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Dove opener coming soon
Although we are entering the dreaded "Dog Days" of summer, the cool weather we've enjoyed over the last few weeks has a lot of people thinking about hunting.
That's not surprising, considering the Sept. 1 dove season opener is less than a month away.
Smart hunters highlighted that square on their calendars long ago, and they've already begun preparing. First and foremost is securing permission to hunt traditional dove hotspots.
"Responsible hunters always get permission to hunt on private land, and right now is a good time to contact landowners and make arrangements for dove hunting," said Alan Peoples, chief of Wildlife for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. "Dove hunters also should be sure to pick up a new Migratory Bird Harvest Information Program Permit before the season begins."
The free HIP permits are required of all migratory bird hunters in the United States and have been required in Oklahoma for five years. Data collected from the surveys helps federal migratory bird biologists better gauge bird harvests and hunter numbers, which will translate to improved migratory bird management.
Besides the HIP permit, dove hunters must possess a resident or non-resident Oklahoma hunting license. They're available at all authorized license dealers. Only landowners hunting on their own property and hunters under 16 years of age, or those 64 and older, are exempt from having to carry the HIP permit while hunting.
Basic equipment for dove hunting
Although dove hunting is one of the simplest forms of recreation available to Oklahoma sportsmen, getting started can seem complicated for beginners.
It shouldn't be. Besides your hunting license and HIP permit, all you really need to enjoy this great sport is a shotgun, some shotgun shells and a place to hunt.
When selecting a shotgun for dove hunting, you can go as plain or as fancy as your budget allows. You can purchase a brand new, 12- or 20-gauge slide-action (pump) shotgun for less than $250, or you can get one used for considerably less. Perhaps you can even get a friend to loan you a gun. If you don't want to pay for a top name shotgun, you can often shop around for good deals on off-brand autoloading shotguns.
When hunting migratory birds like dove, shotgun magazines must be plugged so that they can't hold more than three shells (one in the chamber, two in the magazine). Most new shotguns are already plugged, but older guns might not be. Check before you go afield.
Selecting a good dove load is simple, too. If you use a 20-gauge shotgun, you can get by with 7/8-ounce loads, but one-ounce loads deliver a heavier payload and more energy. A good 12-gauge dove load should have at least 1 1/8 ounces of shot. The payload, powder load and shell size are always clearly marked on the box. Some brands will clearly say in bold letters if certain loads are intended for dove.
By all means, make sure you select the right gauge and shell size for your gun. There are three different sizes of 12-gauge shells (2 3/4-inch, 3-inch and 3 1/2-inch) and two different sizes for 20-gauge (2 3/4-inch and 3-inch). Don't ever try to fire a three-inch 12- or 20-gauge shell from a gun that's chambered for only 2 3/4-inch shells. And, whatever you do, don't try to load a 20- or 16-gauge shell into a 12-gauge chamber.
If you need a place to hunt, now is the time to start scouting for areas that are holding birds and visiting with landowners for permission to hunt. The sooner you start the better because if you wait until the last minute, you may find it more difficult to get permission.
Many of the wildlife management areas owned by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation also offer excellent dove hunting. To help you find the best areas near you, the Department's Wildlife Management Areas atlas has maps of all these areas, complete with descriptions of their habitat and what types of hunting are available at each. It costs $10 and is available at the Department's main office in Oklahoma City, or by calling 405/521-3852.
Pay close attention to regulations for public areas. Some, like Hackberry Flat WMA, allow only the use of federally approved, non-toxic shot for dove hunting. You can find out by picking up a copy of the 2000-2001 Oklahoma Hunting Guide & Regulations, available at all sporting goods retailers statewide.
Hunters, start your engines!
To help Oklahoma sportsmen prepare for the upcoming hunting seasons, the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation has released its 2000-2001 Hunting Guide & Regulations, available soon at retail outlets and sporting goods stores throughout the state.
With dove season less than a month away and deer seasons following right behind, the new regulations are just in time to help Oklahoma's sportsmen and sportswomen begin planning their fall outings. Now is the time to pencil in some hunting dates, put in for some time off from work and get things squared away around the house so you can get the most enjoyment from Oklahoma's autumn hunting opportunities.
Packaged in a handy, colorful booklet, the 2000-2001 Oklahoma Hunting Guide & Regulations is the most complete and comprehensive set of regulations ever produced by the Wildlife Department. It has complete information on both resident and non-resident licenses and permits, season dates and general hunting regulations. It also has more specific information for hunting deer and turkey, small game, such as rabbits and squirrels; upland game, such as pheasant and quail and migratory birds, such as dove. There's also a section that details new hunting regulations for this fall.
Also, this year's regulations have a sunrise and sunset table, as well as individual sections for each of the Department's wildlife management areas. Each topic and sub-topic is color coded, making it easier to find the information you need at a glance.
"The Oklahoma Hunting Guide & Regulations is the most complete hunting guide available for Oklahoma sportsmen," said Nels Rodefeld, assistant chief of the Department's Information and Education Division, "and best of all, it's free. It has virtually everything you need to know about hunting safely and legally in Oklahoma."
"We view the hunting regulations as one of the most important products we offer to the public, and we will continue to not only improve the information in the regulations, but also the way that information is presented," he added.
Like last year, the 2000-2001 Hunting Guide & Regulations features paid advertising to help offset the cost of printing and designing the bigger and better booklets. This allows the Department to improve and refine the regulations without additional cost to the Oklahoma's license-buying sportsmen and women.
Key Hunting Season Dates
Sept. 1 Oct. 30
Deer Archery:
Oct. 1 Nov. 17
Nov. 27 Dec. 31
Deer Primitive:
Oct. 28 Nov. 5
Deer Gun:
Nov. 18 26
Nov. 1 Jan. 31
Fall Firearms Turkey:
Nov. 4 - 17
Check the Internet for Controlled Hunts
For the second straight year, the results of the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation's Controlled Hunts drawings are available over the Internet.
Developed in 1999, this service allows Controlled Hunts applicants with access to the Internet to see instantly whether they were drawn for a hunt. In the past, applicants would spend hours poring through the Controlled Hunts books on display at the Department's headquarters and regional offices, often after driving several hours from remote locations. Those who weren't drawn for a hunt then faced an even longer drive back home.
The success of electronic notification is evident in the lack of crowds at the Department's main office lobby in Oklahoma City. The results became available on July 24, and by the end of the day, more than 10,000 people had checked their applications electronically.
"As the personal computer becomes more useful in our daily lives, the Department has been looking for ways make its services more readily available over the Internet," said Melinda Sturgess, chief of administration for the Department. "We are greatly encouraged by the success of the electronic notification system for the Controlled Hunts, and we are pleased that our state's sportsmen have found it so useful and convenient."
If you have access to a personal computer, checking the Controlled Hunts results is easy. Simply direct your web browser to the Department's home page at www.wildlifedepartment.com. Once there, scroll down to the banner that says, "Check The Results of the 2000-2001 Oklahoma Controlled Hunts." Enter your social security number or driver's license number (if different than your social security number), and you'll learn instantly which hunts, if any, you'll be able to participate in this fall.
Outdoor Oklahoma nationally recognized
At this year's Association for Conservation Information's (ACI) Annual Conference at Reno, Nev., Outdoor Oklahoma was recognized for consistently producing some of the nation's best conservation information.
Outdoor Oklahoma, the official magazine of the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, took third place in the best four-color magazine category. Adding to its tradition of outstanding color photography, Outdoor Oklahoma also took third place nationally in color photography.
Also, the Department's Information and Education Division took second place nationally in the media campaigns category for its promotional efforts surrounding the dedication of Hackberry Flat Wildlife Management Area in 1999.
Subscriptions to the bi-monthly magazine are available for only $10 per year and can be ordered by calling 1-800-777-0019. Interested subscribers can ask to be billed later, or you can pay by credit card.
"It's an honor to our Department and to our staff to have received this type of national recognition for the work we do," said Nels Rodefeld, assistant chief of Information and Education and editor of Outdoor Oklahoma. "We have a very conscientious staff and strive to effectively communicate vital outdoor information to our constituents. It helps that we are fortunate enough to work in a state where so many people are interested in hunting, fishing and outdoor recreation in general."
CARA passes out of Senate committee
Oklahoma moved a step closer to securing important federal wildlife resources funding Tuesday as the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee passed the Conservation and Reinvestment Act (CARA, H.R. 701) to the full Senate.
The committee voted 13-7 in favor of CARA. If signed into law, CARA would provide the largest infusion of federal conservation funds in history, $40 billion over the next 15 years, most of which will go to state and local conservation programs. The bill dedicates revenue from offshore oil and gas leases to a broad range of conservation activities, including wildlife, land and water restoration, historic preservation, outdoor recreation, and conservation education. The House of Representative passed similar legislation in May by a strong bipartisan vote of 315-102.
For Oklahoma, CARA would provide about $17 million a year for at least 15 years, said Ron Suttles, head of the Natural Resources section for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. About $6 million per year will directly benefit wildlife resources conservation, while nearly $7 million per year will benefit tourism. The remainder of the balance will be used for other purposes, such as landowner assistance.
"With CARA, Congress has a chance to send a strong and lasting message about the importance of wildlife and natural resources conservation in America," Suttles said. "As the agency constitutionally responsible for the management of Oklahoma's wildlife resources, we are very excited about the opportunities this bill will provide to ensure the long-term health of those resources."
The Senate's bipartisan compromise version of CARA, crafted by Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chair Frank Murkowski (R-AK) and Ranking Democrat, Jeff Bingaman (NM), represents a strong and balanced approach that will protect wildlife, coastal areas, recreation and historic sites at the national, state, and local levels.
More than 52 senators are now co-sponsoring CARA or related legislation that would reinvest federal outer continental shelf oil and gas revenue into conservation, indicating the growing support for CARA. In addition, all 50 governors support these bills or their concepts and have worked to move this legislation through Congress.
Emphasizing proactive species management, CARA will provide funds for conserving important wildlife habitat, conducting field research to design wildlife management plans, and working cooperatively with private landowners in a non-regulatory, incentive based manner, said David Waller, president of the International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies.
"Expanded funding is necessary for states to conserve the full spectrum of wildlife," Waller said. "It will allow states to employ a much needed prevention approach to wildlife conservation to avoid the listing of endangered species, along with wildlife-associated education and recreation. The $350 million that CARA will provide annually for wildlife conservation will address some of the most serious wildlife problems facing our nation.
"Conserving wildlife and wildlife habitat goes hand in hand with meeting the rising demands for nature tourism, wildlife viewing, and more places close to home to enjoy nature," he added. "CARA will help us assure that our children stay connected to the outdoors and the nation maintains its strong conservation commitment. This is increasingly important as more and more people move to urban areas and have less connection with the outdoors."
Allocation of CARA Funds
The Senate's version of the Conservation and Reinvestment Act would reinvest almost $3 billion annually in federal Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas revenue back into natural resources conservation through the following programs:
$805 million - State Coastal Impact Assistance and Stewardship (Title I)
$900 million - Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) (state and federal formula) (Title II)
$350 million - State-Level Wildlife Conservation and Restoration Fund (Title III)
$75 million - Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Fund (Title IV)
$50 million - Urban and Community Forestry Fund
$150 million - Historic Preservation Fund (state and local grants) and Battlefield Protection Program (Title V)
$125 million - National Park Service and Indian Land Restoration Programs (Title VI)
$100 million - Conservation Easements to Farm and Ranch Land Protection Program and Forest Legacy Program (Title VII)
$50 million - Rural Development Program and Rural Community Assistance Program
$60 million - Youth Conservation Corps
$325 million - Payment In-Lieu of Taxes (PILT)
Konawa best big lake for bass numbers
For bass fishing prospects on lakes larger than 1,000 acres, Lake Konawa in south-central Oklahoma appears to be a promising destination, according to spring electrofishing data released by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation.
Covering 1,300 acres near Konawa, Lake Konawa produced 188 bass per hour of electrofishing during this year's surveys. That's a slight drop from last year, when it produced 207 bass per hour.
Ranking second was Dripping Springs Lake, which produced more than 172 bass per hour during this year's electrofishing bass surveys. The Department did not sample it last year. Grand Lake in northeast Oklahoma ranked third with 145 bass per hour. That's a considerable jump from 1999, when it produced 107 bass per hour.
Ranking fourth was Lake Broken Bow (107 bass per hour), followed by McGee Creek Lake (103 bass per hour), Lake Hudson (90 bass per hour), Lake Skiatook (83 bass per hour) and Lake Texoma (82 bass per hour).
If you're interested in big bass, Lake Konawa topped that category, too. For each hour of electrofishing, it produced about 84 bass per hour longer than 14 inches. That's a slight jump from last year, when 81 bass per hour were longer than 14 inches.
Grand Lake ranked second in that category with about 56 bass per hour that were longer than 14 inches. Ranking third was Lake Hudson (47 bass per hour over 14 inches), followed by McGee Creek (34 bass per hour over 14 inches), Lake Texoma (29 bass per hour over 14 inches) and Lake Fuqua (28 bass per hour over 14 inches).
"Lake Konawa has a good forage base, good production and good recruitment, all of which indicate a healthy bass fishery," said Kim Erickson, chief of fisheries for the Department. "From what we've seen over the last few years, it's been a very consistent producer during spring sampling."
This year, no lake larger than 1,000 acres produced a bass that exceeded 10 pounds. Lake Ellsworth produced the largest bass during spring electrofishing, and it weighed 8.8 pounds. Two other lakes produced bass larger than eight pounds, including Dripping Springs (8.7 pounds) and Webbers Falls (8.1 pounds).
Data from the springtime bass survey is divided between that collected from lakes larger than 1,000 acres, and lakes smaller than 1,000 acres. The data is used to determine the health and trends of individual bass fisheries. Regional fisheries management personnel capture bass using electrofishing equipment, and then they weigh and measure each fish before releasing them back into the water unharmed. The information helps biologists determine which lakes might benefit from specialized management techniques such as length and slot limits.
The Department rates a lake as high quality when it produces more than 15 bass over 14 inches per hour of electrofishing. Quality lakes yield more than 10 bass over 14 inches per hour of electrofishing, and those which produce fewer than 10 per hour are considered below average.
In terms of total numbers of bass per hour, lakes that yield more than 60 bass of any size per hour are rated as high quality. Those producing 40 bass or more per hour are considered "quality" lakes, and less than 40 per hour are considered below average.
Adair tops bass list for small lakes
Among lakes smaller than 1,000 acres, Adair Recreation Lake in Adair County produced the most bass per hour during spring electrofishing surveys conducted by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation.
In terms of overall numbers, Adair Lake produced 198 bass per hour of electrofishing, a big jump from last year when it yielded 124 bass per hour. Ranking second was Mountain Lake in Garvin Co., with nearly 183 bass per hour, followed by Lake Raymond Gary in Choctaw Co. (128 bass per hour) , Taylor Lake in Grady Co. (124 bass per hour) and American Horse Lake in Blaine Co. (122 bass per hour).
Rounding out the top 10 small lakes were Chimney Rock Lake in Mayes Co. (120 bass per hour), Okemah Lake in Okfuskee Co. (101 bass per hour), Onapa Lake in McIntosh Co. (96 bass per hour), Boomer Lake in Osage Co. (90 bass per hour), and Sportsman Lake in Seminole County (90 bass per hour).
For numbers of bass larger than 14 inches per hour of electrofishing, Mountain Lake was the top producer with 137. Durant Lake was a distant second with more than 67 bass per hour over 14 inches, followed by Okemah Lake (61 bass per hour over 14 inches) Lake Raymond Gary in Choctaw Co. (36 bass per hour over 14 inches), and Lake Fairfax in Osage Co. (nearly 35 bass per hour over 14 inches)
No lake smaller than 1,000 acres produced a largemouth weighing 10 pounds or more, but three - Sportsman Lake, Lake Raymond Gary and Lake Holdenville - each produced a bass weighing more than eight pounds. Sportsman Lake produced one that weighed 8.9 pounds, Raymond Gary yielded one that weighed 8.8 pounds, and Lake Holdenville produced one that weighed 8.5 pounds.
Lake Watonga in Blaine Co., yielded a 7.5-pound bass, and Lake Vincent in Ellis Co., produced a 7.2-pounder.
Since only a few of Oklahoma's small lakes were surveyed, Kim Erickson, chief of fisheries for the Department, said that anglers shouldn't use the data as a comprehensive guide to quality fishing in Oklahoma. Many other lakes that weren't surveyed this year also have outstanding bass populations.
"Although the results of the survey can help anglers find good places to fish, they're not the only information anglers should use when making their decisions on where to go," Erickson said. "There are hundreds of small lakes across the state, and we can't survey all of them every year. Based on the numbers, these are the best lakes we surveyed this year, but they're not necessarily the best in the state."
Electrofishing surveys are conducted by regional fisheries management personnel to measure the health and trends of individual bass fisheries. Bass captured during the surveys are weighed, measured and released back into the water unharmed. The information collected helps biologists determine which lakes might benefit from specialized management techniques, such as length or slot limits.
In evaluating electrofishing data, the Department rates a lake as high quality when it produces more than 15 bass over 14 inches per hour of electrofishing. Quality lakes yield more than 10 bass over 14 inches per hour, while those producing fewer than 10 are considered below average.
For total numbers of bass per hour, lakes that yield more than 60 bass of any size per hour are rated as high quality. Those producing 40 or more bass per hour are considered "quality" lakes, and less than 40 per hour is considered below average.
Quail symposium at Kingfisher
Anyone interested in quail research and management should attend the first Bollenbach Quail Symposium Aug. 4 at the Chisholm Trail Vo-Tech near Kingfisher.
Hosted by Dr. Fred Guthery, professor and Bollenbach Chair of Wildlife Ecology at Oklahoma State, the one-day symposium will focus on the major issues concerning bobwhite quail management. It will also provide an opportunity for landowners, hunters and other individuals to work more closely to address these issues. Guthery is considered one of the nation's leading authorities on bobwhite quail management and research.
"I would like to get as many people as possible involved in quail conservation and management issues and encourage them to communicate with each other more effectively," Guthery said. "We all have common outlooks, and we're all concerned about quail populations. I also hope to increase understanding about some of the new ideas that have evolved about quail management."
Among the topics that will be discussed are landowner and hunter issues, management techniques and strategies relating to quail, deer and turkey; farm and ranch planning for wildlife, landowner assistance programs, liability, the pros and cons of quail feeding and management misconceptions, just to name a few.
"Bobwhite quail are the traditional symbol of Oklahoma's sporting culture, and we believe the Bollenbach Quail Symposium will be an excellent forum to advocate better quail management among private landowners," said Alan Peoples, chief of wildlife for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. "It will also be a valuable forum to increase and improve dialog between hunters and landowners for the benefit of quail."
Among a blue-ribbon panel of speakers will be Alan Peoples, Russ Horton, John Hendrix and Steve Burge from the Wildlife Department, as well as Dale Rollins from the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, who is best known as the founder of the Bobwhite Brigade youth program. Also on the program will be Roger Wells, national habitat coordinator for Quail Unlimited.
Registration for the event will begin Aug. 4 at 8:30 a.m. The registration fee is $20 before July 28, and $25 after July 28. The fee includes the price of meals and materials.


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Watch "Fareed Zakaria GPS" Sunday at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET.
There is much speculation these days about power struggles in China in the wake of the ouster of Bo Xilai, the powerful party boss of Chongqing.
China's political system will surely be tested but in the short run, its leaders may have dodged a bullet.
Bo Xilai was a charismatic, Machiavellian leader, who used populism, money, and power to build a political base.
Had he not been brought down – by a series of mistakes, revelations, and bad luck for him – he might well have altered the nature of the technocratic system that now runs China.
In the short run, China might well survive its political crisis. But it faces a more immediate challenge: an economic crisis.
Watch the video above for more about China's economic future or read more in my column at the Washington Post.
I'm not sure "slowdown" is the word. The most accurate accounts of their economic status tends to come from expats.
If your stocking commodities in warehouses to the sky, or where their overflowing next to grain commodities, what does that say about industrial and consumer demand. Cities and real estate developments with no signs of economic or human habitation.
Chinese culture sucks. What have they ever done for the world in the last 1000 years? Nothing.
Don't be mean. They did invent skinning people alive. Not that great of an invention imo.
Porcelain is invented by Chinese. All paper-making technology is from China.
You are moron, learn history before you shame your self. Chauvisme only bring destruction. Please respect the others
gunpowder, modern sailing, just a few things
China, the world's second biggest economy has experienced its slowest growth for three years. It has been hit by two effects. Firstly the slowdown in the Eurozone is affecting the exports to and investments in China. Secondly property investment in China – amount to 1/8 of GDP – is slowing down too. Ahead of the transition of power in autumn, stability is key in this handover year. In order to keep economy stable China are "moving into stimulus mode" and investing in infrastructure, such as airports and railways, and project for affordable housing en masse. The growth plan for the next 5 years is set at 7,58% instead of 8%. Still enviable enoguh for many in the West. If growth fell to 6% there would be a problem. Interesting enough one sees a capital outflow from China. Chinese are increasingly buying prime properties abroad instead of investing at home.
Based on what Fareed has said, it seems like slowing down is a natural part of the cycle. China should be commended for taking initiative in fighting poverty, while not demanding unrealistic growth forecasts in the long-term.
China is a poor, misery filled prison.
China's government should be on trial for crimes against humanity.
Only pple gna hurt by chinas slow economy is filthy sunni paki ..america leaving soon , china will be next partying down with india as they have billions of dollars in import and export ... pakistan is just a hoe china keeps on side to scare states and isreal
China slowing down? Looks like China misses the Americn middle class too.
The only thing we should care about is when we go shopping we don't have buy made in China. As long as I have to buy made in China, I can see US's economy still in very bad shape and unemployment still a big problem for US.
made in China = made in USA
Everything is bad in China but everything is hunkory dory in India. LOL!!!! Sounds like CNN an instrument of implementing Yankee foreign policy??? You bet. Here is one for the road
The only growth left in India is the hair between the legs. Value of rupee has tanked, inflation is in the clouds, stock market has crashed, corruption is rampant, hospitals are burning, people are dying in scores, societal values have rotted, Microsoft and GE are pulling the plug on call centers...Dell and Delta Airlines have almost packed up and shifted the call centers to Canada. Pakistan has opened up Wagah Border to provide food aid for India (Thank you, Pakistan, for helping out).
New, More Dangerous Hindu Extremist Groups Emerge in India
Christians concerned as rightwing factions splinter to form militant outfits.
PUNE, India, October 29 (CDN) — After more than a decade of severe persecution, India's Christian minority is growing increasingly concerned over the mushrooming of newer and deadlier Hindu extremist groups.
Gone are the days when Christians had to watch out only for the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council) and its youth wing, Bajrang Dal, which are closely linked with the most influential Hindu extremist umbrella organization, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). With voter support faltering for the RSS's political wing, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), moderate and extremist sections within the Hindu nationalist movement are blaming each other, and militant splinter groups have emerged.
Claiming to be breakaway factions of the RSS, new groups with even more extreme ideology are surfacing. The Abhinav Bharat (Pride of India), the Rashtriya Jagran Manch (National Revival Forum), the Sri Ram Sene (Army of god Rama), the Hindu Dharam Sena (Army for Hindu Religion) and the Sanatan Sanstha (Eternal Organization) have launched numerous violent attacks on Christian and Muslim minorities.
Thanks for a low down on India u stupid fool. All this rant about right wing hindus does not cut it as the whole world is hunting down wanting terrorists in Pakistan a.k.a. terrorist state of pakistan. Hoes take money from states and saudis and chinese (do not know how many fathers are), keep summarily killing minorities and their own women (hudood ordinace), lone ahmadi who earned noble prize had his grave destroyed and their passports denounce ahmadis. I mean pakis are the most advanced self delusional fools in the whole word. They try to keep teaching the whole world values whereas the sole aim of population to exist is to feed the corrupt military whose wet dreams are conquering India and then global domination. That is another thing that except for Punjab, the sindhis, balochis and FATA and NWFA simply hate them and their ilk and rickshaw drives sell kidneys to survive. Go on, loot ur own poor people and send money to swiss banks and ur children to states. Kepp feeding everybody jihand, come early to the border, we will send u to meet ur 72 fast, that is our mission u clowns
why all the hate for India? You get some bad Curry?
China's growth is down because it has been artificially inflated. It is still artificially inflated, they are just slowing that down a little bit. If China was to allow the value of the currency to be true rather than manipulate it the way they do, their economy would crash and you would see that their growth was completely based on the fact that they had artificially cheap exports.
NO. China is an atheist country, it will never slow down. Religious America will soon die
Time to contemplate after where it can go in full force. Chinese are respectable people if they even export curly bamboo stalks to bring home the bacon.
When Sarah Palin was asked to weigh in on this she stated that she likes the egg foo yung.
China never had a War. How the slowdown occurred?
There will be NO hard, soft or any sort of landings for China everyone is wildly guessing.
I think China is shifting it's focus on a new strategy. Which is abandoning dependence on its exports to the West and Europe, while concentrating on expanding its trade agreements throughout Asia and the emerging countries like everyone is doing.
Chinese people will prosper, earn higher salaries and become the mass consumers for China home made products. This is easily achievable for them because of the sheer size of its population. And it can be furher enhanced if China reverses its one child policy, and increase its population to 2 billion. But before that can happen China will have to expand its agriculture and other food productions to feed this amazing number of people.
Not surprising, their system limits their growth. Their economy per person is still very weak well within the developing country margin.
China's political maturing is somewhat less Hollywood than America's. It is less dramatic than the impeachment of Nixon and the almost impeachment of Clinton.
And of course, there is that political, symbolic, dramatic, shoe in the face bullet of Bush Jr.
The only things that are possibly crasing are Eu and US economies !
How can anyone who donteven know what is happening in China is predictings a crash landing. Gawd.
If there is any crash landing it will be the property business in SHANGHAI. The rest of China's emerging states are doing better than Europe and America. These states are prospering and will contribute to China's GDP growth. For the next 20 years.
The only things that are possibly crashing are Eu and US economies !
How can anyone who donteven know what is happening in China is predictings a crash landing. Gawd.
If there is any crash landing it will be the property business in SHANGHAI. The rest of China's emerging states are doing better than Europe and America. These states are prospering and will contribute to China's GDP growth. For the next 20 years.
[ Great China is emerging and unstoppable ]
The Republic of China (ROC Taiwan), Hong Kong, Singapore and Mainland China (PRC) have same culture and language. All Taiwan's passport and ID are printed as "Republic of China". Possibly after the per capita income of Mainland China is same with Republic of China, then Mainland China will slow down on her economic growth.
China has longest (lasting) history, and her history record is preserved well; the civilization has passed several difficult and prosperous periods. Now the living standard and world position both are upgrading, so Chinese are becoming happier. Why clash?
South Korea and ROC Taiwan are "slow down", but is still growing, at least is faster than many countries. After 2025 China (Mainland China + ROC Taiwan + Hong Kong) will surpass the US on GDP and military forever. In 2025 Singapore will have highest per capita income on the earth. That is the future.
Even Mainland China's economic growth is 5 %; it is not a crisis certainly. It is a cheerful and healthy growth. You could not always run, rest is important for next run.
Of course, Mainland China's economic growth will slow down in the future; it will happen after China's GDP is 4 times bigger than the US.
You told very well.Thanks. I believe what your mentioned.
Chinese never become as US due to China has lack of moral. Politiclly China so delay on world. Because they don't have right to express. Even many meddle east has to right to choose their leader but China don't have
What you don't want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Yah! This is the policy of China flashed back 5,000 years ago.
China, please save the world from the abyss!!!
china is really abyss!
Whether its stop at one, two or three, these are options China once they are economically ready for it.. It will take time. Like they always say Rome wasnt built in a day.
China current economic, and soon political, transformation, is truly awesome and should be an inspiration to all underdeveloped nations like Burma and North Korea to change their political course.
Asia , Africa and the emerging countries are looking to China than America.
I think its a shame that many Republican politicians do not want to work peacefully with China. These myopic politicians are still in never never land. They continue to believe in their own invisible greatness, refusing to believe America's dominance politically or economically is over.
US can become 3rd place at best.
America is a great country, but run by many incompetent politicians who are bankrupting their cities enmasse.


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- Angeliki Papathanasopoulou died when Marfin Egnatia Bank was firebombed during protests against Greece's first bail-out
- Investigations into the incident continue, while bank employees accused of neglecting safety duties are going to trial
- Greece is in political negotiations after elections were held on May 6, the first since the financial crisis exploded
- The first bailout was meant to save the country, but instead it has spiraled further into economic despair
The bank where she died in Athens is still shrouded in green tarpaulin and boarded off with corrugated iron. Graffiti scrawled in black across the front reads: "Traitors" and "killers."
This is where Angeliki Papathanasopoulou put in 12-hour days as a financial analyst at Marfin Egnatia Bank, working not only for the benefit of her family but also with a desire to contribute to the country she loved.
The site -- in the center of Athens, just minutes from Syntagma Square and in a commercial hub of the city -- is one door down from the historic Attikon Cinema, one of dozens of buildings torched during the city's explosive protests of February this year.
On May 6, two years since Greece took its first bailout and Angeliki died, the country held elections. No single party got more than 20% of the vote and, amid the fracturing of support, a second election will be held.
At 8am on May 5, 2010, Angeliki's husband Christos dropped her at the bank, on Stadiou Street. The couple lived just five kilometers away, in Vyronas, in the small apartment they had purchased a couple of years earlier.
Around 11am, Angeliki chatted on the phone with her mother Tota, then her older sister Sissy an hour later. Sissy was due to drive from her home in Patras to Athens that afternoon, before flying to meet her husband in Milan. The sisters discussed where they might eat together that evening. By then, Angeliki would have exciting news to share.
Four months pregnant with their first child, Angeliki and Christos were scheduled to learn the sex of their baby at an appointment that afternoon.
The plan was for Christos to pick her up at 3pm for the 4pm appointment, then they would see Sissy later. But, around 2pm, Christos took a call from his 32-year-old wife.
The bank was on fire.
A promising life remembered
Two years later, at the family home, an inches-deep pile of photographs frames the country's tragedy through a personal lens:
Angeliki as a baby, holding herself up by the tapestry chair where her father now sits to remember her; leaping across the stage in a white tutu during a ballet production as a young girl; sporting a Jackie O-esque hair-style in a photograph her father raises to his face to kiss.
The family has gathered in Aigio, two and a half hours by road from Athens, up a coastline flanked by the Ionian Sea and scattered with olive groves, lemon and orange trees.
On the dining table are delicate yellow freesias, brightening a room which is dense with love, and loss.
Sissy, who comes to the door with a wide smile, has made the short drive from Patras with her husband, Nikos Vasileiou.
Angeliki's mother, Tota, elegant in black with a simple silver cross around her neck, enters the living room carrying home-made yogurt cake, followed by braided koulourakia [Greek biscuits] and black coffee. The patriarch of this proud family, Haris, a retired lawyer, enters a few minutes later.
They greet Angeliki's husband, Christos Karapanagiotis, who has driven from Athens where he works for a shipping company, with kisses.
It is hard not to look at him without also glancing at the photograph of Angeliki on their wedding day in Loggos, the day she told her mother, "I feel like a princess," like "the center of the world."
The family recalls childhood summers, when the sisters spent the hot months of June to September with their cousins, Zeti and Angelina, at the family's beach-house in Loggos. "We would play grown-ups... from morning to midday, afterwards we were swimming and in the afternoon we would play in the mud," says Sissy, who is now a lawyer. "That was the program."
The sisters were close, exchanging letters and cards weekly and talking daily after Sissy moved to Athens to study. When Angeliki turned 18, they traveled to Paris together and spent 15 "perfect, perfect" days, says Sissy.
In Paris, they practiced their French, fell in love with the ancient Greek statue of Aphrodite of Milos at the Louvre, and bought posters of Monet and Manet to decorate their flat in the Exarcheia area of Athens. When the sisters were in their teens and their early 20s, the family traveled together to Italy, Austria and Switzerland.
"We were the closest friends. I knew everything about her and she knew everything about me," says Sissy. They would cover for each other when their parents called. "I was going out late, they would call and she would say 'no she can't [talk] she is sleeping'."
Angeliki grew up to be a sophisticated, erudite and witty woman who excelled in mathematics. She studied actuarial science at Cass Business School in London before returning to Athens in mid-2004, when the country was flush with the glory of the Olympic Games.
"That was a very, very good period for Greece," Christos says. "We wanted to come back. If you have a good job [in Greece], you can have a very good life. And we had the view that it was better to spend your efforts for Greece -- we wanted to spend our efforts for Greece."
Of his wife, Christos says: "It is difficult to find people who are so intelligent and well-balanced at the same time." With a quiet smile he adds, "Einstein was a genius but he was a genius in mathematics. Angeliki was not only a genius in mathematics -- she was a genius in everything. That is something you don't find easily in real life."
Christos and Angeliki both grew up in close families, and holidays were often spent with relatives.
Sissy saw Angeliki for the last time during Easter, which coincides with Sissy's "name day" -- a tradition to celebrate the provenance of one's name. Around 30 family members had gathered in Loggos to feast on oven-baked lamb and salads put together by Sissy and Angeliki. The sisters had both observed Lent by declining meat for seven days. Angeliki retired early that day, as her pregnancy was fatiguing. "She was sleeping all the time," says Sissy. But her sister was "very happy."
Angeliki and Christos were rooted. "We had no plans to leave," Christos says. "We are Greek citizens, and we would like to support ...Greek society. This is a beautiful country."
But by 2010, the country was in desperate financial trouble.
Rebellion sparks violence
On Sunday May 2, 2010, the eurozone's finance ministers declared they would inject €110 billion into Greece to save it from bankruptcy. Greece had finally capitulated to the demands of its eurozone peers. "The alternative course would be a catastrophe and greater pain for all," declared then-Prime Minister George Papandreou.
The situation was threatening global stability. The bailout was meant to save the hard-fought "European project," but it would leave the Greek people paying dearly for their boom times. In return for the funds, the government agreed to cut and freeze pension payments and public sector pay wages. Christmas, Easter and summer bonuses were abolished and taxes were raised.
A nationwide strike was called for May 5.
Angeliki and Christos were not worried. The streets were often rowdy with protests, but it was directed at government, and attacks against people were rare. Angeliki was in a "very big company," Christos says. "We thought it was safe," Sissy adds.
There had been dozens of marches up Stadiou Street, Christos says. "Everybody had the feeling [Angeliki] was working in a safe environment. You could never forecast what might have happened."
Greece's history of being ruled by others -- invaded by Italy in 1940 before being occupied by Germany, then shredded by civil war, ruled by a military dictatorship between 1967 and 1974 and now at the mercy of the European Troika of financial masters -- has traditionally set its people against the state.
"What makes Greece different from other European countries is that the state has always been an alien," says journalist Pavlos Tsimas. "The average citizen who pays taxes doesn't feel like they are doing good for society. They feel like they are being robbed. [Because] it is not the state we ourselves made out of our revolution.
"There is always ...this resistance. This gives any part of rebellion against the Greek state some kind of legitimacy."
But this time, violence would erupt against fellow Greeks.
Protests explode
Marfin Egnatia -- like most banks -- was a target for attacks.
At around 1:30pm on May 5, 2010, about 50 masked and gloved protesters -- one group among tens of thousands of people who protested in Athens that day -- were charging up Patission Street, recalls photographer Giorgos Moutafis. They turned left into Stadiou Street, toward Angeliki's workplace. Moutafis swung in behind them, snapping pictures until he felt it was too dangerous to continue.
Moutafis recalls the group -- who he says did not belong to any political movement -- bragging of 150 molotov cocktails, chanting "burn them, burn the rich." When the group got to Marfin, other protesters begged them not to attack the bank: "No, there are people in there." But they were ignored: "F**k them, burn it, burn the rich," the cries continued. The windows were smashed, gasoline splashed over the bank's floor and Molotov cocktails lobbed in. The protests rolled on toward tear gas being exploded in Syntagma Square.
Black smoke began pouring out of the windows of Marfin Egnatia Bank. Angeliki and two colleagues, Paraskeui Zoulia and Epameinondas Tsakalis, were killed by the toxic fumes.
Court documents allege a series of failings by a bank executive, the bank's external health and safety consultant and two managers -- including asking staff to remain inside and locking the main doors during the riots -- that contributed to the tragedy.
The documents say the staff were unable to access an emergency exit, with a door for disabled people that could be used in an emergency blocked by the fire. Further, they said the bank did not have a fire safety certificate, unbreakable windows, or security shutters drawn in readiness for the riots.
The bank rejects these allegations. Thirteen days after the fire, the then non-executive chairman of Marfin Popular Bank Group, Andreas Vgenopoulos, released a letter to staff denying liability. In it, he said the bank had all the statutory measures in place, including reinforced glass and an emergency exit.
It said the staff were not pressured to work or prevented from leaving, but had decided to stay inside for safety reasons. It also said the bank cooperated with external consultants, who reported to them every month and had not noted a problem. The letter said the attack was "murderous" and "wouldn't stop unless there were dead people."
A representative for Marfin said the bank maintains that position. He said the bank was in compliance with all statutory requirements, including those for emergency exits, and that there had been no request for staff to lock the doors. The representative also said the bank did not require a fire safety certificate, due to it being built before 1989.
Further, he said, the bank was confident the courts would rule in favor of the executives and there was "surprise" those who caused the incident remained free.
Within the labyrinthine interiors of the Athens courts, investigations into Marfin Egnatia Bank case inch along.
Four employees were due to go to trial in Athens on June 18, accused of causing the three deaths by neglecting safety duties. The trial has been delayed.
If convicted, the executives each face a sentence of three months to five years, which can be suspended, for each death. They also face charges in connection with the injuries of 21 people.
Up to five protesters are also being investigated for the fire-bombing of Ianos, the bookstore opposite Marfin Egnatia Bank. The inquiry remains in the preliminary stages but investigators suspect this group may also have been involved in the attack on Marfin Egnatia Bank.
Greece fractured
Today, Greece's social and political landscape is splintered, with support for the old guard of New Democracy and PASOK plummeting as parties on the edges attract support from the disenchanted.
Last month, after Greece had been forced into taking its second bailout, 77-year-old retired pharmacist Dimitris Christoulas killed himself in Syntagma Square, leaving a suicide note citing pain from the austerity measures.
Tsimas believes political support is driven by two sentiments: Anger and fear. The former support fringe parties, the latter establishment parties.
No matter what the negotiations deliver, the Greek people face a fifth year of recession, and the country remains at risk of being expelled from the eurozone.
"The numbers of really poor people has doubled," Tsimas says. "And the middle classes, who established themselves in the 80s, have lost their sense of security. They have the fright of the fall that could come every other day. " Further, he said, "there are millions in the public sector who feel betrayed."
Pepi Spiliotopoulou is owner and editor of newspaper Filodimos and Radio Egio, and went to the same school as the Papathanasopoulou sisters. Since the crisis hit, she has watched Aigio diaspora return, seeking solace in family plots which can produce the food they can no longer afford to buy.
But the country's struggles continue. Yorgos Avgeropoulos, of documentary production house Small Planet, says the greatest fear now is of "social explosion. You cannot stop hungry people entering, breaking into a supermarket. Right now if the police tear gas [people] they run. But in one moment they will stay because they have nothing to lose."
Says Pepi: "Angeliki was sacrificed for a good future. But the better future never came."
The Papathanasopoulou family do not know who was guilty of throwing the firebombs. But Christos questions a system that -- two years later, as buildings are again being torched -- is unable to assuage the country's pain. "We ask why. Who is responsible for that? Someone must be responsible for that. Some families have been destroyed. This is still recurring."
In Aigio, Angeliki's close family mark the second anniversary of her death by attending church and placing flowers at her grave.
For Sissy, Angeliki has never left. "My sister is around me all the time," she says. "I think about her every minute of the day. She is beside me and next to me, her spirit is around me. This is the way I see it, and the way I want to see it."


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|Massey House ca 1942
So the china, once owned by the Massey family (on hubby's paternal side) now passed into the hands of the Hooper family (on hubby's maternal side through marriage). Florence never opened the crates and the china sat unused until her death in 1996.
That is when my mother-in-law (Florence's niece) inherited the unopened, unused china. She displayed it in her china cabinet and used the set a few times over the 14 years she owned it. This past week she passed the china on to her son, my husband. She told me to use it and enjoy it and that is what I plan to do.
Although I'm not into big fancy china settings, this lovely set of Old English Rose by Royal Albert will grace our Christmas table this year. And my hubby can enjoy the fact that the Massey china, as it came to be known, has once again passed to a male Massey. Many hands have touched it in the last 70 years and hubby can have the fun of imagining his 2nd great grandparents entertaining guests in their tiny home. They did not have much money and the china was almost certainly the nicest thing they had.
And so the china has had its adventurous journey coming into the Massey family in the 1940s, leaving it in the '70s and returning once again in the 90s.


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When is a pre-ferment of use?
This question is not to, in any way, offend anyone's methods or knowledge of baking.
Having read numerous bread books, the consensus seems to be that you must have a pre-ferment. Bread made quickly via a straight dough will be not have near the flavor without a pre-ferment. Hmmm, sounds logical. But being of an inquisitive nature I did a test.
I made two batches (2 loaves per batch) of bread from a common recipe. It was a whole wheat loaf that is about 60%a bread flour and 40% whole wheat. It's a nice recipe and makes a wonderfully soft and lightly flavored whole wheat sandwich bread. For one batch I took the whole wheat (10 oz), water (10 oz) and a pinch of yeast to make a poolish. I mixed it and set it out covered in my kitchen for over 13 hours. The temperature was 70-72F.
On day two I made one batch using the poolish and another batch by just mixing it all at once and baking, a straight dough. Both batches had the same ingredients, same environment, same rise times and the same oven environment. And both batches look and taste identical. Same flavor, crust and crumb.
So. Did I do something wrong? Is a preferment of use in just certain cases? Or is a preferment only useful in whole grain recipes that do not have as much bread/ap flour in them?
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|Photo A
Look at the street scene in Photo A. It's one of several photos I had randomly grouped together from a family I believe to be related to my grandmother's Bulak or Kowalewski family in Kepno, Poland. I never really looked at the photo that closely before. The actual size of the physical photo is approximately 3 1/2" x 5 1/2", a little bigger than an index card. Small it doesn't look like much, does it? Now zoom in. Before I tell you what I see take a look for yourself.
I was amazed at the details of the lively scene unfolding. Look at the business under the sign "W. Piatkowski." I was able to see several of the words clear enough to translate them: wlosow, szczotki, lalek, perfumy, panow, manikure (hair, brush, dolls, perfume, men, manicure). See the two girls on the steps in their white jackets? It's a beauty shop! Check out the business to the left of the beauty shop. I don't know what it is, but it appears to be at number 30 on the street. The man walking on the sidewalk is carrying a cane, and there is a man leaning on the back of the car. The car has a license plate. There's a lamp in front of the beauty shop. A gas lamp maybe? A toddler with what appears to be a rake is standing just to the right of the lamp.
Look over on the far right side of the photo. What's going on over there? See the restaurant? I can make out a few words: piwo, win, herbata, kawa, zimne, cieple (beer, wine, tea, coffee, cold, warm). Do you see the man in the suit leaning out the window? Look at the business to the immediate left of the restaurant. The owner of the business is A. Mazur. Can you see what's in the window? Hats! Apparently A. Mazur was the owner of a hat shop!
See the business to the left of the hat shop? There's a man holding a baby. He is standing on the stairs under the awning and a woman is standing behind him. What about the store window? The writing on the window says "Sklad Obuwia (Composition Shoes) T. Walkowski," and there is a display of shoes on a shoe tree. Take another look at my post, Christmas in Poland 1929. The man in the photo is Tomasz Walkowski! Now I know what business he is in! Shoes! I also know from family letters Tomasz Walkowski was fairly well off and owned several apartment buildings in Kepno.
Look at Photo B. What do you see? Zoom in...
|Photo B
What else does Photo B tell us? Do you see the words Mleczarnia Kepnie? It's some kind of a dairy shop. See the man and the two women on the balcony above Mleczarnia Kepnie? Now look at the very top of the building with the children. Do you know when the building was built? 1933, and probably by someone with the initials J.W. Could W. stand for Walkowski? Another possible lead to follow up on...
Tuesday's Tip: Look at your photos closely and more than once. Zoom in to see the details. Have someone else look at your photos to see if he or she sees something that you do not, and if you are not familiar with a location ask someone else who might be. Sometimes there's more to a photo than you might initially think. Maybe you will see something today that you didn't see yesterday!
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President Obama says he didn't know the U.S. government was tapping Angela Merkel, and you know, maybe he didn't. I have come to wonder if we don't have what amounts to a deep state within the outer state in the U.S.—a deep state consisting of our intelligence and security agencies, which are so vast and far-flung in their efforts that they themselves don't fully know who's in charge and what everyone else is doing. Maybe they're bugging so many people it's hardly news to them when they bug the chancellor of Germany. Maybe they mentioned it to the president, maybe not. Maybe they don't know.
Mr Obama has gone from seeming like someone who doesn't quite know what's going on in his government to someone who doesn't really want to. He has perfected a sense of surprise. He's always finding out at just the moment you are, and feeling your indignation.
So maybe he didn't know. Maybe our intelligence and security apparatus—so huge and full of money since 9/11, so self-encased and self-perpetuating—didn't tell him.
Before we think about that, should we be tapping Merkel's phone?
No, for a simple reason: Because it is wrong. She is our friend. She is our ally. She leads a great nation. As such—friend, ally, greatness—she deserves respect. It is not respectful or friendly to invade her privacy and spy on her in this way.
It also seems sort of nuts. Does the National Security Agency think Angela Merkel is planning to blow up Times Square? That would be just like her, wouldn't it? Does the NSA want to get the mood of her government before the trade talks commence? Then they can do it the old-fashioned way, through old-fashioned human measures: "Hey, source in the foreign ministry, what are you hearing?"
America has been embarrassed by this. A president with more than adequate political smarts would never OK it. But our intelligence and security agencies? That vast edifice that always wants whatever new technologies are available and whatever new targets are around? Sure, they would do it. After all, it's not their job to look after America's reputation in the world, it's just their job to get the goods and say they got them. Maybe they don't get into sources and methods even with presidents.
Particularly obnoxious on this question are the American policy thinkers and journalists who, when asked about the Merkel taps, put on their world-weary professional wise-guy face, looking like tragic suburbanites who once read a John le Carré novel and can't forget the shiver of existential dread, and say that everyone does it, governments spy, get with the program, this is the way the world works.
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Sorry, but tapping the private telephone line of one of your most important friends in the West is not how the world works, it's how, once she finds out and the world finds out, it falls apart.
A president would, naturally and out of sheer diplomatic courtesy, tell his intelligence community to cut it out. What I'm wondering is: Do they cut it out? Who would know if they didn't? Maybe they will choose to be courteous to the president, stop the tap and present Germany with evidence the tap has stopped. But maybe the deep state will think it doesn't have to be pushed around by some joker who'll be gone in a few years, to be replaced by another joker.
Yesterday on "Face the Nation," I was on a panel that included Tom Johnson, Philip Shenon and Bob Woodward. We talked about the tendency of government agencies to cover up their mistakes, hide their internal agendas and lie. We'd been discussing Shenon's impressive book on the JFK assassination and the making of the Warren Report. He documents the extent to which agencies and actors in those days withheld and even destroyed information that should have gone to the Warren Commission.
Anchor Bob Schieffer noted that the first things agencies under duress tend to do is "try to make sure they can't be blamed for something. And, clearly, that is why the FBI and the CIA did not come clean with the Warren Commission."
Woodward referred briefly to Watergate, and added: "I think there's a theme here in all of this . . . that connects somewhat to what's going on now." He spoke of "the power of this secret world—CIA, FBI," in the past, to know of or be involved in activities such as assassination plots against Fidel Castro, and not divulge those activities to a commission that was ostensibly searching for potential motives behind the Kennedy assassination.
Woodward brought it to the present. "We look now at what's going on with all the NSA wiretapping and people saying, 'Well, they didn't know, or they did know.' It clearly is much more extensive than people expected. You connect this with the drone strikes in Pakistan, and Yemen, which is our government conducting regular assassinations by air. You know, what's—what's going on here? Who is in control of it? And who can find out? You know, I think—it's in the New York Times this morning that there is a review that Susan Rice, the National Security Adviser for Obama, has done on Mideast policy. They need to review this secret world and its power in their government because you run into this rat's nest of concealment and lies time and time again, then and now."
I agreed with Woodward. His stated concerns are very much my growing ones. And the pertinent questions are, as he says, "What's going on here?" and "Who's in control?"
What Woodward calls "this secret world" I have come increasingly to think of as the deep state—again, the vast, unfathomable and not fully accountable innards of the permanent U.S. intelligence and national-security apparatus. I have been wondering if it isn't true that presidents change and directors change—you can keep changing the showbiz side, the names on the marquee—but the ways, needs, demands, imperatives, secrets and strategies of The Agencies stay pretty much the same, except for one thing: They always want more. The dynamic is always toward growth, toward more reach and more power. (We see some of this too in the permanent regulatory and administrative class in all the domestic agencies, EPA, HHS and IRS. You know why Lois Lerner more or less operated as if she had impunity? Because she more or less had impunity.) And it's all gotten too big, too dark, too impenetrable. I'm not talking about "Homeland"-type darkness and shadows. It is more bureaucratic than that, more banal, less colorful, less dramatic. It is more James Clapper than James Angleton, more Vienna, Va., than mildly sinister McLean dinner party.
But it is actually the big thing our country should be talking about now, needs to be talking about and would be talking about if only our president had not decided, a few years ago, to blow up the U.S. health-care system.
And so now we'll have to deal with that. It will demand all focus as we try to turn it around. But the NSA, its size, power and way of operating—that will have to be reckoned with.
Bonus anecdote. Once about 10 years ago an official who worked with a famous European leader told me of a conversation that had just taken place in the office. The leader met with his staff, who had decided to warn him that every day he's just one comment away from disaster. "Anyone can hear you now," they told him, "not just when you're in public but when you're in the car or at home on the phone. Hidden mics, taps, devices of all sorts—you can't say anything." It's not only the media and all sorts of freelancers, they said, it's other governments, perhaps our government, unseen forces and powers.
The leader looked crestfallen. This couldn't be, he thought—this will require a whole new way of being alive.
But he knew they were telling the truth. Later, to an aide, he said, "I guess the only way to guarantee my privacy now is to sit crouched in the bathtub, with a big blanket over my head, talking to myself."
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Georgetown Sticker(?) v. BU with 15k
July 15, 2013, 12:00:11 PM »
In desperate need of help before my deposit deadline this Friday!
I decided on BU, signed a lease on an apartment and convinced them to give me some $ despite a horrible LSAT score. THEN I got into Georgetown from the priority wait-list. From the correspondence I've had, it sounds like Georgetown isn't going to give me much, if any, money.. and tuition is already higher than BU. My gut is telling me to stick with BU, but I know Georgetown is a much better school. I have gotten excited about BU, but I don't want to pass up a life-changing educational opportunity at GULC just because the timing and finances aren't perfect.
Any thoughts? Would Georgetown give me a huge advantage in New England in terms of finding a job/salary? Worth the difference in $$? If it helps, I want to work in New England, probably in big law.
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July 16, 2013, 05:32:45 PM »
This is a difficult decision and realize that this is your life so take any anonymous internet poster advice on this board or others mine included with a grain of salt. With that said I am an attorney and have some experience, but I have never been to Boston or set foot on the Georgetown Campus, but I think there are some universal principals any 0L should consider when choosing a law school that I will outline below.
When choosing a law school I believe a student should consider the following factors in this order (1) Location of school. (2) Cost of School. (3) Personal Feelings about the School (4) Last and least U.S. News Rankings. (5) You should also be aware of the reality of legal education and all of these I will outline below.
From your post it appears you are interested in working in the New England Area and I assume that you are either living in the New Engalnd or want to live in the New England Area. This is important to know since whatever law school you attend you will be spending a minimum of three years of your life there and more than likely the majority of your legal career will be spent in that location.
So you have to ask yourself where would you rather live for three years and maybe spend a substantial part of your life D.C. or Boston? Both have different pros and cons, but you have family and friends in Boston that will make your law school experience easier and also remember that whatever shcool you attend it does exist in a vaccuum whatever friends, family, connections you have in either location is something to consider as is the culture of each City. Which one do you feel more comfortable living in that is a question only you can answer and especially over three years you are likely to get an apartment you like, enter a relationship, etc and you will likely stay in the City you attend law school. Again, what City you like more is a question only you can answer.
2. Cost
Georgetown is 46k per year in tuition while Boston is cheaper and 15k improves the cost factor even more. However, one thing to look at is the condition on the 15k scholarship I am guessing like most law schools it requires a GPA requirement or you to attain a certain class rank. The most common stipulation I see is a 3.0 GPA requirement, which most 0L's think will be a breeze to attain, but unlike undergrad law school has a mandatory curve and generally only 35% of the class can have a 3.0 GPA. Again like most 0L's you and 100% of your classmates will sincerely believe they will be in the top 10% and there is no way you could possibly finish in outside of the top 35%, but students at every ABA law school are smart, hard-working, and motivated. So there is a 65% chance you will not finish in the top 35% and you will lose the scholarship for years two and three. So if this is scholarship is an option ask as many question as possible regarding the conditions.
Then look at the cost of both schools and consider how much debt you are going into. These are large numbers and if there are favorable conditions a total of 45k over three years and the cheaper cost of BU tuition is something to consider, but again it is a question you have to answer for yourself.
3. Personal Feelings about School
It sounds like you enjoy the prospect of attending BU and I can tell you from my experience as a OL and participating in mock trial competitions that each school has a culture to it and some you will like others you will not. Again that is personal I know there were some schools I loved and others I hated, but you may have loved what I hated and hated what I loved. It is three years of your life so make sure you will enjoy the school visit both campuses, talk to students, professors, and see how you personally feel about them don't listen to internet posters, magazines, etc it is your life and nobody knows better than you what environment will suit you best.
4) U.S. News
I personally think rankings are absolutely irrelevant as it is a for-profit unregulated magazine offering an opinion, but Georgetown is a school that has a national reputation and can open the door to BigLaw, Federal Clerkships, and other opportunities that may not be as easily available from BU, but are those positions you are even interested in? If you want to be a public defender, D.A, or City Attorney, Family lawyer, or something else then paying the extra money for Georgetown doesn't make any sense. However, if you aspire to join up with Cravath, or O'Melveny & Meyers or some other firm then I think Georgetown will provide you with more opportunities than BU will.
However, for the majority of legal jobs they want you to pass the bar. Georgetown will give you a leg up in many positions, but there will be some positions that will think your overqualified. Again, I don't know your professional goals, but that is something to consider.
Reality of Legal Education
At BU, Georgetown, or any other school you will learn the same thing. Your first year will be torts, contracts, civil procedure, etc and you will read Supreme Court cases and they do not write seperate opinions for different schools. At the end of your three years whether you attend BU, Georgetown or any other school you will then likely use BarBri or Kaplan along with every other law student in America to pass the bar exam. If you succeed on the bar you will then be given a law license.
Choosing a law school is a difficult prospect and certainly Georgetown has a prestige factor that is something to consider, but listen to your gut when visiting the schools, consider costs, and what city you want to live in. There is no right answer and both are great options congrats on your acceptances and good luck whatever you decide.
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Thank you so much for your advice - I really do appreciate it! I was leaning toward BU for many of the reasons you mentioned. New England has always been my home, and my family lives in the area. Cost is also a consideration, and what seems like only a small difference in tuition and COL adds up over three years.
BigLaw is what I have always wanted to do, but I think if I plan to stick in New England and do a bit of extra leg work I could make that happen at BU too. Is that an unrealistic expectation?
Does anyone else have input? I'd appreciate all the advice I can get!
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If Biglaw really is your goal then I would look at the firms you are interested in working and see if they have BU graduates working there. Cravath for example has 7 BU attorneys and 14 from Georgetown just one firm, but really investigate the firms you are interested in working in and see how many graduates are working there.
I also have to ask why do you want to work in Biglaw? Do you know what Biglaw entails? If you don't I would highly recommend meeting with attorneys at BigLaw firms you are interested in contact both schools and ask for an alumni list. Meet with them ask about their jobs and see if Biglaw is really what you want. Biglaw is great for some, but for many others it is awful.
Also in reality odds are you won't end up in Biglaw from either one. You will likely need to end up in at least the top 25% of the class from either school to get into Biglaw and there is a 75% chance you will not end up in the top 25% at either school.
Also one thing you might want to consider is negotiating for more scholarship money and better scholarship conditions from BU. If you tell them you are considering Georgetown they are likely to give you more money and also pay attention to the conditions what are they to keep your 15k per year?
It is important to negotiate as 0L since you have all the bargaining power, but once you enroll it is gone so push for a little more money from BU, but once your in school your bargaining power is gone.
Again, there is no right answer and those are just some considerations.
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