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World’s happiest country rankings released

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Tom Brady’s stolen jersey found

Rogers testify about 3. Comey, investigations surrounding presidential campaign

Norway replaced the threetime winner Denmark for the world’s happiest country. After being in the number four spot for two years, Norway was ranked first by a report from the Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Australia and Sweden tied for ninth place, while Canada was seventh. The United States was ranked 14th, only one place down from last year, and the United Kingdom moved four places up to 19th place. The countries of Central Africa remained the lowest ranked, with Rwanda being one of the worst.

The stolen jersey that Tom Brady wore during Super Bowl LI was found “on foreign soil.” It was in the possession of a “credentialed member of the international media,” who appeared to be from Mexico. The jersey, which is worth approximately $500,000, was discovered to be missing after Brady returned to the Patriots’ locker room after they won the game against the Atlanta Falcons.

NFL security and FBI agents are currently working to authenticate the jersey in Boston. After the process, prosecutors may press criminal charges against the man who stole the jersey.

On Monday, March 20, FBI Director James Comey confirmed that there is an investigation into the connections between the Trump campaign and Moscow, as well as saying that there was no evidence of any wiretapping done by the Obama administration on Trump Towers. Testifying alongside Comey, NSA Director Mike Rogers said no evidence could be found showing that Russians changed votes during the election. It is highly unusual for the FBI to reveal ongoing investigations, but the Justice Department authorized it due to public interest in the case.

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New developments in Louisiana boy’s killing Associated Press MARKSVILLE, La. (AP) — Two Louisiana law enforcement officers weren’t in any danger when they fired a barrage of bullets at a car, killing a 6-year-old autistic boy and critically wounding his father, a prosecutor said Monday at the start of a murder trial for one of the officers.

But an attorney for Derrick Stafford blamed the deadly confrontation on Jeremy Mardis’ father, calling him “the author of that child’s fate.” Defense attorney Jonathan Goins said the father, Christopher Few, led officers on a dangerous, high-speed chase and rammed a deputy’s vehicle before the shooting.

“Innocent people do not run from the police.

Innocent people stop their vehicles, surrender to the police,” Goins said during the trial’s opening statements.

Prosecutors say none of the father’s actions that night can justify the deadly response by Stafford and another deputy city marshal, Norris Greenhouse Jr. Video from a police officer’s body camera shows Few had his hands raised inside his vehicle “in a universal sign of surrender” while the officers fired their semi-automatic pistols, Assistant Attorney General Matthew Derbes said. At least four of their 18 shots ripped into the child’s body while he was strapped into the front seat.

Few didn’t stop for the officers because he was worried about what would happen to his son if he was arrested, Derbes said.

“He’s going to tell you it’s the biggest mistake of his life,” Derbes told jurors.

Stafford, 33, and Greenhouse, 25, are charged with second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder in the November 2015 shooting. Greenhouse awaits a separate trial later this year.

Marksville Police Lt. Kenneth Parnell, whose body camera captured the shooting, testified Monday that he brandished his gun but didn’t fire it at the car because he didn’t fear for his life.

“I never saw Mr. Few’s hands,” Parnell said.

Parnell acknowledged telling investigators that he pulled his gun out of concern for “officer safety.”

“I pull my gun in any situation like that,” he said.

Jeremy’s grandmothers and an aunt wept softly and consoled each other as jurors watched the graphic video from the shooting.

At least two jurors also wiped tears away.

Defense lawyers argue the officers acted in self-defense. Stafford’s attorneys have claimed Few drove recklessly as he led officers on a 2-mile (3-kilometer) chase and then rammed into Greenhouse’s vehicle as he exited it, before the officers opened fire.

However, a state police detective has testified there isn’t any physical evidence that Few’s car collided with Greenhouse’s vehicle.

Few has never publicly spoken about the shooting that killed his son. Derbes described him as a loving father who took full custody of him after breaking up with the boy’s mother, who lived in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

Defense attorneys have been attacking Few’s credibility for months before the trial. Stafford’s lawyers have said Few had drugs in his system at the time of the shooting and had recently survived a suicide attempt.

Goins accused authorities of conducting a sloppy investigation and rushing to judgment, arresting the two deputies less than a week after the shooting.

“Political pressure rather than the law is what drove this case,” Goins said.

Last week, attorneys asked prospective jurors if race could influence their verdict, or if they’ve heard arguments that race was a factor in the investigation. Both officers are black. Few is white, as was his son.

Investigators traced 14 shell casings to Stafford’s gun and four other casings to Greenhouse’s gun. Three of the four bullet fragments recovered from Jeremy’s body matched Stafford’s weapon; another couldn’t be matched to either deputy.

Ballistics evidence shows none of the 18 shots fired by the two deputies hit the front or back of Few’s car, according to Derbes, citing that as evidence that neither deputy was in danger.

“Cars don’t move sideways,” the prosecutor said.

Stafford, a Marksville police lieutenant, and Greenhouse, a former Marksville police officer, were moonlighting on the night of the shooting in the central Louisiana town. Stafford also worked part-time as a deputy city marshal in nearby Alexandria, but he was fired from that job after his arrest.

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Tuesday, March 21, 2017 • The Daily Beacon

Al Roker to visit UT Alex Holcomb

News Editor In nine days, UT will be the site of a new world record.

According to UT’s Office of Communications and Marketing, NBC has chosen UT to host Al Roker on Wednesday, March 29, to forecast the weather and break a world record in Neyland Stadium.

Roker, the weatherman for NBC’s Today, began Rokerthon in 2014 by completing an uninterrupted 34-hour weather broadcast to break a Guinness World Record. During the broadcast, he asked viewers to support his CrowdRise campaign that benefits the United Service Organizations (USO).

In 2015, Roker gave forecasts in all 50 states in under a week and asked viewers to donate to Feeding America during his trip. This year, for Rokerthon 3, he plans to visit five universities, including UT, to help break records. The other four universities have not been officially announced.

The Today show requested that universities from across the country submit videos showing school spirit and telling what Guinness World Record they could break while Roker is there. On Feb. 24, students at The Daily Beacon published a video to invite Roker to UT. Altaf Nanavati, digital producer at The Daily Beacon, produced the video inviting Roker. Although excited, he said he did not expect to be chosen.

“I saw a bunch of other videos that other colleges posted, and I was like, ‘Oh man, these are so good,’ and there are so many of them, too. With this kind of thing, you kind of submit it knowing that we’re probably not going to get picked,” Nanavati said. “It was kind of cool because three or four days later I get an email from someone from the Today show, and then I’m on a phone call with them, and here we are

now trying to actually get this thing organized.

So it all really came out of nowhere.”

When Roker arrives, UT students will attempt to break the world record for the largest human letter, which is currently held by 3,373 people making a Q at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. The goal is to have at least 3,400 people on Shields-Watkins Field in Neyland Stadium to make a power T while Roker forecasts the weather from 7 a.m.–9 p.m. Guinness representatives will be present to verify the record.

Director of Media and Internal Relations Karen Simsen said students, faculty, staff and alumni hoping to be participants in the world record must arrive at 5:30 a.m. to be scanned in and ready for the live shot at 7 a.m. Breakfast and t-shirts will be given to participants, and the band and cheer squad will attend. Despite the early timing, Simsen said she believes students will turn out to make history.

“It’s going to be a very special morning for the university and really a history-making moment for the university,” Simsen said. “We know that it’s asking a lot for students to come out, but it’s also going to be a wonderful opportunity that hopefully they’ll tell their kids about one day.”

Carson Hollingsworth, SGA president, was featured in the video inviting Roker. As a fan of Roker’s, Hollingsworth said he is excited for the weatherman to see UT. “He’s such a great guy, and I would love for him to see the special things going on at UT,” Hollingsworth said. “I think students will be excited to come out there and be on TV and show out their support for the university and also for Al Roker.”

In 2014, Destination Imagination broke a record on UT’s campus for the _largest gathering of people wearing duct tape, but Roker’s visit will mark the first time for UT to hold a Guinness World Record.

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Self-serve beer bars a new possibility for Knoxville Courtney Ferrell Contributor

The spirits of Knoxville drinkers may soon be lifted — the Knoxville Beer Board is deciding whether or not to allow a selfserve beer bar to open in town.

Many self-serve beer bars exist throughout the U.S., but there are none in Tennessee. Pour Taproom, which has locations in North Carolina, South Carolina and California, hopes to be the first to introduce a self-serve beer bar in Knoxville.

The Knoxville Beer Board, consisting of all nine members of the Knoxville City Council, oversees the approval to sell and serve beer in Knoxville. Any restaurant within the city that wishes to serve beer must obtain a beer permit from the board.

Pour Taproom recently approached the beer board to obtain a beer permit, but it was met with slight resistance due to the unfamiliarity of self-serve beer bars in Tennessee.

“In the traditional bar, you have a bartender that not only dispenses and serves, but they are also eyes and ears,” Nick Pavlis, city councilman and first district beer board member, said. “In this system, it just totally goes away from that whole model. It’s new, and it garnered a lot of attention.”

The application for a beer permit costs $250 whether approved or not, and each year a privilege tax (as Knoxville considers serving beer a privilege) costs owners $100. In Tennessee, an establishment can be held legally accountable if a person is hurt after being served too much; conse-

quently, one of the concerns of bars like Pour Taproom is the difficulty of monitoring alcohol consumption.

“When we serve it to them, we can keep up with how much they’ve had,” Brandi Hicks, bartender at Daniel’s Bar and Grill, said. “With self-serve, if we’re not paying attention or busy, it would be harder to see who runs to get more.”

Local wine bar, drink., uses a selfserve system, and since wine is a spirit, the bar did not have to go through the beer board and is instead governed by the Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission. According to its website, patrons exchange a credit card for a wine card, which they insert into a machine.

They are able to select their wine preference and then tap the screen to select the amount.

“A safe-guard that I want to see in place would be the amount of consumption,” Pavlis said in response to the card system.

“How much alcohol can be dispensed off that one card? Is that the only card you can get for the evening?”

While there are concerns regarding selfserve beer, the Knoxville Beer Board wants to encourage new businesses to open in Knoxville and invest in the city. Owners of Pour Taproom presented their business model to the Knoxville Beer Board and the Knoxville Police Department.

As these safety concerns are being addressed, Pavlis said the idea of bringing self-serve beer to Knoxville could be a new adventure.

“I welcome them,” Pavlis said. “I like new technology, and I like people who are willing to be a little different.”

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The Daily Beacon • Tuesday, March 21, 2017

‘Beauty and the Beast’ remake exceeds expectations Courtney Whited Copy Editor

Remakes have seemingly overtaken the movie industry. Recently, Disney’s live-action remakes of “Cinderella” and “The Jungle Book,” and sequels like “Finding Dory,” have had two different effects. Some viewers are tired of the same repeated story lines and are begging for original content, but others are reveling in the stories of their youth and enjoying the updates and reboots.

“Beauty and the Beast” was no different, and I approached the movie both excited to see my favorite Disney princess played by my favorite Hogwarts alumnus and nervous about what the movie would do to my picturesque view of the movie that defined my childhood.

I grew up wanting to be Belle. I was in love with the idea of escaping small town existence to “seek adventure in the great wide somewhere,” and the library of the enchanted castle quite literally gave me unrealistic expectations

for my bookshelf that I am still trying (at the detriment of my bank account) to live up to. Saying that I know the whole of “Beauty and the Beast” by heart would be an understatement.

I didn’t want the new movie to be an exact replica of the original for just that reason, and I was pleasantly surprised.

The additional scenes, songs and plot points were not so numerous that you could not recognize the movie everyone knows and loves, but they are great ways to revitalize and modernize the movie.

The addition of a better backstory for Gaston was one of my favorite additions — and the one I had to spend the most time talking with my friends about afterwards. The first half of Gaston’s storyline did not appear as sinister as the original. There was no tossing of the book into the mud and no surprise wedding party waiting for Belle outside of her house. While Gaston remained the obvious villain of the film, the initial introduction to Gaston’s character made him much more sympathetic than before (although this also meant that

later, when the plot turned and Gaston realized he would not have Belle for a wife, his character’s sinister nature was almost worse than expected).

If I had to choose a few new elements that I was not a fan of, then I would have to say the addition of the enchantress in the movie and the fact that Chip did not run away with Belle. The enchantress is a minor character throughout the film and is part of a small twist, but this focus on her seems to have taken away screen time from other characters.

One of these characters that gets less screen time is Chip, who stays at the castle instead of running away with Belle to find her father. The relationship between Chip and Belle was always one of my favorites and not having that was disappointing.

While it could never measure up to the original that captured my heart all those years ago, “Beauty and the Beast” exceeded my expectations.

If we are still looking for an example of how to properly create a live-action remake though, then Disney certainly gave us one.

Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” was recently recreated and released on March 17 with Emma Watson starring as Belle.

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Beacon Beats Courtney Whited, Copy Editor

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Zara Larsson-“So Good”

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Steve Moakler-“Steel Town”

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Conor Oberst-“Salutations”

Anticipation: 3/5 Zara Larsson is a Swedish singer/songwriter with a style described as electropop, similar to Lorde.

After winning her local version of “Got Talent” in 2008, Larsson’s music mainly consisted of singles and collaborations as well as a few EPs. I had very limited knowledge about Larsson, but I was excited to hear something new.

Anticipation: 3/5 Steve Moakler has covered country songs by many favorite artists and always impressed me, so I was pretty pumped about his newest full-length album. He’s written for more famous artists and gone on tour with fellow up-and-comers, but he has yet to become popular in mainstream country. Still, his work with artists like Kellie Pickler, Dierks Bentley and Jake Owen has shown him what it takes to be a successful singer in the country genre.

Anticipation: 2/5 Conor Oberst was originally a part of the group Bright Eyes, as well as numerous other groups throughout his time in music, but he released his first solo album in 2008. I was not incredibly excited about listening to the album just because I was not aware of his style and didn’t know what to expect.

During: 4/5 My initial reaction was an uncontrollable need to nod my head along to the music, which is always a good sign. The music has a good beat to move along to without being so distracting that you can’t listen to it while doing something else, like homework or cooking. It’s background music with flavor, complete with chill vibes and hip-swaying rhythm.

During: 4/5 The songs are what you would expect from a country album, and it has very few surprises. I go through times when I love country music and will listen to nothing else and other times when I avoid it like the plague, so I think I would have to be in a mood for country music to listen to the album. Still, it was good music that I could see myself listening to again.

During: 3/5 I was impressed by the album overall, but the tone is mostly solemn, which made it hard to listen to the entire album at once. Around the 10th song, I started to feel monotonous, even though I knew that I would like to listen to all the songs individually.

There are some more upbeat songs, but they are not evenly spaced enough.

Reflection: 5/5 I liked most of the songs and could see myself listening to them as I drive to my house, seeing all those fields pass me by. It’s a type of country that is a mix between the pop-country that has become popular and the older music that I grew up with. “Love Drunk” was my favorite because it had a summer sing and dancea-long feel to it, but I also really liked the song “Steel Town,” which opens the album and “Hearts Don’t Break That Way.

Reflection: 4/5 I loved the style of the album because it reminded me of the modern Irish folk music. Some of my favorites were “Empty Hotel by the Sea” and “Till St. Dymphna Kicks Us Out.” I would recommend listening to the album in spurts rather than as a whole — but try to listen to all the songs eventually, because they are all worth it.

Reflection: 5/5 There were no songs on the album I felt the need to skip, and I liked that all of the songs seemed to fit together but weren’t so similar that I got tired of them. My favorites were “Ain’t My Fault” and “Only You.” Overall, the album almost reminded me of a muted version of some of Beyoncé’s “Lemonade.”

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The Daily Beacon • Tuesday, March 21, 2017

‘You play games like a girl’ Jack Fowler Game On

It was a lovely Saturday afternoon. I’d woken up just in time to cook my 2 p.m. breakfast. As I’m cooking up some eggs, I hear an all too familiar sound come from my roommates bedroom: “Skyrim” combat. I knew that my roommate was gone, so I opened the door to see what type of ghost was trying out Bethesda’s RPG masterpiece or what criminal took a break from robbing my roommate to kill some Draugrs. Instead, I found his girlfriend buried in his bed, her eyes glued to the screen.

The conversation we shared might sound similar to any fan of “Skyrim:” Me: “Hey, how’s the play-through coming?”

Her: “Good.”

Me: “Wait, how long have you been playing ‘Skyrim?’”

Her: “Oh, about eight hours.”

My roommate’s girlfriend just tossed herself into gaming. That was her right of passage, if there ever is one. She was now an official gamer.

After her induction, I started to think about how women interact with video games in different ways than men.

Growing up, video games were a staple for my male friends and I. Games like “Super Smash Bros” and “007 Nightfire” were gauntlets for us to compete with one another without having to actually do anything or dismember anyone. It was generally cool for us to partake in electronic entertainment.

However, I noticed that none of the girls we knew growing up ever wanted to join us after their middle school days. It wasn’t necessarily because those girls didn’t like video games. Contrarily, in elementary school, some of my greatest “Pokemon” adversaries were some girls down the cul-de-sac. We had a bunch of fun together, and I even got a Scizor through trading with them. However, they were a little older than me, and when they got to middle school, they pretty much had to throw their Gameboys in the trash, because none of the popular girls played video games.

I’ve definitely noticed this stigma around gamer girls over the years. Oftentimes, they are labelled in the same way as hardcore gamer guys: weird, introverted, nerdy and all-around lame. Girls that play video games don’t have friends, or they’re ugly, or some other similar stereotypical adjective. But I also noticed that, while it’s normal for all guys to play some video games, it’s very strange for girls to play any video game by themselves. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard girls say, “I used to play this with my brother,” or, “I used to watch my brother and his friends play this.” For many girls growing up, video games are just

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one of those things that only boys do; it’s only “cool” for a girl to play if she has a boy around to chaperone her. It’s the equivalent of men only doing anything remotely feminine if their girlfriend is around. As if video games threaten a woman’s femininity.

Talk about outdated gender roles and expectations.

However, as video games have gotten more and more popular, this antiquated view has started to break down. In fact, nearly half of all gamers in America are female now.

And more and more games are starting to reflect that, since female protagonists are becoming more varied and prominent, like in recent releases “Horizon Zero Dawn” and “Nier: Automata.”

This is great because it’s making gaming a far more accepted hobby for all genders. However, there is one greater obstacle that women still face in gaming: jerks. A girl will forego caring about social norms and expectations, and she will log on to a friendly “Call of Duty” match with some kind-hearted members of the CoD community.

Except, she usually can’t say anything to acknowledge her gender, because the slew of wildly graphic and sexually explicit phrases and insults she might endure is honestly sickening. It has become a terrible habit of gamers to describe suffering terrible losses, like getting nuked on, triple-capped, going negative, etc., as “getting raped.” It’s a habit that many male gamers have fallen into, and one that should not be as desensitized to them as it is.

I’ve heard multiple accounts of girls that quit out of lobbies after being ruthlessly harassed by anonymous players. And yes, the sticks and stones phrase is somewhat applicable, but to any survivors of rape, this is not simply “harmless chatter.” It’s deplorable that it happens.

Thankfully, though, most online games have mute buttons, and you can block and even report abusive players, so this issue is definitely being addressed. Still though, the fact that it had to be addressed is a sign that some male gamers have a ways to go before they can tolerate female gamers.

And believe me, gaming is a whole hell of a lot more fun with girls. My roommate and his newly-gamer girlfriend are currently playing through “Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor” together. I hear them yell out tips, advice, warnings and praise to each other all the time as they play. Now, if that ain’t true love, I don’t know what is. #GamerCoupleGoals Jack Fowler is a senior in Industrial Engineering and can be reached at dfowler7@vols.utk.edu.

My roommate and his newly-gamer girlfriend are currently playing through ‘Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor’ together.

I hear them yell out tips, advice, warnings and praise to each other all the time as they play. Now, if that ain’t true love, I don’t know what is.”

10 songs to get over your post - spring break blues: “Ay-yo”

Lady Gaga

“Galway Girl” Ed Sheeran

“The Greatest” Sia

“Same Old Situation” Sublime with Rome

“Na Na Na” Pentatonix

“A Daydream Away” All Time Low

“Thunder” Passanger

“Sweet Tennessee” Judah & the Loin

“Let The Good Times Roll” Ben Rector

“Hometown”

Twenty One Pilots

Columns of The Daily Beacon are the views of the individual and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Beacon or the Beacon’s editorial staff.

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Why you can’t smell your breath Scott Satinover Emily Clark Ask A Scientist

Question: Why can’t I smell my own breath?

This is probably one of my biggest gripes with my own body. You’re sitting there, existing as a regular ol’ human being, maybe with a few friends or acquaintances, talking about stuff.

Could be about that test you just took, could be about plans for the weekend or that awesome movie you just saw. You know — normal stuff.

Suddenly, one of them offers you a piece of gum. What are they trying to say? Are they just being nice or does my breath stink? There’s no way my breath stinks. Or does it? What’s wrong with me?

Initially, this problem doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Everyone’s breath has a smell, not necessarily a bad one, but there’s something there.

So why can’t we smell our own? Apparently, it doesn’t take much for our brains to recognize a scent. Sometimes it only takes one molecule out of a million. You know that saying, “It’s like trying to find a needle in a haystack?” Your nose finds the needle, effortlessly, every time.

Seriously, the things we smell often can’t even be detected by other ways. I mean, we’re not as good as bloodhounds or anything, but humans can pick up on faint scents fairly easily. And every time we exhale, we release all sorts of stuff into air around us and a lot of that has a smell.

Stabbed in the back Jarrod Nelson Socialized

It appears that killing your darlings is back in vogue.

In politics, it’s only ever out of fashion when nobody is truly in power. Backstabbing comes with the game, even if it is so often leaving a misplaced twig along a dark country road for someone to trip over. It’s rarely as vicious as befits hosting on the Ides of March. When you have more friends around, it’s much easier to do it accidentally.

The American Healthcare Act is the epitome of collateral damage. It’s like dropping a bomb into an enemy camp without knowing where the prisoners are. Plus, the bomb’s made of knives. It’s the type of legislation you study in your power motives class and forget about in your effective governance seminar.

We’ll start with motives.

It’s not entirely clear what the bill accomplishes, besides the realization of all those fervent nighttime visits from Ayn Rand that Paul Ryan apparently had back in college. It cuts Medicaid, will drive up premiums and imposes different forms of slain sacred cows from Obamacare that Republicans have been calling false idols since day one. Instead of some subsidies, how about some tax credits?

Instead of an individual mandate, how about a 30 percent upcharge on insurance if you go

Turns out that, like most things related to our body, the problem lies in our brains.”

Scott Satinover, Ph.D. student in bioenergy and biofuels

So, what gives?

Turns out that, like most things related to our body, the problem lies in our brains. From blooming flowers to what’s coming out of the toilet, the scents our brains recognize are, unfortunately, not our choice. We continuously register smells, and some smells keep passing through our noses over and over again — especially what we’re exhaling all day long. Over time, our brains get tired of registering the same things, and they literally decide to ignore the smells until there’s a big enough change to get their attention. This process is formally known as “olfactory fatigue.”

Basically, you’ve gone nose-blind to your own breath.

Wait, our breath’s smell changes, you might say. Yeah, that’s totally true, but our brains constantly adapt to everything we sense. We might notice our stinky breath after a really garlicky meal because that caused a fast change in the

smell. But most of the time, our breath’s smell changes slowly, and so our brain has enough time to tune it out. Since our brains are constantly adapting to slow-changing smells, we’re generally stuck with olfactory fatigue, and we’ll never really get to know what our breath smells like.

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without it for more than two months?

The bill simply doesn’t fix the problems with Obamacare, it arguably makes them worse. It drives 24 million people off of insurance. It prices elderly people out of the market. If you were writing a bill that would fix the American health insurance system, it is hard to think of a bill that is further away from an effective solution than this one.

What this bill does excellently, however, is cut taxes for rich people. It gets rid of nearly all of the taxes Obamacare imposed on different little aspects of the health insurance market.

Things like taxes on healthcare CEOs’ salaries, tanning salon taxes and medical device taxes.

These disproportionately impact large conglomerates and the rich people who lead such conglomerates. See, if you were writing a bill that was about cutting taxes for rich people, it is hard to find a bill better at doing that in a way that completely obscures the very unpopular thing you are about to do.

Still with us? Good, you all passed, step over into effective governance for me.

Perhaps the single most interesting thing about today’s Republican Party is the way it has fallen backwards with their voting base. You see this through maps most effectively. The modern GOP is a party that decries the nanny state,

the safety net and the overreach of the federal government and is overwhelmingly supported in places the safety net catches and the nanny state supports.

As of 2012, federal aid accounted for a whopping 45 percent of state revenue in Mississippi, 44 percent in Louisiana and 41 percent in our great state of Tennessee, the third highest in the nation. Five of the top seven recipients of federal aid are in the south. All of the top seven voted for Donald Trump in the last election.

The AHCA hurts these places the most.

These places are dominated by a party that consistently votes against their own interests and immediately starts laying down tripping twigs once they get into power. This party does not run on backstabbing, it runs on anger, fear and false advertising. Over the past 30 years it has managed to heat up a base it had no interest in helping, rode that heat wave into the Oval Office and circled right back around to dump a bucket of cold water on the fire.

The Ides of March are upon us, friends. We’ll have to see how vicious it gets.

Scott Satinover is a Bredesen Center Ph.D. student in bioenergy and biofuels and can be reached at ssatinov@vols.utk.edu Emily Clark is a Bresden Center Ph.D. student in nuclear energy and can be reached at ebuckman@vols.utk.edu

Jarrod Nelson is a senior in public relations and can be reached at jnelso47@vols.utk.edu.

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Lady Vols end season in second-round loss to Louisville Tyler Wombles Copy Editor

Crammed with much more Louisville red than Tennessee orange and bursting with hometown enthusiasm, the Cardinal faithful were everything that teams fear when playing any game, especially a tournament matchup, on the road.

And it was too much for the Lady Vols.

Competing in the Round of 32 in the NCAA Tournament on Monday, Tennessee played Louisville close throughout the contest but ultimately fell 75-64 to the Cardinals, ending its tournament run and its season.

The loss marks the first ever second round loss in program history and the first time the Lady Vols haven’t advanced to the Sweet 16 since the 2008-2009 season. It also sees the end of the Tennessee careers of seniors Jordan Reynolds and

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Schaquilla Nunn. “Just disappointed for our kids,� head coach Holly Warlick said. “Great group, great bunch of young ladies to work with, be around. We’ll never get this group back again, obviously, and I’m going to miss Jordan (Reynolds), and we’ll miss Schaquilla (Nunn).�

Tennessee paced Louisville out of the gate, trailing by just one point at the end of the first quarter, 22-21.

The back-and-forth showing continued into the second quarter, but the Cardinals were able to extend their lead, albeit by just four points during the period. Louisville held the advantage 35-31 as the teams went to the locker rooms.

The Lady Vols regained the lead during the third quarter, going into the fourth ahead 47-46.

Tennessee was hit by a scoring drought during the final period, going 0-for-12 on field goals until sophomore guard Meme Jackson hit a 3-pointer with 2:41 left on

Just disappointed for our kids. Great group, great bunch of young ladies to work with, be around. We’ll never get this group back again, obviously, and I’m going to miss Jordan, and we’ll miss Schaquilla.�

Holly Warlick, head coach

It’s frustrating any game you lose.

It’s the end of our season, so I mean there’s nothing we can do about it now. I think we’re going to get in the gym and get ready for next season.�

Jamie Nared, junior forward

the clock.

But the damage had been done.

Louisville was able to carve out a doubledigit lead, with a large amount of scoring done during Tennessee’s drought, to finish off the Lady Vols and their season. “When you’re not hitting shots, you’re usually supposed to fall back on your defense, and we weren’t getting stops on the defensive end and then not making shots on the offensive end,� junior center Mercedes Russell said.

One key factor that doomed the Lady Vols, and that may have been affected by the arena’s raucous crowd, was the team’s free throw shooting. Tennessee made just 19 of their 27 free throw attempts.

And when the Lady Vols were in need of points due to their lackluster performance at the charity stripe, their star junior guard couldn’t deliver. Diamond DeShields was largely absent from a

scoring standpoint throughout the contest, leaving the game twice after being shaken up.

DeShields finished with 15 total points, but shot just 3-for-12 on field goals. Most of her scoring was done at the free-throw line, where she went 9-for-12, a better mark than most of her team, and in the fourth quarter after the Louisville’s lead had enlarged.

Junior forward Jaime Nared led Tennessee with 28 point in one of her hardest-fought performances of the year.

Russell notched her 19th double-double of the season, besting Isabelle Harrison’s record for the most by a Lady Vol junior.

The Lady Vols finished the 2016-2017 season with a 20-12 overall record. “It’s frustrating any game you lose,�

Nared said. “It’s the end of our season, so I mean there’s nothing we can do about it now. I think we’re going to get in the gym and get ready for next season.�

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WOMEN’S TENNIS

MEN’S TENNIS

Men’s tennis falls to ranked Georgia Staff Report On Sunday, March 19, the Tennessee men’s tennis team was forced to play catchup early on.

After losing the doubles point and the first two singles matches, the Vols rallied off three of the last four points but were unable to finish as they were defeated by the Georgia Bulldogs 4-3 at Barksdale Stadium.

Tennessee fell behind 3-0 and had trouble fighting back. However, some of the fresh faces for the Volunteers helped keep the match close.

Freshmen Scott Jones and Luca Wiedenmann and sophomore Timo Stodder all came out with wins in their singles match-ups.

Stodder faced 26th-ranked Wayne Montgomery. Stodder, after handily winning the first set, struggled in the second; Montgomery won – forcing a decisive third set. However, regardless of the struggle in the second set, Stodder landed his win with a final scoring of 6-1, 2-6 and 6-4.

Jones scored his first career ranked win

against Georgia’s Emil Reinberg, pushing the Volunteers toward the hope of winning, with an overall score of 3-2.

Luis Valero could not come out with as strong of a finish as he faced Nathan Ponwith. Valero got out in front early by winning the first set but faltered and lost the second and third set with a final score of 4-6, 6-4, 6-2.

Wiedenmann finished the match off with a win for the Vols as he defeated Robert Loeb on Court 6 with the scoring of 4-6, 6-4, 6-2. However, it was too little, too late as the Vols fell 4-3.

For head coach Sam Winterbotham, he made it clear that there needs to be less individuality and more team success.

“We have so many great things happening individually, even for the players who didn’t have their best day today,” Winterbotham said. “The message is still when we show up as a team, 1 through 6, we can beat anybody.”

The Volunteers have a standing of 1-3 in the beginning of SEC play. They will be back in action on March 23, as they travel to College Station, Texas, to take on the Texas A&M Aggies.

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No. 1 Florida Gators chomp away at No. 19 Tennessee Vols Staff Report The University of Tennessee women’s tennis team faced No. 1 Florida at Linder Stadium at the Ring Tennis Complex in Gainesville, Florida, this past weekend.

The Volunteers appeared to be slightly rocky against Florida as they continue through SEC play with a record of 1-5.

The inevitable fate for the Vols became prominent from the very first defeat. The Gators made their showing, as they scored the doubles point and the points of the first three single matches.

Both doubles matches were uneventful for Tennessee, as the Volunteers fell to Florida 6-0 on courts 2 and 3.

The dynamic duo of No. 11 Anna Danilina and Ingrid Neel of Florida succeeded in defeating sophomore Sadie Hammond and redshirt freshman Gabby Schuck, while Florida’s other pair No. 36 Josie Kuhlman and Belinda Woolcock took down sophomores Ashley Bongart and Kim Kermit of Tennessee.

Unfortunately for the Vols, the singles match-

es did not provide any comfort towards a win.

The first fall for Tennessee occurred on Court 4 with freshman Johanna Silva losing to Florida’s No. 12 ranked Kuhlman 6-0, 6-3.

Following the first loss, the Vols could not gain momentum, as Court 2 picked up another win for Florida. No. 14 Neel won both sets against Hammond with a score of 6-0, 6-3.

The Volunteers continued to try to advance onward to get points as the board, but were unsuccessful as Court 5 became another loss for Tennessee. Brooke Austin swept Schuck in a 6-1, 6-3 win for the Gators.

No. 51 senior Brittany Lindl fought hard against No. 19 Woolcock with an unfinished score of 6-7(5), 1-1. Senior Eve Repic showed good promise against No. 22 Anna Danilina, winning the first set 6-4 but was trailing 3-4 in the second set before the match was called.

Kermit bested No. 56 Liang 6-4 in the first set of their match before the match ended in the second set with Liang up 3-0.

Florida went to win the match 4-0. However, SEC play will continue on for the Vols as they face Mississippi State on Friday, March 24, at 6 p.m. and Ole Miss on Sunday, March 26, at 1 p.m.

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Five things to watch for as Vols enter spring practice Trenton Duffer

Sports Editor Spring is in the air, and the Vols football team will finally begin their spring practices.

With five premier stars – defensive end Derek Barnett, cornerback Cam Sutton, linebacker Jalen Reeves-Maybin, running back Alvin Kamara and senior quarterback Joshua Dobbs – all leaving for the NFL, along with a handful of other playmakers from last year, the Vols will have much more competition for starting spots on the roster at this spring ’s go-around.

With a team comes challenges, so here are five things that you need to watch for as the Vols enter their spring practices.

1) Quarterback Battle: The top question on everyone’s list is who will end up getting the starting job at quarterback now that Dobbs is gone. The spot is currently up for grabs with junior Quinten Dormady and redshirt freshman Jarrett Guarantano being the frontrunners for the gig.

If you’re looking for the more experienced passer, Dormady is your guy.

He’s played No. 2 to Dobbs the past two years and has game experience, even if it is limited to just 10 games and 39 pass attempts. But of those 39 attempts, Dormady completed 24 of them for a 61.5 completion rating. However, Dormady is more of a three-step drop pocket passer than a scrambler like Dobbs was.

Guarantano, on the other hand, has been compared to Dobbs in many ways as a gunslinger who can throw bullets to his receivers and can scramble to evade

pressure when the pocket collapses.

The former four-star recruit has yet to see the playing field, but fans are itching to see if all of the positive rumors about Guarantano’s skills are true.

2) Coaching Changes: There have been six changes on Tennessee’s coaching staff since the team’s win in the Music City Bowl. Four new hires and two promotions have led the way for a whirlwind of changes on the UT sidelines.

Former tight ends and special teams coach Larry Scott was promoted to offensive coordinator and Walt Wells was promoted to offensive line coach.

As for the new additions, former head coach of the Michigan Wolverines Brady Hoke was named the defensive lines coach. After Zach Azzani left to become wide receivers coach with the Chicago Bears, Kevin Beard was brought in to be the Vols receivers coach. Charlton Warren is the new defensive backs coach, and Mike Canales is the quarterbacks coach. Bob Shoop, Robert Gillespie and Tommy Thigpen were the only members of the Vols 2016 staff that kept their respected jobs.

The Vols also brought in a new strength and conditioning coach in Rock Gullickson, who has helped the Vols in the weight room in preparation for spring practice.

3) Replacing the UT sack leader Derek Barnett: When Barnett broke Reggie White’s all-time program record in sacks during the Music City Bowl, many expected the defensive end to declare for the NFL Draft. And that’s just what the then-junior did, as Barnett is now expected by many experts to be drafted in one of the first two rounds of

When Barnett broke Reggie White’s all-time program record in sacks during the Music City Bowl, many expected for the defensive end to declare for the NFL Draft. And that’s exactly what the thenjunior did.” this year’s NFL Draft.

Other defensive ends LaTroy Lewis and Corey Vereen also graduated and left the program after last season, so now the Vols leading pass rusher from last year is Kendall Vickers, who had only 2.5 sacks last season. Jonathan Kongbo could fill that pass-rushing spot for the Vols, but the competition will be fierce to see who replaces the man who rewrote Tennessee’s record books.

4) Battling injuries: Last season wasn’t an easy one for the Vols in the injury department, with multiple defensive players and a handful of offensive linemen going down with injuries during the 2016 season. That’s one of the primary reasons Gullickson was brought in, to provide a relief from the onslaught of injured Vols from last season. There will likely be a handful of Vols that won’t see the field this spring as they heal up.

5) Finding leadership: As earlier mentioned, the Vols lost all four of last year’s team captains – Dobbs, Kamara, Sutton and Reeves-Maybin – to the draft, along with defensive anchor Barnett.

With a multitude of sophomores and juniors on the team, senior leadership

could be hard to come by. Players such as Justin Martin, Emmanuel Mosley, Todd Kelly Jr., Brett Kendrick, Jashon Robertson and a handful of other seniors will need to keep this group together if the team wishes to succeed.

Upperclassman to watch Darrin Kirkland Jr.: The junior linebacker became a steady piece of the Vols defense last year when Reeves-Maybin went down with an injury, but Kirkland struggled at times and battled a bit of an injury bug himself. If Kirkland comes back healthy and better than last year, he could knock a few heads and sneak into a second-team All-SEC spot.

Youngster to watch: Ty Chandler, running back: Chandler was one of the bright spots of the unpopular 2017 signing class, and the four-star recruit could run right into the starting job come September. John Kelly performed well last season for the Vols once Jalen Hurd left and Kamara went down with injury, but Kelly’s running style is ground-andpound, which could add wear and tear to his body. That could be Chandler’s time to shine, and the Montgomery Bell Academy graduate can run people over when he’s got the ball in his hands.

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Jones, Vols ready for spring practice despite injuries Staff Report Coming off a very busy 2016 football season, Tennessee football enters the 2017 spring practice season with injuries, starting jobs up for grabs and much more.

On Monday, head coach Butch Jones met with the media to discuss the upcoming spring season.

“Obviously, it is a very exciting time,” Jones said. “This is a great time because it is all about individual growth and development and really building our overall identity for Team 121. I think it has been a very productive off-season.

I think the last time we spoke was Signing Day, but, as we know, it hasn’t been a typical off-season. A lot of new faces that have lent themselves, in turn, to a lot of new energy and a lot of excitement and fresh perspectives from the five new coaches.”

Injuries, which were a concern for the Vols all of last season, will once again be a concern as eight of the Vols players will miss all of spring practice. Included in those eight are seven players who got at least one start last season.

Those eight players include Micah Abernathy, Rashaan Gaulden, Kendal Vickers, Brett Kendrick, Shy Tuttle, Brandon Johnson, Josh

Smith and Kyle Phillips.

For those players, they’ll spend their spring practice rehabbing in hopes to return for the fall.

“We will have an intense recovery program, rehab program; but also from a mental standpoint, the mental repetitions for them will paramount in them moving forward,” Jones said.

“So we have them on their own development schedule, and we start tomorrow.”

One thing that will be different for the Vols this spring will be the coaching staff. The Vols add five new coaches to the staff, which will definitely cause some getting used to for the players.

One of those new coaching changes was with the strength and conditioning coach. In the offseason, the Vols added Rock Gullickson to the staff, and, according to Jones, he’s already making an impact on the football team.

“It all starts in the weight room, and Rock Gullickson and the entire strength and conditioning staff have really done a remarkable job.

They have set the temperament for our football team. Coach Rock has a unique way of challenging our players in a very positive way, and we are getting the results that are necessary to compete at a high level. We have been very excited for our players and seeing all of the gains.”

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practice is the Vols’ battle at the quarterback position. With Josh Dobbs graduating after quarterbacking the Vols at some point in all four of his years, the Vols will look at two young guys to battle it out for a spot.

Junior Quinten Dormady and redshirt freshman Jarett Guarantano will both be the front runners battling it out in the spring for that role. With zero starts between the two of them and Guarantano never having been on the field, the Vols will have to take a different offensive approach than before.

For Jones, he doesn’t see anyone with a clear path to that position yet and doesn’t even see the

Vols with a depth chart.

“Every job is open, and it will be a very competitive spring,” Jones said. “There is no depth chart, we have an organizational chart and all that organizational chart means is who will take the first rep in practice, and then we go from there. Again, we want them to compete. No time table has been set on a starting quarterback or any starting position.”

The Vols begin spring practice on Tuesday, March 21. Check back with The Daily Beacon for complete coverage for all spring practice leading up to the Orange and White game on April 22.