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PC Mag wrote:"Battlefield 3" is slated for release this fall and is currently available for pre-order. Details about the Limited Edition set, however, are still unknown and will be revealed around the Game Developers Conference, which kicks off February 28 in San Francisco.
News/Game Info/Thoughts/Discussions?
(Click the spoiler for summary)
-Name: Battlefield 3
-Publisher: EA/Digital Illusions CE
-Release Date: 25 October 2011
-Beta Test Date: September 2011 (Via E3)
-Predecessor (Canon): Battlefield 2 (PC)
-Predecessor (Release): BF: Bad Company 2 (PC/ PS3/ 360)
-Platforms: PC, PS3, XBox 360
-Requirements (PC):
++2GHz Dual Core Processor
++Graphics Cards:
*****NVIDIA - DirectX 10, 512MB RAM
*****ATI - DirectX 10.1, 512MB RAM
++OS: Windows Vista SP2 (32 Bit)
++Sound Card: DirectX 10 Compliant
++EA Origin (Both Download and Disk Copy)
-Engine: Frostbite 2.0 Game Engine (Destructible Environments) Update: PC Only NEW
++Dynamic Lighting
++Deferred Rendering
++Ambient Audio
++Shockwave effects (earthquakes, snapping cables, building collapses, shattered glass, etc)
-Battlelog (Track stats, communicate with other players)
++No cost, as opposed to CoD Elite
-Beta Test: Invite by 12 Oct 2011 (for Medal Of Honor purchasers)
-Multiplayer Test: E3 Exclusive
++Fighter Jet
++AH-6 (Little Bird, Get That Wire Cut Trailer)
++F/A-18 (Hornet, Composite Trailer)
++Up-Armoured 1151 (HMMWV, Bad Part of Town Trailer)
++LAV-25 (Amphibious Assault Vehicle, Composite Trailer)
++M1A2 (Abrams Main Battle Tank, Composite Trailer)
++Buddy Drag (Drag wounded from combat)
++Kill Cam
++Muzzle Flash
++Vapor Trace (Airborne GSR)
++M-240B (Fitted with Eotech 551 Holographic Site, Get That Wire Cut Trailer)
++M-249 (Operation Metro Demo)
++M16A4 (Carried by Marine, Bad Part of Town Trailer)
++M4A1 (SSg Black's Weapon, Bad Part of Town Trailer)
++AKS-74U (Operation Metro Demo)
++SR-25D (Operation Metro Demo)
++M136 AT4 (Anti-Tank, Good Effect on Target Trailer)
++M2HB ("Ma Deuce", Thunder Run Tank Trailer)
++M134 (A-10 Minigun, Thunder Run Tank Trailer)
++DAO12 Shotgun (Exclusive Weapons Pack Announcement)
++Type88 LMG (Exclusive Weapons Pack Announcement)
++SKS Sniper Rifle (Exclusive Weapons Pack Announcement)
++Timeframe: 2014
++Play as US Troop in Iraq, Iran
++OPFOR: Insurgency known as People's Liberation Movement (PLM)
++New Characters (Does not feature BC / BC2 Characters)
++Player Character(s)
****SSg Black
****Cpl Miller
++Quicktime events (in certain spots)
++NPC Movements:
***Abandon "gliding" movements
***Specific motions for covering, turning, etc
***Reacts to nearby events
++Online only, no splitscreen
++Dedicated Servers
++Squad Support (More than 4 players per squad)
++Battlelog (Online Stats Tracker)
-Game Modes:
++Team Deathmatch
-4 Weapons Classes:
++Soldier (Assault Rifle, Medic Pack)
++Engineer (M4, Flashlight, Repair Vehicles, AT Launcher)
++Support (LMG, Ammo Pack)
*****Can Mount Weapons to terrain (Stabilize Weapon)
++Recon (Sniper Rifle, UAV)
*****Can Place Spawn Points
-Each Weapon has 3 upgrades
-Flashlight can blind other players when shone in eyes
-Sniper accuracy reduced when firing from hip
-Suppressive fire (firing near enemy w/ machine gun) awards points to squad score
-Suppressive fire reduces enemies accuracy and blurs screen slightly
-Maps (Multiplayer):
++New York Map (Official Name not available)
++Operation Metro (Paris Map)
++Sulaymaniyah Map (Official Name not available)
++Tehran map (Official Name not available)
-DLC (Multiplayer):
++Back To Karkand Map Pack (Free with Pre-order)
***4 Maps from BF2
^^^^Strike at Karkand
^^^^Gulf of Oman
^^^^Sharqi Peninsula
^^^^Wake Island
***Weapons from BF2
^^^^DAO12 Shotgun
^^^^Type88 LMG
^^^^SKS SNiper Rifle
***Vehicles from BF2 (Vehicle info not available)
***Release Date: 1 Month after BF3 release
-PC Specific:
++Max Players: 64
++Designed for PC, Ported to Consoles
++No current mod tools (Due to Frostbite Engine)
-Console Specific:
++Max Players: 24
Bugs / Glitches NEW
-Graphics issues (see below for current fix) NEW
-Return to default settings NEW
-Server connection error - Problems with ISP. Use a VPN to fix issue. NEW
-Pre-ordering unlocks content in BF Play4Free
-Campaign Length - =~ 12 Hours
-Commander Role unlikely to return
-Debut Trailer(Teaser 1)
-Second Trailer(Teaser 2)
-Singleplayer Teaser 1 (Bad Part of Town, Fault Line Series)
-Singleplayer Teaser 2 (Good Effect on Target, Fault Line Series)
-Singleplayer Teaser 3 (Get That Wire Cut, Fault Line Series)
-Singleplayer Teaser 4 - 12 Minute Video (Composite Vid, Fault Line Series)
-E3 Demo VIdeo (Operation Metro)
-Thunder Run Tank Trailer
-Frostbite 2 Engine Features Trailer
-Back To Karkand PWN3D Special
-Fault Line Gameplay on Late Show With Jimmy Fallon - Video
-Fault Line Trailer With Commentary
-E3 Press Release Video
-Release Trailer NEW
Other Sources:
-Teaser Release
-Game Informer March 2011 Issue (Print or digital print only)
-12 Minute Video Release
-Commander Role Removal Review
-Play4Free Article
-Back To Karkand Article
-Exclusive Weapons Release Announcement
-Rumored PC Requirements Article
-Multiplayer Article
-E3 Release Date Announcement
-E3 Announcement Article (Gamespot)
-E3 Multiplayer Review 1
-E3 Multiplayer Review 2
-Battlelog Article
-Multiplayer Review 3
-Battlelog Article 2
-System Requirements
-Recon Class Article
Edit: Please note that I'll update these into the above list (Spoiler-ed) for quicker reviewing, and will contain a NEW tag to the right of them.
Resolution Fix, Courtesy of Obby. NEW
Obby wrote:I don't have any suggestions on how to fix it, but just know that you are not alone. It's happened to me once, but luckily it fixed itself after the first try. The forums are loaded with people with the same problem.
And that's not the only issue, either. I think the full release has more bugs in it than the beta did, to be honest. I have a different issue that I thankfully have a workaround for.
I can't change any of my settings without the game losing its shit and resetting everything to a lower resolution at 1.1MHz refresh rate. Fucking thing is gonna destroy my monitor if it keeps trying that. It doesn't matter what setting I adjust, as soon as I hit "Save" or "Back" or whatever and try to save my changes, the game does this. Fortunately, there's a config file where you can manually change the settings, they're just confusing to find. But in there I can reset the refresh rate to 60Hz and it all seems to be fine. I'll just live with the current fucked-up-ness and low graphics quality until they patch it... (please please let them patch it soon)
If anyone is having this issue as well and wants to try this workaround (or even is having a different issue and wants to see if this fixes it) you can navigate to C:\Users\<your login name for Windows>\My Documents\Battlefield 3\settings (I think) then open up in Notepad the file that has "profile" in the name. Do a ctrl+F for "hertz" and change that value to whatever your monitor's refresh rate is (the field name is something like GstRender.RefreshHertz or something like that). If you're having the same issue as me, that field will be set to "11386253" or something like that. If you're having a different issue, there are plenty of other fields to fuck with.
Also: make sure you back up that file before you start messing with it.
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It's no secret that I have a soft spot for kindness and random acts thereof. I've written a couple of posts about being kind (if you missed them you can have another read here and here). I like the feeling that kindness gives me, and the changes I see it making in others. It's not hard to be kind, and if there was more of it going around I think the world would be a happier and more harmonious place to be.
Today's Friday Finds isn't a thing that you can touch and feel, it isn't a new super cool design trend or must have outdoor designer piece. It's a blog that I follow, and always makes me smile. Kindness Girl thinks up different ideas to spread the message of kindness in ways that are different and sometimes just a little bit magical. Interwoven with the Kindness projects are stories of her own children and family. Entirely relatable and full of love, Patience has a knack for creating beauty both through her images, her words and her actions.
If you're in need for a kindness hit, a little bit of love or a dose of the warm and fuzzy's, take some time out and visit Kindness Girl or her Guerrilla Goodness page.
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Clarins Rant and the fight for ingredients
SA: "Do you want anything?"
Me: "Can I see the ingredients for the new foundation please?"
She stares at me blankly, too much time passes…
Me: "If I could have a look at the box please?"
SA:"You want to look at the box?"
Me: " Yes, to look at the ingredients"
SA: "Why"
Me: " I have acne prone skin and am sensitive to a lot of things"
SA:"Like what?"
Me: " Like Salt, Alcohol, Corn starch"
SA sighs at me, hands me the box, I look at the ingredients which unfortunately aren't suitable…
SA: "so it's ok then?"
ME: "No, Sorry, it contains Alcohol quite high up on the list"
SA: long sigh, grabs box from me put back in drawer and walks off.
Her manner throughout the conversation was rude and she seemed highly annoyed with me, I know working in retail isn't always joyous so I can forgive it to some extent, what annoyed me was being questioned over the fact that I wanted to check out the ingredients. I thought she was going to refuse to show me them at one point.
I wanted to look at the ingredients of the new Cotton face powder as well and buy quite a few things from the Spring collection, but as a result of this treatment I left empty handed and won't be going back again.
These days I think people are more careful over what they put in their bodies and what they put on their skin; adult acne seems to be on the rise as well as skin sensitivity. There is more awareness of what the ingredients mean and for someone like me who has sensitive skin, battled severe acne for over 5 years and is now on the pill to keep it under control, the ingredients in a face product are fundamental as to whether I will buy it or not.
Unfortunately I have had many negative experiences trying to get ingredients from counters, the ones that come to mind are one SA saying that the ingredients are not listed anywhere, and another arguing with me that its impossible to break out from Algae.
I'd say probably 50% of websites don't list the ingredients, a lot of people aren't necessarily going to go through extensive searches and emailing like I have in the past to find them out and will simply not buy the product. Out of those that don't currently list the ingredients some are really good and will email you back with the full list, others like Chanel just replied that the ingredients are on the box and to ask in store, firstly not everyone may have a counter near them, secondly as I have cited its not always easy to get them to show you ingredients.
I think from now on if it's a product that I need to go instore and get the SA to get out for me (not something you can just take off the shelve) I will simply not bother and buy from a brand where obtaining the ingredients isn't a struggle.
I recently found this site which is really helpful as it has the most comprehensive list of brands ingredients I have ever seen http://phoebe.pn-np.net/
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Ooh what a coincidence - only last night was I was moaning on my blog about some brands not making it easy to check the ingredients of their products. I really hate that too!ReplyDelete
I sometimes ask sales assistants if I can see the boxes of products to check ingredients, but they usually make me feel like I'm being a nuisance for wanting to know what's inside their products.
I find the Sephora website is really good for showing ingredients of products.
Hi Beauty Scribbler,ReplyDelete
Glad its not just me then :).Thanks about the Sephora suggestion that does seem pretty good for ingredients x
Wow, what a horrible sounding experience! I'm so sorry you had such a jerkish SA!ReplyDelete
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Yes, it wasn't much fun,I'll avoid that counter like the plague in future ! Thanks for stopping by :)


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Young farmers look to historic New Jersey crop: the cranberry
New Jersey cranberries are making a comeback among a young generation of farmers. Rutgers University is trying to increase this growth and other farm trends in the state through its revised agricultural program. The university will also be educating consumers on the value of locally grown produce.
Conservations program faces hurdle
In Minnesota, farmers enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program—a farm bill program that protects environmentally sensitive land—are considering returning protected land to production due to high crop prices. Nearly 10 million acres of Conservation Reserve Program contracts are expiring in the next few years. Find out more about the Conservation Reserve Program [PDF].
Christmas trees are looking good this year
Despite a rough hot summer in Oklahoma, Christmas tree sales are off to a good start. Why not try to get your Christmas tree from a local farm this year?
Maryland increases farmland protection
The state of Maryland has recently secured four easements, totaling 563 acres of farmland in various counties across the state. This brings the amount of farmland protected through the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation to 286,660 acres. In conjunction with both state and county programs, Maryland has protected a total of nearly 558,914 acres.
Washington state secures additional agricultural preservation
The North Olympic Land Trust in Washington State has officially preserved the 61-acre Finn Hall Farm for perpetuity.
Still time to register for the Virginia Food Security Summit!
The second annual Virginia Food Security Summit is being held December 5 and 6 in Charlottesville, Virginia. Speakers include Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen Merrigan, with topics ranging from innovative food distribution to Virginia's farm-to-table initiative.
The state of the world's land and water resources for food and agriculture
The Food and Agriculture Organizations of the United Nations put out a new report on the state of the World's Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture earlier this week.


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TOKYO (Reuters) - Two prominent seismologists said on Tuesday that Japan is ignoring the safety lessons of last year's Fukushima crisis and warned against restarting two reactors next month.
Japan has approved the restart of the two reactors at the Kansai Electric Power Ohi nuclear plant, northwest of Tokyo, despite mass public opposition.
They will be the first to come back on line after all reactors were shut following a massive earthquake and tsunami last March that caused the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl at Tokyo Electric Power's Daiichi Fukushima plant.
Seismic modeling by Japan's nuclear regulator did not properly take into account active fault lines near the Ohi plant, Katsuhiko Ishibashi, a seismologist at Kobe University, told reporters.
"The stress tests and new safety guidelines for restarting nuclear power plants both allow for accidents at plants to occur," Ishibashi told reporters. "Instead of making standards more strict, they both represent a severe setback in safety standards."
Experts advising Japan's nuclear industry had underestimated the seismic threat, Mitsuhisa Watanabe, a tectonic geomorphology professor at Toyo University, said at the same news conference.
"The expertise and neutrality of experts advising Japan's Nuclear Industrial Safety Agency are highly questionable," Watanabe said.
After an earthquake in 2007 caused radiation leaks at reactors north of Tokyo, Ishibashi said Japan was at risk of a nuclear disaster following a large earthquake, a warning that proved prescient after Fukushima.
While it is impossible to predict when earthquakes will happen, Ishibashi said on Tuesday the magnitude 9 quake last year made it more likely "devastating" earthquakes would follow.
(This story corrects paragraph 6 to state Toyo University, not Tokyo University)
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Stumbled across this... Thank goodness the 'flip it over and take a look' switch went off. Would have tossed this gem of an error in the 'recycle' pile. Extensive end-to-end damage. Different die cracks all over. I see the delam element. But this thing (pic may not be doing it justice) has several die cracks as well. I'm not certain if those may have hastened the delam?
Someone must have been having a bad day at the San Francisco mint back in '40 if this one got through. haha
1940 s Wheat Penny big-time damage
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Open Biopsy After a Negative Fine Needle Aspiration
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
Please comment on when you should have an open biopsy after a negative fine needle aspiration (FNA). In 2001 I had a FNA, which was negative, and several months later the lump turned out to be breast cancer after an exisional biopsy. Now a year after treatment for a low-grade tumor (lumpectomy/radiation therapy), I have a hard lump near the lumpectomy scar. I just had a FNA. If it comes back benign, is it reasonable to follow the lump? At this point, I'm not confident on the reliability of FNA's. Thanks for your comments.
Kevin R. Fox, MD, Assistant Director, Clinical Affairs and Associate Professor of Hematology/Oncology at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, responds:
A Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA), when negative, should almost always be followed by an excisional biopsy. The only exception is when a FNA is done for a simple cyst. In all other circumstances, including the current one, the standard of care would favor an excisional biopsy.


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Friday May 16th was the third anniversary of this blog. It was one of the best decisions of my genealogical life, not counting when I took Mom's bait and started asking her about the ancestors. Why does it rank so high on my "best" list? Because it connects me with cousins, especially new-to-me cousins. They call it "cousin bait."
The list of cousin connections is far too long to easily remember. Would have to go look it up. From the get-go I wanted to create a blog that the lost cousins find and value, a blog worth their effort and so much so that they are moved to email. I try hard to do my best when posting, try to get it right, hits and many misses along the way, try to go back and revise when I notice errors. Try hard to use the correct tense when posting, a thing that challenges me constantly.
There was the time a porn bot found something in one blog post about when we moved to Cleveland, but I never did figure out what it was that attracted the bot. When I clicked on the referring link, well, it wasn't PG rated! How that happened I haven't a clue. Finally just took the post down. Have heard that the highest number of search subjects is porn and after that genealogy. Maybe some industrious web master was trying to connect the two?
Then recently a major researcher and author for the Whetstone surname contacted me and shared a couple of discoveries that she'd made about the early immigrants of that line who were Palatinates. I had emailed her hoping to make a connection but it wasn't until she read some posts here on our shared Whetstones that she took time to be in touch, and I'm very grateful that she did. She's just lovely... and generous.
It always amazes me when I check the stats and see a hit on an very old post or search on a family surname. I'm reminds that even though I'm busy now with other ancestors, lost cousins are searching daily. It's the Surname Saturday posts that pulls them in. Those are golden. I've stopped the Surname Saturday posts for now because the main surnames were covered, and those are the ones that I'm focusing on in my DNA pursuits. That works for me. But I might go back because it's so much fun.
So here goes into year four! Thanks for stopping by.
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Happy Blog-aversary to this little blog! Three years and still having fun
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A baby born in WalMart in Banks County on Wednesday morning has made the news across the state. The baby boy was the first baby born in Georgia in 2013.
The mother reportedly went into labor three weeks early. Banks County EMS personnel responded to the call and found the mother and baby in the bathroom.
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The leadership of several human services departments within Broome County government identified the need to integrate the planning and delivery of human services. They desired a mechanism for coordination and collaboration that would provide comprehensive services and minimize duplication. In order to integrate the planning process at the county level, Broome County's human services departments applied for and received a 5 year grant (see proposal - download Adobe Acrobat Reader to view) in 1998 from the NYS Office of Children and Family Services.
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PARIS, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- France has selected electronics company Astrium to build the country's first digital, military ultra-fast broadband satellite communications network.
The Comcept contract from French military procurement agency DGA is for 17 years.
"As of 2014, Comcept will provide the French armed forces with access to additional broadband satellite capacity over and above that provided by the existing Syracuse system," Astrium said.
"Comcept will mainly utilize capacity on the French-Italian satellite Athena-Fidus (scheduled for launch within the next 12 months) and will also be compatible with future commercial satellite networks operating in Ka-band, which will provide global coverage."
Astrium said that under the award it will also be responsible for the engineering and testing of the system. Work will be conducted in partnership with co-contractor Actia Sodielec, a medium-sized satellite telecommunications company that will be responsible for the engineering, integration and operational maintenance of the systems ground stations.


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Working Group #1: Mission and Goals, Administration, Leadership and Governance, and Integrity
Standard 1: Mission and Goals
The institution's mission clearly defines its purpose within the context of higher education and indicates who the institution serves and what it intends to accomplish. The institution's stated goals, consistent with the aspirations and expectations of higher education, clearly specify how the institution will fulfill its mission. The mission and goals are developed and recognized by the institution with the participation of its members and its governing body and are used to develop and shape its programs and practices and to evaluate its effectiveness.
Standard 4: Leadership and Governance
The institution's system of governance clearly defines the roles of institutional constituencies in policy development and decision-making. The governance structure includes an active governing body with sufficient autonomy to assure institutional integrity and to fulfill its responsibilities of policy and resource development, consistent with the mission of the institution.
Standard 5: Administration
The institution's administrative structure and services facilitate learning and research/scholarship, foster quality improvement, and support the institution's organization and governance.
Standard 6: Integrity
In the conduct of its programs and activities involving the public and the constituencies it serves, the institution demonstrates adherence to ethical standards and its own stated policies, providing support for academic and intellectual freedom.
Abigial Feder-Kane, Director of Institutional Support (Chair)
Christopher Baswell, Professor of English
Elizabeth Castelli, Professor of Religion
Amy DeRobertis, Associate Director, Donor Relations (Recorder)
Jennifer Fondiller, Dean of Admissions
Laura Kay, Professor of Physics & Astronomy
Guobin Yang, Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures
Vivian Taylor, Chief of Staff and Vice President for Community Development
William Worthen, Professor of Theatre
Anna Ehrlich '11
Working Group #2: Institutional Resources, Planning and Allocation
Standard 2: Planning, Resource Allocation, and Institutional Renewal
An institution conducts ongoing planning and resource allocation based on its mission and goals, develops objectives to achieve them, and utilizes the results of its assessment activities for institutional renewal. Implementation and subsequent evaluation of the success of the strategic plan and the resource allocation support the development and change necessary to improve and to maintain institutional quality.
Standard 3: Institutional Resources
The human, financial, technical, physical facilities, and other resources necessary to achieve an institution's mission and goals are available and accessible. In the context of the institution's mission, the effective and efficient uses of the institution's resources are analyzed as part of ongoing outcomes assessment.
Gregory Brown, Chief Operating Officer of the College (Chair)
Karen Fairbanks, Professor of Architecture
Lisa Gamsu, Vice President for Administration
Nancy Hirshan, Associate Controller, Financial Reporting (Recorder)
Elizabeth Hutchinson, Assistant Professor of Art History
Vivianne Joseph, Manager, Employee & Labor Relations
Reshmi Mukherjee, Professor of Physics & Astronomy
Fred Neuhouser, Professor of Philosophy
Karen Raven, Assistant Vice President for Development
Lianna Fox '12 (Fall '09)
Working Group #3: Admissions, Student Support Services, and Related Educational Activities
Standard 8: Student Admissions and Retention
The institution seeks to admit students whose interests, goals, and abilities are congruent with its mission and seeks to retain them through the pursuit of the students' educational goals.
Standard 9: Student Support Services
The institution provides student support services reasonably necessary to enable each student to achieve the institution's goals for students.
Standard 13: Related Educational Activities
The institution's programs or activities that are characterized by particular content, focus, location, mode of delivery, or sponsorship meet appropriate standards.
Rosalind Rosenberg, Professor of History (Chair)
Annie Aversa, Associate Dean for Campus and Residential Life
Deborah Coen, Assistant Professor of History
Katie Glasner, Senior Associate of Dance
Timothy Halpin-Healy, Professor of Physics & Astronomy
Nikole Williams, Manager, Student Computing
Carolyn Middleton, Senior Associate Director of Admissions (Recorder)
Jessica Nunez, Assistant Dean for Student Development, Diversity & Activities
Michell Tollinchi-Michel, Director of Academic Success and Enrichment Programs
Felicia Montalvo '11
Working Group #4: Institutional Effectiveness and Student Learning Outcomes
Standard 7: Institutional Assessment
The institution has developed and implemented an assessment process that evaluates its overall effectiveness in achieving its mission and goals and its compliance with accreditation standards.
Standard 14: Assessment of Student Learning
Assessment of student learning demonstrates that, at graduation, or other appropriate points, the institution's students have knowledge, skills, and competencies consistent with institutional and appropriate higher education goals.
Steven Stroessner, Professor of Psychology (Chair)
Lee Anne Bell, Professor and Director of Education Program
Constance Brown, Registrar
Brenda Slade, Director of Health Services
Achsah Guibbory, Professor of English
Angela Haddad, Assistant Provost (Recorder)
Lisa Hollibaugh, First-Year Class Dean
Randall Reback, Assistant Professor of Economics
Herbert Sloan, Professor of History
Anna Engel '11
Working Group #5: Faculty, Curriculum and Educational Offerings
Standard 10: Faculty
The institution's instructional, research, and service programs are devised, developed, monitored, and supported by qualified professionals.
Standard 11: Educational Offerings
The institution's educational offerings display academic content, rigor, and coherence appropriate to its higher education mission. The institution identifies student learning goals and objectives, including knowledge and skills, for its educational offerings.
Standard 12: General Education
The institution's curricula are designed so that students acquire and demonstrate college-level proficiency in general education and essential skills, including at least oral and written communication, scientific and quantitative reasoning, critical analysis and reasoning, and technological competency.
Lynn Garafola, Professor of Dance (Chair)
James Basker, Professor of English
Dorothy Denburg, Dean of the College
Anne Higonnet, Professor of Art History
Robert Kahn, Associate Director of Educational Technologies
Dina Merrer, Associate Professor of Chemistry
Rebecca Stanton, Assistant Professor of Slavic
Phillip Usher, Assistant Professor of French
Rhonda Zangwill, Associate Director of Institutional Support (Recorder)
Sarah Belfer '12
Data Consultants to Working Groups
Sean Bixler, Institutional Research & Budget Analyst
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Malawi Population: 18,570,3211 VISITOR FROM HERE!
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|Established in 1891, the British protectorate of Nyasaland became the independent nation of Malawi in 1964. After three decades of one-party rule under President Hastings Kamuzu BANDA, the country held multiparty presidential and parliamentary elections in 1994, under a provisional constitution that came into full effect the following year. President Bingu wa MUTHARIKA, elected in 2004 after a failed attempt by the previous president to amend the constitution to permit another term, struggled to assert his authority against his predecessor and subsequently started his own party, the Democratic Progressive Party in 2005. MUTHARIKA was reelected to a second term in 2009. He oversaw some economic improvement in his first term, but was accused of economic mismanagement and poor governance in his second term. He died abruptly in 2012 and was succeeded by vice president, Joyce BANDA, who had earlier started her own party, the People's Party. MUTHARIKA's brother, Peter MUTHARIKA, defeated BANDA in the 2014 election. Population growth, increasing pressure on agricultural lands, corruption, and the scourge of HIV/AIDS pose major problems for Malawi.
Landlocked; Lake Nyasa, some 580 km long, is the country's most prominent physical feature; it contains more fish species than any other lake on earth
|Southern Africa, east of Zambia, west and north of Mozambique
|Geographic coordinates:
| total: 118,484 sq km
land: 94,080 sq km
water: 24,404 sq km
Size comparison: slightly smaller than Pennsylvania
|Land Boundaries:
|total: 2,857 km border countries (3): Mozambique 1,498 km, Tanzania 512 km, Zambia 847 km
|0 km (landlocked)
|Maritime claims:
|none (landlocked)
|sub-tropical; rainy season (November to May); dry season (May to November)
|narrow elongated plateau with rolling plains, rounded hills, some mountains
|Elevation extremes:
|Natural resources:
|limestone, arable land, hydropower, unexploited deposits of uranium, coal, and bauxite
|Land use:
| agricultural land: 59.2% arable land 38.2%; permanent crops 1.4%; permanent pasture 19.6% forest: 34%
other: 6.8% (2011 est.)
|Irrigated land:
|740 sq km (2012)
|Natural hazards:
|Current Environment Issues:
|deforestation; land degradation; water pollution from agricultural runoff, sewage, industrial wastes; siltation of spawning grounds endangers fish populations
|International Environment Agreements:
| party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: Law of the Sea
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| noun: Malawian(s)
adjective: Malawian
|Ethnic groups:
|Chewa 32.6%, Lomwe 17.6%, Yao 13.5%, Ngoni 11.5%, Tumbuka 8.8%, Nyanja 5.8%, Sena 3.6%, Tonga 2.1%, Ngonde 1%, other 3.5%
|English (official), Chichewa (common), Chinyanja, Chiyao, Chitumbuka, Chilomwe, Chinkhonde, Chingoni, Chisena, Chitonga, Chinyakyusa, Chilambya
|Christian 82.6%, Muslim 13%, other 1.9%, none 2.5% (2008 est.)
|18,570,321 note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, higher death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2016 est.)
|Age structure:
| 0-14 years: 46.53% (male 4,299,076/female 4,341,129)
15-24 years: 20.49% (male 1,889,240/female 1,915,843)
25-54 years: 27.26% (male 2,512,247/female 2,549,766)
55-64 years: 3.03% (male 268,691/female 294,713)
65 years and over: 2.69% (male 220,608/female 279,008) (2016 est.)
|Dependency ratios:
| total dependency ratio: 94.5%
youth dependency ratio: 87.9%
elderly dependency ratio: 6.7%
potential support ratio: 14.9% (2015 est.)
|Median age:
| total: 16.5 years
male: 16.3 years
female: 16.6 years (2016 est.)
|Population growth rate:
|3.32% (2016 est.)
|Birth rate:
|41.3 births/1,000 population (2016 est.)
|Death rate:
|8.1 deaths/1,000 population (2016 est.)
|Net migration rate:
|0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2016 est.)
| urban population: 16.3% of total population (2015)
rate of urbanization: 3.77% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
|Major urban areas - population:
|LILONGWE (capital) 905,000; Blantyre-Limbe 808,000 (2015)
|Sex ratio:
| at birth: 1.02 male(s)/female
0-14 years: 0.99 male(s)/female
15-24 years: 0.99 male(s)/female
25-54 years: 0.99 male(s)/female
55-64 years: 0.91 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.79 male(s)/female
total population: 0.98 male(s)/female (2016 est.)
|Mother's mean age at first birth:
|18.9 note: median age at first birth among women 25-29 (2010 est.)
|Maternal mortality rate:
|634 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.)
|Infant mortality rate:
| total: 44.8 deaths/1,000 live births male: 51.5 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 38 deaths/1,000 live births (2016 est.)
|Life expectancy at birth:
| total population: 61.2 years male: 59.2 years
female: 63.2 years (2016 est.)
|Total fertility rate:
|5.54 children born/woman (2016 est.)
|Contraceptive prevalence rate:
|46.1% (2010)
|Health expenditures:
|11.4% of GDP (2014)
|Physicians density:
|0.02 physicians/1,000 population (2009)
|Hospital bed density:
|1.3 beds/1,000 population (2011)
|Drinking water source:
| improved:
urban: 95.7% of population
rural: 89.1% of population
total: 90.2% of population
urban: 4.3% of population
rural: 10.9% of population
total: 9.8% of population (2015 est.)
|Sanitation facility access:
| improved:
urban: 47.3% of population
rural: 39.8% of population
total: 41% of population
urban: 52.7% of population
rural: 60.2% of population
total: 59% of population (2015 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
|9.11% (2015 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
|976,300 (2015 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - deaths:
|26,700 (2015 est.)
|Obesity - adult prevalence rate:
|4.3% (2014)
|Children under the age of 5 years underweight:
|16.7% (2014)
|Education expenditures:
|5.6% of GDP (2015)
| definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 65.8%
male: 73%
female: 58.6% (2015 est.)
|School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
| total: 11 years male: 11 years
female: 11 years (2011)
|Unemployment, youth ages 15-24:
| total: 8.6% male: 9.1%
female: 8.2% (2013 est.)
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|Country name:
| conventional long form: Republic of Malawi
conventional short form: Malawi
local long form: Dziko la Malawi
local short form: Malawi
former: British Central African Protectorate, Nyasaland Protectorate, Nyasaland
etymology: named for the East African Maravi kingdom of the 16th century; the word "maravi" means "fire flames"
|Government type:
|presidential republic
| name: Lilongwe
geographic coordinates: 13 58 S, 33 47 E
time difference: UTC+2 (7 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
|Administrative divisions:
|28 districts; Balaka, Blantyre, Chikwawa, Chiradzulu, Chitipa, Dedza, Dowa, Karonga, Kasungu, Likoma, Lilongwe, Machinga, Mangochi, Mchinji, Mulanje, Mwanza, Mzimba, Neno, Ntcheu, Nkhata Bay, Nkhotakota, Nsanje, Ntchisi, Phalombe, Rumphi, Salima, Thyolo, Zomba
|6 July 1964 (from the UK)
|National holiday:
|Independence Day (Republic Day), 6 July (1964)
|previous 1953 (preindependence), 1966; latest drafted January to May 1994, approved 16 May 1994, entered into force 18 May 1995; amended several times, last in 2013 (2016)
|Legal system:
|mixed legal system of English common law and customary law; judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court of Appeal
|18 years of age; universal
|Executive branch:
| chief of state: President Arthur Peter MUTHARIKA (since 31 May 2014); Vice President Saulos CHILIMA (since 31 May 2014); note - the president is both chief of state and head of government
head of government: President Arthur Peter MUTHARIKA (since 31 May 2014); Vice President Saulos CHILIMA (since 31 May 2014)
cabinet: Cabinet named by the president elections/appointments: president directly elected by simple majority popular vote for a 5-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 20 May 2014 (next to be held in May 2019)
election results: Peter MUTHARIKA elected president; percent of vote - Peter MUTHARIKA (DPP) 36.4%, Lazarus CHAKWERA (MCP) 27.8%, Joyce BANDA (PP) 20.2%, Atupele MULUZI (UDF) 13.7%, other 1.9%
|Legislative branch:
| description: unicameral National Assembly (193 seats; members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by simple majority vote to serve 5-year terms)
elections: last held on 20-22 May 2014 (next to be held in May 2019)
election results: percent of vote by party - DPP 22.0%, MCP 17.4%, PP 18.5%, UDF 9.6%, other 2.8%, independent 29.7%; seats by party - DPP 51, MCP 48, PP 26, UDF 14, other 2, independent 52
|Judicial branch:
| highest court(s): Supreme Court of Appeal (consists of the chief justice and at least 3 judges) judge selection and term of office: Supreme Court chief justice appointed by the president and confirmed by the National Assembly; other judges appointed by the president upon recommendation of the Judicial Service Commission, which regulates judicial officers; judges serve until age 65
subordinate courts: High Court; magistrate courts; Industrial Relations Court; district and city traditional or local courts
|Political parties and leaders:
|Alliance for Democracy or AFORD [Godfrey SHAWA] Democratic Progressive Party or DPP [Peter MUTHARIKA] Malawi Congress Party or MCP [Lazarus CHAKWERA] People's Party or PP [Joyce BANDA] United Democratic Front or UDF [Atupele MULUZI]
|Political pressure groups and leaders:
|Council for NGOs in Malawi or CONGOMA (human rights, democracy, and development) Human Rights Consultative Committee or HRCC (human rights) Malawi Economic Justice Network or MEJN (pro economic growth, development, government accountability) Malawi Law Society (an umbrella organization of all lawyers in Malawi) Public Affairs Committee or PAC (promotes democracy, development, peace and unity)
|International organization participation:
|ACP, AfDB, AU, C, CD, COMESA, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MINURSO, MONUSCO, NAM, OPCW, SADC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNISFA, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
|National symbol(s):
|lion; national colors: black, red, green
|National anthem:
| name: "Mulungu dalitsa Malawi" (Oh God Bless Our Land of Malawi)
lyrics/music: Michael-Fredrick Paul SAUKA
note: adopted 1964
|Diplomatic representation in the US:
| chief of mission: Ambassador Edward Yakobe SAWERENGERA (since 16 September 2016)
chancery: 2408 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008
telephone: [1] (202) 721-0270
|Diplomatic representation from the US:
| chief of mission: Ambassador Virginia E. PALMER (since 5 February 2015)
embassy: 16 Jomo Kenyatta Road, Lilongwe 3
mailing address: P.O. Box 30016, Lilongwe 3, Malawi
telephone: [265] (1) 773-166
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Landlocked Malawi ranks among the world's most densely populated and least developed countries. The country's economic performance has historically been constrained by policy inconsistency, macroeconomic instability, limited connectivity to the region and the world, and poor health and education outcomes that limit labor productivity. The economy is predominately agricultural with about 80% of the population living in rural areas. Agriculture accounts for about one-third of GDP and 90% of export revenues. The performance of the tobacco sector is key to short-term growth as tobacco accounts for more than half of exports. The economy depends on substantial inflows of economic assistance from the IMF, the World Bank, and individual donor nations. In 2006, Malawi was approved for relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries program. Between 2005 and 2009 Malawi's government exhibited improved financial discipline under the guidance of Finance Minister Goodall GONDWE and signed a three-year IMF Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility worth $56 million. The government announced infrastructure projects that could yield improvements, such as a new oil pipeline for better fuel access, and the potential for a waterway link through Mozambican rivers to the ocean for better transportation options. Since 2009, however, Malawi has experienced some setbacks, including a general shortage of foreign exchange, which has damaged its ability to pay for imports, and fuel shortages that hinder transportation and productivity. In October 2013, the African Development Bank, the IMF, several European countries, and the US indefinitely froze $150 million in direct budgetary support in response to a high level corruption scandal, called "Cashgate," citing a lack of trust in the government's financial management system and civil service. Most of the frozen donor funds — which accounted for 40% of the budget — have been channeled through non-governmental organizations in the country. The government has failed to address barriers to investment such as unreliable power, water shortages, poor telecommunications infrastructure, and the high costs of services. Investment had fallen continuously for several years, but rose 4 percentage points in 2014 to 17% of GDP. The government faces many challenges, including developing a market economy, improving educational facilities, addressing environmental problems, dealing with HIV/AIDS, and satisfying foreign donors on anti-corruption efforts.
|GDP (purchasing power parity):
| GDP (purchasing power parity): $21.23 billion (2016 est.) $20.67 billion (2015 est.) $20.08 billion (2014 est.)
note: data are in 2016 dollars
|GDP (official exchange rate):
|GDP (official exchange rate): $5.474 billion (2015 est.)
|GDP - real growth rate:
|2.7% (2016 est.) 3% (2015 est.) 5.7% (2014 est.)
|GDP - per capita (PPP):
| GDP - per capita (PPP): $1,100 (2016 est.) $1,100 (2015 est.) $1,100 (2014 est.)
note: data are in 2016 dollars
|Gross national saving:
|-4.4% of GDP (2016 est.) 3% of GDP (2015 est.) 3.5% of GDP (2014 est.)
|GDP - composition, by end use:
| household consumption: 75.1%
government consumption: 17.4%
investment in fixed capital: 11.9%
investment in inventories: 2.6%
exports of goods and services: 42.6%
imports of goods and services: -49.6% (2016 est.)
|GDP - composition, by sector of origin:
| household consumption: 75.1%
government consumption: 17.4%
investment in fixed capital: 11.9%
investment in inventories: 2.6%
exports of goods and services: 42.6%
imports of goods and services: -49.6% (2016 est.)
|Agriculture - products:
|tobacco, sugarcane, cotton, tea, corn, potatoes, cassava (manioc, tapioca), sorghum, pulses, groundnuts, Macadamia nuts; cattle, goats
|tobacco, tea, sugar, sawmill products, cement, consumer goods
|Industrial production growth rate:
|4% (2016 est.)
|Labor force:
|5.747 million (2007 est.)
|Labor force - by occupation:
| agriculture: 90% industry and
services: 10% (2003 est.)
|Unemployment rate:
|Population below poverty line:
|52.4% (2004 est.)
|Household income or consumption by percentage share:
| lowest 10%: 3%
highest 10%: 31.9% (2004)
|Distribution of family income - Gini index:
|39 (2004)
| revenues: $1.03 billion
expenditures: $1.247 billion (2016 est.)
|Taxes and other revenues:
|18.8% of GDP (2016 est.)
|Public debt:
|61.2% of GDP (2016 est.) 54.2% of GDP (2015 est.)
|Fiscal year:
|1 July - 30 June
|Inflation rate (consumer prices):
|Inflation rate (consumer prices): 23.5% (2016 est.) 21.2% (2015 est.)
|Current account balance:
|-$863 million (2016 est.) -$533 million (2015 est.)
|$1.277 billion (2016 est.) $1.278 billion (2015 est.)
|Exports - commodities:
|tobacco 53%, tea, sugar, cotton, coffee, peanuts, wood products, apparel (2010 est.)
|Exports - partners:
|Belgium 15.8%, Zimbabwe 12%, India 6.9%, South Africa 6.2%, US 6%, Russia 5.6%, Germany 4.6% (2015)
|$2.578 billion (2016 est.) $2.607 billion (2015 est.)
|Imports - commodities:
|food, petroleum products, semi-manufactures, consumer goods, transportation equipment
|Imports - partners:
|South Africa 26.4%, China 16.7%, India 12%, Zambia 10.3%, Tanzania 6% (2015)
|Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
|$605.9 million (31 December 2016 est.) $693.1 million (31 December 2015 est.)
|Debt - external:
|$1.921 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $1.715 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
|Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:
|Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:
|Market value of publicly traded shares:
|$753.6 million (31 December 2012 est.) $1.384 billion (31 December 2011 est.) $1.363 billion (31 December 2010 est.)
|Exchange rates:
|Malawian kwachas (MWK) per US dollar - 671.6 (2016 est.) 499.6 (2015 est.) 499.6 (2014 est.) 424.9 (2013 est.) 249.11 (2012 est.)
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|Electricity - production:
|2.1 billion kWh (2014 est.)
|Electricity - consumption:
|1.9 billion kWh (2014 est.)
|Electricity - exports:
|0 kWh (2013 est.)
|Electricity - imports:
|0 kWh (2013 est.)
|Electricity - installed generating capacity:
|400,000 kW (2014 est.)
|Electricity - from fossil fuels:
|0.7% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Electricity - from nuclear fuels:
|0% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Electricity - from hydroelectric plants:
|99.3% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Electricity - from other renewable sources:
|0% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Crude oil - production:
|0 bbl/day (2015 est.)
|Crude oil - exports:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Crude oil - imports:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Crude oil - proved reserves:
|0 bbl (1 January 2016 es)
|Refined petroleum products - production:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - consumption:
|7,000 bbl/day (2014 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - exports:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - imports:
|6,843 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - production:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - consumption:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - exports:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - imports:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - proved reserves:
|0 cu m (1 January 2014 es)
|Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy:
|1.9 million Mt (2013 est.)
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|Cellular Phones in use:
|total: 6.116 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 34 (July 2015 est.)
|Telephone system:
| general assessment: rudimentary; two fixed-line and two mobile-cellular operators govern the market
domestic: limited fixed-line subscribership of about 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular services are expanding but network coverage is limited and is based around the main urban areas; mobile-cellular subscribership about 30 per 100 persons
international: country code - 265; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean, 1 Atlantic Ocean) (2015)
|Broadcast media:
|radio is the main broadcast medium; privately owned Zodiac radio has the widest national broadcasting reach, followed by state-run radio; about a dozen private and community radio stations broadcast in cities and towns around the country; the largest TV n (2014)
|Internet country code:
|Internet users:
|total: 1.67 million percent of population: 9.3% (July 2015 est.)
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|32 (2013)
|Airports (paved runways):
| total 7
over 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 4 (2013)
|Airports (unpaved runways):
| total 25
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 11
under 914 m: 13 (2013)
| total 767 km
narrow gauge: 767 km 1.067-m gauge (2014)
| total 15,450 km
paved: 6,951 km
unpaved: 8,499 km (2011)
|700 km (on Lake Nyasa [Lake Malawi] and Shire River) (2010)
|Ports and terminals:
|lake port(s): Chipoka, Monkey Bay, Nkhata Bay, Nkhotakota, Chilumba (Lake Nyasa)
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|Military branches:
|Malawi Defense Forces (MDF): Army (includes Air Wing, Marine Unit) (2012)
|Military service age and obligation:
|18 years of age for voluntary military service; high school equivalent required for enlisted recruits and college equivalent for officer recruits; initial engagement is 7 years for enlisted personnel and 10 years for officers (2014)
|Military expenditures:
|0.93% of GDP (2012) 0.79% of GDP (2011) 0.93% of GDP (2010)
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|Transnational Issues
|Disputes - International:
|dispute with Tanzania over the boundary in Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi) and the meandering Songwe River; Malawi contends that the entire lake up to the Tanzanian shoreline is its territory, while Tanzania claims the border is in the center of the lake; the conflict was reignited in 2012 when Malawi awarded a license to a British company for oil exploration in the lake
|Refugees and internally displaced persons:
|refugees (country of origin): 11,315 (Democratic Republic of the Congo); 5,260 (Rwanda) (2015); nearly 11,500 (Mozambique) (2016) IDPs: 107,000 (floods in 2015) (2015)
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"NCAA Football 13"
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Score: 3 out of 4
In its 20th year of making college football games, EA Sports enters "NCAA Football 13" as the strongest version of the game in the 360/PS3 era. It's not perfect and it's not revolutionary, but almost every change made from "NCAA Football 12" was meaningful and positive.
On the turf, the most noticeable upgrade comes in the form of a re-tuned passing game. The spread and shotgun formations' dominance over college football is now a palpable experience in "NCAA Football 13."
Quarterbacks drop back more realistically, and the player has an enhanced ability to control the touch and direction of the ball like never before. The fact that the average "NCAA" player is going to spend so much time passing makes this addition a crucial part of the experience.
Possibly the most dramatic improvement in "NCAA 13" is in the area of dynasty mode recruiting. With thousands of web sites and message boards dedicated to the annual process, college football recruiting is basically its own subsport.
For the past few seasons "NCAA" has tinkered with rather than overhaul the mode, leading to a repetitive and formulaic process. Now, dynamic pitches, the ability to scout high school players and the addition of true sleepers and busts to the recruiting pool makes recruiting as exciting as the on-field action.
As always, EA has taken great care to please as many of college football's unique and rabid fan bases as possible. Gameday traditions, mascots, chants, stadiums and uniforms are crisply rendered with a passionate level of detail. Ramping up their partnership with ESPN, EA Sports has made playing the game feel visually analogous to watching a real game on your television.
In a period of breaking news and flux surrounding college football's impending playoff system, EA wisely diverted attention to the race for the Heisman Trophy instead of the national championship. By featuring legends like Barry Sanders, Doug Flutie and Charlie Ward in the new "Heisman Challenge" mode, EA has added a level of replay value and longevity to the game with a unique mode featuring (for the first time) real, licensed players.
There are, however, pieces of the game that keep it from being a Heisman-worthy experience. In order to make player movement in the foreground seem more realistic, EA added a motion blur effect, with mixed results.
By now, we're used to watching college football in crystal clear high definition with quick camera cuts that keep pace with the action. While occasionally things move too fast for the lens, it's a rare occurrence in real life. In the game, however, anything that moves above a snail's pace seems to trigger the effect. It's hard to ignore, and takes away from the crisply rendered player models.
A couple other new additions seem not quite ready for prime time, namely the inclusion of ESPN's Rece Davis, who will break into your game periodically to update you about what's going on around the rest of college football. The interruptions happen at a rate that seems a lot higher than a real broadcast, and Davis (who is an excellent broadcaster in real life) delivers awkward, stunted dialogue reminiscent of the previous console generation.
College football is a vast and nuanced thing to recreate, so there will always be little things for fans to niggle over. For example, the ability to export draft classes to "Madden 13" is no longer in the game and a new FBS school, South Alabama, was inadvertently omitted from the game entirely.
"NCAA Football 13" literally has no competition, as it's the only licensed college football game still being made. Despite the lack of opposition, it continues to evolve in a way that stays true to the unique spirit of the sport, making it simply the best and most complete football experience on the modern console.
Nitpicks aside, "NCAA Football 13" is in the top tier of football games in its generation.
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From the NY Daily News:
Bicyclist, 27, killed joyriding in front of Met Museum.
He grabbed onto rear of truck, police say
(photo caption: A rider was struck in front of the Metropolitan Museum. Photo by: Aaron Showalter)
By Claire Trapasso and Sarah Armagha
Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 10:43 PM
A 27-year-old Bronx bike messenger was killed in front of a Manhattan museum as he was joyriding while holding onto the back of a commercial truck, police said.
Daniel Martinez was riding south on Fifth Avenue near E. 83rd Street around 6:30 p.m. (4/18/12) when he grabbed onto the rear of a Ford F55, cops said.
When the vehicle came to a stop at a red light, Martinez flew underneath, just steps from the front entrance to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, cops said.
Read more: here.
My condolences to Daniel's family on this tragic event.
Details on this case based solely on the newspapers description don't seem to add up. Not exactly sure how someone dies from holding on to a truck that makes a stop at a red light. I also have a problem with the word joyriding. 6:30pm, the time of death, sounds like working hours for a bike courier and not just out for a thrill that the papers description implies. This is not to condone "skitching" however, most riders who engage in this dangerous activity, generally have heightened skills in the operation of their bicycle and are more aware of the dynamics of the vehicles and drivers involved based on years on the streets.
My point is not to avoid blame but rather to question the details especially in light of the recent lack of police investigation when it comes to cyclists deaths. All to often the case is written off as a tragic accident and blame is immediately placed on the cyclist, especially when words like joyriding are used in the papers. How do we know the driver wasn't texting on his phone, looked up and saw a red light. Then he slammed on his brakes and the rider died. Then the driver tells police he was skitching.
I apologize for bringing politics into the same post as the tragedy of the loss of one of our fellow cyclists. In the life and death struggle of choosing to ride a bicycle in the city, it's hard to avoid especially when the only information we have about this quoted: "cops said."


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For Jenny McClendon, joining the Navy meant "being there for each other, struggling, pulling together, being a team."
Growing up with a father in the Marine Corps, she always expected to serve her country in some capacity, she said, but it was the Navy that really captivated her.
"The Navy seemed exciting," McClendon told ABCNews.com. "The idea of going out on the high seas, it was exhilarating."
But McClendon's ideals about serving her country were upended when she attended training camp in San Diego in 1997. Her class officer started to verbally harass her and other female cadets, she said, asking them "if their vaginas hurt," and calling McClendon "bitch" and "feminazi."
When McClendon reported the harassment to a higher-ranking officer, telling him, "This is not the Navy I signed up to serve in, this is not the America I signed up to serve," she said she was ostracized by her fellow service members.
Out at sea on a Navy ship, where McClendon said "you're pretty much trapped," she recalled how a petty officer 2nd class -- one rank above her -- would order others out of the room so that he could grope her. The groping escalated to rape.
Fearing ostracism or reprisals if she complained, McClendon started wearing multiple layers of clothing to evade further attacks. When she finally did report the rape to her senior chief, she said he told her, "To this command, you are a known feminist, lesbian and Democrat. You're going to prove that you're just trying to get this guy into trouble."
McClendon's ordeal happened 16 years ago, but it's just one in a list of military sexual-abuse scandals that goes back to the Navy's 1991 Tailhook Convention, where 100 officers sexually assaulted more than 80 women. Five years later at the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground, a dozen Army officers were charged with sexually assaulting female trainees. More recently, at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, 32 basic training instructors are under investigation for allegedly attacking at least 59 victims beginning in 2008.
According to the Department of Defense's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office, 2,420 servicewomen reported they'd been victims of sexual assault in 2011.
A recent report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office, undertaken in response to women taking new positions on the frontlines of combat, found that although the Defense Department had "taken steps" to meet the health needs of deployed servicewomen, it still fell short when it came to providing medical and mental health services to victims of sexual assault.
The GAO report found, for example, that first responders, including chaplains, victim advocates and health personnel, did not always have a clear understanding of where to take sexual assault victims for a forensic examination, which has the potential of becoming doubly problematic, as the current guidelines state that forensic evidence is only to be collected up to 72 hours after the attack.
The report also found that some health care providers became confused by medical provisions that seemed to conflict with their command obligations, especially when it came to keeping a victim's identity confidential. As a result of this continued confusion, military women were not comfortable reporting sexual attacks.
But the ongoing Lackland investigation, and the release of the documentary "The Invisible War," which examines sexual assault in the U.S. military and is up for an Academy Award, have driven policymakers to act.
Last April, days after outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta saw "The Invisible War," he announced changes in how sexual assault allegations would be handled within the armed forces.
The changes included elevating the authority to prosecute sexual assaults to colonels rather than leaving it to unit commanders, such as the one who initially presided over McClendon's case, perhaps in the hope that this would encourage more women to come forward.
According to the Defense Department's own estimates, only 14 percent of sexual assaults were reported in 2010.
Greg Jacob, the policy director at Service Women's Action Network, a civil rights organization founded and led by women veterans, said there were numerous institutionalized "disincentives" to report rape and cases of sexual assault. If victims of sexual assault were in therapy, explained Jacob, and applied for jobs that required security clearance, they had to disclose both that they were in therapy and that they were in therapy because they'd been sexually assaulted.
"That's one of the reasons that the military developed 'restricted report,'" Jacob said of the provision in which victims can come forward to receive medical attention without pursuing a case. "The climate in the military is so hostile that they had to create a separate system."
Panetta also announced that Special Victims Units would be created for each branch of the military, and a record would be retained of the outcome of disciplinary and administrative proceedings related to sexual assault, and that these records would be kept in a central place.
"We have more work to do to confront this problem. There are no easy answers, but that makes it all the more essential for us to devote our energy and our attention to trying to confront this challenging crime," Panetta, who is soon to leave office, wrote in a 2012 report on the Department of Defense's response to sexual assault.
Maj. Gen. Gary Patton, director of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office at the Department of Defense, said in an email to ABCNews.com that the military was working to combat sexual assault through multiple avenues, including Department of Defense help lines, increased training for responders and allowing victims immediate transfer from their base or command.
"The solution to the problem of sexual assault requires a multi-pronged approach," said Patton. "One that applies a wide range of authorities, activities and the full efforts of leaders and servicemembers throughout the armed forces and at every level of command and leadership."
For McClendon, it took months after she first reported her attack for a criminal investigation to get under way. She said she was never offered a rape kit, and didn't believe there was even one onboard her ship. Her investigation eventually ended with her attacker pleading guilty to having "consensual sex" and being demoted a rank. His rank was reinstated by the time their ship had reached shore.
"By the time the case had gone forward, any evidence of the rape had been washed away," McClendon said.
Kirby Dick, the director of "The Invisible War," said he talked to more than 100 sexual assault victims, many of who couldn't prosecute their attackers without coming under scrutiny themselves. Dick believes having colonels, who are still within the line of command deciding whether or not to prosecute is problematic for both the victim and the alleged perpetrator.
"They may know the perpetrator or victim," said Dick of the colonels. "Most commanders are horrified by this and want to do the right thing. We should not put them in this position [where they have] a conflict of interest."
The Defense Department's Patton said that taking the authority to discipline out of the chain of command would threaten the ability of the military to be effective.
"Removing the disciplinary authorities from a commander's purview would jeopardize the good order and discipline of the unit, and impact unit readiness," he said.
After years of not wanting to talk about her time in the military, McClendon started working with Protect Our Defenders, an advocacy group that assists military survivors of sexual trauma, in 2009.
"I don't want another generation to feel like they're alone," McClendon said. "Those serving today, I don't want them betrayed."


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Jim Acosta / CNN:
Susan Rice defends Bergdahl comments, calls his service 'honorable' — Colleville-sur-Mer, FRANCE (CNN) — President Barack Obama's national security adviser said Friday that her full-throated praise of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was appropriate given the former Taliban prisoner's willingness …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal, PoliticusUSA, The Gateway Pundit, Talking Points Memo, Hot Air, Weekly Standard, The PJ Tatler and Politico
Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal: Susan Rice Defends Claim That Bergdahl Served 'With Honor and Distinction'
Justin Baragona / PoliticusUSA: Susan Rice Fires Back At Republican Critics Trying To Benghazi Her On Bergdahl
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit: UNREAL. Susan Rice Defends Deserter Bergdahl Again - Calls His Service "Honorable" (Video)
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo: White House Stands Firm As Conservatives Swarm Susan Rice Over Bergdahl
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Rice: 30 day notification requirement was too long, so ... we ignored it altogether
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard: Rice: Bergdahl Did 'Very Honorable Thing'
David Steinberg / The PJ Tatler: Susan Rice Defends, Rewrites Her 'Honor and Distinction' Statement
Rich Lowry / Politico: Susan Rice Strikes Again
Did Sergeant Bergdahl Desert The Army Or Did The Army Desert Him? — Vikram J. Singh is Vice President for National Security and International Affairs at the Center for American Progress. — The mental health issues of soldiers during our longest period of war are often overlooked.
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, RedState, The Week and The Huffington Post
Stephen Kruiser / The Daily Caller: Barack Obama Is Somebody's Child
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion: Think Progress: The Army deserted Bowe Bergdahl
Erick Erickson / RedState: Think Progress: It's the Army's Fault We Traded Five Terrorists
Jordan Valinsky / The Week: Sarah Palin suggests Bowe Bergdahl should buy Rosetta Stone to help him re-learn English
ABC News:
Hillary Clinton Won't Second Guess President Obama's 'Very Hard Choice' On Bergdahl … In an exclusive interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer, Hillary Clinton defended President Obama's decision to swap five Taliban prisoners for U.S. solider Bowe Bergdahl, saying she won't second guess him.
Discussion: Washington Post, UK Blog on The Huffington Post, National Review, ABC News and CBS News
Philip Rucker / Washington Post: Hillary Clinton defends Obama on Bergdahl, says 'it doesn't matter' how he was captured
Robin Lustig / UK Blog on The Huffington Post: D-Day and Bergdahl: Thoughts on the Forgotten Casualties of War
Luis Martinez / ABC News: Bowe Bergdahl Had Left Unit Twice Before, Probe Shows
Michael Crowley / TIME:
Susan Rice Is Under Fire Again
Susan Rice Is Under Fire Again
Discussion: Politico, Fox News, The Daily Caller, BREITBART.COM and The PJ Tatler
Jonathan Topaz / Politico: Susan Rice explains her praise of Bowe Bergdahl
Brendan Bordelon / The Daily Caller: Rice Backtracks On Bergdahl: 'Young Man Whose Circumstances We Are Still Going To Learn About'
The groups that have Hillary's back — Washington (CNN) …
The groups that have Hillary's back — Washington (CNN) …
Discussion: Politico, Real Clear Politics, Weekly Standard and Quinnipiac News + Events
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico: Clinton Library memos show debate over climate tactics
Alexis Simendinger / Real Clear Politics: Obama Aims to Close Gitmo by 2017, Says Podesta
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard: Hillary Book Strategy Meeting Held at White House
Jason Stein / JSOnline:
Federal judge overturns Wisconsin's gay marriage ban — Judi Trampf (left) and her partner Katy Heyning speak during a news conference in February by the American Civil Liberties Union about a lawsuit challenging the state's seven-year-old ban on gay marriage. A federal judge in Madison on Friday overturned the ban.
Discussion: Towleroad News #gay, Daily Kos and ACS Blog
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Federal Judge Strikes Down Wisconsin Ban On Same-Sex Couples' Marriages — The ruling will not go into effect immediately. — WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Wisconsin Friday struck down the state's ban on same-sex couples marrying, joining federal judges across the nation to have reached …
Discussion: CNN and ThinkProgress
Dane County Clerk to stay open late after same-sex ruling
Dane County Clerk to stay open late after same-sex ruling
Discussion: The Week
Eric Kleefeld / The Week: Wisconsin's gay marriage ban struck down
Kathleen Hunter / Bloomberg:
No Evidence of 'Credible Threat' to Bergdahl: Feinstein — The Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman said she hasn't been convinced that there was a "credible threat" against the life of freed Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl that motivated the White House to keep its plans secret from Congress.
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Washington Post and Mediaite
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller: Senate Intelligence Chair Says No 'Credible Threat' On Bergdahl's Life
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post: Feinstein not sold on idea of 'credible threat' against Bergdahl if deal leaked
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Dianne Feinstein: No threat to Bergdahl
Dianne Feinstein: No threat to Bergdahl
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David Conti / Greensburg Tribune-Review: In Pittsburgh, Leon Panetta questions prisoner swap with Taliban
Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
Four Things To Keep In Mind Regarding Bowe Bergdahl
Four Things To Keep In Mind Regarding Bowe Bergdahl
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John Podesta: U.S. can monitor detainees released in Bergdahl deal
John Podesta: U.S. can monitor detainees released in Bergdahl deal
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New York Times:
The Rush to Demonize Sgt. Bergdahl — Four months ago, Senator John McCain said he would support the exchange of five hard-core Taliban leaders for the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. "I would support," he told CNN. "Obviously I'd have to know the details, but I would support ways of bringing …
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Maha / The Mahablog: What's the Difference Between Today's GOP and a Bunch of 5th Grade Playground Bullies?
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion: NY Times Editors Rush to Demonize Republicans over Sgt. Bergdahl
Dylan Byers / Politico: John McCain against the media
Pamela Leavey / The Democratic Daily: The Appalling Demonization of Bowe Bergdahl
Laura Clawson / Daily Kos: Conflicting reports on Bergdahl disappearance highlight that many reported 'facts' aren't
Zack Beauchamp / Vox: 8 conservatives who hated Obama for not releasing Bergdahl — and now hate Obama for freeing him
Pete Kasperowicz / TheBlaze.com: McCain hits New York Times for 'shameful' editing of his statement on Bergdahl
DMartyr / The Jawa Report: NYT: Bergdahl Just A "Free-Spirit;" Capture Was His Lying Platoon's Fault
Ruchi Parekh / Just Security: News Roundup and Notes: June 6, 2014
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist: The 8 Stupidest Arguments Being Made About Obama's Bergdahl Swap
Brendan Bordelon / The Daily Caller: Far-Left Media Buries Their Heads In The Sand Over Bergdahl Scandal
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Mark Hemingway / Weekly Standard: New York Times Editorial: Bergdahl's Unit 'As Much to Blame' For His Disappearance
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Did John McCain flip-flop on the Bergdahl deal?
Did John McCain flip-flop on the Bergdahl deal?
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: WH sales pitch on restrictions for released Taliban leaders not exactly a confidence-builder
BooMan / Booman Tribune: John McCain is a Former POW
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo: Fact Checker: Despite What McCain Says, He Flip-Flopped On Bergdahl Swap
Jim Geraghty / National Review: The Administration's Cavalcade of Lies on the Bergdahl Deal Continues
Jeryl Bier / Weekly Standard: State Dept. in January: Giving In to Terrorist Demands 'Perpetuates the Action' of Kidnappings
Laura Clawson / Daily Kos: John McCain flip-flops on Bowe Bergdahl, then lies about it
Burgess Everett / Politico: John McCain aide disputes flip-flop charge
Jeff Bell / Wall Street Journal:
43 beats 44, 48% to 42%. — This has to hurt: A plurality …
43 beats 44, 48% to 42%. — This has to hurt: A plurality …
Discussion: Washington Post, The PJ Tatler, RedState, Associated Press and protein wisdom
Greg Sargent / Washington Post: On Bowe Bergdahl, lawmakers need to do better
Bryan Preston / The PJ Tatler: Former Defense Secretary Reveals Disturbing Truth Behind the Bergdahl Deal
Deputy shot at Forsyth Co. courthouse — FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Cumming police say a Forsyth County deputy was shot at the county courthouse. — The shooting happened at Forsyth County Administration Building on East Main Street Friday morning. Law enforcement sources told Channel …
Discussion: WXIA-TV, Mediaite, The Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, Hinterland Gazette and Booman Tribune
Dennis Marx / WXIA-TV: Suspect dead in Forsyth County Courthouse shooting
Josh Feldman / Mediaite: GA Man with Grenades and Assault Rifle Rams Courthouse, Dies in Shootout with Police
Travis Gettys / The Raw Story: Heavily armed sovereign citizen wounds deputy in doomed GA courthouse takeover plot
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo: Deputy Shot At Georgia County Courthouse, Suspect Dead
Janet Shan / Hinterland Gazette: Dennis Marx ID'd as Forsyth County Courthouse Shooting Suspect, Home is an Explosive Trap
Steven D / Booman Tribune: Freedumb Strikes in Georgia
Mushtaq Yusufzai / NBC News:
Freed Taliban Commander Tells Relative He'll Fight Americans Again — "Noorullah Noori kept insisting he would go to Afghanistan and fight American forces there," a Taliban commander told NBC News.
Discussion: TPNN, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Hot Air, Independent Journal Review, National Review and The Gateway Pundit
Matthew Burke / TPNN: Terrorist Commander Freed by Obama Vows to Kill More Americans
Allahpundit / Hot Air: Freed Taliban vows: I'll fight Americans again
Caroline Schaeffer / Independent Journal Review: Just What We Feared: Freed Taliban Leader Vows To Return To His Reign Of Terror
Andrew Johnson / National Review: Qatar's 'Far from Satisfying' Approach to Returned Gitmo Prisoners
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit: Surprise! Freed Taliban Leader Vows to Return to Afghanistan & Kill More Americans
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
The Unraveling — How the Obama administration's story …
The Unraveling — How the Obama administration's story …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Daily Beast
The Seattle Times:
Hero's quick thinking likely saved lives at SPU — He's described as quiet, gentle, outdoorsy; a young man of deep Christian faith and dedicated student on the cusp of a promising life beyond college. But by several accounts Thursday, a single word prevailed when describing Seattle Pacific University student Jon Meis: hero.
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Mark Berman / Washington Post: After fatal shooting at Seattle Pacific University, two students remain hospitalized
Kevin Eckstrom / Religion News Service: Sister Cristina * Seattle shooting * Baptist beer : Friday's Roundup
Amanda Marcotte / The Raw Story: Turns out the thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a hall monitor with pepper spray
Laurel Dalrymple / NPR: Heroes Among Us: When Ordinary People Become Extraordinary
Taylor Berman / Gawker: Seattle Gunman Reportedly Obsessed With Columbine
Digby / Hullabaloo: Sanity-1 Wayne LaPierre-0
Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
D-Day Interpretive Dance Caps Off Month of Disrespect for Vets — If you weren't sure that the Western world's supposed admiration for the sacrifices of military veterans was just lip service, you were privy to a rather definitive confirmation of that fact in the past four weeks.
Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler, Ed Driscoll, The Jawa Report and Fox News
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Man Killed in Accidental Shooting While Driving — A family is grieving after a man, who was only a mile away from his home, accidentally shoots himself while driving Wednesday afternoon. — 49-year-old James McKenzie died from his injuries. — NewsChannel 9 has learned that the victim …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Mediaite and Joe. My. God.
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo: Tennessee Man Accidentally Shoots, Kills Self While Driving
D-Day: Hove veteran disappears for Normandy trip — Staff had not been able to get Bernard Jordan on to an accredited tour to Normandy, but he made his own way there — An 89-year-old WW2 veteran disappeared from his nursing home without saying where he was going and went to France for the D-Day commemorations.
Discussion: WAMC, Hullabaloo and The PJ Tatler
Camila Domonoske / WAMC: WWII Vet, AWOL From Nursing Home, Found At Normandy Ceremonies
Digby / Hullabaloo: He's still got it
Stephen Kruiser / The PJ Tatler: British WWII Vet Bails on Nursing Home to Attend D-Day Ceremony
Marc Caputo / Naked Politics:
Dem donor John Morgan blasts 'irrelevant...irritant' DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz over RX pot — Major Democratic donor John Morgan blasted the national party's chair, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, as an "irritant" who is becoming "irrelevant" after she voiced concerns …
Discussion: TPNN and Washington Free Beacon
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Dialing It In — One evening in March, during a visit to Italy, President Obama asked the U.S. ambassador to round up a bunch of—and I quote—"interesting Italians" for a dinner at the ambassadorial residence. The history of the property, the Villa Taverna, goes as far back as the tenth century.
Discussion: Washington Monthly, Ed Driscoll and The PJ Tatler
Roy Edroso / alicublog:
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and Eschaton
Atrios / Eschaton: Where's My Party Invitation
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Brooklyn Will Vie to Host 2016 Democratic National Convention, de Blasio Says — Brooklyn, a nexus of the new Democratic left that has morphed from working-class enclave to a gritty, global arbiter of cool, will vie to host the Democratic National Convention in 2016, Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City said on Friday.
Discussion: CNN, OnPolitics, Des Moines Register, Washington Post, Hit & Run, The Week and Politico
Paul Steinhauser / CNN: Will the race for the White House go through Brooklyn?
Catalina Camia / OnPolitics: Brooklyn submits bid for 2016 Democratic convention
Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Hit & Run: Brooklyn Bids for 2016 Democratic National Convention
Jordan Valinsky / The Week: Brooklyn wants to host the 2016 Democratic National Convention
Jonathan Topaz / Politico: Brooklyn to bid for DNC 2016
The White House:
Remarks by President Obama at the 70th Anniversary of D-Day — Omaha Beach, Normandy — Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial — PRESIDENT OBAMA: President Hollande; to the people of France; friends; the family; our veterans: — If prayer were made of sound, the skies over England that night would have deafened the world.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal, White House.gov Blog, Outside the Beltway and Bloomberg View
Jeff Horwitt / Wall Street Journal: Obama's D-Day Mission
David Hudson / White House.gov Blog: Day 4: The President Commemorates the 70th Anniversary of D-Day
Marc Champion / Bloomberg View: Putin and Obama Don't See D-Day the Same Way
70 years later, D-Day vet Jim 'Pee Wee' Martin jumps again
70 years later, D-Day vet Jim 'Pee Wee' Martin jumps again
Discussion: Gawker, The Verge, Outside the Beltway, Independent Journal Review, protein wisdom and AMERICAN DIGEST
Aleksander Chan / Gawker: Watch A 93-Year-Old WWII Vet Recreate His D-Day Parachute Jump
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: Watch this: 93-year-old paratrooper recreates his D-Day jump
Caroline Schaeffer / Independent Journal Review: WATCH: 93-Year-Old WWII Vet Jim 'Pee Wee' Martin Jumps Into Normandy To Mark 70th Anniversary
Wall Street Journal:
Schumer Drops by Graduations to Tell Same 'Loser' Story — New York Senator Often Arrives Unadvertised but Colleges Aren't Complaining; 'It's a Tradition' — New York Sen. Chuck Schumer likes to show up unannounced at college commencements in the state, and he often tells this story about the summer after he graduated from Harvard.
Discussion: Politico, Capital New York, Business Insider and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Scott Wong / Politico: HOW FREEDOMWORKS PLANS TO HELP BEAT COCHRAN - …
Colin Campbell / Business Insider: Chuck Schumer Can't Stop Telling Young People About His College Breakup
Michael Peck / The National Interest:
Five Ways D-Day Could Have Been a Disaster — With hindsight, it is easy to assume that by 1944, the Third Reich was doomed. It could have all gone very wrong. — General Dwight D. Eisenhower's face was grim but composed as he read a short message to the assembled group of reporters on the morning of June 7, 1944.
Discussion: Real Clear Politics, Power Line and The Other McCain
Ronald Reagan / Real Clear Politics: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc
Scott Johnson / Power Line: The ordeal of Omaha Beach
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain: 'Hold Until Relieved'