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The NCAA's investigation is closed into Auburn, providing the school and Cam Newton vindication. Will the doubts ever go away?
Auburn-Florida is a swing game for both teams. What should we expect on the field Saturday night?
Alabama-Ole Miss would be a monumental upset if the Rebels won. How much longer until Nov. 5?
Birmingham News columnists Kevin Scarbinsky and Jon Solomon discuss those subjects in this week's Birmingham News Sports podcast. Have a listen.


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BBQ Pro Elite 48,000 BTU 24 in. Stainless Steel Gas Grill
Backyard barbequing is made simple with this 24 in. stainless steel gas grill with four stainless steel main burners, stainless steel door and cooking grates, and a brass side burner.
- 304 grade stainless steel gas grill and steel doors is rust and corrosion resistant
- Double wall hood with high quality temperature gauge
- Four stainless steel main burners make 48,000 BTU and a brass side burner makes 12,000 BTU
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- Electronic Ignition
- Fully assembled in carton, just attach side shelves
- Pull out grease pan for easy cleaning
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1908 Detroit Tigers Detroit Free Press Pictorial Supplement
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This rare pictorial supplement to the Sunday, October 11, 1908, issue of the Detroit Free Press features portrait images of twenty-five members of the American League Champion Detroit Tigers. This is a very unusual and striking premium that we have not seen before. Its great rarity is no doubt related to the fact that it was issued on only a single day. The portraits, which are arranged in an attractive diamond motif, include Ty Cobb (smiling, no less), manager Hughie Jennings, Sam Crawford, George Mullin, Bill Coughlin (noted as "Capt."), Ed Summers, "Wild Bill" Donovan, and Germany Schaefer. Also pictured are team president Frank Navin, and owner William Yawkey. Each individual is identified in print next to his image. "American League Champions 1908-09" is lettered along the top border. (It was the custom of the time to refer to the current League champions as champions for the following season as well.) Detroit won its second of three consecutive pennants in 1908 and once again faced the Chicago Cubs in the World Series. On the day this supplement was issued, the Tigers were defeated by the Cubs by a score of 6-1 in Game 2 of the World Series held at Chicago's West Side Park. The loss put the Tigers in a two-games-to-none hole which they were unable to climb out of, eventually losing the Series in five games. In addition to being issued on only a single day, the fact that these supplements were printed on newspaper stock, and thus are easily susceptible to damage, has contributed to few examples surviving the ages, let alone in such fine condition. The supplement (8.5 x 12 inches) is in a remarkable state of preservation, with only a single diagonal crease in the lower left corner, and a few very light surface wrinkles. While technically in Very Good to Excellent condition overall, it certainly displays as Excellent. Matted and framed to total dimensions of 13 x 17 inches. Reserve $300. Estimate $500+. SOLD FOR $529
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PART ONE: Young Gay Panda never made modest New Year's resolutions.
Every time December rolled around, I decided that THIS upcoming year would be the year in which I was perfect. My grades would be an unbroken stream of sharp-edged A-pluses. I'd never say anything stupid or unkind; my manners would be gracious and my thoughts free of pettiness; no more time would be whiled away in idleness. The Perpetually Sticky Panda Siblings would not be able to break me down to screaming no matter the level to which they stooped in hygienic offense, and maybe if I could be perfect enough, the Perpetually Arguing Panda Parents would stop their take-no-prisoners war.
I would never make another mistake in music. I would have a book published. I would skip a grade. I would master my latent magical talents at last, dammit! Oh! And I would not swear. I would not even think swear words. After all, you can only change the world by first changing yourself, and I'm sure whoever came up with that affirmation never dreamed that there was a cub out there taking it literally. If I could make myself perfect, my life would become perfect, and all would be well.
Of course, mere hours into January 1st, I'd thought the F word, fought with a sibling, failed AGAIN to become psychic, and played video games instead of expanding my mind with great literature. Within a week, I'd said something dumb in class, made mistakes in math and music, and the war between the Panda Parents raged on regardless of anything I did either good or bad. Despite all my failures, by the next December I was making a list of resolutions again. This year . . . well, press repeat.
As an adult, I whittled down my list to what I thought were more attainable goals. The most prevalent was to lose weight. I'd steel myself and step on the scale, observe the number in despair and write it down, and then let myself get swept away by the magic of January 1st. The New Year is possibility, and that number would surely reduce in reliable two-pound chunks a week with calorie restriction and exercise! So I did these things, and some weight came off but never in reliable two-pound chunks, and then the semi-starvation caught up. By the next New Year's I was on the scale again, observing the number in despair and writing it down, and getting swept away (although with less conviction each time) by the magic of January 1st.
The New Year is right around the corner, and 2012 might be the first year in which I do not resolve to lose weight, but I do anyway, and without trying very hard. I will just keep on eating the way I have been for months, and hopefully my body will respond by dribbling away more of its excess poundage. A resolution is choosing to do (or not do) something, and for me there is always condemnation there, right under the surface waiting to burst through at the first sign of failure. But this isn't a moral issue any longer.
PART TWO TOMORROW, as Gay Panda has happily been ignoring A: the laundry; B: the dishes; C: showering; D: vacuuming; and E: broiling chuck steak; because goofing around online listening to Last Friday Night and writing and playing video games is so much more rewarding and pleasurable than A-E.
Dear Grandpa Simpson,
No, we do not want to play Guess Your Medical Problem at dinner.
Gay Panda
"If man made it, don't eat it." ..Jack LaLanne
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If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong." ..Richard Feynman
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PART TWO: Last year, I was miserable in my body. I wore my elastic band athletic pants all the time because my jeans were too tight and I could not face the fact that my weight had climbed up yet again. I wore them around the house. I wore them on my errands. I felt foolish at Whole Foods, but in those athletic pants, I could avoid the feeling of failure, the hopelessness, the realization that I had to buy bigger jeans. People might throw me the bone hey, that panda in line is pretty fat, but athletic pants mean that fat panda is trying to do something about it. When social events occurred, I turned them down because I could not attend in my elastic band athletic pants. I hid in my house.
Gay Panda was never any good at accepting a larger body. But you can't live this way indefinitely; either you accept that it is you and make peace with it, or you go crazy feeling divorced from your own flesh. On New Year's 2011, I couldn't even stand on the scale. What was the point in a resolution? What exactly was I going to choose to do (or not do)? I drink one 12-ounce soda every two months. I rarely drink alcohol. I go to the candy store 2-3 times a year, where I buy one marshmallow chocolate bar, one little bag of Reese's Pieces, and one little bag of cinnamon bears. I don't go to fast food joints at all. A 5'9" panda can't live on 1200 calories and run relentless 5Ks. So what was there to resolve?
I was out of options for a resolution that would affect my weight, yet accepting it felt like defeat. I didn't want to spend another year engaged in fruitless warfare, bringing Nerf arrows to a battle in which the opposing side has Uzis. But at the same time, I can't stand being so heavy. I spent January 1st feeling decimated between two equally unappealing choices. I went to fat acceptance websites and looked at pictures of cheerful fat people who accept themselves, and I wanted to scream. I tolerate this body because I'm stuck in it, and I want to wear a T-shirt that informs people I do not really look like this. So on the road to acceptance, I never made it very far.
It's funny that I have no more resolutions for my weight in 2012 than I did in 2011, but for completely different reasons. Last year, it was out of despair. This year, it is out of knowledge. Hunger cannot be overpowered by will; this is a physiological fact of the flesh that I mixed up with emotional control. I will never win the battle on hunger, no more than I would win a battle with cyanide. The difference is that no one would expect me to win the latter, but most people think that we've had a moral failing if we can't win the former. But we won't win, and yet flagellate ourselves for thinking our Nerf arrow is as powerful as an Uzi.
Fighting the need for food is like fighting the need for oxygen, and putting it in those terms allows me to see the silliness of it. Both are the battles of a lunatic, and while Gay Panda is admittedly a very strange flower in the world's rose garden, Gay Panda would never be found insane in a court of law. My resolution cannot be to ignore my hunger pangs, in the hopes that doing so for long enough will render me an average-sized panda. I've tried. It won't. My body does not allow this to happen.
PART THREE SUNDAY: As Gay Panda has errands, and will NOT be performing them in elastic band athletic pants for two reasons.
1. I bought jeans that fit. Smaller jeans.
2. My elastic band athletic pants are far too big on me now.
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PART THREE: Finding the strength to starve myself was essentially one of my resolutions every year. But this is ridiculous. How can I feel badly when I fail? Do I feel badly when I run out of breath underwater? That isn't a failing of willpower, or a sign of slothful character. I am not a glutton for air. It is not an emotional issue or a moral one, and I can't imagine what a therapist would make of a weeping panda on the sofa, devastated that I could not hold out for more than thirty seconds in the pool. What does this say about me? I disgust myself! My self-esteem drowning itself in the can because I can't hold my breath any longer is as mad as bashing myself for being hungry.
It also isn't a moral issue what I'm eating. Starch and sugar make me feel like hell. On celebratory occasions, it's worth the physiological dismay and backlash. Otherwise, I'd prefer not to feel that way. Certain foods have certain properties that give a quick high. I can eat them if I want, but I will feel gross later and have horrible cravings that last for days. Reframing this as a health issue instead of a failure of self is one I'm still working on. But choosing to only eat desserts at birthday dinners is more common sense than a resolution; limiting potatoes is the same. I know what's going to happen, and it's going to be ugly. I don't resolve to not tease bulls for the adrenaline high of the flight either. To make it punitive with a failed resolution if I ingest sugar or starch is to introduce an emotional/moral component to a much more complicated issue.
Stating as a resolution I WILL NEVER EAT SUGAR OR STARCH IN 2012 seems almost as strange as I WILL EAT 1000 CALORIES A DAY NO MATTER HOW FAMISHED I BECOME. Also ridiculous is I WILL WEIGH 166 POUNDS BY THE END OF THE YEAR. This is yet another Nerf/Uzi battle I am destined to lose, because I do not control what my body does with the food I put in it. I give it the tools, but my body has to do the work. I can't put on a hardhat and tinker about my cells making improvements.
I would love to become a normal weight this year. But I can't resolve to do this. Crossing the finish line is not under my control. I am only my body's coach, not its director. My vision may not be its vision. So I can cheer or moan on the sidelines, but I can't run the race for it. Here is the food; do what you will. Please diminish. Believing that I have failed if it can't just isn't fair to me. I didn't fail. This isn't a test in school, in which I showed up unprepared. If I can't make it, it's because my body couldn't do the work. It is not a reflection upon myself, and it doesn't render 2012 a wash. That is when I will have to make peace with my body somehow, when it can do no more.
You don't kick your third- or fifth- or tenth-place finisher in the seat of the pants for not being first. I did what I could and my body did what it could, and then I have to let it go. But it is miles easier to think about making peace with 184.2, in which I just look a little round, than 231, in which I look horrific. I don't feel so huge and yet so invisible any longer. I lost some of that wax coating I once had, where eyes slipped off me like I wasn't even there. I look okay. Not great, but okay. And that is so much more than I had a year ago.
So I find myself this December creating no weight-loss related resolutions for the New Year. I can't choose to starve myself. I'll limit the foods that make me feel like hell like I've been doing all along, because that's sensible. And I don't choose to become 166 pounds of panda. I hope. There is a difference that I didn't appreciate before, because I believed that calorie deficit = weight loss, and that I was just deficient in the matter of willpower. But that's not true. For 2012, I'll continue to input what makes my body feel good, and limit what makes it feel like hell, and hope that one day all the extra panda will be gone.
This is so very different from the despair of last year in my elastic band athletic pants, and all of the years before coming up with calorie counts and brutal exercise regimes. I don't know what to do with myself, not spending December coming up with ways to improve my body in January. So, hello, approaching New Year! You are going to be the first one ever that I have not begun on a very torturous note: trying to achieve the perfect impossible in my persona, my weight, my intelligence, and my magical powers. 2012, you are going to be interesting.
Just YES to all of the above; this really clicks with me. 'Specially:
Certain foods have certain properties that give a quick high. I can eat them if I want, but I will feel gross later and have horrible cravings that last for days. Reframing this as a health issue instead of a failure of self is one Im still working on.
I would love to become a normal weight this year. But I cant resolve to do this. Crossing the finish line is not under my control. I am only my bodys coach, not its director.
This is so very different from the despair of last year in my elastic band athletic pants, and all of the years before coming up with calorie counts and brutal exercise regimes. I dont know what to do with myself, not spending December coming up with ways to improve my body in January. So, hello, approaching New Year! You are going to be the first one ever that I have not begun on a very torturous note: trying to achieve the perfect impossible in my persona, my weight, my intelligence, and my magical powers. 2012, you are going to be interesting.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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Reduce the juices (heat until a lot of the water evaporates) and then add a few pats of butter.
Add a "primal starch" thickener such as potato starch, arrowroot, or tapioca flour, if you're not averse to a little bit of additional starch. I haven't used any of these in making a gravy, so I don't know how well they work. It might be a good idea to temper them instead of just dumping straight into the gravy.


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Local senator comments on transportation funding plan
June 10, 2013
The state Senate last week approved a funding plan aimed at upgrading transportation infrastructure....
Why does the story not reveal what the new fees will be? It only addresses all the money that will be spent on projects. For example...instead of paying a vehicle registration fee once a year for $36.00 we will now pay $104.00 and it is only good for 2 years....
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The wholesale gas tax will be increasing by 28.5 cents a gallon and the increased fees for drivers' licenses and registration will cost about $130 per year. On top of that, we'll be giving PENNDOT, an organization we all know is fiscally responsible (NOT), all of this new financing with no additional safeguards in place to ensure the money is being used responsibly. Gotta love PA!
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the "funding" comes out of our pockets. Why not just call it what it is, a tax. wait until the full details are available. I'm sure there are serveral other fee increases that will hit our pockets.
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You have that right JohnJr. Yaw is getting us to pay for the roads so his beloved natural gas industry can rape our state more efficiently, and in the process he will personally make some money. Check out Senate Bills 738 and 739 for fun as well. These are Yaw sponsored pieces of legislation that cut funding to make buildings more efficient and use that funding to build infrastructure to get the natural gas to these buildings so they can burn it to heat them. Does that make sense? Make them less efficient and then heat them with the gas that makes Yaw money. That is pure and simple corruption. And people still vote him. Fools!
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I spent the morning studying this bill and all the twists and turns, this bill will not address deficient roads or bridges to any extent. Just another example of an increase in taxes. Our problem is not a shortage of transportation dollars, it's a lack of prioritization. Pa spends more than 26 other states on transportation and still we have some of the worst in the nation. Every dollar that is spent on unnecessary beautification projects uses up the funding that should be going to vital highway and bridge repairs. A core responsibility of state government is in fixing and maintenance of roads and bridges and should take priority over such state programs as the billions of dollars in handouts and subsidies for sport stadiums, corporate headquarters, and Hollywood film productions. Redirecting non-essential government spending to the essential would go along ways to minimizing the impact of new taxes and fees. Do the right thing for a change and cut the fat.
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I do not favor increased fees and taxes, but the PennDOT prevailing wage rule wastes our money.
I am delighted to see the funds for the Central Susquehanna Expressway which will eliminate the chaos of Selinsgrove.
This will make it easier for residents of our area to use the Harrisburg airport as well.
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If signed into law, motorists would pay $50.50 for a driver's license that would be valid for six years, instead of the $29.50 they pay now for one that lasts four years, and they would pay $104 for their vehicle registration every two years, instead of $36 annually.
Drivers who violate traffic laws, such as speeding or running a red light, would also face a $100 surcharge on tickets, as well as an increase in fines for failure to obey traffic-control devices from $25 to a sliding scale of $100 to $300.
My objection is that 1/4th of the money would go for mass transit which benefits WHO?????? Not the majority of small towns and cities in the state!
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Funny how tax increases in this article are considered investing. The current administration in Washington has been saying the same thing for years and has been excoriated for it. Now, when this "investing" occurs closer to home and under a Republican state administration, it's ok.
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Hello, my name is Jim Gustin, and I am an educator who lives in Northcentral Idaho with my wife, daughter, and cat. This is my first involvement with a NASA program and I really excited about it.
I have been an educator for two decades between Montana and Idaho. My career path could be described as circuitous. Shortly after high school, I completed an apprenticeship program and worked as a journeyman in the building trades for nearly ten years. During that time, a seed of interest was germinating in me, nurtured by a life-long interest in stream conservation due somewhat to an avid pursuit of fly-fishing. I began a self-study of the ecology of running waters. This interest grew to point where I left the building trades and obtained a Biology degree from Swarthmore College. While there, I was able to obtain a student internship with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. I was provided an opportunity to participate in many aspects of ecosystem research, from ions to whales, at the Matemek Research Station in the North Shore region of Quebec, Canada, with an international team of investigators. This was a truly inspiring experience. I was able to return to Matamek through involvement with the G.A.T.E. (Geographic Analysis of Thermal Equilibria) project through the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Stroud Water Research Center.
The path twisted again, however, after presenting Discovery workshops at the National Bison Range to area teachers. The excitement that these teachers generated was contagious. I began presenting workshops for Project Wild and later, Project Wet, bridging my interests in aquatic ecology with education. I obtained my teaching certificate in addition to completing my Masters degree at the University of Montana with emphases in aquatic ecology and science education. Since then I have been science teacher in small rural schools in Montana and Idaho except for a brief assignment as an elementary principal. I began a doctoral program in Plant, Soils, and Entomology at the University of Idaho and hope to complete it someday.
Presently, I teach General Biology; two dual enrollment classes, Human Biology and Environmental Science for Northwest Nazarene University, and other science classes as needed at Orofino Junior Senior High School (Home of the Maniacs). My goals include sharing with students the interrelationships of chemical, physical, and biological factors that exist in the biosphere and the excitement that can be experienced through conducting original research. In addition to my involvement with this Spaceward Bound project, I am participating in LIMSST (Literacy Instruction for Math and Science Secondary Teachers) through the University of Idaho, SWEET (Summer at WSU Engineering Experiences for Teachers) through Washington State University, and developing a "virtual place-based" science program to be launched this Fall and can be followed on "Orofino Maniac Biology" on Facebook.
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By Don Bell
I recently read about yet another legislative study to be completed concerning the consolidation of school district central office personnel to keep property taxes in check for Pennsylvania's senior citizens. Keeping property taxes in check is an easy answer – eliminate property taxes for senior citizens.
The elimination of property taxes is frequently discussed by the legislature and yet it becomes clearer with every year that our legislators do not have courage or the ability to see it through.
So the only alternative presented is to cut more from the public schools.
There is absolutely no need to waste taxpayer dollars by completing another financial study on this issue because it has been done before and we all know, whether it is in business or education, less people equals less expenditures.
Furthermore, Pennsylvania actually had a county-wide public school system in the 1950's. In fact, my grandfather was an Assistant Superintendent of York County Schools. I have read a lot about that county-wide system and reviewed why the Commonwealth abandoned that system. I would suggest if the legislature wants to complete a study it should be one that examines the reasons behind moving away from the county-wide system.
I think it is important to note that not too long ago the Commonwealth only had 500 local school districts. Then, the same Legislature that now wants to decrease public school district central office positions, actually added 170 more public school entities including central office personnel. These public entities are cyber-charter and charter schools.
It was an interesting legislative decision to add all these schools and central office personnel in the face of the Commonwealth's financial woes and especially the pension system challenges.
So why does the legislature only want a financial study done on the consolidation of public school districts' central office personnel while totally ignoring the hundreds of central office positions of charter and cyber-charter schools?
If the Legislature is seriously interested in looking at a more economic mode of operation on a county-wide level they need to include all public entities and not deliberately exclude the 170 charter and cyber-charter entities from their study.
Don't get me wrong, I believe the times we face in the public school districts and in the Commonwealth are challenging to both programs and finances. As opportunities present themselves, we need to discuss them, as they actually may become a defining moment in need of our attention.
Simply put, when defining moments occur, if we don't see them for what they are we can only look upon them afterward as possibly a missed opportunity.
If the legislature has an honest and upfront interest in keeping property taxes in check for PA senior citizens, the county-wide concept should first apply to them. By that I mean, if public school districts can run efficiently and effectively on a county-wide level why can't the Legislature?
Pennsylvania has a total of 253 legislators (203 in the House, 50 in the Senate). If we only need one central office for county-wide schools then it would only seem logical that we only need one legislator for each county - 67 school systems and 67 legislators. If the Commonwealth is to be taken seriously and truly keep taxes in check, they must take the lead on this issue and cut their own ranks to 67 members.
With that said, the legislature will never cut their own ranks; they simply have neither the desire nor the votes to achieve that.
However, I am convinced that an opportunity exists for a shared Superintendent of Schools position that may actually help to keep quality educational programs and financial support of current and new educational initiatives in two or three school districts while at the same time to help limit increasing property taxes.
In brief, a shared Superintendent of Schools concept could create an opportunity to provide educationally effective and financially efficient initiatives, create large scale leverage by circumventing small size educational and financial limitations, provide financial savings in the salary and benefits of the Superintendent position, divert financial savings toward student programs and away from personnel overhead, coordinate and customize present and future staff positions, broaden educational concepts, vision, and ideas between or among school districts and their individual community, combine and share in large scale district operational services, and unite human resources to develop and extend educational and operational effectiveness.
Please be sure in knowing this concept is not a school district merger plan. In fact, in no way would school districts merge. The Superintendent would be accountable to separate school boards, parents, and students that represent their respective communities. Challenging – yes, unattainable – no.
Don Bell is the superintendent of schools for the Northern Lebanon School District.


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Reform in Motion: The Promise and Perils of Incorporating Risk Assessments and Cost-Benefit Analysis into Pennsylvania Sentencing
Jordan Hyatt
University of Pennsylvania - Jerry Lee Center of Criminology
Steven L. Chanenson
Villanova University School of Law
Mark H. Bergstrom
Pennsylvania State University
Duquesne University Law Review, Vol. 49, 2011
Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2013-3010
Actuarial risk assessment and cost-benefit analyses have become increasingly commonplace in many areas of criminal justice. The integration of these tools in sentencing represents a natural and logical next step. In Pennsylvania, the pace of this development has recently accelerated, as reform legislation now mandates the inclusion of actuarial methodologies into the sentencing architecture. This article considers the promises and the perils of this integration in light of Pennsylvania's sentencing structure. The authors conclude by presenting four key questions that legislators in Pennsylvania- as well as other jurisdictions beginning to addresses the use of empirical data in sentencing- should consider before implementation.
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New Mexico: Taste of Honey
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As soon as RootsTech ended, Daniel Horowitz and I flew to Albuquerque (New Mexico) to participate in A Taste of Honey, a community-wide education event, sponsored by MyHeritage.com.
Here we are at the MyHeritage display:
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Skip to comments.'Noah's Ark' discovery on Turkish mountain
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A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers said Monday they believe they may have found Noah's Ark -- 4000m up a mountain in Turkey.
The team say they recovered wooden specimens from a structure on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey that carbon dating proved was 4800 years old, around the same time the ark is said to have been afloat.
"It's not 100 percent that it is Noah's Ark but we think it is 99.9 percent that this is it," Yeung Wing-cheung, a Hong Kong documentary filmmaker and member of the 15-strong team from Noah's Ark Ministries International told AFP.
The structure had several compartments, some with wooden beams, which were believed to house animals, he said.
The group of evangelical archaeologists ruled out an established human settlement on the grounds that one had never been found above 3500 metres in the vicinity, Yeung said.
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How many of them arks are up there anyway?
Apparently, Noah mass produced them.
Did they find the pot-o-gold, too - oh wait, that's something else.
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no shite sherlock how much did the chinese pay the Turks to go up that mountain so they could get the grant to excavate
Did Noah start a franchise?
If this was/is true then why have we not seen it since? The world is hundreds of times more corrupt today than at anytime in history.
I'm calling BS... just another fairy tale...
Everybody Wing-cheung tonite!
You owe me a keyboard LOL!
I have seen so many supposed findings of Noah's Ark that I am not keen to believe without strong evidence - fossilized Unicorn poop should be enough!
You'd almost think that Noah was skipper of the flagship of a flotilla of arks, if you can believe all of the reports we've seen over the years.
I tend to believe that many (if not all) of these archaeologists have found evidence of large, sea-going craft on Mt. Ararat. How else can you explain the discovery of all those wooden constructions? They can't be lodgings. The place is as inhospitable now, as it probably was 10,000 years ago.
I've gotta admit that it's a fascinating, ongoing endeavor.
>>How many of them arks are up there anyway?
"And God told Noah, build an ark and take 2 of everything." I think Noah misheard Him and built 200..
You must have skipped Sunday school the day they explained the whole rainbow thing. Next time he said he'd use fire.
Thee dating of 4800 years ago is over 300 years after thee beginning of ancient Egypt.
12,000 feet up a mountain begs the question where the water went.
You're right I think that they have actually run across quite a bit of evidence apparently of more than one craft.
But, just dang! At first I thought that the craft might have broken up and was deposited in a rather far flung fashion. But some of what has been found is too much material for that theory to "stay afloat."
I swear as soon as I thought stay afloat I tried to find another phrase, but it just locked me up. : )
You could build a house with the all relics of the True Cross. I'm guessing you could build a modest sized navy with all the arks on Ararat.
Anyone care to integrate the volume of a shell with an initial circumference of 25,000 miles and a final circumference 12,000 feet above the initial circumference? That is a pot load of water.
If it were truly Noah's Ark, then I'd say the water went wherever God wanted it.
Hell, I thought I saw Leonard Nimoy on TV telling me this back in the 1970s
Why is it that no one ever includes pictures? BTW...that area has always been considered to be a likely spot. Wood has been discovered there before but the weather is so harsh that the site continually gets buried by snow or noone can get up there. I read a few years ago that Turkey banned people from exploring the area. It wouldn't be surprising if they do so again.
Good pun.
Yes, there are entirely too many sites, and far too much ancient wood for it to have come from a single craft. What I keep returning to is the question of, what are all of those immense beams of ancient wood doing so far up that mountain?
From the photos and archaeological drawings I've seen, they're definitely not buildings, but they are in some sort of purpose-built layout, such as a large water vessel.
Nothing makes more sense to me, than the theory that they must have come to rest there when the water level was at that altitude. It's all very intriguing.
Evaporation due to global warming? LOL
I'm only half joking about that. I wonder where sea level would rise to if all of the ice melted at both poles?
Could humans survive the sort of sustained temperatures that could cause such a melt? Hmm...doubt it.
Ok, so if the sea couldn't rise 12,000 feet - even if only temporarily, then how did those boats (if that's what they are) get up there?
Tidal wave?
Perhaps sea levels were already much higher then, than they are today, and something caused them to temporarily rise to where those artifacts now rest.
Since the Bible states that the waters receded, it is fair to ask to where. I mean no disrespect, but 12,000 feet of water over the entire globe is more water than what is currently in the oceans. It had to go somewhere. Maybe the Lord has a tremendous water park, but I'd doubt he'd need our water.
The water wouldn't have to cover the entire globe to 12,000 feet above current sea level. It could have come as a tsunami, then subsided.
I don't believe there actually ever was a real ark .
Oh good, it's been found again.
In the 70's some guy came to our church, telling us a fantastic story about seeing the arc.
Unfortunately his camera and film were confiscated by the government.(Don't remember which).
It was a Welsh lie not an Irish lie.
Maybe an ancient nursing home?
There are pictures, for those who do not mind "wading" through a little Chinese:
Also, the assumption that the many "close encounters" represent too much material for a single craft is built on an assumption of maximum possible craft size. If that assumption is wrong, a single large craft could account for all the specimens thus far found and more. Just sayin
As for theological considerations, the ark is a unique signpost in Biblical history. One would not expect God to run that show multiple times because he promised he would only do it once with water.
Furthermore, this would be an interesting time for us to discover the ark. God flooded the earth once in judgment of human sin, then revealed it through Peter to be a prototype of the final judgment. One object lesson. One final judgment. If it turns out to be a credible find, what might God be telling us?
I've often wondered about the parched conditions on Mars. Could our oceans be evaporating into outer space? If so... was it Bush's fault???? /sac/
They should check to see if anyone stamped "Made in China" on the thing...
This is a photo of the press conference. Yeah. That looks legit.
The biblical story says God decided to flood the earth after seeing how corrupt it had become,
If this was/is true then why have we not seen it since? The world is hundreds of times more corrupt today than at anytime in history.
I'm calling BS... just another fairy tale...
Respectfully submitted: Corruption? Plenty back then...perhaps more so. Why no more floods? Reference the significance of the Rainbow in your Bible. Fairy tale? Every knee will bow....no exception.
Hmmm— we have the Bible account, the Gilgamesh account, —I would wild guess that probably every city in the Elam to Susa to Mari district built a ship to evacuate from the city to escape the flood. Everyone saw Noah building a huge vessel that couldn`t be hidden in a back yard. So I would venture that the jig was up and everyone copied Noah, just as every 1950`s small town in US had at least one crazy guy building a bomb shelter because of the Russian nuclear threat by Bear bombers. I built one too, in 1957, only one in town-ha!
Ah, no ... sadly, the unicorns wouldn't get on the Ark. That's why they aren't around anymore.
Did someone say "skipper"?
Water molecules have sufficient weight to keep them earth-bound by gravity. Helium is lighter than air, but I don't think even helium can escape the tug of the planet.
As to Mars, it has a different atmosphere than Earth does. More carbon dioxide, and less nitrogen and oxygen.
Because of that (and the fact that it lost its magnetic core) it's bombarded with cosmic rays from the sun, where Earth's magnetic field repels them. All life on Earth would cease, if we lost our magnetic field.
... was it Bushs fault?
Algore would probably buy that .. LOL
The Biblical account specifically mentions fissuring of "the fountains of the great deep." There is a possibility that much of the water of the flood was a temporary, forced extrusion of subterranean water. In any event, owing to tidal distributions and the probability of unusual seismic activity, it would simply not be necessary for the entire globe to be uniformly, statically immersed just to set one boat relatively high on one mountain.
green aligators and log neck geese maybe - or humpty back camels and chimpanzees
Party pooper.
Stop poopin' on our party, man.
What would a tsunami of that size do to the Ark, I wonder. Noah would have made a fortune selling souvenir toothpicks of the Ark, which is about all that would be left after such a tidal wave. I believe in the Flood, but remember, the ark 'came to rest'. The narrative says nothing of a wave.
Actually, you have to go to 29,000 feet since EVERYTHING was submerged, which means Mt. Everest. I did it once, it ended up being about 30 TIMES the total water on the Earth and in the atmosphere right now. A few pot loads, I'd say!
And Noah looked out through the driving rain
Them unicorns were hiding, playing silly games
Kicking and splashing while the rain was falling
Oh, them silly unicorns
I'm not going to leap into my Bible, but Noah sent out several doves in calm seas searching for land, did he not?
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South Carolina won the battle for highly coveted offensive lineman Austin Clark (6-6, 295) of Lexington, Va., on Thursday night when he announced a commitment to the Gamecocks on his local TV station.
Clark picked the Gamecocks over Virginia Tech, Tennessee and Ohio State.
Clark visited USC for a spring practice and made a return visit on May 31 for a final look. He developed a strong relationship with Gamecocks offensive line coach Shawn Elliott, and that was one of his primary reasons for picking the Gamecocks.
"Coach Elliott and coach (Steve) Spurrier were the ones who really, really sold me on the school," Clark said. "They talked about everything, and I was able to see it in person."
The Gamecocks will lose both of their starting tackles after this season and eye Clark as a possible immediate replacement.
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Today, ESPN released the official announcement duos and trios for college football broadcasts this fall. Some were altered, some remain unchanged from last year.
Who is best and worst among these broadcasting groups is something that will be debated in living rooms and on the internet almost as much as the quality of the teams they announce for.
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by the editors of The American Heritage Dictionaries
The idea for this entertaining book came from letters that the editors of The American Heritage Dictionaries have received regarding the origins of words. Every word has a story: "Calling someone a gossip in the Middle Ages was not derogatory at all. Gossip was originally a compound of god, 'God,' and sib, 'blood relation,' and meant 'godparent.'... The word came to refer to a person who engages in idle chatter and rumormongering." Nightmare "designated an evil spirit (mare) thought to afflict sleeping persons by sitting on them and causing a feeling of suffocation." And whence the X in X ray? The discoverer, Wilhelm Röntgen, didn't understand the nature of this kind of radiation so he gave it the symbol for an unknown quantity. The book is full of more than 500 such arcane revelations and is illustrated with splendid wood engravings by Barry Moser. (Houghton Mifflin, $16.95)
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God works in mysterious ways and puts people where they are supposed to be, even in trying circumstances.
That's what happened to the sisters of the Carmelite Community of the Word in Gallitzin who have been making annual mission trips to Haiti to help the Little Sisters of the Incarnation for 20 years.
Through the years, the sisters from the United States have helped with medical and dental visits and built a birthing center in Haiti.
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(Courtesy photo) Sister Martha Burbulla watches as men load supplies in a sea container to send to the Little Sisters of the Incarnation in Haiti. Standing inside the sea container are Harvey Kneas of McConnellsburg and Frank Campion of Hollidaysburg.
"We focus on helping the sisters themselves so they can help the poor," said Sister Marilyn Welch with the Carmelite Community of the Word.
It just so happens their annual trips are always in January. And this year, on the 10th day of their trip, an earthquake hit Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Although the Little Sisters of the Incarnation live 90 miles away from the nation's capital, the ground shook fiercely.
The sisters' concrete dormitory cracked and was damaged.
"It was quite frightening," Welch said.
She felt terrible for the Little Sisters, whom she has come to know and love through the years.
Many of them lost loved ones in the earthquake, and during the days after the disaster, they could get little information because chaos and a lack of communication still prevailed in Port-au-Prince.
"They had no idea whether their families were dead or alive," Welch said.
Despite their desperation, the Haitians were very prayerful and didn't blame God, she said.
"God didn't do this. This is something that is a natural disaster. It happened," she said.
"The poor are living in conditions where buildings weren't built in a way that they could withstand an earthquake. But God didn't cause that. What caused that was poverty.
"Some of us that have more need to be able to share with those that have less. I think God weeps along with the Haitians," Welch said.
She and her team of 12 people wanted to stay and help, but they knew they would be a liability, so they returned to the United States through the Dominican Republic three days later.
"We were kind of distraught because we didn't know how bad it was. People at home knew more than we did," Welch said.
Frank and Liz Campion of Hollidaysburg were part of the January team. They have been visiting the Little Sisters for five years and felt a need to help even more after the earthquake.
"You want to head straight to Port-au-Prince to help the people," Frank Campion said. "At the same time, you realize the host country tried to do everything to protect you. When you are there, you actually become a liability."
Linda Runk of Altoona, another team member, said "I really did want to stay, but we would have been eating the food they needed," she said. "I wanted to go back [to Haiti] from the day I left."
In May, Welch and a few members of the community, including Frank Campion, traveled to Haiti to identify the needs of the Little Sisters.
"It was sad to see that so many people are still living in tents in such awful conditions with no sanitation," Welch said.
The sisters have been sleeping on the ground in tents. Welch other local people will return in January to build a new dorm.
In preparation for that trip, three sea containers full of building supplies will be sent to Haiti in October.
"It really feels that we have a focus," Welch said, explaining the community has been supportive with donating building materials, money and supplies.
Campion feels lucky to be able to continue to help the Little Sisters in Haiti. "Whenever you give, you always receive more. If you give, you will wind up receiving. It might not be the same, but you are going to receive more. I could give away everything and wind up with more. It's just amazing the way God works," Campion said.


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A St. Patrick's Day holiday that fell on a summerlike Saturday kept state and local police busy, but didn't add up to an unusually high number of arrests for drunken driving and other crimes, police said today.
St. Patrick's Day isn't a "tabulated" holiday, for which state police keep detailed statistics on accidents, arrests and other interaction with motorists during a designated holiday traveling period, state police spokesman Sgt. Mark Zaleski said.
But area troopers charged a number of motorists with drunken driving on Saturday and Sunday, Zaleski said.
Erie police sent out extra patrols and worked a specialized DUI patrol with Erie County sheriff's deputies on Saturday. City officers made 22 arrests between Saturday at 6 a.m. and Sunday at 6 a.m. with the majority of those for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct, Erie police Lt. Kirk Werner said.
The Crawford County DUI Task Force conducted roving patrols throughout the county on Saturday. No one was charged with drunken driving, but participating officers investigated a bar fight, a shots-fired incident and three reports of suspicious activity; and they cited four motorists for speed and two for erratic driving.


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Phil Berube Original 1930s Baseball Artworks (6) In Framed Display
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Six published 1930s newspaper cartoons by Phil Berube featuring some of the greatest stars of the era. In the 1930s and 1940s Berube produced hundreds of classic sports cartoons for newspapers, and comic books as well, helping to define the classic art of sports cartooning, and greatly influencing future sports cartoonists. While Phil Berube may not be as well known as Willard Mullin or Bill Gallo, his artwork helped set the stage for their great success; and his work is on par with both of those legendary sports cartoonists. Offered are six spectacular original artworks, executed in pen and ink on paper, created by Berube for newspaper use. Featured in this collection are illustrations of Joe DiMaggio (rookie season, dated 10/18/36, 13 x 8 inches), Bob Feller (rookie season, dated 9/10/36, 7 x 8.5 inches), Lou Gehrig (dated 6/5/39, 6 x 8.5 inches), Dizzy Dean (dated 4/23/35, 8.25 x 9.5 inches), Mel Ott (dated 8/20/35, 9 x 10.25 inches) and Mickey Cochrane (dated 10/2/35, 8.25 x 9.25 inches). Each of the artworks displays normal editorial marks and presents as Excellent. The artworks have been matted and framed together to total dimensions of 36 x 26 inches. Reserve $300. Estimate $500/$1,000. SOLD FOR $1,160.00
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TTB Eases Way Up on Formulas for Many Beers
There is some big news from TTB, via dcbrewlaw. TTB has recently decided to ease up on the formula requirements for malt beverages made with common ingredients and processes such as some barrel aging, as well as various fruits and spices. This should help considerably with TTB's overwhelming workload, and the related delays.
At dcbrewlaw, Dan reports:
There is good news for brewers who are tired of waiting for formula approvals from TTB (currently 74 days): you may not need it. On June 5, 2014, TTB issued a fairly significant ruling, Ingredients and Processes Used in the Production of Beer Not Subject to Formula Requirements. The ruling clearly spells out which Exempt Ingredients and Processes are now deemed "traditional" and, therefore, do not require a TTB formula approval.
The new ruling expands upon the rules as of 2013. Here are two good examples of products that needed formula approval under the old rules, before this week, and will continue to need a formula approval prior to label approval: Bud Light Lime; Joose. By contrast, here are two products that would no longer need formula approval: Bourbon County, Harlem. On each, the formula is highlighted in yellow. Read more about TTB Ruling 2014-4 at dcbrewlaw and TTB's site.
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White Whiskey
A few weeks ago we wrote about moonshine and now we have occasion to write about its close relative, White Whiskey.
Products like the above have become quite popular within the past few years, for reasons well explained by Slate:
The term white whiskey is basically a marketing name for what distillers call white dog, referring to grain-based spirits that haven't been aged in wood to improve their flavor. [Sometimes] it's just called moonshine, but legal sales of white dog in recent years have helped upstart microdistilleries earn immediate revenue while their whiskies age. That's because white dog can be bottled and sold immediately after being distilled without accruing any additional storage and aging expenses. The moonshine connection has been a useful marketing gimmick for hip urban bars, but there's one considerable downside to white dog: It tastes horrible.
At first, TTB was skeptical and pushed back a bit (saying, for example, there is no such category in the regulations). But as the trickle became a deluge, TTB began to allow white whiskey products more freely. In the light of a large number of recent approvals, it becomes clearer that TTB chiefly wants WHISKEY and WHITE on two different lines — more like Beam and less like Death's Door (as above). Less clear is whether such products need a formula approval (adding the formula step can add 4-5 weeks to what is already a 4-5 week project). Most of the recent label approvals do not refer to any formula approval, as in the following examples.
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Chuck Cowdery has lots of discussion about closely-related topics, such as the unaged Jack Daniel's product, here.
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The Five Year Rule
Be careful about the five year rule as above and here. The rule says TTB formulas expire five years after approval. Not all formulas. Just the ones for imported products such as vodka, sake, and liqueur for example. This is in substantial contrast with TTB label approvals, permits, and domestic formulas. Generally speaking, they don't expire unless the applicant changes something.
In our experience, TTB tends to explain the expiration date on the relevant formula approvals, but not in the regulations or widely elsewhere. An example is here. It can come as an unpleasant surprise, if you are seeking a new label approval more than five years after issuance of the formula approval, as in the case above. In the time period about 5-8 years ago, TTB would frequently allow a use-up in some cases where the formulas was expired. But, as suggested above, use-ups are much harder to get, in more recent years.
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yes. It's a lot of work but that's the only butter I will eat. I don't trust any manufacturer to make my butter.
yes. It's a lot of work but that's the only butter I will eat. I don't trust any manufacturer to make my butter.
I did this for the first time a few days ago. For some reason the milk I got last week had a TON of cream on top so I decided to make butter.
I let it culture at room temperature for about 18 hours and then tried to churn it. It whipped up slightly, but never separated. So I chilled it in the freezer for a little while and tried again. It never did make whipped cream like I usually get. It increased in volume and went directly to the butter/buttermilk stage.
I got maybe a 1/4 cup of butter from about 2 cups of cream. The milk was from Jersey cows. I've heard that different breeds have different size fat globules in their milk, so maybe that plays a role.
All that being said, it is some of the most delicious butter I've ever had. Give it a go and let us know how it turns out!
Last edited by yodiewan; 12-23-2012 at 07:10 AM.
Yep, it's important to have enough air in the jar, if churning that way, like a jar a little over half full is good. Let it sit on the counter and get a bit warms first.. doesn't have to be cultured, you can use it fresh or cultured.
My wife and I bought raw milk once and tried the shake-in-a-jar thing. It was a massive pain in the ass. And we're not so big on butter or milk to justify the effort or expense of making our own as opposed to just buying Kerrygold, so. Just depends on how much you like milk and butter, I guess.
Just a heads-up for UK readers, the bigger Waitrose supermarkets carry a very nice unpasteurised unsalted French Brittany butter.
Put raw cream in a food processor. Turn it on and let it go until you have a big glob of yellow stuff surrounded by some watery stuff. Push the yellow stuff into a mold, pushing out as much liquid as possible. That's your butter. The other stuff it buttermilk. You can drink it, culture it, use it to marinate meat, whatever.
I did it a few times. But a quart of raw cream costs me $13. As I only really use butter in things where it is going to heat up anyways, I'm fine buying OV pasture-butter.
Thanks everybody! It sounds like it a pain in the ass.


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How US Airways' Charlotte Hub Became Deregulation's Big Winner
CHARLOTTE, N.C. ( TheStreet) -- This should be the peak of Jerry Orr's career.
The longtime director of Charlotte Douglas International Airport this year saw American
Most important is the merger, not only because it would make Charlotte the second biggest hub in terms of daily departures for the world's biggest airline, but also because it would mean that a merger between Delta
The rise of Charlotte Douglas during Orr's tenure as director, which began in 1989, shows that deregulation produced winners not only among airlines, but also among airports. Unlike most major hubs, Charlotte is not a particularly large city with a large number of local passengers. Rather, it became the greatest airport success story of deregulation for three reasons. Piedmont started 80 miles away and was acquired by US Air in 1987. A world with three global U.S. airlines has just two major Southeast hubs -- Charlotte and Atlanta. Also, Orr kept costs low -- lower than any major airport in the country. "We advertise low costs all day, every day," he said in an interview on Monday.
At 72, Orr should be coasting along, collecting kudos for remarkable success as he approaches retirement. Instead, his airport has been thrust into a political battle, something he long sought to avoid.
The battle is over whether the city will continue to run the airport, as it has for decades, or whether a regional authority will take over. That puts the airport in the middle of historic conflicts - between Charlotte and Raleigh, between Democrats and Republicans, between Charlotte and surrounding counties. It is a change for a facility long viewed as efficient, successful and above being the subject of squabbling between interest groups.
On Monday, at an event celebrating Southwest's first flights to the city, Dave Ridley, Southwest senior vice president for business development, seemed to speak for the airline industry as he praised Orr, noting: "This is a man whose reputation precedes him. He understands the importance of running an efficient low cost airport." Onetime US Airways CEO Stephen Wolf once described Orr as one of the country's two best airport directors. Asked the other one's identity, Wolf said there was no one, but he wanted various others to believe it was them.


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In 1927 Fairbank1 described "stippled epiphyses" associated with dwarfism, but he failed to recognize thyroid deficiency as the basis of the disturbance. Ten years later (1937) Reilly and Smythe2 described 5 similar cases, designating the condition as "cretinoid epiphysial dysgenesis." McCullough and Sutherland3 in 1940 described stippled epiphyses in a dwarf in whom there was no sign of hypothyroidism and used the term "epiphysial dysplasia puncticularis" to designate the skeletal change. The patient was not given thyroid, but McCullough and Sutherland stated that he increased in stature when treated with calcium, vitamin D and androgen. Wilkins,4 who found bilateral epiphysial dysgenesis in 23 of 25 children with hypothyroidism, said that he had never seen true dysgenesis in any type of dwarfism other than that occurring with hypothyroidism. In his extensive review of the subject he cited reports of 36 cases observed by Läwen,5 Roth,6
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Pietro del Morrone, later Celestine V, reportedly knelt down at the cardinals' feet. Pietro only accepted the papacy to break the stalemate of an electoral conclave that had gone on for more than two years. But he might have been better keeping to his cave in the mountains. Years of the hermit's life hardly represent the ideal preparation for occupying the seat of Peter.
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