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Will BST-free claims on milk be removed?
Will BST-free claims on milk be removed?
Agri-Mark cooperative is taking heat for claims in its Cabot brand.
The Methuen, Mass., cooperative, owner of the popular Cabot and McCadam brands in the Northeast, has resolved a complaint with the Vermont Attorney General's office. The settlement includes a $65,000 payment to the state of Vermont and $75,000 to local food banks, according to a Vermont release posted this morning.
They also promise to take steps to prevent misrepresentations in the future and accurately inform the public of their products' BST status.
We have long wondered how milk plants separate BST-free milk from other milk. Of course, in much geography the use of BST is not an option. However, in many places – like the Upper Midwest – producers still have the option to sign a waiver as to whether or not they pledge to use BST.
As producers choose their production methods, it could mess up milk routes, causing chaos, and costs, for special trips to otherwise highly populated dairy farm areas. We wonder if this could be the straw that breaks the camel's back?
Online violations
On further examination of the release, however, it was the internet that got Agri-Mark in trouble. The Attorney General cites emails and Facebook posts in 2009 and 2010 that claim:
"NO milk containing antibiotics or BST (BGH growth hormone) is ever allowed for processing."
In emails to the public, the company stated that the:
"milk delivered to our two plants in Vermont and our plant in Massachusetts for Cabot Cheese is BST[-free] ... These are the only plants that Cabot has for processing milk to produce our cheeses"; that "all Cabot Butter salted and unsalted [is] produced from milk that [is] BST … free"; and that members of the public would eventually see a no-artificial-growth hormone icon "on all Cabot packaging."
The release goes on to state that by August 1, 2009, Agri-Mark would not accept milk produced by cows treated with BST. Agri-Mark must remove "Our farmers pledge not to use BST" and the "No Bovine Growth Hormone" logo from their packaging.
The good news, if your profits derive from Agri-Mark, is that no repackaging or recalls are necessary as part of this settlement.
As of 10:30 a.m. this morning, this story had reached newspaper websites (and likely newspapers) around the nation. Vermont, as a state, is known as a consumer watchdog. It will be interesting to see if similar populations follow suit.


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Basic Reform: More change needed at early educational levels
February 18, 2013
Estimates of the percentage of West Virginia college freshmen who need remedial courses to get up to the academic levels expected by professors vary widely....
A little late seeing this but...thanks for the hug!
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Part 2 What are we doing to our children with these Core Standards? I'm not against all of them, but I do see that government interference with what should be a locally run venue is ruining our schools, children, and our future. Those 40% who don't make it in college or university never belonged there. College isn't for everyone. Stop comparing our whole student population against the world's elites. They only report their upper 10% students. Call a spade a spade. Those countries are sending their students to our universities. Poverty isn't an excuse for the successful who pulled out of it...hard work was what they valued and it works!
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I have read many good and not good comments in here. As a grade 6 LA teacher I spend too much time trying to 'catch' up many below level readers. My bright kids I try to inspire the best I can. I work hard with all the changes handed down to teachers that are put in place by officials who have no idea what really goes on in schools. I agree that the elementary years make the difference for student success. I also know that Reform schools worked in the past and can work today if they are run as dormitories as they were in the past. I can tell who will be successful in the future and who will not. Some may wake up by 8th grade and try to change their direction; unfortunately only a few. Technical reading and writing was taught in a college class...next year it is in grade 6. end part 1
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"This only lends credence to what others and I have been saying as how this country could elect someone like Bush."
HBrDumb, Its obvious that you missed the key words,"becoming dumber, and dumber". I understand that it may be asking alot for some to understand.
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DrGoo,I totally believe in science and what this researcher and geneticist believes. It looks like YOU are the one on the "downward spiral denying science" as your "dumb" comment and your likely vote for Obama shows.
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"Would you be surprised to hear that the human race is slowly becoming dumber, and dumber? Despite our advancements over the last tens or even hundreds of years, some 'experts' believe that humans are losing cognitive capabilities and becoming more emotionally unstable. One Stanford University researcher and geneticist, Dr. Gerald Crabtree, believes that our intellectual decline as a race has much to do with adverse genetic mutations."
I am not surprised in the least. This only lends credence to what others and I have been saying as how this country could elect someone like Obama.
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Alternative schooling for the chronically disruptive child may be required, such as reform schools. I don't think home schooling is part of that. In West Virginia, lack of attendance is not allowed to be the sole reason to expel. Realistically, the kids who shows up occasionally create havoc. They expect extra attention to catch up. Gossip between the kids about why the child was absent. Attitudes of not needing to conform to rules is thought to be cool. All the reasons a high school student is absent focuses attention on that student. In the process, teachers are frustrated and good students are missing attention they deserve. Removing the attendance clause is a start. Medical reasons such as chemotherapy exempt with physician's documentation.
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If a child is expelled, don't the taxpayers have to pay for the child's homeschooling?
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When are we finally going to get to the stage where the all-knowing government elites will just take away every child upon birth for their own good, and so that the child can be raised as a compliant and properly indoctrinated citizen?!? The results have been some impressive to date!
Thankfully, Obama is moving us closer to that direction!
I'm just being sarcastic in case that doesn't translate through text...
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Sandpiper~Agreed. It goes back to parenting at birth, also. By the time a child is 3, they are a clone of their family. Children entering the education system with poor parenting behind them suffer greatly. So do the other students and teachers. My suggestion is having a full semester behavioral class in every school taught by a uniformed person. Three behavioral warnings in regular class earns a pass to the class. One infraction after leaving the class, and expel the child for the remainder of the year. Kids will learn, as soon as they learn to listen.
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Whether a student is going to succeed in high school, let alone college, is largely determined by the end of 6th grade. There are always exceptions but it really is all over by then. That's when the foundation is set (or not) and it's upon that foundation that all else is built. If the state is ever to get serious about education, years K-6 must be targeted and the subsequent years will take care of themselves.
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We should get better results for the money we pay. When are taxpayers going to demand more for their money?
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An amazing form of the name "Jason". Can be used as a nickname, with a spanish accent. (Hey-sawn).
"Hason, what's up?" -simple. :)
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slang for "what"? Or hearing impairment.
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Cunt who pishes himself. Can't handle a drink. The pee is usually a word to define a rapist. A person who can't talk to girls because of his wee portion. Takes it up the arse on occasion and looks like Shrek. Known as an all round bellend.
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Vicki Torres, of Bogota, Colombia, reads near the pool at the Omni Hotel near the Dallas Convention Center on November 7, 2012. The hotel is preparing to celebrate its one year anniversary.
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Man shot in calf in apparent road rage incident in Southeast Oak Cliff
A 30-year-old man was shot in the leg during an apparent road rage incident on Saturday evening in Southeast Oak Cliff, according to a police report.
The man told police that another driver cut him off in traffic around 7:30 p.m. Saturday. At a stop light near the 4900 block of Bonnie View Rd., the man left his car to confront the other driver, who came out of his car holding a handgun.
Seeing the weapon, the man told police that he hopped back in his car, which had a child inside, and attempted to get away. The other driver fired several shots, shattering the man's driver's side window and hitting him in the left calf. His family later took him to the hospital.


text: From the media to our mothers, others have taught us certain rules about intimacy and love. But what if these rules are wrong? Or even harmful? Sociologist and relationship expert Pepper Schwartz questions these assumptions, challenges our values, and breaks rules. She offers fresh alternatives and solutions that fit our needs as individuals—and shows that by letting go of traditional rules that don't suit us, we can achieve complete satisfaction in our intimate lives.


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While bone marrow transplants (BMTs) are sometimes the only hope for patients with diseases like leukemia and other blood disorders, they come with the significant risk of the patient developing graft-vs-host disease (GVHD). Now, University of Michigan researchers say that inhibiting the Notch signaling pathway in some of the transplanted cells could prevent GVHD. Antibodies inhibiting specific elements of the Notch pathway can prevent the disease in mice, without serious side effects and without substantially compromising the cancer-fighting ability of the transplanted cells, the team reports.
After a BMT, donor T cells can recognize and destroy tumor cells in the patient. However, in GVHD, the donor T cells also recognize the recipient's normal tissues as foreign and begin to attack organs like the intestine, liver, lungs, and skin. Conventional methods for preventing the disease include removing T cells from the donor graft and treating the patient with global immunosuppressive drugs. However, this often doesn't work.
Inhibiting the Notch signaling pathway might be a new intervention that prevents the disease, says Ivan Maillard, M.D., Ph.D., assistant research professor in the U-M Life Sciences Institute. Upon finding that one of the functions of Notch is to regulate the T cell response that causes GVHD, the researchers experimented with blocking Notch signaling in mice to prevent the complication. But inhibiting Notch throughout the body had significant side effects, particularly in the intestine.
The team found that Notch signals are mediated by the interaction between five ligands and four receptors on cell membranes. "We were able to identify two ligands and two receptors that account for all the effects of Notch signaling in GVHD, with a dominant role for just one ligand-receptor pair," Dr. Maillard explains.
That ligand-receptor pair became the target for inhibition. Maillard collaborated with Genentech, which had developed antibodies to block individual Notch ligands and receptors. When the researchers used antibodies to inhibit the target Notch ligands, mice had none of the gastrointestinal side effects that came with global inhibition of Notch—and they did not develop GVHD.
"Importantly, the Notch blockade did not prevent donor T cells from being efficient at recognizing and destroying cancer cells, which is the ultimate goal of bone marrow transplantation in human patients," Dr. Maillard says.
According to the researchers, the treatment was only necessary short-term, although its beneficial effects were long lasting. "This suggests that there is a pulse of Notch signaling in immune cells immediately after transplantation that presents a window of time for intervention. If we can block that pulse, we could induce long-term benefits without having to block Notch permanently."
The effects of Notch blockade could be traced to decreased inflammation as well as increased expansion of regulatory T cells that suppress GVHD, Dr. Maillard says. "These findings open perspectives for studying Notch inhibition in the treatment of T cell-mediated disorders including graft-versus-host disease in patients. A next step will be to define the approach and schedule of inhibition most likely to succeed in patients."
The Maillard lab is also investigating the mechanisms of Notch action in T cells and whether Notch also plays an important role in other T cell-mediated immune disorders, such as multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases.
Details of the study are published online today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
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Source: IGN
quote: Microsoft desperately needing every ounce of carrier goodwill to enable them to kick start Windows 8 phone as a viable phone platform
quote: Apple kickstarted iPhone without any carrier support or carrier promotion whatsoever, so why MS can't do the same?
quote: Then why they sold only 270,000 in the first quarter of its availability, huh?
quote: Interesting that you mentioned Skype because one reason cited for the lack of carrier support for Windows 8 is Skype, for obvious reasons carriers don't want voice over IP, they hate it.
quote: The are the largest charity as well. I don't see Apple or Google trying to put an end to malaria.


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You can put up with a mediocre or even bad movie as long as there's a great ending - "The Usual Suspects," "Memento" and "Fight Club" come to mind - and Penn State's win Saturday falls into that category.
No one would confuse what the Nittany Lions did as good after watching them struggle against a poor and poorly coached Illinois squad. But the ending was exciting, and they escaped in overtime, 24-17.
Just like there really are no moral victories for teams that lose in big-time sports, there should be no such thing as a disappointing win.
Yes, the Lions looked lousy for much of the game. Yes, playing like that, they probably would have lost to any other Big Ten team except awful Purdue. And yes, it once again became clear that their pass defense is a sieve against a capable throwing quarterback.
But the ending was good Saturday, which was all that mattered to coach Bill O'Brien as he barked at a reporter after it was suggested his team was "fortunate."
Honestly, Penn State is fortunate. Very fortunate. But not just for what occurred Saturday.
The biggest prevailing thought I've had about PSU over the past month is just how fortunate everyone who follows the program should feel about what happened Sept. 24.
That's the day the NCAA announced it would be reducing the Lions' scholarship sanctions, and in essence saving Penn State fans from what would have been at least four long, potentially painful seasons.
The blowout loss at Indiana and the rotten showing against Illinois would have merely been the tip of the iceberg for the poor football that would have been on display at times had PSU been limited to 65 scholarships the next four years.
Many people are making excuses for this year's team about how the scholarship losses are the primary reason for the struggles. That's undoubtedly part of the problem with only 61 recruited scholarship players, but it's also somewhat of a convenient excuse for those unwilling to acknowledge that there are still a lot of good players on the team who should be playing better.
O'Brien and his staff would have made the best of things had the 65-scholarship limit gone in effect from 2014-17. And Penn State still would have won its share of games.
But goodness gracious, if the team is losing to the likes of Indiana and barely beating Illinois now, just think how sloppy things would have looked in a few years, after some of the current standouts such as Allen Robinson are gone and the team was in year two or three or four of the 65-scholarship limit.
Recruiting has gone better than expected despite the sanctions, and the optimists always believed the program could more than stay afloat with 65 scholarships for four years. A lot of that optimism has been based on tremendous belief in O'Brien.
The bottom line, though, is that this season is proving just how difficult it is to beat good, mediocre and even bad college teams if you are way undermanned.
As it turns out, PSU won't have to go through any NCAA-mandated 65-scholarship seasons. The Lions will have 75 scholarships next year, 80 in 2015 and the full allotment of 85 in 2016.
There could be a very good ending to all of this if O'Brien stays put, and it could come as early as 2015 or '16.
Until then, the rest of this season and probably next season figure to be like a bad movie that's hard to watch at times, just like Saturday's game.
SUBHD: McGloin plays
Congratulations to Matt McGloin, who appeared in his first NFL regular-season game Sunday for the Raiders, who were blown out by the Eagles.
McGloin, who completed 7-of-15 passes for 87 yards, truly is a remarkable story. He was a zero-star recruit and did not have a single Division I scholarship offer coming out of high school, yet he made it to the NFL and now has the stats to show for it.
Aside from Kerry Collins, McGloin joins Wally Richardson (two passes in 1998) and Kevin Thompson (one pass in 2000) as the only PSU quarterbacks to throw a pass in the NFL as a quarterback since 1995. Michael Robinson has thrown two passes, but they came while he was playing fullback or receiver.
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In these days i've worked a lot on Red Hat Enterprise and Centos machines, and so i've used yum to install, upgrade, remove and download packages.
I'm more used to .deb packages (or the portage system), and so for me these plugins are both new and really useful to extend the basic functions of yum.
In particular i'll show you how:
- Tell to yum the priorities among his repository
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Jermain Defoe will sign for former teammate Ryan Nelsen's Toronto FC of Major League Soccer this January.
Southampton comprehensively outplayed West Ham at the London stadium, heaping even more pressure on Slaven Bilic.
Summer signing Moussa Sissoko seems certain to miss Tuesdays' trip to Moscow in the Champions League after he was replaced at the Riverside because of a head injury.
Kevin de Bruyne is hoping the hamstring injury he suffered at Swansea on Saturday will only keep him out for a couple of weeks.
Sergio Aguero returned in fine form after a three-match ban, as he scored twice in Manchester City's 3-1 win over Swansea City.
Alexis Sanchez scored a goal and recorded an assist as Arsenal disposed of Chelsea at the Emirates, 3-0.
Cesc Fabregas made his first start of the season in Chelsea's 3-0 loss at Arsenal on Saturday.
Fernando Llorente scored a goal (two shots on target) in Swansea City's loss to Manchester City on Saturday, 3-1.
Manchester United squashed all the negativity surrounding their recent three game losing streak by exploding for four goals in the first half and comfortably disposing of Leicester City, 4-1.
Salomon Rondon scored from a corner in stoppage time to cancel out Joe Allen's opener and rescue a point for traveling Albion.
Joe Allen looked to have won the Potters their first match of the season before a late Albion goal forced a draw.
Crystal Palace won its third straight Premier League match in come-from-behind fashion with a 3-2 result at Sunderland.


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quote: Stop me if you've heard this one before. It's the eleventh hour and the Obama administration is facing a crucial decision, one that could have a deep impact on the nation's economy and a united voice of experts is facing noisy opposition from special interests. It's game time and the administration is on the field, ready to make the big play... and they instead choose to punt.


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Tuesday, July 22, 2014
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The body found submerged in Lake Erie at Edgewater Park Friday has been identified as a South Carolina woman.
The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's office said 44-year-old Roxanna Gance, of Summerville, S.C., was discovered in the Cleveland Metroparks.
Metroparks spokeswoman Sue Allen said park visitors climbing rocks near the shoreline discovered the body about 11:30 a.m. Friday. A Metroparks dive team and the U.S. Coast Guard pulled Gance's body out of the water.
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Tippin means ridin or rollin slowly in your car. It has nothing to do with swerving from side to side, thats flossin or swangin. thanks for playing.
did you see that punkass tippin down southle?
yeah lets swerve on him
yeah lets swerve on him
بواسطة Pete يونيو/حَزيران 15, 2006
Dirty South Rappers such as Pall Wall, Mike Jones, Slim Thug and other hood rich people from the south Swerve from side to side of the road slowly to show off their ride usually classic impalas or classic convertibles
I was tippin yesterday down the street to show off my pimped out impala
بواسطة somebody over the rainbow أغسطس/آب 24, 2005
Done in the south. This is when you are cruising in your car slowly down a street and swerving left to right.
Yea cu' i still be tippin' in my rydz on dem 44'z.
originating in chicago illinois, on ferris buehler's day off, when the old lady in the town car couldn't see over the dash board and ferris' dad was trying to go around in a red audi, this is when you are crusing in your car slowly down a street and swerving left to right.
Yea cu' i still be tippin' in my rydz on dem 44'z.
بواسطة jordant سبتمبر/أيلول 4, 2005
when the tips of your braids are long
Damn, look at his braids he's tippin fa sho'.
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Recent Posts
- Protecting Consolidated Data on Engineered Systems
- K-12 and Cloud considerations
- Oracle Solutions supporting ICAM deployments
- Oracle Open World / Public Sector / Identity Platform
- NASCIO Releases Updated State Identity Credential Access Management (SICAM) Documentation
- Database Security: The Need for a Comprehensive Strategy
- Taking the fear out of a Cloud initiative through the use of security tools
- Reducing SPAM on Identity Registration Services
- SICAM: Privacy and the Golden Record
- SICAM: SICAM Component Architecture
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SICAM: SICAM Component Architecture
By Paul Laurent on Sep 03, 2011
When I first started contributing State Identity Credential Access Management (SICAM) content last year, I didn't get too far into the discussion before trying to spell out what the key value props are for organizations heading down that path. Meeting conditional funding requirements, complying with state/federal mandates, eliminating benefits fraud, streamlining process…all those initiatives benefit from SICAM's single, trusted view of identity. That notion of a "single view of the individual", that "this Jane Doe is the right Jane Doe, the same Jane Doe as I look from system to system and department to department", is sometimes referred to as the "Golden Record" for that person. The need for data quality and identity resolution makes Master Data Management (MDM) a necessary component in a SICAM architecture.
Figure: SICAM Component Architecture
The component architecture is really born more out of policy requirements than technology dependencies. Taking one more look at my comments on Public Sector policy drivers for SICAM, we can see how each of these components works into the mix:
- MDM provides the aforementioned identity resolution, data quality, and single-view of individuals (in many ways like a primary key/foreign key relationship, only here between systems and identity repositories.)
- Once we understand our relationship to (or "single view" of) an individual we leverage any number of Credentialing techniques to communicate and assure that relationship in the form of a token or artifact.[i] Depending on the level of trust in any given identity, or required for authentication, different credentials (certificates, smart cards, one time passwords, knowledge based authentication, etc.) can provide different levels of identity assurance that scale to the different security needs and requirements of grant initiatives, compliance mandates, and reporting specifications.
- Identity and Access Management tools manage and honor those identities and credentials in a manner that allows interoperability across systems and domains without impeding their use in systems of origin.
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) provides the common standards and infrastructure for rapid deployment and consumption of interoperable services across departments, agencies, states, municipalities, etc.
- One of the primary drivers for adopting a SICAM infrastructure is to enable a collaborative Business Intelligence reporting platform.[ii] SICAM acts as an interoperability layer that allows departments to report on (often regulated and sensitive) data without co-mingling and sharing of raw backend data that would violate compliance mandates and law.[iii]
- And finally a Portal Interface for presentation.
Typically my writings are on the Identity Management and Security side of the SICAM equation, but over the next couple of posts I'd like to delve into some important discussions around the MDM area of the component architecture. Recently I've had several great discussions in the field around the legal, privacy, and security ramifications of the MDM/Identity Resolution piece of SICAM that are worth sharing. With this discussion of SICAM components as background, I'll delve in next time with some frequent questions and considerations around the care and feeding of the "SICAM Golden Record."
[i] See NIST's Special Publication 800-103 for an Ontology of Identity Credentials
[ii] See data sharing and reporting requirements for initiatives like Education's State Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) grants and Health and Human Service's National Health Information Network (NHIN)
[iii] Again, drawing from SLDS and NHIN, student performance data and personal health information are strictly regulated by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH, see also HIPAA) respectively.
Identity and Access Management topics related to Federal, State and Local government agencies


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Baseball One Win Away From MAC Championship Crown
AVON, Ohio - The Ball State baseball team (31-23) knocked top-seeded Kent State (36-23) out of the Mid-American Conference Tournament with a 4-1 victory Saturday morning at All-Pro Freight Stadium.
The fourth-seeded Cardinals now advance to the MAC Tournament Championship Game for the first time since 2006. Head coach Rich Maloney, in the first season of his second stint with Ball State, coached the Cardinals to the championship game in 2002.
Chris Marangon got the win for the Cardinals on the mound after eight innings of work. He gave up one run on six hits while striking out three batters. MAC Pitcher of the Year Scott Baker, who started the tournament opener, closed the contest for Ball State to earn the first save of his career.
Ball State will face No. 6 seed Bowling Green for the MAC Tournament crown Sunday at noon. The Falcons needed two games Saturday but managed to get past No. 7 seed Toledo to emerge from their half of the bracket.
After three scoreless innings Saturday morning, Kent State took the early 1-0 edge over Ball State in the top of the fourth. T.J. Sutton singled to centerfield which brought home his teammate George Roberts who had been previously walked.
In the fifth inning, the Cardinals held the Golden Flashes scoreless after two great catches from Blake Beemer out in left field. Ball State then tied the score 1-1 in its at bat. T.J. Weir led off the inning with a single. A sacrifice bunt from Cole Griesinger was successful in moving Weir to second. Sam Tidaback singled to the left side to put Weir into scoring position. Elbert DeVarie would then bring home Weir after a single straight up the middle.
The Cardinals tacked on two more runs in the bottom of the sixth inning. Sean Godfrey started the inning off with a double down the left field line. Cody Campbell's fly ball was caught which advanced Godfrey. Billy Wellman then hit an RBI single through the right side to bring home Godfrey. With two outs, Tidaback hit a shot straight up the middle allowing Wellman to cross the plate.
It was three-up-three-down for Kent State in top of the seventh. Ball State crossed the plate again in the bottom of the seventh. Ryan Spaulding reached base on an error, advanced on a perfectly placed bunt from Godfrey and then scored on a Campbell single to right center.
The Cardinals' defense held the Golden Flashes scoreless in the eighth and ninth. Marangon started the ninth, but Maloney soon brought in Tyler Jordan to replace him after he walked the first batter.
After a double play, Jordan gave up two singles. Miles Moeller then came into replace Jordan. Moeller walked the first batter. With two outs and the bases loaded, Maloney brought in his ace, Baker, to close. Baker earned his first save when Campbell made the game-ending defensive play at second.


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Christmas is upon us again. This is the season of hope, but we are finding ourselves asking why we are seeing all the bad things going on in the world around us. We think about those precious little lives lost by the shooting in Connecticut, and we ask ourselves "why". These young lives are now in Heaven, and today they know perfect peace.
There are just some things the Good Lord saw fit for us to not know all the answers. If we knew all the answers, there would be no need for us to have faith. But He did make a perfect plan for all of us by sending His son to this world, and to give us hope.
We were given the greatest gift with the birth of the Christ child... Jesus. But today, we are told Christ has no place in "CHRISTmas". But we still ask "why". Traditional Christmas carols are not allowed to be sung by our children, because someone might be offended, ...but we still ask "why". Part of loving our children is proper discipline. But discipline has all but been removed from our schools....yet we still ask "why".
There is a reason a child sees all the joy and wonder of Christmas. It is because the child still has the ability to believe in what he can not understand. The little ones can believe in what they can not see. They are able to see the beauty of this world, even with all these terrible things happening around them. It is because they still see the world with a pure heart...the heart of a child. This is what a Christian calls "faith". If we can only keep a very small amount of the faith of a child, then as an adult, we will not have to keep asking "why" these things happen. But instead, we will one day know a perfect peace.
It might just be we sometimes forget that along with the joy of that first Christmas, there was a very terrible price the Lord paid on the cross. He knew there must be suffering in His plan, so all of us would have the hope to someday have that perfect peace. We need to once again see the TRUE joy of Christmas through the eyes of a child.
If we receive the gift of that first Christmas, there will be no need for us to ask "why" when these terrible things happen. Because we will know that when our time comes, we will open our eyes in a truly wonderful place, and we will know perfect peace.
Let's keep Christ in Christmas...all year around. It just might change the world.
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Community Planning: Degree Program/Training
Requirements for students beginning in the fall of 2015 and after
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Requirements for students enrolling previous to fall 2015
Certificate in Community Planning (20 hours)– Students enrolled in this certificate will be able to take five graduate level courses to prepare them for community planning work. These certificate courses can be taken as part of the MPA if desired. Coursework includes in depth exploration the planning process, information technology for planning, capital budgeting and much more.
Note – All of our courses will now be three hours in length. So courses taken beginning in the fall of 2015 will require an extra one PAD 599 hour for each certificate course. Use the special permission for one hour class form for these one hour additions.
This certificate is available online.
The graduate certificate in Community Planning requires 20 hours of course work from the menu below. All of the required courses are offered online, some are also offered on campus at night. Individuals may take these courses and earn the certificate part time without being formally enrolled in any degree program, or may complete it as part of a degree program.
A grade of B or better must be earned in the required courses to qualify for the certificate (grades of B- or lower will not be accepted). Please note that transfer credits can't be used for certificates.
Required Courses
PAD 553 Community Planning and Policy
PAD 524 Capital Budgeting
PAD 554 Community Planning Tools
PAD 501 Introduction to the Profession
Elective Courses (Choose One)
PAD 506 Public Policy for Managers
PAD 552 Strategic Planning and Management
Internship (Must be in planning environment. Includes PAD 580 and one hour independent study.)
ENS 501 Land Use and Environmental Planning
ENS 503 Advanced GIS Applications
Note: To qualify for the Community Planning Certificate, students must earn a grade of B or better (a B- does not qualify) in each of the classes.
Important: Students, who seek to earn a certificate while also working on their MPA degree, must enter on initial application to the university that they are seeking the MPA and the Community Planner Certificate, or if currently enrolled, they must file a change of curriculum form to list the MPA and the certificate they are striving for.


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The Thunderbirds, the flight demonstration team and "Ambassadors in Blue" for the United States Air Force, have had a long relationship with Cheyenne Frontier Days. The Thunderbirds first public performance was at the "Daddy of 'em All" in 1953, and the team has delighted fans at Frontier Days every year since.
Every year except 2013, that is, when the government decided to ground the Thunderbirds due to budget cuts. Cheyenne Frontier Days officials and fans felt a real sense of loss in their absence. Thousands of loyal fans have made their way to Laramie County Community College for 59 years to experience the fantastic show put on by the Thunderbirds.
In 2003, the Thunderbirds were inducted into the CFD Hall of Fame. Cheyenne Frontier Days has always been favorite stop for the men and women of the Thunderbird aerial demonstration team on their annual world tour. Since the kick-off flight at Frontier Days in 1953, the Thunderbirds have performed in all 50 states and 65 countries overseas.
The Thunderbirds currently fly the sleek F-16 fighter, which they adopted in 1983, with its distinctive red, white and blue color scheme and the thunderbird painted on the underside. The F-16 Fighting Falcon is a highly maneuverable multi-role fighter and has proved to be one of the world's best precision tactical bombers and air-to-air combat aircraft.
The only modifications needed to prepare aircraft for air demonstrations are a smoke-generating system and painting in Thunderbird colors. If required, the team's personnel and aircraft can be rapidly integrated into a fighter unit at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. Since the planes have only slight modifications, they can be made combat-ready in less than 72 hours.
All of the Thunderbird F-16s are single seat except plane 7, which has been modified to have a second seat. An Air Force photographer that travels with the Thunderbirds rides in this plane. When the Thunderbirds put on a demonstration flight, a member of the local media or a VIP is given a much sought after ride with the flight team.
In 2011, the Thunderbirds extended the coveted invitation for the VIP flight to "Tuff" Hedeman, a man well known to rodeo fans everywhere. Hedeman was in Cheyenne to kick off the association with Frontier Days of his new venture, Championship Bull Riding, and was very excited to climb onto a red, white and blue, rocket-powered 'bull' and go for the ride of his life.
The Thunderbirds are a visible presence at Cheyenne Frontier Days. Not only do they attend events and parades, they can also be seen flying over Frontier Park during their practice for the demonstration flight.
The home base for the Thunderbirds while they are in Cheyenne is the Wyoming Air National Guard base and Frontier Park is directly in the flight pattern for landings and take offs. Being right under an F-16 as it roars into the sky under full power is an experience that can be felt as well as seen, and looking up at a landing plane to clearly distinguish that the pilot is looking down at you is amazing.
The Thunderbird demonstration is at Laramie County Community College. It is a great venue, as LCCC sits on elevated ground, which offers an unobstructed view of the planes that are flying over open ranch land. There are no bad view points at this event. The media photographers are on top of a three story building and the planes fly so low that it seems as if you are on the same level as they are.
There is absolutely no charge for parking at LCCC, the practice flight or the Demonstration Flight. This is an extremely popular event and does have some traffic issues, but a little planning solves those problems and visitors can always choose the free shuttles that leave and return to points in Cheyenne. The road into LCCC is closed thirty minutes before each flight and remains closed to all traffic until thirty minutes after the performance has concluded.
To start the show, the six plane formation arrives from behind the crowd. They fly at a low altitude and pull straight up over the crowd. As the air is suddenly filled with planes, the sound catches up and with that, the sound and action of the United States Thunderbirds show is underway.
Two of the six planes roll and pull away in opposite directions while the remaining four are now in the famous "delta formation" with mere feet separating them as they streak vertically into the clear, blue Wyoming sky. At the top of their climb, the four planes of the formation roll and loop over to begin plummeting back toward the crowd.
As the formation finally pulls up and flies away and the crowd takes a collective breath, they suddenly are aware that the two planes that had flown off in opposite directions are rocketing towards each other and will meet in a head-on collision right in front of the spectators.
At the last possible moment the planes, which are capable of speeds up to 1500 miles per hour, flip on edge and pass safely belly-to-belly with a few feet to spare in what is known as the "knife edge pass". Those are just the first two maneuvers. There are still thirty-eight maneuvers and fifty-five minutes to go.
The Thunderbirds Air Show is sponsored by F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne. The fact that it is free to Cheyenne Frontier Days visitors is an incredible gift. Mark your calendar now to see the Thunderbirds next year as they represent the pride, precision and professionalism of the United States Air Force. ❖


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CHARLES TOWN - A portion of the West Virginia code relating to video lottery games describes horse and dog racing facilities as valuable tourism resources for the state that need to be enhanced. But, a bill introduced Wednesday has area horsemen feeling as if that may no longer be true.
SB455, if passed, would scale back not only the number of races per year at the state's four racetracks, but also decrease purse values, a move which horsemen say make races in West Virginia less attractive to tourists and less lucrative for individuals, entities and communities involved.
"A bill like this is a virtual death knell for the horse racing industry here in Jefferson County," said Randy Funkhouser, president of the Charles Town Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association.
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John Funkhouser, of O'Sullivan Farms in Charles Town, directs workers and pregnant mares to barns on the property. O'Sullivan Farms has been breeding horses in West Virginia for more than 70 years.
Workers at O'Sullivan Farms in Charles Town guide pregnant mares to their barns Thursday afternoon. The farm has been breeding horses in West Virginia for more than 70 years.
Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races could stand to benefit from the provisions of SB455, should it be passed. The legislation seeks to help with nearby competition West Virginia gaming and racing facilities face along its borders from states like Ohio and Pennsylvania.
A 2011 study of the economic impact of Charles Town's thoroughbred horse racing on Jefferson County showed that owners, breeders and trainers felt business would be negatively affected by a decrease in the number of racing days. The study, conducted by WVU, also said racing created $63.1 million in business volume for Jefferson County in 2010.
Al Britton, general manager of Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races, said it is not the intent of the casino to phase out racing. In recent years, casinos around the state have faced a downturn in revenue due to competition in neighboring states, according to a report by the Associated Press.
"The bill primarily is just meant to allow the industry to compete and make some changes based on where we are now in terms of the current environment and competitive landscape," Britton said.
Funkhouser expressed concern not only with increasing costs for horsemen, but also with the potential negative economic impact such legislation might produce for Jefferson County. He said decreasing races would make it difficult for industries intertwined with racing, such as agriculture and hospitality, to survive.
"The tracks are going to be idle," Funkhouser said. "The businesses are going to suffer because nobody's going to be here."
Sen. Herb Snyder, D-Jefferson, serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee - where SB455 has been referred - and said the legislation is a response to SB115, which gives more gains to the horsemen and greyhound breeders. Snyder said he is "99.9 percent sure" neither bill will be taken up for a vote during this legislative session.
"These are voluminous bills with a tremendous amount of issues that just landed here without forewarning or debate before the legislature," Snyder said.
While the longtime senator reiterated his belief that the bills would go nowhere this session, he did not discount the fact that declining revenues are an important issue for the state.
"Certainly the whole issue of racing and loss of revenue at the tracks is something that needs to be debated, but it's going to take longer than the six weeks we have here to do it," Snyder said.
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Thursday, June 13, 2013
Martha Ter Laan Rabbitt, 94, of Richmond Hill, died Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at Bryan County Health & Rehabilitation after a long illness.
Martha was a former owner/operator of Dutch Mill Lock and Key on Hilton Head Island, SC and later of Kiawah Island, SC. Martha's business made benches, lighting, signs, picnic tables, mailboxes, along with locksmithing for condo and houses on the Islands. She was a member of the Richmond Hill Presbyterian Church.
Martha is preceded in death by her husband of 51 years, Vernon Worthington Rabbitt; her parents, John and Jennie Kok Ter Laan; sister, Tena Schaalma (Albert); and 2 brothers, Ted Ter Laan and Jack Ter Laan (Frances).
She is survived by her children and in-laws, Judy and Phil Jones of Richmond Hill, GA, Darryl and Doris Rabbitt of Fleming Island, FL and Linda Litaker of Jacksonville, FL; 6 grandchildren, Lisa Humrich (Barry), Angella Williams (Jimmie), Renee Hayes (Peter), Christy Rabbitt, Amber Litaker, and Drew Litaker; 7 great grandchildren, Justin and Zachariah Humrich, AJ and Kevin Watt, Bradley Butler, Ashton Williams, and Parker Williams; and a special friend Anne Linedmeier.
A special thank you is extended for Dr. Nicholas Costrini, Dr. Christopher Kuettner and the staff of Bryan County Health and Rehabilitation Center.
Graveside services will be 11:00 a.m. Saturday, June 15, 2013 at Plantation Memorial Gardens in Moncks Corner, SC.
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The Main Street Bakery at the Magic Kingdom has officially reopened and is now serving Starbucks drinks and food.
The bakery, that closed in January as part of the renovation, offers the full Starbucks menu of beverages, breakfast sandwiches and baked goods, as well as Disney house-made items.
Disney said the bakery is designed to fit the surroundings, including cast members at the Magic Kingdom will wear a costume consistent with the early 20th century look of Main Street U.S.A.
Fountain View at Epcot closed in March and will reopen as a Starbucks during the summer.
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#2. Who Said Armageddon Couldn't Be Fabulous?
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That's Father Void, in a rare snapshot capturing him emerging from his volcanic lair in the Ashmaw for a jaunty Sunday stroll. When this reporter asked for comment about his role in the Great Reaping last week, Father Void had this to say: "eeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE." He went on to clarify this statement by removing his sunglasses and letting three damned souls escape from the place where his eyes should be. They hound this reporter's slumber to this very day, whispering all of the awful things his loved ones really think about him. This reporter would just like to go on record as saying: The torment of truth truly is the worst torture. And at the risk of editorializing, All Shall Embrace the Void.
That's actually Karl Lagerfeld, a designer for Chanel, and what he's walking through, despite appearances, is not the smoldering ruins of all who opposed him in life. That's just the catwalk of a 2011 fashion show at Paris Fashion Week. I know it's disappointing that he's just a puny designer and not the iron-fisted ruler of a nuclear border town. But if it's any consolation, he's totally bugfuck crazy and sure talks like a bond villain. When asked about the middle class, he once replied, "The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class." When asked about supermodels presenting an unhealthy body image, he answered, "There are nearly 30 percent of young people who are too fat. So let's take care of the zillions of the too fat before we talk about the percentage that's left."
"Let's take care of the too fat."
"The percentage that's left."
I'm pretty sure he's saying he's going to purge the chubby from the face of the Earth. And since his idea of haute couture is "crazy evil volcano preacher," I would take him seriously.
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The Libyan rebels were like a real-life A-Team: They were spunky, underfunded and innovative, and they had justice on their side.
But unlike the A-Team, it wasn't all driving at somebody until they dove out of the way and trapping corrupt mining officials in nets. There was a lot of death, and a lot of destruction. But perhaps the greatest tragedy of all is that, despite all of their research and years of careful study, the Libyans never could find a good way to give a solid fuck.
Look at that guy! He went to war in an Ikea bed sheet and slippers. He's carrying one small box of loot and two assault rifles. That building that he's casually kicking a soccer ball away from, as it bursts into the most epic inferno I have ever seen -- those are the ruins of Gadhafi's compound. Soccer Warrior just overthrew the government of an entire country and destroyed the power base of a corrupt dictator -- "just" as in "just now," flames still raging -- and he's not even pausing to celebrate. He's merely shuffling on home, idly kicking a soccer ball to keep entertained along the way, because the flaming climax of a bloody revolution bores him.
Hey, you know what they say: "It's not the journey; it's the destination."
Or in this case: "It's not the flaming ruins; it's that you lit the fire."
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With a Speech, Cardinal Set Path to Papacy
Argentina's 'Father Jorge' Gained Late Support With His Call to Focus on Humility and Justice; Discussions Over Soup
VATICAN CITY—It took Jorge Mario Bergoglio four minutes to convince fellow cardinals he was their leader.
Speaking in the Paul VI grand hall of the Vatican, the Argentine cardinal warned the Catholic Church against focusing too much on matters close to home—advice that came against the backdrop of a papacy that had been consumed by infighting among Vatican officials, a dwindling flock in Europe and secular trends in the West.
The 76-year-old Father Jorge, as he is known back home, said Roman Catholicism needed to shift its focus outward, to the world beyond Rome—rather than being "self-referential," he said. Its core mission was humility, dignity and justice. It should help the poor.
It was a week before the secret conclave to elect the new pontiff would begin. But the speech sowed the seeds of one of Catholicism's boldest moves—the election of a pope from the New World, a man likely to steer the church's focus toward social justice and the problems of the world's periphery, rather than on the intrigue and controversy of its central administration.
This account, based on interviews with four cardinals, lifts the curtain on the dynamic that led the church's highest officials to shun the European basin from which Catholicism has drawn most of its leaders. Just before his speech, at a dinner of English-speaking cardinals, the future pope's name had come up over a meal of soup and wine but hadn't generated a buzz. "The speech was decisive," said one voting European cardinal.
"He spoke of the need for catechesis and the need to address the poor…the question of justice and the dignity of the human person," said a voting U.S. cardinal.
The call to project the church outward, not inward, propelled the Argentine prelate into contention in the first round of voting with two of Catholicism's most prominent cardinals.
The other two—Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan and Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet, head of the Vatican's office for appointing bishops—were longtime acolytes of Benedict XVI, giving them what many cardinals thought was an inside track to the papacy. By the fifth and decisive round, Cardinal Bergoglio had surpassed both.
The election of Cardinal Bergoglio, known now as Pope Francis, doesn't mean the church will change its doctrine. Pope Francis is expected to uphold church teachings, ranging from its opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage to its requirement of priestly celibacy. But he is likely to create a new narrative for the church, one less focused on the inner workings of the Vatican and more on social justice.
The Changing Church
The population of Catholics around the world has grown dramatically and shifted southward, while the cardinals who elect the pope remain mostly European.
"Sometimes when you're dealing with a crisis, you kick the ball in a different direction. And that's what this pope has done. It's to say: What I stand for is a particular gospel way of life and witness," British Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, archbishop emeritus of Westminster, said in an interview.
Benedict's resignation on Feb. 28 opened the door to a flurry of unusually frank discussions among cardinals in the week that followed. Unlike the conclave that followed Pope John Paul II's death in 2005, cardinals didn't spend time in mourning. Instead, their deliberations could turn immediately to the biggest challenges facing the church—the rise of secular trends, management of the scandal-plagued Vatican bank and the need to address a shift Catholicism's demographics toward the southern hemisphere.
After hours, the cardinals met in private to home in on candidates. On March 5, after they had spent the day in the talks known as the General Congregation, a group of them from around the English-speaking world gathered inside North American College, a school nestled on a hill above the Vatican, where U.S. bishops send seminarians to train for the priesthood. A banquet table was set up beneath a chandelier inside the Red Room, which is trimmed with red marble pilasters and oil canvases depicting cardinals.
Sitting down to saucers of soup, the cardinals discussed "five or six" names of papal candidates, said one U.S. cardinal. That roster included two of the names that were most frequently being mentioned by the media: Cardinal Ouellet, a former Archbishop of Quebec, and Cardinal Scola of Milan. The future pope's name was also dropped into the conversation, the U.S. cardinal said.
A spokesman for Cardinal Scola declined to comment. Reached by phone Friday evening, Cardinal Ouellet said, "I have nothing to say about the conclave. I have a very serious oath about what was going on inside." A Vatican spokesman declined to comment on conclave proceedings.
Cardinal O'Connor, who was among the invitees of the dinner, declined to say who first mentioned Cardinal Bergoglio as a papal candidate. But he added: "His name began to be thrown into the ring: Maybe this is the man?"
Many cardinals initially believed Cardinal Bergoglio, 76, was probably too old to become pope, especially coming in the wake of Benedict XVI, who cited his age and frailty as reasons for his resignation. "We came into this whole process thinking: The next pope has to be vigorous and therefore probably younger. So there you have a man who isn't young. He's 76 years old. The question is does he still have vigor?" said Cardinal Francis George of Chicago.
American cardinals are heavily courted for support in papal elections. As a potential bloc of votes inside the conclave, the Americans are "very powerful" because they are outnumbered only by cardinals from Italy, Cardinal O'Connor said.
American cardinals also run archdioceses that are among the biggest donors to the Catholic church and to the papacy. Another asset that would have worked in the U.S. cardinals' favor is a lack of unity among Italians that has manifested itself in past conclaves, said the U.S. cardinal.
But as evening wore on, and glasses of red and white wine began to flow, it became clear that this time, the Americans, too, fostered diverging views. "I thought the American cardinals were quite divided about where to go," said Cardinal O'Connor, who didn't enter the conclave because he is above the voting-age limit of 80 years.
"Americans are particularly rugged individualists. We get along, but we all have our own point of view," the U.S. cardinal said.
Cardinal George of Chicago said he couldn't remember the evening but said it was "entirely possible" that Cardinal Bergoglio came up in conversations over a meal at the college. "Every night it's something different. So there are different conversations going on," the cardinal said in an interview in the Red Room on Friday. He declined to discuss the conclave.
Later that week, it was Cardinal Bergoglio's time to address his peers. Unlike the speeches before him, the Argentine kept his address short—less than four minutes, several cardinals said. That got him noticed.
It hadn't been the first time that Cardinal Bergoglio had mentioned the inward-looking nature of the church.
"We have to avoid the spiritual sickness of self-referential church," the cardinal said in an interview to an Italian journalist last year. "It's true that when you get out into the street, as happens to every man and woman, there can be accidents. However, if the church remains closed in on itself, self-referential, it gets old. Between a church that suffers accidents in the street, and a church that's sick because it's self-referential, I have no doubts about preferring the former."
"He speaks in a very straightforward way. And so perhaps—more than the content—it was simply a reminder that here is someone who has authenticity in such a way that he's a wonderful witness to the discipleship," said Cardinal George about the speech.
On March 12, the cardinals filed into the Sistine Chapel and cut themselves from outside communication. In the first ballot that night, the cardinals who garnered significant votes were Cardinals Bergoglio, Scola and Ouellet. Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston also drew votes. Black smoke rose from the chapel's smokestack, signifying no choice had been made, and the cardinals adjourned for the day.
On Wednesday, Cardinal Scola's support began to erode. Though Italian, the Milan cardinal was struggling to draw support from his countrymen, one European cardinal said. That left Italian cardinals divided among a range of candidates, with some starting to coalesce around Cardinal Bergoglio.
Members of another potential voting bloc—"Ratzingerian" cardinals who are close to Benedict XVI—were also divided between cardinals Scola and Ouellet, both of whom have deep ties with the former pope and are considered theological and intellectual admirers of his.
By the final round of voting, the opposition blocs had dissolved, with many of its voters joining into to push Cardinal Bergoglio past the 77-vote threshold needed to become pope.
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An earlier version of this article misspelled the name of British Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor as Cormack Murphy O'Connor.
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I figured maybe other people are like me and have some small questions they don't know where to put and that don't merit their own thread.
So here I go (and maybe others can chime in both with questions and answers)
1. In pairs skating, how are the twist levels determined. What is a level 2 triple twist as opposed to a level 4?
2. On the ABC coverage of the women, Sandra B, genius that she is, said Elena R would have a harder time rotating triples fully because she is so small. Am I wrong that this is crazy and it's actually easier for her to rotate them BECAUSE she's so small?
3. Also on the ABC coverage, they spelled Elena's name Yelena. Does someone who is fluent in Russian know which is correct??
And thus end my stupid questions for today


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Funky Chickens, Set of 4
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Exclusive | Set These Funky Chickens Loose in Your Garden
- Colorful yard accents
- Each chicken is individually handpainted
- Set of 4
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