly fell apart over this. For purposes of representation, Southerners wanted their slaves counted as people. Northerners objected. By way of compromise, Pennsylvania's Gouverneur Morris moved that "taxation shall be in proportion to Representation": the South could have its slaves counted in exchange for an increased tax burden. After Southerners balked, Morris proposed "restraining the rule to direct taxation." When the Massachusetts delegate Rufus King "asked what was the precise meaning of direct taxation? No one answd."
No one answered Rufus King because, on this point, there was little agreement. The term was, and remains, disputed: one kind of direct tax is a head tax, another is a tax on certain kinds of wealth; an indirect tax extracts payments for exchanges made in a market. A real-estate tax is direct, a sales tax indirect.
In the early republic, Congress briefly experimented with taxes on carriages and whiskey, but, before the Civil War, raised revenue almost exclusively through tariffs—duties on imports. "We are all the more reconciled to the tax on importations," Jefferson explained, "because it falls exclusively on the rich." But the tariff was uncontroversial, the historian Robin Einhorn has argued, because it skirted the question of human bondage: the American antitax tradition, she insists, has its roots not in democracy but in slavery.
By the eighteen-sixties, most states taxed property. The Union, faced with paying for the war against the Confederacy, borrowed from banks and, when money ran short, printed the first federal paper currency since the Revolution, the greenback. When the House Ways and Means Committee considered levying a tax on land, Schuyler Colfax, a Republican from Indiana, objected: "I cannot go home and tell my constituents that I voted for a bill that would allow a man, a millionaire, who has put his entire property into stock, to be exempt from taxation, while a farmer who lives by his side must pay a tax."
There was another option. The British had funded the Crimean War by taxing income. Unlike a tax on real estate, an income tax was not obviously a direct tax. Income also included earnings from stocks; it didn't exempt millionaires. In 1862, Lincoln signed a law establishing a Bureau of Internal Revenue, charged with administering a graduated tax that taxed incomes of more than six hundred dollars at three per cent—at the time, the average income was about three hundred dollars—and incomes of more than ten thousand dollars at five per cent. The Confederacy, reluctant to press the issue, was never able to raise enough money to pay for the war, which may be one reason the rebellion proved to be a lost cause.
After the war, the federal income tax was allowed to expire, over the protests of John Sherman, a Republican from Ohio who went on to craft the Sherman Antitrust Act and who, countering Jefferson, pointed out that tariffs unfairly burdened the poor. "We tax the tea, the coffee, the sugar, the spices the poor man uses," Sherman said. "Everything that he consumes we call a luxury and tax it; yet we are afraid to touch the income of Mr. Astor. Is there any justice in that? Is there any propriety in it? Why, sir, the income tax is the only one that tends to equalize these burdens between rich and poor."
In the eighteen-eighties, Democrats opposed high tariffs, Republicans favored them, and Populists advocated an income tax instead, believing that it was essential to the survival of a democracy undermined by economic inequality. In the aftermath of the Panic of 1893, the Populists prevailed. By then, income taxes had become commonplace in Europe. Responding to the suggestion that, if Congress passed an income tax, rich Americans would flee to Europe, William Jennings Bryan asked where they would possibly go. "In London, they will find a tax of more than 2 per cent assessed on income. If they seek refuge in Prussia, they will find an income tax of 4 per cent." In 1894, a two-per-cent federal income tax passed that applied only to Americans who earned more than four thousand dollars. But the Populist victory didn't last long. The next year, in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Company, the Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, that the tax was a direct tax, and unconstitutional. Justice John Harlan, dissenting a year before his more famous dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, said that the ruling had turned provisions "originally designed to protect the slave property" into "privileges and immunities never contemplated by the founders." It was, he said, a "disaster."
Pollock caused an uproar. In 1896, the Democratic Party platform for the first time endorsed an income tax, "so that the burdens of taxations may be equally and impartially laid, to the end that wealth may bear its due proportion of the expenses of the Government." Between 1897 and 1906, constitutional amendments to defeat Pollock were introduced in Congress twenty-seven times.
In 1906, the day the earthquake hit and the fires began, people raced to the San Francisco Bay and boarded ferries to escape the flames. A handful of men rushed to the banks, but before long all that was left of the city's deposit and lending institutions, aside from rubble and ashes, were their fireproof steel vaults: red hot, smoking, and locked.
During the recession that followed the panic that followed the earthquake, the number of people applying for poor relief in New York tripled; in Philadelphia, it increased nearly fivefold. A purpose of a federal reserve was to allow the government to halt a panic by shoring up faltering banks. A purpose of a federal income tax was to undergird the Treasury with a stable source of revenue. But it had another purpose, too. The richest one per cent of households, which had held about a quarter of the nation's wealth in 1890, now held more than a third. The tax was intended to answer populist rage at the growing divide between the rich and the poor. In the election of 1908, both parties favored an income tax—Democrats hoping to close that gap, Republicans hoping to quiet that rage.
Republicans won. The new President, William Howard Taft, who had been a federal judge (and who went on to serve as Chief Justice), wanted to avoid signing a law that would end up going back to the Supreme Court. "Nothing has ever injured the prestige of the Supreme Court more than that last decision," he said, referring to Pollock. He decided to support a constitutional amendment. It went to the states for ratification in 1909.
Constitutional amendments are notoriously difficult to ratify. The Sixteenth Amendment was not. Once it got out of Congress, it passed, handily, in forty-two of forty-eight states, six more than required, and took effect on February 25, 1913. The House voted on an income-tax bill in May; Woodrow Wilson signed it in October. Its highest rate was seven per cent. The next year, the Bureau of Internal Revenue printed its first 1040. The form was three pages, the instructions just one.
Taxes have got a lot hairier since. The Revenue Act of 1916, anticipating the United States' entry into the war in Europe, raised taxes on incomes, doubled a tax on corporate earnings, eliminated an exemption for dividend income, and introduced an estate tax and a tax on excess profits. Rates on the wealthiest Americans began to skyrocket, from seven per cent to seventy-seven, but most people paid no tax at all. By 1918, as W. Elliot Brownlee writes in "Federal Taxation in America: A Short History," "only about 15 per cent of American families had to pay personal income taxes, and the tax payments of the wealthiest 1 per cent of American families accounted for about 80 per cent of the revenues."
Business interests fought back. Wilson's tax policies were one reason that his party lost Congress in 1918, and the Presidency in 1920. In 1921, Wilson's successor appointed Andrew W. Mellon, the industrialist and philanthropist, as his Secretary of the Treasury. Mellon held the office under three Republican Presidents: Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover. The American Bankers League renamed itself the American Taxpayers League, and began sponsoring, providing literature to, and paying the expenses of state "tax clubs," whose members then testified before Congress, urging tax cuts. During Mellon's tenure, and at his recommendation, the excess-profits tax was abolished, the estate tax was cut, capital gains were exempted from income, and the top tax rate was capped at twenty-five per cent. In 1924, Mellon published a manifesto, "Taxation: The People's Business," in which he argued that high taxes kill "the spirit of business adventure." Cutting taxes, Mellon insisted, would lower the cost of housing, reduce prices, raise the standard of living, create jobs, and "advance general prosperity."
Whether Mellon's tax policy was responsible for the Roaring Twenties or for the stock-market crash in 1929, or for neither, or both, is an argument whose implications Americans are still living with. It's worth noting that the terms of this debate were set by a man of staggering wealth: in 1924, the only Americans who paid more in taxes than Mellon were John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Henry Ford, and Edsel Ford. In 1929, a Senate investigation found that members of the Mellon family had helped bankroll the American Taxpayers League.
The depression that followed called for a new deal. The top tax rate climbed to seventy-nine per cent. But, as the historian Molly C. Michelmore argues in a timely, shrewd, and important book, "Tax and Spend: The Welfare State, Tax Politics, and the Limits of American Liberalism," the liberal policymakers who created the welfare state in the nineteen-thirties were squeamish about taxes, an aversion most manifest in the decision to fund the Social Security Act of 1935 with an indirect tax, on payroll. This allowed them to distinguish between old-age and unemployment programs (cast as insurance, paid for by payroll taxes acting as premiums) and poverty programs, such as Aid to Dependent Children (cast as welfare). "Defended, sold, and understood more like private insurance than public welfare," Michelmore writes, old-age and unemployment assistance programs "have not only escaped the hostility heaped on other forms of public provision, but have often fallen outside the public's understanding of welfare altogether."
The American Taxpayers League, renamed the American Taxpayers Association, began lobbying for the repeal of the Sixteenth Amendment, charging it with conducting "the largest transfer of private property to government in the history of the world." A proposal to replace it with an income-tax rate cap of twenty-five per cent—the rate that Mellon had established—was drafted by Robert B. Dresser, a lawyer from Rhode Island who served on the boards of both the American Taxpayers Association and the Committee for Constitutional Government, a group of businessmen led by the conservative newspaper publisher Frank Gannett and formed, in 1937, to oppose Roosevelt's Court-packing plan. The cap, introduced in Congress in 1938, died in committee, after which the two organizations began lobbying in the states, decrying taxes, and calling for a second constitutional convention. They kept at it for twenty years.
It was during this campaign that the business lobby succeeded in redefining American citizens as "taxpayers," a practice that politicians have followed ever since, as if the defining act of citizenship were not casting a ballot but filing a return. F.D.R. and his Administration offered little objection. The Revenue Act of 1942, which included a steeply progressive income tax, broadened the tax base: before long, eighty-five per cent of American families were filing a return. Tax hikes were sold to the public as emergency measures, "taxes to beat the Axis." New Dealers abandoned "taxation as an instrument to mobilize class interests," Brownlee argues, and the wartime tax regime survived into peacetime.
Meanwhile, the campaign to repeal the Sixteenth Amendment grew. "Our present tax system is doing much to destroy the free enterprise system," a Times business page contributor wrote in 1943, endorsing Dresser's amendment and arguing that American taxpayers "should be given reasonable assurance now that their incomes and inheritances will not be confiscated in a process of converting our private enterprise system into some form of State socialism."
By 1944, the Committee for Constitutional Government having distributed eighty-two million pieces of antitax literature, half of the states required to call for a constitutional convention had voted in favor of Dresser's amendment. That year, an investigation directed by the Treasury Secretary reported that the measure, if adopted, would not only shift the burden of taxation from the wealthiest taxpayers to the poorest (only the top one per cent of taxpayers would have seen their taxes cut, which is why its critics called it the Millionaires' Amendment) but also hinder the war effort. (This objection was eventually met by a revision, providing for a wartime suspension of the cap.) In 1949, only one lobbying group in the country spent more than the Committee for Constitutional Government. Wright Patman, a congressional Democrat from Texas, called it "the most sinister lobby in America."
The campaign for repeal was remade to fit the Cold War. In 1948, supporting Dresser's amendment, Bertrand Gearhart, a congressional Republican from California, said on the House floor that Karl Marx was "the real father, the first real proponent of the income tax as we now know it" and that the Sixteenth Amendment was "un-American." But by the early nineteen-fifties the campaign had begun to fall apart. A founding member of the Committee for Constitutional Government, unhappy with revisions to Dresser's amendment, formed a rival body, the Organization to Repeal Federal Income Taxes, which lobbied for tax abolition. In 1953, Dresser, too, flinched. While certain that opposition to the amendment "can be explained only by an adherence to the taxation philosophy of Karl Marx," he had begun to doubt the wisdom of holding a constitutional convention: "It might rewrite the entire Constitution of the United States of America."
Backing off the proposed constitutional convention had to do, in part, with conservatives' hopes for Eisenhower, whose 1952 campaign had included a promise to repeal New Deal taxes that, he said, were "approaching the point of confiscation." (Eisenhower's Cabinet included the former president of General Motors. With Eisenhower's pro-business Administration, Adlai Stevenson said, New Dealers made way for car dealers.) But, when Eisenhower tackled the budget, the highest tax rate dropped by a single percentage point: from ninety-two to ninety-one.
By 1957, nearly twenty years into the campaign, thirty-one states had approved Dresser's amendment. In 1961, the House's Joint Economic Committee, reporting on what the amendment would mean for the federal budget, predicted that it would cost $13.1 billion annually. In the end, as the sociologist Isaac Martin pointed out in a recent study, "The campaign fell just two states shy of the quorum needed," but not before having "pioneered much of the antitax rhetoric that would come to dominate American politics at the dawn of the 21st century."
Dresser, a prominent member of the John Birch Society, became a supporter of Ronald Reagan's early political career, a backer of The National Review, and a director of the anti-Semitic National Economic Council, Inc. (In 1961, the council's newsletter, denying the Holocaust, said, "Is it not likely that many of these 6,000,000 claimed to have been killed by Hitler and Eichmann are right here in the United States and are now joining in the agitation for more and more support for the state of Israel.") In 1964, Dresser was listed among the nation's most important contributors to right-wing organizations. He died in 1976. His obituary in the Times read, "He believed the Federal Government was destroying the private enterprise system through taxation." He spent a great deal of money trying to convince the rest of the country that he was right.
Americans today spend, on average, twenty-seven hours a year preparing their returns. Most American families are required to file, even if not everyone owes. During Presidential-election years, only about six in ten Americans vote. Fewer than one in a hundred Americans has served in the military in the last decade. Given Americans' remarkably attenuated relationship with the nation-state, taxes loom large. Sometimes it takes a natural disaster, like an earthquake, or a hurricane—maybe especially one that happens the week before a Presidential election—to remind people what their taxes pay for.
In the past century, opponents of an income tax have called it inquisitorial, confiscatory, meddlesome, socialist, and Marxist. Some people think it's been a sop. John Kenneth Galbraith called the income tax "the great buttress of income inequality." It gives the appearance of a remedy to income inequality without actually doing much about it. "The rich man no longer has the embarrassing task of justifying his higher income," Galbraith wrote. "He need only point to the tax he has to pay." No "single device has done so much to secure the future of capitalism as this tax," he thought. "Conservatives should build a statue to it."
That hasn't quite come to pass. And liberals haven't built that statue, either. Historically, liberals have championed tax cuts almost as ardently as conservatives. The Kennedy-Johnson tax cut of 1964 was sold as part of a policy package that would turn the poor "from tax eaters to taxpayers." Michelmore argues that sixties liberals, by making this distinction—calling recipients of some kinds of federal assistance (Medicare, veterans' benefits, farm subsidies) taxpayers, and the recipients of other kinds of social programs (Aid to Families with Dependent Children and Medicaid) tax eaters—essentially doomed liberalism. The architects of the War on Poverty, like the New Dealers before them, never defended a broad-based progressive income tax as a public good, in everyone's interest. Nor did they refer to Social Security, health care, and unemployment insurance as "welfare." Johnson's Council of Economic Advisors told him that, when explaining how the government might fight poverty, he ought to "avoid completely the use of the term 'inequality' or the term 'redistribution.' " The poor were to be referred to as "targets of opportunity."
In the next decade, the economy worsened while tax exemptions, preferences, credits, and loopholes proliferated, drawing calls for reform and relief. Campaigning in 1976, Jimmy Carter called the tax code "a disgrace to the human race." Michelmore believes that liberals' failure to defend their tax policy explains the resurgence of conservatism in the nineteen-seventies, and especially Republicans' success at wooing white working-class voters. "By promising tax cuts, and blaming welfare for rising tax burdens," she argues, "the right was able to build a popular, if unstable, electoral majority, and more importantly to shift the terms of the debate for the rest of the twentieth century." Tax policy is often taken to explain more than it does.
Americans began to revolt against taxes in earnest in 1978, when Californians passed Proposition 13. Reagan made tax cuts a centerpiece of his campaign for President in 1980. His Administration, arguing that programs like A.F.D.C. and Medicaid promoted dependency and immorality, made huge cuts in these programs (more than a million poor people lost food-stamp benefits) but called programs like Social Security and Medicare a "safety net," and treated them as off limits. During the Reagan Revolution, the top income-tax rate, which had been above ninety per cent in the nineteen-forties and fifties, fell from seventy per cent to twenty-eight per cent. When Reagan took office, the national debt was nine hundred and thirty billion dollars; when he left, it was $2.6 trillion.
What the top tax rate ought to be in 2013 was very much at stake in this year's Presidential and congressional elections. The President supports allowing tax cuts made during George W. Bush's Administration to expire on December 31st. If that happens, the top income tax rate, now thirty-five per cent, will return to 39.6 per cent, which is where it was during most of the Clinton Administration, and the top capital-gains tax—which in the nineteen-fifties and sixties was twenty-five per cent, rose to thirty-five per cent in the seventies, and is now fifteen per cent—will rise to twenty per cent. Mitt Romney campaigned on the promise of cutting the top rate to twenty-eight per cent and leaving the capital-gains tax at fifteen per cent. Paul Ryan's proposed federal budget, held in high regard by congressional Republicans, caps the income tax rate at twenty-five per cent: Mellon redux.
In September, to help prepare members of Congress for the coming debate, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service issued a report on the relationship between the top tax rate and the economy. The report was written by the economist Thomas Hungerford. He investigated two theories: that cutting taxes on the wealthy boosts the economy and that cutting taxes on the wealthy makes the rich richer and the poor poorer. (Income disparity, which fell in the decades after the New Deal, has been increasing since 1977. The richest one per cent of households now hold more than a third of the nation's wealth, which was about where things stood in 1913.) After analyzing top tax rates and income disparity against a series of economic measures—rates of savings, investment, productivity, and G.D.P. growth—Hungerford concluded that "changes over the past 65 years in the top marginal tax rate and the top capital gains tax rate do not appear correlated with economic growth" but do "appear to be associated with the increasing concentration of income at the top of the income distribution." If Hungerford is right, Mellon was wrong.
The Congressional Research Service, a division of the Library of Congress, produces more than seven hundred reports a year. After September's report on taxes and the economy, Senate Republicans, led by Mitch McConnell, prepared a list of complaints about Hungerford's methods, conclusions, and language (finding, for instance, the phrase "tax cuts for the rich" to be objectionable). On September 28th, in a move that appears to be without precedent, the Congressional Research Service acted against the advice of its economics division and withdrew the report.
The Congressional Research Service was established in 1914. It is a product of progressive reform. Like the Federal Reserve and the Sixteenth Amendment, its centennial is coming up soon. Calls for its abolition can't be far behind.
The fiscal cliff is an imaginary disaster; it exists only so long as members of Congress and the President are unable to resolve their differences. In 2011, both parties agreed that the best resolution was no resolution at all. That's what made the 2012 election not so much a referendum as a free-for-all, in which the politics of the American Taxpayers Association were resurrected, in the form of Ron Paul's tax abolitionism ("We should have the lowest tax that we've ever had, and up until 1913 it was 0 per cent"), Rick Perry's twenty-per-cent flat tax, Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan, Grover Norquist's tax pledge, and calls to repeal the Sixteenth Amendment. But this election was haunted, too, by a political decision made by liberals, long ago, to divide the nation into taxpayers and tax eaters—the eaters are Mitt Romney's forty-seven per cent—and, above all, by the absence of any real political tradition of defending the income tax.
Immediately after the election, everyone got talking about taxes. "Raising tax rates will slow down our ability to create the jobs that everyone says they want," the House Speaker, John Boehner, warned. Republicans propose raising revenues by closing loopholes and eliminating deductions, which is appealing for some of the same reasons a flat tax is appealing: it has the virtue of simplicity. Whether it has the merit of fairness, or the teeth to bite the deficit, is doubtful. Whatever deal is struck, the President said that it must include "asking the wealthiest Americans to pay a little more in taxes." But days later, without having retreated from his pledge to let the Bush-era tax cuts expire, he refashioned his remarks to describe the deal he hoped to close before the holiday season as one in which "every American, including the wealthiest Americans, get a tax cut" (that is, on their first two hundred and fifty thousand dollars of income). This might be the path to compromise, but it's hardly a defense of progressive taxation.
How much can Boehner's side budge? Of two hundred and forty Republican members of the House and forty-seven Republican senators, all but thirteen have signed Norquist's pledge, swearing to oppose any income-tax increase. How much can Democrats gain? That depends, in some measure, on how well they can explain what they'd like to do to the tax code, and why. They might be able to do that better if they'd stop talking about citizens as taxpayers, about taxes as investments, about politics as business, about government as a market, and about taxes as though the only thing that can possibly be said is "cut."
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine. During an emergency, like an earthquake or a hurricane, taxes pay for rescue workers, shelters, and services. For people whose lives are devastated by other kinds of disaster, like the disaster of poverty, taxes pay, even, for food.
What's surprising, given how much money and passion have been spent to defeat a broad-based, progressive income tax over the past century, and how poorly it has been defended, is that it has endured—testimony, perhaps, to Americans' abiding sense of fairness. Taxes are a pact. That pact needs renewing. ♦


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I do everything. If I don't know how, I learn. Ask me anything. I have no TMI filter and a sense of humour about everything in the universe.
If you have a research project, or would like to discuss my research, please feel free to contact me. Always up for a chat. =)
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -Robert A. Heinlein
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Marius.ehrlinger necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 76 diseños de 30 diseñadores freelance.
We are a company that provides different services for lawyers. For example, we have a web search directory for lawyers: http://www.daz-anwalt.de.
We are based in Berlin, Germany. We are growing fast and we are a young team.
We want to to find a good designer to work on many ongoing projects.
Our newest product is an application for smartphones that allows lawyers to advertise and promote themselves. Again, this is like a search directory for lawyers on smartphones. Also, we offer to build individual applikations for law companys. The graphics and designs for these two new services are not completed.
After this logo design contest, we will start to design icons on the new website, create print portfolios and optimize the look of the website. Designing for us will have it´s future benefits.
Our target audience is easy to understand. It´s simply all the lawyers. Unlike most people think, lawyers are often very nice and communicate much.
Of course, this target group has a serious touch, which should also be seen in the logo design. On the other hand, we are entering the smartphone market. We are selling our app services to lawyers. So of course, we need a modern and smart style.
The Logo name is:
LawConnect - einfach Mandate generieren.
The three words after the dash are written underneath the brand name LawConnect. It´s like Nike´s "just do it". The three words mean "finding more clients".
The wording "einfach mandate generieren" should be shown underneath the Logo. It should be much smaller than the Word LawConnect.
The logo should include a dynamic graphical idea that gives LawConnect a new look and face.
There is a website preview: http://www.daz-anwalt.de/apps
The website and the logo will have to harmonize. As you can see, the style is relatively plain, much like the apple design. But the icons and more are yet missing, so there will be more individual style. Therefore, the logo doesn´t have to be too serious and plain. Everything is possible.
It should be a fresh style. The background of the website can also be white later, so the grey should not be a problem when it comes to the colours of the logo.
We want the designers to be free. Detailed wishes make that impossible. If we would describe in three words what our logo should reflect, this will be: fresh - innovative - professional
The design of the logo should be suitable for print, web and mobile.
We are excited to start our graphical journey with this logo design and look forward to see a good design!
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Through the stretch run of the Pioneer Athletic Conference's 2012-13 regular season, there was ample opportunity for playoff hopefuls to control their own destiny.
That was particularly true of those schools in the Frontier Division, where a foursome with hopes for reaching the league's Final Four playoffs went head-to-head in all, or most of, their remaining games. And it was particularly in evidence Saturday afternoon, when Pope John Paul II and Pottstown met at Pottstown High's Strom Gymnasium to continue their individual charges toward again reaching the circuit's postseason.
In this instance, it was the Golden Panthers who maintained their modest three-year qualification process. With their 59-40 victory over the Trojans, they secured one of the two Frontier berths while bumping Pottstown from the other.
Taking care of business. 'That's what we did,' PJP head coach Jack Flanagan said afterward. 'I said to the kids before the Upper Perk game (Tuesday), we have to go 1-and-0 three times. We did it Tuesday, and we did it again today.'
Starting fast was key to the Panthers prevailing in this game. They came out after the opening tip-off to score the first six points, then the first five of the second quarter, and again the first five of the third. While Pottstown made several runs at them in the early going, in an attempt to erase a game-long deficit, the visitors built a 54-40 lead by the midway point in the fourth, adding five more the rest of the way along with keeping the Trojans scoreless in that span.
'I've said before, a lot starts at the defensive end,' Flanagan said. 'Not just rebounding, but forcing them to take shots they don't want to take.
'I was happy with our effort all four quarters. We knew what we have to do.'
PJP got its usual offensive support from seniors Jamel Stinson and Brent Mahoney - Stinson with a game-high 16 points, and Mahoney with 11. It also got a bonus from Michael Cianciulli, who responded to the starting nod he received by contributing another 11 points.
'We wanted to go with a different look,' Flanagan said of the decision to start Cianciulli in place of Tim Tadros, who had five points off the bench. 'We still need Tadros to make a contribution for us in the postseason.'
Standing between the Panthers and a third straight Frontier title is Phoenixville, the division's other Final Four qualifier by virtue of Saturday's win over Pottsgrove. Both came out of Saturday's action with matching 8-4 records, and Monday's matchup was rescheduled from its original Jan. 25 date by inclement weather.
THE 'FINAL' WORD The lineup for the Pioneer Athletic Conference's Final Four playoffs was established once Saturday's slate of regular-season games was completed.
The pairings? Well, that is still a work in progress.
The field of hopefuls was narrowed down to the four qualifiers who will meet Friday to decide the league's overall champion. Still to be determined, however, is which teams will play each other in the opening round at Spring-Ford.
The Liberty Division representatives will be Methacton and Perkiomen Valley, who secured the respective first and second seed from their bracket. The Warriors (12-0, 18-3) became the league's first playoff clincher, and the Vikings (9-4, 15-7) bypassed Spring-Ford down the stretch with help from a 13-1 run that featured an 11-game win streak.
As for the Frontier Division, its representatives will be Pope John Paul II and Phoenixville. But their seedings won't be decided until tonight's aforementioned matchup.
Methacton, in the meantime, has one more PAC-10 regular-season game Tuesday against Owen J. Roberts standing between it and a perfect mark in the league.
The first-night twinbill will have PV go against the Frontier champion at 6 p.m. Following will be Methacton and the Frontier runner-up at approximately 7:45 p.m.
The championship game will also be staged at Spring-Ford Tuesday, with a 7 p.m. start.
NOBLE EFFORT Pottstown missed out on a return visit to the PAC-10's Final Four playoffs and a winning regular-season record ... both by virtue of a loss to Pope John Paul II Saturday.
But it wasn't for lack of effort by the Trojans, who staged one of the more notable recoveries among area teams this winter season.
With one month of games in the books, the Trojans were saddled with a 3-9 record in their inaugural campaign under new head coach Cal Benfield. That included a 2-4 mark in the league, putting them near the outer edge of a Frontier Division dominated at the time by unbeaten (6-0) Pope John Paul II.
Then the comeback kicked into gear. Pottstown ran off a string of victories against league opponents Spring-Ford, Boyertown, Owen J. Roberts and Upper Perkiomen, followed by a pair of non-leaguers over Berks Conference entries Wyomissing and Muhlenberg.
That quickly, the Trojans were back at the .500 mark for the first time since the pre-winter holiday break. They were also in the mix with PJP and Phoenixville for the Frontier lead, up to the moment they were eliminated Saturday.
And it came about through the efforts of several players rising to the occasion down the stretch.
Denzel Harvey, who had only one double-figure points outing through the first dozen games, rang up nine the rest of the way. Harvey reached a season-high this past week in an overtime victory against Pottsgrove, collecting 32.
Bryant Quill chipped in with a 7.3 points-per-game average, and Tyler Hunsberger added a 5.9. Those efforts helped sustain the team at a crucial time in its season.
LONG TIME COMING Some historical perspective on the magnitude of Daniel Boone's victory over Reading High Friday:
A check of The Mercury's game results dating back to the 1991-92 season found no evidence of the Blazers EVER beating the Red Knights in that span. Suffice it to say, it didn't happen in the lifetimes of any of the current crop of Daniel Boone players ... or even those of players for the previous three years.
In that time frame, Boone had several seasons when it sustained multiple losses at Reading's hands. One in particular was the stellar 2009-10 team that went 21-8 on the year ... with three of those losses dealt them by the Red Knights.


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dailygrind wrote:NYC Law wrote:I used a mini z table and 6.8 wasn't included. 6.8 has been added, so try it now.
Oh, I think I see how you're doing it. Did you use normsinv? The formula's straightforward:
=(data point gpa - mean gpa)/normsinv(1-(data point rank/100)
I just ended up using NORMDIST to get the final rank, I figured thats what you were talking about since I was missing that last step. But I see what you mean, it's pretty rudimentary atm. The thing about those google docs is they ensure chaos since everything everyone does is updated real time for everyone else, but its the only thing I've found for making public spreadseets. I'll use that norminv formula though, give me a sec


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MeritBadgeDotOrg talk:WikiProject Userboxes
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| Please familiarize yourself with Help:Talk pages before posting on discussion (a.k.a. talk) pages.
— Use headings, indentations; and please, always sign (~~~~) your posts. (See Help:Talk pages for details.)
— Ask your Scouting/advancement-related questions on our forums... several Scouters will be happy to help you.
|This article is part of MeritBadgeDotOrg:WikiProject Userboxes,
a collaborative effort to better organize information in all Userboxes. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
To Do
Implementing Template:Userbox on existing Userboxes
- All current (public) userboxes have been migrated to the {{Userbox}} template except those with the two-letter on the left-hand side (just need another template, if it is worth it). Scouterdennis
New Userboxes to be created
- Adult position userboxes (Boy Scouting, Venturing, Varsity, etc.)
- Others?
Scouterdennis 11:39, March 27, 2008 (EDT)
|The text below was moved from MeritBadgeDotOrg_talk:Userboxes when MeritBadgeDotOrg:Userboxes was merged with MeritBadgeDotOrg:WikiProject_Userboxes.
Userbox Order
I suggest changing the userbox list to be in a logical order (ex. sort ranks in order). Comments? --Yakatz 08:44, June 18, 2007 (EDT)
- The software sorts all categoried items alphabetically. However, you can sub-catagorize items. --RWSmith 15:13, July 20, 2007 (EDT)
Suggested change to naming convention of Userboxes
I recommend we change all Userboxes from "User <Userbox name>" to simply, "<Userbox name>". Example:
From: MeritbadgeDotOrg:Userboxes/User District Award of Merit
To: MeritbadgeDotOrg:Userboxes/District Award of Merit
Reasoning: If we categorize Userboxes correctly, which we do, then they all end up under "U". If we make the above suggested change, we can have hundreds of Userboxes which will be much easier to find when browsing the category Category:Userboxes. As it currently stands, it's pretty tough to wade through the few dozen we already have.
All Userboxes will be required to be placed in one of the two following places:
For all users: MeritbadgeDotOrg:Userboxes/<PAGENAME>
Personal ones: User:<USERNAME>/Userboxes/<PAGENAME>
I realize a few things, already... this change will:
- clearly involve some work, i.e., tracking down "what links here" for each UBX already in use; and
- have some affect on the results when using the Search feature; but, I don't think it will be a negative impact;
As such, I believe that this little project will be worth the effort. What say you all? Any ideas?—RWSmith (Bureaucrat), 14:54, March 29, 2008 (EDT)
- Sounds like a logical idea, albeit a lot of work.
- I have a question: why are some userboxes under the MeritbadgeDotOrg namespace? Maybe I don't understand namespaces enough, but when I look at similar stuff on Wikipedia, they are all under the Template namespace.
- I created a {{Userbox}} template that streamlines the creation and standardization and have converted (reproduced) a lot of them using it. I did all this in the Template namespace, so the originals still exist under the MeritbadgeDotOrg namespace. I would think that the ones in the MeritbadgeDotOrg namespace should all be removed.
- Am I wrong in this thinking? Scouterdennis 19:36, March 29, 2008 (EDT)
Vigil, Powder Horn, Wood Badge
How about a Vigil Honor, Powder Horn and Wood Badge Userbox??? --Wagionvigil
- Functioning "Template:User Vigil" (Userbox) done. --RWSmith 11:06, July 15, 2007 (EDT)
OA Lodge
I would do this myself, but I have no idea how... Something like: This user is an Ordeal member in the order of the arrow in {{Lodge}} --Unionhawk 21:07, November 19, 2007 (EST)
Workpage -vs- Project
Hmmm, I just stumbled across this page...never had even heard about Workpages before, even as a long-tine Wikipedian. Anyway, I recently created MeritBadgeDotOrg:WikiProject Userboxes, but now it seems to duplicate the existence of this page. Which method should we use? (Wikipedia uses Projects) Scouterdennis 07:46, March 10, 2008 (EDT)
- Well, I was just trying to figure out a way to say, "This is a draft page that the admins (and regulars) are trying to develop for the wiki... that's not Scouting-, but MediaWiki-related. I wasn't thinking about WikiProjects, partly due to my ignorance at the time.—RWSmith (Bureaucrat), 14:54, March 29, 2008 (EDT)
- I put an {{Otheruses}} redirect on the top of both the MeritBadgeDotOrg:Userboxes and MeritBadgeDotOrg:WikiProject Userboxes pages. I think that they should be combined into one, it doesn't really matter to me which way we do it.
- I just noticed today that you made a post a while back on the meritbadge.net forum about calling things Projects versus Collaborations. Was an answer arrived at or is it something that still needs to be discussed? After looking around (and undoing some of my own possible mistakes) I was working under the assumption that MediaWiki-related projects would be called Workpages, and "Collaborations" (although I called them WikiProjects) involved more of the general public.
- As I said, I don't have a strong feeling one way or the other, I just want to figure out the "right" way to do it. (Although I kinda like "Workpages" and "Collaborations". They are distinct from Wikipedia's terminology. Workpages sounds more nitty-gritty, like something only admins and regulars would be interested in.) Scouterdennis 19:54, March 29, 2008 (EDT)
national jamborees and eagle palms
whoops, I added these without asking first. 1 should we have them 2. Should I document them on this page 3. Do we need others. They were rather fun to make! Dawginroswell 20:37, May 10, 2011 (EDT)


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50 Cent: Boxing could benefit from WWE-style theatrics
LAS VEGAS -- Boxing has myriad issues. There are too many champions. The heavyweight division has been in the doldrums for years. There are too many weight classes. You have to subscribe to a premium network to be a fan.
50 Cent, whose first foray into boxing promotion comes to fruition Saturday when his exciting young fighter, Yuriorkis Gamboa, fights on the Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez IV pay-per-view telecast, thinks a major issue with the fistic sport is that there is too much emphasis on the main event and not enough focus on the show as a whole. The music mogul, whose real name is Curtis Jackon, believes that integrating music and entertainment with the show would be a boon to the sport, not to mention better undercard fights.
"You have to merge music culture with (boxing) and develop cards that are exciting for more than 36 minutes maximum," said 50 Cent. "We should take away the main event, say the whole show is the main event. They should make cards that are exciting enough for us to watch the entire show. You see arenas that you sit down and you feel like it probably didn't sell out until 36 minutes before it's over, then the whole place is full.
"(We should) use some of the theatrics that you see in WWE and bringing them into a sport that doesn't have a question mark -- we know boxing is real. We don't say 'is that real?' like wrestling. If you add those different elements to it you can offer something that would be entertaining enough to watch the entire show."