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No Right Answer: Best Fast Food
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Clearly it's Chick Filet. It's the best damn meat you will ever shove into your mouth hole. And once it's in there, you will enjoy it and ask for more.
Burgers: Five Guys
Chicken: KFC
Taco: Taco Bell
Hot Subs: Firehouse Subs
Cold Subs: Schlotzsky's
Ice Cream: The guy who drives around my neighborhood..
I don't know if it's outside the states but it's absolutely the best. Orange and white buildings? You're likely to only find them in southern USA
I gotta go with the Bell of Tacos.
For one, best food to money ratio I feel. I get a 5 buck box and everytime I'm just...mmmmmm, my stomach is content. Anywhere else I'm dropping 8 dollars without even getting a drink and I still have a gaping hole in my stomach.
For another, its frikkin tacos. What more could you want. Unless you want burgers. Then you will be disappointed. Because it is a taco establishment.
On the category of foods you hate that you can't help but love....
the BACONATOR
But seriously, Wendy's would rank higher if the JBC were still 99 cents.
Edit: Dude couple posts up reminded me: FIVE GUYS. Best burger ever.
If I had to choose any of those three, McDonald's hands-down. Taco Bell is *yuck!* and Burger King hasn't been any good for the past 15 years. It used to be delicious, I don't know if my tastes have changed or Burger King just... sucks.
I'm surprised In-N-Out wasn't in the discussion. But fast food for me... PANDA EXPRESS! Fast, cheap, delicious, variety! You can't get your food any quicker, the food is right there in front of you, ready for your digestive tract!
1. Subway. It's healthier, you can have your food however you like, and you watch it being made in front of you.
2. Arby's. I'm a sucker for roast beef and their chicken tenders are deeeelish.
For pizza, I don't visit the chain stores. There is a little place not far from my house that USA Today declared best pizzaria in the state. The place has spoiled me and Pizza Hut and Domino's just do not compare.
If I want tacos, I'll find an authentic Mexican restaurant or make them myself. I can't eat Taco Bell after the whole "their meat isn't meat" fiasco.
Based on film, Taco Bell, since it survived the fast food wars.
Personnely, McDonalds or subway, depending on how much I have to spend.
Sonic: Good food, good variety, tots, and CHEESECAKE BITES.
No drive-thru = not fast food
Taco Bell is the only place you can reliably get extremely cheap, semi-healthy vegetarian food. I've been eating there since I was a kid and I will always love it. (I have no idea how the meat options taste, but the vegetarian options are happy comfort food for me now.)
Since I have to get burgers without meat, I usually just skip those places all together.
...and, of course, being that this IS the Escapist, we have to give it to the one which shres the same name as a once beloved video game character. (Assuming he still has fans after Sonic 2006. I myself am still a fan, but only because of SatAM.)
Of course, if you go to Jack-In-The-Box, Dairy Queen, and Burger King in one day, you're just two stores away from a Fast Food Royal Flush.
CAPTCHA: finger lickin good
Looks like the Captcha is a KFC fan and wants to get in on the vote.
Whataburger uses real meat, and has a pretty big menu. They also cook the burgers when you order them. Most places cook the meat put it in a warmer then put the burger together when you order it. They also customize your burger however you want, grilled onion,grilled jalapenos,go during breakfast and they still sell burgers, and will throw a fried egg on your burger if you ask. Hell you can get chicken strips added to a double cheeseburger if you want. Whataburger is my favorite with subway right behind. Maybe chikfila in a distant third. The three from the video are gross as hell if you ask me. My personal favorite at Whataburger Double meat cheeseburger grilled onions,grilled jalapenos,no lettuce or tomato, A-1 sauce instead of mustard, add a fried egg.That burger will knock your socks off....and give you a mild heart attack.
Just to throw down some clarification here, anything that's not cooked until you order it is not "fast" food. As much as I love em, Jack, Carls, In-and-Out and all the other "good" chains are not real fast food. If the food you are served during a lunch rush was raw when you stepped up to the counter, it's not fast food.
Taco Bell, McDonalds, and BK qualify because they are, at best, assembled when you order. The fry shops (KFC, Church's, Popeye's, Long John Silvers)? Mostly pre-cooked, so sure.
Arby's is a bit of a toss up because I'm not sure if "sliced when you order" counts.
Subway doesn't do any cooking (reheating and toasting don't count), but if Subway's allowed, then you have to let in all the other cafeteria style (slide tray in front of window and point) places. Besides...there's no drive-thru at a Subway.
Personally? I like the regional chains. White Castle, Whataburger, Sonic, Dairy Queen, Checkers/Rallys, etc.
The correct answer is Taco Bell loses
(Sorry Kyle, but you know it's true)
Heh, except for McDonalds, we don't have any large fast food chains here (although you can get fast food on every corner these days). I did visit Burger King when I was in Spain and in my opinion Whopper eats anything McDonalds can offer.
I stil prefer one of these babies:
captcha: chicken noodle - screw you captcha, gimme some beef
I am disappoint! Where is the In-And-Out?
I'm surprised this didn't get brought up. "All restaurants are now Taco Bell."
With the 3 options given, I go with McDonald's. I don't like that Burger King slathers all their stuff with mayo, and Taco Bell just isn't filling.
I had Pizza Hut pretty often as a kid, so I grew to like it. About 3 weeks ago I had a serious craving for Pizza Hut for lunch, but I found out the nearest one that offers eat-in is more then 30 miles away, which probably meant at least 45 minutes each way of driving. Not really feasible for a lunch break. :(
Seriously, nobody has anything on the original In-N-Out. Pioneer of the drive-through (1948), (drive through!= fast food until the 1970's), amazing quality, and really addictive. Macdonalds stole every idea they ever had. Big mac is a bad version of the Bob's Big Boy. Southern style chicken sandwich is chickfil-a. They are actually a real estate company anyway, leasing the land the macdonalds are built on to their franchisees.
Weinerschniztel is my favorite though.
Also Taco Bell is the ONLY restaurant.
..Although recently, Five Guy is ranked 1st in national survey of burger chains.
Funny because I have never heard of them.
Why no love for KFC, the chicken is delicious, also the Colonel is a good mascot compared to the other three, look at that face, that is very welcoming
Clearly, Jimmy John's wins for being the fastest food.
Well, I was hungry.
Out of the ones you guys argued I'll go with Taco Bell simply because I enjoy the Cruch Wrap Supreme.
My favorite has to be Wendy's. Just their normal burgers are great but the best thing they have IMO is the Spicy Chicken Burger.
I would go with 5 Guys over Wendy's but their food seems to be really hit or miss for me. Sometimes it's amazing, other times it's shit. Their fires are consistently the best though.
Man, screw all those places. The best fast food is a pack of oreos and 3-5 red bull.
They are introducing Taco Bell over here now, there is one in Lakeside and a few in London, never had one though. They used to have a Wendy's in London as well but that is long gone.
OT: I would probably go with Burger King, McDonald's always makes me feel sick for some reason, KFC is awesome too.
Well, I think they all win over Taco Bell, since you know, Taco Bell doesn't even serve tacos. That bizarre entity served on your plate is NOT--I repeat NOT -- a taco. Tacos don't come in shells, by definition. It was even worse when they tried to come to Mexico and sell us these....things. Fortunately they crashed and burned so epically I still laugh to this day. At least the other fast food chains sell what they say they sell (burgers, pizza, baguettes, whatever).
1) the right answer was Wendys :p
2) i wanted a burger before i sat down to watch this :D
Of the three they were debating, I'd go with Burger King.
But Whataburger is the best in fast food.
Oh decisions, decisions. I'll say Taco Bell has the best bang for your buck, but I really like Popeye's. I go to McyD's for the occasional contest and Burger King's been giving me gas lately. The top quality goes to Jack in the Box, I say.
Sorry Dan Burger King loses because they got rid of the fully loaded steak house burger, the delicious cheesy tots and the chicken fries. Its like everything that sets them apart gets thrown out.
I'd vote Taco bell but when Taco Bell wins my colon loses
and I'm pretty sure Micky D's is the master invasion plan of some genius alien race.
Wendy's is the best. It tastes the best and Wendy's will let you do whatever you want to your burger you just gotta ask. If you don't want cheese on your Baconator because you want it to be slightly healthier then you just gotta say so. Also Frosty's > Other fast food places ice cream. I can't say their frys are better than other places but they have a ton of options besides frys so I don't see how it matters.
False! I know many "fast food" places that take forever when in drive-thru.. Captian D's is one.. and Zaxby's is another.. I can go inside many of those and be out quicker than drive-thru. Fast food is any resturant that doesn't sit you down, hand you a menu as a waiter/waitress takes your order..
I wonder if Chris wore the Tom and Jerry shirt because that show comes on weekday afternoons.
Chris, why did you pick McDonalds? You KNOW that you're definitely wiping the floor with the oily fries and kids' meals!
I'm surprised they didn't mention healthier options like chicken sandwiches. I don't know about BK's healthy alternatives, but McD and Wendy's have fair selections of salads and such. As for chicken sandwiches, BK has the AMAZING Tendacrisp, Wendy's has the ALMOST AMAZING homestyle fillet, and McD has the option of a delicious honey wheat bun.
You guys missed out on a golden opportunity for a Media Sandwich plug.
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More pictures, this time from a geology tour of eastern Washington earlier in the week led by Kevin Pogue of Whitman College. Click on the pictures for larger images. The first picture is of the Yakima Valley from Chandler Butte in the Horse Heaven Hills.
Rocks types, including petrified wood to the left, at StoneTree Vineyard on the Wahluke Slope.
Looking down from StoneTree Vineyard toward the Columbia River.
Looking up at Snipes Mountain from the south side.
Stones on the surface of Snipes Mountain.
Stoney soils at Snipes Mountain. This is looking at an exposed cross section.
Old Cabernet Sauvignon vines at Cold Creek Vineyard.
Cross section of soils in Yakima Valley showing layering.
Caliche deposits in vineyard rows at DuBrul Vineyard.
Caliche deposited on the underside of a rock at DuBrul Vineyard.
Wine Country Porn from Eastern Washington
More pictures, this time from a geology tour of eastern Washington earlier in the week led by Kevin Pogue of Whitman College. Click on the pictures for larger images. The first picture is of the Yakima Valley from Chandler Butte in the Horse Heaven Hills.
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Chris Says:
Gorgeous Photos! One mistake in the captions. If you are looking down (South) from the top of StoneTree, the Saddle Mountains are behind you. Those ridges in the distance are Yakima Ridge which is the southern shore of the Columbia River as is wraps a horseshoe around the Wahluke. Further south is Rattlesnake Mountain.
Sorry for the nitpik, but I'm sensitive about the ridgeline names :)
terroirist Says:
Hey Sean - that's Umtanum Ridge in the distance in photo #3, not Saddle Mountain. The Wahluke Slope is located on the southern slope of Saddle Mtn., so the crest of the mountain was behind you when you were taking that photo. Otherwise, well done....
Sean P. Sullivan Says:
Chris and Terroirist, just making sure y'all were paying attention! ;)
I've changed the text above to "Looking down from StoneTree Vineyard toward the Columbia River" since I had one vote for Yakima Ridge and one vote for Umtanum Ridge. I zoomed myself over to a road view from the vineyard on Google earth and it looked like it would be Umtanum Ridge with Yakima Ridge immediately behind and perhaps hidden from view. Thanks to you both for the catch!
Chris Says:
I defer to the terroirist. Those first cliffs on the river are indeed Umtanum. Had to look it up on Google Maps Terrain view. :)
Anonymous Says:
Its the vineyard, its a wine blog. Waiting for Stillwater Creek and Stoneridge photo. Hoping for spring and white wines soon.
Sean P. Sullivan Says:
Chris, check out the view from Google Earth and go to street view. It was pretty cool.
Anon, sadly we didn't make it up to Stillwater Creek or Stoneridge on this visit. I went to Stoneridge last Fall but haven't been to Stillwater yet. It's close to the top of my list of places to visit at this point.
And I'm with you on spring and white wines.

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Suppose you're a British colonist in Burma in the early 1900's. Work is over for the day. You need to relax and have a drink. But where do you go? You're likely not going to be welcomed in the local watering holes frequented by the Burmese. No, you certainly can't go there. Well, if you're in Rangoon then you're in luck. You can head over to the Pegu Club, an ex-pat bar quite near the parade grounds. Like many clubs and bars the Pegu Club had a signature drink of its own. The Pegu Club Cocktail as it was known, now referred to simply as a Pegu or Pegu Club, is a refreshing mix of gin, lime juice, Cointreau and bitters.
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Artist's rendering of binary system Kepler-47, with outer planet Kepler-47c
in the foreground and inner planet Kepler-47b in the bottom right corner
Growing up in a binary star system can be tough. As the system's two suns orbit each other, they exert strong gravitational pressures capable of pushing away young planets or sending them careening into one another. It wasn't until last year that astronomers found the first evidence of a world orbiting two stars. Now new data has revealed that the binary system Kepler-47 goes one step further: it contains not one but two planets.
There are at least as many planets in the galaxy as there are stars. And even that is probably a vast underestimate.
That's the latest bombshell from astronomers looking for planets beyond our solar system. Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy will have a post on this soon, but for now, here's a little quote salad for you:
"Planets are like bunnies; you don't just get one, you get a bunch," said Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute who was not involved in this research. "So really, the number of planets in the Milky Way is probably like five or 10 times the number of stars. That's something like a trillion planets." (via PopSci)
What's the News: Using data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft, astronomers from Princeton University and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered the darkest known planet. The exoplanet, called TrES-2b, is located about 750 light-years away from Earth and reflects less than 1 percent of the incident light from its parent star, making it blacker than the blackest piece of coal. The discovery was published recently in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (pdf).
What's the News: While the Kepler spacecraft is busy finding solar system-loads of new planets, other astronomers are expanding our idea where planets could potentially be found. One astronomer wants to look for habitable planets around white dwarfs, arguing that any water-bearing exoplanets orbiting these tiny, dim stars would be much easier to find than those around main-sequence stars like our Sun. Another team dispenses with stars altogether and speculates that dark matter explosions inside a planet could hypothetically make it warm enough to be habitable, even without a star. "This is a fascinating, and highly original idea," MIT exoplanet expert Sara Seager told Wired, referring to the dark matter hypothesis. "Original ideas are becoming more and more rare in exoplanet theory."
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References: Eric Agol. "TRANSIT SURVEYS FOR EARTHS IN THE HABITABLE ZONES OF WHITE DWARFS." doi: 10.1088/2041-8205/731/2/L31
Dan Hooper and Jason H. Steffen. "Dark Matter And The Habitability of Planets." arXiv:1103.5086v1
Image: NASA/European Space Agency
What's the News: Based on early Kepler data, astronomers say that the Milky Way galaxy may house at least two billion Earth-like planets—one for every several dozen sun-like stars. As NASA researcher Joseph Catanzarite told Space.com, "With that large a number, there's a good chance life and maybe even intelligent life might exist on some of those planets. And that's just our galaxy alone — there are 50 billion other galaxies." But while 2 billion sounds like a lot, it's actually far below many scientists' expectation; Catanzarite says his teams' findings actually show that Earth-like planets are "relatively scarce."
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Next Up: The astronomers plan on calculating an even more accurate number once all of Kepler's data is in.
Reference: Joseph Catanzarite and Michael Shao. "The Occurrence Rate of Earth Analog Planets Orbiting Sunlike Stars." arXiv:1103.1443v1 Image: Kepler/NASA
Last month, when astronomers with the Kepler space telescope released a list of 1,235 possible planets orbiting other stars, one particular candidate, KOI 326.01, especially stood out. Scientists, journalists, and the general public couldn't help it: In a population of planetary candidates dominated by sizzling, Jupiter-sized gas giants—which are much easier to spot—here was the closest thing yet to our very own planet. It was just about the size of Earth, even a little smaller, and had a temperature around 138 degrees—rather warm for human tastes, but still a place where liquid water could rain down from clouds into oceans, and where life as we know it could possibly exist. A clever but perhaps overambitious monetary calculation valued the planet at exactly $223,099.93.
Alas, KOI 326.01's 15 minutes of fame must now end. Additional analysis of the planet's star now suggests that the planet is a lot larger, and most likely a lot hotter, than previously thought. "The details of the planet need to be hammered out, but this certainly means that this is not an Earth-size planet in the habitable zone," where liquid water could exist, says Natalie Batalha, a Kepler team member.
The road to demotion began when a DISCOVER fact-checker, Mara Grunbaum, asked for some additional information about the planet. In response, Batalha and her colleagues dug up images of the sky near KOI 326.01—and almost immediately found a problem. The planet's sun, known as KIC 9880467, is located close to another star (see above). In a reference catalog characterizing the stars in the probe's field of view, KIC 9880467 is listed as brighter than its neighbor. But as you can easily see in the above image, that is not the case.
That simple error messes up the calculations of the planet's temperature and size. Kepler finds planets by detecting tiny dips in a star's brightness during transits—when a planet crosses in front of it. When the Kepler team analyzed the combined light from the two stars, they assumed KIC 9880467 accounted for most of the brightness. Now they have to chalk up almost all that light to the neighboring star. In fact, while Batalha is still confident KOI 326.01 exists, she is no longer sure which of the two nearby stars it is orbiting. In either case, the calculations indicate that the planet is somewhat warmer and a lot larger than the previous estimate. And if it is orbiting the bright, neighboring star, as Batalha suspects, the planet's temperature will soar. More analysis is required, but it's safe to say that KOI 326.01 should no longer be considered potentially habitable.
Young. Old. Scalding hot. Icy cold. Terrestrial midgets. Gas giants. As the cavalcade of planets spotted beyond our solar system continues to grow, we get to see worlds of all sorts—and we get to speculate on the staggering number of exoplanets that might inhabit just our own galaxy.
Today's first piece of otherworldly news involves baby exoplanets. Astronomer Christian Thalmann says his team may have spotted planets in the process of forming around three different stars, the first time scientists have spotted the process in action.
An infant star forms from a collapsing cloud of dust and gas and gathers a dense, flat disk of material that rotates with the star like a record album. The material in the disk will eventually clump up into nascent planets. Theoretical models of planet formation predicted that those protoplanets should suck up more gas and dust with their gravity, clearing a wide gap in the otherwise solid disk. [Wired]
Peering at young stars like T Chamaeleontis (T Cha) LkCa15 and AB Auriga, Thalmann and colleagues saw those telltale gaps in the dusty rings (their study is forthcoming in the Astrophysical Journal Letters). The stars are much like our own sun, so these pictures of infant solar systems could resemble what our own looked like as a baby. But though the stars are nearby in cosmic terms—T Cha lies just 350 light years away—the gaps are faint enough that it's difficult to tell for certain if newly forming planets, and not the influence of binary stars or other objects, are creating them.
If Thalmann's team is right, catching the birth of new worlds would be a great scientific coup. Our galaxy, however, isn't exactly hurting for planets.
For months we here at DISCOVER have been waiting impatiently for the Kepler mission to open up its vault of new exoplanets, hopefully filled with a bevy of Earth-like worlds and other exotic planets. Today planet lovers got a new peek at the Kepler findings, and those findings are stunning.
First, the Kepler scientists announced more than 1,200 candidate planets, which got DISCOVER blogger Phil Plait excited:
This is incredible! Even though I was expecting a number like this, actually hearing it for real is stunning. In 15 years we've found about 500 planets orbiting other stars, but in the almost two years since Kepler launched it may have easily tripled that number! Now, to be careful: these are candidate planets, which means they have not been confirmed. But in most cases these look pretty good, and if these numbers hold up it indicates that our galaxy is lousy with planets. They're everywhere.
While those 1,200 are candidates, astronomers have confirmed a peculiar and fascinating set of six. From Phil Plait:
Using NASA's orbiting Kepler observatory, astronomers have found a complete solar system of six planets orbiting a sun-like star… and it's really weird: five of the six planets huddle closer to their star than Mercury does to the Sun!
None of them is what I would call precisely earth-like — they're all more massive and much hotter than Earth — but their properties are intriguing, and promise that more wonderful discoveries from Kepler are coming.
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80beats: Astronomers Predict a Bonanza of Earth-Sized Exoplanets
80beats: How Excited Should We Be About the New "Goldilocks" Exoplanet?
80beats: Astronomers Find a Bevy of Exoplanets; Won't Discuss Most Interesting Ones
DISCOVER: How Long Until We Find a Second Earth?
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The Kepler space telescope, launched nearly two years ago, has already proven its worth as an exoplanet hunter many times over. But the discoveries keep on coming. NASA just announced that Kepler has found its first rocky planet–and that the rocky world is only 1.4 times the size of Earth, making it the smallest exoplanet ever found.
Phil Plait explains that this nearly Earth-sized isn't actually Earth-like and habitable:
[I]t orbits extremely close in to its star, circling over the star's surface at a distance of roughly 3 million kilometers (1.8 million miles) — amazingly, it takes less than an Earth day to make one circuit. But being that close to a star comes at a price: the surface temperature of the planet must be several thousand degrees!
The planet, Kepler-10b, may not be habitable to life as we know it, but Plait is still plenty excited. Get the rest of the story on how the planet was found and what its discovery means over at Bad Astronomy.
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80beats: Astronomers Predict a Bonanza of Earth-Sized Exoplanets
80beats: How Excited Should We Be About the New "Goldilocks" Exoplanet?
80beats: Astronomers Find a Bevy of Exoplanets; Won't Discuss Most Interesting Ones
80beats: After a Flawless Launch, Kepler Telescope Gets Ready for Planet Hunting
DISCOVER: How Long Until We Find a Second Earth?
The universe abounds with Earth-sized planets. That hopeful notion has been reinforced by individual planets finds like possible Goldilocks planet Gliese 581g, by the hordes of planet candidates discovered by the Kepler mission, and now, by a census of a small space in the sky that tells us one in four sun-like stars should possess worlds that are close to the size of Earth.
Take a moment to think about that: One in four.
In Science, exoplanet hunters Geoffrey Marcy and Andrew Howard published their team's census of 166 nearby stars like ours, of which they picked 22 at random to investigate for planets. They watched the stars' doppler shifts to hunt for planets over the last five years, and used the results to extrapolate how common terrestrial planets must be far beyond just this set of stars.


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It's a big "rag on the Bush tax cuts" week in the Washington Post–I think because this is one of the biggest looming issues Congress and the Administration will be coming back to after August "recess."
It began with Ruth Marcus' column on Wednesday, where she wrote:
…Which takes us back to the matter of whether it would be risky to let any of the Bush tax cuts expire. As a practical matter, Democrats and Republicans agree that the cuts should remain in place, at least temporarily, for families making less than $250,000 a year. That's a debatable point. Former Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan, whose blessing was responsible for propelling the tax cuts forward in the first place, said recently that Congress should let them lapse.
The real disagreement is over extending the high-end tax cuts, and on this even some supposedly fiscally responsible Democrats — I'm talking to you, Kent Conrad — have gone wobbly. The no-new-taxes-now crowd cautions against raising taxes in a recession — a fair point, except that there are more efficient ways to spur the economy than giving more money to those least likely to spend it. Alternatively, they cite — and inflate — the supposed impact on small business of raising the upper-end rates.
This would be more convincing if the Republican line were something other than "no new taxes, ever." The economic and fiscal circumstances may change, but the prescription remains the same. And the patient is too ill to tolerate another dose of this quack medicine.
And in the Sunday paper (already available online as of Friday), the Bush tax cuts are the focus of the "5 Myths" series as well as "Topic A." Bill Gale of the Brookings Institution writes about "5 myths about the Bush tax cuts". My favorite myths of the five are #1 (on the tax cuts as "stimulus") and #5 (on the effect of the tax cuts on the longer-term fiscal outlook)–because Bill argues there's not much to "love" in either case:
1. Extending the tax cuts would be a good way to stimulate the economy.
As a stimulus measure, a one- or two-year extension has one thing going for it — it would be a big intervention and would provide at least some boost to the economy. But a good stimulus policy can't just be big; it should also offer a lot of bang for the buck. That is, each dollar of government spending or tax cuts should have the largest possible effect on the economy. According to the Congressional Budget Office and other authorities, extending all of the Bush tax cuts would have a small bang for the buck, the equivalent of a 10- to 40-cent increase in GDP for every dollar spent.
Why? As the CBO notes, most Bush tax cut dollars go to higher-income households, and these top earners don't spend as much of their income as lower earners. In fact, of 11 potential stimulus policies the CBO recently examined, an extension of all of the Bush tax cuts ties for lowest bang for the buck…The government could more effectively stimulate the economy by letting the high-income tax cuts expire and using the money for aid to the states, extensions of unemployment insurance benefits and tax credits favoring job creation…
5. Continuing the tax cuts won't doom the long-term fiscal picture; entitlements are the real problem.
One theory holds that the country's long-term budget shortfall is "just" an entitlements problem, the result of rising costs associated with growing Social Security rolls and increased health-care spending (via Medicare and Medicaid). Republicans like this idea because it plays down tax increases as a potential solution. Democrats like it because it makes the recent health-care package seem like even more of a triumph.
But it just isn't true. The deficits we face over the next decade reflect a fundamental imbalance between spending and revenue, one that goes beyond entitlements. Based on projections by the CBO, Alan Auerbach of the University of California at Berkeley and myself, among others, even if the economy returns to full employment by 2014 and stays there for the rest of the decade, the continuation of current fiscal policies, including the Bush tax cuts, would lead to a national debt in the range of 90 percent of GDP by 2020. That's already the highest rate since just after World War II — and Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security aren't expected to hit their steepest spending increases until after 2020.
According to these same projections, the yearly deficit would rise to 6 to 7 percent of GDP by 2020. The Bush tax cuts would account for a significant chunk of this, considering that in each year they are in effect, the revenue lost because of them amounts to nearly 2 percent of GDP.
Compounding the problem: By increasing the government's debt, the tax cuts have already led to higher interest payments on that debt. So even if all of the cuts expire on Dec. 31, we will still be paying for them for years to come.
And under this Sunday's "Topic A," it seems that no matter where fiscal policy economists fall on the ideological spectrum, it's hard to find one who thinks permanent extension of all of the Bush tax cuts is a good idea. My response (just because this is my blog):
Chief economist at the Concord Coalition and blogger at EconomistMom.com
President Obama will find it very difficult, if not impossible, to simultaneously keep two major policy promises: maintain the generously defined "middle class" portions of the Bush tax cuts and begin to restore fiscal sustainability by reducing the deficit to 3 percent of gross domestic product by 2015.
At the same time, current economic conditions suggest a continued need for deficit spending to assist in the recovery. Even if the Bush tax cuts are far from the most effective form of additional fiscal stimulus we could come up with, it may be all we can get right now, politically.
So one way Obama can avoid simply rubber-stamping the Bush tax cuts — and turning the policy he has labeled "fiscally irresponsible" into his own — while saving face on his promises would be to temporarily extend only those portions of the cuts he has proposed to permanently extend in his past two budgets. A one- or two-year extension would buy time for the economy to further recover, while providing policymakers with a realistic deadline to permanently reform the tax system to raise adequate revenue in a more efficient and equitable manner — in other words, to come up with a tax plan Obama would be proud to put his name on.
And in the informal survey of readers conducted on the page with Ruth's column, as of Saturday 6 pm, 57 percent of respondents (out of nearly 1000) said we should let all the Bush tax cuts expire as scheduled. (Snapshot above.)
UPDATE (Saturday night): Stephen Colbert's take on the issue. (Thanks to Len Burman for calling this to my attention via Facebook.)
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Cyprian wrote:Hi Jookie, should I do any special setup process for WiFi?
ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Loading firmware file 'rt2870.bin'
ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Firmware
Cyprian wrote:Hi Jookie,
any progress in this matter?
Jookie wrote:Hello, yes and no... I got the wifi adapter running even with the current linux image, but when the wifi is started (wpa_supplicant -B ...), then the system hangs and I'm not sure how to avoid this or what am I doing wrong (but at least the LED on wifi adapter turns on). I was solving some bugs so I didn't had the time to finish this one, but hopefully I'll take a look at it soon...
Cyprian wrote:did you have some time to look at that issue?
sorry for being boring, I have no ethernet cables in my home and lack of wifi support reduces CosmosEx just to SatanDisk level
Cyprian wrote:During booting ST shows message "No working network interface." but WiFi works ok.
tin wrote:But the next reset should show the IP address - does it?
tin wrote:Would it help to show sth like "initializing wifi" at that first boot?
Cyprian wrote:tin wrote:But the next reset should show the IP address - does it?
without changes - "No working network interface."
DrCoolZic wrote:Is there a recommended WiFi adapter?
tin wrote:Well, thats definitely a bug then. Is your ce_dd booted from SD card and is it the latest? There was a bug like this in ce_dd in older releases, but I fixed that in the Wifi release.
Cyprian wrote:hmm, actually I don't use SD card yet. Should I put it on an external SD card?
tin wrote:It's just a common thing to incidentially boot an old ce_dd driver from the SD cards auto folder. Happens to me all the time.
DrCoolZic wrote:About the WiFi plugs
Are they standard so any plug can be used with provided Linux or do they need different drivers that need to be "installed" on Linux (sorry I am somewhat ignorant with Linux)
DrCoolZic wrote:I will try the procedure to update the Linux image described by Jookie. I was surprised by the fact that you have to install a new Linux image as I thought this could be done as part of the "normal" update.
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It was difficult to impossible to use mobile phones to check on loved ones in the wake of two explosions that rocked the Boston Marathon Monday afternoon.
Cell phone companies indicated that customers in the Boston area may have been having trouble connecting due to congestion. Earlier, The Associated Press reported that a law enforcement official, citing an intelligence briefing, said that cell phone service had been shut down in parts of Boston to prevent the chance of a remote detonation of another device. But the AP later added that officials with Verizon, Sprint and Nextel said no such requests had been made.
For those who are having trouble connecting by phone with loved ones who may have been near the scene, at least two online tools are available as alternatives.
Google launched a People Finder application where users could list that they are looking for someone or that they have information about someone.
The Red Cross maintains a "Safe and Well" listing for any disaster, natural or man-made.
Those with phone service trying to locate anyone who was at or near the marathon route can call the Boston mayor hotline at 617-635-4500. Those with any tips are being asked to call 1-800-494-TIPS.


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Over the past month you have voted to determine the Beliefnet readers' top Holiday song, and the winner for the ultimate song is…
Such a beautiful and inspirational song, and a wonderful winner for our tournament! Enjoy this special version by Nat King Cole, and look forward to new inspiring songs each week! Happy holidays!
O Holy Night! The stars are brightly shining,
It is the night of the dear Saviour's birth.
Long lay the world in sin and error pining.
Till He appeared and the Spirit felt its worth.
A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices,
For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn.
Fall on your knees! Oh, hear the angel voices!
O night divine, the night when Christ was born;
O night, O Holy Night , O night divine!
O night, O Holy Night , O night divine!
Led by the light of faith serenely beaming,
With glowing hearts by His cradle we stand.
O'er the world a star is sweetly gleaming,
Now come the wisemen from out of the Orient land.
The King of kings lay thus lowly manger;
In all our trials born to be our friends.
He knows our need, our weakness is no stranger,
Behold your King! Before him lowly bend!
Behold your King! Before him lowly bend!
Truly He taught us to love one another,
His law is love and His gospel is peace.
Chains he shall break, for the slave is our brother.
And in his name all oppression shall cease.
Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we,
With all our hearts we praise His holy name.
Christ is the Lord! Then ever, ever praise we,
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After Prosecutor-General Huang Shih-ming (黃世銘) was referred to a disciplinary committee for his part in a wiretapping row, Minister of Justice Lo Ying-shay (羅瑩雪) promptly organized an internal task force to investigate. The pan-green camp wants the legislature to set up a document request committee, the pan-blue camp called for an investigation by the Control Yuan and the Taipei District Prosecutors' Office has started looking into whether any illegal wiretapping occurred.
While the nation is gripped by complications stemming from multiple systemic failings, the authorities have been turning a blind eye to the abuse of wiretapping powers.
This affair has implicated the entire system of constitutional government on a scale never before seen, involving the president, the legislature, political parties, the justice and prosecutorial systems and even the lawyers. Even before all this commenced, the public was confused as to who should be conducting the investigation: The prosecutors' disciplinary committee, the Ministry of Justice or a legislative committee? As for the Control Yuan, which could not even impeach a Keelung city councilor, the less said the better.
Although the political controversy was started when President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) used information obtained by the Special Investigation Division of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office through wiretapping and leaked to him by Huang, politics should not distract from the main issue — the fact that the legality or otherwise of the wiretapping is, essentially, a legal issue.
The first consideration is the possibility of resolving the legal issue in the courts and using them to conduct an impartial, professional and thorough investigation.
It is important to clarify the truth behind the surveillance process to reach a final verdict on the legality or otherwise of the surveillance. How many warrants were used? How many people were listened to? What was the reason for each individual warrant and over what time frame did they apply? If these questions can be investigated by the courts, once the information has been reviewed and the defendants' testimonies heard, the truth behind the whole process will gradually emerge. The results should be made public, so everyone can understand.
The next pressing issue concerns how the courts are to settle the question of the legality of the wiretapping. To focus on the objective question of this legality and to avoid the process becoming drawn out, the courts should consider Article 416 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (刑事訴訟法), which states that "a subject of a ruling may file a motion to withdraw or change [certain listed] rulings to the court in charge if [he or she] disagrees with the ruling made." Although the list does not include surveillance, judges must provide for this based upon the principle of the right to a legal remedy as prescribed in the constitutional rulings and upon the two UN human rights covenants Taiwan has unilaterally ratified.
Basically, a line needs to be drawn when it comes to judicial cases involving legislative quarrels. Why do legislators who feel they are the victims of illegal surveillance not pursue the right to legal remedy to establish the legal precedent that rulings on the legality of wiretapping should involve subsequent judicial review? After all, even Ma, whose attempts to remove Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平) have been frustrated, has learned something from this experience: It is the courts that get the final say in the legal aspects of political conflicts.


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RICHMOND, Va. – The VCU Men's & Women's track & field didn't have to pack their bags for this weekend's meet, as the team made the short trip across town for the 2012 Fred Hardy Invitational at University of Richmond.
Friday marked the first day of competition at the two-day event, with 18 events taking place on Friday.
"We got off to a good start today with some solid performances and a number of PR's," said VCU head coach Jon Riley. "The coaches are doing a great job getting these athletes ready to perform."
VCU senior pole vaulter Stephanie Newing matched her previous school record in the pole vault, clearing 3.55 meters, a height she previously reached in 2010. The Virginia Beach, Va., native tied for a fourth place finish in the event.
"Stephanie has been working extremely hard this year," said VCU assistant coach Allyson Thomas. "We have been working on cleaning up some little things and I see more great things for her in her final season here."
Freshman Brandon Ruffin continued his recent surge of success, putting together the top performance among all collegiate completion in the men's shot put. The Chesapeake, Va., native came in second overall, placing behind an unattached competitor, with a heave of 15.97 meters. The toss was good enough to qualify Ruffin for the IC4A Outdoor Championships later this spring.
Junior thrower Frank Afriyie placed in third in the men's hammer throw, with a heave of 50.65 meters.
VCU senior thrower Brandy Preston earned herself a third place finish in the women's hammer throw, with a toss of 49.03 meters.
Redshirt sophomore Jaleesa Williams just missed out on qualifying for the ECAC Outdoor Championships in the women's shot put. Williams' toss of 13.58 meters, was just shy of the 13.60 qualifying mark.
Redshirt sophomore Chaneka Perry earned herself a spot at ECACs in the triple jump, with a qualifying jump of 12.11 meters. The Newport News, Va., native came in third place in the event, while teammate Jennifer McAvoy placed fourth (11.74 meters).
Junior mid-distance runner Alex Hinton earned a fifth place finish in the 1500 meter run, crossing the finish line in 3:56.30.
The Rams captured a third and fourth place finish in the men's 5000 meter run, with Brenden Leavitt (15:17.33) and John Vial (15:26.79) leading the charge for the Black & Gold.
The second and final day of the Fred Hardy Invitational is scheduled for Saturday, with the first event taking place at 9 a.m.


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NEW ORLEANS – Jeremy Shelley kicked five field goals and Trent Richardson broke a 34-yard touchdown run late in the fourth quarter as No. 2 Alabama beat No. 1 LSU 21-0 on Monday night – the first shutout in BCS title game history.
Richardson swept around left end and raced down the sideline to the end zone with 4:36 left for the first touchdown between the Southeastern Conference rivals in more than 115 minutes of play and one overtime period.
Alabama had put it away before that as Shelley kicked field goals of 23, 34, 41, 35 and 44 yards in the first three quarters to make it 15-0, matching an all-bowl record. He also missed two field goals and an extra-point attempt.
But this time the missed kicks didn't matter to the Tide.
The Tigers and Tide met on Nov. 5 in what was dubbed the Game of the Century, and the Tigers won a touchdown-less, defensive standoff, 9-6 in overtime. Alabama went 2 for 6 on field goals in Tuscaloosa.


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Urban youth attend Breakthrough Series in Houston
HOUSTON -- If you're a talented teenage baseball player, there's nothing more valuable than exposure.
Five-dozen high school players found it in droves on Tuesday, as the annual Breakthrough Series arrived in Houston for its sixth year. The series is part of a combined effort by Major League Baseball and USA Baseball to spotlight and bolster the involvement of urban youth in the sport.
HOUSTON -- If you're a talented teenage baseball player, there's nothing more valuable than exposure.
Five-dozen high school players found it in droves on Tuesday, as the annual Breakthrough Series arrived in Houston for its sixth year. The series is part of a combined effort by Major League Baseball and USA Baseball to spotlight and bolster the involvement of urban youth in the sport.
"This event gives the kids an opportunity to see how the pro games work and get some attention they might not otherwise see," said Grambling State assistant coach Davin Pierre. "This is a business-type atmosphere. That requires a maturity from them, so it's a necessary event. There needs to be more like it."
After a registration session Monday afternoon and an Astros game that night, the actual baseball began in earnest in the typically sweltering Houston humidity.
The morning session consisted of players (most of whom are 16-18 years old) running 60-yard sprints for scouts, taking batting practice and showing off their fielding prowess.
Meanwhile, scouts kept a keen eye on the action, with most of them seeing the players for the first time. Along with about a dozen pro scouts, at least a dozen more were from colleges.
"It's good exposure to not just the pro level, but they might have a chance to earn a scholarship or get a lot of different routes to pro ball," said Oakland A's area scout Armann Brown. "It's an eye-opener."
Because of Houston's proximity to so many historically black colleges and universities in the Gulf Coast states, those schools were well represented at the event. Some Southwestern Athletic Conference powers like Alcorn State, Grambling State and Southern all sent scouts to the event.
"It's an essential need to get minority players an opportunity with some of the participation figures we've seen in recent years," Pierre said. "Major League Baseball, with this event, is helping them by not just making it about playing pro ball. It lets kids know that college is there, and that baseball can lead you down a lot of different paths."
Entrants in last year's Breakthrough Series committed to collegiate baseball programs such as Arizona, Ole Miss, USC and Vanderbilt, among many others.
With two sparkling fields at the Houston Astros' Urban Youth Academy to work with, players split up by position to learn under the tutelage of former Major Leaguers and pro coaches during the brief afternoon session.
In between, the high-schoolers got some famous visitors, as Wesley Wright and Marc Krauss of the Astros and Dan Straily and Derek Norris of the visiting Oakland A's stopped by for a lunchtime Q&A session.
The players answered questions about everything from their Minor League experiences to their pregame routines to their offseason workout regimens. Mostly, they provided insight into what it will take for the 60-plus participants to be in their shoes one day.
"Make it by failing," Krauss told the attentive audience. "That seems weird to say, but it's something one of my Minor League coaches said, and it stuck with me. A 3-out-of-10 rate is a failure anywhere else, but that's an All-Star in this sport. Learn to accept that you can't be perfect every at-bat, every pitch and you'll be able to mentally handle what you'll face as you progress."
All four pro players hail from small towns, and grew up off the radar of baseball fame. The Breakthrough Series, they said, would have been a dream opportunity for them.
"The biggest event I went to was the MLB East Coast Pro Showcase when I was a junior in high school," Wright said. "I didn't have a lot of exposure, so I'm almost a little jealous.
"At the same time, it can be overwhelming, because you know what's on the line and see the talent you're up against. But it's good preparation for the competition they'll face at every higher level."
Almost 90 participants of the Breakthrough Series have gone on to be drafted, including 43 the last two years, with four of them going in the first round.
The most likely candidate for that top-line status at this year's event would have been California shortstop Jacob Gatewood, but he was a last-minute cancellation.
Gatewood won the junior division of last week's All-Star Home Run Derby at Citi Field.
Still, touted prospects like Joshua Morgan, Denz'l Chapman, Tyree David and Luis Alvarado all flashed their first-day Draft potential.
The 60 prospects are divided up into four teams, with two scrimmage games awaiting them Wednesday and a showcase game at Minute Mark slated for Thursday. That game will air on MLB Network on Saturday at 11 a.m. ET.
This is the Breakthrough Series' first year in Houston, with USA Baseball's National Training Center in Cary, N.C., hosting it from 2010-12 and the Compton, Calif., Urban Youth Academy doing so for the program's first two years.
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Fagbenle has led the Crimson in rebounding three times this season (Gil Talbot).
The Storyline
The Harvard women's basketball team will close out November versus New Hampshire on Wednesday, Nov. 28 at 7 p.m. in just its second home game of the season. A win would improve the Crimson to 5-2, marking the first time in program history that Harvard has posted five wins before the month of December.
Fans unable to attend the game can follow all of the action live online via a video stream with play-by-play man Greg Kadetsky and analyst Helen Williams on the call. Live stats will also be available through GoCrimson.com.
Below are 140 character or less notes on the Harvard women's basketball team, perfect for sharing with your followers on Twitter. Follow @HarvardCrimson for all the latest news and notes on your favorite Crimson student-athletes and teams or use the hashtag #GoCrimson to see what fans are saying about Crimson athletics.
- .@HarvardHoops has set a program record with 4 wins in November & is looking to go 5-2 to start the year for the 1st time since 2004-05
- Christine Clark was named the @Ivy_Athletics POW Monday, her 7th career weekly award from the conference and @HarvardHoops' 3rd of the year
- Christine Clark is the first player to lead @HarvardHoops in scoring in each of the first 6 games since Hana Peltjo in 2002-03
- .@imEMMAude ranks 2nd in the NCAA in 3-pt percentage (68%) & her 15 makes are more than any other 2 Crimson combined #MaudeCantMiss
- Christine Clark is a perfect 19-19 at the line & leads the NCAA in FT percentage. Clark is 39-40 from the line dating back to last year
- .@HarvardHoops currently ranks 2nd in the NCAA in 3-pt percentage (45%), 9th in FT percentage (80%) & is 16th in FG percentage (47%)
- .@HarvardHoops has made at least 1 3-pointer in 104 straight games, the 2nd longest streak in program history
Last Time Out
Sophomore Ali Curtis stepped to the line with 0:06 remaining in a two-point game and calmly hit both free throws to give the Harvard women's basketball team a 67-63 win Saturday afternoon at Eastern Michigan.
Curtis finished with a career-high nine points, two rebounds and two steals while playing a career-best 32 minutes. Christine Clark led the Crimson in scoring for a sixth-straight game with 16 points and added five rebounds, four assists and four steals. Temi Fagbenle chipped in a career-high 15 points on 6-of-6 shooting with six rebounds, and Miriam Rutzen registered a season-best 13 points on 6-of-9 shooting.
Harvard outshot Eastern Michigan 46.9 percent (23-49) to 33.3 percent (24-72) and held a 42-36 advantage over the Eagles on the glass.
What a Start
Harvard is off to a 4-2 start for the third time in the last five years and a win versus New Hampshire on Wednesday would mark just the ninth time in program history that the Crimson has started 5-2 or better. The last time Harvard opened a campaign at 5-2 was in 2004-05 when the Crimson rolled to a 20-8 overall record and captured the Ivy League title with a 12-2 mark.
Junior Christine Clark was named the Ivy League Player of the Week on Nov. 26, marking her seventh career weekly honor from the conference. Clark averaged 21.3 ppg, 6.3 rpg and 2.7 apg in a 2-1 week for the Crimson, and turned in back-to-back 20-point performances at Holy Cross and Michigan. The honor marked Clark's fourth career player of the week accolade after being named rookie of the week three times in 2009-10.
Leader of the Pack
Junior Christine Clark has led Harvard in scoring in each of its first six games, becoming the first Crimson student-athlete to do so since Hannah Peltjo '04 led the team in six straight contests to open the 2002-03 campaign. Peltjo went on to average 21.3 ppg for the season, the fourth-highest total in program history, and was named the Ivy League Player of the Year.
Allison Feaster '98 owns the program record for consecutive games led in scoring at 17, 16 of which came to open the 1997-98 campaign. Feaster went on to lead the team in scoring in 25 of 26 games that year, averaging an Ancient Eight record 28.5 ppg en route to her third straight Ivy League Player of the Year honor.
At The Line
Christine Clark leads the nation with a perfect 19-of-19 performance at the line and has hit 39 of her last 40 attempts dating back to last season. Victoria Lippert, meanwhile, is 12-of-13 at the charity stripe this season and 29 for her last 30.
Harvard is shooting an Ivy League-best 80.0 percent at the line, the ninth-highest percentage in the NCAA this season.
Senior co-captain Emma Golen has connected on 15-of-22 three-point attempts to start the season, more than any other two Crimson combined. Her 15 makes rank as the fifth-most through six games in program history, while her 68.2 percent clip is tops in program annals and ranks her second in the NCAA.
Sharp Shooting
Harvard currently leads the Ivy League in both field-goal percentage (47.4) and three-point percentage (44.9), and ranks 16th in the NCAA in field-goal percentage and second in three-point percentage. Harvard last led the league in both categories in 2008-09 when it connected on 43.8 percent of its attempts from the floor and 33.8 percent of its attempts from deep.
And the Award Goes To...
Harvard has picked up an Ivy League award in each of the season's first three weeks. The Crimson earned a total of five weekly honors from the conference last year split between Brogan Berry and Christine Clark, and in 2010-11 Harvard took home six awards split between Berry, Clark and Victoria Lippert.
11/12 - Temi Fagbenle, ROW
11/19 - Victoria Lippert, POW
11/26 - Christine Clark, POW
November Numbers
At 4-2, the 2012-13 Crimson has already set a program record for most victories in the month of November and can push that mark to five with a triumph over New Hampshire on Wednesday. Harvard last posted five wins in a single month during the 2010-11 season, registering six in January and five in February.
It's Up, and It's Good
Harvard has made at least one three-point field goal in 104 consecutive games dating back to 2008-09, the second longest streak in program history. The record for consecutive games with at least one three-pointer stands at 172, a streak which began during the 1989-90 season and concluded in 1996-97.
Milestone Moments
Victoria Lippert, Christine Clark and Miriam Rutzen will each look to cement their places in Harvard women's basketball history this season as they climb the career ranks.
Related Link: Harvard Women's Basketball Media Center
Career Points
1. Allison Feaster '98 2,312
11. Sarah Duncan '89 1,228
12. Barbarann Keffer '87 1,169
Victora Lippert '13 1,169
-- Christine Clark '14 910
Career 3-Point Field Goals
1. Erin Maher '92 245
2. Christine Matera '10 170
3. Victoria Lippert '13 141
Career Free Throws Made
1. Allison Feaster '97 475
3. Brogan Berry '12 395
4. Tammy Butler '95 301
5. Christine Clark '14 237
Career Blocked Shots
1. Sarah Duncan '88 279
4. Reka Cserny '05 122
5. Tammy Butler '95 78
6. Miriam Rutzen '13 73
Club 1,000
Senior Victoria Lippert became the 17th member of Harvard's 1,000 point club last year and currently ranks 12th in program history with 1,169 points. Junior Christine Clark is on pace to become the next Crimson to eclipse the 1,000-point plateau as she has recorded 910 points through two-plus seasons.
Including this year, Harvard has had at least one 1,000 point scorer on the floor in four of the last five seasons. Additionally, each of Harvard's 17 1,000 point scorers have been coached by head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith.
Dating back to last season, the Crimson is 14-1 when holding opponents to less than 60 points and 21-4 when allowing fewer than 70 points.
Harvard shot 50.9 percent against BYU and 50.0 percent at Holy Cross, marking the first time the Crimson has shot at least 50.0 percent from the field in back-to-back games since Feb. 4-5, 2011 against Princeton and Penn. Harvard last shot 50.0 percent or better in three straight games Jan. 31-Feb. 7, 2004 against Columbia, Penn and Princeton.
Lights-Out Lippert
Senior Victoria Lippert was named the Ivy League Player of the Week on Nov. 19 after registering a 15-point, 10-rebound double-double in the Crimson's win over BYU. Her greatest contribution came late with the game on the line, scoring five points in the final 1:01 to secure the victory.
Fabulous Fagbenle
Sophomore Temi Fagbenle was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week on Nov. 12 after averaging 12.5 ppg, 9.0 rpg, 3.0 apg and 2.5 bpg in the first two games of her career. Fagbenle was the first Crimson to earn the award since Christine Clark won it three times in 2010-11, and is the first to take home the first honor of the year since Allison Feaster '98 did so to open the 1994-95 campaign.
Double Dipping
Temi Fagbenle and Victoria Lippert combined for two double-doubles through the team's first three games. It took the Crimson six games to record its first double-double last season while its second didn't come until game 12.
Fagbenle became the first Crimson rookie to register a double-double since Christine Clark's 18-point, 10-rebound performance against Dartmouth on Jan. 15, 2011, and was the first Crimson rookie to do so in her first weekend of action since Hannah Peljto '04 went for 21 points and 10 rebounds in the season opener against St. Peter's on Nov. 17, 2000.
Inside Ivy League Basketball
"Inside Ivy League Basketball," a weekly online radio show dedicated to Ivy League men's and women's basketball, returns for its second season in 2012-13.
Hosted by Dan Loney and Brian Seltzer, "Inside Ivy League Basketball" takes in-depth look at all the news and notes surrounding Ivy League men's and women's basketball on and off the courts. "Inside" runs a two-man weave this season with episodes on Mondays and Thursdays at 7 p.m. on BlogTalkRadio.com with every episode available on-demand via BlogTalkRadio and IvyLeagueSports.com.
Each episode is packed with highlights, statistics and expert analysis in its 'Around the Ancient Eight' segment. With its 'Program Profile' segment, the show visits with players, coaches and administrators who impact Ivy League men's and women's basketball, both past and present. With its 'Ivy Insights' segment, local and national media join the show to give their thoughts and perspectives on covering the conference.
Via Facebook (search Inside Ivy League Basketball) and Twitter (@insideivyhoops), fans and alumni can follow the show and get a chance to test their Ivy acumen with the 'Trivia Talk' segment. The first person posting the correct answer to each week's trivia question wins a gift certificate to the League's official online store at shop.ivyleaguesports.com.
Check IvyLeagueSports.com each week for this season's episode schedule and guest lineups.


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Bovine TB: Consultation on revised guidance for licensing badger control areas Response from the Zoological Society of London
Bovine TB: Consultation on revised guidance for licensing badger control areas
Response from the Zoological Society of London
The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) has a long history of scientific engagement with the management of bovine tuberculosis (TB) in British cattle and wildlife. ZSL is both a scientific research institution and a conservation NGO. As such, for this consultation we have commented on both the scientific and the conservation issues relating to the expansion of
badger culling to a larger number of areas of England. ZSL does not support the government's policy of culling badgers in an attempt to control cattle TB. While recognising that badgers can and do transmit TB to cattle, we note
that the best estimates indicate that approximately 6% of TB-affected cattle herds become
infected from badgers, with the remaining 94% acquiring infection from other herds1. We
therefore consider the management of cattle-to-cattle transmission to have the highest
priority for TB control. We recognise that TB eradication requires clearing infection from the
badger population as well as from cattle herds, but suggest that for this purpose vaccination
(which reduces TB prevalence in badger populations2,3) is more promising than culling
(which consistently increases TB prevalence in UK badger populations4-6). Badger culling has
the capacity to increase cattle TB as well as reducing it7,8, making it an unsatisfactory tool for
TB control. Primary analyses have so far revealed no significant reduction in cattle TB from
farmer-led culls9. Moreover, large-scale badger culling entails killing thousands of members of
a protected species which plays an important role in farmland ecosystems10-12.
In addition to these general concerns, ZSL has four specific concerns about Defra's
proposal to accelerate the recruitment of large badger culling areas.
(1) Impact on the assessment of whether farmer-led culling changes cattle TB
Recruiting cull areas more rapidly would compromise efforts to assess whether badger
culling is reducing cattle TB as intended. Government scientists are assessing the effects of
culling on cattle TB using a "stepped wedge" study design, in which areas which have not yet
been culled serve as comparison areas for the cull areas9. If culling has the intended effect,
these not-yet-culled areas would be expected to show higher cattle TB incidence than areas
where culling has started. Recruiting cull areas more rapidly would curtail each area's time as
a comparison area, making it more difficult to determine whether or not culling is
contributing to TB control. If farmer-led culling was certain to be a cost-effective control
measure, and if additional culls could be implemented without compromising existing culls,
then reducing farms' time in the "not-yet-culled" comparison areas would accelerate TB
control. However, to date primary analyses have revealed no significant evidence that culling
is reducing cattle TB9, and secondary analyses on preliminary data are not robust enough to
yield policy conclusions13. Limiting the statistical power of further analyses by culling the
comparison areas might thus leave farmers, government, and taxpayers without reliable
evidence to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of a control tool which is strategically important,
but also costly and controversial. Moreover, a lack of evidence that culling is reducing cattle
TB makes it increasingly difficult to justify the destruction of a protected species, in the eyes
of the law (which requires that culls be conducted "for the purposes of preventing the spread of
disease"14), and in the eyes of the public who mostly oppose badger culling15.
(2) Impact on review of Defra's TB policy
Defra has recently commissioned a scientific review of its TB control policy, which is
scheduled to report in September 2018. Defra has stated publicly that this review will
consider the future role of badger culling in Defra's TB strategy16. However, any new cull
licences granted in 2018 would have to be issued before completion of the scientific review, to
avoid forcing culls to operate entirely in the late autumn when trapping success is typically
low17. Issuing large numbers of new licences just before the review is published would prejudge
the outcome of the review, constraining its ability to influence Defra's TB policy, and
raising questions about Defra's commitment to the principle of the review.
(3) Impact on the implementation of other TB control tools
Defra ministers have repeatedly stated the need to deploy "every tool in the box" to
combat TB. Consistent with its remit of stewarding the natural environment while overseeing
food production, and its long-term plan of reforming farm subsidies to reward wildlifefriendly
farming, Defra would be expected to explore ways to promote the coexistence of
cattle and wildlife. Badger vaccination in particular has been proposed as a TB control tool
which is more sustainable, cheaper, and more publicly acceptable than culling. However,
vaccination is increasingly sidelined in Defra's TB policy, as culls are proposed or
implemented throughout the high-risk, low-risk and edge areas. Defra's vision of culling
badgers across the high-risk area, which covers the entire western side of England, would
remove the option of implementing or even exploring badger vaccination as a cheaper, less
controversial, and potentially more sustainable approach.
(4) Environmental impact
Badger culling has impacts on farmland ecosystems10-12, as would be expected from the
removal of the largest native carnivore remaining in Britain. Defra's consultation implies that
the environmental impact of badger culling is not a concern because culling does not cause
local extinction of badgers. However, Natural England formerly advised limiting the
geographical extent of badger culling on conservation grounds18, noting that "reducing the
badger population to the extent and on the scale permitted under this policy has not previously
been sanctioned for any protected native mammal species in modern times".
Concerns about environmental impact do not relate only to the risk of localised badger
extinction (i.e. a 100% reduction in badger density). Multiple ecological consequences were
evident from a 70% reduction in badger density in the Randomised Badger Culling Trial
(RBCT)10-12, and the proposed policy change is likely to have greater impacts because the
current and proposed culls are both more extensive and more prolonged. Defra's original plan
was to recruit up to 10 areas per year, with each area being culled over four successive years
and then allowed to recover. This arrangement would have meant that, over time, some areas
would be newly culled while others would be recovering from culling. However, Defra is now
encouraging culls to be continued indefinitely after the initial four years. Moreover, the
establishment of multiple contiguous large-scale culling areas means that cull zones now
encompass a greater diversity of ecological settings than were sampled in the RBCT, and sites
within the cull zones are increasingly distant from the edges. The ecological consequences of
reducing badger densities over huge geographical scales and prolonged periods are thus
likely to be greater than those documented in the RBCT, and impacts may occur which were
either not investigated or not detectable in the RBCT. Impacts of extensive badger culling on
nature conservation, including impacts on other protected species, thus need to be seriously
On a broader scale, there may be wider environmental consequences of expanding
badger culling to the extent envisioned. Defra ministers are planning to restructure farm
subsidies post-Brexit to reward environmentally-friendly farming. Simultaneously
encouraging widespread culling is inconsistent with this plan and sends a mixed message to
both farmers and the public.
On a still broader scale, Defra is seeking to portray Britain as a world leader in wildlife
conservation, for example introducing tough new laws on ivory trading and hosting the 2018
conference on the Illegal Wildlife Trade. It may be more difficult for the UK to encourage
other, poorer, countries to find ways to coexist with dangerous wildlife such as elephants and
tigers, while itself failing to even explore sustainable ways for its own farmers to coexist with
what is essentially a large weasel.
Literature Cited
1 Donnelly, C. A. & Nouvellet, P. The contribution of badgers to confirmed tuberculosis in cattle in high incidence areas in
England. PLoS Currents Outbreaks, doi:doi: 10.1371/currents.outbreaks.097a904d3f3619db2fe78d24bc776098.
2 APHA. APHA report of examination for Mycobacterium bovis in badgers found dead within the Welsh Government Intensive
Action Area (IAA) (OG0145/TBOG0146). (http://gov.wales/docs/drah/publications/170508-bovine-tb-badger-founddead-
survey-report-4-en.pdf, 2016).
3 Carter, S. P. et al. BCG vaccination reduces risk of tuberculosis infection in vaccinated badgers and unvaccinated badger
cubs. PLOS One 7, e49833, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0049833 (2012).
4 Woodroffe, R. et al. Culling and cattle controls influence tuberculosis risk for badgers. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103, 14713-14717 (2006).
5 Woodroffe, R. et al. Bovine tuberculosis in cattle and badgers in localised culling areas. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 45,
128-143 (2009).
6 Bielby, J., Donnelly, C. A., Pope, L. C., Burke, T. & Woodroffe, R. Badger responses to small-scale culling may compromise
targeted control of bovine tuberculosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
111, 9193-9198, doi:10.1073/pnas.1401503111 (2014).
7 Donnelly, C. A. et al. Positive and negative effects of widespread badger culling on cattle tuberculosis. Nature 439, 843-
846 (2006).
8 Donnelly, C. A. et al. Impact of localized badger culling on TB incidence in British cattle. Nature 426, 834-837 (2003).
9 APHA. Report on the incidence of bovine tuberculosis in cattle in 2013-2016 – Three years' follow-up in areas of Somerset
and Gloucestershire and one year of follow-up in Dorset of industry-led badger control.
control-third-year-analysis.pdf, 2017).
10 Trewby, I. D. et al. Experimental evidence of competitive release in sympatric carnivores. Biology Letters 4, 170-172,
doi:10.1098/rsbl.2007.0516 (2008).
11 Trewby, I. D. et al. Impacts of Removing Badgers on Localised Counts of Hedgehogs. Plos One 9, 4,
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0095477 (2014).
12 CSL. The ecological consequences of removing badgers from the ecosystem.
(randd.defra.gov.uk/Document.aspx?Document=ZF0531_6288_FRP.doc, 2007).
13 Brunton, L. A. et al. Assessing the effects of the first 2years of industry-led badger culling in England on the incidence of
bovine tuberculosis in cattle in 2013-2015. Ecology and Evolution 7, 7213-7230, doi:10.1002/ece3.3254 (2017).
14 UK Parliament. Protection of Badgers Act. (Her Majesty's Stationery Office
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1992/Ukpga_19920051_en_1.htm - end, 1992).
15 YouGov. Two years on, badger cull remains unpopular. (https://yougov.co.uk/news/2014/09/11/two-years-badgercull-
remains-unpopular/, 2014).
16 Doward, J. Badger cull faces review as bovine TB goes on rising. The Observer,
17 Tuyttens, F. A. M. et al. Differences in trappability of European badgers Meles meles in three populations in England.
Journal of Applied Ecology 36, 1051-1062 (1999).
18 Natural England. The impact of culling on badger (Meles meles) populations in England and measures to prevent their
'local disappearance' from culled areas. http://www.gloucestershirewildlifetrust.co.uk/sites/wtmain.
_Redacted.pdf (2011).


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