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Comfort Inn Vx
87 South Lambeth Road ,London, Sw8 1Rn, Uk., London City, London, England
The award winning Comfort Inn was chosen for it's outstanding achievements from Choice Hotels Europe
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St.Athans Hotel
20 Tavistock Place, London, Wc1h 9Re, Uk., London City, London, England
Tavistock Place is named after the ground landlord, the Duke of Bedford, Marquess of Tavistock, and
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£ 38.00
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Lynton Hotel London
113 Ebury Street, Westminster, London, Sw1w 9Qu, Uk., Westminster, London, England
We are a small bed and breakfast hotel with 12 rooms . We provide clean and traditional accommodat
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London Guest House
167 Horn Lane Acton, North West London, W3 6Pp, Uk., North West London, London, England
Hotel is in a pleasant residential area with attractive local shopping & a fantastic bus service r
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£ 40.00
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Parkwood Hotel
4 Stanhope Place, Marble Arch, Central London, W2 2Hb, Uk., Central London, London, England
Located at the western end of Oxford St., 1 mile of continuous shopping! Comfortable bedrooms with a
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£ 89.00
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Avonmore Hotel
66 Avonmore Road, Kensington & Chelsea, London, W14 8Rs, Uk., Kensington And Chelsea, London, England
They devote their time and energy into ensuring that your stay in Central London is as relaxing and
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£ 65.00
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Comfort Inn Edgware Road
450 Edgware Road,Central London, W2 1Eg, Uk., Central London, London, England
The hotel's location provides easy access to the West End of London with its fabulous shopping and e
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£ 109.00
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Vegas Hotel
104 Warwick Way, Victoria, London, Sw1v 1Sd, Uk., Central London, London, England
Vegas Hotel has a twenty four hour Reception. From the moment you arrive, at any time, our friendly
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£ 50.00
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The Piccolino Hotel
14 Sussex Place,Hyde Park , Central London, W2 2Tp, Uk., Central London, London, England
Situated in a quiet location, The Piccolono Hotel Hotel is a friendly run hotel in central London. T
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£ 75.00
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Griffin House Hotel
10 Connaught Street, Hyde Park, Central London, W2 2Ah, Uk., Central London, London, England
With excellently designed rooms, quality pine wood furniture, central heating system, multi lingual
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Brown, Hallie Q.
Mrs. Catherine A. Delany was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Felicia Fitzgerald, a native of Cork, Ireland, and Charles Richards a man of financial standing. His father, familiarly known as "Daddy Ben," was a man of considerable influence and wealth, for many years being the leading butcher of Pittsburgh. He is said to have erected and owned the first brick building in Pittsburgh. In this building for some years the Court held its sessions.
Catherine was united in marriage to a rising young physician, Dr. Martin R. Delany. His parents were pure Africans, coming directly from the South Coast to the state of Pennsylvania.
Catherine linked her life with a man who was destined to be a noted character in race history. During the great epidemic of black, Asiatic Cholera in Pittsburgh, while hundreds died from the scourge, Dr. Delany did not lose a single patient.
As a physician and ethnologist he spent a year on an exploring expedition in the interior of Africa with Mr. Robert Douglas and Prof. Robert Campbell of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On his return to England he was accorded high honor by Lord Brougham and other noted men and women of the nobility.
As a tribute and token of esteem, a social organization, composed of English and Scotch members, and an adjunct of the Royal Geographical Society, presented Dr. Delany with a handsome jeweled sword and a Field Marshal's uniform for his activities and research in Central Africa.
The couple lived in Pittsburgh until after the Fugitive Slave Act was passed and was actuated by the infamous Dred Scott decision which followed in its wake to leave this place. Hence in 1856 they moved to Chatham, Ontario. Again in 1864 they moved to Wilberforce University, Ohio, where they could educate their children and where they spent the remaining years of their lives.
Mrs. Delany was a woman of sterling character and marked attainments, an intense reader of history, the highest type of current and standard literature and the Holy Bible. To her children she was a heroine, the strong, self-reliant, faithful mother; their friend and confidante, sharing their joys and sorrows. She willingly sacrificed for the good of her family as well as for the community in which she lived. Her interest in and sympathy for the needy or suffering was untiring. At all times and seasons she heard the call of the distressed and ministered to their wants. Mrs. Delany was a faithful and devoted wife. During her husband's long career and varied activities she kept the home and reared their children to man's and woman's estate. Eleven children were born to this couple. Four died in infancy. Major and Mrs. Delany decided that the children should be named for illustrious members of their own race, and these are the seven who reached their majority. Toussaint L'Ouverture, Charles Lenox Remond, Alexandre Dumas, Saint Cyprian, Faustin Soulouque, Placido Rameses, Hallie Amelia, Ethiopia. And they arose and called her blessed!

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Dorie Greenspan's Chocolate Sparkler Cookies Recipe
Editor's note: Dorie Greenspan needs no introduction around these parts. She served as a Serious Eats baking contributor but had to take a leave of absence when her many projects got the best of her. But she squeezed some time in for us to share some holiday cookie recipes. We're pleased to have her back. --Adam
Pretty and delicious, an unbeatable combination, these are slice-and-bake cookies, which means you can keep logs in the freezer, at the ready when you need a last-minute treat.
Chocolate Sparklers
- 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup unsweetened Dutch cocoa powder
- Pinch of cinnamon
- Pinch of salt
- 2 1/2 sticks (10 ounces) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 large egg yolk
- Sugar, for coating
Sift the flour, cocoa powder, cinnamon and salt together and keep close at hand. Place the butter in a mixer fitted with the paddle attachment and beat on medium speed to soften. Gradually add the sugar and vanilla and continue to beat, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed, until the mixture is smooth and creamy, but not airy. Reduce the mixer speed to low and add the flour mixture, mixing only until the ingredients are just mixed—no more. Alternatively, you can remove the bowl from the mixer and stir the flour into the dough with a rubber spatula. The point is to mix the dough as gently and as little as possible—this light touch is what will give the cookies their characteristic crumbly texture. As soon as the last of the flour is no longer visible, divide the dough in half, shape each half into a ball, wrap the balls in plastic wrap and chill for 30 minutes.
Working on a smooth surface, form each piece of dough into a log that's about 1 1/2 inches thick and 7 1/2 inches long. (Aim to get the thickness right and the length will be fine.) To get a solid log, one without the commonly found hole in the center, use the heel of your hand to gently flatten the dough, then flatten the dough lightly each time you fold it over on itself to make the log. Assured that the log is solid, you can roll it gently under your palms to smooth it out. Wrap the logs in plastic and chill for 1 to 2 hours. (The dough can be made to this point, wrapped airtight, and stored in the freezer for up to 2 months.)
Position the racks to divide the oven into thirds and preheat the oven to 350°F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper and set them aside. In a small bowl, whisk the egg yolk until it is smooth and liquid enough to use as a glaze; keep it close at hand. Spread some of the sugar out on a piece of wax paper.
Remove the logs of dough from the refrigerator, unwrap them and brush them very lightly with a small amount of the egg yolk. Roll the logs in the sugar, pressing the sugar gently to get it to stick, if necessary, then, using a sharp slender knife, slice each log into cookies 1/2-inch thick. Arrange the cookies on the baking sheets, leaving about an inch of space between each cookie, and bake for 15 to 18 minutes, rotating the pans front to back and top to bottom at the midway mark, until the cookies are just firm to the touch. Transfer the cookies to racks to cool to room temperature.
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Brigette McInnis-Day
At SAP, we believe that when you bring everything you are, you can become everything you want.
Being in HR, I have career discussions every day. One of the most frequent questions I always get is, "how can I manage my career?"
Careers can take many turns over time and there is typically no one perfect way to navigate your career. It's a unique combination of interests, strengths, performance, ambition, life events and opportunities. The advice I always give is: be agile, know what you want and why. Agility is one of the main reasons we can grow, innovate, and move forward in life. A person's career is defined by several magical moments and many times it's the most difficult moments when you grow the most.
I think I first learned agility in my first job waitressing at a diner in the small town I grew up in. As a teenager, I was able to handle high volumes of customers, multi-task across several functions and learned how to read people from different socio-economic backgrounds. Though challenging, it was a great experience which taught me how to be agile mentally, physically and emotionally. Through my constant interaction with people, it also enabled me to quickly develop my sense of emotional intelligence.
I believe that emotional intelligence is not something that is just good to have, it is something that often differentiates an average employee from a great one. Career growth still and always will depend on the ability to make connections and inspire the people around you. It's about building relationships and making key decisions. Thanks to the valuable and eye-opening experiences early on, I was able to start making decisions about my future and set my sights on my education & career. And I had the courage to take on more and more!
Fresh out of college, I started my career in a Human Resources consulting firm with a move to Philadelphia with excitement and hunger for learning. The company I worked for had a defined career path set for us: perform and progress. It was a very rewarding and empowering environment that I enjoyed.
It wasn't until later, that I questioned the path and I questioned how I could continue to add value to employees and create an environment for their succes. I felt there needed to be a shift from the narrow focus on the next promotion to a broader focus on everyone thriving. I decided to take control of my future and ask myself what I want from my career and why. I knew I had to do more to represent employees and help them with their careers. That's when I joined SAP.
I started in North America Total Rewards applying all I learned about line of site rewards and performance from my early days waitressing and consulting. I volunteered for critical projects and stretch assignments whenever I could, or where there was no one to support. By doing this, I was able to build a strong network, meaningful relationships, and ultimately what we now call "sponsors". What I didn't realize at the time was this was the recipe to build a personal brand and a career that allowed me to continue to take leaps.
SAP has always been in high growth mode, which I love and this allowed all talents to grow exponentially across the world. For me personally, I had the privilege to experience new and expanded roles every couple of years testing me every day to be agile and grow. These local, regional and global experiences helped me obtain the credibility and competence to take on larger complex issues. I took different turns along the way from being a leader to an expert individual contributor and took 3 lateral roles to gain the experience I lacked. The biggest leap I took was with my family accepting a loosely defined role in Walldorf, Germany when I was 8.5 months pregnant with our second child. We quickly moved our healthy baby boy and a high energy a 3-year-old daughter to Walldorf. There were 100 reasons why I could have declined the offer but I was agile and knew I needed the global experience and wanted our family to experience another culture. It was a magic moment that was a catalyst for my career.
Keeping agile takes resilience and I ask everyone to take inventory of your career and reinvent yourself. I truly owe it to those who believed in my abilities and my potential. I believe others will take risks on you if you are willing to take risks yourself. Get in front of trends or themes and have the agility, skills and competencies to withstand any innovation, any generation, or any change.
Here at SAP, careers are based on an interest in life-long learning and self-development. Continue to take on different opportunities and add value in a different way. Take on a fellowship. Take on a global role. Take on a project that cuts across lines of business. Show you are flexible, adaptable, and have the emotional intelligence to continue to learn. I'm 20 years into my career and I am amazed every day what I continue to learn and so appreciative of the talented people I work with at SAP.
I know it's natural to ask yourself "Do I have a future here?". Whatever your background, I can assure you that at SAP, you do have a future here. I encourage you to explore what is out there in this great Company. Talk to people in positions you aspire to be in or create a role where this is a gap. Challenge yourself every day. Ask your leaders: "What can I do to help you today?"
As a leader in SAP, my top priorities are attracting, retaining and growing talent; helping align personal goals with career ambitions; and getting key talents ready for bigger and broader roles. I work with leaders on accerlerating development and finding the roles that make them thrive. Seeing others taking leaps via new challenges, learning quickly, and exceling in their role, this is what makes working in Human Resources so worthwhile!
At SAP, we believe that everyone is a talent. You are empowered to determine your own career path and SAP provides you with the tools and support to navigate it. Making a career decision today does not dictate the direction for the rest of your life. You will change. And you will change again. But remember, always be agile.


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Some fun ones to try: big ben, statue of liberty, field, tropical sunset, passport photo, eye macro, instagram earlybird.
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By Vicki Vaughan
'Mary Lou and Macon Roemer are water misers.
In August, they used less than half the average number of gallons as did their neighbors, yet their yard is no desert landscape of rocks and cactus.
In the front, two curving paths are set off by a small patch of St. Augustine grass. In the backyard, there's a graceful patio and a lush arbor that provides plenty of shade for their grandchildren's sandbox.
The Roemers, whose house was featured on the 2012 Watersaver Landscape Tour, are among a growing group of homeowners who've found ways to reduce their water use. Their strategies save money and provide a way to maintain a nice-looking landscape during times of drought.
Homeowners who've cut back on water employ common-sense practices, such as starting the clothes washer and dishwasher only for full loads, to taking bolder steps, such as eliminating grass entirely.
Collecting rainwater and xeriscaping with native plants has been a key part of the Roemers' plan. "A lot of times people think of xeriscape as kind of barren," Mary Lou Roemer said. "But our landscape is pretty lush looking."
The Roemers use barrels and storage tanks that can collect about 1,000 gallons of rainwater for most of the landscape. "It doesn't take more than an inch of rain to fill up everything we have," she said.
That collection system "serves the need for our landscaping, but not the lawn," Roemer said. They use city water to nourish the patch of St. Augustine.
"We still have a pretty decent patch of lawn in the backyard," she said. "We have grandbabies, and they like to play and do little somersaults, so we need some grass."
The Roemers could have earned a SAWS rebate of as much as $400 for their landscape if they had eliminated St. Augustine grass. There are a number of requirements for the rebate, but one is that no more than 50 percent of the landscape can be turf, and it must be Bermuda, buffalo or zoysia varieties only, according to SAWS.
Even with the water-hungry St. Augustine, the Roemers used just 3,700 gallons of water in August. Average usage in their neighborhood was almost 9,000 gallons, according to their monthly bill from the San Antonio Water System.
Another couple, Sylvia and Jim White, have eliminated grass completely.
They do have plants, though, and they use water from their air conditioner's condensate drain to water them. In addition, they have a 75-gallon water catchment system to water plants in their courtyard.
Instead of downspouts, the Whites use rain chains. Rain chains are chain-like links or decorative cups that funnel water into rainwater containers and provide aural and visual interest.
"From the containers, any overflow is piped outside the courtyard where it is discharged at two locations," Jim White said. Indoors, in addition to their Energy Star washing machine and low-flow toilets, the Whites added a programmable water heater. They've set it to heat water only when they need it: 2.6½ hours in the morning and 2.6½ hours in the evening.
"There's a recirculating pump in the unit that makes hot water readily available in the most remote location from the heater, in our case, the kitchen," White said.
Veronica Gard is another homeowner who eliminated grass in her yard. She lived in her house for about two years before she realized, "I didn't want to try to keep grass in the climate we have."
She cut off her sprinkler system about six years ago and then xeriscaped her small yard with the help of landscape designer Brian Hough. Her September bill from SAWS was $32.97, her highest in nine months.
Homeowners with sprinkler systems should consider not leaving the system on automatic, SAWS conservation director Karen Guz said. They also can cut water use by running the sprinkler system only in an area that looks dry or by hand watering, she said.
Because of Stage Two watering restrictions now in effect, sprinkler systems can be used only during certain times on a homeowner's single assigned day during the week. "In that limited window, home automatic irrigation easily uses the 2,000 gallons of water each week," Guz said.
One longtime water miser, Darby Riley, said homeowners who make the move to a xeriscaped lawn won't regret it. He xeriscaped his yard more than 15 years ago. His September SAWS bill totaled $27.73.
"I have all native plants in the front yard, all flowering," Riley said. "It's completely abloom right now. I watered to get it started years ago, but I don't water any more.
"When you do this, you get butterflies, bees, hummingbirds right out your window."


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SI.COM Ranks Monarchs 14th In NCAA Pre-Season Rankings
By ODU Athletics
May 13, 2010
Luke Winn of SI.Com ranks the CAA Champion Monarchs 14th in his early pre-season rankings for next season.
" Old Dominion Monarchs My inclusion of the Monarchs in my early-early 2010-11 rankings (released the day after the title game) generated a significant amount of ridicule. Most of the comments were along the lines of "You realize they lost Gerald Lee, their leading scorer?" or "You realize no one else has them in their top 25, much less top 16?" I realize both of those things, and I'm keeping ODU in the same spot. The Monarchs won the CAA last year because of their offensive rebounding (they ranked No. 1 in the country in OR%) and their defense (they ranked No. 10 in efficiency).
Lee was a nice player, but didn't have a lot to do with either of those things; I'd argue that junior Frank Hassell, their leading offensive rebounder and the star of their first-round upset of Notre Dame, was more important. And their defensive success was keyed on locking down three-point shooters (they ranked 17th in three-point percentage allowed) and forcing steals (20th in steal percentage), categories where guys like 6-5 Kent Bazemore, 6-5 Ben Finney and 6-1 Darius James made the biggest impact. The Monarchs will control the offensive glass, play solid D, and start four seniors and one junior, all of whom have NCAA tournament experience. I don't think ranking them is all that big of a reach."
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Escondido farmers seeking greater subsidies
Escondido's plan to hike water and sewer rates this winter became more complex recently when local farmers asked city officials to increase their subsidy.
Rate adjustments aimed at subsidizing agriculture have always been controversial in Escondido. Critics call the subsidies, which amount to more than $1 million a year, unfair to the city's 26,000 sewer and water customers not involved with farming.
Those customers suffered double-digit water rate increases last year, and they face 12 percent hikes in March, even without a greater subsidy for farmers.
Supporters say the subsidy is good business because local agriculture is an economic engine providing thousands of local jobs. They also say the farms make Escondido more visually appealing, and serve as a wildfire barrier because they surround much of the city.
Escondido's water customers have subsidized local farmers for decades. But the new proposal from agriculture takes the unusual step of asking sewer customers to also begin contributing, said Chris McKinney, Escondido's utilities director.
"It's a little bit unique," McKinney said. "To my knowledge, nothing like this has been done."
The reasoning behind the proposal is that local farms will be the No. 1 customer for recycled sewer water when Escondido completes a recycled water line in about two years. Recycled water, sometimes called "reclaimed," is not safe enough to drink, but it can be used for irrigation.
Sewer customers will benefit from farmers buying the city's recycled water, because that will reduce the amount of sewage the city must send into the ocean. If Escondido doesn't begin recycling some of its sewage, the city might have to spend as much as $300 million widening pipes that carry the wastewater to the ocean, city officials have said.
"Escondido growers need lower water costs, and the city needs customers for its recycled water," said Eddie Grangetto, president of a farming coalition called Escondido Growers for Agricultural Preservation. "It's a perfect match."
So the proposal says the city's sewer customers should subsidize farmers now, in exchange for the long-term benefits they will get when the farmers begin buying recycled water from the city's sewer system.
Councilwoman Olga Diaz, the council's most vocal agriculture booster, said the city should embrace the new proposal.
"Our farms are at a breaking point," she said. "Any more increases, and they will be reducing the acreage they farm."
Diaz also said the adjusted rates shouldn't be viewed as a subsidy.
"We need a preferential rate for farmers so they can survive and expand," Diaz said. "It's not a subsidy, it's an investment in the future."
Diaz said farmers are "doing the city a favor" by agreeing to buy recycled water two years from now, and that the city will regret it if many farms get plowed under before then.
Cities that are less rural than Escondido often struggle to find customers for their recycled water, relying primarily on golf courses, she said.
Mayor Sam Abed was less enthusiastic, but said he was hopeful the city would be able to do something for farmers when the council votes on the rate adjustments Feb. 13. "It's going to be a challenge for us, but we're going to do what we can to keep the rates for ag as low as possible."
McKinney, Escondido's utilities director, said the farmers' proposal might also face some legal hurdles. "The wastewater fund is not supposed to be in the business of subsidizing particular businesses," he said.
In addition, he said it could be dubious to base the sewer rate hike on future savings that sewer customers might reap on recycled water. "You're sort of making a guess," he said.
Councilman Ed Gallo, a member of the council's utilities subcommittee, said the rate hike proposal should be viewed as a temporary "stopgap" until the recycled water line is complete, not a permanent increase.
Gallo said preserving agriculture should be a priority for the city. "It's an income-producer and it's our history," he said. "And we've given up so many groves already."
The 12 percent water rate increases proposed for March would hike rates for a typical family from $3.81 to $4.27 for 1,000 gallons. Higher rates are needed to cover increased costs for imported water and to pay for infrastructure improvements, McKinney said.
If the council decides to increase the ag subsidy, the water rates for a typical family would be as high as $4.34 per 1,000 gallons.
City officials have proposed a 4 percent sewer rate hike, which would increase the bill per 1,000 gallons for a typical family from $3.15 to $3.28. If the council embraces ag's proposal, those rates would rise more.


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Pope Benedict's Prayerful Decision to Resign
Waning strength of mind and body led to his decision, which the papal spokesman said reflected 'great courage.'
VATICAN CITY — During the course of his nearly eight-year pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI has sometimes been labeled the "Pope of Surprises" on account of his academic brilliance and unpredictability, but few seriously imagined this.
News of Pope Benedict XVI's resignation — which was declared formally in a written statement dated Feb. 10 — filtered through the Italian news agency ANSA at around 10:30am Rome time Feb. 11 and was initially met with widespread disbelief, even by those closest to him.
Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi confirmed a couple of hours later during a packed and somber press conference that the Pope would indeed be leaving his ministry as Bishop of Rome and Successor of Peter at precisely 8pm on Feb. 28. Benedict announced his decision to a Feb. 11 consistory of cardinals who were gathered to rule on three canonizations.
Father Lombardi said his closest aides were left "incredulous," but added that Holy Father showed "great courage" and "determination." Speaking the day after the announcement, he said the Pope was "serene" after making "a lucid and well-formed decision."
It's thought that only his very close inner circle — notably his brother, Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, and the prefect of the Pontifical Household, Archbishop Georg Gänswein — knew of the Pope's decision to resign before the public announcement. Father Lombardi said it was an "absolutely personal" decision.
Such a resignation is unprecedented in modern times, with the last papal resignation being Pope Gregory XII in 1415. But it is in line with Canon 332 No. 2 of the Code of Canon Law, which states that if a pope is to resign, "it is required for validity that he make the resignation freely and that it be duly manifested, but not that it be accepted by anyone."
In his statement, the Pope said that, "after having repeatedly examined" his conscience before God, he had come to the "certainty" that his strengths, "due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry."
He added: "I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering."
But he said in today's world, "subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the barque of St. Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary." He noted that these had "deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me."
"For this reason," he continued, "and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom, I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of St. Peter, entrusted to me by the cardinals on April 19, 2005."
No Medical Diagnosis
No specific medical reasons were given: Father Lombardi said he knew of no particular medical complaint, only that he had noticed increasing frailty; although, on Feb. 12, he disclosed that the Pope had a new pacemaker fitted three months ago. He also denied there was any conscious attempt to make the announcement on the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, which is also the Church's World Day of the Sick.
The news prompted speculation about the reasons for his unexpected decision. However, those close to the Pope argue that his decision is very much in keeping with his character. Reluctant to be Pope — he once remarked that on learning of his election, he felt like a guillotine had come down on his neck — he went on to courageously embrace it. But it was no secret that, as cardinal, he harbored dreams of retiring and spending time back in his native Bavaria writing books.
Moreover, as a man known for his humility and well aware of his strengths and weaknesses, he made it clear that he would consider resigning if the time were right. In his 2010 interview for the book Light of the World, Pope Benedict was asked if he would resign in view of the sexual-abuse scandal.
"When the danger is great, one must not run away," he said. "For that reason, now is certainly not the time to resign. Precisely at a time like this one must stand fast and endure the difficult situation. That is my view."
But he added, "One can resign at a peaceful moment or when one simply cannot go on. But one must not run away from danger and say that someone else should do it."
Asked if he could imagine a situation in which he would consider a resignation by the Pope appropriate, he said he could, and that, "if a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign."
That time appears to have come.
Brotherly Concern
Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, the Pope's older brother, told reporters Feb. 11 that the Holy Father had been advised by his doctor not to take any more trans-Atlantic trips and had been considering stepping down for months. He added that he had been having difficulty walking and that his resignation was part of a "natural process."
"His age is weighing on him," he said. "At this age, my brother wants more rest."
But a further sign that the Pope might resign was also apparent back in 2009. Robert Moynihan of Inside the Vatican was one of the few to draw attention to the significance of Benedict XVI visiting the resting place of Pope Celestine V. A holy pope chosen to reform the Church, Celestine pleaded with cardinals not to choose him, and he struggled to rule the powerful cardinals around him. He resigned from the papacy in December 1294, five months after his election.
Elected at a time of great corruption and contention in the Church, after a long conclave, he assumed the See of Peter at the age of 80; Benedict XVI was 78 when elected in 2005.
Some observers therefore see it as unsurprising that Benedict XVI had an affinity with Celestine, and, during his 2009 visit, he made a significant gesture by leaving his own pallium — a sign of his episcopal authority and his connection to Christ — on the medieval Pope's tomb.
During his pontificate, Benedict has venerated the relics of Celestine twice — but although such gestures did not go unnoticed at the time, few believed Benedict XVI would himself resign.
But the Holy Father's retirement is likely to be less fraught than that of Celestine, who was held under house arrest by Pope Boniface VIII, as his successor feared his opponents might use Celestine as a rallying point. Boniface also annulled all of Celestine's official acts.
Father Lombardi said Pope Benedict plans to retire to a former cloistered monastery within the Vatican, but immediately after Feb. 28, he will be based at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo. This is to allow renovations to the monastery to be completed, after which the former Pope will continue his theological studies.
The Vatican spokesman, speaking on Feb. 12, said the Pope's expected encyclical on faith will not be published before the Pope steps down. He added that he did not know how close the document was to completion, but, when published, it will take a form other than an encyclical.
Tributes Pour In
Tributes to the Pope have been pouring in from around the world, beginning in the Curia.
Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals, who will play a key role in overseeing the coming conclave, expressed his closeness, and that of all the cardinals, to Benedict XVI.
"We have heard you with a sense of loss and almost disbelief," he said in a statement. "In your words we see the great affection that you have always had for God's holy Church, for this Church that you have loved so much."
He recalled how the Holy Father "did not hesitate" to assume the responsibilities of being pope when elected in 2005. "Although moved with emotion, to answer that, you accepted, trusting in the Lord's grace and the maternal intercession of Mary, Mother of the Church. Like Mary on that day she gave her 'Yes,' and your luminous pontificate began, following in the wake of continuity, in that continuity with your 265 predecessors in the Chair of Peter, over 2,000 years of history from the apostle Peter, the humble Galilean fisherman, to the great popes of the last century, from St. Pius X to Blessed John Paul II."
"We will still have many occasions to hear your paternal voice," Cardinal Sodano continued. "Your mission, however, will continue. You have said that you will always be near us with your witness and your prayer. Of course, the stars always continue to shine, and so will the star of your pontificate always shine among us. We are near to you, Holy Father, and we ask you to bless us."
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, issued a statement saying the Pope "brought a tender heart of a pastor, the incisive mind of a scholar and the confidence of a soul united with God in all he did." Acknowledging sadness at the news, Cardinal Dolan said his resignation is "another sign of his great care for the Church."
"Our experience impels us to thank God for the gift of Pope Benedict," Cardinal Dolan said.
Other Voices
Tributes were forthcoming from outside the Catholic Church as well. Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury, the recently elected leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion, said it was with "a heavy heart but complete understanding" that Anglicans had learned of the Pope's decision.
"As I prepare to take up office, I speak not only for myself and my predecessors as archbishop, but for Anglicans around the world, in giving thanks to God for a priestly life utterly dedicated, in word and deed, in prayer and in costly service, to following Christ," Archbishop Welby said in a message posted on his website. "He has laid before us something of the meaning of the Petrine ministry of building up the people of God to full maturity."
President Barack Obama also released an official statement in response to the Pope's announcement, remembering his 2009 visit with the Pope and acknowledging the role of the Church in the U.S. and world.
Reaction among Romans was largely one of shock — drivers calling over passersby near the Vatican to check it was true, while others wondered if there were more reasons behind the resignation and that maybe he had been pushed out. Almost fittingly, a thunderstorm broke soon after the announcement, and torrential rain poured down on Rome for the rest of the day.
The Coming Conclave
Attention has already started turning towards the coming conclave, although proceedings won't begin until March 1.
Father Lombardi said no one knows the exact date of the papal election, but noted that, obviously, there will be no need to wait the normal days of novendali (mourning) after the death of a pope.
"Thus, in two weeks, during the month of March, in time for Easter, we will have a new pope," the papal spokesman said. "Benedict XVI will have no role in next March's conclave, or in the running of the Church during the time between popes, the time of sede vacate (empty chair)," he added. "The Apostolic Constitution gives no role in this transition to a pope who resigns." As of Feb. 12, it's also not clear what title Benedict XVI will have once he steps down.
Many speculate that among the leading candidates to succeed Pope Benedict XVI are Cardinals Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops; Angelo Scola, archbishop of Milan; Angelo Bagnasco, archbishop of Genoa; Peter Turkson, a Ghanaian and president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace; Robert Sarah, a Guinean and president of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum; and Malcolm Ranjith, archbishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
From the United States, Cardinals Timothy Dolan, Raymond Burke, prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, and Daniel DiNardo, Archbishop of Houston-Galveston have been mentioned; however, in Church history, it is considered less likely (though not impossible) for a candidate from a world superpower to be elected pope.
Whoever is elected will find himself confronting a unique set of circumstances and have to deal with the challenge of a previous, legitimately elected pope who is still living.
Edward Pentin is the Register's Rome correspondent.


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The couple arrived arm in arm and left the Los Angeles courthouse minutes later hand in hand after the judge overseeing the Kiss Kiss singer's probation case requested another two months to review all aspects of the case.
The next hearing has been scheduled for 5 April.
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His latest hearing comes just days after the Los Angeles District Attorney filed papers suggesting the singer violated his probation by submitting bogus community service records.
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Russ Koesterich, chief investment strategist of iShares, says that macroeconomics largely determine commodities' returns. But there's another factor, too: the level of real interest rates, which reduce the opportunity cost of holding an asset.
Real interest rates remain low, with real rates for 5-, 7-, 10-, and 20-year Treasurys below zero as of June 1.
AdvisorOne recently asked Koesterich (left), a CFA and managing director, if he believes analysis from a few months ago—"The Commodity Conundrum: Can Commodities Stay Strong Without Inflation?"—is still valid in light of current global conditions.
AdvisorOne: What's your outlook on inflation?
Koesterich: We had a view that inflation was going to remain mild and we would stick with that. I think the issue in terms of the money supply is that people need to differentiate between what the Fed did and the amount of money in the real economy.
The Fed has created a lot of money. But, up until about the middle of 2011 most of that money just sat very quietly on the balance sheet of the banks because the banks weren't lending. That did start to change about a year ago, but the important thing to keep in mind, at least historically, and it seems to be playing out the same way this time, even when the money supply starts to grow it takes a long time for that to really start to egg on inflation.
So our view has always been while we are going to see some modest price creep in core inflation you don't really have a risk of inflation getting away from you until probably the back half of 2013.
The U.S. economy is sputtering along, much of Europe is in low- or no-growth mode and China appears to be slowing. What's your outlook on global growth?
There, I think there has been a little bit of a change. Europe was going to be in recession in 2012—that's not disappointing. It be might a little worse than people expected. The U.S., as you put it, is sort of sputtering along at its 2% rate which is more or less along expectations.
I think the disappointment this year and why some of the cyclical commodities have not done very well has been that China is slowing faster than many expected. Because of that and given that a lot of the demand for commodities is coming from China … [and] from emerging markets, that deceleration in Chinese growth I think is responsible for a lot of the weakness we've seen particularly in the industrial commodities.
What's going on with real interest rates?
Generally, here's where we have an environment that I think has not changed since the beginning of the year and it's very interesting to see the affect it's had on commodities. Negative real rates, which we have and I think we'll continue to have for the foreseeable future, all else equal, are a tailwind for commodities.
However, they're more of a tailwind for some commodities rather than others. When I look at commodity returns of 2012 a broad commodity index is down around 7%-8%. Gold is down only 2%.
Now, again, not a great performance, but gold has held up much better than the broader commodity complex. It doesn't mean that gold always goes up when real rates are negative. But I do think that the negative real-rate environment, and the prospect for maybe another round of quantitative easing, is one of the reasons that gold has held up relatively better than the broader commodity complex.
Given your analysis of these macro factors, do the arguments that you made last September about the role for commodities in a portfolio still hold?
I think they do for a couple of reasons. First of all commodities, again, as a long-term part of the asset allocation puzzle are diversifying. Now, they're not going to be diversifying in the near term, particularly when markets are being driven by sentiment in a crisis, but over a long horizon they do act differently than paper assets like stocks and bonds, and that has not changed.
Second, I do think this environment of negative real rates is in place for a couple of years if not longer, and that is also a tailwind. And, then the final argument again goes back to inflation.
Core inflation is low but it's not dead—it's about 2.3%. That's not a disaster by any means, but at that level you still see significant erosion of purchasing power over a multi-decade period.
Given the unresolved fiscal issues, given the unconventional nature of monetary policy over the long term there are still reasons to be concerned about a more significant erosion in purchasing power. That is the other argument for commodities.


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Time magazine, in its reporting on John McCain's vice presidential choice, Sarah Palin, has uncovered some information that is making librarians uncomfortable.
[Former Mayor John] Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. "She asked the library how she could go about banning books," he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. "The librarian was aghast." That woman, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn't be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire Baker for not giving "full support" to the mayor.
Librarian Jessamyn West, who blogs at librarian.net, writes, "Usually I'm just happy to see libraries even mentioned in national level politics, but not like this."
This seems like a good time to mention Banned Books Week, beginning Sept. 27, which celebrates the freedom to read. 2007's most challenged book was "And Tango Makes Three," a children's book about a penguin with two dads; books by Mark Twain and Alice Walker appear, again, on the list. Exactly what books Palin might have wanted to ban have not been identified (other than some unsupported rumors), but it's safe to assume that she won't be joining in to celebrate the idea that no books should be banned at all.
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SAN DIEGO -- As Alexi Amarista's eighth-inning liner sped toward the earth Saturday, Hunter Pence knew that he had to do the same.
"At that point, you've got to have all your chips in," said Pence, San Francisco's right fielder. "Any ball that you can remotely get close to, I was going to lay out for. You're definitely on your toes."
Pence wasn't on his toes for long. He left his feet and made a lunging catch of Amarista's drive. Pence's remarkable play ended the eighth inning and preserved Tim Lincecum's no-hit bid, which the right-hander completed with a perfect ninth inning.
Afterward, Pence received almost as much praise for his grab as Lincecum did for his no-hitter. The Giants appreciated the role that defense played for Lincecum in their 9-0 triumph over the Padres.
"That was really special," Lincecum said of Pence's play. "To be honest with you, I thought that was a hit off the bat. Hunter comes flying out of nowhere and makes a Superman catch. It was hard not to feed off of that."
The low trajectory of Amarista's liner made the prospect of a catch seem impossible.
"I didn't think he had a chance," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. "I thought it was a base hit."
That wasn't the only challenging play the Giants converted. Third baseman Pablo Sandoval concluded the seventh inning by backhanding pinch-hitter Jesus Guzman's sharp grounder behind the bag, then straightening quickly and making a searing throw to first base.
"I have to catch the ball no matter what," said Sandoval, who made another backhanded stop on Carlos Quentin's fourth-inning grounder, then ranging a few steps to his left for Logan Forsythe's eighth-inning chopper.
A reporter remarked that Sandoval made the plays look easy. "It's not easy," he insisted, pointing out that he works daily on his defense with Giants coaches.
Sandoval's presence on the field represented a personal triumph of sorts. Last June 13, when Matt Cain threw his perfect game against Houston, Sandoval was replaced by Joaquin Arias, who moved from shortstop to third base in the seventh inning for defensive purposes. In fact, Arias fielded Jason Castro's grounder for the final out.
Thus, Sandoval took a little extra pride in his seventh-inning contribution.
"For me, it was special to make that play," Sandoval said.
But he refused to get carried away by the excitement of the moment.
"No," Sandoval said. "I was calm."