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WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. -- At 1:30 p.m., Monday, Jim Justice strutted to the No. 1 tee box at the Old White TPC golf course and joined PGA Tour professional John Daly and friends Jeff Kmiec and John Klemish.
After Klemish hit a shot into the crowd down the left side of the fairway, Justice threw down his club and hat and proclaimed 'Already?' -- a comment that drew a robust laugh from the crowd.
Then, Justice stepped to the tee box and ripped a long drive that hugged the left edge of the fairway before turning to the crowd and saying 'That's power golf.'
He was fun, he was charismatic, he was simply Jim Justice a few days before his PGA Tour showcase event, The Greenbrier Classic.
The smiles and jokes were a stark contrast to the same time last year when Justice, owner of The Greenbrier Resort, and his crew had been up around the clock for nearly four days straight trying to clear the remnants of a powerful derecho storm that left 50 trees strewn about the golf course and also left much of the Greenbrier Valley without power for weeks.
"Oh gosh, it was terrible and, to be perfectly honest, I've said it a bunch of times, no one -- especially me -- could've realized how bad it was," Justice said. "So many people suffered for so long, it was unbelievable. To get this event and pull it off (last year), I thought it was important to do it for our state. We had a lot of hustle and everything and we got it done, but it was a tough time. That's for sure."
One year after the storm, the course is in terrific shape -- some players even saying it's the best they've seen it.
That aspect, plus getting tournament week started once again, brought smiles to Justice's face.
Still, he maintained -- almost defiantly -- that the days leading up to this year's tournament were no less stressful than the days leading up to last year when Mother Nature had ravaged the course.
"There's nothing that's breath-easy about this," Justice said. "I told the lady who is my executive assistant, 'If you're not nervous about this, you're not breathing.' That's all there is to it. There's a lot that goes on here, that's for sure."
Surely, it couldn't be true. Could it?.
The days leading up to the 2013 tournament matching the intensity of 2012 and all that had to be overcome -- including a 100-foot tree laying over top of the 16th green less than 96 hours prior to the tournament's start?
Daly explained why the bold statement by Justice could definitely be true.
"He does more than he needs to do or what he has to do," Daly said. "It's 120 percent effort out of 100 percent and Jimmy gives it to everyone here. That's why everybody loves him."
It was hard to argue with Daly.
Justice greeted the golfers, then the media and then the fans as he ushered in the fourth installment of The Greenbrier Classic.
Even then, he turned his attention to Daly, who was continuing the annual practice of playing in the Pro-Am with Justice.
"I've got to golf with John," Justice said. "I don't know how in the world he puts up with me, but I've got to play with him."
Over the past three years, Daly and Justice have become good friends. This year Daly is competing in the tournament on a sponsor exemption for the second consecutive time as he works to get his PGA Tour Card back.
Daly spoke of why The Greenbrier Classic is special to him. Last year, The Greenbrier Classic provided one of Daly's best finishes as he was 10-under-par in a tie for 12th place.
The 2013 season has been a bit more of a struggle as Daly has made just four of 11 cuts with a top finish of a tie for 50th.
He hopes to change that at a course he's played well at recently.
"It sets up well for me," Daly said. "I played okay last year. I didn't putt very good, but that's been the trend the last couple of years -- that I haven't been putting very good.
"If I can putt halfway-decent, it could be a pretty good week because I feel like I'm hitting it pretty good."
As Justice finished speaking with media members, Daly uncorked a bomb down the right side of the fairway that backed up his words of striking the ball well.
Justice stood and smiled as he watched the ball in flight. He knew the loud sound off the club from the Loudmouth-brand sponsored Daly meant the 2013 Greenbrier Classic was officially underway.
For one week, the state of West Virginia is the center of the golf world again.
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Andre Wisdom has revealed how senior teammate Jamie Carragher advises him both on the pitch and at the sidelines, as the 19-year-old aims to emulate his more experienced colleague.
The defender has made impressive strides under Brendan Rodgers this season, scoring a goal on his debut appearance and enjoying a regular run in the starting XI.
Carragher has been part of the defence in two of Wisdom's five appearances to date, but the youngster revealed the vice-captain helps him during matches even when he is on the bench.
Wisdom told the This is Anfield matchday programme: "I watch everything he does and listen to everything he says. When we beat Norwich he was helping organise the defence from the bench.
"When they had a corner I stayed back and looked and he was telling me to adjust my position a bit - then putting his thumb up when I was in the right area.
"That helps a lot. He's played 700-odd games so he knows exactly what he's talking about. I really appreciate it."
During his 15-year career in the Reds first team, Carragher has been deployed in a variety of positions, using his skills in every place across the back four plus appearances in midfield.
Having occasionally played in midfield for Liverpool's youth sides, established himself at right-back for the senior team and with the potential to play in central defence, Wisdom takes inspiration from the No.23.
"You look at someone like Jamie Carragher particularly because he played right-back, left-back and midfield before settling in the middle of defence," he explained.
"I played most of my youth days in the centre-back position but I was also given experience of playing in other different areas.
"I've played both right and left-back before as well as midfield. In the FA Youth Cup final of 2009, I was only 15 and started in the middle against Jack Wilshere. It was an education.
"In today's game I don't think any player can afford to just say they play in one position on the pitch. Maybe in the future I'll play centre-back but as long as my name is on the teamsheet I really don't care."
Wisdom's enthusiasm for featuring in the Liverpool starting line-up was most evident by his celebration after converting a header on his debut against Young Boys in the Europa League.
The defender is keen to keep his feet on the ground, though, and again cited Carragher and captain Steven Gerrard as examples to follow in that regard.
"I know it's easy for people to get carried away but I've only played a few games," said Wisdom, showing a similar level of maturity off the pitch as he does on it.
"You see players like Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard that have been here for years and years and day in, day out, they're still proving themselves.
"You can see that by the intensity of the training and by the way they perform in matches. You can never get comfortable and content. Football is so competitive, there's always someone else wanting your position.
"I also realise that I play for Liverpool and sooner or later, the manager might choose to leave me out. He'll know when it's best to put any of the young lads in or take us out as well.
"I understand it won't always be this way. Hopefully I'll be at Liverpool for a long time but I know there will be difficult moments.
"Then again, you have to take everything as it comes. The minimum you can give is 100 per cent. If you don't you're letting yourself, the team, the fans and the coaching staff down."
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It's a pleasure to return to COMMENTARY after having served as a senior advisor in the Romney campaign. At a later date I'll dilate on the outcome of the election. For now I simply want to say that I ended the campaign with an even higher regard for Governor Romney than I began it. He is a man of great personal decency and integrity. He single-handedly revived his campaign on the largest stage in American politics (the October 3 debate); and he became stronger over the course of the election.
Tuesday's loss was a body blow for those associated with the campaign. Few of us saw this defeat coming, which makes the defeat all the more jarring.
Most Americans are simply relieved the campaign is over. They believe it went on for far too long, that it was much too expensive, and that it was characterized by personal attacks and petty discussions. Everyone, it seems, is sick of politics.
Post-election lamentations aren't unusual, and they aren't without merit. But let me offer several other observations, the first of which is that we tend to be hyper-critical about the present while idealizing the past. That's a mistake. Consider the first real political campaign in American history, between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams in 1800. It's regarded by scholars as among the nastiest campaigns ever. One pro-Adams newspaper predicted that if Jefferson were elected, "murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest will be openly taught and practiced, the air will be rent with the cries of the distressed, the soil will be soaked with blood, and the nation black with crimes."
According to the New York Sun, the 1872 election between Ulysses S. Grant and Horace Greeley deteriorated into "a shower of mud." So have many others. During the 1980 campaign, for example, the liberal New Republic declared, "President Carter has made a grave moral error in trying to portray Ronald Reagan as a racist." The editorial page of the Washington Post chimed in, saying, "Mr. Carter has abandoned all dignity in his round-the-clock attack on Mr. Reagan's character."
My point isn't to hold up these incidents as a model for political discourse; it's that slashing attacks are often a part of politics. Even the Lincoln-Douglas election consisted of more than the Lincoln-Douglas debates. So some perspective is in order.
Point number two: It doesn't help matters that many who comprise the political media tend to ignore intellectually serious discussions. Rather than discussing, say, the pros and cons of a premium support system or grappling with how to increase social mobility, they prefer to obsess on the horserace aspect of the campaign, gaffes, Twitter feeds and political intrigue. Many in the press are drawn to the sensational and trivial. Increasingly they themselves are contributing to it. Yet with the campaign now over, prepare for countless journalists to travel to the Shorenstein Center and appear on Charlie Rose to complain about the superficiality of campaigns.
A final point: Campaigns are never pristine and politics is an imperfect profession. But as flawed as they are, they have helped create an extraordinary nation and produced great leaders. Politics is a means through which we deal with matters of enormous importance, from policies on taxes and health care to the nature of justice and the relationship between the citizen and the state. Which is why it has always attracted, and still attracts, good people.
Shortly after Mitt Romney conceded on Tuesday night, a writer for whom I have great respect sent me a note. "Nights like this I realize how much easier it is to be in the peanut gallery rather than in the arena," he wrote. "Easier but less satisfying."
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TEAMtalk hails Robin van Persie as one of Sir Alex Ferguson's most-influential signings and believes Man City may have to follow United's lead.
It is uncanny how, season after season, Sir Alex Ferguson strips football down to its bare essentials.
In the summer, despite a wealth of vibrant young strikers at Manchester United, the Red Devils boss identified Robin van Persie as the ingredient necessary to deliver another Premier League trophy.
On Sunday, Ferguson would take a significant step closer to his 13th title if United could beat Liverpool at Old Trafford, their greatest foes historically, and Van Persie's old club Arsenal did them a favour by beating Manchester City at the Emirates Stadium.
That would stretch United's lead in the title race to 10 points and few would bet against them faltering from such a position.
In a league which was supposed to be ever more competitive, United's dominance is made even more impressive by the fact that you have to travel down the table to 12th-placed Norwich before you find a team who have conceded more goals.
United have shipped 28 goals, a worse defensive record than Swansea, Stoke and West Ham and a statistic which flies in the face of the old adage that success starts with a tight back four. Not for United. For Ferguson attacking intent, first and foremost, is essential to winning trophies.
It is why United are the top scorers in English football, having scored 54 Premier League goals this season, the highest total United have amassed at this stage in the top flight for more than a century.
That says so much about the trust and confidence Ferguson has instilled in his current side.
Van Persie has scored 16 of those goals and is rapidly climbing the ladder of Ferguson's most influential purchases, at the top of which sit Eric Cantona, Roy Keane, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney.
On Sunday, van Persie inevitably will be compared with Liverpool's Luis Suarez, who has 15 league goals this season and is currently the Dutchman's main rival for Player of the Year.
Suarez, as brilliant as he is controversial, has a legitimate claim considering he has scored almost half of Liverpool's 34 goals and is the main reason Brendan Rodgers' side are not in a more worrying position than eighth in the table.
Doesn't that say it all about the different directions United and Liverpool have travelled?
This used to be English football's defining fixture, a match dripping with history and angst which often decided the destination of leagues and cups in Liverpool's favour. The passion remains amid the fans but Liverpool are no longer serious contenders. Not this season. Not for a decade if the truth be told. It is why it is difficult to see anything other than another victory for United, who have taken 40 points from a possible 45.
It is what happens at the Emirates, however, which could make this such a pivotal weekend.
City have not been close to their best so far this season, even if they have improved of late with 10 goals in their last three games. Too often they have lacked verve as well as consistency in their play.
Yet the City defence has been solid. In fact, while United have no peers in attack, City have the best defensive record in the Premier League, along with Chelsea, both clubs having conceded just 19 goals.
Much of that solidity is down to captain and centre-back Vincent Kompany, who will provide a stern test for Arsenal's Theo Walcott in his central striking role.
Not that fans, many of whom have already vented their anger at Arsenal's inflated ticket prices, should expect a goal-fest.
The last three matches at the Emirates between the teams have produced just one.
Yet, if United have beaten Liverpool in their early kick-off, then City boss Roberto Mancini would know his team almost certainly would have to win to keep alive their title hopes. He would have to unleash City's full attacking force in the knowledge that even a draw would leave his side nine points behind United, one more than they surmounted in a run which saw them snatch the title in the dying seconds of the final day last season.
The stakes are high. It promises to be the most compelling day of the season so far. The bottom line in football, however, is quality and the smart money says the Manchester clubs, even with City missing Sergio Aguero, Yaya Toure and Samir Nasri, and United, still without the injured Rooney, possess too much talent and firepower for Liverpool and Arsenal.
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Some payers plan to run native ICD-10 by October 2013, hoping to be among the first to launch new delivery models, intervene in existing populations with better data and identify populations more effectively. But until the industry learns ICD-10, payers will receive many incorrect codes from an inexperienced provider community, introducing costly errors and rework. Until ICD-10 code use matures and generates credible data (not before late 2014) consider protecting some systems behind crosswalks, migrating only systems that produce the greatest short-term benefit while industry adoption matures.
Because codes are so embedded within complex applications and processes, it's difficult to predict where they will need to be adapted. For example, ICD-9 codes are broad and less specific than those in ICD-10. That means they are not always as deeply embedded in expected areas, such as physician reimbursement rates, as ICD-10 codes will be. On the other hand, ICD-9 codes are central to benefit definitions and parameters, forcing payers to do extensive remediation in these areas. Be flexible in reallocating budget and time as you learn more about the actual effects of ICD-10.
General Equivalence Mappings (GEMs) from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services include all reasonable mappings of ICD-9 to ICD-10 codes. However, many ICD-9 codes do not map directly to ICD-10, and it is not always advisable or possible to simply substitute one for the other. Payers must map these outliers properly to ensure they have no financial impact on policyholders or providers. This means mapping ICD-10 codes to Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRGs), which is emerging as the area of greatest remediation complexity.
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Thursday, August 25, 2011
What is Carrageenan?
There may be soon be a scientific explanation for these reactions to Carrageenan. The American Journal of Physiology published an article by researchers in the Department of Medicine at the University of Illinois which said "exposure of human intestinal epithelial cells to carrageenan triggers a distinct inflammatory pathway...the study findings may represent a link between genetic and environmental etiologies of inflammatory bowel disease." 1 Interestingly, rats also had an extreme reaction to carrageenan and developed bloody diarrhea. 2
Still, like gluten, carrageenan is everywhere and avoiding it means avoiding a lot of processed foods including most ready made milk substitutes--Silk Soy Milk, Almond Breeze and Whole Foods 365 Organic Ricemilk all use carrageenan as a thickener. It is also an ingredient in most ice creams. If you have digestive issues, you can try to to tease out if you are having a reaction to this additive by comparing how you feel after eating a less processed food (like fresh turkey) with a processed version (Applegate Farms organic roasted turkey breast.) Or avoid processed food completely for a week then load up on food with this ingredient to compare how you do.
Not everyone is sensitive to carrageenan-it might be a subgroup of people who reacts to this additive. Our family has never had a reaction to carrageenan, but anecdotally, I know a lot of people who are sensitive to gluten who react to carrageenan so it is something to think about if you continue to have digestive issues on a gluten free diet.
Once again, homemade is best whenever possible--especially if you are still having chronic symptoms.
1. http://ajpgi.physiology.org/content/292/3/G829.full
14 comments:
- Me said...
My husband used to work in a lab and he used carrageenan to induce cells to become cancerous in a petri dish.Print this post
- June 24, 2012 at 3:02 PM
- Jnc said...
hi :)Print this post
food manufacturers add carrageenan to make low-quality food taste high-quality. take the thick, yummy cream off the top and use it to make delicious ice cream. then take the lower-quality cream off the bottom, thicken it up with carrageenan, and PRETEND it's ice cream. you can buy ice cream without carrageenan, and you'll taste a HUGE quality difference!!! Haagen-Dazs 5, or Gelato, are great options :)
carrageenan is a high source of glutamates. as in monosodium glutamate, or MSG.
your body reacts the same way to glutamates from other sources as it does to glutamate from MSG. food manufacturers are hiding glutamates in foods using carrageenan, yeast extract, hydrolyzed corn or wheat proteins, etc., but it's still MSG. glutamates are known to cause digestive symptoms like diarrhea, as well as headache, muscle weakness, and a host of other symptoms.
i am celiac, but i stay away from ALL food additives as well.
- July 12, 2012 at 5:31 PM
- Anonymous said...
I am trying to go gluten and dairy free and last night drank almond/coconut milk and had difficulty breathing, increased mucus in respiratory, etc. I looked at the ingredients and it had carageean listed twice! I have always had issues with MSG so now will have to avoid this too. Makes me wonder if our food supply is really getting polluted or it is just a small group that is becoming sensitive.Print this post
- July 17, 2012 at 11:21 AM
- Jnc said...
our food supply is getting *really* polluted with glutamates. you can read about it at msgtruth.org (i have no affiliation but i learned a lot there). good luck and hope you feel better!Print this post
- July 17, 2012 at 1:10 PM
- Vanessa said...
I sent an inquiry to Trader Joes and asked them why they see carrageenan in thei almond milks when it was linked with cancer. The response I got was that carrageenan is safe when it is who's foods based and not chemically altered. I'm not sure about this, does anyone know?Print this post
- August 9, 2012 at 3:42 PM
- Vanessa said...
Ok sorry for the typosPrint this post
When the USE carrageenan
WHOLE foods based
- August 9, 2012 at 3:44 PM
- Jnc said...
here's my two cents regarding carrageenan and cancer:Print this post
the carrageenan that causes cancer is a low-molecular-weight form of carrageenan. its polymer chains have been shortened chemically.
high-molecular-weight (long-chain) carrageenan supposedly does not cause cancer.
so food manufacturers put high-molecular-weight carrageenans in our foods and call it "safe."
i have several concerns about this.
1 - can we be sure that our stomach acids do not break down the high-molecular weight carrageenans into shorter chains while they are in our body? i'd hate to think i'm eating the "safe" carrageenan and then letting my body convert it into the "unsafe" version. i'm an organic chemist, and i know that most polymers (including proteins like carrageenan) are susceptible to having their chains shortened by acids. like stomach acid.
2 - if we do trust that long-chain carrageenans are "safe," then we are trusting the production processes of whatever manufacturing plant makes the carrageenan. but if their temperatures or pressures are off just a bit, they could easily be producing short-chain carrageenans instead of long-chain. this could go straight into our food supply. do we really trust them to a) notice, and b) report mistakes?
3 - carrageenan is clearly not "safe" for me, as it gives me migraines and diarrhea. so i'm not eating it regardless of my cancer risk.
- August 9, 2012 at 5:06 PM
- Anonymous said...
This is the first blog I have read that warns celiac folks (and gluten sensitive for that matter) that if they are continuing to have symptoms to eliminate foods with carrageenan. (Whole Foods is well aware of this issue and is working to eliminate it in their 365 brands - their almond milk is now "CF" as I call it - and they are working on soy, coconut, rice, et al.) The original, natural brand of Breyers is also safe for those searching for an ice cream - but the creamy versions contain carrageenan so read that label carefully! The real issue is that the dairy suppliers are delivering their creams to ice cream manufactures with the carrageenan in it even to local ice cream makers. One manager at Unos noted to me he can eat cheese, yogurt, drink milk, but always gets sick from ice cream...told him to try some brands without the seaweed/carrageenan...I am amazed that more GI docs to not know this and warn their patients!Print this post
I made this connection to carrageenan with gluten-like symptoms when I had been symptom free for months on my GF program, feeling great and then made my kids some pudding and homemade whip cream-both the packaged pudding and liquid whipping cream contained it...some internet searches and I discovered that it was likely the carrageenan - and accidental partaking it down the line confirmed it.
To continue this circle I reacted to a can of Eden beans from Whole Foods-what was in it? You guessed seaweed-brown kombu type...so when the holistic docs and Dr. Oz note munching on seaweed to decrease joint inflammation - I get not only GI symptoms that are gluten-like in nature but also joint and back pain...To complete this circle I reacted to some low salt chicken broth that had monoammonium glutamate - a close relative of MSG that was originally derived from seaweed during and after WWII...
So here is my theory as my symptoms with carrageenan/seaweed/MSG and its derivative are not solely GI oriented but are inflammatory joint/muscle as well - that it is the inner protein core of the seaweed that contains the gluten proteins...I am working to get some researcher to do an amino acid sequence on the 2-3 red seaweeds used to make carrageenan...one researcher with a major celiac group said they must have done this sequencing in checking for other substances with gluten (though he never confirmed they had checked major seaweeds species used in our food supply) and that I likely was responding to the complex polysaccharide of the seaweed - which would make sense if a)I had issues with other complex (non-gluten containing) plant foods or b) I only had GI symptoms...
This research to see if the seaweeds in our foods have a similar AAA sequence to the gliadins & glutenines is the key to getting this crap out of our foods.If we can say it is gluten-containing...manufacturers will have to list it as such and watch how fast it will come out of our processed foods!
- August 18, 2012 at 3:53 PM
- Anonymous said...
Thank you so much for this information. I am newly diagnosed with Celiac Disease and finding I am sensitive to more than just gluten and its derivatives. I was reviewing the ingredients of Fit Freeze which the promoter is claiming it's healthy yet I had to go to another website (not his ad) to find out the ingredients. Full of lots of things I would not eat nor should anyone.Print this post
- November 3, 2012 at 11:36 AM
- Anonymous said...
The Cornucopia Institute just released a report compiling the scientific evidence linking the food additive carrageenan to gastrointestinal inflammation and disease. The press release and report are available here: http://www.cornucopia.org/ and http://www.cornucopia.org/carrageenan-2013/. They're also asking people who cut carrageenan out of their diet and who noticed improvements in their gastrointestinal health to fill out an online questionnaire (http://www.cornucopia.org/carrageenan-questionnaire/), which is designed to assist medical researchers in better understanding the impact of carrageenan on public health.Print this post
- March 20, 2013 at 2:40 PM
- janci said...
From recently posted research, up to 25% of the food-grade carrageenan was actually the low-molecular-weight (unsafe) carrageenan. ugh.Print this post
"As the
carrageenan manufacturers have shown in
their Round Robin analysis of degraded
carrageenan content in food-
grade carrageenan (Marinalg
Working Group report of
January 2006 ]Technical pos
ition on measurements rela
ted to meeting the EC
molecular weight distribution specificat
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PES), up to 25%
carrageenan of molecular weight less t
han 50,000 was measured in the food-grade
carrageenan that was tested. Other
research has indicated that
acid digestion, heating,
bacterial action, and mechanical processing
can increase the amount of degraded
carrageenan obtained from higher molecular
weight carrageenan."
Read more of the research here. http://www.cornucopia.org/DrTobacmanComment_toNOSB.pdf
- March 25, 2013 at 10:04 AM
- janci said...
another important excerpt: "we have foundPrint this post
convincing evidence that carrageenan activates biologically significant pathways. Some
of the effects of carrageenan are related to 1) activation of reactive oxygen species, 2)
reduction in activity of sulfatase enzymes, and 3) ACTIVATION OF GENES INVOLVED IN CARCINOGENESIS."
(emphasis mine. note: carcinogenesis = initiation and growth of cancer cells.)
- March 25, 2013 at 10:23 AM
- Anonymous said...
wow, this is eye opening! does all seaweed that you buy at Trader Joes, Whole Foods, Costco, etc. include carrageenan or only specific types of seasweed (e.g., red)?Print this post
- June 26, 2013 at 12:56 AM
- Docizn said...
I wrote to Publix about their use of carrageenan in their yogurt , telling them that it was a known cancer causing agent and I found it to be an unconscionable act that they added this to their otherwise great products. I never received a reply back!Print this post
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Initiative 502 measure would license and regulate marijuana production, distribution, and possession for persons over 21; remove state-law criminal and civil penalties for activities that it authorizes; tax marijuana sales; and earmark marijuana-related revenues.
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Yes: Under current laws, criminals benefit, public safety suffers
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I do not personally support or condone the use of marijuana. However, as a 27-year veteran of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, I believe it is time to reform our marijuana laws. The prohibition of the purchase and possession of small amounts of marijuana by adults has caused more harm than good. Like alcohol Prohibition did in the last century, marijuana prohibition has enriched criminal organizations and compromised public safety here and abroad.
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Give him an extra 10 years for having a chinstrap beard.
To hell with the vacation - the fund is now up to almost $150k. Hopefully now she can just retire and live in peace.
He's the Commissioner, he should be above that. I know that's not going to be the popular opinion, but the fact is the office he represents should never be down in the mud (even if Jim Rome is a d-bag.)
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"Many of the immediate cuts would return benefit levels to where they would be had Democrats not temporarily increased them in the stimulus measure."
What about that is difficult to understand?
He stands w/the greatest of all time, and he's an Upstate lifer. Way to go, JB!
Tip to BJ's: invest in better cameras. That's like 1960's technology right there.
Of course he had to rob a bank, that Propecia isn't cheap.
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Having a dominant big man w/solid hands will be a welcome sight indeed.
Unfortunately the weight of what he will likely never hit him. These extreme narcissists are incapable of normal human feelings.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The Lobos claimed their sixth win of the season after defeating Abilene Christian, 6-1, at the Eager Tennis Complex on Saturday afternoon.
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UNM started strong in doubles play. Head Coach Erica Jasper made a few adjustments to the lineup and it seemed to have worked to the Lobos' advantage. Freshman Dominique Dulski made her first appearance in the 2014 season as she teamed up with Natasha Smith to compete in the No. 1 doubles spot. The duo's doubles match went unfinished after No. 2 team Lizette Blankers and Misa Bezdickova and No. 3 team Susan Baklini and Emily Olivier both claimed two early wins in the doubles competition. Freshmen Baklini and Olivier have proved themselves as strong doubles competitors for the Lobos as they record a 4-1 record in doubles.
The Lobos also dominated in singles. Five of the six of the UNM competitors picked up wins on Saturday. Bezdickova fell short against Mica Hermsdorf, 6-2, 6-3, moving her to a 3-4 record on the season.
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Wilsons gf looks like shes 40.
Seahawks play this draft game differently from everyone else.
Why would they go for him there when they don't need him?
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so the seahawks could have signed VY for basically nothing and instead they pick a 5'10" QB in the 3rd round. Strange.
no combine and taken in the early 3rd round? thats a stretch for the Texans
Damn Russell Wilsons gf is legit 30+ sporting a chihuahua. Questionable decision making.
Hurry up and get to the Cowboys pick so I can go $#@!
Has Texas ever not had a player go in the 1st 2nd or 3rd rounds in a draft?
Ummmmm why the $#@! did the Jags take a punter in the 3rd round??? Are they that solid at every single position that they don't need anything else? Wow.
Was KC talking about the OL or the WR?
C"mon man
she must suck a mean $#@!
Nobody wants to draft UT
nice job antagonizing the $#@! outta the new Yorkers there Chad... :)
How badly are we regarded by scouts when teams would pick a midget QB over anything we have?
here's a cool link showing all Texas NFL picks
Texas first pick in 1988 was in the 6th round
1993 Texas only pick was in Rd 7. Lance Gunn.
2000 Texas only pick was Rd 6 - Cedric Woodard who was damn good.
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damn, dude, players from $#@!kicker state are getting drafted before our guys.
that $#@! looks like a scene from an eddie murphy movie
1938 - Red Wolfe was the first Horn ever drafted. RIP, would've been 100 this June.
"Red Wolfe" - damn, how cool is that?
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That chick has so much of the crazy that it's unbelievable. Yo Russell, time to leave that bitch in wherever the hell you're from-ville and upgraaayyyyyed.
Love the LaMichael James pick to SF. You need a nice stable of backs, and this gives SF a deep rotation with Gore, Hunter, James, and Jacobs. Didn't care for the AJ Jenkins pick, but I can trust Harbaugh after he picked up Aldon Smith last year.
Harbaugh is going all in for playmakers on offense, and I totally respect that. This offseason he's done the following:
re-signed Alex Smith
signed Mario Manningham, WR
signed Randy Moss, WR
signed Brandon Jacobs, short yardage back
drafted AJ Jenkins as 4th WR/PR/KR
drafted LaMichael James as 3rd down back, specialist
add all that to Vernon Davis at TE, and the offense is no longer a liability.
Austin Westlake's Nick Foles goes to the Fecals.
God, I hate the Fecals.
Has anyone heard if it is true that VY may be going to SF?
regina and florida international now have more picks than texas...
Foles could end up being a really good QB. He's 1000x better than Tanneyhill.
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In Game 1 with the match 18-18, UNH went on an 11-2 run to distance itself from Maine before capturing a 30-26 win. In Game 2 UNH led 19-16 before a 6-0 spurt to helped the team pull away and take a 2-0 lead. In Game 3 the Wildcats led 18-12, but the Black Bears captured 12 of the next 14 points to take a 24-20 lead and eventually captured the 32-30 win after fighting off three match points. Game 4 was a back-and-forth affair as the teams were knotted at 21 when UNH rattled off five-straight points and went on to capture the game and the match victory.
In addition to Fogarty, seniors Emmy Blouin (St. Albert, Alberta) and Toni Barnas (Cary, Ill.) had 12 kills a piece, while sophomore Kirsten Bates (Calgary, Alberta) rounded out top hitters with 10 kills. Sophomore Kate Uitti (Pinckney, Mich.) continues to set the stage for the Wildcats registering a match-best 51 assists. Uitti has record 50-plus assists in each of the last six matches for the Wildcats. Rounding out top performers for UNH were Alyse Lahti (Pepper Pike, Ohio) and Sara Heldman (Greenwood, Ind.), who each recorded a match-best 19 defensive digs.
UNH registered 63 kills in the match with a .229 hitting percentage. The 'Cats had 11 kills in Game 1, 18 kills in Game 2 with a match-best .385 percentage and 17 kills in Games 3 and 4.
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MOUNT PLEASANT - A new public magnet school for East Cooper's academically advanced elementary-aged children could open as soon as August.
A task force of parents and residents has recommended that the new school be modeled after downtown Buist Academy, a high-achieving magnet school with admissions criteria.
The new Mount Pleasant magnet school would be housed at the former Whitesides Elementary, which is being used this year by Sullivan's Island Elementary. The space will be vacant by this summer.
The proposal has been presented to the Charleston County School Board's strategic education committee, and the board's audit and finance committee will evaluate the plan on Monday. District officials hope the full board will consider and approve the plan at its Feb. 10 meeting so they can hire a principal and teachers and begin to enroll students.
"It's a mammoth undertaking," said Associate Superintendent Terri Nichols, who oversees 27 elementary schools, including those in Mount Pleasant. "I think we can do it, but every day that goes by makes me nervous from a capacity standpoint. . I think we're up for it and we have smart people, but at some point it gets to be 'We don't have enough time.'"
The new school would open with about 250 students in first- through fifth-grades, and it would add kindergarten and sixth grade in 2015. It would expand by one grade per year until it reached eighth grade. Each grade would have two classes, and class sizes would be capped at 25 students.
Students would have to meet the same kind of admissions requirements as Buist Academy, such as scoring at the 75th percentile, having a certain grade point average and obtaining teacher recommendations. The school would not have an admissions exam.
Qualified students would go into a lottery to be selected, and only Mount Pleasant students would be eligible to attend.
"The biggest thing is that they're going to move at a more rapid pace, and probably put a little more depth into the lessons," Nichols said.
Although Buist is an International Baccalaureate school, the new Mount Pleasant magnet school would not open as an IB site. That's an option that could be considered in the future, Nichols said. Buist didn't start as an IB school, and its school foundation has funded the teacher training and fees associated with becoming an authorized school.
Staffing for the new East Cooper school would cost an estimated $1.6 million, and the school would have other one-time start-up costs.
The county school board has been supportive of a new magnet school, which they hope will relieve over-crowding in other East Cooper schools.
Craig Ascue, the school board member who lives in Mount Pleasant, said he's supportive of the idea, but he worries that the school might steal the brightest students from the community's other neighborhood schools. He said he's heard that concern from principals, so his priority would be maintaining a good balance of students at the remaining community schools.
"There's still a lot of details to work out," he said. "We don't want to rob their student bodies and teacher points, but at the same time, we want to give schools in north Mount Pleasant relief. It's a tough balance."
Lisa Short is a parent who served on the task force that recommended an advanced studies school. She said the community's parents value academics and want schools to give their children what they need. Despite Mount Pleasant's excellent-rated schools, many families end up enrolling in Buist Academy or private schools because they think their children will get a better education, she said.
A magnet school focused on academically advanced students would be a big draw for parents, and she said she would've considered it for her children had it existed when they were in elementary school.
"This would be a great option," she said. "We need all the seats over here that we can get."
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I was just wondering because I would add some stuff on the Crusader Kings 2 page about 2 of the mods, one of which got a lot of press from gaming websites (the game of thrones mod) and the other (CK2+) caused Paradox to hire the modder in question and is the most used mod according to their tracking tools.
Also the wiki FAQ isn't working and I'd assume that's where the answer to this question would be?
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Shaq LeMay is bound for Greensboro after a season of prep football at Fork Union Military Academy in Virginia.
The former four-sport Southern Vance athlete signed Wednesday to play at North Carolina A&T in the fall.
The Aggies finished third a season ago in the MEAC of the FCS, formerly Division I-AA, under head coach Rod Broadway.
LeMay said Broadway and Aggie assistant coach Trei Oliver were instrumental in his recruitment.
"It's a dream," said LeMay. "I always wanted to play Division I football. And it came true."
LeMay expects to line up at either free safety or the athlete position on offense, playing both receiver and running back.
LeMay had plenty of competition at Fork Union, which finished the season 10-2 including a nationally-televised loss to Hermitage High School of Richmond, Va.
Fork Union routinely produces FBS (Division I-A) players. The team's quarterback, Christian Hackenberg, is headed to Penn State next season and was offered scholarships by Alabama, Florida and South Carolina among other schools, according to ESPN.
Many Fork Union players have already committed to a school by the time they reach campus.
"When I came to Fork Union, I wasn't signed to go anywhere," said LeMay, "so I had to work hard to get here. It was really competitive."
LeMay said he's ready for the next level. He's currently taking classes at Vance-Granville and will begin summer school at N.C. A&T in May.
"I think I'm prepared for it since I played at Fork Union, playing against guys that are nationally ranked," said LeMay. "I think I'll be ahead of the game."
The Aggies open the season in Boone against Appalachian State and host Elon the following week for the home opener.
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