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Seniors carry Vols past Kentucky in finale Tennessee extends winning streak over Wildcats to 26 games, becomes bowl eligible holding the duo to just 31 total yards after the Wildcats second-half opening drive.

“Nobody’s going to stop a Randall Cobb,” Walker said. “But we did a good job, and I think when it came down to it in the For most of 2010, the Tennessee Volunteers have been second half, we said it was going to be on (the defensive line’s) searching for consistency on the football field. They found it in shoulders. a familiar place Saturday, holding off “The defensive line, (defensive coorKentucky for their sixth win of the seadinator Justin) Wilcox put it on our son and 26th straight in the rivalry. shoulders for this game, and I think with The Vols (6-6, 3-5 SEC) managed to three guys that are seniors that start on survive an early Wildcat onslaught before that D-line, we took it personal, and we outscoring Kentucky (6-6, 3-5) 24-7 in said that we weren’t going to come out of the game’s final three quarters to win 24this stadium without a W.” 14 on Senior Day in Neyland Stadium.

Coach Derek Dooley said he was It was obvious to seniors like proud of the team, which had come a Denarius Moore the Vols’ senior class long way from the 2-6 record it held at would have to step up in their final home the beginning of November. The team game. was not without its flaws, though, he “It was understood what we had to get added. done today,” Moore said. “... Friday we “I ... don’t remember having an inept talked about it. We looked at each other running game the way we have it,” the in the eyes in the locker room and just first-year coach said. “I mean, on thirdsaid that we were going to go out and and-1, we get a negative inch. play our hardest for each other.”

“We’ve got opportunities. We’re just And play they would. not very good running the football.”

The Vols were able to hold Kentucky Junior tailback Tauren Poole came to seven first-half points, despite giving into the game needing only 65 yards to up more than 250 yards, thanks in large top the 1,000-yard mark for the season part to key plays by seniors Nick Reveiz but finished with just 59 yards and a and Gerald Williams. touchdown on 17 carries.

Reveiz recovered a Derrick Locke The Vols also failed to field a punt fumble in the end zone to prevent a firstIan Harmon• The Daily Beacon Saturday, adding to their season-long quarter, 14-0 Kentucky lead, while Luke Stocker prepares to run through Kentucky defensive back Mychal Bailey on Saturday, punt-returning woes — which includes Williams forced another Kentucky fum- Nov. 27. Stocker had 55 receiving yards on Senior Day at Neyland Stadium. seven muffed punts. ble in the second quarter, which the Vols Despite the weaknesses, Dooley said recovered and used to earn their first lead of the game. he is proud of the team — which won four straight to earn The second half opened much like the first for the Vols.

UT On offense, Moore and fellow senior wide recevier Gerald bowl eligibility with Saturday’s win and will likely play in the was unable to stop a steady drive by Kentucky, as the Wildcats Jones guided the Vols to a second-quarter explosion. Each Music City Bowl on Dec. 30 in Nashville — and, particularly, scored on an 11-play, 76-yard drive to tie the game at 14. grabbed a touchdown pass from quarterback Tyler Bray to give This half, though, the Vols didn’t need any lucky turnovers, the team’s 15 seniors.

UT a 14-7 halftime lead.

“They got what they deserved out there today,” Dooley Moore led the Big Orange barrage, gaining 153 yards on as the defense, led by senior defensive end Chris Walker, four receptions in the second quarter. He would finish with Williams and Reveiz, managed to clamp down on Kentucky’s said. “We got another chance to play again, and it’s a great win best playmakers, Locke and Alcoa, Tenn.-native Randall Cobb, for Tennessee.”

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205 receiving yards, becoming the first receiver in UT history to have two 200-yard receiving games in both a season and a career.

Bray finished 20-of-38 for a career-high 354 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions.

Local foods aid community, health Produce grown near points of distribution benefits society at large Kendra Peek Special to the Daily Beacon While there are many reasons for buying locally grown foods, a key one, according to John Antun, is to help reduce the carbon footprint.

Antun is director of UT’s Culinary Institute and an associate professor in the UT Department of Retail, Hospitality and Tourism Management.

A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact human activities have on the environment. This is also explained as the amount of greenhouse gasses people produce daily. Also, not having to transport the foods over long distances means lower shipping costs, and ultimately, lower costs overall, Antun said.

David Vandergriff, an agriculture extension agent for Knox County, said people are also becoming more cautious about their food sources, citing the salmonella outbreak in early September.

“A lot of people like to be able to talk directly with the person whose food they’re buying,” he said.

Vandergriff added that preserving agriculture is good for the community. It’s supporting local people and is a “net gain for the community. You get out what you invest,” Vandergriff said.

It has become apparent to many food stores that people are looking for the locally grown produce. According to Mike Tipton, director for produce operations at Food City, it’s what people want. In addition, “it’s just right for the economy” to buy locally grown foods, he said.

That was echoed by Antun, who said the heightened knowledge about locally grown foods is giving the public more responsibility, and therefore “they seek out wholesome, delicious food to reward themselves.”

To do that, Food City stores, which can be found in Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia, purchase everything from “A to Z; apples to zucchini.

We just haven’t figured out how to get bananas locally yet,” Tipton said.

Supermarkets are not the only stores offering these opportunities to citizens of Knoxville. The UT Extension Service works with area farmers and farmers’ markets to bring farm fresh produce to Knoxville residents. Vandergriff said it is important for citizens to have these opportunities.

“Farmers’ markets are about buying the freshest and highest-quality stuff and supporting local people,” Vandergriff said.

Vendors at the farmers’ markets are not just local farmers, they are also local artisans.

Vandergriff said some sell things like jewelry and soaps, among other things.

Buying locally grown foods also provides eco-

nomic benefits for the farmers themselves. Steve Scott and Randall Pierce, two of Food City’s farmers, attest to this.

“Food City’s been really good to us,” Scott said.

Pierce and his family have a farm in Unicoi, Tenn., where they grow strawberries, tomatoes, corn and beans, among other things.

“The best thing that ever happened to us was them buying our tomatoes,” Pierce said. “We were struggling.”

He lives in Grainger County on a farm that has been in his family since his dad purchased it in the 1950s. His family provides Food City with much of its tomato crop.

Both said Food City was instrumental in helping them maintain and grow their family farms.

Tipton explained that Food City relies on the help of its farmers. In order to show the produce managers of every store where their products come from, Tipton has set up tours of every farm the chain buys from. He said the company believes it is important for the employees to understand where the foods are coming from. It gives them a better knowledge of their own products.

Food City also sponsors a “Grower's Luncheon” every year in the Kingsport store.

This gives it a chance to bring all the farmers in and show its support. Tipton said Food City recognizes a “Grower of the Year,” someone it believes has gone above and beyond the job.

“They just have a passion for what they do,” he said. “It’s a partnership that we value from the top down.”

With that partnership comes a mutual respect and understanding. Scott and Pierce not only have passion, but both also realize how important it is to maintain the best quality.

“They want good clean produce, and that's what we want to sell,” Scott said. “(Growing produce for Food City) is very demanding, very challenging but very interesting,” Pierce said. “They’re very particular, and they keep you on your toes,” This idea is one that could catch on. Pierce said other chains in his area are following suit.

“It helps a lot of people,” Scott said. “There’s not a lot of farmers’ markets around the Grainger County area. If people want to get fresh farm produce, they have to go out to the farm, and sometimes that’s not a real convenient thing to do.”

Vandergriff said he has also seen an increase in the number of people attempting to grow small personal gardens for themselves and their families. This has given way to a rise in preserving these foods as well, with this year showing the Sheila Hannus • The Daily Beacon “highest interest in food preservation in years.”

Performers sing during a showing of “A Christmas Carol” in the Clarence Brown Vandergriff said food production interest is Theatre on Friday, Nov. 26. The classic Dickens tale runs through Dec. 19. For more high and shows no signs of slowing down. information on showtimes visit theatre.utk.edu

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Students enjoy Thanksgiving Dinner at the I-House on Monday, Nov. 22. The free traditional meal helped bring together international and local students in the true spirit of the season.

Crime Log Nov. 19 At approximately 9:54 p.m., a female UT student was arrested for public intoxication and underage consumption. The report stated that the UTPD officer arrested her for her own safety, after he found her passed out, face-down, on the sidewalk at the corner of 16th Street and White Avenue.

Nov. 20 At approximately 12:45 a.m., an unaffiliated Knoxville resident approached a UTPD officer outside the Commissioner’s Office on Main Street and said that she had been “on the run” and wanted to turn herself in. The suspect was arrested on outstanding warrants.

1947: U.N. votes for partition of Palestine

Despite strong Arab opposition, the United Nations votes for the partition of Palestine and the creation of an independent Jewish state.

The modern conflict between Jews and Arabs in Palestine dates back to the 1910s, when both groups laid claim to the British-controlled territory. The Jews were Zionists, recent emigrants from Europe and Russia who came to the ancient homeland of the Jews to establish a Jewish national state.

The native Palestinian Arabs sought to stem Jewish immigration and set up a secular Palestinian state.

Beginning in 1929, Arabs and Jews openly fought in Palestine, and Britain attempted to limit Jewish immigration as a means of appeasing the Arabs. As a result of the Holocaust in Europe, many Jews illegally entered Palestine during World War II. Radical Jewish groups employed terrorism Nov. 21 against British forces in Palestine, which they thought had betrayed the Zionist cause. At the end of An unaffiliated male was arrested World War II, in 1945, the U.S. took up the Zionist cause. Britain, unable to find a practical solution, around 3:20 a.m. at the corner of 17th referred the problem to the United Nations, which on November 29, 1947, voted to partition Street and Clinch Avenue. The suspect Palestine.

The Jews were to possess more than half of Palestine, though they made up less than half of was charged with public intoxication after a UTPD officer observed him walking Palestine’s population. The Palestinian Arabs, aided by volunteers from other countries, fought the down 17th Street carrying a baseball bat. Zionist forces, but the Jews secured full control of their U.N.-allocated share of Palestine and also some Arab territory. On May 14, 1948, Britain withdrew with the expiration of its mandate, and the — compiled by Robbie Hargett.

State of Israel was proclaimed by Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion. The next day, forces from Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq invaded.

At approximately 1:40 a.m., two unaffiliated male Knoxville residents were arrested on Cumberland Avenue near Roaming Gnome. The report stated that a foot pursuit of an armed male was involved, and two UT students were reported to be victims, although descriptions of the crimes against them were not given.

Compiled from a media log provided to the Daily Beacon by the Universty of Tennessee Police Department.

All persons arrested are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. People with names similar or identical to those listed may not be those identified in reports.

— This Day in History is courtesy of history.com.

Monday, November 29, 2010

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Memphis steps up security measures Associated Press MEMPHIS— As the busiest shipping season of the year begins, the specter of tighter security measures on air shipping after last month’s international mail-bomb scare might have sent a shiver through FedEx’s hometown.

It might have, if Memphians hadn't spent decades watching the company’s planes fly into and out of what has grown into the world’s busiest cargo airport, and seeing its delivery trucks heading out in all directions, and generally spotting its name all over this Mississippi River city.

“Everywhere you look, FedEx is into everything here,” basketball fan Matt Hine said as he stood in the bustling lobby of the $250 million FedExForum, built six years ago to lure the Vancouver Grizzlies in a move that gave Memphis a status-affirming pro sports franchise.

The Memphis economy relies on FedEx for 30,000 jobs and the billions of dollars of business FedEx creates at Memphis International Airport. FedEx shipped 98 percent of cargo put aboard an airplane in 2007 at the airport, which had a $28.6 billion impact on the area that year, according to a 2009 study commissioned by the airport.

The Memphis identity relies on FedEx and a handful of other major companies, notably International Paper, AutoZone Inc. and The ServiceMaster Co., to lend enough prestige to push interest in

the city beyond the cliche — blues, barbecue and Elvis. Those firms fuel confidence in residents and feelings of grandeur in politicians and other civic boosters in a place that has big-city aspirations and big-city problems but still evokes a small-town Southern feel, more New Orleans than Atlanta.

Hine, 38, works in printing, making note pads and menus for the hospitality industry, and he praised FedEx Corp. for its speedy deliveries overseas. As a Memphian, he’s also keenly aware of the economic impact the company has on Memphis, and like many others here, he has confidence in FedEx’s ability to deal with adversity.

“Them having to fire anyone, that's never concerned me,” he said.

“It’s because of FedEx that Memphis has grown like it has.”

So it raised eyebrows here when intelligence officials last month narrowly thwarted a mail-bomb plot blamed on al-Qaida, stopping two explosive packages carrying printer cartridges shipped from Yemen through UPS and FedEx before they could blow up airplanes.

Company employees in Yemen were not required to X-ray the printer cartridges the explosives were hidden inside. Instead, they looked at the printers and sent them off, U.S. officials said.

The episode led the Obama administration to announce new cargo rules banning freight out of Yemen and Somalia. It also restricted the shipment of printer and toner cartridges weighing more than a pound on all passenger flights and some cargo flights.

Overall cargo security rules were unchanged.

Congress is expected to look at whether more drastic changes are needed to improve air cargo security. U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, DMemphis, said he plans to speak with FedEx officials and said the security issue would “unquestionably” be discussed in the House.

All of that raises the question of whether shipping companies such as FedEx may have to cut costs or even jobs to pay for scanning technology. FedEx spokesman Maury Lane said the company is providing no cost estimates for any security measures it may have to implement.

Academics and financial analysts who closely track FedEx say the likelihood that it will have to cut U.S. jobs is quite small, mainly because FedEx will likely pass the costs along to its consumers through rate increases.

American customers could see two other changes. First, sending and receiving packages overseas could get more expensive. Second, it may take a while longer to get that framed picture of your cousins who live in Japan.

“Now, maybe instead of guaranteeing 10 a.m. delivery, it might become like the cable company: ‘We’ll be there from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.,’” said Kevin W. Sterling, an analyst with BB&T Capital Markets. FedEx has a history of dealing with adversity, having weathered the financial fallout from the Sept. 11 attacks to retain its status as the world's second-largest package delivery company, after Atlanta-based UPS Inc.

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If the last quarter-century has proven anything, the Kentucky-Tennessee football rivalry hasn’t been much of, well, a rivalry. Saturday’s installment of the SEC matchup cemented that fact, pushing the Vols’ ridiculous winning streak over the Wildcats to 26 straight years, right into the next quarter-century.

Thanks to two of the last three matchups in the series going to overtime, Big Blue faithful believed this was the year for the Wildcats to best the Vols and stop the nation’s longest winning streak over one opponent in Division-I football. And up until a Nick Reviez fumble recovery that stifled a potential 14-0 Kentucky lead in the first quarter, the Wildcats showed signs of life.

But like so many times in the series, Tennessee was still Tennessee and Kentucky was still Kentucky in the end.

While Kentucky’s main incentive for beating Tennessee has been ending The Streak for 25 years, Derek Dooley’s Vols had their own goal for Saturday’s matchup: bowl eligibility. Yes, the victory over Kentucky gave Tennessee its sixth win of the season, so despite a depleted roster, a top-heavy depth chart and the breaking-in of a new coach for the second straight season, the boys in orange are goin’ bowling.

Kudos to Dooley for a job well done in his first season in Knoxville. Rest assured, a 6-6 record for the regular season for this squad should have Vol fans relieved.

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Black Friday fails to meet expectations A Col umn About Column A r t a n d L i te ra t u re

Falling — Black Friday

by After 4 a.m. shopping sprees, inevitable bruises and aimlessly running through department store isles, it’s over. Thank goodness.

Rising — The need for a little holiday kindness Chalk it up to things that make you look at the sky and shout “KHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNN!” The holiday season is upon us, which should mean an outpouring of kindness and cheer, right?

To a certain select few who have been visiting our campus lately, it would appear that we have some Ebenezer Scrooges in our midst.

The GAP Project (the Genocide Awareness Project) recently posted enormous pictures of dead fetuses, Holocaust victims and breasts undergoing brutal augmentation, among other graphic pictorials, in an effort to raise awareness on the perceived severity of abortion in the United States.

Whether or not you agree with the political stance of the GAP Project, everyone can certainly agree on one central aspect of this matter: The pictures are largely ineffective when placed in the context of goals to be achieved.

The pictures, which are very graphic in their nature, don’t draw as much attention to the nature of abortion as much as they draw attention to 1) the shock value of gigantic dead baby pictures on Pedestrian Mall and 2) the comparisons between pictures of aborted fetuses and pictures of Holocaust victims.

The pictures largely fail to elicit the response that GAP Project members are hoping to achieve.

For the most part, the pictures spark outrage, not about abortion, but towards the insensitivity of the protesters. Those opposed to the protesters feel that they are alienating those who may have had abortions and are simply trying to elicit an emotional response from those opposed to the signs in hopes of receiving some sort of satisfaction.

Also, the members of the GAP Project do believe abortion is a 21st-century holocaust, which you may make your own judgments about, but it seems a bit disrespectful to the memory of victims of the Holocaust to use pictures of someone’s suffering to make a political statement.

Whether or not you agree with the GAP Project’s political message, one thing is certain: This much controversy being stirred up on campus, especially this close to finals and the holiday season, seems in poor taste for the season. Try a little tenderness, GAP Project. Instead of putting up scary pictures of dead fetuses, try offering a helping hand to someone who could really use a friend. It’s the holidays, after all.

THE DAILY BACON • Blake Tredway

Amien Essif Everyone wanted to wake up at 4 a.m. on Black Friday and go to Target, which was right down the road from the house. At first I was reluctant, but then I realized: Thanksgiving is about celebrating the bounty of America, and there is no better way to celebrate what American bounty has become than to trudge to a bigbox store at the worst hour of the night to begin the season of savings.

Saving is the new shopping. I saw an ad a few weeks ago in which a slick, disembodied male voice declared, “Saving is the great American pastime.” Shopping has become so central to the American way of life that, in fact, it is life, and the irregularities within it (saving money) are now the distinguishable events.

The catchy Kroger slogan “You can’t start saving until you start shopping” could just be absurd fun. But it could also mean that we are now slaves to a system of consumption. Shopping, buying, bargain hunting, throwing pants and shirts into the cart, clicking “buy” on Amazon.com, checking out, swiping plastic, leafing through cash — it is not up to us any longer. We have to do it, therefore “saving money” has become a synonym for spending money when Kroger or Target or Wal-Mart tell you to.

This is the premise behind Black Friday. The private sector has us buying things for cheap (saving money!) that we would not have bought otherwise. If it were true that we were only buying according to our preconceived desires — but for half-price — Black Friday would be suppressed by every manufacturer and distributor in the country.

When the cell phone alarms rang on every pillow in the house, one by one, they were silenced. I woke up, thought about turning on a light but then pulled the cover over my ear and fell back into a deep, warm, digestive sleep — a pleasure even the penniless can enjoy.

In the morning, we all laughed about failing the test of good consumerism. But we did go to Target after

breakfast, some of us to shop, the others to witness a modern American holiday.

The first thing I noticed was the overabundant Christmas decorations: giant red and green bows strung from the ceiling, soft jazz holiday music backgrounding the sounds of anxious shoppers.

Target employees looked tired and serious, speedwalking up and down aisles with walkie-talkies in hand and a distant stare in their eyes. Shoppers were both excited and driven. I saw a few shoppers reading prices and model numbers off of packages over their cell phones to whom I assume was their team member at another supposed savings hot-spot. These types emitted a certain heroic attitude toward shopping that unsettled my breakfast.

All in all though, Black Friday was a disappointment.

Maybe the insanity had dispersed before the sun rose, but I expected more from the best consumers in the world. I expected to see employees crawling elbow over elbow across the floor like Marine grunts in the thick of the Thanksgiving Offensive. I expected to see at least a few trampled corpses and dented steel door frames like in 2008. Or maybe that’s only at Wal-Mart.

You might say things are looking up for us shopping addicts, but I have a different theory. Black Friday is a myth perpetuated by the private sector for a more sinister reason than to get us all up in the morning hunting deals that don’t really exist. The myth works to convince us that Americans shop, that we kill each other to get cheap DVD players. It convinces us that our culture is black with cars and shopping carts and if you’d just lighten up, you’d see the charming side to the blackness.

Why else would a retailer invite you to “spend Black Friday with us” as if it were a holiday like any other? Is the shameless use of the term “black” ironic? I think not.

I think the unbelievably powerful industry that functions only if we consume like there were no tomorrow (and no world outside of our country) is reclaiming the term with a little bit of double-bluff triple-speak, if you will.

When our group returned home, we showed each other our loot: a few DVDs, some clothing and three pairs of drinking straw eyeglasses, which they bought because they were “so cheap” ($5). Then we prepared a meal and ate it together and laughed about Thanksgiving jokes, and it felt like the first thing we had done that day. In fact, it was.

—Amien Essif is a senior in English. He can be reached at aessif@utk.edu.

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A few years ago I stumbled across an Islamic fundamentalist execution video. Unfortunately, where there’s one execution video, there tends to be links to many others. Morbid curiosity led me down perhaps the darkest road of the Internet: a long thread of graphic execution videos — all from either Eastern Europe or the Middle East — on badly designed sites that consisted of disorganized rants in foreign languages and links upon links of recorded human-on-human cruelty. I’ll only say that the ones that involved guns were the nice ones.

That foolish inquiry into the Internet’s omnipotent view of human extremes caused me to emerge sadder but wiser, in the form of a truth I already knew becoming reinforced: There is no substitute for the viewing of real violence, the unsimulated suffering of others, victims of sadism and apathy, justified by the emotional extremes of religion and ethnocentrism. Simulated violence, be it animated, acted or interactive, simply doesn’t trigger what some overzealous behaviorists claim it does. I was playing “DOOM” at 2 years old, “Duke Nukem” at 5 years old and continue to merrily slaughter my fellow digital man — and consider myself to be adequately empathetic and aware of others.

Recently, though, a well-known organization has completely encroached on my right to close my eyes and not think about suffering and death. PETA — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals — has a huge library of animal-abuse videos that have entered my awareness completely unwelcome. I‘ve always known “Imma skin you alive” to be a folksy, almost affectionately exaggerating threat, as of a crotchety old woman yelling after a mischievous child but watching something actually being skinned alive is one of the most godawful, hideous things one can possibly witness. There was something more bizarrely terrible about it than even the worst of the human execution videos. Thanks, PETA. PETA has its name on all kinds of these animal-cruelty videos meant to inspire outrage. Perhaps the most noble are the ones that promote awareness of how creatures are treated on factory farms, where absurd suffering really is the status quo. At meat.org, perhaps the least

transparent PETA-sponsored video, Paul McCartney takes us on an informative journey describing how the amoral profit motive of huge, oligopolistic factory farms profit off of the chronic suffering of living beings.

Starting with chickens and going from cows to pigs and even to fish, he prefaces the detailed description of each species’ special industrial hell with how intelligent, curious and personable the subjected creatures are. The video is simple and effective but skewing the intrinsic value of exposing an industry that does not want you knowing how dirty and vicious its methods are concerning the nature of what we regularly consume is a disingenuous, sensational rhetoric that is highly suspect.

Perhaps it’s naive to act like it’s a surprise that PETA is an organization whose primary goal is to provoke emotional donations by releasing emotionally charged videos and ad campaigns of animal suffering, while doing very little to alleviate it. What do you do when a harsh reality moves you a great deal, but the perpetrator of that reality is fraudulent? PETA banks on getting donations by seeming as idealistic and overzealous as possible, but meat consumption is not the primary cause of heart disease and obesity, nor is widespread veganism a responsible platform of industry change, nor do fish require the moral standing of more intelligent mammals.

Eating a lot of cooked meat helped early man’s cerebral evolution — we wouldn’t be here to question the morality of eating animals if we hadn’t devoured a great number of them throughout our species’ history.

It’s the factory farms that I never thought to take literally, my biggest concern being a conditioned fear of chemicals and the low quality of the food in general. But the very real hybrid of the most stereotypical automated, industrial assembly line with the massive processing of tens of thousands of dying, tortured creatures at a time is an absurdity that still leaves me kind of speechless.

The complacency regarding what we eat seems to have decreased a great deal due to documentaries like “Supersize Me” and “Food Inc.” over the last short decade or so, but our ability to do anything about it, like have more options, is as much up to faceless food suppliers as ever. In light of such powerlessness, perhaps food quality preferences shouldn’t be seen as a trite fashion statement. Maybe it’s the only form of expression we have.

—Wiley Robinson is an undecided sophomore. He can be reached at rrobin23@utk.edu.

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es at UT to earn both a master's degree and a teaching certificate by the end of the year.

The resident teachers will log at least 1,700 volunteer hours in schools assisting their mentor teachers and will complete a service learning project by the end of their training. Resident teachers are not salaried but receive a small living stipend as part of their TEACH/Here service.

Now in its first year of operation, TEACH/Here has recently placed 17 resident teachers to work alongside highly successful and experienced mentor teachers in four schools. Seven residents are working in Central High School, Fulton High School and Gresham Middle School in Knoxville, and 10 residents are working in Tyner Academy and Tyner Middle Academy in Chattanooga.

Next fall, these residents will take classroom positions in Knox and Hamilton counties, where they have agreed to work for at least four more years in exchange for the cost of their training and education.

Baker Center to host event The public is invited to the Baker Center on Tuesday to view the webcast of the “National Summit on Advancing Health through Nursing” sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

The webcast event will begin at 9:30 a.m. and will run until 2:45 p.m. The program will feature Donna Shalala, Linda Burnes Bolton, Harvey Fineberg and Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, all key leaders from the Institute of Medicine and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Then, from 2:45 to 4 p.m., those gathered locally will discuss what was said during the webcast. That discussion will be led by Carole Myers, UT Baker Fellow and associate professor in the UT College of Nursing.

If you plan to attend, RSVP to bharrel5@utk.edu by today Lunch will be on your own.

Grant received teacher residency program TEACH/Here, an innovative teacher residency initiative through which UT is helping to prepare highly skilled math and science teachers for hard-to-fill positions in Knox and Hamilton county schools, has received $2.8 million from the National Science Foundation through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program.

UT College of Education, Health and Human Sciences Dean Bob Rider, Knox County Schools Superintendent Jim McIntrye, Hamilton County Schools Superintendent Jim Scales and Public Education Foundation Board Chair Jim Hall gathered in Knoxville on Friday to celebrate receiving the grant and pending completion of the agreement formalizing the TEACH/Here partnership.

Although the official paperwork is just now being completed, TEACH/Here has been up and running since July. The first group of 17 aspiring math and science teachers are currently working with mentor teachers in Knox and Hamilton County schools.

The Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program provides funds to universities to support scholarships, stipends and academic programs for undergraduate STEM majors and post-baccalaureate students holding STEM degrees who earn a teaching credential and commit to teaching in high-need K-12 school districts.

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UT scientist solves mystery A systematic study of phase changes in vanadium dioxide has solved a mystery that has puzzled scientists for decades, according to a UT researcher working at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Scientists have known that vanadium dioxide exhibits several competing phases when it acts as an insulator at lower temperatures. However, the exact nature of the phase behavior has not been understood since research began on vanadium dioxide in the early 1960s.

Alexander Tselev, a research assistant professor in physics working with ORNL’s Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, in collaboration with Igor Luk’yanchuk from the University of Picardy in France, used a condensed matter physics theory to explain the observed phase behaviors of vanadium dioxide, a material of significant technological interest for optics and electronics.

Vanadium dioxide is best known in the materials world for its speedy and abrupt phase transition that essentially transforms the material from a metal to an insulator. The phase change takes place at about 68 degrees Celsius.

Devices that might take advantage of the unusual properties of VO2 include lasers, motion detectors and pressure detectors, which could benefit from the increased sensitivity provided by the property changes of vanadium dioxide. The material is already used in technologies such as infrared sensors.

Researchers said their theoretical work could help guide future experimental research in vanadium dioxide and ultimately aid the development of new technologies based on VO2.

The results were published in the American Chemical Society’s Nano Letters. The research team also included Ilia Ivanov, John Budai and Jonathan Tischler at ORNL and Evgheni Strelcov and Andrei Kolmakov at Southern Illinois University.

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UT researchers travel to China Earlier this fall, a team of UT scientists traveled to Beijing for the fourth annual workshop of the China-US Joint Research Center for Ecosystem and Environmental Change (JRCEEC).

The workshop was structured around the theme “Energy, Ecosystem and Environmental Change” and organized by the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). More than 160 researchers from numerous Chinese and US universities and institutes participated in the September workshop.

JRCEEC was established in 2006 by UT’s Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment (ISSE), the UT/Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Joint Institute for Biological Sciences (JIBS) and CAS. The partnership now includes Purdue University’s Center for the Environment and the University of Science and Technology of China. The annual China-US workshops are hosted reciprocally

by U.S. and Chinese partners. Last year’s event convened at ORNL. Sayler, ISSE Director Randall Gentry, and ISSE Research Director Jie (Joe) Zhuang were among the founders of the ChinaU.S. partnership. Zhuang also serves as JRCEEC coordinator.

UT presenters at the workshop included Steven Wilhelm, Alison Buchan and Erik Zinser from the Department of Microbiology; JIBS Director Gary Sayler; JRCEEC Coordinator Jie (Joe) Zhuang; Barry Bruce from the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology; Jennifer DeBruyn from the Department of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science; David Mann, a post-doctoral research associate, and graduate students Mathew Halter and Jason Burris from the Department of Plant Sciences of UT’s Institute of Agriculture; and Timothy Rials and Sam Jackson of UT’s Biofuels Initiative.

Sayler, Zhuang, Bruce, Rials, Jackson, Mann, Halter and Burris arrived in Beijing in advance of the main workshop to take part in a two-day topical workshop on the “Biotechnology of Bioenergy Plants,” which was organized by CAS’s Institute of Botany. Feng Chen and Max Chen, from UT’s Department of Plant Sciences, played roles in the earlier workshop.

The workshop concluded with field trips to noted historical sites and research facilities in China, including the Forbidden City and the Great Wall in Beijing, CAS’s Institute of Water and Soil Conservation on the Loess Plateau near Xi’an, and the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences’ Institute of Karst Geology in South China’s Guangxi province.

The fifth annual joint workshop, “Global Sustainability in Energy, Climate, Water and Environment,” will be held at Purdue University in September 2011.

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Programs keep old cemeteries preserved Associated Press PADUCAH, Ky. — At least once a week, 80-year-old Odell Lynn Lancaster and his 75-year-old friend, Robert Herndon, climb into a four-wheel-drive truck and traverse gravel roads to visit their ancestors.

The two men, with occasional help from others, care for 99 cemeteries in the Stewart County, Tenn., portion of the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area, along with a few more in Trigg County.

Lancaster, of Paris, Tenn., said he’d love some more help, especially from younger volunteers, but he can’t find any.

“If somebody doesn’t keep following up, the younger people, I’d say in eight or 10 years I’d say some of the cemeteries will be grown back up like they were in the beginning,” he said.

Over time people forget the locations of old cemeteries, especially small, family plots, he said. The areas become overgrown, and the families move away or die out.

Ann Johnson of the Kentucky Historical Society’s cemetery preservation program said it’s an issue she encounters all the time.

Through 2008, the Governor’s Office of Local Development had grant money available to help people restore a cemetery they discovered on their land or one they found their ancestors were buried in. Because of state budget cuts, the funding ran out.

State law requires landowners to give families whose ancestors are buried in a cemetery access to the land at reasonable hours, Johnson said. Landowners may not damage or destroy the cemetery. They may not remove stones, move graves, let animals graze over it or place deer stands in it, she said. However, they are not required to maintain the cemetery, cut underbrush, or lift or

repair stones that have fallen over or broken.

That leaves groups such as Lancaster’s to do the work.

Lancaster’s grandfather, his great-great-grandmother and his great-great-grandfather, along with many of his wife’s ancestors, are buried in the LBL cemeteries. He began working with the Between the Rivers Preservation Organization’s Rescue Our Cemeteries group about 1990.

At the time, the group had more than 50 active members, he said. They used Tennessee Valley Authority maps to find the cemeteries left untouched for decades.

“Some of them were grown up bad in trees and bushes,” he said. “You couldn’t even tell they were cemeteries.”

Slowly, group members dwindled. Now, Lancaster said, if he and Herndon don't go out to clip back bushes, cut up and remove fallen trees and trim weeds, he's afraid no one will.

“It’s shameful to me to see them grow back up again and not be even distinguished as a cemetery,” he said. “That’s why I keep going at it.”

Mike Lynn, co-owner of Ohio Valley Monument Co. in Paducah, began learning how to restore old cemeteries in 1995, when he took over the care of a southeastern Missouri cemetery where his ancestors are buried. He turned his hobby into a business.

Most recently Lynn’s company spent several months restoring 28 graves in the Langstaff, Rankin and Dallam family plots at Oak Grove Cemetery.

It can take between a few hundred to a few thousand dollars to restore a cemetery, depending on its size, its condition, and whether clients are looking to repair or replace monuments.

Lynn recommends anyone interested in restoring a cemetery

start out by drawing a map of it and listing all the information available on legible stones, stopping to take photographs if possible.

Even if a person has no money to begin preservation efforts, recording the information and saving it in a safe place means it will be available if funds become available years later. Too many times, he said, people don’t write the information down right away. When they return to cut brush, tombstones have fallen over, broken or disappeared.

Cleaning the stones to improve their legibility also takes nothing more than time and muscle, he said. He recommends using only lots of water and a soft-bristled brush to scrape away dirt, moss and lichen.

“You just try to be as gentle as you can with the stone,” he said.

Many stones that have been knocked over simply need setting back up in their bases, Lynn said.

“Don’t try to redo everything and make it look like brand new,” he said. Instead, make small, consistent efforts to keep cleared areas from growing back up over time.

Chip Luckett, 63, of Kevil says that preserving his family cemetery is a labor of love.

Luckett is the sixth generation to live on the Hobbs family farm on Woodville Road. He spent years restoring the Hobbs family cemetery, which has about 60 graves and includes the graves of neighbors and, possibly, slaves. Burials took place from about 1845 to 1894.

Luckett hopes more people take interest in preserving the places he considers sacred ground.

“It’s preserving history,” he said. “There is so much history being lost.”

Ginseng poachers stay problematic Associated Press

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GATLINBURG— When Horace Kephart created the herb picker Sang Johnny in his 1929 novel “Smoky Mountain Magic,” Congress had yet to establish the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and digging ginseng in the Smokies was not yet illegal.

Today, despite being under park protection for three-quarters of a century, ginseng is even scarcer in the Smokies than it was in Kephart’s day. With wild ginseng root currently selling for as much as $790 per dried pound, it’s no mystery why the plant remains a high priority for poachers.

In October rangers apprehended two North Carolina men with 805 ginseng roots they’d dug from the park. Given that it takes 300 to 400 dried ginseng roots to make a pound, the haul would have fetched upwards of $2,000 on the wholesale market.

Park officials said it was the second largest ginseng bust on record in the Smokies, the largest being a theft in 1993 when rangers apprehended an individual with 1,200 roots in his possession.

“Ginseng poaching is a chronic problem,” said park spokeswoman Nancy Gray.

“We’ve seen a reduction in our ginseng over the years even though the plant has been protected since the park was established.”

The Smokies is one of America’s last refuges for wild ginseng. The root is sold primarily in Asian markets, where it’s used to treat everything from chronic fatigue to decreased sexual vitality.

In China, the demand for wild Asian ginseng has pushed that species to the brink of extinction and placed increasing demand on its American counterpart, Panax quinquefolius — wild American ginseng.

Over the last 18 years law enforcement rangers have confiscated 13,000 ginseng roots in the Smokies. Illegally dug ginseng sometimes can be saved if they’re re-planted within a month’s time. Of the 805 plants seized in October, 675 were re-planted in the park with the help of volunteers.

Ginseng poachers in the Smokies face up to six months in jail and $5,000 in fines,

plus restitution costs. The plant is listed as threatened in Tennessee and North Carolina but is not federally listed.

While it’s illegal to dig ginseng in the Smokies, ginseng harvesting is permitted in the Cherokee National Forest but requires a $20 permit.

Since 1985 the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation’s Division of Natural Heritage has regulated ginseng harvesting statewide.

The harvest season runs Aug. 15-Dec. 31, and while no permit is required for digging ginseng, buyers must be licensed.

To be harvested legally, the plant must have at least three prongs, or compound leaves. Diggers must have landowner permission and are required to re-plant the seeds of each plant they harvest.

Tennessee has 45 licensed ginseng dealers and usually ranks second or third in the U.S. for the sale and export of wild ginseng. In 2008 Tennessee ginseng dealers purchased 8,000 pounds of dried root. In 2009, the statewide harvest almost doubled to 14,000 pounds.

Wild ginseng thrives in rich mountain soil. Botanists say the species is especially vulnerable to over-harvesting because it takes the plants at least five years to reach sexual maturity.

In fact, of the 805 ginseng roots seized in October’s Smokies bust, most of them were 10 years old or older, and some had been growing for 30 and 40 years, according to park officials.

Andrea Bishop, ginseng coordinator for the Tennessee Division of Natural Heritage, said it’s this slow growth pattern that makes wild ginseng more valuable than the cultivated variety.

“Cultivated ginseng is about a third of the price of wild ginseng,” Bishop said.

“It’s not nearly as potent or as sought-after on the Asian markets.”

Recently, Tennessee has gone high-tech in catching ginseng poachers by injecting a dye and silicon chip into plants in state parks and natural areas that marks them as originating from public lands where ginseng digging is illegal.

The method was developed in 1996 by Jim Corbin, a plant protection specialist with the North Carolina Department of Agriculture.

Today, Corbin’s invention is being used throughout the Smokies, as well as Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, Mammoth Cave and Virginia's Shenandoah National Park, where plant poaching is a growing concern.

In all, the tracing technique is used in 13 states and three foreign countries. Recently, DNA markers have been added to the dye, and the program has grown to include not just ginseng, but other protected species like bloodroot, goldenseal and rare orchids.

Corbin said the project’s greatest value may be as a deterrent as more and more plant poachers learn of its widespread application.

“There’s tremendous incentive to go after ginseng, especially with the economy like it is,” Corbin said. “This gives law enforcement the tool they need to stay ahead of the poachers.”

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Tensions increase in Koreas Associated Press YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea — A U.S. supercarrier and South Korean destroyer took up position in the tense Yellow Sea on Sunday for joint military exercises that were a united show of force just days after a deadly North Korean artillery attack.

As tensions escalated across the region, with North Korea threatening another “merciless” attack, China belatedly jumped into the fray. Beijing’s top nuclear envoy, Wu Dawei, called for an emergency meeting in early December among regional powers involved in nuclear disarmament talks, including North Korea.

Seoul responded cautiously to the proposal from North Korea’s staunch ally, saying it should be “reviewed very carefully” in light of North Korea’s recent revelation of a new uraniumenrichment facility, even as protesters begged President Lee Myung-bak to find a way to resolve the tension and restore peace.

The troubled relations between the two Koreas, which fought a three-year war in the 1950s, have steadily deteriorated since Lee’s conservative government took power in 2008 with a tough new policy toward nuclear-armed North Korea.

Eight months ago, a South Korean warship went down in the western waters, killing 46 sailors in the worst attack on the South Korean military since the Korean War. Then, last Tuesday, North Korean troops showered artillery on Yeonpyeong, a South Korean-held island that houses military bases as well as a civilian population of 1,300 — an attack that marked a new level of hostility.

Two South Korean marines and two civilians were killed and 18 others wounded in the hailstorm of artillery that sent residents fleeing into bunkers and reduced homes on the island to charred rubble.

North Korea blamed the South for provoking the attack by holding artillery drills near the Koreas' maritime border, and has threatened to be “merciless” if the current war games — set to last until Dec. 1 — get too close to its territory.

As U.S. and South Korean ships, including the nuclear-powered USS George Washington, sailed into the waters off Korea’s west coast Sunday, China began launching its diplomatic bid to calm tensions.

Washington and Seoul had been pressing China, North Korea’s main ally and benefactor, to help defuse the situation amid fears of all-out war.

China, slow at first to react, has quickened its diplomatic intervention in recent days. Chinese state councilor Dai Bingguo made a last-minute visit to Seoul to confer with Lee. Lee pressured China to contribute to peace in a “more objective, responsible” matter, and warned Sunday that Seoul would respond “strongly” to any further provocation, the presidential office said.

The strong words were Lee's first public comment in days. He was due to address the nation Monday morning amid calls from his people to take stronger action in dealing with the defiant North.

Appearing Sunday CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday, U.S. Sen. John McCain, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said China should rein in its neighbor.

“The key to this, obviously, is China,” McCain said. “And, unfortunately, China is not behaving as a responsible world power. It cannot be in China’s long-term interest to see a renewed conflict on the Korean peninsula.”

North Korea has walked a path of defiance since launching a rocket in April 2009 in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions and abandoning the disarmament process in protest against the condemnation that followed.

However, in recent months Pyongyang has shown an eagerness to get back to the talks, and has appeared increasingly frustrated by U.S. and South Korean reluctance to restart the negotiations.

Seoul has said it wants an acknowledgment of regret for the sinking of the Cheonan warship in March as well as a concrete show of commitment to denuclearization.

North Korea, which cites the U.S. military presence in South Korea as a main reason behind its drive to build atomic weapons, routinely calls the joint exercises between the allies a rehearsal for war.

Washington, which keeps 28,500 troops in South Korea to protect the ally, insists the routine drills were planned before last Tuesday’s attack.

The exercises will take place over four days, but no live-fire drills are planned, said Cmdr. Jeff Davis, spokesman for the 7th Fleet in Japan.

Along scenic Mallipo Beach on the west coast, about 50 South Korean soldiers were laying down an aluminum road to prepare for an amphibious landing drill Monday. Barbed wire and metal staves ran the length of the beach for about 2 miles (3 kilometers). Military ships hovered in the distance.

North Korea expressed renewed outrage over the Yellow Sea drills.

The war games are a “pretext for aggression and ignite a war at any cost,” the National Peace Committee of Korea said in a statement carried Sunday by the official Korean Central News Agency.

Hours earlier, the rattle of new artillery fire from North Korea sent residents, journalists, police and troops scrambling for cover on Yeonpyeong Island. None of the rounds landed on the island, military officials said, but the incident showed how tense the situation remains.

Saying they could not guarantee the journalists’ safety, South Korea’s Defense Ministry sent a ship to ferry them off the island but bad weather forced them to cancel the evacuation. About 380 people, including 28 islanders and 190 journalists, remained on Yeonpyeong on Sunday, officials said.

A similar burst of artillery fire Friday occurred just as the U.S. military’s top commander in the region, Gen. Walter Sharp, was touring Yeonpyeong Island. No shells landed anywhere in South Korean territory.

Calls for tougher action made way Sunday for pleas for peace among about 150 South Koreans who turned out for a vigil Sunday evening in a Seoul plaza, huddling with candles in paper cups and chanting, “Give us peace!”

“It was very shocking,” said Kang Hong-koo, 22, a student.

“I’m here to appease the souls of the people who were killed in the North Korean attack. I hope the current tense situation is alleviated quickly.”

Election to test US-Japan alliance Associated Press TOKYO — Okinawa’s incumbent governor, who campaigned for the removal of an unpopular U.S. Marine base from the Japanese island, appeared headed for re-election Sunday, in a likely test of the U.S.-Japan security alliance.

Hirokazu Nakaima, 71, looked certain to win the gubernatorial election, public broadcaster NHK said late Sunday. Official results were expected Monday.

The relocation of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma was among the key issues in the campaign.

The base has been on Okinawa island since 1945, and residents have long complained it produces aircraft noise and crime.

A 2006 deal between the U.S. and Japan to move the Futenma base to a less crowded part of Okinawa has stalled because of public opposition. The controversy even toppled a prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, earlier this year.

Nakaima once backed the relocation plan but now opposes it and wants to move the base off Okinawa. His challenger, Yoichi Iha, 58, former mayor of Ginowan city, where Futenma is located, wants the base moved out of Japan entirely.

Nakaima’s victory could hamper Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s efforts to press ahead with the 2006 agreement because the relocation of Futenma will need the governor's

approval.

Okinawa, home to about half of the some 50,000 U.S. troops stationed in Japan, is a strategically important island close to Taiwan and the Chinese mainland and not far from the Korean peninsula.

Kan has said the U.S. military presence in Okinawa is a crucial deterrent for regional security threats, an argument perhaps driven home by North Korea’s artillery strike on a South Korean island on Tuesday as well as worries over China’s growing military power.

A half-century security alliance allows the U.S. to station military forces in Japan, while guaranteeing the U.S. will defend Japan from any attack. But local opposition to the troops’ presence is vocal.

The base controversy is growing into a major thorn in the U.S.-Japan alliance.

Both Kan and Hatoyama are from the Democratic Party, which promised a foreign policy less beholden to the United States before its election last year. The largely untested party trounced the longruling Liberal Democrats, which had smoothly engineered the alliance with the U.S. and rarely questioned what Washington wanted.

The relocation of Futenma is part of a bigger plan to move more than 8,000 U.S. Marines off Okinawa to the U.S. Pacific island of Guam. But this plan assumes that a still unbuilt base in another part of Okinawa will be completed.

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Colorado to regulate marijuana Search continues for pot pointman Officials say oversight of medical pot will protect safety of consumers Associated Press DENVER — What’s in that joint, and how can you be sure it’s safe?

Colorado is working toward becoming the first state to regulate production of medical marijuana. Regulators say pot consumers deserve to know what they’re smoking, and producers should have safety regulations such as pesticide limits for plants destined for human consumption.

Right now, patients have no way to verify pot-shop claims that certain products are organic, or how potent a strain might be.

“You don’t go into a Walgreens with a headache and put on a blindfold and pick something off a shelf. But that’s what some people are doing when they buy marijuana,” said Buckie Minor of Full Spectrum Laboratories in Denver, which currently does voluntary marijuana analysis for about 100 growers and dispensaries.

Minor and others in the pot business say industry standards are needed. But Colorado officials are having a tough time writing regulations for a product that’s never been scrutinized or safety-tested before.

New Mexico requires marijuana products to be labeled by strain and potency, and is planning by the end of the year to allow health inspectors to review samples. But currently none of the 14 states that allow medical marijuana regulate how it’s grown.

“There’s no experience with this,” said Dr. Alan Shackelford, a Denver physician heading up Colorado’s effort to write labeling and safety regulations for medical marijuana.

Colorado hopes to have in place by early next year some sort of labeling and inspection standard for marijuana sold commercially, under provisions of a new state law. But it’s a daunting task. Physicians, pot shop owners and state regulators all say standards are needed but guidelines don't exist. Some of the questions: —Should marijuana sellers be able to attach medical claims to their products? What if no research exists to back up a claim that a certain strain of pot is best for, say, pain or nausea?

—Should medical pot be labeled by potency? Patients using over-the-counter and prescription drugs can read the medicine’s ingredients, but no analogy exists for pot’s active ingredient, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC. —What about chemicals, such as pesticides or fertilizers, used on marijuana plants?

Should those be limited, as they are for food and tobacco?

—Agencies that routinely inspect farms, restaurants and pharmaceutical factories have no experience regulating pot. Can they be tapped to inspect marijuana grows?

—What happens if someone gets sick from medical marijuana? Should growing operations have guidelines to limit contamination, such as mildew and mold?

“Given the lack of USDA or other oversight of this agricultural industry, we’re at square one,” Shackelford said when introducing proposed regulations recently.

According to regulators and physicians on the committee to establish regulations under the new law, the recommendations are likely to include basic labeling requirements, including potency. The regulations are also likely to call for pot growers to submit random samples for state testing, and rules for labeling pot products “organic.”

Shackelford says he’ll borrow from federal tobacco regulations for limits on chemicals that can be used in material to be smoked or ingested.

The regulations will also likely include the nation’s first guidelines for the safe production of hashish, which is concentrated marijuana. Hash production can be a fire risk because it’s often prepared using butane, and sometimes hash is made using plastics that can leave unsafe carcinogens as residue.

Matt Cook, who leads the Department of Revenue committee considering the new regulations, conceded that state regulators face a challenge overseeing the state pot supply.

“How do I enforce this?” Cook asked Shackelford when the doctor was talking about limiting pesticide use on the plants. “I just don’t want to create something that creates a regulatory nightmare for all of us.”

But the so-called “ganjapreneuers” working in the marijuana business say that regulation and safety standards are needed.

“Patients are definitely interested to get as much information as they can about what they’re ingesting,” Minor said.

Associated Press

SPRINGFIELD, Ky. — With authorities closing in to seize 2,400 marijuana plants on John Robert Boone's farm two years ago, the legendary Kentucky outlaw vanished like a puff of smoke. The prolific grower has been dodging the law ever since, his folk-hero status growing with every sale of a “Run, Johnny, Run” T-shirt and click on his Facebook fan page.

Tracking down the fugitive who resembles a tattooed Santa Claus has proven as hard as “trying to catch a ghost” for the federal authorities canvassing tightlipped residents among the small farms in a rural area southeast of Louisville. Boone, who’s trying to avoid the life sentence he would get if convicted a third time of growing pot, has plenty of sympathizers in an area where many farmers down on their luck have planted marijuana.

“That’s all he’s ever done, raising pot,” said longtime friend Larry Hawkins, who owns a bar and restaurant called Hawk’s Place. “He never hurt nobody.”

As Hawkins puts it, there are two kinds of growers: “You’ve got the caught and the uncaught.” And, at least for now, the 67-yearold Boone is a bit of both.

He spent more than a decade in federal prison after being convicted in the late 1980s of taking part in what federal prosecutors called the “largest domestic marijuana syndicate in American history,” a string of 29 farms in Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas and Wisconsin.

The group became known as the “Cornbread Mafia” and Boone was tagged by prosecutors as their leader, earning him the nicknames “King of Pot” and “Godfather of Grass.” Eventually, 70 Kentuckians were accused of growing 182 tons of marijuana.

Boone’s looks are a mixture of grandfatherly and sinister: Around the time of the 2008 raid on his property 60 miles southeast of Louisville, Boone sported white hair on his balding head and a shaggy white beard. Yet across his back are large, tattooed letters spelling “Omerta,” the infamous Sicilian word that describes the underworld code of silence.

While federal authorities don't describe him as violent, his criminal record dates back to the 1960s and also includes charges of wanton endangerment and illegal firearm possession.

Deputy U.S. Marshal James Habib and Boone’s friends call him an innovator — separating male from female plants on a large scale to increase potency and experimenting with seeds from around the world in different climates.

“He was the player. There might have been one or two close to him,” said Jack Smith, a former federal prosecutor who represented Boone in the 1980s case. “I never heard of anybody who was bigger.”

While Smith said some see marijuana growers as harmless, he points out large-scale operations can fund other illegal activities such as prostitution or lead to violence between dealers. Large marijuana fields in Kentucky and elsewhere are sometimes booby-trapped or patrolled by armed growers.

“It’s illegal for a reason,” Smith said.

Boone’s rough-edged stomping grounds — dotted with small towns, corn fields and bourbon distilleries — have a colorful history of fostering illicit activities.

The area was home to moonshine runners during Prohibition, who often darted into rows of corn stalks and barns to hide from federal agents. In the early 1980s, as the economy soured and prices for tobacco and farm products dropped, parts of central Kentucky had unemployment rates nearing 14 percent. The

rate in the area now is around 9 percent — similar to the national average.

“A lot of the sons of moonshine makers turned to marijuana,” said Smith, a native of the area who now practices in Louisville. “That particular part of the state, that was the hometown of marijuana.”

Boone himself invoked the area's hardships during the 1988 court hearing at which he was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

“With the poverty at home, marijuana is sometimes one of the things that puts bread on the table,” Boone said. “We were working with our hands on earth God gave us.”

Boone’s estranged wife, Marilyn, declined to speak to The Associated Press at her house.

Other family members also declined to respond to phone calls and letters. And in the towns of central Kentucky — Springfield, Raywick, Loretto and Lebanon — many people acknowledged knowing of Boone, but either professed not to know him well or wouldn’t speak about him to a reporter.

“Even if I knew where he was, I wouldn’t tell you,” said James “Jim Bean” Cecil, a 64-year-old Lebanon, Ky., resident who spent time in prison with Boone.

Those who would talk about Boone offered similar descriptions — a friendly, nonconfrontational man who was quick to open his wallet when friends were having trouble making ends meet. For example, a man who mowed the grass on Boone’s sprawling property was given twice the fee he requested at the end of the job.

When Cecil got out of prison, Boone gave him money to get back on his feet.

“He never asked me to pay him back,” Cecil said.

Friends also recall him as a heck of a farmer who grew corn and who just happened to also grow marijuana, which to some locals made Boone an outlaw, not a criminal. A Facebook page set up for him has 1,600 fans.

“He was just a good ol’ country boy, a farmer,” said Joe Pendleton, a Boone acquaintance whose shop sells the “Run, Johnny, Run” T-shirts in nearby Campbellsville. “He’s not robbing banks or nothing.”

Boone's latest trouble came in 2008, when Kentucky State Police doing aerial surveillance spotted marijuana plants on trailers on Boone's farm near Springfield. A raid turned up more than 2,400 plants, but no Boone.

“As soon as he found out they were there, he split,” said Jim Higdon, a writer based in Lebanon, Ky., who interviewed Boone for a book project. “It was a death sentence. He became a fugitive.”

Boone, who has marijuana-growing contacts in Central America, could be anywhere. Then again, Habib said he could still be hiding out in the rural, tight-knit area around his farm.

“It’s like trying to catch a ghost,” former Deputy U.S. Marshal Rich Knighten said shortly after Boone’s indictment in 2008.

If Boone’s friends have their way, he’ll remain uncaught. Some complain it’s not worth a life sentence — which Boone faces under the federal three-strikes provision — for a nonviolent drug charge.

“I never seen nobody get mad in my life smoking dope,” said former Raywick mayor Charlie Bickett, who runs Charlie's Place, a bar filled with hand-painted milk cans and saws, including a painting of Boone looking out over the water while smoking a joint.

Even free, Bickett said, Boone is serving a sentence — wondering each day if he’ll be caught and knowing he can’t return to his family.

“I guarantee you, he’d love to be back home, Johnny would,” Bickett said. “I really miss him.

I sure do.”

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Lady Vols fall in Paradise Jam final defense.”

Glory Johnson scored 13 points, while ST. THOMAS, Virgin Islands — Sluggish Meighan Simmons added 11 to lead the the first two games of the Paradise Jam, Lady Vols (6-1), who had 29 turnovers.

Georgetown’s Sugar Rodgers saved her best Georgetown turned them into 31 points.

“Our team did not come to the gym on a for last.

Rodgers scored 28 points to lead the 12th- mission,” said Tennessee coach Pat ranked Hoyas to a 69-58 victory over No. 4 Summitt, whose squad was playing its first Tennessee on Saturday in the tournament’s ranked opponent of the season. “We won our first two games pretty easily but you have to final game. respect every oppoMonica McNutt nent. Tonight, we added 13 for watched a team take us Georgetown (5-1), apart. I am very, very which opened the game disappointed.” on a 11-4 run and never The Lady Vols kept trailed. Rodgers and Georgetown’s lead to McNutt combined for single digits most of nine 3-pointers for the the second half until Hoyas, who won the the Hoyas went on a 7tournament’s Reef 0 run with 7:09 left to Division. pull away for good.

“I don’t think she was With 1:01 remainbeing as aggressive as ing, Tennessee’s she should have been,” Shekinna Stricklen colcoach Terri Williamslided with a Flournoy said. “She Georgetown player in knew this was her the paint and landed chance to shine.” hard on her back. She Rodgers scored 11 of was taken off the court her team’s first 13 on a stretcher. points in the second half “She’s in a lot of and was one point shy Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon pain but I think she's of tying a career high.

The sophomore guard Glory Johnson lays the ball in over going to be OK,” was honored as the Arizona State defender Dymond Summitt said. “The Simon. Despite a double-double injury is in her lower Tournament MVP. from Johnson, the Lady Vols fell to back so we're going to “I had a couple bad Georgetown 68-58 in the final have wait until we get games there but tonight, game of the Reef Division of the an X-ray back.”

I picked it up,” said 2010 Paradise Jam. Georgetown beat the Rodgers, who added nation’s fourth-ranked four rebounds and three steals. “I think the big deal tonight was our defense. Every sin- team for the second straight season. The gle player on our team stepped up on Hoyas defeated No. 4 Notre Dame on Feb. 20 at home.

Associated Press

Guard Simmons making early impact that impresses her fellow players most is her confidence. Sophomore Taber Spani said that Staff Writer her aggressive mindset and confidence help A freshman from Cibolo, Texas, Meighan her play the game.

“She’s just got a very aggressive mindset,” Simmons has joined the Lady Vols basketball Spani said. “I think that’s played to her advanteam and has brought talent and confidence to tage, and she’s shooting the ball very well. the team.

Simmons has shown that she is a valuable She’s really helped us offensively the first two games, and she’s confident. I think that’s part asset to the team and of who she is, and I can compete on a think that really helps higher level as she her game a lot.” marches her way While confident through the season. on the court and natuCoach Pat Summitt rally talented at bassaid that Simmons’ ketball, Simmons is abilities have surstill trying to figure prised and impressed out the ropes of colher. lege life. Simmons is “I didn’t know that gliding through her she would have this freshman year as a kind of impact,” Lady Vol, but she said Summitt said. “I knew that there is one that she was a great aththat challenges her lete, but I didn’t know more than anything. about her skill set.

“I guess just manShe is very skilled, aging time,” and she’s very confiSimmons said. “Like dent to be a freshman, my school and basketand you don’t see that ball.” very often.”

As she wrestles Summitt said with the age-old bane Simmons is quick and of a college student’s makes a lot of good life, Simmons enjoys things happen, and many extracurricular Simmons said Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon activities besides basSummitt’s experience has meant a lot to Meighan Simmons shoots over Arizona ketball. She said that State defender Dymond Simon on she enjoys sleeping her.

“It means a lot,” Sunday, Nov. 21. Simmons has quickly more than anything, Simmons said. “I become the leading scorer for the Lady but there are a few other things she is mean, I never Vols, averaging 15.6 points per game. interested in. thought that I’d come “I like to go to Gatlinburg, ride roller coasthere and play as much as I do.”

The pressure that comes with being a fresh- ers, stuff like that,” Simmons said. “I just like man and getting a lot of playing time on the to chill with my teammates.”

When Simmons isn’t with her teammates court is challenging, but Simmons doesn’t or sleeping, the undecided freshman can’t seem to struggle with confidence. She feels that playing here has built her confidence, and make up her mind between sports management or child and family studies. When these this shows when she’s on the court.

“It’s just a whole thing with confidence,” issues aren’t pressuring her, she said she Simmons said. “I think starting off here, my enjoys meeting new people and a new environconfidence was at a really high level, and I’m ment, especially after moving from Texas. “(I like) learning new weather,” Simmons still trying to keep it up there.” said.

“I’m used to hot weather so I guess just As Simmons has an opportunity to interact learning a new culture and just being around in with more of the players, the thing about her Tennessee period.”

Lauren Kittrell

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THESPORTSPAGE

Vols’ solid defense nets NIT title Resilient Vols fight for bowl eligibility UT defense holds Villanova to 34.5-percent shooting in 78-68 victory Very good defensive team. They didn’t Seth Jensen give Fish (a Villanova guard) many one-onStaff Writer one opportunities. Early he got some Despite the distraction of Bruce Pearl’s looks. He got good looks and missed eight-game suspension by the SEC, the them.”

The Big Orange’s defense held the 24th-ranked Tennessee Volunteers (5-0) won the NIT Season Tip-Off, defeating Wildcats to 34.5-percent shooting as No. 7 Villanova (5-1) 78-68 at Madison Villanova was able to shoot just 4-of-21 from three-point range.

Square Garden on Friday.

“They played great defense,” Wright Junior guard Scotty Hopson led Tennessee with 18 points and was named said. “Obviously, the best defensive team we have played the tournaagainst so far. ment’s most We couldn’t get valuable playany easy baser. kets.

“I think “Sometimes Scotty stayed when you play patient,” Pearl against a team said. “He is like that with our leading good halfcourt scorer and godefense, I think to guy, but he they’re great in didn’t force it. their half-court He only got 11 defense. You can shots. I like create turnovers seeing him with the press or getting to the get out on a rim, and he break and get had some easy baskets. We beautiful passdidn’t get any of es out there as those.

They well. He is not played a great hesitating and game.” is comfortThe path to able.” the champiFreshman onship included f o r w a r d a 77-72 win over Tobias Harris V i r g i n i a added 15 Commonwealth points and on Tuesday. n i n e Hopson had rebounds, 18 points and 11 while senior Matthew DeMaria• The Daily Beacon rebounds against center Brian Scotty Hopson dunks over Chattanooga defend- VCU and Williams had er Omar Wattad on Friday, Nov. 12. Hopson was Williams led the 12 points and voted MVP for the NIT Season Tip-off tourna- team with 13 s e v e n ment as the Vols went on to win the champirebounds. r e b o u n d s . onship with a 78-68 victory over Villanova.

VCU (4-1) Junior guard attempted 31 3C a m e r o n Tatum scored 17 points that included three pointers for the game, and Tennessee’s defense was able to hold it to a 35.5 perbaskets from beyond the arc.

“Tobias is so versatile,” Pearl said. “We centage from the perimeter.

“We’re in the season right now,” Pearl really needed Tobias to handle the ball a said.

“And I think the focus should be lot to break the press. He was solid and didn’t turn it over. At times, he has the shifted to our season and where we're at.

Obviously I’m happy for the guys. We’ve ability to take things over.”

Senior point guard Melvin Goins had handled some adversity. Now we have to nine points and four steals, but seven handle some success. That will be the next points and two steals came in the game’s step for this basketball team.”

The Volunteers will play Middle final minutes.

Te n n e ssee “I think they list Goins at 180 State in (pounds),” Villanova coach Jay Wright Thompsonsaid. “He looked like a defensive back of a football team to me. He is broad-shoul- B o l i n g dered. He is strong and gets real low. He Arena on was very, very physical. The bigs help. Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.

Just ask Texas how hard it is to win that sixth game and become bowl eligible.

The Longhorns bring in a top-five recruiting class every February, but just a year after playing for the BCS National Championship game, it couldn’t muster enough fight to defeat rival Texas A&M to finish with a .500 Sports Editor record.

Unlike Texas, the Vols righted the ship in One former Tennessee coach (who lost to Notre Dame Saturday) put it simply last season large part from the leadership of its senior class.

Fifteen seniors ran through the T for the final when asked how the Volunteers had beaten time before Saturday’s game, and UT fans Kentucky for the 25th straight time.

“We are Tennessee, and they are Kentucky,” should’ve given each one of them a standing ovation. he said.

Those 15 Vols endured three head coaches It really is that simple.

Even for the slow learners of the Beer Barrel and failed to win a championship — so far.

Under Dooley, Tennessee will — not if, but rivalry, Kentucky running back Derrick Locke’s inexplicable fumble at the UT goal line should will — win championships in the future, and have ended all doubt about the game’s outcome. those 15 seniors will be deserving of a ring and more for helping lay the foundation and showTennessee was ing underclassmen going to win. how a championship The Wildcats team should go to racked up 156 yards work each day, on and 11 first downs in and off the field. the first quarter and Saturday’s outcontrolled the ball for come, though expect11 of the 15 minutes, ed, was a fitting way yet led the Vols just for the UT seniors to 7-0. For comparison, leave Neyland UT gained 28 yards Stadium. and earned just one Senior middle first down in the linebacker Nick game’s opening quarReveiz was the last to ter. leave the field and Tennessee tied the said after the game game a minute into he wanted to spend the second quarter the night on Shieldson Tyler Bray’s 11Wade Rackley • The Daily Beacon Watkins Field still yard touchdown pass to Gerald Jones, and Gerald Williams celebrates with fans after wearing his jersey Kentucky would Tennessee’s win over Kentucky on and pads.

Reveiz is just one never regain the lead. Saturday, Nov. 27. Williams, as well as the To their credit, the rest of the Vols’ seniors, were honored example of the 15 players in the senior Wildcats managed to prior to kickoff as part of Senior Day. class that withstood tie the game early in the third quarter at 14 but failed to score the more adversity than any other in UT history.

“I was proud of them,” Dooley said of the rest of the game, ensuring the Vols’ winning streak over Kentucky would extend to 26 seniors. “How can you not be? I think their games, the longest in the nation by teams who class, half of them aren’t even here through attrition, whatever — all the stuff that happlay on a yearly basis.

The victory also gave Tennessee its sixth win pened to these guys. They were the few that stuck with it and loved Tennessee. They didn’t of the season, making it bowl eligible.

This is a huge accomplishment for first-year care what happened. They believed in coach Derek Dooley, who should receive some Tennessee.

“They got rewarded (on Saturday) for stickconsideration for SEC Coach of the Year for finding a way to win as many games as he lost, ing to it, so I am proud of them. And I thanked with an inexperienced team that lacked the them. I appreciate what they’ve given to me because they’ve given me their all. And that’s needed depth to fully compete in the SEC. The Vols had chances to give up on the sea- not an easy thing to do.”

All UT players touch a sign before each game son, especially after falling to 2-6 following a that reads: “I will give my all for Tennessee loss at South Carolina.

But Dooley and the Vols went from potential- today,” and these 15 seniors took that to heart.

And they were rewarded for that by extendly being the worst team Tennessee had ever fielded to a team that will play in the postsea- ing the winning streak over Kentucky and getting to play in a bowl game. son.

Matt Dixon