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I'm an economist interested in the ordinary business of life.
April 20 is the counter-culture "holiday" on which lots and lots of people come together to advocate marijuana legalization (or just get high). Should drugs—especially marijuana—be legal? The answer is "yes." Immediately. Without hesitation. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200 seized in a civil asset forfeiture. The war on drugs has been a dismal failure. It's high time to end prohibition. Even if you aren't willing to go whole-hog and legalize all drugs, at the very least we should legalize marijuana.
For the sake of the argument, let's go ahead and assume that everything you've heard about the dangers of drugs is completely true. That probably means that using drugs is a terrible idea. It doesn't mean, however, that the drug war is a good idea.
Prohibition is a textbook example of a policy with negative unintended consequences. Literally: it's an example in the textbook I use in my introductory economics classes (Cowen and Tabarrok, Modern Principles of Economics if you're curious) and in the most popular introductory economics textbook in the world (by N. Gregory Mankiw).The demand curve for drugs is extremely inelastic, meaning that people don't change their drug consumption very much in response to changes in prices. Therefore, vigorous enforcement means higher prices and higher revenues for drug dealers. In fact, I'll defer to Cowen and Tabarrok—page 60 of the first edition, if you're still curious—for a discussion of the basic economic logic:
The more effective prohibition is at raising costs, the greater are drug industry revenues. So, more effective prohibition means that drug sellers have more money to buy guns, pay bribes, fund the dealers, and even research and develop new technologies in drug delivery (like crack cocaine). It's hard to beat an enemy that gets stronger the more you strike against him or her.
People associate the drug trade with crime and violence; indeed, the newspapers occasionally feature stories about drug kingpins doing horrifying things to underlings and competitors. These aren't caused by the drugs themselves but from the fact that they are illegal (which means the market is underground) and addictive (which means demanders aren't very price sensitive).
Those same newspapers will also occasionally feature articles about how this or that major dealer has been taken down or about how this or that quantity of drugs was taken off the streets. Apparently we're to take from this the idea that we're going to "win" the war on drugs. Apparently. It's alleged that this is only a step toward getting "Mister Big," but even if the government gets "Mister Big," it's not going to matter. Apple didn't disappear after Steve Jobs died. Getting "Mr. Big" won't win the drug war. As I pointed out almost a year ago, economist and drug policy expert Jeffrey Miron estimates that we would have a lot less violence without a war on drugs.
At the recent Association of Private Enterprise Education conference, David Henderson from the Naval Postgraduate School pointed out the myriad ways in which government promises to make us safer in fact imperil our safety and security. The drug war is an obvious example: in the name of making us safer and protecting us from drugs, we are actually put in greater danger. Without meaning to, the drug warriors have turned American cities into war zones and eroded the very freedoms we hold dear.
Freedom of contract has been abridged in the name of keeping us "safe" from drugs. Private property is less secure because it can be seized if it is implicated in a drug crime (this also flushes the doctrine of "innocent until proven guilty" out the window). The drug war has been used as a pretext for clamping down on immigration. Not surprisingly, the drug war has turned some of our neighborhoods into war zones. We are warehousing productive young people in prisons at an alarming rate all in the name of a war that cannot be won.
Albert Einstein is reported to have said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. By this definition, the drug war is insane. We are no safer, and we are certainly less free because of concerted efforts to wage war on drugs. It's time to stop the insanity and end prohibition.
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This is seriously one of the most ignorant comments I've read online in a long time. And this is the internet, so that's saying something.
First, something being just or not, and something being legal or not, are two separate issues. I'm not even going to argue or make an analogy. If you can't understand that simple issue, then I can't help you.
Secondly, it is not 'against the law' to do drugs. You can't be arrested for being high unless you're doing something illegal. it is illegal to purchase and possess certain drugs, and legal to purchase and possess other drugs that are way more destructive than marijuana, like say cigarettes and alcohol.
You are right in that it is a choice to use drugs. If you would be willing to consider the other sides' argument, you might learn something. In my own experience growing up, things that were illegal or taboo were often wholeheartedly done by growing teenagers rebelling, because that's what they do. I had always felt like if those things weren't illegal, but considered a societal norm, young people wouldn't be so inclined to try every illegal thing under the sun. That was just my own opinion. However, recent studies have shown that to be a fact.
In 2001, Portugal decriminalized anything less than 10 days supply of any drug. Meth, coke, pot, etc.. Not only did student use decline, but so did the number of drug-related deaths, and the number of new HIV-AIDS cases.
The rest of your statement makes absolutely no sense, and if you are not going to use facts and instead vomit up idiotic statements about addiction, the war on drugs or for the love of god DARE, none of which you apparently know anything about, you should probably shut the fuck up.
Outside in, what is a just law and who defines just? People like you think of the law as an immovable object; a black and white wall of text that defines in an absolute what a person should do, or should not. Law is not set in stone. It is not intractable. It is constantly redefined as to what holds to current morale, and human equality.
There are fair laws. There are unfair laws. There are laws that benefit one group of humanity, and detract from another. The fact that a law's intent is to govern humanity dictates that the law will chance. Humanity never stays the same, and is constantly evolving. Is it legal to beat women with switches and sticks in some of our United States? Yes, as long as said objects are less than the size of our thumbs. That isn't a just law. Why is it not a just law? It is a law that regulates an action that far out weights its response, i.e. it does not work.
The drug war does not work. Nothing is preventing people from using these drugs. The drug war only encourages violence one both sides of the law.
The enforcement of the law incarcerates people for choosing to use a specific substance. This takes away their personal freedom for merely using said drug. I agree to only one principal of this unconstitutional restriction of our freedom: if a person under the influence of whatever drug then breaks another law, then they are totally and completely responsible for their own conduct under the influence, as they choose to use. Alcohol is regulated this way. If you drive while intoxicated, you are breaking a law, even though it is legal to drink. If you choose to assault someone while under the influence of alcohol, then not only do you face the repercussions of assault, but you additionally face the consequence of aggravated assault because you choose to indulge alcohol, a drug, and were not able to control your impulses while under the influence.
Outside of enforcement of the law. The drug trade is unregulated. This gives opportunity to drug manufacturers and supplies to use extra-martial means to control their competition. This gives rise to the opportunity of monopolism in this corner of the market. Drug prices are artificially raised because of prohibition. Money that could be invested otherwise is spent greasing the pipeline of this currently illegal market. Money is spent in violent ways (what is the price of human life?) to control and corner a market that is otherwise unregulated. Money is lost to the people in prison that could be working and I take great offense to your statement that "THEY WOULDN'T HAVE JOBS NOW".
What about the money that can be gained from government regulation? By regulating and taxing drugs, you take away the time and money spent on enforcement, and the time and money spent on illegal procurement. On top of that, the government could use the tax revenue on other things. They could spend it on education and research. Hell, they could spend it on starting another war in some oil-producing nation, but that's what tax money does. By redirecting the resources spent on an antiqued and noneffective enforcement of law, you free up resources on both sides to be spent on SOMETHING else.
These laws currently are unjust, and even worse, useless.
By this logic, it was not unjust to keep slaves in the 1800s because that was the law at the time. Or it was not unjust to jail african americans for sitting in the front of the bus.
True justice does not concern what is legal but what is RIGHT.
It's called civil disobedience. Maybe you should read up on it. At one point, for example, blacks were relegated in society. It seems to me that by your logic, they deserved to be brutally clubbed and murdered for asserting yourself.
Next time think before you speak.
Lets take what Nelson Mandela did in South Africa. What he did was technically Illegal and still unjust. Just because our government deems something illegal does not make it right. Yes doing drugs is a choice but most of us drink alcohol a drug that is way worse than marijuana and that's perfectly ok? I'm sorry but your holier than thou attitude is extremely disturbing. If you were born during the American Revolution you would have chastised our founding fathers for the "CHOICE" they made.
So, if fast food and alcohol and candy and smoking and bungee jumping were all illegal, would you still have the same mindset?
Just because something is illegal doesn't mean it is bad. If a law is unjust, it should be repealed.
"If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so." – Thomas Jefferson
Now, I don't agree that people are obligated to disobey laws they disagree with. However, I must say that it is not the place of government to be a person's nanny. If someone wants to do something that harms them and only them, then that is the person's right to do so.
I don't care whether that is drinking alcohol, jumping off a bridge, watching too much TV, or if it is drugs. All men are entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That means allowing gays to marry, allowing people to do drugs if they want, allowing men to wear skirts, and women to have mustaches. It means not imposing how you want to live on other people.
That sir, is the highest crime of all. For by imposing your will on another, you take away their ability to pursue a free and happy life.
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Outside in, I guess you've never done any drugs at all in your life, huh? Never took a hit of weed or deigned yourself to imbibe any foreign substances that were chemically rendered in some lab somewhere, did you? Never took an aspirin or acid reflux medication or any other sort of prescription pill of AANY kind, have you?
Before you say, (sorry I can't do your voice, but I can only imagine it like one of my old hall monitors from grade school) "But those are good drugs! They're legal! They're okay for you." I'd like to ask "who says?" More often than not most prescription medication is drastically ill-tested before it reaches the market and hospitals. The side effects are often severe (and in some cases cause versions of the malady they're attempting to cure). They're often tested on only a few hundred people, but even on a thousand if death occurs in one out of a thousand participants that doesn't exactly bode too well with me. America's pop is over 300million; you do the math. Anyway my point is that weed and one or two others drugs (that currently illegal) are quite a bit less harmful, all of the side effects are known (they started a public experiment in the sixties loljk), the cons (the very few of them) can be easily averted through moderation, regulation (if they were legal distributors wouldn't have to "cut" many drugs with awful impurities), and information (not inexperience). A lot of those tv shows and after school specials told us to "wait" to have sex, too. Hope to god, ya haven't that any mind, inside out. Or does that fall into the double standard of the wo/man on the high horse.
Many things have been LAW in our country that shouldn't have been. I hope ya haven't that one time when we bought people. By your logic, we should have never did anything about that whole deal, right? It was a LAW!! Would you have been one of those guys saying, "Kunta kintei, how dare you try to escape your master's property! Don't you know it's against the law to run away from your master?!"
Lastly, much of the issues about weed in particular ( and I'm sure it's true for some other drugs to an extent) was completely fabricated by the Lumber industry and tobacco companies back in the day! They are so many positives about herb it's mind-boggling why it's illegal. Especially when all LEGAL comparisons do so much harm (cigarettes, alcohol, prescription meds).
Try it before you knock it.
The whole point of this article / discussion is whether drug prohibition should end or not. You saying "BUT IT'S AGAINST THE LAW" loudly and declaring the discussion over is completely missing the point. It does not come as any surprise to anyone that in the United States we have laws against the use of many drugs. This is not in question. The question is whether or not recreational drugs in general, or at least marijuana specifically, should be made legal, whether the war on drugs should be ended, and the relative merits of continuing the prohibition versus ending it. You can speak loudly with caps, but that doesn't change the fact that you're making a straw man argument.
The law itself is unjust, and so the imprisonment is unjust as well.
>> It's NOT, repeat NOT unjust imprisonment. At this time, in this country it is illegal to use drugs. That means that it is against the law, period. AGAINST THE LAW. It's a CHOICE to do drugs.
"Justice" and "law" are actually two separate ideas. That's why we have a "law enforcement" system and a separate "judiciary system." When one speaks of "justice" the term is meant to refer to the philosophical "rightness" or "wrongness" of an action being judged, not whether some rule was broken.
When slavery was allowed in the United States, there were laws preventing slaves from running away from their masters. However, as we now know, it is unjust to punish a slave for taking such action. The very laws governing slavery are unjust as slavery is immoral. Just because it was against the law for the slave to run away, it did not make the act of running away immoral. Outlawing slavery did not magically make it immoral; slavery was immoral from the beginning. This means we cannot measure an actions morality by its legality or illegality. Many moral things have been made illegal in the past, and many immoral things have been made legal, so law is not a good method for determining moral truth.
Now we come to the question of the morality of using drugs. Morally, there is no distinction between using drugs and using alcohol. The simple act of using a mind-altering substance has no moral consequences, and thus can neither be judged moral or immoral. While there are certainly actions which are clearly immoral (such as driving while high/drunk, abusing alcohol/drugs), these actions are separate decisions from the one to use alcohol/drugs in the first place. A law prohibiting the act of taking certain actions while under the influence of such substances is undoubtedly just. A law prohibiting any use of the substance is a different matter.
Say there was a law against spitting on the sidewalk. I could easily reframe your post in this context, mentioning the fact that spitting on the sidewalk is against the law and that it is clearly a choice to spit on the sidewalk. I could even bring up the fact that those in jail for spitting on the sidewalk are better off anyway in jail as they couldn't have found jobs anyway.
But none of these reasons prevent such a law from being rightly deemed "unjust." From within your way of determining morality, those sidewalk-spitters are getting what they deserved: they knew the law and they blatantly broke it. And while I too may personally never spit on the sidewalk and find the practice disgusting, the existence of a law against sidewalk-spitting does not make the action "wrong." The sidewalk-spitters are being punished for something that is not really a moral question: no one is harmed by sidewalk-spitting, and the only real impact is unsightly damp splotches that in no way impact the average person. Choosing to spit or not spit on the sidewalk has no moral impact, and cannot be judged as so. It is, in fact, immoral to punish people for sidewalk-spitting even though it is against the law.
It is from this where we derive the position that it is similarly immoral to send people to jail for engaging in the production, sale, and use of marijuana. Those actions are a simple economic system and have no moral implications. The negative side-effects (gang violence, murder, etc.) are separate moral actions. As can be easily shown, it is not the existence of an economy to sell drugs that causes these impacts, but the laws illegalizing the distribution of these substances. There are no gangs of alcohol or cigarette sellers. As evidenced by the alcohol prohibition era, the existence of laws against the use of alcohol actually created these negative effects.
In summation: Law does not equal morality.
>> THEY WOULDNT have jobs now, the unemployment levels would be just that much greater.
This is actually a separate matter entirely. But this post has grown too long and I don't have the patience to explain the fundamentals of philosophy and economics in one sitting. But suffice to say, no economy works in the way you described.
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What does everybody think about a possible voting method on tee's so the truly amazing Designs don't get possibly over looked and also to ensure a popular shirt chosen by the people and employees at teefury on a day to day basis that's fair to not only the designer but to anyone wanting a very good shirt printed. Has this idea already been brought up and what's it going to take to make it happen?
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RiteGuyShirt76 weeks agoAnother site does that, and honestly it's annoying.
Teefury's facebook page has a lot of "want to see it printed" posts.
@RiteGuyShirt i agree it can be. But if its done correctly and organized like D.B.H then it would work out great
the50ftsnail76 weeks agoI'm not sure on this, as I think the votes system is intrinsically weighed in favour of those with large followings on Facebook and other social sites. If someone with a following of 10,000 people on facebook flags up that a new design is up for voting, there's a lot of people who may go off and vote for it and may well ignore other designs.
Granted, those who get large groups of people following them & designs printed because they are talented are more likely to get prints in the future - and it does seem to work out that way on teefury anyway - but it feels like introducing a votes system might be another barrier for those without large groups of people following them (speaks the person with a fairly small group of people following him!).
I've also noticed that many sites with voting systems end up with a large number of designs from the same fandoms as the most popular. One of the things I love about teefury is the fact they have a variety of designs from various areas, and you never really know what might crop up.
RiteGuyShirt76 weeks agoI agree, I do Stand Up and most contests(which sadly need to be won to get recognition) start off with 2 sometime 3 rounds of audience applause votes, which means even if you made them laugh the most at the end they just applaud their buddies. Heck that's half the reason comedy went from "potential career" to "Hobby"
Yes there are favorite artists on Teefury however they've earned their spots. Plus Teefury has a pretty decent collection of new artists quite often.
As for fandoms Who gets a good amount of love yes but only like 5 or 6 shirts a month percentagewise that seems high but really that mean usually 25 shirts of other fandoms.
Teefury also prints original artwork every now and then. Out of the various teeshirt sites around Teefury is the best.
Hoping to get printed someday will have to keep working...
razubi76 weeks agoI haven't submitted to sites with voting because I don't have enough of a following outside of friends yet. Voting makes me feel I'll get overlooked.
@the50ftsnail i see what your saying about the popular possibly dominating votes. but not necessarily means that they will LOVE that design. this could be just me but on sites with a voting method you tend to look at more and more designs and vote on them also. which could help an artist with a lesser fan base?
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by Rebecca Serna
At the Atlanta Bicycle Coalition's Blinkie Awards earlier this month, Mayor Kasim Reed made a commitment of $50,000 to help bring Atlanta Streets Alive to Peachtree Street. As the executive director of Atlanta Bicycle Coalition, I cannot tell you how much this means, not only to members of our organization but to our city as a whole.
Atlanta Streets Alive is an open streets initiative that the Atlanta Bicycle Coalition organizes for our community. Atlanta Streets Alive creates a vibrant experience of city streets for people on foot and on bike. This year, Peachtree Street will be opened to people and temporarily closed to cars, to celebrate human powered amusement and transportation. We are so excited to traverse Atlanta's oldest street in a new way and showcase the potential for development that is fun, healthy and sustainable.
On May 19th, almost three miles of Peachtree from Downtown to Midtown will be closed to motor vehicles and opened for you. During the event, expect thousands of people to hit the streets to enjoy the outdoors, celebrate neighborhoods, and come together on bicycle, foot, skateboard, rollerblade or whatever form of people-powered movement you're into.
Because we don't bring in outside vendors, only free activity partners, Atlanta Streets Alive supports local businesses along the route. We encourage participants to patronize these businesses, giving people a chance to explore the neighborhood and enhance the local economy. We will connect through movement and diversity as a community through Atlanta Streets Alive. I am personally exhilarated to know that our voices have been heard and our requests have been answered by Mayor Kasim Reed's pledge of $50,000 for this very special event. We can't wait to show you what we have planned for our city.
Bringing Atlanta Streets to Peachtree Street is a vital step in this effort, and experiencing Peachtree without the car traffic will change the way you see the city forever. You may even start to wonder why it can't be more like the rest of the year. If you do, we encourage you to ask that question of the city – there is a growing appetite for change and even the possibility of a dedicated bikeway on Peachtree is in our sights.
You may be asking why it is important to celebrate human powered transit. There are so many answers to this question, but perhaps the most important one for Atlanta is sustainability. In a city where smog alerts are common in the summer, we as a community are responsible for what we put in our air. As we become a more bicycle-friendly city, we can create a more sustainable urban environment and better health for our friends and families. By increasing the percentage of people that ride a bicycle to work, we can cut down on toxic inputs like congestion, smog, high gas prices and depletion of the ozone layer. Active transportation is a healthier way of getting around that represents a shift in our social norms, but is a shift worth making.
In addition to the environmental benefits, bicycle riding is also beneficial to our health and wellness. A short bike trip or walk to work or transit can release the stress of the working day, helping us arrive at work, school or home happier and invigorated.
Most of us need to be more active – and so do our kids. By introducing healthy options for transportation to children at a young age, we can help them see car ownership as one option among many and replace the social stigma of not owning a car with the popularity of riding a bicycle. By exercising as we commute, together we can combat the national obesity epidemic, as well as health issues like heart disease, heart attacks, high blood pressure and Type-II diabetes.
Along with the health and environmental advantages of bike riding, there is the notion of going back to the simple things in life that bring joy to our days. There is the connection to your community and others who are making a change for the same reasons. There is the relationship that begins to flourish as you and your family commit to activities like riding bikes together instead of watching television. Together, we can feel a sense of belonging by participating in sustainable transportation throughout our city. Whether for transportation or for pleasure, our mission revolves around sustainability, and we can get there by riding together. I invite you to participate in better health, human powered activities, and community connection with the Atlanta Bicycle Coalition.
The Atlanta Bicycle Coalition is determined to make a change. We are building momentum and we would like you to join us for the ride. Many cities across the nation are becoming bicycle-friendly and the City of Atlanta and Mayor Kasim Reed are committed to joining their ranks. We can do this, but not without your help! Grab a bike or a friend and we'll see you at Atlanta Streets Alive on May 19th – on Peachtree Street.
Ms. Serna is executive director of the Downtown-based Atlanta Bicycle Coalition, which promotes and advocates for Atlanta becoming more bike-friendly.


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"And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia" – Wikipedia.org/Messiah_(Handel)
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North Carolina Republican leaders have decided it's time the state's voters get near the front of the pack for good in choosing the next president.
The elections overhaul law they pushed through the General Assembly and signed by Gov. Pat McCrory schedules the state's presidential preference primaries on the Tuesday immediately after South Carolina's, probably in February. North Carolina usually has held one primary for all state races in early May, often after presidential candidates sew up their nominations.
South Carolina and the national parties likely will have a say whether North Carolina can participate so early. The Democrats and Republican parties can take away delegates from the state parties for their national conventions. One South Carolina GOP leader says he'll protect their prized first-in-the South designation.
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Since Matt Cheaves was hired as coach, Dalton High School's boys soccer program has accumulated 17 state tournament berths, nine quarterfinals appearances, a runner-up finish and one state championship.
As one rival coach described, the Catamounts have become "a model of consistency" for soccer programs across the area.
Dalton hosts Griffin's Spalding in the Class 4A state semifinals at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Harmon Field, and a win sends the Cats to a state title match for the first time since 2004. Northwest Whitfield hosts Southeast Whitfield at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the other Class 4A semifinal, and the championship is set for 7:30 p.m. Friday at Kennesaw State University.
Under Cheaves, Dalton has built quite a reputation both locally and across the state. The team is in the state tournament for the 13th straight year, and the Cats have made 16 of 17 and 17 of 19 state tournaments. This season, they are 20-0 and ranked No. 1 by eurosportscoreboard.com's Class 4A poll and maxpreps.com's national poll.
"All those years of making state," said Northwest coach Ryan Scoggins, who has been the Bruins' coach since 2007. "They are a model of consistency."
When Cheaves became coach in 1995, beating Dalton didn't mean as much.
"Darlington was the team to beat in Northwest Georgia," Cheaves said. "They were the boarding school with foreign students. The first time we played them, we beat them."
Cheaves was named divarsity.com's Class 4A Boys Coach of the Year this season, the first time he has received the honor, and he was recognized for the achievement by the Dalton school board at its meeting Monday night.
"It's nice, but it's a result of what the team has done and is doing. I'm just the coach," Cheaves said. "To me, the assistant coaches (Blair Chlebisch and Jim Wickes) and players, they're the ones who got this award."
Before coming to Dalton — Bill Chappell was athletic director when he was hired — Cheaves was a player/coach for the soccer club at West Georgia College, where he finished his education degree. He was one of the founding players for Clayton State University's program, where he played center midfield, and he played in high school at DeKalb Christian.
Ron Ward, Dalton's athletic director since 2010, said Cheaves has had "a direct influence" on the program's success.
"He's a very good tactician and strategist," Ward said. "He's very good at getting his players to buy into his system. He's very good at building the program throughout the district, both at the high school level and (below). He's very quiet and unassuming, but he knows how to build a championship program. The fact that this has gone on year after year is not a coincidence."
The majority of Dalton's soccer players are Hispanic. Ward referenced the popularity of the sport among that demographic, and Cheaves said many on his roster played the sport enough to know correct technique before reaching high school.
He believes his job as the coach is to strengthen work ethic and teach the team's offensive and defensive schemes.
"We already know (how to play)," said senior Ramiro Huitanda, a striker who has a school record of 46 goals this season. "He just teaches us to learn how to do it the right way. It's the little things like keeping up with your man."
Dalton was the Class 4A runner-up to Woodward Academy in 2004, a year after tying Heritage-Rockdale 1-1 to share the Class 4A championship. Since 2002, the Cats have made it to at least the second round each season except 2007 and 2009. Dalton won the Region 7-4A title this year for its 12th league title overall.
All of it happened under the leadership of Cheaves, who said Dalton High soccer receives much more attention now than it used to.
"The popularity has increased. We went from a sport than never made any money and didn't have strong attendance," he said. "Now the attendance is strong, especially for big games. We have fantastic crowds. The level of play has risen a lot."


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Indiana State used a 26-0 run to take down Evansville by a score of 55-48 in women's college basketball Thursday night.
The Sycamores played awful in the first half, shooting 4-of-31 to fall behind 26-15.
Racheal Mahan scored seven straight points over a two-minute span midway through the second half to put the Sycamores ahead 34-32. ISU made 8-of-13 from the field to start the second half.
ISU never gave up its lead to give the Sycamores (15-8, 7-5 Missouri Valley Conference) three straight victories. ISU moves ahead of Evansville into fourth place in the standings.
"It was the worst first half of basketball we've played. Things got a little bit frustrating there," Moren said. "We didn't have a lot of corrections at halftime other than our attitude."
Mahan led the Sycamores with 17 points and seven rebounds. Taylor Whitley and Natasha Zurek added nine points apiece. Whitley and Anna Munn had team-high honors with eight rebounds each.
"The kids came in the second half and did a tremendous job. It started defensively. Racheal had a big night. You just had to find a way," Moren said.


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These days it seems like the dream of a new Lotus Esprit is getting nothing but further away, while the troubled company responsible for it applies the classic black and gold livery to everything it produces – and many things produced by others. But there was a time when the original Esprit was a mechanical wonder to behold, and the JPS livery was championed by arguably the greatest driver who ever lived.
That driver, of course, was Ayrton Senna. And to mark the 18th anniversary of his death at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, a German outfit called Cam-Shaft Premium Wrapping has created this special edition in his honor. Instead of starting with the original four-cylinder Esprit, though, Cam Shaft went with the later turbo V8 and laid over its black paint a series of gold decals evocative of the iconic livery which Senna sported on his 1985 Lotus 97T, including a reproduction of his signature on the panel in front of the door.
The German firm didn't stop there, however. They gave the Esprit new turbos, an intercooler and cats to drive output up from 354 horsepower (stock) to 492 hp, drop the 4.9-second 0-62 time down to 4.3 seconds and increase the top speed from 282 km/h to 305. They also fitted it with a new six-speed gearbox to replace the old five-gear unit, upgraded the brakes with AP Racing four-pot calipers on 330mm cross-drilled discs and fitted it with a chassis control switch similar to a Ferrari manettino.
A fitting tribute to the legendary pilot? We'd say so, and you can see for yourself in the high-res image gallery above and the press release below.
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From 1976 till 2003 the British small series car manufacturer Lotus under the guidance of the legendary master Giorgio Giugiaro produced a middle class motor sport car named Espirit. It was in 1996 (up to 2004) that Espirit V8 became the first and only Lotus with an eight-cylinder engine. Each four cylinders on the left and on the right side are mounted at the angle of 90° and fitted into an aluminum construction; they generate from 3,506 ccm engine 354 hp (260 kW) as well as 400 Nm torque thanks to two Allied-Signal T25 turbo compressor pumps. Produced only 1,237 times worldwide, V8 had a maximal speed of 282 km/h, weighted 1,380 kg, made a speed of 100 km/h in 4.9 seconds and cost in 1999 about 150,000 DM.
Almost like the honoring of a Brazilian Ayrton Senna da Silva, who drove in 1984 for the Team Toleman, from 1985 till 1987 for the Lotus-Team, and then for McLaren and Williams in Formula 1 car race and whose death at Grand Pries San Marino 1994 on the way to Imola on the 1st of May 2012 was commemorated for the 18th time, the company Cam Shaft – Premium Wrapping has taken to its heart the produced in the previous century Espirit V8 and has given it unique and adequate upgrades. One should mention here a Red Race control device with optimized characteristics due to the changes in the software. Then there were adjustable cases by Forge inside the turbo compressor pumps. A self designed compressor cooling system (on the basis of Lotus-Omega) as well as two 100-cell structure catalysts give the Espirit V8 with 492 hp (362 kW), 4.3 seconds for the speed-up of 100 km/h and a maximal speed of 305 km/h. Technically it is worth mentioning that they have changed a 5-speed gearbox by Renault for 6-speed Dog-Engagement gearbox equipped with a longer total ratio. They have naturally upgraded the breaking system for 350 sport models (from 2000 series) with AP racing 4-bucket device and perforated brake discs with the diameter of 330 mm to match the speed-up.
And in order to commemorate the Formula 1 pilot, who was praised not only for his fairness, with his intensive rivalry to a Frenchman Alain Prost, whom many surely would like to become today, Cam Shaft – Premium Wrapping from Kempen has created a black bolides car design – apart from glued advertisement there is a signature in gold of the unforgettable driver on the king class car, and it is the very model, the legendary John Player Special 97T that Ayrton Senna drove in 1985 in Estoril and for the first time won in Formula 1. That is why this special sport car design along with the start number 12 is associated with the Lotus 97T and especially with Ayrton Senna... We will never forget you!
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Vermont Law School is seeking applicants for a new Visiting Assistant Professor (VAP) position. The Environmental Law VAP will be in residence for a two-year term in VLS's environmental law program. The position is geared toward environmental lawyers who seek to transition their law careers into academia in environmental law. The VAP will have a reduced teaching load of one course per semester, the opportunity to focus on scholarly research and writing, and the expectation that they will enter the law school teaching market in their second fall of the term. The VAP will receive the same office and administrative support as other faculty members, and is invited to participate fully in faculty activities. Additionally, the VAP has the opportunity to present work in progress at VLS's fall Environmental Scholarship Colloquium, receive feedback and mentoring from other scholars, and present a finished manuscript to the faculty in the Environmental Law Center's Speaker Series.
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The Maryland Public Service Commission is asking the public to weigh in on whether utilities should be able to collect a fee to recoup losses from catastrophic events such as major power outages.
The commission, which oversees utilities including Pepco and Baltimore Gas and Electric, will hold a public hearing Sept. 24 in Baltimore.
The fee, imposed under a regulation known as bill stabilization adjustment, allows utilities to charge ratepayers for losses sustained during the first 24 hours of major outages.
Following backlash from , the fee drew outrage.
Pepco customers criticized the practice, asking during n on Tuesday in Rockville how they could be charged for power use when they were without power.
on a Patch story about bill stabilization, with one commenter noting:
"I guess in that case, if they are making money from the outage, we can bill them for the spoiled groceries in our refrigerators and freezers."
According to a public hearing notice, the commission will re-examine whether utilities should be allowed to charge the fee.
The hearing will be held at 1 p.m. on Sept. 24 in the Public Service Commission's 16th-floor hearing room in the William Donald Schaefer Tower at 6 St. Paul St. in Baltimore.
For more information, see the public hearing notice attached to this story.
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RICHMOND, VA- This week, First Lady Dorothy McAuliffe and the Virginia Association of Broadcasters launched Feeding Virginia, a year-long campaign against hunger. This is a first-of-its-kind partnership between a state's First Family and all members of a state broadcast association. … Continue reading →
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Oakley's Ryan Dungey, won the main event and finished second overall in the Western Regional AMA Supercross Lites class.
Western Regional AMA Supercross Lites class race, Bobby Kiniry, won the $1,000 Progressive Holeshot Award. Oakley star Ryan Dungey followed closely in second while Lawrence, who came into tonight's race with a six-point lead over Dungey, started in fourth place. Once Ryan was in the lead he used his hard training and superior talent to put the championship out of mind and just focus on the task at hand "the race". Ryan needed this win but needed a little help from the competition to occupy a few positions between himself and Lawrence. Unfortunately the Oakley rider did his part but fell short of the others doing there's. Ryan ended up the series just 3 point's shy of the Championship. Jason Lawrence rode to the first AMA Supercross Lites championship of his career. Broc Hepler finished in third place. The win for Dungey was his third of the season
"I was really happy with the way I rode tonight," said Dungy. "I know where I made some mistakes this year, and I am going to fix them. I learned a lot this year.
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Will County didn't waste any time ridding themselves of Christopher Vaughn, packing the man who executed his entire family off to prison the day after his sentencing.
Vaughn, 38, was shipped up to Stateville Correctional Center to start serving the four life sentences handed down by Judge Daniel Rozak on Tuesday.
According to Department of Corrections Records, the former Oswego resident made it to Stateville Wednesday.
Vaughn declined to make a statement at his sentencing hearing and sat stone-faced as Rozak told him he would never get out of prison alive. Vaughn's father-in-law, Del Phillips, later said he had hoped Vaughn "would open up and say why" he killed his wife, Kimberly Vaughn, and three children—Blake, 8, Cassandra, 11, and Abigayle, 12.
Christopher Vaughn had blamed the murders on his wife. He told detectives Kimberly Vaughn, 34, shot him in the leg but that he fled before she could kill him. He then theorized that she gunned down all the children before taking her own life with a bullet to her brain.
Police and prosecutors said Vaughn inflicted a minor gunshot wound to his own thigh after killing the family to bolster his cover story.
The jury at Vaughn's trial obviously didn't believe that story, as they delivered a guilty verdict after only 50 minutes of deliberation.
After shedding the responsibility of his family by murdering them all, Vaughn had planned to take off for the Yukon wilderness with an unwitting stripper from a club he frequented, prosecutors said.
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Can't say we'd watch this again, but we don't regret watching it in the first place. Good calm movie.
A fun movie with lots of fun ideas! We really had a good time experimenting with this one! Would watch more to it!
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We are big fans of the Perverted Stories series, but this one wasn't what we thought. I didn't understand what it was even supposed to be about.
Really enjoyed this type of story. It was vulgar and illicit, but really it's just sex. We can't wait to see all the other episodes too!
We watched another episode of Perverted Stories, it was good, not like was expected. However, this one was just kinda wierd. It wasn't what we thought it would be.
Storyline was okay, couldn't tell if it was based on the show or if it was a porn movie mixed with show. We lost interest & fast forward through alot of it!
We usually enjoy the parody movies. However, this time, we were bored with it. The scenes were drug out a little too much and there were too many instead of just sticking to the story line.
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Adam Rykse joins the Valparaiso coaching staff as a graduate assistant for the 2013 season.
Rykse comes to Valpo from Muskegon C.C., where he served as an assistant coach in 2012 after spending the 2011 season as a hitting instructor. Rykse had previously assisted with video and photo work for statistics at Muskegon. He also served as the school's sports information director for the 2012-2013 school year.
Beyond his duties at Muskegon, Rykse spent the 2012-2013 season as the head coach of the Inside Out Juniors 17-1 team. He also previously served as videographer and statistican at Davenport University from 2006-2009, and spent his high school years as a team manager at Ravenna H.S.
Rykse is a 2012 graduate of Michigan State University, and will pursue his master's in sports administration at Valparaiso. While at MSU, he competed on the nationally-ranked club volleyball team for four years.
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Fair Elections is a practical, proven reform that puts voters in control of elections. Rather than being forced to rely on special interest donors to pay for their campaigns, candidates have the opportunity to raise small donations from their grassroots base to qualify for Fair Elections funding, which ends their reliance on special interest campaign cash. Being freed from the money chase means they have more time to spend with constituents, talking about issues that matter to them. When they enter office, they can consider legislation on the merits, without worrying about whether they are pleasing well heeled donors and lobbyists. Fair Elections would return our government to one that is of, by, and for the people—not bought and paid for by special interests.
In the U.S. Congress, Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Reps. John Larson (D-Conn.), Walter Jones (R-N.C) and Chellie Pingree (D-Miane) introduced the Fair Elections Now Act in 2009, which would create a system of Fair Elections for candidates for Congress. The bill in the House had more than 160 co-sponsors and passed the Committee on House Administration in September 2010.
The Fair Elections Now Act (H.R. 269) was re-introduced in the 113th Congress on January 15, 2013 in the House of Representatives.
There are also Fair Elections-style laws in seven states and three cities: Arizona; Connecticut; Maine; Hawaii; New Mexico; North Carolina; Wisconsin; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Activists across the country are working to advance full public financing of elections.


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Popular retiree spots such as Florida and Arizona don't even rank in the top 10
NEW YORK, May 5, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida and Arizona may be home to some of the country's most popular retirement spots, but South Dakota is actually the best state for retirees, according to new research from Bankrate.com (NYSE: RATE). Bankrate.com looked at several factors to determine which states offer the best quality of life for seniors. The factors include local weather, cost of living, crime rate, health care quality, tax burden and well-being (a measurement from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index that quantifies how satisfied residents are with their surroundings).
South Dakota came out on top due to its low tax burden, low crime rate and high wellness score. Other states that round out the top five best states to retire are Colorado, Utah, North Dakota and Wyoming.
"While the states that ranked highly may not be thought of as typical retiree havens, seniors should consider more than sunshine when choosing a place for their golden years," said Bankrate.com research and statistics analyst Chris Kahn. "The Dakotas both ranked in our top 10 for the second year in a row due to their low cost of living, low crime rates, good health care quality, low taxes and excellent satisfaction scores from residents."
The five states that ranked the lowest for retirement are New York, West Virginia, Alaska, Arkansas and Hawaii.
"Of course, the best place to retire will differ drastically depending on the individual," said Kahn. "For some, the best place to retire is simply anywhere there's year-round warmth and sunshine. For others, it's where family and friends live. Retirees are best off deciding what factors matter most to them and checking the relevant statistics before making a final decision."
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Cycling enthusiasts turned out early Saturday morning to participate in a 'Carmageddon' bike ride organized by the ocal chapters of the LA County Bicycle Coalition - including the Culver City Bicycle Coalition.
Taking advantage of the Carmageddon II weekend, articipants met for a healthy breakfast at the Culver City Expo Line station at 8:30 a.m. before heading out on a 22-mile ride around the Westside, that included stops in Marina del Rey, Venice, Santa Monica and Westwood. The rides were led by trained instructors and ride marshals with plenty of stops along the way through bike friendly neighborhoods.
Those not up for the longer ride had the opportunity to take shorter rides including a ride around Culver City (8 miles); a ride around Marina del Rey and Venice (8 miles); a Santa Monica ride (8 miles); a Westwood to Santa Monica ride (11 miles) or a Westwood to Culver City ride (11 miles).
CCBC member Darren Kessner told Patch following the event, "We had over 100 riders – 114 according to one count!"
RELATED ARTICLE: Carmageddon is Bicycle Heaven
Jim Shanman, founder of Culver City's Walk 'N Rollers, whose organization empowers school age children and their parents through education and training to safely and responsibly ride, walk, skate and scoot to and from school, documented the day's ride with this photo gallery.
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Architect David Rockwell will deliver the keynote address at the second annual Architectural Lighting Master Classes (ALMC) scheduled for February 20-21 at John Jay College Auditorium, 899 10th Avenue at 58th Street, in Manhattan. Known for his inventive style and flair, Rockwell has designed many of the most interesting restaurants in New York City, including Nobu, Rosa Mexicano, Town, and Noche, as well as such hotels as Chambers, W New York, and W Union Square. He also designed the Cirque du Soleil theatre in Orlando, and the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut. He often collaborates with lighting designer Paul Gregory of New York-based Focus Lighting. Gregory is also one of the creative consultants for the ALMC.
Rockwell's keynote address on the creative use of light will kick off the proceedings on Thursday, February 20. The preliminary schedule for the remainder of the day includes: Lighting for Architecture: The Power of Light and Architecture, Howard Brandston, Brandston Partnership; Concept: Creating One Emotion, Paul Gregory, Focus Lighting; Light Brush Technique, Sonny Sonnenfeld; So You Want to Light a Wall? How-To Hints, Ann Kale, Ann Kale Associates; and Presentation Techniques, Jonathan Speirs, Speirs & Associates.
The preliminary schedule for Friday, February 21, includes: Demystifying Current Codes and Energy Management Issues and Trends in Office Lighting Design, Willard L. Warren P.E.; Color: You Will Not Believe It Unless You See It, Fred Oberkircher, Texas Christian University; Architecture as Theatre, Cindy Limauro, Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama; and Small and Large Concepts from Beginning to End, Jonathan Speirs and Paul Gregory.
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America's Got Talent, 8:30 p.m., NBC
Live shows! This is the part that always gets confusing to me. The first 12 of the final 48 acts perform, and then almost everyone gets eliminated. It is a complicated way to get to the Top 10.
Monarchy: The Royal Family At Work, 9 p.m., PBS (check listings)
"A garden party at Buckingham Palace; Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall get a tour from an organic farmer in Northumberland." Or as we like to call it, The Royal Family At 'Work'.
The Bachelorette, 8 p.m., ABC
Hometown dates! In which someone's either well-meaning or evil-minded sibling throws a wrench into the preceedings.


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Mexico Day of the Dead in Oaxaca (CMDO)
One of the great festivals of the world, the Day of the Dead is both a celebration of ancestors and a huge party. From candy skulls and colourful parades to family picnics in historic cemeteries, the Day of the Dead is a party like no other—and this tour is your backstage pass. If you're culturally curious or slightly ghoulish, join us in Oaxaca—Mexico's artistic heartland—for a truly different perspective of the country at its most exciting. And with incredible ruins and fantastic landscapes all around, you don't need to be Wednesday Addams to get into the macabre spirit of this incredible celebration.
Highlights: Follow the seas of flowers and flickering candles of cemetery vigils, watch the painted faces and street dances during Day of the Dead parades, enjoy beautiful colonial Oaxaca in all its glory, barter for macabre skeleton dolls at the local market
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For the nature lover who also appreciates cultural luminescence, this Limited Edition butterfly adventure captures the brightest colours of Mexico in just ten days. From the historic streets of Mexico City, you'll travel through stunning national parks, colonial towns and beautiful countryside as you follow the migration of the monarch butterfly. Wander through flutters of butterflies in the reserves of El Rosario and Sierra Chincua. Off the beaten path, this quirky adventure will give you a unique insight into the people and 'mariposas' of Mexico.
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WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve said it intends to continue aggressive measures to stimulate the economy and made a major policy shift to focus more directly on boosting the job market.
Fed policymakers said they would keep interest rates at historically low levels until unemployment drops below 6.5%.
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I worked for a guy who belonged to some sort of cult-like organization that believed all illness was psychosomatic. Since we had no official PTO but it was all at his discretion, that was tons of fun.
I worked for a guy who belonged to some sort of cult-like organization that believed all illness was psychosomatic. Since we had no official PTO but it was all at his discretion, that was tons of fun.
Actual bumper sticker series: Jesus is my co-pilot. Satan is my financial advisor. Budha is my therapist. L. Ron Hubbard owes me $50.
I'm fortunate in my co-workers. We are a very diverse group of people with quite a lot of variability in our dietary patterns, but we all are very aware of most of the important issues in agriculture. Whether we are vegetarian, omnivore, paleo, organic, we all agree that sustainable production practices, good animal husbandry, and supporting local production are all the most important factors in our food buying practices. It's probably the most commonly discussed topic around our lunch table, but it's always civil and engaging. No preaching.
"You emerge victorious from the maze you've been travelling in." Oct 21,2012- Best Fortune Cookie Ever!
And I find vegans and 'raw food' types the preachiest about DIET. Or maybe most self-righteous, not preachy. At least those who stick with it; I also know a larger sample size of people who tried extreme diets like veganism, raw-food, liquid diets (not weight loss temporary diets, actually trying to live primarily off liquid/liquified foods) who went back to a more balanced lifestyle. "Vegetarian", otoh, I know people who chose to do that for a huge variety of reasons, including a few friends in college who were vegetarian mostly because it made being kosher a LOT easier.
What bugs me are vegetarians who still eat fish. Fish are not very scaly mobile plants. They're animals. If you eat fish, you are eating an animal, and you are not a vegetarian. You are a pescetarian.
I'm not sure how his digestive system is still functioning. He did grow up on a cow farm in Kenya, maybe they didn't have any greens and that's just what he's used to?
One of the most annoying people in one of my classes at uni was a vegan, who used to openly preach DURING CLASS about how we were all evil, cruel people because we were carnivores. One day I had enough of him and said to his face, "Yep, love a big juicy steak! I love it just as much as all my caveman and ape ancestors did!"
Alas, it did not work. He then proceeded to preach about how we had "outgrown our heathen past" and "no longer needed to eat meat". Yeah right pal. Finally the lecturer told him to STFU.
On the note of evolution, I remember thinking the vegans/vego lot really dropped the ball on those Sam Neill "Red Meat. We Were Meant To Eat It" ads. It was the most complained-about ad of that year, but it wasn't the vego lot that got to it; it was the churches who were screaming blue murder that Sam Neill had openly said in an advertisement that we evolved from apes.
I have a good friend who's vegan - when we first met, she would bring her own snacks to parties so as not to trouble the hosts. But since then, we've all (a group of friends) taken up the challenge to find delicious vegan choices for dinner parties and barbecues, and those dishes have proven just as popular with the meat and dairy eaters. We often go to restaurants together, and usually call ahead to ensure that a vegan can be accommodated. Half the time the chef prepares something especially for her, and the rest of us look longingly at her plate and wish we were having what she's having
I've found myself to be moderately intolerant to gluten and I can't imagine how would someone give it up just because is allegedly healthier
Gluten is delicious!! I miss proper bread and pasta soooo much. And not eating it makes your life much harder since almost everything has gluten in it.
I eat some little thing with gluten once every 2 or 3 weeks and feel miserable, digestive and respiratory wise, the next day.
But the taste and texture are sooo worth it.
By not having gluten you're cutting a whole bunch of whole grain cereals that are very healthy.
Lead me not into temptation. I can find it, and eat it, all by myself.
Although my favorite LATELY is someone who came in (we're an Italian restaurant) wanting something without garlic or olive oil. Their options were pretty much any of the regular proteins-two kinds of fish, or two kinds of steak, without the sauces and with the rice (the only side made with just water), or a special-order pasta.
As I said, when we make restaurant reservations we always say that one of our party is vegan and will she be able to find something on the menu. We are also specific about where the issue lies - she has a severe dairy allergy. Similarly, I have a friend with a nut allergy so when booking a restaurant I asked about it - they told me honestly that they used peanut oil in a lot of dishes and couldn't guarantee a nut-free meal, so we booked elsewhere.
At my workplace, our "wellness committee" recently showed this film: Food, Inc.
In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.
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I think that sometimes when people say "because it's healthier" they really mean "it makes me feel healthier." There continue to be a lot of diverse and often contrary opinions as to what is healthy and what is not, and more and more I'm seeing that people are realizing that what works for one person doesn't always work for another, and thus "healthier" is becoming more about the person than the food.
I have friends who have seen this film, and I don't want to see it. Basically they told me it makes you want to stop eating . Ignorance is bliss!
I try to mainly buy high quality grassfed beef (since we decided to eat less red meat, but spend the same amount on it), but one thing that really bugs me about regular American beef in supermarkets is how much water there is in it. If I get fajitas strips or something I can't really brown them since they leak water before they are browned. Yuk. At least higher quality beef doesn't seem to have the problem, but I read somewhere that there is no regulation to prevent producers to add water to their beef to increase the profit.


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In the midst of a 26-28 season, Royals GM Dayton Moore expresses support for manager Ned Yost, Jeffrey Flanagan of FOX Sports Kansas City writes. "I have faith in Ned," says Moore. "He is doing what he can." Instead, Moore takes the blame for the team's performance. "It's my job to give the managers and the coaching staff the right players to succeed. I have to be able to give them the tools to win. So if we're not succeeding, ultimately the responsibility comes back to me," he says. The Royals fired hitting coach Pedro Grifol on Thursday, replacing him with Dale Sveum. Here are more notes from the Central divisions.
- The Twins are interested in Cardinals outfielder Jon Jay, 1500ESPN.com's Darren Wolfson tweets. The Cardinals have more outfielders than they need (so much so that their surplus may have delayed the promotion of top prospect Oscar Taveras), and could trade from their stockpile. Meanwhile, the Twins' outfielders have struggled this season.
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Today's noon CT deadline to exchange arb figures has passed, but negotiations to avoid an arbitration hearing can continue into February. The Braves are the only strict "file and trial" team that did not agree to terms with all of its arb-eligible players, meaning they could be headed for several hearings. The Nats and Indians have also shown a willingness to go to a trial and still have some players unsigned. On to today's contract agreements…
- After exchanging numbers, the Mets and pitcher Dillon Gee have agreed to settle at the midpoint of $3.625MM, tweets Adam Rubin of ESPNNewYork.com. Swartz projected Gee to earn $3.4MM.
- The Cubs have avoided arbitration with reliever Pedro Strop, president Theo Epstein told Mark Gonzales of the Chicago Tribune (Twitter link). He will earn $1.325MM next year, according to a tweet from Gordon Wittenmyer of the Chicago Sun-Times. It is not immediately apparent whether the deal was reached before the sides exchanged terms.
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The botching of hurricane relief will affect Bush's legacy.
He is one of the most controversial figures in American life. And, as he approaches the end of his presidency, George W. Bush has finally joined the raging national debate about his legacy. In recent interviews and public statements, Bush has been more contemplative and revealing than ever as he assesses his eight years in office, attempts to lift his public image out of the trough, and shapes perceptions of his era. In this series, U.S. News reviews the Bush presidency from the beginning in 2001—with a special focus on five of his most fateful decisions, including going to war in Iraq and, more recently, approving a huge bailout of the financial industry.
Botching Katrina. It was a disaster at every level. But in political terms, the government's failure to respond effectively to Hurricane Katrina in the late summer of 2005 was Bush's biggest setback at home. "Katrina showed he is incompetent," says Howard Dean, outgoing chairman of the Democratic National Committee. "Before Katrina, everyone, including America's friends and enemies, believed if something awful happened in the world, you could call in the Americans and they'd fix it." The government response to the hurricane, which devastated New Orleans and much of the Gulf Coast, ruined that reputation, Dean argues.
Bush seemed slow off the mark as millions of people suffered, and he created a lasting image of isolation when the White House released photos of him, a solitary figure in his cushy seat, looking out a window on Marine One at the hurricane devastation far below. He also made a huge mistake when he praised Michael Brown, the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, with a now infamous attaboy—"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job"—even though the agency was botching the disaster response, adding to the impression that Bush was out of touch.
White House advisers say the blame for the poor Katrina response must be shared by the federal, state, and local governments, especially in dealing with the hurricane-related problems in New Orleans. Bush defenders add that he was correct not to visit the disaster sites immediately because to do so would have greatly complicated the relief efforts on the ground.
More substantively, Bush refrained from having the federal government immediately take over the relief effort even when it became clear that the state and local governments in Louisiana were not up to the job. His aides say Bush was guided here by his experience as governor of Texas and his belief that such matters are best left to lower-level officials. "For him, it was a question of usurpation of power," says a former senior adviser. But his failure to act while thousands of desperate people, unable to find food or water, were appealing for help on national television erased his image as an effective decision maker.
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