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By Nathan Hutchinson
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The Indians seemed to be a good position to pull off a come-from-behind victory Friday against Montgomery County at Don Richardson Field.
Trailing by a run in the seventh inning, Madison Central's first two hitters reached base — Jake Caldwell walked and Jimmy Wright singled.
That when the rally come to a halt.
Sam Lee struck out the next three batters to help Montgomery County (8-4) hang on for a 6-5 win in Richmond. The loss was the third-straight for Madison Central (8-5) since returning from a spring break trip to Florida.
The Indians never led, but did battle back from a four-run deficit by scoring four runs in the fifth inning.
Montgomery County pushed across the game-winning run in the sixth inning.
Central had 10 hits, including two hits each by Wright, Jonah Kelsey and Josh Wright. Jimmy Wright also scored twice and drove in a run.
Montgomery County took the lead with a run off Kelsey, Central's starting pitcher, in the third inning.
The Indians tied the game in the fourth. Jimmy Wright walked and scored on a double by Josh Wright.
Montgomery County sent nine batters to the plate in the fifth and took a 5-1 lead.
Central answered back in the bottom of the inning. The Indians had six hits in the inning and batted around.
Jeremy Lakes doubled, Ben Morin singled, Caldwell singled, Wright singled, Ben Fisher walked, Kelsey delivered an RBI single and Josh Wright added an RBI single.
Kelsey started and went four-plus innings. He gave up four runs on six hits, while walking one. Austin Templeton went one inning and allowed three hits, while striking out one.
Kirkland Humphrey went 1/3 of an inning and Brady McBride pitched 2/3 of an inning.
Nick Kavanaugh pitched the final inning and had one strikeout.
Central is back in action at home today against Madison Southern. Game time is set for noon.


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August 1, 2014
One man was killed in a house fire, but his mother and her friend escaped the burning home in Whitley County.
It happened Saturday night on Sandy Flat Road in Williamsburg.
The Whitley County Deputy Coroner Andy Croley says the man was bed ridden with a medical condition.
The home was fully engulfed and burned to the ground.
Police are still investigating and do not know the cause of the fire.
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An Army soldier accused of leaving his preschool-age children home alone in a squalid Lakewood apartment while he went to work was sentenced Wednesday to credit for time served.
Pierce County deputy prosecutor Robert Yu had asked for a high-end sentence of 14 months in state prison for 25-year-old Quintin Dublin, but defense attorney Jason Johnson argued his client was a decorated soldier with no previous criminal history who deserved a break.
Superior Court Judge Vicki Hogan sided with Johnson, sentencing Dublin as a first-time offender and giving him credit for the two months he's spent in jail awaiting sentencing on two counts of second-degree criminal mistreatment.
Hogan also ordered him to attend parenting classes and required that any contact he has with his children be supervised.
Dublin was scheduled to be released from the Pierce County Jail on Wednesday afternoon.
The case against Dublin came to light in November when a maintenance worker checking on a water leak discovered two children, then 3 and 4, home alone in an apartment littered with garbage, dirty diapers, spoiled food and feces, court records show.
He was charged with two counts of second-degree abandonment of a dependent person, second-degree criminal mistreatment and reckless endangerment.
Dublin said he left the kids alone for only a few of his work shifts at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, but deputy prosecutors later contended it might have up to 20.
Dublin, who deployed twice to Iraq, chose a bench trial, and Hogan in March convicted him of the two criminal mistreatment counts.
He faced a standard range of 12 to 14 months in prison.
Yu argued in a sentencing memorandum that Dublin deserved the high end.
"The defendant endangered the lives of a 3-year-old and 4-year-old child," the deputy prosecutor wrote. "The defendant left these children home alone for eight hours at a time. The conditions the children were left in included chemical bottles within reach, rotten food, exposed wires, exposed outlets, broken glass, an oven and running water, among other dangers."
Dublin's wife, from whom he's been separated, and his mother-in-law both asked for leniency.
Amber Dublin said her husband is a good man who loves his children dearly. She now has the children in another state.
"I'm not saying what he did was OK," she wrote in a letter to Hogan. "But what I am saying is as parents we make mistakes. Nothing horrible happened to our kids. Our kids are beyond happy; they are alive, breathing and enjoying life."
After being charged, Dublin told a psychologist hired by his defense team that trying to be a single father while maintaining 12-hour shifts was overwhelming, court records show.
Things got worse when his day-care contract was terminated, but he was too proud to ask for help, the records show.
"Then I thought I could handle it," Dublin told the psychologist. "I didn't want to jeopardize my military career for not having a short-term parenting plan."
Psychologist James Manley wrote in his report that Dublin now realizes what he did was wrong, feels terrible about it and wants to work to be a better father.
"It is clear Mr. Dublin made several extremely poor and neglectful childcare decisions," Manley wrote. "They were not malicious in nature, but rather poor, uninformed decisions that ultimately placed his young children in harm's way."


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(Sorry vegetarians and vegans – That probably sounds heartless to you, but not all humans are going to stop eating meat and the least they can do is eat meat that is easily sustainable and from a source that is not going to go extinct if we keep hunting/overfishing it for our consumption.)
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Christian Ballard of Birmingham High presented his case as the City Section's top swimmer by posting top marks in two events Wednesday in the City semifinals at Belmont Plaza in Long Beach.
The junior won the 500-yard freestyle in 4 minutes, 38.09 seconds and the 200-yard individual medley in 2:01.35. "I hope to go faster in the finals," Ballard said. "I'd like to go 4:30 in the 500 and 1:58 in the 200 IM."


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Palm Harbor University High wrestler Jared Prince made his hometown proud by finishing in 5th place in the recent Super 32 Challenge, which happens to be the largest National High School folkstyle wrestling tournament.
Way to go, Jared! You rock!
PHUH Assistant Wrestling Coach Mark Prince told us about Jared's win at the Super 32 Challenge. He wrote:
"Over 1500 high school wrestlers from the entire U.S. converge on Greensboro, NC once a year for this event.
At the 120 lb. weight class there were over 175 entries, 53 of which were state finalists, and over eight nationally ranked wrestlers.
Jared Prince from Palm Harbor University High School emerged from the field with an All American 5th place finish.
Jared finished with seven wins and two defeats. One of his victories was over the #13 nationally-ranked wrestler from Hawaii, while his losses were to two seniors who are nationally ranked #3 and #5 with scores of 9-7 and 3-2 respectively.
This was an outstanding accomplishment."
We totally agree with Coach Prince it was an outstanding accomplishment. We'd would like to honor Jared with an enthusiastic Patch-on-the-Back! Yay, way to rock it Jared!
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For students with little or no prior background in Mandarin, the Institute offers a six-week long Mandarin Chinese Summer Immersion Academy in New York City. With generous support from the National Security Language Initiative, a multi-agency U.S. government effort to expand foreign language education in under-taught critical languages, the program offers a full scholarship to twenty-five selected New York metro-area high school students. The program is directed especially at disadvantaged youth whose families may not be able to provide them with access to the opportunity to learn Mandarin – one of the key critical languages for the 21st century.
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Thanks to the new Facebook Timeline format, San Carlos Patch's homepage has space for a larger, banner cover photo across the top of the page. Currently there is a shot of the sculpture outside of city hall posted on the page.
However, loyal San Carlos Patch users, this is your Facebook page, too. A place where you can comment on stories, ask questions, start conversations and post events or announcements. So, I invite you to upload a photo for consideration for placement on our Facebook page. To share a photo, simply click the "Upload Photos & Video" tab above.
Do the open space areas or parks best capture San Carlos? Perhaps its a landmark buildings or a piece of public art? Something along Laurel Street or the vintage aircraft at Hiller?
Once we gather a few photos, we'll ask you to vote on your favorite. To get you started, I've added a photo here of the San Remo's crew at last Saturday's "A Taste of Italy" event in Laurel Street Park.
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You could look at the Bengals poor performance several ways:
1) The Chiefs aren't AS bad as people say they are. They've been playing better lately with Jamal Charles turning out to be a really good running back. Their defense played pretty well.
2) The Bengals didn't play well because it has been an emotional week and a half, with Chris Henry's funeral. They had to fly back from San Diego on Sunday night and then fly to Louisiana on their normal day off on Tuesday. It was a tough week for them.
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WASHINGTON — Add Russ Feingold to the list of Senate Democrats who find themselves in unexpectedly tough races, the latest evidence of the GOP's success in widening the playing field that President Barack Obama's party has to defend.
The Wisconsin Democrat faces a wealthy political newcomer with early backing from tea party activists in a state that has many independent voters and is known for doing its own thing.
The likely GOP nominee, Ron Johnson, is running an outsider's campaign.
"We have to boot professional politicians out of Washington," he says in his first campaign ad.
Feingold, now in his third term, knows he has a fight on his hands. Never shy about showcasing his independent streak, he reiterated his splits with the White House and fellow Democrats on two key policies last week.
"Regardless of who is in command, the president's current strategy in Afghanistan is counterproductive," Feingold said as the Senate confirmed Gen. David Petraeus to lead that war.
Feingold also renewed his opposition to the regulatory overhaul that Obama and Democrats wrote for Wall Street. "My test for the financial regulatory reform bill is whether it will prevent another crisis," and the measure "fails that test," he said.
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His occasional breaks from party orthodoxy could be his key to political survival in a campaign season that's already claimed five congressional incumbents and several establishment-backed candidates.
But, as Republicans are quick to remind voters, Feingold backed Obama's economic stimulus plan and health care overhaul.
Four months before November, public and private surveys show a surprisingly tight race — underscoring why the GOP is hopeful and Democrats are anxious about their Senate prospects in the first midterm congressional elections of Obama's presidency.
Democrats started the election year anticipating that several Senate incumbents would be vulnerable, including Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada, Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas and Michael Bennet in Colorado.
But few expected Feingold, Barbara Boxer in California or Patty Murray in Washington to confront serious challenges. All three face competitive contests.
Republican victories in any or all of the three races would indicate a huge night for the GOP, perhaps big enough to take control of Senate. To do it, they must claim 10 seats from Democrats without losing any of their own — a tall order.
At the least, more competitive races mean Democrats will have to spend money in places they didn't think they needed it. That could mean less money for persuading and motivating voters in other must-win states.
Senate Republicans lag in overall fundraising. But they are buoyed by having several deep-pocketed GOP candidates, like Johnson and Boxer's opponent, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina.
Democrats don't dispute that Republicans have succeeded in putting more Senate seats in play, including Feingold's.
But they argue that the GOP won't succeed in Wisconsin because, like Sharron Angle in Nevada and Rand Paul in Kentucky, Johnson is a far-right candidate who could have a problem attracting swing voters. Democrats say they'd rather Feingold face Johnson, a conservative who has never run statewide, than the more moderate former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson, who declined overtures to run.
Feingold has 18 years in the Senate and a strong base of supporters as well as a record as an aggressive campaigner and prolific fundraiser. He had raised $11.3 million and had $4.3 million on hand as of March, the most recent figures available, and recently got help from Vice President Joe Biden. Nonetheless, one of Feingold's strategists, John Krauss, casts the senator as the underdog in the race.


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In addition to a restaurant, Estanplaza Berrini features an indoor pool. Other amenities include a bar/lounge and a coffee shop/café.
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In addition to an indoor pool, Estanplaza Berrini provides a sauna and a fitness center. The hotel offers a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A complimentary breakfast is offered each morning. Public areas are equipped with high-speed wireless Internet access (surcharge).
Event facilities measuring 1119 square feet (104 square meters) include small meeting rooms. This Sao Paulo hotel also offers multilingual staff, concierge services, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) is offered to guests. Onsite parking is available (surcharge).
Estanplaza Berrini is a smoke-free property.
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- Total number of rooms - 127
- Multilingual staff
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- Express check-out
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Number of floors - 14
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- Fitness facilities
- Wireless Internet access - surcharge
- Indoor pool
- Restaurant
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- Luggage storage
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Year Built 2000
- Conference space size (meters) - 104
- Number of meeting rooms - 2
- Conference space size (feet) - 1119
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Available in all rooms: Wireless Internet access (surcharge) , Wired high-speed Internet access (surcharge)
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- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Minibar
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Complimentary toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower only
- In-room safe
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Wireless Internet access (surcharge)
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A complimentary buffet breakfast is served each morning between 6 AM and 10 AM.
Surui - This restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
24-hour room service is available.
- Recreation
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an indoor pool, a sauna, and a fitness center.
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Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
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Check-out time is noon
- Payment types
Accepted at this hotel: Visa, American Express, Diners Club, MasterCard
- General
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
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We have included all charges provided to us by the property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
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- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: BRL 25 (for 24 hours, rates may vary)
- Valet parking fee: BRL 15 per day
- Rollaway bed fee: BRL 94.5 per night
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Kansas City eco-friendly hotel with an indoor pool
Situated in Kansas City, this eco-friendly hotel is close to Glenwood Theatre at Red Bridge, Minor Park Golf Course, and International House of Prayer. Local attractions also include Harry Wiggins Trolley Track Trail.
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MANATEE -- Local residents expressed mixed feelings Wednesday about President Barack Obama's proposals to curb gun violence.
"I think this is a rush to judgment," said Patti Dolan, 58, a Palmetto oncologist who was at a gun range Wednesday.
"I've been in the health care field, and I feel some of our mental health problems are because we've let down that population."
Those with mentally ill children or parents have few recourses, she said, adding that "we've gotten so sympathetic, the reality of mental illnesses aren't dealt with."
She would like to see some funds that the president plans to use on limiting guns channeled instead to mental health services, such as residential facilities.
"Some people would do better if they were put on the right medications, and in a dormitory. ... Now, they're on the street."
A man entering a Bradenton gun shop declined to give his name, but said, "The president wants to destroy the U.S. as we know it."
A salesman in a Palmetto pawn shop, however, thought the president was on the right track.
"I think for sure something needs to be done about it," said Jeff Boston, 38, a salesman at Value Pawn & Jewelry, in Palmetto. "They need to keep assault rifles and clips with unlimited ammunition out of the hands of the wrong people."
"We don't carry weaponry at Value Pawn, which I'm glad about," he added.
U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Longboat Key, whose district includes much of Manatee County, was unavailable for comment Wednesday, according to an aide.
However, the National Rifle Association's Political Victory Fund most recently gave Buchanan a 92 percent rating, based on his votes and positions on issues of interest to the NRA. By comparison, Buchanan's opponent in the Nov. 6 election, Democrat Keith Fitzgerald, received a 17 percent ranking, according to information compiled by Project Vote Smart.
Buchanan's Democratic colleague from Tampa supported Obama's initiative.
"President Obama and Vice President Biden have presented a strong, comprehensive plan that rightfully proposes to increase access to mental health services for schools and students," said U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor.
"I have spoken with local school district and community leaders and experts in mental health about support for our teachers and students," she said. The president's plan rightfully calls for training 5,000 more social workers, counselors and psychologists, with a focus on those serving students and young adults, especially young, isolated male teenagers, she noted.
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It must be a "man in power" thing, or "political prowess," that lures beautiful young women to the likes of Gary Condit, Bill Clinton, and our own Willie Brown. None of the politicians has anything sensual to offer, they all are married, and it is an absolute certainty that these women will be dropped quickly. In the case of Willie Brown, they are sitting pretty on his arm at various social engagements, then quickly tossed back into the pack, usually the same night. Simply stay close to the mayor and watch as the night goes on for him to replace one for another. Top choices for discard pickups are hotel openings, political fund-raisers, and highbrow charity events.


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The time has come again to announce this week's winner of the St Albans and Harpenden Review's Photography Competition.
Our photographers, Pippa and Holly, have deliberated over your fantastic entries and this week's winner is...
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ATHENS, Texas (AP) — The Texas attorney general has sent a letter to an East Texas county judge, offering his help if the county is sued over its nativity scene.
Henderson County officials this month received a letter from the Freedom From Religion Foundation. The group asked that the nativity scene be removed and seeks to put up its own banner. County Judge Richard Sanders says the county is complying with federal law and the nativity scene will remain.
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RFU Championship side Leeds Carnegie have appointed Sir Ian McGeechan as their new executive chairman.
McGeechan left Bath at the end of last season where he was in the role of director of rugby but Leeds have offered the Lions legend a path back into rugby and he has succeeded Paul Caddick with immediate effect.
During his playing days, McGeechan played for Headingley RFC and he will now work with director of rugby Chris Gibson and head coach Diccon Edwards.
"I am delighted to have this opportunity to come back to where it all started for me and give something back to my club," McGeechan said. "I want to do everything I can to help develop the strong base there is already established here so that Yorkshire talent continues to be given an opportunity to shine at Leeds Carnegie.
"I have been involved with setting up and developing a number of academies in my career and as an ex-School master I know the potential of youth within the best possible structure. An important part of my role will be to build relationships with businesses, sponsors and clubs across Yorkshire to create ultimately a sustainable base to build professional rugby here in Yorkshire. The role of executive chairman is a new role for me but one that I am very excited about. I am keen to support the club in any way I can.
"I was fortunate in my early Headingley days to be guided by older, wiser players who helped shape me as an individual and now all these years on, things have come full circle and I have the opportunity to do exactly the same."
Leeds' CEO Gary Hetherington added: "Ian will have a number of key objectives that are not focused on coaching that he will be aiming to deliver on as we look to strengthen our business and fulfil our potential by returning to the Premiership. As well as his obvious rugby expertise, Ian will also work closely with our commercial director Rob Oates and business development manager John Bentley to attract new sponsors and partners to the club.
"Although he is well known for his connections to Scotland and the Lions, he is a passionate Yorkshireman and importantly passionate about Rugby Union in Yorkshire and his addition to our Board of Directors is a major boost to the county."
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Ledger Hansing wants to follow in the footsteps of his Uncle Dale.
Dressed in a fire fighters gear complete with a child sized plastic ax and hat, the 2 1/2 year old Port Neches tot smiled from ear to ear as he aimed a fire hose at a toy playhouse nearby. Groves Volunteer Firefighter Cameron Dale lend a helping hand.
Hansing's Uncle Dave, also known as Groves Fire Chief Dale Jackson, walked the perimeter of the fire station surveying the ongoing activities of the department's annual open house. This year Jackson decided to add a few new elements to the already popular event which is held during Fire Prevention Week.
"We added new stuff this year," Jackson said as fire fighters repelled from the station's tower with the aid of a ladder truck from Port Neches Fire Department.
Jackson said this year the focus of the event is in the importance of fire escape planning and practice. Every year house fires cause thousands of injuries and death.
"Basic protection can help save lives and prevent injuries in the home whenever a fire occurs. Plan two ways out of each room in the home, establish an outside meeting place where every family member will meet, install smoke alarms on every level of the home and outside each sleeping area and test the detector at least once a month for proper operation. Remember to change the battery whenever you set your clock during the spring and fall and most importantly, be proactive in eliminating fire hazards in the home," he said in a press release.
Hands-on practice also included a demonstration of the proper use of a fire extinguisher. A burner was set up at the back of the station and Groves Volunteer Firefighter Jared Trimble explained that homeowners need to have a fire extinguisher that is Class A-B-C which can be used for common materials such as paper and wood, flammable liquids such as gasoline, paint remover and grease and electrical fires.
Trimble asked the crowd if they knew the "old remedy" of what to do in case of a grease fire. The answers ranged from "put a towel on it" to "throw flour on it" and "throw baking soda on it."
"You can easily put out a grease fire by placing a lid on the pot or using baking soda. Never use flour," Trimble said. "Flour will cause the fire to flare up. And even if you think the fire is out, call the fire department. We love to come out and make sure you're safe."
Trimble also reminded parents to make sure the fire extinguisher in their home is checked yearly.
Groves Volunteer Firefighter Erica Moore demonstrated the proper way to use a fire extinguisher by using PASS, an acronym for pull the pin, aim, squeeze, sweep side to side.
Hunter LaBarge, 3, was one of the first children who lined up to take a turn at using the fire extinguisher with the assistance of Moore. His father, Zane LaBarge, said he enjoyed the event and felt it was good for the kids to learn fire safety.
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A Very Simple Idea I Have About Picky Eating
In the nearly two years I've been working towards my Masters degree in Food Studies (I'll be done in May!), I've read a lot of journal articles about picky eating in children. I've seen research on the influence of breastfeeding practices, the role of ethnicity and income, and the question of whether picky eating can be considered an eating disorder. One paper considers whether a teacher acting as a role model can encourage "food acceptance" in toddlers (verdict: maybe a bit, sometimes); another investigates whether nagging children to finish their food has any effect (answer: sure, but that effect is not "eating more").
The existing scholarship looks at the issue from all sorts of angles–except, it seems to me, the most obvious one. I'm not ruling out other influences, and I think it gets a lot more complicated the older a person becomes, but is it possible that what is characterized as "food neophobia" among small children might just be an appropriate response to bad food?
None of the research I've seen is interested in challenging the accepted but deeply flawed notion that there is such a thing, gastronomically, as "broccoli" (or any other ingredient). As a physical article, yes, broccoli exists. Culturally, though, broccoli is a spectrum. There's raw broccoli, steamed broccoli, unseasoned broccoli, overcooked broccoli, sautéed broccoli with garlic and lemon, broccoli and cheese soup…you get the idea. All of these things offer entirely different flavors, textures and overall experiences. So when a social scientist says to me, "This child does not like broccoli," I don't know what that means. Does it mean that the child has been presented with the full spectrum of broccoli possibilities and rejected them all, or that he hates the way his mom makes it? Those are very different responses.
It's funny that researchers will control for almost anything in a family, from socioeconomic status to the mother's own eating habits, but no-one will take into account whether the food served in that household actually tastes good.
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"The process (of debauching the currency) engages all of the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." — John Maynard Keynes
Major oil companies are fast approaching the perfect storm of massive profit gains, rising gasoline prices, and a revenue hungry President who happily vilifies the oil industry. The charges of "greed" during next year's super-charged political atmosphere may stick, putting at risk the legitimate shareholder value created by today's oil executives.
Last week, Exxon Mobil, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, reported a staggering $10.33 billion in third quarter profits, a 41% increase in the face of falling oil production and a 32% increase in revenue. Occidental Petroleum reported a 49% profit gain. And Europe based Royal Dutch Shell reported its third quarter profit more than doubled.
Somewhat stronger economic growth will increase unit volumes. But, it is the fall in the value of the dollar to less than 1/1700 of an ounce of gold that will drive oil prices back above $100 a barrel, sending gasoline prices north of $4.00 a gallon. Rising unit volumes and higher prices point to continued outsized profit gains and growing public anger.
The industry's best defense against the inevitable political attack: be an early advocate of stabilizing the value of the dollar by moving forward to a 21st century gold standard.
What does a gold standard have to do with the oil industry? Everything.
Ever since President Nixon killed the gold standard in 1971, we have lived through a series of oil price spikes and collapses. Rising oil prices have been blamed on Arab sheiks, profligate American consumers, the rapid growth in China, speculators and at the head of the list, "greedy" oil companies and executives.
Missing from the list is the federal government's debasement of our dollar.
During the 1950s and 1960s, the dollar's value was fixed at 1/35th of an ounce of gold and the price of oil was relatively stable, averaging just $2.90 a barrel. Since then, the price of oil has gone up 32 fold to $93 a barrel. But over that same time period, the value of the dollar has fallen more than 45 fold to less than 1/1600 of an ounce of gold.
Think of what this means. If the federal government had maintained its promise that a dollar was worth 1/35th of an ounce of gold, the price of oil today still would be under $3.00 a barrel! That's right, the entire rise in the nominal price of oil since the 1960s is due to fall in the value of the dollar.
Mr. Kadlec,
It is interesting to note that Dr. Milton Friedman would very much disagree with you. In 1984 he wrote a paper entitled "The Crime of 1873″ assessing the Coinage Act of 1873 (the fourth so named) which for the first time put the US on "Gold Standard". He believed that it was a serious mistake.
One of the first acts of the US Congress after the new US Constitution was the Coinage Act of 1792 allowed for the minting of both gold and silver coins at a face value ratio of 15:1. However, the price of gold and silver changed relatively quickly so that it became pointless to mint gold coins.
As Dr. Friedman notes:"As a result, anyone who had gold and wanted to convert it to money would do better by exchanging the gold for silver at the market ratio and taking the silver to the mint than by taking the gold directly to the mint." So until about 1834 the US government issued no gold coins, not because of law, but as a practical economic matter. The US government did not print paper money at this time, as it had during the War for Independence, but there was plenty of paper money in use, which was issued by private banks.
During the Civil War, the US government started printing paper money ("Greenbacks") which was not backed by either gold or silver and outlawed the issuance of paper money by private banks.
The Greenbacks were eliminated and the US put on a real gold standard by the coinage Act of 1873 (H. R. 2934) that put the US on a de facto gold standard. This created a number of problem almost right away, not the least of which was the "Panic of 1873″ and the ensuing Long Depression of 1873 – 1879 the third worst economic downturn in US history (it was second until the on-going "Great Recession" of 2008-?) which included very serious deflation. Almost immediately there was an out cry against the gold standard.
In 1878 Congress passed the Bland–Allison Act (P.L. 45-20, 20 Stat. 25) which again put the standard silver dollar back as legal tender. The treasury was directed to purchase silver at the market price in the amount of 2 to 4 million USD monthly in the form of coins. This modified by the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890. However, unlike gold coins, the face value was less than the "melt" value. Both acts set minimum amounts of silver to be purchased.
With new silver sources opened up in the west, the supply of silver increased but with demand steady, the price steadily fell. This did not happen with gold however. Because of the logistical difficulties of dealing with large amounts of money in the form of metals, the Treasury began issuing Gold Certificates and Silver Certificates each redeemable in the respective metal, initially in coin but later in bullion. However as the market price of gold rose, deflation set in. Since the face value of both certificates were the same for the same denomination, as the price gold rose, the ratio of the face value of the Silver Certificate to the market value of silver dropped. No one would ever redeem the silver certificates for the metal because of this negative difference between the face value and melt value.
Despite this, Silver Certificates were widely used with a face value equal to that of Gold Certificate and gold coins. This explains the seeming paradox of simultaneous deflation of both Gold and Silver Certificates and coins even as the price of market price of silver declined.
This is precisely Dr. Friedman's point, the face value of the Silver Certificates was completely independent of the melt value of the physical silver "backing" the Certificate. In this way, the Silver Certificates behaved exactly the same the Greenbacks of the Civil War era, or those of today, neither of which had any metal backing them up.
"Though the silver was purchased at market prices, it was valued for monetary purposes at the higher legal price, the difference being treated as 'seignorage.' The silver was mostly coined into standard silver dollars. However, most of the coins were stockpiled in the Treasury as 'reserves' for pieces of paper called Silver Certificates or, after 1890, Treasury Notes of 1890. These were nominally convertible into silver, but they were also "legal tender" effectively convertible into gold. Hence, it was cheaper to get silver by using the paper money to buy it on the market than by converting the paper money into silver at the fictional legal price. In effect, the silver certificates were fiat money differing from greenbacks only because the historic role of silver as money made it more acceptable to increase the money supply by buying silver rather than by openly issuing fiat money."
There is an inherent problem with using metal to "back up" the value of money that this story implies but it is useful to draw out. Use of any commodity, including gold and silver, invariably ends up influencing the market place for that commodity. In this case, the demand for gold to be used as money proved to be a significant portion of the entire market, enough to actually alter the balance of supply and demand. As was noted by others, the US was not the only country to switch to a gold standard around this time. As a result the world-wide demand exceeded the supply and the market (or "melt") value gold as a metal rose and with it the exchange value of the gold coins and Gold Certificates, producing deflation.
Milton Friedman, in the same paper quote above wrote in 1984 (The Crime of 1873) – "…my own view is…that it was a mistake that had highly adverse consequences." (Working Papers in Econonics E-89-12.)
So it would seem that Milton Friedman thinks that the gold standard of 1873 was a really bad idea. I have to say that I agree with him.
The "Long Depression" of 1873-79" is one of the great misnomers, the great bugbears, in US economic history. It is of major significance that what we are talking about here is the greatest decade of economic growth in American history. That's right: 1st out of 21 decades since 1800. If the 2nd- or 3rd worst depression in American history is in there – an incredible claim! – it must be in a disguise for the ages.
Output statistics: there was one down year of GDP performance, 1875. And the output decline did not even hit the level of 0.2%. For the decade, GDP went up 71% (a record unmatched outside of the 1940s, but ex-govt. it's not close). If you prefer the NBER's "total physical production" category, worst scenario was 1872-74, down 4.5%, but up 75% for the 1870s.
Manufacturing production? Worst peak-trough, 1872-76, down 7.7%, a moderate number on 20th-century standards, but en route to a 55% increase 1869-79; 1870-1880 the increase was 97% (again NBER #s).
Farm output? Worst peak-trough, 1873-74, 5.7%, on the way to a 59% increase 1870-80.
The only real way you can have quibbles about the monetary system is if the economy under its auspices is failing. Now I know that historians have written thousands of pages condemning 1873+, but I fear it is schlock. If the statistics are defying your narrative that badly, you've got to start reframing questions and challenging settled claims.
I'll offer this: it was not one of the worst depressions in American history, but rather the very best. The wake of 1873 saw exactly what you want in a depression: the reorganization of assets into most productive hands. One person's bankruptcy is another's buying the capital on fire sale for the future Edgar Thompson steel plant (I speak of only the most famous killing made in the 1873 panic, that of Andrew Carnegie). The "Crime of 1873" saw bankruptcies that flowed capital to owners who would verily make the greatest industrial revolution the world has yet seen. Bring it on.
Pr. Domitrovic,
1) The issue of the size and intensity of the Long Depression of 1873 – 1879 is of course entirely beside the point here. I only mentioned it passing. The main point being discussed is about the economic impacts of the gold standard initiated by the Coinage Act of 1873. The point that I was making, and Dr. Friedman was making, was that the shift to a Gold Standard had terrible economic implications.
2) With that said, the Long Depression can be measured by the impact it had on the working class. The largest and most violent strikes in US history occurred during this period. The Long Strike in the Pennsylvania coal country which last two years and was only ended when Governor John Hartranft ordered 1,800 members of the state militia to the region and 20 of the strike leaders were arrested and hung. This was followed by the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 which was the first nation-wide strike, which shut down all railroad operations. Rather like the current Occupy Wall Street movement, this was completely spontaneous and not planned at all. Once more, the strike had to be put down with the State Militias in many different states. The Great Railroad strike spawned many other strikes such as the 1877 Shamokin Uprising when the coal miners to joined the railroad strikers. There was a general strike in St. Louis where all workers went off the job. 3,000 federal troops and 5,000 deputized special police killed at least eighteen people in skirmishes around the city.
The cause of this extensive and violent period of labor unrest was vast employment and poverty. In Pennsylvania, the unemployment rate was nearly 33% among industrial workers. It was no different in most other industrialized states of the US. Hunger and desperation drove these wild and violent strikes.
Today, the US economy is supposed to be out of the "Great Recession" and certainly there are some people who are making great profits. However the vast majority of people in this country are not. The same was true of the 1870′s. There were indeed some people and sectors that did quite well. However the working people of the time, it was disastrous.
Mr. Kadlec,
I certainly did not mean to suggest that you or anyone else was proposing that a new gold standard be set at the same values mandated in the Fourth Coinage Act of 1873 of 22.5 grains of gold being one dollar (19 USD/oz).
The point that I was making was that no matter how many oz. of gold one defines as one dollar, the whole concept is badly flawed from a theoretical perspective as well as from a historical and empirical perspective.
You wrote:"If the increase in economic growth is anything appproaching that which occurred in the aftermath of the restoration of the gold standard in the 1870s, labor will be among its greatest beneficiaries."
The United States went into a long, protracted depression. The Panic of 1873 heralded the beginning of the "Long Depression" which was marked by numerous bank failures and widespread unemployment and social unrest.
Hello Mr. Kadlec,
And when the banking system makes a loan, creating new money, how will you manufacture the gold with which to balance the disordered relationship?
Mr. Kadlec,
Mr. Nixon did not kill the gold standard. The gold standard was ended by Franklin Roosevelt. The Bretton Woods agreement, which Mr. Nixon ended, only applied to intergovernmental exchanges and had nothing to do with "the Gold Standard" as it had nothing to do with ordinary money used in every day economic matters.
The US was put back on the Gold Standard in 1974 by Gerald Ford when he made private ownership of gold legal, undoing Mr. Roosevelt's actions. Today, anyone can fully convert their money into gold at any time, i.e. the Gold Standard.
Pr. Domitrovic argues that the Long Depression was very mild and short. I argued that it was long and severe. The massive waves of labor unrest and poverty are ample proof of the painful nature of this Depression.
The Gold Standard of 1873 was a huge mistake according to none other than Dr. Milton Friedman, because of the long term deflation that it caused..
Hello Mr. Kadlec,
I hate to say this, I have no choice: that on this issue alone I agree with David. It nauseates me, terrifies me, and distresses me, but I agree with him.
If the problem is worthless government spending, then one must attack the problem at its source. Complicating the money supply is no way to attack the lack of restraint in government expenditure.
Even if implemented, government will continue to usurp and retain the functions of the markets.
I have told you several times the very simple solution to this problem, but it does not seem to register.
By giving direct control of the government's finances to the lenders or people of the nation, all the worst of government expenditure will disappear, and all the best will emerge and endure.
The problem of government excess or market deterrence caused by taxation will never be resolved within the system of Taxation. It can never be.
Gary Marshall
Hello Mr. Kadlec,
When did the governments of Europe abolish Taxation, an act that would rid the nations of Europe of government excess and squander as well as Taxation's deterrent effect, and borrow the entire sum of their public expenditure?
I will agree that going back on the gold standard or having some other commodity money instead of fiat money will go a long way toward reigning in inflation, however, fractional reserve banking, government borrowing, and the Fed's ability to create money based on nothing at all also need to be ended, otherwise the specter of inflation and the tragedy of the business cycle can never be ended and, we, the people, will continue to be robbed by the government and the banking system.
Now, your statement that the oil companies are enriched through inflation is incorrect. And the fact is,Inherently they cannot be. Inflation comes ONLY as a result of increase of the money supply and all creation of money must necessarily occur within the banking system. That means further that the banking system and the government get the newly created money FIRST therefore are the only ones who can take benefit of newly created, but uninflated dollars. Inflation begins once these dollars leave government and banking hands. The rest of us suffer the parasitic effects of inflation. You could say that the banks, beginning with the Fed and the government are sucking the life out of us.
So, let's not allow the President or anyone in government or in banking divert our attention to other supposed culprits and off of them. To rephrase Reagan's famous comment: "Government and banking are not the solution to our inflation problems. THEY ARE THE PROBLEM."
Mr. Kadlec,
The use of gold as the basis for gold does not prevent "debauching the currency" In Knox v Lee, 79 U.S. 457 (1871), the SCOTUS ruled that paper money was not unconstitutional as such. Knox had argued that paper money unconstitutional because it allowed Congress to manipulate the value of the money so that, in an extreme case, the value of the dollar would be next to nothing. The majority argued that the Congress can manipulate the value of precious metals to the point where it can be rendered as inherently worthless as just as it can with paper. Congress could enact a law that says that 1 USD is worth 1/40th of an ounce of gold in one year and 1/400th of an ounce the next and 1/4,000th the following year.
A gold standard provides no protection whatsoever to "debauching the currency".
Hello Mr. Kadlec,
What creates an economy with higher growth rates and rising living standards is less government and more private industry: less government squander and a far lower government take.
Private individuals and companies borrow, creating money, at their peril. If the borrowing is inopportune, then bankruptcy or harsh times follow.
Government may borrow and waste with impunity. There is no real constraint on its ridiculous efforts to 'create' jobs or fund silly ideas proposed by their influential principals.
Even with a gold standard, poor financial behaviour among governments continues. First, its a convertible standard, then its a convertible standard for currency only, then a non-convertible standard for both currency and inside money. Then it the standard comes to an end.
This happens every time. What you propose is pursuing a failure, a failure right from the moment the standard is fixed. One loan destroys that fixed relationship, unless you produce gold at the same rate as money is created. That rarely happens, and when it does it is always that the rate of gold production is never evenly matched. Spain saw this with the influx of gold and silver from its American colonies centuries ago.
A Euro, however, does force nations to face up to their financial idiocies. There is no sovereign central bank. Any action by the ECB must be approved by the member nations. A nation's borrowing rate is measured against the financial health of that economy and every other member's. The best run nation will enjoy a far lower rate than the worst run nation. Inflating away the currency is not an option unless approved by the majority.
This is a 'gold' standard that works.
But an even better standard is one in which the people exercise direct control over government expenditures, in which they act as the nation's perpetual banker, directly.
A government may fund Solyndra, if there is a demonstrated need and a worthy cost/benefit analysis performed. But if it should fail, how does a government go back to its banker, seeking more money for new projects?
Its not so easy the second time.
That is the financial reality that government will face with the abolition of all Taxation.
Gary Marshall
You are completely twisting Reagan's 'famous comment'. He said nothing about banks and inflation. He supported the Fed, as do all respected economists, from Harvard to Chicago.
Additionally, not even the most conservative of economic models link inflation to the business cycle. The business cycle is a natural component of society and even existed hundreds of years ago, economics was even studied as a field.
You should put down Ron Paul's book and start reading from real economic literature. Given your political disposition, perhaps you can start with Milton Friedman.
Mr. Kadlec,
I take issue with a few points you made in your article. The first is that the dollar has "fall[en] in the value of the dollar to less than 1/1700 of an ounce of gold". This is very misleading. It is gold that has grown in value, and there is a very big difference. The dollar has not fallen nearly as much in value when compared to other commodities. The rise in the price of gold has very little to do with the dollar's value, and everything to do with speculators buying gold in a sour investing climate.
The second is that you said that if we still had the gold standard, "the price of oil today still would be under $3.00 a barrel". While that is mathematically true, its also very misleading. That would be the nominal price of oil. However, the dramatic increase in gold over the past 3 years would have led to extreme deflation in the US dollar. When gold trading is as volatile as it has been, there will be very volatile exchange rates and inflation rates in the US dollar. While the nominal price of oil would be only $3, the real price would no doubt be very close to where it is today- because that represents its marginal value under scarcity. The only two ways to lower Real oil prices are to increase supply, or decrease demand.
Reinstituting the gold standard would make it much harder for the Fed to adjust both the exchange rate and the inflation rate, a Vital tool for a nation during a worldwide financial crisis when currency markets are so volatile.
You are correct that the gold standard will stabilize energy prices, but only at the expense of the stabilization of money markets. Inflation has been a steady 3% per year since the 1980′s, which adds certainty to wage contracts, investment contracts, and international trade. Linking the value of the dollar to the price of gold would give speculators, gold hoarders, and international governments power over our currency. Since the 1970′s when the gold standard was eliminated, the internet has allowed many more people access to commodities markets to trade gold. The rise of Asian nations like China and India, both interested in building their gold stocks, has also made the price of gold much more volatile. A gold standard would be a very bad idea for this country.
Gold is consider a safe heaven from political and commercial attack. Not unlike oil, everybody has big ambition on it Oil is vital and prime commodity that keeps industrial, commercial,agricultural moving. Without it the World economy will collapsed.
Hello Gawe,
Yes, gold is a haven. One turns to it when in times of financial turmoil, like right now. It can be bought and sold immediately on the financial markets at any time at the market price.
Why have a gold standard when we already have a market based and very functional gold standard, where money can be freely exchanged for gold at any time?
The last three wars in which the US has become engaged in have oil as the root cause.
Wars are incredibly expensive. In terms of resources used—–not only in dollars spent, but even in terms of lives claimed. Somewhere around 2/3 of the current national debt was spent to support wars in Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, and on and on.
All to protect "cheap" oil.
Oil ain't cheap! We are paying for it in blood and lives, and it is destroying our economy, our environment and the foundations of the society it is built on.
We are spending something like $600 to $800 billion per year in trade deficits to buy a raw material that we are only going to burn. We might as well take our currency and put it in a huge pile and burn it.
You can make your currency gold, platinum, or peanut shells. No matter what you are using for currency—-as long as you are trading your currency for oil, and then burning it up, it doesn't matter in the least what you use.
"The process (of debauching the currency) engages all of the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." — John Maynard Keynes
Agreed. Very few people understand the creation of a nation's currency. We have known that money is a human creation for a long time. Aristotle stated, "money is not a thing of nature, but of law." We also know that somebody has to create the national money supply.
Historically bankers have created almost all money in western economies as reserve currency. The reserve currency systems evolved from goldsmiths renting space in their vaults, issuing paper receipts for the valuables stored in their vaults. These receipts were traded in the marketplace as if they were the gold itself. The goldsmith-bankers increased their incomes by lending their gold or the receipts for their gold. With the invention of fractional reserve lending, the bankers started lending receipts for gold they did not have.
Today in western economies, all money, with the exception of coins, comes into existence as debt to private banks. If there were no debt in the economy, there would be no money in the economy. Whatever reserve commodity backs the debt is irrelevant because the loans are collectively impossible to repay. The banks create only the principal when they make loans, so there is never enough money in the economy to repay the principal plus the interest on the nation's collective debt.
One problem in these systems is that the governments themselves have been seduced into borrowing money created out of nothing and are paying interest on it, when the governments can create the funds themselves, debt-free without interest.
The way out of the financial mess is the governments' issuing their national money supplies, auditing the banks and buying them at book value, then prohibiting fractional reserve banking as a form of counterfeiting. With government owned and operated banks, the interest payments on private debt would be paid to the treasury as revenue, greatly reducing the need for taxes while providing abundant money for government programs.


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