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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will call on Congress to reform provisions in the Patriot Act that govern collection of telephone and other "metadata" to provide greater transparency and oversight of the controversial programs, officials said on Friday.
Obama will also seek to create a position for an adversary to raise civil liberty concerns at the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the officials said.
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden revealed widespread government collection of phone and Internet records earlier this year, sparking debate over how far the government should be allowed to go in monitoring its citizens' communications to protect the country from attack.
The Department of Justice will release the legal rationale for U.S. surveillance programs on Friday, the official said.
Obama was scheduled to unveil the proposals at a news conference on Friday afternoon.
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text: Red Pill News Pool etiquette goes to hell in Germany as Bild reports migrants defecting in pools and molesting women Europeans are struggling to come to terms with the wave of Mid-East refugees that have inundated the bloc over the course of the last 12 months. Published 3 years ago on January 26, 2016 By alexrpt 0 Views Share Tweet Via Zerohedge… The challenge, for those inclined to believe that German Chancellor Angela Merkel's multicultural utopia is feasible, is to adopt an open minded approach to the prospect of integrating millions of Muslim asylum seekers into a largely Christian society while retaining a healthy level of skepticism with regard to the prospect of unifying two vastly divergent cultures. Even those who are predisposed to being patient with the integration process are beginning to question the wisdom behind Berlin's open-door policy. Interestingly, it wasn't the murder of 130 people in Paris that served as the catalyst for what amounts to a wholesale shift in sentiment towards migrants. While there was certainly a public outcry in the wake of the Paris attacks, the backlash coalesced after New Year's Eve, when scores of women were reportedly assaulted by men of "Arab origin." Since then, voters have moved to express their discontent with the bloc's handling of the refugee crisis by taking to the streets in what on many occasions have turned out to be violent protests. The official response has been mixed. Germany has endeavored to keep the faith (as it were) by preserving the "yes we can" narrative in public, but in private, many German politicians claim the country is on the verge of closing its borders. Austria has apparently had enough, has suspended Schengen, and is now requiring refugees to learn German or risk losing access to welfare. The country has also developed a pictographic flyer designed to coach migrants on what types of behaviors are acceptable in polite Western European society. Switzerland has adopted the Austrian flyer and Germany has developed its own cartoons the government hopes will to clear up any "confusion" about how asylum seekers should act once settled in Europe. A particularly sensitive issue is pool etiquette. If you believe the media, refugees are having a particularly difficult time figuring out how to behave when swimming in public. The controversy led one small German town near Cologne (the site of the New Year's Eve assaults) to ban adult male asylum seekers from swimming. Well, despite the best efforts of European cartoonists, some refugees apparently didn't get the message about proper pool behavior because according to "reports," some asylum seekers were caught on closed circuit TV doing some rather lewd things at the Johannisbad baths in Zwickau. Below, find the story from Bild, which we present without further comment because frankly, there's not much we can add here. * * * From "In The Swimming Pool, Bowels Emptied! Women Molested!", originally published in Bild and Google translated for your amusement According bathrooms GmbH have masturbated refugees when visiting swimming baths in pools and emptied their bowels in the water. They are women in sauna harassed and have tried to storm the ladies' locker! All this is evident from a letter from clerk's office manager Rainer Kallweit to his superior departmental head Bernd Meyer. In the letter dated 19 January (Image exists) summarizes Kallweit a report of the security that service the city's baths GmbH. The city administration has towards BILD confirm their authenticity letter! Kallweit reports of a memorandum from the Johannisbad. It states inter alia: "An asylum seeker has masturbated in the hot tub and ejaculated into the basin. This is also recorded on the surveillance camera "And further:". The lifeguards threw him out. The asylee came with his, cronies' but again purely to get his cell phone.Together, visitors have 'in the hot tub a hooting, Selfie' done." "The users of this contaminated pool by there got rid of one's own intestinal contents. Native people have immediately leave the bathroom." The memo continues: "Furthermore, the lifeguards have to protect women and girls from the asylum. Young men wanted to forcibly penetrate into the dressing of women and girls. These actions could previously be blocked." References: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-24/bowels-emptied-women-molested-german-media-reveals-monstrous-cctv-footage-refugee-po Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! 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Buchanan Authored by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org: Upon the memory and truthfulness of Christine Blasey Ford hangs the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, his reputation and possibly his career on the nation's second-highest court. And much more. If Kavanaugh is voted down or forced to withdraw, the Republican Party and conservative movement could lose their last best hope for recapturing the high court for constitutionalism. No new nominee could be vetted and approved in six weeks. And the November election could bring in a Democratic Senate, an insuperable obstacle to the elevation of a new strict constructionist like Kavanaugh. The stakes are thus historic and huge. And what is professor Ford's case against Judge Kavanaugh? When she was 15 in the summer of '82, she went to a beer party with four boys in Montgomery County, Maryland, in a home where the parents were away. She says she was dragged into a bedroom by Brett Kavanaugh, a 17-year-old at Georgetown Prep, who jumped her, groped her, tried to tear off her clothes and cupped her mouth with his hand to stop her screams. Only when Kavanaugh's friend Mark Judge, laughing "maniacally," piled on and they all tumbled off the bed, did she escape and lock herself in a bathroom as the "stumbling drunks" went downstairs. She fled the house and told no one of the alleged rape attempt. Not until 30 years later in 2012 did Ford, now a clinical psychologist in California, relate, in a couples therapy session with her husband, what happened. She says she named Kavanaugh as her assailant, but the therapist's notes of the session make no mention of Kavanaugh. During the assault, says Ford, she was traumatized. "I thought he might inadvertently kill me." Here the story grows vague. She does not remember who drove her to the party. She does not say how much she drank. She does not remember whose house it was. She does not recall who, if anyone, drove her home. She does not recall what day it was. She did not tell her parents, Ford says, as she did not want them to know she had been drinking. She did not tell any friend or family member of this traumatic event that has so adversely affected her life. Said Kavanaugh in response, "I categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation. I did not do this back in high school or at any time." Mark Judge says it never happened. Given the seriousness of the charges, Ford must be heard out. But she also needs to be cross-examined and have her story and character probed as Kavanaugh's has been by FBI investigators as an attorney for the Ken Starr impeachment investigation of Bill Clinton, a White House aide to George Bush, a U.S. appellate judge and a Supreme Court nominee. During the many investigations of Kavanaugh's background, nothing was unearthed to suggest something like this was in character. Some 65 women who grew up in the Chevy Chase and Bethesda area and knew Kavanaugh in his high school days have come out and spoken highly of his treatment of girls and women. Moreover, the way in which all of this arose, at five minutes to midnight in the long confirmation process, suggests that this is political hardball, if not dirt ball. When Ford, a Democrat, sent a letter detailing her accusations against Kavanaugh to her California congresswoman, Anna Eshoo, Ford insisted that her name not be revealed as the accuser. She seemingly sought to damage or destroy the judge's career behind a cloak of anonymity. Eshoo sent the letter on to Sen. Diane Feinstein, who held it for two months. Excising Ford's name, Feinstein then sent it to the FBI, who sent it to the White House, who sent it on to the Senate to be included in the background material on the judge. Thus, Ford's explosive charge, along with her name, did not surface until this weekend. What is being done here stinks. It is a transparently late hit, a kill shot to assassinate a nominee who, before the weekend, was all but certain to be confirmed and whose elevation to the Supreme Court is a result of victories in free elections by President Trump and the Republican Party. Palpable here is the desperation of the left to derail Kavanaugh, lest his elevation to the high court imperil their agenda and the social revolution that the Warren Court and its progeny have been able to impose upon the nation. If Kavanaugh is elevated, the judicial dictatorship of decades past, going back to the salad days of Earl Warren, William Brennan, Hugo Black and "Wild Bill" Douglas, will have reached its end. A new era will have begun. That is what is at stake. The Republican Senate should continue with its calendar to confirm Kavanaugh before Oct. 1, while giving Ford some way to be heard, and then Kavanaugh the right to refute. Then let the senators decide. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest Arizona Senator Jeff Flake Opposes Vote on Kavanaugh Until Leftist Accuser Has Her Say The end of the Republic inches closer as Identity Politics knows no bounds: Republicans join the fight to delay Brett Kavanaugh confirmation vote. Published 3 days ago on September 17, 2018 By Alex Christoforou Via The Gateway Pundit… FLAKE OUT — ARIZONA SENATOR OPPOSES VOTE ON KAVANAUGH Anti-Trump Senator Jeff Flake, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in an interview Sunday evening that until he learns more about the sexual assault allegation regarding Brett Kavanaugh, he is "not comfortable voting yes" on Kavanaugh. It's Flakes last chance to poke President Trump and the country in the eye before he rides retires and likely finds a job in the liberal media. Via Mike Cernovich: – Sen. Jeff Flake, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in an interview Sunday evening that until he learns more about the sexual assault allegation regarding Brett Kavanaugh, he is "not comfortable voting yes" on Kavanaugh. https://t.co/kDOmfmDzBv — Mike Cernovich 🇺🇸 (@Cernovich) September 16, 2018 Jeff Flake becomes the first Republican senator to call for a pause on the Kavanaugh hearings until the Judiciary Committee hears from his accuser. https://t.co/cLwT9EbfM6 — Nathan McDermott (@natemcdermott) September 16, 2018 Kavanaugh's accuser is a far left anti-Trump activist. Via Zerohedge… Over the past few days, what appeared at first to be a merely token resistance to the nomination of Trump SCOTUS pick Brett Kavanaugh has morphed into something entirely more menacing. And for the first time since Kavanaugh's name was first floated in June, his nomination may be in jeopardy. After allegations of decades-old sexual improprieties first surfaced last week, it looked as if Kavanaugh would easily surmount this obstacle. But we have to give the Democrats credit: They have lined up their dominoes perfectly. And on Sunday, they set their plan in motion when the Washington Post published an in-depth interview with Kavanaugh's accuser, Christine Blasey Ford. The story detailed a blow-by-blow accounting of Ford's allegations, as well as her explanation for why she neglected to share her experience until decades later. Tellingly, the story also noted that Democrats have been sitting on the story since July, and that Ford only decided to out herself after some unscrupulous members of the Judiciary Committee shared her identity with the press – or at least that's what California Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office alleges. While the allegations are relatively tame by #MeToo era standards (the incident allegedly unfolded when Kavanaugh was 17), it has apparently been enough for Democrats and a handful of turncoat moderate Republicans to successfully shut down a planned Thursday vote of the Judiciary Committee. Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake effectively shut down the vote last night when he revealed that he wanted to hear more from Ford before voting. Without Flake, the Republicans' 11-10 majority on the Judiciary Committee shifts to a 10-11 vote in favor of the Democrats. While Committee Chairman Charles Grassley has said he'd like the vote to proceed as scheduled, media reports say he is quietly working to organize a private call involving Ford and curious Senators in an effort to help mitigate their concerns. But looking further ahead, Republican leaders might have more difficulty as Tennessee Republican Bob Corker – who is not a member of the Judiciary Committee but could still hold up the final confirmation vote – said Sunday that he'd also like to see Thursday's committee vote delayed. Here's more from Bloomberg: "I've made it clear that I'm not comfortable moving ahead with the vote on Thursday if we have not heard her side of the story or explored this further," said Flake, who has the power to stall consideration if all Democrats on the panel join him since Republicans only hold an 11-10 majority on the committee. Flake's office didn't respond to requests for comment. Corker of Tennessee, who isn't a member of the panel but whose vote is critical to confirmation, also doesn't want the committee to vote on Kavanaugh's confirmation until Ford's allegations can be heard, said his spokeswoman, Micah Johnson. The senator wants the allegations to be heard promptly, she said. The backlash intensified late Sunday when Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski told CNN that Thursday's hearing should be delayed. "Well, I think that might be something they might have to consider, at least having that discussion," Murkowski. […] "This is not something that came up during the hearings. The hearings are now over. And if there is real substance to this it demands a response." However, at least one of the Senate's reputed moderates has stood up to the Democrats in an interview with the New York Times, castigating them for withholding this information until so late in the process (remember: Feinstein justified this decision by saying she had referred Ford's allegations to the FBI, who reportedly added them to his background check file). "What is puzzling to me is the Democrats, by not bringing this out earlier, after having had this information for more than six weeks, have managed to cast a cloud of doubt on both the professor and the judge," Collins told The New York Times. Collins asked if Democrats believed Ford, "why didn't they surface this information earlier," and if they didn't believe Ford, "why did they decide at the 11th hour to release it?" "It is really not fair to either of them the way it is was handled," Collins said. Collins comments come after Ford spoke publicly about the alleged incident for the first time during an interview with The Washington Post that was published on Sunday. On Monday, in the latest sign that Ford could appear at an embarrassing public hearing, Ford's attorney, Debra Katz, told "Today" that her client would be willing to testify publicly before the Senate Judiciary Committee. "She's a credible person. These are serious allegations. And they should be addressed." "She has taken a polygraph. She is a credible person. These are serious allegations, and these should be addressed." Watch @savannahguthrie's full interview with Debra Katz, attorney for Kavanaugh accuser pic.twitter.com/AIplgPpgqi — TODAY (@TODAYshow) September 17, 2018 The White House, for its part, is standing by Kavanaugh, and allowing the Senate to sort things out. According to Bloomberg, Kellyanne Conway said Ford should not be "insulted and ignored" in what appears to be an attempt to beat the Democrats at their own virtue-signaling game. Still, according to a White House spokesperson, Trump isn't giving an inch. Washington Post reporter Seung Min Kim, citing WH spokesperson Kerri Kupec, reported that Judge Kavanaugh "categorically and unequivocally" denied this allegation: "This has not changed. Judge Kavanaugh and the White House both stand by that statement,"she said. In fact, as Axios reports, Senate Republicans could "play hardball" by calling on Ford to testify before Thursday's scheduled vote. Though Republicans wouldn't surprised if Ford holds a press conference or gives a TV interview, which Axios says "would raise the stakes considerably." Chuck Schumer, meanwhile, has repeatedly called for an FBI investigation and a postponement of the vote New White House statement from spox Kerri Kupec: "On Friday, Judge Kavanaugh 'categorically and unequivocally' denied this allegation. This has not changed. Judge Kavanaugh and the White House both stand by that statement." — Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) September 17, 2018 To be sure, the Democrats' goals here are obvious. After Sen. Corey Booker's "selfless" decision to release unauthorized documents about Kavanaugh's time in the Bush Administration failed to even delay the process, Democrats have now played their Trump card – no pun intended. Their goal: Delay Kavanaugh's confirmation at least until the Oct. 1 mark – the beginning of SCOTUS's next term – to put a halt to any controversial decisions that could reverse important precedents. Of course, their ultimate goal is to stonewall the White House until after Nov. 6, when a few victories in the midterms might allow them to sink Kavanaugh's nomination once and for all. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest University announces "White Awake" safe space for white students The University of Maryland at College Park has set up a new diversity support group to create a "safe space" for white students to discuss their feelings. Published 5 days ago on September 15, 2018 By Campus Reform Via Campus Reform: Update: After publication of this article, University of Maryland-College Park changed the name of the group to "Anti-Racism and Ally Building Group," along with a shorter description, which reads, "Do you want to improve your ability to relate to and connect with people different from yourself? Do you want to become a better ally? Members will support and share feedback with each other as they learn more about themselves and how they can fit into a diverse world." In a statement provided to Campus Reform on Friday, the university explained the name change: "Our Counseling Center acknowledges that we did not choose the right words in raising awareness about this research-based initiative, and how this group has been perceived is counter to the values of inclusiveness and diversity that we embody. Therefore, we are renaming the group to better reflect our intention and values." The University of Maryland at College Park announced Friday a new diversity support group to create a "safe space" for white students to discuss their feelings about "interactions with racial and ethnic minorities." The support group, called "White Awake," will help white students who may "sometimes feel uncomfortable and confused before, during, or after interactions with racial and ethnic minorities." "This group offers a safe space for White students to explore their experiences, questions, reactions, and feelings," the description explains. "Members will support and share feedback with each other as they learn more about themselves and how they can fit into a diverse world." The description asks students if they want to "improve [their] ability to relate to and connect with people different from [themselves]" or if they want to become a better "ally." The new group is now one of four in the university's "Diversity Issues" program series.The group is being led by Noah Collins, who works for the UMD Counseling Center, and will be held once a week. Collins specializes in group therapy and is interested "especially in the areas of racial and cultural awareness," according to his faculty bio.The safe space has been met with harsh criticism from students on social media. "I am ashamed over the execution of white awake nor do I fully understand its clause. 'How they can fit into a diverse world'? Why do they need to attend therapy sessions on how to be a decent human being in society?" a UMD student wrote on Twitter. "Why do they need to have these sessions to learn how to coexist?" "Just like classes. You can't take one class and feel like you have all understanding over a certain subject," the student added. "It takes practice, it takes problems, it takes more than one course, so 'White Awake' has good intention but I am skeptical over the fairytale result." Campus Reform reached out to Collins and UMD for comment but did not receive a response by time of publication. If and when a comment is received, the article will be updated. Follow the author of this article on Twitter: @Grace_Gotcha Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading JOIN OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL Your donations make all the difference. Together we can expose fake news lies and deliver truth. Amount to donate in USD$: 5 100 Validating payment information... Waiting for PayPal...Validating payment information...Waiting for PayPal... 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New bans on synthetic drugs (HB 1175)
So, bath salts and fake pot are off limits?: Not necessarily. Law enforcement has found that chemists are typically a few steps ahead, altering the compounds to get around new restrictions on the powerful and highly hallucinogenic synthetic drugs. These drugs are largely thought to be what caused a South Florida man to gnaw off half the face of a homeless man in Miami. Though, a full toxicology report has not come back to confirm that. "Synthetic drugs, such as bath salts, cause horrific effects, including psychotic episodes, hallucinations and seizures," said Attorney General Pam Bondi, whose office pushed for the legislation. "We will continue to do whatever it takes to keep dangerous synthetic drugs off of Florida's store shelves and out of our communities."
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A disturbing trend emerged from a recent worldwide survey of 2,550 finance professionals working across a range of industries: bedrock business fundamentals, such as access to credit and affordable supplies of energy, are faltering – and that doesn't bode well in terms of how freight demand might shape up for the coming year.
More broadly, some 67% of respondents to the 15thquarterly Global Economic Conditions Survey (GECS) – compiled jointly by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) – said that the global economy is "stagnating or reversing," and that this decline in confidence is due almost entirely to changing business fundamentals – such as demand, access to finance, prompt payment and inflation – as opposed to respondents' sentiment.
In the U.S., confidence fell in the third quarter, with small- and medium- sized enterprises appear to be taking the worst hit. The Northeast and South appear to be the "least confident" regions in the U.S. for the past two quarters, and, after controlling for sample influences, it is clear that little has changed in the third quarter, noted Manos Schizas (at right), ACCA's senior economic analyst and the survey's author.
Overall, about 21% of U.S. respondents reported confidence gains, while 36% reported losses. On top of that, 34% of U.S. respondents were relatively upbeat about the state of the global economic recovery, believing it to be on the right track, while 61% believe it's stagnating or deteriorating.
"This quarter has seen business confidence fall for all the right reasons," Schizas said. "Around the world, and with few exceptions, the fundamentals of the business environment are deteriorating, and businesses are once again having the liquidity problems we thought we'd put behind us."
However, he maintains that there are still many reasons to be optimistic. "Europe's debt crisis showed signs of being contained in the third quarter, at least for the time being, and finance for investment is being unlocked in many parts of the world," Schizas emphasized.
Raef Lawson (at left), IMA's VP-research, noted that the "interconnectedness" of the global economy is playing a much larger role in all of this.
"The slowdown in Asia; the Eurozone debt crisis; and the sluggish U.S. recovery all are feeding into each other and no region is unaffected," he pointed out. "In fact, the degree to which movements in the GECS indices are synchronized between regions is uncanny."
Yet Lawson stressed that are still some positive trend lines in the making. "Looking at the U.S., there appear to be some significant signs of recovery," he noted. "Many respondents reported increased housing starts in their regions, and there was also consensus that the auto industry is recovering."
That said, Lawson believes it's worth noting how sensitive the U.S. is to what he calls "spill overs" from economic conditions elsewhere – in this particualr case, falling demand in both Europe and the Far East along with rising prices in the latter.
Lawson added that "home grown" issues weakening business fundamentals still need to be dealt with. For example, some respondents to the ACCA/IMA survey felt that efforts to address the two major U.S. fiscal challenges – debt sustainability and the fiscal cliff – were put on hold prior to the Presidential elections and thus added to the uncertainty caused by economic conditions and the elections themselves.
Furthermore, the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – more commonly known as "ObamaCare" – is being cited by some respondents as having increased costs for some businesses, while others report they are thriving on the increased demand for software and consultancy services created by the new rules.
Then there's this worrisome note: Despite falling natural gas prices, assisted by continued investment in alternatives such as shale gas, some businesses continue to report increasing energy prices. That's not a trend line I think anyone expected to see – especially following the recent global energy forecast by the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Finally, with the Federal Reserve this past September outlining plans to engage in "quantatative easing" indefinitely, some respondents expressed concerns about the artificially low cost of credit and how that affects financial strength going forward.
Thus there are definitely some major worries developing about how solid the foundations of global businesses really are as we eye a new year. Let's hope then that the shoring up process has already begun.


text: Student Profiles Geordie MacLeod '05 Geordie MacLeod '05 Hometown: Guilford, Connecticut Major: French Why did you decide on your major? Communicating in a different language, I get kind of a rush out of it. The more you study a language, it's almost like a picture coming into focus. Unlike a lot of other disciplines you can study in school, there is a model of perfection, which would be someone who is a native speaker. I always feel like I'm sort of aiming to get that good. What has been your favorite class at Bowdoin? I'm really grateful for all the economics classes I've taken. They really changed my perspective and how I look at a lot of issues. Political issues, but also ethical and moral stuff. I can't read the newspaper or read books or listen to people talk about certain things without thinking about it differently. I've done an independent study with [Visiting Assistant Romance Languages Professor] Alex Dauge-Roth about history and what it means to write about the past, and how the experience of reading about the past and writing about the past then compare to the event itself. [The study] was fascinating because it [dealt] with very fundamental issues. What extracurriculars are you involved in? It's great being on the squash team here. It's one of the things I'm going to miss the most [about Bowdoin]. I also started doing the improv group [the Improvabilities] last year. It's fun to let go and be totally goofy, which isn't easy. One of the things that drives me crazy is the more you try to be funny, undoubtedly, you will be less funny. There's only been a few times when I've been able to have the perfect marriage of complete lack of self-consciousness and energy level. I also had a jazz show [sophomore] year [on WBOR] from 6:30-8 on Saturday mornings. Freshman year I was playing a song and the phone rang, and I picked it up and it was this older lady (I was playing a song from the thirties, kind of a Glenn Miller song), and she said, "I'd just like you to know that today is my husband's eightieth birthday and you're playing our song." That was really, really awesome. I was playing a song and it actually meant so much to these people, and I guess that's what you want to do with your show. What's your best Bowdoin memory? That's a really difficult question to answer, because I have a lot of memories of Bowdoin. You can go day after day after day or week after week after week and then all of a sudden, you'll just be having dinner with some people, and it'll turn out you'll have a really good conversation. You just run into somebody and you end up hanging out that night and having a good time. It's stuff like that that makes it worthwhile. Stuff you can't even plan, stuff you might not remember. I've had a few good wins on the squash team, counterbalanced by more terrible losses, but the wins are good memories. Have you studied away during your time at Bowdoin? I went to Senegal last year through the University of Wisconsin. I have trouble talking about it because I don't know what to say. Going to a third world country is a lot different from going to France or England. I remember when I was a kid, it was inconceivable that life could be any other way, that you wouldn't live in a nice house in the suburbs, like I did, and go to school, and play soccer and watch TV and eat cereal. When you're here, you get very comfortable in your routine. To go somewhere else, and to realize that yours isn't the only reality and that the reality for these people is as vivid and as normal to them as yours is to you, there's something disquieting about that. But also something kind of neat at the same time. What are your plans after graduation? I want to go live in France for a few years and probably teach English. I'm so connected to these little aspects of French culture but I've never actually spent any time there, so I'm excited to go there. It's like someone who follows baseball all the time, but never actually goes to a big league game. My plans also extend at the moment to going to the World Cup in Germany in 2006. I watched a lot of soccer in Senegal and I did a paper on soccer when I was there, so I'm very excited to do that. Is there anything else about Bowdoin or your experiences here that you'd like prospective students to know? I remember when I was in high school, the whole college process seemed like a really big deal and I was all stressing about it. I would always hear about other kids that my friends or parents knew who were in college, and they always seemed to be loving it, which seemed like a lot of pressure. I feel like wherever you end up going, you make the best of it. Life in college in the United States is a pretty great deal, so wherever you go, be it Bowdoin, or wherever, I think it will most likely be fine. I'm going to say this and it won't make any difference because you'll worry anyways. Just don't worry about it. Story posted on September 30, 2004 « Back | More Student Profiles | Go to News Home


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BREAKING NEWS! Deer and Deer Hunting learned today that the 12-point Johnny King Buck will be called to a special scoring session by the Boone and Crockett Club to determine if the rack is indeed the biggest typical-antlered whitetail ever killed by a North American hunter. If it is, it will unseat the Milo Hanson Buck as the B&C world-record whitetail.
What are the odds of killing a wild, free-ranging buck like this? About 1 in 320 million! That makes Johnny King the luckiest hunter alive!
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This stunning development comes nearly six years after Johnny King killed the big deer with a borrowed .30-30 while deer hunting on family property in western Wisconsin. The massive 12-pointer — a 6-by-6 with no abnormal points — is believed to gross more than 220 inches and quite possibly net more than the current world record Milo Hanson Buck which scored 213-5/8 B&C. Hanson shot his buck in Saskatchewan in 1993. Ironically, both men were hunting whitetail properties that were very similar: strips of woods surrounded by agricultural land. They also shot their big bucks while conducting deer drives.
The panel scorers are being asked to score the buck in about two weeks. That was the recommendation by the 32-man records committee to the B&C board, which concurred. They will decide whether the buck's right G-3 meets the requirements of a typical point.
King's buck, however, has been shrouded in controversy almost since the day it was killed. Despite convictions by many longtime certified B&C scorers that the buck is a typical 12-pointer, some, including at least one high-ranking B&C official, believed the buck's right G-3 tine was an "abnormal point" because of the way it appeared on the main beam. Those beliefs led to a scandal of epic proportions in the deer hunting world that had remained out of the public eye for years until Deer & Deer Hunting broke Duncan Dobie's expose cover story in the magazine's Summer 2011 edition.
Dobie, one of America's foremost outdoor writers for the last 30 years, has covered the King Buck saga since the deer was killed. He is the former editor of North American Whitetail Magazine, has authored six books about big bucks and is an accomplished trophy buck hunter in his own right.
Now, a year and many bitter developments later, the club has apparently decided to score the rack as a typical. According to B&C officials who chose not to be identified, the club will ask a panel of its official scorers to measure the antlers in Montana in about three weeks. The club needs to arrange to have the antlers brought to Montana by Jay Fish, an antler collector who bought the rack from Johnny King several years ago. King previously told D&DH that he sold the rack because he thought he would never have the energy, expenses or ability to fight for its justice.
This recent development comes after two prominent antler scoring experts (including one longtime B&C scorer) produced step-by-step videos of them scoring the rack while explaining in detail the club's official rules in their measurement determinations. This video proof apparently was enough to convince the B&C records committee that the buck is indeed a typical and should be scored as such. Hence, the panel scorers will not determine if the rack is nontypical. They will score it as a typical and let the chips fall where they may, so to speak.
The panel-scoring session will allegedly take place at the Boone and Crockett Club's national headquarters in Missoula, Mont. D&DH could not find out when this session will occur, but an inside source said it will most likely happen the third or fourth week of September. It is believed the panel will consist of six official B&C scorers, but no more than two of them will be from the B&C records committee. The panel will also apparently not include any of the men who weighed in on the buck's rack in the past. This would include Glenn and Kevin Hisey of the Pope and Young Club, and former B&C executive secretary Jack Reneau.
When contacted this morning, B&C Records Director Eldon "Buck" Buckner confirmed the scoring panel is slated to occur in September.
"Yes," Buckner said when asked if the club requested a panel score for late September. "That's what we have planned. However, I haven't heard from the trophy owner."
Buckner said B&C must hear from the trophy owner to validate proof that he owns the head. The King Buck is owned by Jay Fish of Edgar, Wis.
Deer and Deer Hunting also tried contacting several other B&C officials. B&C Assistant Director of Big Game Records Justin Spring declined to comment this week, while Tony Schoonen, B&C chief of staff, did not return phone calls.
When told of the news, King expressed guarded optimism.
"It's about time," said King, an everday deer hunter from Mount Horeb, Wis.
"I don't want to seem ungrateful, but why did it have to take this long, and why did we have to go through all of this?" he continued. "It's a shame that (some scorers) had to threaten B&C for them to do what's right. On the other hand, if it wasn't for the deer and the controversy, I wouldn't have met so many great people who have become friends to my wife and me.
"I guess I'm hesitant to believe them (B&C)," King added. "We've been here before. I just feel like they still might have something in their back pocket."
When told of the forthcoming panel-scoring session, longtime B&C and Wisconsin Buck and Bear scorer Craig Cousins was not as guarded in his optimism.
"The Jordan Buck's reign was long and glorious," Cousins said. "Its fame and awesomeness are legendary. But there is a new king in Wisconsin. Long live the King!"
How Antlers are Panel Scored
The official protocol of for how to score antlers by a panel is quite simple and consistent. In official panels, six scorers (two teams of three) are used. In this case, B&C will select two groups of two official scorers. All four scorers will travel to Montana to partake in the ruling.
The two groups are placed in separate rooms and are not allowed to confer with each other before or during the process. First, the rack will be given to one group, where two scorers will work together to score the antlers.
One scorer will use a straight edge and lead pencil to draw measurement lines on the antlers. The other scorer will then use a thin, flexible steel measuring cable to determine the lengths of the spread, each point, circumference and main beam measurement. One scorer usually puts the cable in place and announces the measurement. The other scorer will also look at the ruler and agree or disagree with the measurement. The measurer who drew the lines normally writes down the score. All scorers must agree on each measurement before moving to the next measurement.
The process is continued until the entire rack is scored. The group then tallies up the score and determines the net score. After they are done, the rack is then taken to the second group of scorers who complete the same process. When that group arrives at its final score, the two groups convene and come up with one score. This score is then given to the chairman of the B&C records committee.
Unless there is a discrepancy in judgment (nontypical points, etc.), a panel score is usually an exercise in precision.
"We're talking about a matter of eighths of an inch," Cousins said. "Sometimes the scores match identically. You must understand that the scorers select for panel are extremely experienced. They are trained enough in scoring antlers that they will usually be within a fraction of each other."
In short? Not much. Contrary to popular belief, whitetail antlers do not normally shrink much from the time the deer is killed until the mandatory 60-day "drying period" required by clubs like B&C.
In most cases of a B&C class typical, the rack won't shrink more than 1 or 2 inches from when it is "green" until it is considered dry.
"It all depends on atmospheric conditions," Cousins said. "However, the King Buck was hung above fireplace. That is the worst place to put a rack. Heat and dryness could have shrunk it by 3 to 4 inches."
There is a caveat, however, to this reality. There are B&C rules in place that take shrinkage into account.
For example, if the original entry score has no glaring differences — and as long as it is within a certain percentage (2 percent) — the records committee will accept the original score. It appears that this won't be the case for the King Buck. In a statement released Sept. 6, B&C said the panel's final scorer will be the score assessed to the King Buck.
Therein lies the rub for the King Buck. The antlers were first scored by John Ramsey of Wisconsin. Ramsey, who was not available for comment, is believed to have netted the rack at 215-4/8 typical. This final score would obviously shatter Milo Hanson's near 20-year-old record.
Other scores that have been bandied about include a score of 215-1/8 by Wisconsin Buck and Bear's Marlin Laidlaw, and 213-6/8 score by Ron Boucher. Boucher didn't score the rack, however, until well more than a year after the deer was killed. Any of the scores, however, would still place the King Buck as the new world record.
"I think Ramsey's score is the one that should be submitted," Cousins said. It was the first one conducted after the legal drying period, which is what B&C rules call for."
Why the Controversy?
Some called is a cover up. Others called it a public relations nightmare. No matter how you slice it, the King Buck story blew up in B&C's collective face because of the role Jack Reneau played in the saga.
Reneau came under extreme criticism for his role in the King Buck debacle for what many scorers classified as an arrogant, dictator-like treatment of the process. He ultimately made the decision the rack was nontypical without ever having seen it in person. In a statement earlier this year, Reneau tried to put the issue to rest without further review.
"There is no need to re-measure it," Reneau said. "Those (G-3s) are abnormal points. A B&C panel would come to the same conclusion. I'm not trying to be tyrannical. Once the decision is made, that's how it is. It's nothing personal (against Johnny King), but I have to try and maintain the integrity of the program."
Reneau said he employed the rules of the B&C scoring system and determined the G-3s were abnormal points. "Kevin Hisey, Glen Hisey and another official measurer all agreed with my opinion."
He went on to say that many trophy owners disagree with final B&C scores and attempt to "shop" their trophies for better scores.
Despite his ruling, Reneau stopped short of completely closing the door on the King Buck back then. He explained that B&C officials have noticed there's a new class of typical white-tailed deer antlers that are starting to surface that "we've never seen before, and Johnny King's deer falls into that category."
This recent development changes all of that.
The panel will also not include Richard Hale, B&C vice-president of records; Larry Strife; or Wisconsin Buck and Bear Club scorer Steve Ashley, who is now a Pope and Young Club employee. Ashely recently retired his position of records director at WBBC after 25 years of dedicated service. He still maintains status as an official scorer with the club.
The stunning decision to call the deer to panel is being credited to Eldon "Buck" Buckner, president of B&C's records committee. It is believed that Buckner made the decision after reviewing videotaped scoring explanations by prominent experts Wisconsin Buck & Bear member Marlin Laidlaw and former B&C official scorer Craig Cousins. Both Laidlaw and Cousins are from Wisconsin.
Cousins, a 25-year B&C scorer, was stripped of his B&C status earlier this year for "conduct unbecoming of a B&C member" after quotes of his were published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Another B&C scorer, Ron Boucher of Vermont, was also let go from the club for publicly speaking out in favor of the deer being classified as a typical. Boucher is one of the most visible B&C scorers in the club's history. He had been a B&C scorer for nearly 30 years and is the only scorer to have sat in on more than one panel-scoring session. In fact, he panel-scored the Hanson Buck.
When contacted earlier today, Boucher said he is happy that justice might prevail in this story.
"There came a point where I thought this day would never happen," he said. "This tells you a lot about the change in course by the Boone and Crockett Club.
"I'm glad for Johnny, that's for sure."
Boucher has been the buck's staunchest advocate since the first time he laid eyes on the rack in 2007. In fact, the deer probably would have languished in obscurity had Boucher not stood firm in his beliefs that it was a typical 6-by-6.
"Finally, one of the greatest deer of all time will get its due. But it's not a done deal yet," he said. "It is a good first step by Boone and Crockett to restore some of the lost faith among the general public. They have recognized something had to be done; that this wasn't going to go away. People can now come back and have a better feeling about the club."
Nearly a year into his fight to get the King Buck a fair hearing, Boucher was let go from his scoring position in Spring 2012 after he re-stated his beliefs to Deer and Deer Hunting. After being let go, Boucher received parting shots from Hale, who publicly questioned Boucher's integrity.
When asked if he thought these recent events might lead the club to reinstate him as an official scorer, Boucher said he actually had not even entertained the thought.
"To be quite honest, I wouldn't accept an automatic reinstatement," he said. "First, I would need to have a few things clarified, including why would they want to reinstate me, and, second, why was I dismissed in the first place?
"Richard Hale's comments on my character were quite hurtful. That has to be cleared up first," Boucher said. "He did damage to my reputation.
"Sure, I would like to measure for Boone and Crockett again. I miss meeting people who have shot big deer. It's something you can't get out of your system very easily. Especially when you've done it for 30 years. But we'll see what happens. If not, I will keep planting my garden and playing with my grandchildren. Life goes on."
Boucher did express admiration of Buck Buckner.
"Buck Buckner made this (panel scoring session) happen, because he decided to do the right thing. Buck has taken steps to save the Boone and Crockett Club. It was his lead to move these events along."
It is not immediately known if these latest developments will include reconsideration by the club to reinstate Cousins and Boucher as official scorers.
Why the Change in Opinion?
The list of individuals who have gone to bat for the King Buck is long and detailed. Among the key contributors to keeping this buck's fate in the minds of hunters and scorers across the country were Boucher, Cousins, Laidlaw, Herman Feller and Jay Fish. Fish now owns the antlers. He bought them King several years ago, pledging to get the deer — and the state of Wisconsin — what he called "the recognition it deserves."
Persistent watchdog journalism by Deer and Deer Hunting contributors Duncan Dobie and Keri Butt was also instrumental in helping the King Buck get its day in court, so to speak. Despite a year's worth of articles in the printed magazine and, more notably, blogs, features and videos posted here on deeranddeerhunting.com, it appeared the King Buck would never get past the stone wall erected by a few stubborn individuals.
Then, earlier in 2012, Illinois outdoor writer Keri Butt immersed herself in the story, which resulted in some of the most dogged investigative reporting seen in the hunting industry in many years. Butt persisted to dig deeper into the story, and was unwavering in her efforts to get straight answers out of top B&C officials. Her dedication to the story collective caught the eye of many Wisconsin scorers who had been essentially watching the story unfold from the sidelines. It also triggered others to become more involved in fighting for what they believed was a gross injustice.
"Keri's contributions cannot be overemphasized," said a B&C scorer. "She is the spark plug and the cheerleader for our team. She is amazing. She inspires us."
Craig Cousins was also among those who went to bat for the deer. He produced an extensive, in-depth video that explained step-by-step instructions on why the deer should be considered as a typical. Cousins had been an official scorer for 29 years, including 25 as an B&C scorer from Wisconsin.
"This is all that we hoped for and it is really the only resolution to this situation," Cousins said of the panel score. "This was not going to go away."
When questioned further on his thoughts about the King Buck, and antler worship in general, Cousins offered these insightful views:
"God created this deer to be a typical deer. It's almost as man — in his so-called wisdom — says, "here are the rules we are going to go by … this is typical, this is not." Then God goes, "Oh, really? And then He puts one right on the fence. It's almost as though He has a sense of humor sometimes about these things that we put so much importance on.
Jay Fish is right when he says, 'It's only a set of deer antlers. It's not life itself. It's really not that important.'
"That mindset has helped us accomplish what we did," Cousins continued. "It's important enough, however, to stand up and fight for."
Piling on the 'Promoter'
Much of the controversy stemmed from the fact that Fish, a passionate antler collector, bought the Johnny King rack in 2009. At that moment he instantly became characterized by B&C as a "purchaser/promoter" interested only in making money on the deer – especially if it were to be recognized as a new world's record by B&C.
"Jay bought the rack because it was a unique, one-of-a-kind whitetail rack," Dobie wrote in an early D&DH article. "He was deeply infatuated with it the first time he ever saw it. He paid a lot of money for it, and after he bought it, he promised Johnny King that he would do everything he could to see that it might some day get a fair hearing. Sadly, in the midst of all the controversy, there has been little consideration for the great deer itself."
Over the past few years, Jay the "promoter" has personally taken the Johnny King rack (as well as many other racks in his collection) to numerous deer shows across the country at his own expense to let people see it and even hold it in their own hands. He has been generous to a fault because he believes in the deer. He also believes with every fiber of his being that the rack is a typical 6×6 and should be recognized as such.
"If he's a promoter of anything, it's in the area of ethical hunting, taking kids hunting and getting more youngsters involved in all sort of outdoor endeavors," Dobie continued. "To him, antler collecting is a labor of love – a passion! All he has ever asked is that someone – either B&C or the Wisconsin Buck and Bear Club – give the deer a fair shake."
The controversy has also thrown criticism at Fish, questioned his motives and his ability to make a profit, should he decide to sell the rack.
"If he were to sell the rack and make a profit on it, would that be a crime? Jay is a businessman. Isn't making a profit the American way? Isn't that what we all try to do with any business venture? To criticize him for trying to make a profit is absolutely absurd."


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Jordan: Syrian child refugees who work - culture or coping mechanism?
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|17 December 2012
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|IRIN, Jordan: Syrian child refugees who work - culture or coping mechanism?, 17 December 2012, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/50d050492.html [accessed 20 September 2018]
|This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States.
Selling packets of crisps under the sun between wind-blown tents at Za'atari refugee camp in northern Jordan, Samir* recalls the days he was able to attend school back in Syria.
"I enjoyed my time when I went to school and read my textbooks," the 12-year-old told IRIN. "[Here] I am waiting to sell everything in this box before I can get lunch," he said.
More than half the Syrian refugees in Jordan are under 18, and while the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) does not have any figures, it says it has observed a "tendency" of Syrian children working in Za'atari camp. (It will soon be conducting an assessment of child protection issues in Jordan's host communities in part to better understand this trend.)
Established in July 80km north of the capital Amman along the border with Syria, the camp is now home to at least 42,000 Syrians. Children there try to sell everything from cigarettes and sweets to vegetables and clothes.
Samir's mother knows the importance of schooling, but says Samir's work helps keep them alive.
"We want to live. Look at how we are living in this miserable place. How am I supposed to sponsor children when I am on my own?" she asked. Her husband died in the ongoing conflict in Syria.
Samir's mother, 32, says she uses her son's earnings to buy things the "aid agencies did not provide. They only bring us canned tuna, rice, and bulgur wheat. I have children who need to eat vegetables and fruit. We need winter clothing and blankets," she said.
Samir Badran, UNICEF's public information officer in Jordan, said some of the working children are the family's only breadwinners, their fathers either dead or still in Syria.
Nasser Ahmad was wounded during the conflict in Syria and lost one of his legs. He depends on his 15-year-old daughter who he has sent to work as a cleaner at buildings in the camp.
"I cannot support my children and it really breaks my heart to see them like this without good food or clothing. That is why I order vegetables from outside the camp and give them to my children [his boys] to sell," said the 27-year-old.
Long-standing tradition
For some refugees, children working is more a long-standing tradition than a by-product of conflict-induced desperation.
"I see children hanging around the camp and when I ask them, 'why don't you go to school?' they say they either have to work or that they would not be enrolled at school in Syria anyway," said an aid worker who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"It is our culture," said Khaled*, who runs a shisha café at the camp, where his children also sell snacks. "We teach our children certain crafts as early as 10 years old."
Using the appeal of a new "state-of-the-art" education complex in the camp - higher in quality than many of the schools in Syria - UNICEF is encouraging children to enrol, even if they were not enrolled in their native Syria.
Some 3,500 students - from Grade 1 to Grade 11 - are currently registered at the school, which opened in November. Enrolment was lower than some aid workers expected, with the school able to accommodate at least another 1,000 students. (Before the complex was created, students used tents as classrooms).
UNICEF says it is trying to spread its message about the importance of education through camp committees and child-friendly spaces run by the NGO Save the Children. It also provides uniforms, books and pencils as an incentive and will soon be offering remedial classes to help children who missed classes catch up.
Healthy routine
"It is very important that children go back to school and continue their education," Badran told IRIN. Children are the "future of Syria," he said. "[Education] is the most important thing that they will have when they go back to their country."
He said schooling also provides a routine that is "very healthy" not only for refugee children, but for their families.
"Education provides a sense of normalcy for the children and the family. When they go back to their tent, they have homework, instead of having nothing to do, and creating more stress on themselves and the family," he said.
The number of children working in the camp is small, Badran said, but probably higher in urban Jordanian settings, where another 150,000 Syrians reside.
Thirteen-year-old Mohammad* stands at the traffic lights of one of the busiest streets of Amman, chasing a living.
"I sell chewing gum and sometimes water. I do my best to help my family as rent is too expensive here," he said.
But the practice is not limited to the refugees. In Jordan, some 30,000 children work, mainly in shops, cafes, and restaurants, according to a 2007 study by the Public Statistic Department and the International Labour Organization.
To address the wider problem in Jordanian society, UNICEF is working with the Ministry of Labour and the NGO Quest Scope to offer vocational training to drop-outs and reintegrate them into the classroom. This programme will now also be extended to Syrians, Badran said.
Syrians living outside the camps can enrol in Jordanian schools for free so long as they are registered with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). UNICEF pays their tuition, as well as the salaries of additional teachers and the cost of school extensions.
UNICEF and the Ministry of Labour plan to train frontline workers in the northern town of Mafraq about the psychosocial impacts of child labour, legislation banning child labour in Jordan, and the available educational opportunities for school drop-outs. The frontline workers will then be tasked with raising awareness within the community of the hazards of child labour.
"We are trying to change a mentality, a culture that has come with a mentality that boys should be working at a young age," Badran said.
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Contemporary conservatism is often depicted as a "three-legged stool": economic conservatism; foreign policy conservatism, manifested by an activist approach to the world and a strong national defense; and social conservatism. But these three legs aren't equal. In Republican and conservative intellectual circles, economic conservatism dominates.
One can understand why. Social conservatism is often in conflict with libertarianism, a respectable conservative strand. Moreover, key socially conservatism positions have lost popularity to the point that some are no longer political winners
Foreign policy conservatism also can conflict with older, less aggressive forms of conservatism. And the foreign policy activism of George W. Bush's administration eventually cost conservatism politically.
Modern economic conservatism, to the extent it focuses on low taxation, isn't completely in tune with the "fiscal conservatism" that prevailed when I was growing up. But the focus on taxation is tied to the larger goal of preserving a limited government, and hence preserving economic freedom. There is nothing more fundamentally conservative than that.
Accordingly, economic conservatives have a basis for claiming primacy within the conservative movement. But they overreach when they pretend that economic conservatism is comparatively immune to the political vulnerability that plagues social and foreign policy conservatism.
For example, President Obama's insistence on raising tax rates on the "wealthy" enjoys broad public support, and no grounded conservative should be surprised by this. I'm not big on electoral mandates, especially in elections decided by 3 percentage points. But Obama's reelection represents a mandate for anything, it is a mandate for raising those tax rates.
His reelection can also be viewed as a retroactive mandate for the bailout of General Motors. It wasn't by accident that the Obama campaign — now widely acknowledged as an enormously shrewd operation by virtue of having reelected a president in bad economic times — placed that bailout alongside the killing of bin Laden as the administration's signature accomplishment. By publishing that op-ed opposing the auto bailout, Mitt Romney dug himself a hole in Ohio from which he never escaped.
Spending cuts, including entitlement reform, enjoy popularity in the abstract. However, when it comes to specific proposals, the picture often looks different.
The unpleasant reality is that this election was primarily about the economy, according to both the conventional wisdom and the exit polls. Mitt Romney took mostly conservative positions on the economy; President Obama took mostly liberal ones (although not the unabashedly left-wing positions he actually believes in). Obama won.
In fact, the only Republican to win a presidential election since 1988 embraced "compassionate conservatism," not straightforward economic conservatism. And his reelection occurred in a year when the national defense was a far bigger concern than normal.
None of this means that conservatives should chop off the economically conservative leg of their stool. Nor does it necessarily mean even that they should modify it. It does mean, I think, that we economic conservatives should be less inclined to triumphalism (see, e.g., 2010), and less inclined to shift political blame to social and/or foreign policy conservatives.


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JaoSming2KTV wrote:its fun on a bun
SoF'nAwesome wrote:But you do realize that 2k14 would be like mind-blowingly awesome compared to NBA Live 14?
Qballer wrote:you do realize they've already ran out of things to do. i mean, you can befriend celebrities in 2k13 for god's sake. THAT AIN'T REAL LIFE save that for NBA Ballers
SoF'nAwesome wrote:But you do realize that 2k14 would be like mind-blowingly awesome compared to NBA Live 14? Also, it's most likely it will get cancelled again due to pressure.
justfixit wrote:I find it funny how people say game X has "all these bugs", but they can't name them. They talk as if game Y doesn't have their own litany of bugs. So why even talk that mess?
SoF'nAwesome wrote:Andrew, I get what you are saying about 'zee 2k bugs and yes, they should prioritize on those but if you check out any of these sports series games(like FIFA), all they do is improve the gameplay a tad much each year. Huge improvement/change comes along in 2-3 years in between. But I think unless Live is being made for PC, it's a lost cause. Because it's all just not worth it.
Andrew wrote:justfixit wrote:I find it funny how people say game X has "all these bugs", but they can't name them. They talk as if game Y doesn't have their own litany of bugs. So why even talk that mess?
Are you talking about NBA 2K13? Because so far I feel we have done a fairly good job of identifying key problems we've come across. I do agree with what you're saying, my point was just that there are still issues with NBA 2K - not just bugs but other criticisms and complaints - that are preventing them from slamming the door shut on NBA Live. As far ahead as they are, there's still room for a second game, which is fortunate for EA after what's happened the past few...
22cedric wrote:EA Sports is committed to basketball and we will publish a basketball game when we can match the quality of franchises like Madden NFL, NHL Hockey, Tiger Woods PGA Tour and FIFA soccer," EA labels president Frank Gibeau added.
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NEW YORK — Covered in bubbly and wearing his new AL East champions hat, Derek Jeter sounded almost relieved after the Yankees ended a thrilling pennant race at the top of the league.
NEW YORK — Covered in bubbly and wearing his new AL East champions hat, Derek Jeter sounded almost relieved after the Yankees ended a thrilling pennant race at the top of the league.
Robinson Cano and Curtis Granderson each hit a pair of homers, powering the Yankees past the Boston Red Sox 14-2 on a raucous Wednesday night in the Bronx for their 13th East title in 17 years.
"This was difficult. Come into the last day of the season, nobody knows what's going on. We've been taking it one day at a time for quite some time," Jeter said. "It feels good."
In front of fans poised to party from the first pitch on the final night of the regular season, the Yankees completed a three-game sweep of the last-place Red Sox to win their second consecutive division crown. The championship was locked up by the seventh inning, when Baltimore's 4-1 loss at Tampa Bay went final and prompted a huge ovation from the 47,393 in attendance.
Alex Rodriguez stepped out of the batter's box, and several players high-fived and hugged in the dugout while coaches shook hands.
"This year we had to fight, scratch and claw," Nick Swisher said.
The subdued celebration didn't really start until Freddy Garcia struck Ivan De Jesus looking to end it. Players hugged and slapped fives on the field and put on their AL East champion shirts and hats as fans feted them with a standing ovation with "New York, New York," blaring over the loudspeakers. The team walked off the field to chants of "Let's go Yankees!"
"Now the real season starts," Jeter said.
Cano went 4 for 4 and tied a career high with six RBI as New York (95-67) finished two games ahead of Baltimore and secured home-field advantage throughout the AL playoffs. The Yankees will open on the road Sunday against the winner of Friday's wild-card game between Baltimore and Texas.
"To have the best record and not know where you're going is strange," manager Joe Girardi said.
New York led the division by 10 games on July 18 but the pesky Orioles caught up on Sept. 4 and were tied with the Yankees after 10 different days in September. Many players credit Girardi with keeping the clubhouse calm during that stretch.
"He's very even-keeled," Granderson said. "You never see him get too excited or down."
The Yankees rode the long ball all season, and the four homers in the finale set a franchise record at 245.
Hiroki Koroda (16-11) shut Boston down with an encouraging performance after struggling through much of September. He allowed two runs and seven hits over seven innings.
With New York heading into the playoffs for the first time since 1981 without career saves leader Mariano Rivera – he tore a knee ligament shagging flies in May – the rout gave the Yankees a chance to rest Rafael Soriano, who threw 43 pitches over two innings of the 12-inning, 4-3 comeback win Tuesday night.
Bobby Valentine brought the lineup card out to the umpires for what might have been the final time as manager of the Red Sox, who finished last in the AL East at 69-93 in his first season leading the club. Boston, in the cellar for the first time in two decades, ended the year with eight straight losses, their longest skid since losing nine in a row in 2001. The Red Sox lost 26 off their last 33 games.
"Very disappointing season. Extremely disappointing," Valentine said.
Granderson hit his career-best 42nd homer in the second, a three-run shot off Daisuke Matsuzaka (1-7), making his first start since Sept. 19. Cano then connected in the third for a 5-1 lead.
One batter later Matsuzaka was finished, most likely ending his six-year career with Boston. The Red Sox paid $51.1 million to win the rights to the Japanese star and gave him a $52 million contract. Matsuzaka went 33-15 in his first two years, helping win a World Series in 2007. But injuries, including elbow-reconstruction surgery June 2011, marred the last four years and he finished the deal 50-37.
"I didn't expect my six years to end the way it did," Matsuzaka said through a translator. "It has been really hard on me mentally for a while now."
Cano hit his 33rd homer in the fifth, following Alex Rodriguez's double. It was A-Rod's first extra-base hit since Sept. 14.
Cano has been on quite a tear, hitting .615 (24-for-39) during a stretch of nine straight multihit games that lifted his average to .313.
"It's a great feeling," Cano said. "It just came up at the right time."
Granderson matched his teammate with a solo shot to right-center leading off the seventh for a 10-2 lead.
The Yankees narrowly avoided what would've been their biggest blown division lead in team history – they led by six games in 1933 and finished seven back of the original Washington Senators.
This summer's skid was brought on as CC Sabathia, Andy Pettitte and Rodriguez got hurt. The Yankees stumbled through August – often looking old and tired. But New York went 18-9 down the stretch, thanks to two stirring comeback victories led by 40-year-old Raul Ibanez, New York went 19-8 down the stretch.
Girardi thinks the group was able to make a run after losing the division lead because they were old – well, experienced.
"I think having that experience in there when it got to zero no one panicked," He said of the division lead. "They had the same personality every day. The looseness, some of the guys were goofy."


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As a teenager, good portions of my summer vacation were spent in Mexico. If I wasn't helping my grandmother cook, I was being taught crochet by my aunt, who was an expert at it. One summer in particular, I was busy perfecting my double crochet stich, when all of a sudden my aunt scurried across the dining room into the kitchen. I followed. Concerned with her hastiness in the kitchen, I asked her if everything was ok.
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10 slices of French baguette
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2 tbsp. half-and-half
2 cups strawberries, hulled and chopped
¼ cup sugar
assortment of edible flowers
mint leaves
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BEAT cream cheese with electric hand mixer in a small mixing bowl. Continue mixing and gradually add honey and half-and-half until smooth.
COMBINE strawberries and sugar in a small saucepan over medium heat. Stir until mixture releases liquid and begins to bubble. The mixture will thicken; approximately 5-7 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool.
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ATLANTA – A severe storm system roughed up much of the South for a second day Tuesday, knocking out power to tens of thousands as it snarled morning commutes and kept many under a tornado watch.
The vast system, which claimed two lives Monday after spinning off tornadoes in Arkansas and Missouri, sent heavy thunderstorms across much of Georgia. Cars crawled under heavy rain on morning commutes in Atlanta as water pooled on some low-lying roadways.
The Storm Prediction Center said more than 36 million people were in the path of damaging storms that formed in the Midwest earlier in the week. The center said possible tornadoes and damaging wind gusts remained a threat as the storms head across the southern Appalachians into the Carolinas.
Georgia Power reported roughly 3,000 customers without electricity Tuesday afternoon, the bulk of the outages in the greater Atlanta area and north Georgia. Alabama Power reported about 7,000 customers still without power Tuesday afternoon. Tens of thousands of the utility's customers had their power restored overnight and early Tuesday.
Tornadoes also touched down in two Atlanta suburbs. An EF1 tornado hit Alpharetta -- northeast of Atlanta -- and an EF0 tornado was confirmed in East Point, southeast of downtown Atlanta, said National Weather Service meteorologist Ryan Willis.
In Louisiana, Gov. Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency Monday even before the severe weather had cleared out of his state. The storms downed trees and power lines in Louisiana, leaving thousands without electricity.
A major utility provider in Louisiana, Entergy, said some more than 37,000 customers remained without power in hard-hit regions of that state. Large trees fell on some houses in Monroe, a city in northeast Louisiana, where downed branches and tree trunks block many streets.
No additional deaths were reported by later Tuesday morning as the storms raced eastward.
In Alabama a day earlier, a tree fell on a mobile home about 25 miles northwest of Birmingham, killing a 75-year-old woman and injuring her husband, a coroner said. A tornado near Ashdown, Arkansas, killed a man and injured his wife when their home was destroyed Monday, authorities said, adding it was one of two tornadoes in the state that day.
Two tornadoes also touched down Monday in Missouri, causing roof damage and toppling trees, according to the National Weather Service. And in Texas, lightning was suspected in a fire that set ablaze an oil well site near Longview.
Authorities said the storms dumped enough rain in Tennessee to cause some street flooding in Chattanooga, forcing road closures. Trees were knocked down and the heavy rains and high winds prompted some school districts in southeast Tennessee to delay the start of classes by up to two hours Tuesday.
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Of course, when her son Nicolas was diagnosed with autism, Jacqueline's priorities shifted away from the drama, and there were several rumors circulating that she wouldn't return for a sixth season. Her daughter Ashlee recently debunked this gossip, but nothing has been confirmed. Perhaps if she does return, Jacq will use the opportunity to show viewers the woman we first met in season one.


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SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chilean protesters have clashed with riot police in the country's north over the re-opening of a foul-smelling pig processing plant.
The Freirina plant in the Atacama region is one of Latin America's largest meat processing plants.
Many pigs starved to death in May when residents of the town of Freirina blocked access to the plant because of the smell.
The plant's recent re-opening has set off new protests. In Thursday's clash, hooded demonstrators set up barricades and threw rocks at police. Police say demonstrators also burned a security booth and a car.
At least three people are reported injured and eight have been arrested.
Mayor Cesar Orellana is urging health ministry officials to fly in to check hygiene at the plant in Freirina, which is 450 miles north of Santiago.