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A portable play yard that acts as a combination playpen and bassinet is not an absolute must when it comes to baby gear. But it definitely makes traveling easier. Whether it's a quick afternoon trip to a friend's house or a week at the beach, play yards give babies a comfortable place to sleep and play.
"Often when parents leave the house they don't have access to a safe crib at a hotel or the grandparents' house," said Inez Tenenbaum, chairman of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. "Play yards are a very popular alternative to a crib. It's a safe option."
New safety regulations governing the manufacture of play yards went into effect in February, Tenenbaum said. The updated standards ban play yards with side rails that make a sharp "V" when the unit is folded; require stronger corner brackets to prevent collapsing; and strengthen the attachments that keep the mattress from moving around, Tenenbaum said.
Bare is best. Just as with any crib, you should have only a snug fitted sheet over the mattress, said CPSC's Tenenbaum. Do not use any pillows, quilts, blankets, stuffed animals or other soft items. Babies can wear footed pajamas or sleep sacks to help them keep warm in cooler weather, Tenenbaum said.
Follow the manufacturer's instructions. Make sure your child is within the weight and height recommendations for your model, including any attachments such as bassinets and rocking seats. Most play yards are intended for children who are less than 35 inches tall, Tenenbaum said.
Do regular inspections. Check your play yard often to make sure no parts are damaged, loose or missing. Make sure there are no holes in the mesh or cracks in the plastic. Visit the CPSC's Web site at www.cpsc.gov or www.saferproducts.gov to find out about product recalls.
Keep it clean. Wipe your play yard with soap and water and allow it to drip-dry, said Ashley Mowrey, a spokeswoman for Graco, a manufacturer of baby gear. Never use bleach. You can machine wash the carrying bag in lukewarm water, and if your play yard has a rocking seat, machine-wash it separately in cold water on the delicate cycle, then drip-dry.
Be careful in the sand. Remove sand from all surfaces before packing your play yard into its bag after a day at the beach, Mowrey said. Sand can damage the top rail lock, making the play yard unsafe.
We asked Graco to recommend three play yards at different price points. Here are its suggestions:
Pack 'n Play Playard with Reversible Napper and Changer. It has a space that can be used for newborn napping or changing, with reversible fabric (a soft side for sleeping and fabric that can be wiped down for diaper changes). It has a full-size removable bassinet and an organizer with a wipes case and diaper stacker. It comes in one pattern. $99.99.
Pack 'n Play Playard with Newborn Napper Station DLX. This model comes in four patterns and is equipped with a microfleece napping station for newborns. It also has built-in storage shelves. It plays music or nature sounds and has two-speed vibration in the napping station. $169.99.
Pack 'n Play Playard with Cuddle Cove Rocking Seat. It yard comes with a removable vibrating rocker with handles, so you can carry your baby from room to room. The rocking seat and the bassinet vibrate gently to soothe babies. The cover of the rocking seat is removable and machine-washable. It comes in five patterns. $199.99.
Play yards range from a basic folding crib to a fully equipped baby care station to a sleek piece of furniture that fits into your decor, said Kerry Strzelecki, director of marketing for Graco. She offered several suggestions for determining what best suits your lifestyle.
1 How will you use it? If you are looking for a full-service care station for your baby outside the nursery, a model with more features such as a rocker, a changing table and storage may best suit your needs, according to Strzelecki. But if the play yard is primarily for travel, those added features could make it more difficult to fold and take with you. A base model might be better for parents who travel a lot, she said.
2 Where will you use it? Similarly, if you plan to use the play yard at home and be moving it from room to room, look for a model with wheels, and check its size when open to make sure it will fit through doorways. If you are traveling with the play yard, its size when folded might be more important, so it can fit easily in the back of your car.
3 Consider your storage needs. Many play yards now come equipped with integrated or removable storage for diapers, wipes, clothes and other baby supplies.
million in total play yard sales in the United States in 2011.
Source: Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association
Fatalities related to play yards in the United States have been reported to the CPSC since 2007.
million play yards have been recalled since 2009.
Source: Consumer Product Safety Commission
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A winner was selected from 48 designs submitted by 20 freelance designers.
Maytall Capital Group
Maytall Capital Group is a company that provides clients with a wide range of property investment solutions to meet any financial requirements from their first investment property to expanding on their portfolios. We work with our clients to help them understand their financing needs and implementing the correct loan structures.
We aim to have both metropolitan, regional and international clients. Ranging from low income earners to high income earners.
We are looking for a logo that represents our company - Maytall Capital Group. It must be clean, bold and stands out.
- No cartoons
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- Nothing elegant
Feel free to experiment with colour (there is one of us who likes the idea of red and black and silver although the rest are not so sure).
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Former West Virginia head coach Bill Stewart died from an apparent heart attack while playing golf Monday, according to a statement from the university.
Stewart, 59, was playing in a West Virginia Hospitality and Tourism Association annual event with former West Virginia athletic director Eddie Pastilong, according to multiple reports. Stewart was rushed to Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital in Weston.
IN MEMORIAM: Remembering those the sports world has lost in 2012
As soon as the news spread of Stewart's passing, players took to Twitter to express their condolences.
—Bruce Irvin, first-round pick in 2012 draft from WVU: "My heart just dropped foreal damn im speechless. RIP Coach Stew."
—Former WVU running back Steve Slaton: "True mountaineer coach stew was scouts honor."
—Pat White, former WVU quarterback: "Take care of ole #BillStewart up there lord! #LeaveNoDoubt."
—J.T. Thomas, former WVU linebacker: "Hearts are heavy today throughout #MountaineerNation with news of the passing of Coach Stew, he was a great leader of young men. #WVU."
—Jonnie West, son of WVU legend Jerry West and former WVU basketball player: "So sad to hear about Coach Stew. What a great man, he will be missed."
Stewart played at Fairmont State College and served as a student assistant for a season after he graduated. He spent two seasons at Salem as an assistant, followed by stops as an assistant coach at North Carolina (1979), Marshall (1980), William & Mary (1981-83), Navy (1984), North Carolina (1985-87), Arizona State (1988-89) and Air Force (1990-93).
He was head coach at VMI from 1994-96, then spent a year with the Montreal Alouettes of the CFL and another season with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He joined West Virginia as an assistant in 2000.
Stewart replaced Rich Rodriguez on an interim basis for the Mountaineers' game against Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl (Jan. 2, 2008) on and was named head coach shortly after West Virginia won that game, 48-28.
His three teams at West Virginia each went 9-4 from 2008 until 2010 and were 1-2 in bowl games.
Not long after it was announced that Dana Holgorsen would spend the 2011 season as offensive coordinator and become head coach in 2012, Stewart resigned after a report claimed the he attempted to smear Holgorsen's name.
West Virginia was 10-3 last season under Holgorsen.
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The surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect told FBI agents from his hospital bed that he and his brother were driven to the attack by jihadist radicalism sparked by the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in which thousands of Muslims have died, a federal law enforcement official familiar with the inquiry said Tuesday.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, who lay in a Boston hospital with multiple gunshot wounds, also said that he and his older brother, Tamerlan, learned how to make the pressure cooker bombs used in the attack from an al Qaida website, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because details of the investigation are sensitive.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died in a police shootout early Friday in which he hurled makeshift explosives at law enforcement officers before he was gunned down. He is believed to have instigated the attack that killed three people and injured more than 260 others after turning devoutly religious and possibly reading radical Islamic dogma on Internet sites or associating with radicals during visits to Russia, law enforcement officials said.
Relatives have suggested in news interviews that he would have held considerable sway over his younger brother, a college student.
No evidence has surfaced so far that the two Chechen brothers were influenced by a foreign terrorist organization to carry out the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil since the suicide hijackings that toppled the World Trade Center, hit the Pentagon and crashed in a Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, 2001.
But FBI agents have not foreclosed that possibility and will be conducting a worldwide investigation to examine the origins of their apparent radicalization, the law enforcement official said.
The FBI expects to conduct a lengthy investigation to determine for certain whether they acted alone, were assisted by other conspirators or received any assistance along the way, the official said.
The investigation also will examine whether they were involved in an unsolved triple murder, apparently carried out on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, in Waltham, Mass., the law enforcement official said. A friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 25-year-old Brendan Mess, was among three young men whose throats were slit, apparently a day earlier than investigators originally thought, according to The Boston Globe, which first reported the possible linkage.
The Globe reported that Tamerlan Tsarnaev had introduced Mess to the owner of a martial arts center in Allston, Mass.
The FBI disclosed last week that it received a tip from Russia in 2011 that Tamerlan Tsarnaev had been radicalized, but that the bureau's own three-month inquiry, which included an interview with him, found no evidence that he was a terrorist threat. His name was on a list circulated in the U.S. intelligence community, but his trip to Russia in January 2012 wasn't noticed because his name was spelled wrong, the official said.
Republican leaders of the House Homeland Security Committee have demanded information from the FBI and intelligence agencies about what was known about Tamerlan Tsarnaev before the attack. But the law enforcement official played down the significance of the inability to track his trip to Russia, saying that he wasn't considered a terrorism suspect, so his travel would not have set off any alarms.
Dzhokhar, who sped his car through police officers during the shootout in suburban Watertown on Friday and escaped a manhunt for 19 hours, was captured that night after a resident found him crouched in a boat resting on a trailer in his driveway. Badly wounded, he was questioned by FBI agents after regaining consciousness on Sunday.
On Monday, a federal magistrate and public defenders joined prosecutors in his heavily guarded room at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital for a brief arraignment, in which he was formally charged with the capital crime of using a weapon of mass destruction, as well as malicious destruction of property resulting in death.


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Ubisoft is reportedly planning another entry in their Ghost Recon: Future Soldier series.
Though it shouldn't come as much of a surprise, the success of the latest Ghost Recon title has apparently led to Ubisoft moving forward with a follow-up. Released back in May of this year, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier was a squad-based shooter full of future tech and political intrigue one expects from a Tom Clancy game. A new image posted to the web by one of employees at Ubisoft Kiev (and spotted by CVG) seems to indicate the studio will help develop a sequel to Future Solider. Previously, Ubisoft Kiev developed the PC port of the GR: Future Soldier.
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Fit 6, Page 63, Panel 2 … I Love My Snark But Oh, You Kid!
THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK by Lewis Carroll, a graphic novel by this artist and explained here, page by page, panel by panel …
And on the sixth Fit, the Barrister slept.
Played here by the notorious Continental philodopher, Martin Heidegger, (right Zeit up and left Sein down) the Barrister has been overwhelmed by the fumes of cheap plonk and the Beaver's well-turned ankles and has sunk into a torpid sort of slumber upon the thickly inked lawn.
Our dear reader, who eschews cheap drink and chorus girls in favor of the headier vintages of Carrollian verse, will note that the Barrister has been furnished here with dreams in the plural. He or she will nod knowingly, perhaps even smugly, for every Carrollian worth their mustard and cress is cognizant of the Master's mysterious penchant for dreams.
In fact, Lewis Carroll never met a novel or poem in which he didn't feel obliged to stuff in the odd bit of dreamwork to move the plot along, and by providing the luckless Barrister with an multiplicity of dreams our poet may be betraying his own crypto-Hindu sympathies! Classical Hindu epistemology, bursting at the seams as it does with a nightmarish superfluity of dreams and illusions, all of 'em nested one within the other, would have been pure catnip for the likes of Carroll.
This artist is aware that there are those amongst us who will object to the above theory, they might mutter darkly about a certain virulent strain of Neo-Platonism infecting Victorian England with which Carroll may have been infected, rather than some curry-inflected metaphysics hailing from god knows where.
Well, they can toss their Neo-Platonic influences into the dust bin as far as we're concerned, for it's Hinduism which has the real pukka goods on Runaway Idealism and this Floating Metadream We Call Life. Like the Red King in Through the Looking Glass, we are all of us, readers, artist, poet and Barrister, dreaming of one another and if we ever do wake up to find out what's Real, well, what is Reality anyway, huh?
After mentally digesting all of this, the less tolerant DR will start things off by giving this over-heated illustrator a gentle boxing about the ears and a light touching up with a lead featherduster. They will then will reach for their Bradshaw of the Future (our preferred etymological opium den) and look pensive whilst they peruse the pedigree of the word "dream", a word which in Old English meant "joy" or even curiouser and curiouser, "music".
Tossing aside their Bradshaw with an insouciant pshaw, the less tolerant DR will then gird their loins and push their way past the more tolerant DR (still asleep and reeking of cheap plonk and ankles), towards the well-inked anthropomorphic forks afflicted with the Amorous Gigantism of Inanimate Objects, the Beaver's size 9 chukka boots, the winged goblets and obligatory bar of soap, the Man-Ray-smiles and the cloth-headed judge-and-jury — all of 'em merely a smokescreen for the 9-piece band ensconced in their band-shell in the background of this etymological-cum-epistemological mis-en-scene!
And what is this joyful music that our dream orchestra* is producing for the benefit of our dream Barrister? Is it the melodious warblings of some Hindustani songstress afflicted with a keening adenoidal distress? Is it the rock 'n roll oompah-oompah of some hipster, Platonic cave-dwellers? To find out, dear readers, stay tuned for next week's episode of The Hunting of the Snark!
*Our readers might even be more bewildered than usual to learn that this illustrator is personally afflicted with the rather enjoyable syndrome of musical dreaming; that for many years his dreams have been provided with a sort of involuntary cinematic soundtrack, not of his choosing although usually of a classical nature. Sometimes it's rubbish like the soundtrack to Mamma Mia, but this artist is the sort of high-minded fellow who thinks nothing of walking out of a bad film or dream.
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The ETSU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics would like to ask both the print and broadcast media to honor our request to be called "ETSU" ... East Tennessee State in first reference is acceptable, but subsequent references should be ETSU ... On TV graphics please use ETSU ... Our nickname is the Buccaneers, but Bucs is also acceptable.
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The ETSU men's basketball team only added to its rich history of success during the 2009-10 season, capturing its second straight Atlantic Sun Conference Championship and earning the program's ninth trip all-time to the NCAA Tournament ... Posting the program's fourth 20-win season in the past seven years, the Bucs overcame multiple challenges during the season before dropping Mercer in the A-Sun finals ... Only losing senior guard Jocolby Davis off the roster from 2009-10, the Bucs will add Smith back to the mix after receiving a medical redshirt a year ago, and a trio of incoming recruits will also add to the talent pool.
The series versus UNF
The Bucs are 9-0 all-time against the Ospreys.
Last time against UNF
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Feb. 25, 2010) - Forcing North Florida into 19 turnovers and outscoring the Ospreys 23-7 off those miscues, the ETSU men's basketball team's play on the defensive end proved critical as the Buccaneers enjoyed a 61-46 victory in Atlantic Sun Conference action Thursday night at the UNF Arena. ... While the Bucs held UNF to just 30 percent shooting for the game and swiped 10 steals, ETSU got a team-high 14 points from freshman guard Sheldon Cooley (Tampa) in the victory. In addition, ETSU got 10 points apiece from guards Adam Sollazzo (Tampa) and Micah Williams (Manchester), as the Bucs' bench outscored the Ospreys' subs, 28-12. ... The Bucs managed to win despite shooting just 43.5 percent (10-of-23) from the free throw line, but ETSU did hit on 42 percent from the field. UNF held a 46-36 edge on the boards, but the Ospreys were just 2-of-21 from beyond the 3-point arc. ... In the first half, the Bucs built a lead of as many as nine points at 22-13 when Sollazzo hit a layup at the 4:59 mark. UNF answered to pull back to within five at 24-19 with 3:04 left, but six straight points from the Bucs - capped by another Sollazzo score with three second left in the half - made it 30-19 at the break. ... The Bucs enjoyed their 11-point advantage despite hitting on just 3-of-9 shots from the free throw line. However, ETSU connected on 42 percent of its shots from the field in the first 20 minutes, while using their fullcourt defense to hold the Ospreys to just 29 percent shooting from the floor and an 0-for-8 clip from 3-point range. ... After the break, the Bucs kept the defensive pressure on the Ospreys early and used multiple UNF turnovers to build their lead to as many as 16 at 39-23 with 16:19 left in the game. UNF managed to cut that advantage to nine points midway through the second half, but that would be as close as the Ospreys would get as the Bucs pushed back out to a 19-point advantage late in the game.
Last time out
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Jan. 10, 2011) - By producing a 19-0 offensive run midway through the first half and holding Stetson to just 42 points for the game, the ETSU men's basketball team picked up its sixth straight victory with a 62-42 Atlantic Sun Conference win over the Hatters evening inside the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center. ... The 42 points allowed matched the 2000-01 Buccaneers, who held Lynchburg to just 42 in a 65-42 victory 10 years ago. Against Division I opponents, it was the lowest point total for an ETSU opponent since 1997-98, when Coastal Carolina scored just 41 against the Bucs. ... On the offensive end, senior guards Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.) and Micah Williams (Manchester) were the difference, posting 23 and 19 points, respectively. With the win, ETSU improved to 10-7 overall, 5-1 in league play, while Stetson dropped to 5-11, 3-3. ... The Bucs initially got off to a slow start, as the Hatters for the third straight year attempted to slow the game down and get ETSU out of its running and gunning style. It worked until the 8:19 mark, when Stetson went up by three at 14-11 thanks to a pair of free throws from Aaron Graham. ... At that point, the Bucs manufactured a 19-0 offensive run and built a lead of 30-14. During that stretch, ETSU held the Hatters scoreless until a 3-pointer from Aaron Graham with 30 seconds left in the half made it 30-17. The 17 points for Stetson in the first half matched the lowest point total of the season for an ETSU opponent, as Milligan only managed 17 as well. ... In the second half, Stetson pulled to within nine at 34-25, but from there the Bucs methodically built their lead to as many as 21 points at 54-33 with just under five minutes left in the game. ... For the contest, the Bucs shot 50 percent from the floor and out-rebounded the Hatters 36-31. ETSU held Stetson to just 31 percent shooting and forced the Hatters into 18 turnovers. The Bucs also outscored Stetson 30-10 in the paint and held a 22-12 edge in points off turnovers.
Smith's 20/20 vision leads Bucs
With his 20-point and 20-rebound effort against Florida Gulf Coast on Jan. 8, 2011, senior guard Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.) made history ... According to the statistics available to the ETSU media relations office, Smith was the first Buccaneer since Feb. 14, 1959 to post a 20/20 effort ... The last was Buc great Tom Chilton, who scored 35 points and grabbed 25 rebounds in a win over Wofford during the 1959 season.
Williams chasing 1,000; Smith moving up scoring list
While senior Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.) is already a member of the 1,000-point club, fellow senior Micah Williams has a shot at making it to the group., Meanwhile, Smith continues to climb the all-time scoring chart. Below are numbers for both players:
Name Current Points
Micah Williams 900
With those point totals, Williams would need to average 8.0 points a game for the Bucs' final 13 regular season games to reach 1,000. Smith stands at 1,432 points, and just recently overtook former Buccaneer great Jerald Fields (Gainesville, Fla.) for No. 10 on the ETSU all-time scoring list. Here are is the breakdown:
Name Place Points
Troy Lee Mikell No. 7 1,684
Mike Smith No. 8 1,432
Zakee Wadood No. 9 1,382
Harley Swift No. 10 1,367
Smith wins another A-Sun POTW award
MACON, Ga. (Jan. 11, 2011) - For the second time in three weeks, ETSU senior guard Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.) has been named the Atlantic Sun Conference Player of the Week, as announced by the conference office on Tuesday. ... Smith led the Buccaneers to a perfect 3-0 record last week, averaging 23 points, 11 rebounds and two assists per game during that stretch. Most impressively, Smith produced a 20-point, 20-rebound effort against Florida Gulf Coast, becoming the first ETSU player to post a 20/20 effort since 1959. He is only the third player nationally to accomplish that feat this season. ... For the week, Smith also shot 55 percent from the floor and 33 percent from 3-point range. ... With Smith's second selection, the Bucs have now won the last three A-Sun POTW honors, as junior guard Adam Sollazzo (Tampa) was the league winner last week.
Sollazzo rolling in last six games for ETSU
Junior guard Adam Sollazzo (Tampa) has really found his rhythm in the last seven games, leading the team with 4.7 assists per game, and ranking second on the team with 14.0 points per game ... in those seven games Sollazzo is shooting an impressive 35-of-54 from the field for a 65 percent clip ... he is also averaging 3.0 rpg in this stretch.
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Coming into this season, the Bucs were counting on quality offensive production from their "Big 3" senior guards in Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.), Justin Tubbs (Trussville, Ala.) and Micah Williams (Manchester) ... All three have had double-figure scoring seasons in the past ... However, so far this season, six of the Bucs' seven losses have coincided with poor output from the trio .
Bartow among best in the country over last five years
When looking at coaches across the country, ETSU head coach Murry Bartow stands among a select group ... Of those coaches that have been at their current school for at least five years, only 24 have averaged better than 20 wins a season ... That list includes coaches such as Dayton's Brian Gregory, Syracuse's Jim Boeheim, UConn's Jim Calhoun, Florida's Billy Donovan, Michigan State's Tom Izzo, Duke's Mike Kryzewski, Louisville's Rick Pitino, Kansas' Bill Self, Maryland's Gary Williams and North Carolina's Roy Williams ... The list also includes Bartow, who is average 20.2 wins a year since 2005-06.
Bucs help bolster A-Sun to strong RPI standings
With a pair of signature wins already this season, the ETSU men's basketball team - along with other members of the Atlantic Sun Conference - is doing its part to put the league in some impressive company on the national hoops stage. ... With wins over Atlantic 10 Conference stalwart Dayton and Southeastern Conference West Division favorite Mississippi State, the Buccaneers have helped the A-Sun generate plenty of waves across the board in the national RPI rankings. As a result, one month into the 2010-11 NCAA men's basketball season, the Atlantic Sun Conference is ranked ahead of other mid-major leagues including the Southern, Ohio Valley, Big South, West Coast, Mid-American, WAC and Sun Belt. ... The A-Sun remains among the top half of the conferences in the country. CollegeRPI.com ranks the A-Sun 14th, immediately behind the Horizon, Conference USA and Missouri Valley, and ahead of the conferences mentioned above. Against the Southern, Big South, Sun Belt and Ohio Valley conferences, the A-Sun owns a 15-8 mark. ... The conference has more than held its own against the BCS conferences. With ETSU's win at Mississippi State, the conference grabbed its fifth win against the "Power-6" leagues. No conference eligible for consideration for the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top 25 poll owns as many BCS wins as the A-Sun. The five wins represent the most for the league since 2007-08.


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Pulitzer winner is glad she 'stumbled' into journalism at UNL
"Small-town living has not instilled small aspirations in a 20-year-old junior journalism major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln."
Marjie Lundstron used those words to begin an autobiography she wrote in 1977, when she was a junior in the school of journalism. Current evidence suggests she was absolutely right.
On April 9, 1991, Marjie Lundstrom won a Pulitzer Prize for journalism. With Rochelle Sharpe of New York, Lundstrom wrote a four-part series of stories disclosing that hundreds of child abuse-related deaths go undetected each year as a result of errors made by medical examiners and coroners. The Pulitzer was awarded for national reporting.
Lundstrom, 34, said that she was happily surprised to receive the award. She and Sharpe found out in March that they were finalists, she said. "I did my celebrating then." She felt honored just to get that farm Lundstrom said, but believed she and Sharpe had "no chance" of winning the award.
Lundstrom was working for Gannett New Service, based in Washington, D.C., when she and Sharpe received the assignment to do a national story on child abuse. After weeks of studying court records, they were told by a welfare worker that they should look at discrepancies in coroners' reports.
That tip led them to statistics that told a horrifying story. Often, no autopsies are done despite suspicious circumstances surrounding children's deaths. She said the matter became important to her and Sharpe as more than just the topic of a story. Perhaps the problem will get more attention now that the series ahs received the Pulitzer, she said.
"When the party's over, I'm really glad people will have to face up to this. It's a crime."
Lundstrom is now a senior writer at the Sacramento Bee in California. She found out about her award under somewhat unusual circumstances, on a conference phone call to Gannett News Service headquarters. The wire machine at the Bee had crashed just before the Pulitzer announcements were scheduled to come through, so Lundstrom got on the phone with Sharpe and other fellow co-workers to hear the results.
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The series that won the award was the kind of work Lundstrom likes to do best, she said. "Reporting is what I like most. I love general assignment work. It's as good as any beat."
Lundstrom worked for the Ft. Collins Coloradoan upon graduation, then for a city magazine called the Denver Monthly and later for the Denver Post. She worked for the Sacramento Bee from January of 1989 to March 1990, when she went to Gannett New Service. She returned to Sacramento after deciding she preferred to live in the West.
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Former college of Journalism Dean R. Neale Copple has fond memories of Lundstrom too. "Marjie was a brilliant, enthusiastic student while she was here, and now, obviously has preformed equally well as a professional. I was pleased to see her quoted as saying she wasn't sure the award was what it was all about and that, rather, you have to be enthusiastic about your subject matter and that is what it is all about.
Copple added, "In some ways, I hope this supported our efforts to have a very professional program and one that insists upon a sound liberal education to go along with it. I'm not at all sure it's possible to produce this level of quality graduates without both of these."
Lundstrom is the fourth UNL alumnus to receive a Pulitzer Prize for journalism Jim Risser, who graduated in 1959, earned the award in 1976 and again in 1979, both times while employed by the Des Moines Register, Karen Blessen, Class of 1973, was working for the Dallas Morning News when she received the award in 1989. Charles Mohr, who graduated in 1951, received the Pulitzer in 1985 when he was a reporter for The New York Times.


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In the decades following the Civil War, many Americans sought in religion, solutions to the economic, political, and social problems of the day. The Social Gospel was a Christian movement whose goal was to save American society as well as individual souls. The Reverend Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899) was among the most famous and successful of the Social Gospel preachers. Born in Northfield, Massachusetts, Moody traveled through the United States and Great Britain, preaching to enormous crowds of people wishing to save themselves and the world from sin. Determined to provide a first-rate secondary education for young people regardless of race, religion, or economic circumstances, Moody founded the Northfield Young Ladies Seminary in 1879 and the Mount Hermon school for boys in 1881. For many years, the schools hosted an annual student and Christian workers conference. This postcard view of the Northfield campus was made during the 1905 conference.
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As a winter storm paralyzes parts of the South and Northeast in the U.S. this week, the high temperature in Sochi on Friday was expected to be about 64 degrees Fahrenheit, one of the warmest days since the Winter Games began.
Sochi's "summer" weather has been a fixture on social media as images surface of people strolling around in shorts and flip-flops, sunbathing at the beach and swimming in the water. U.S. cross country skier Sophie Caldwell even opted to ski in a tank top. The city is located on the east coast of the Black Sea with its low latitude raising some fears over its ability to transform itself into a winter wonderland.
International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach told the AP on Friday that the unusually warm weather wasn't a serious concern. Though that same day, the downhill part of the men's super-combined was postponed for an hour to avoid peak sun hours. And earlier this week, organizers were scrambling to repair the snowboarding halfpipe, which had become dangerously slushy in the heat.
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Four years ago, Winter Games host Vancouver experienced average high temperatures of about 46 degrees and lows of around 34 degrees.
The 2018 Winter Games will be played in Pyeongchang, South Korea, where highs this time of year reach about 32 degrees and lows hit -12 degrees.
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Movement, Movement Points (MP), and Speeds (MP/ACP Ratios):
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Speed variation limited to between 0% and 32767%.
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Gets up to 1 free MP if needed to finish a move.
Hit Points (HP): 3.
Vanishes if in: true by default, false for sea, shallows, swamp, vacuum.
Construction points (CP): 10.
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Hit chances are 5% vs infantry, armor, bomber, 60% vs destroyer, troop transport, 100% vs nuclear bomb, 99% vs base, 90% vs town, 80% vs city, 70% vs submarine, 40% vs carrier, 20% vs battleship, 10% vs fighter.
Damage is 1 by default, 2 vs submarine.
Ammo needed to hit unit: 0 by default, 1 vs ammo.
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Can be given to another side (1 ACP).
Can be disbanded (1 ACP).
0% chance to be seen at outset of game.
0% chance to be seen at outset of game if independent.
Not always seen even if terrain has been seen.
Occupants not seen even if unit has been seen.
Material Handling:
fuel, 100 storage (100 at start of game), 1 basic consumption, needs 1 to move, 1 consumed per move
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Sparky, Jinx, Frankie and Smudge, the four guys who make up "The Plaids," a 1960s' male singing group, were killed when their car was hit by a bus full of Catholic schoolgirls on their way to "The Ed Sullivan Show" on which the Beatles made their American debut.
The Plaids were on their way to pick up their plaid tuxedos before appearing at a major event at the Airport Hilton. Their biggest gig before that had been at the opening of a Sears store.
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Accompanied by music director/pianist David Jenkins and bass player Andrew Nelson, "Plaid Tidings" also has the Plaids accompanying Perry Como and a three-minute, 11-second, edition of "The Ed Sullivan Show," complete with jugglers, opera singers, Jose Jimenez, a trained seal and a bunch of other acts.
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Uploading Official Transcripts (Please request your official transcripts, with the final grades from all of the colleges and universities you have attended, be sent directly to GIAC only after you have been admitted into the program)
When uploading official transcripts, note you will only be allowed to upload one PDF file per school. This means if you have a multiple page transcript for one school you will need to create one PDF file for that school. Gradesheets should not be uploaded in place of transcripts. Applications with gradesheets in place of transcripts will be considered incomplete. If you are uploading a foreign transcript, you must also include the translated version as part of the one PDF file for that school.
International students must submit official scores of TOEFL or IELTS. An exception is made for foreign students who obtained a bachelor's degree in the U.S. or other English-speaking country. (NOTE: This exemption is made for bachelor's degrees only, it is not made for master's degrees.) Also see FAQ tab for score information.
The following materials must be uploaded for the Department of Marketing via your application status link by December 15. Please contact the Graduate Coordinator if you have any questions.
You will be asked to list the names and email addresses of the three people you have chosen to recommend you for admission. Once you submit your application, an email will be sent to each recommender instructing them to visit a website and complete a questionnaire. The letters will automatically be routed to the department. Online submission of recommendation letters is now required.
Questions about the application procedure can be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com.
For additional information contact Susannah Raulino at firstname.lastname@example.com. Application Deadline is December 15.
Ph.D. Program Staff:
Ph.D. Program Coordinator: Susannah Raulino
Ph.D. Program Faculty Advisor: Jason Duan
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We accept applications for the fall semester only. Generally, we complete our selection process during the spring.
All admitted students receive some form of financial support. We have competitive Graduate School and Dean's (McCombs School of Business) fellowships, which are offered to the most qualified applicants. In addition, most students receive 20-hour appointments as teaching and research assistants, which enable a student to receive a tuition reimbursement.
The goal is for students to complete the program in 4 to 5 years. The first two years are devoted to coursework. Students are involved in research projects from the onset of the program and an original research paper is required during the first summer. Students take a comprehensive written exam in their chosen area of specialization at the end of their second year and do a third year research paper which will be reviewed by a committee. Students then take additional courses in their area of specialization and proceed to submit a dissertation proposal. The last 1 to 2 years of the program are devoted to dissertation research and coursework.
Coursework revolves around scholarly research in journals such as the Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing, and Marketing Science. Similarly, the expected output from McCombs Ph.D. students is scholarly research in these journals. Examination of these journals to gain insight into the research process and research topics of interest is highly recommended.
GMAT should be taken on or before application deadline, December 15th.
The average GMAT score is approximately 700. There is no minimum GMAT/GRE score required to apply. Average GMAT/GRE for entering students is typically around the 95th percentile.
Approximately 2-4 people are admitted out of 90-100 applicants. The program currently has about 14 students.
The application deadline for the Marketing doctoral program is December 15 of the year you wish to enter the program.
Students typically teach once during their tenure in the Ph.D. program. In the third or fourth year, students have the opportunity to teach an undergraduate Principles of Marketing course as an assistant instructor (AI). All other semesters, students serve as teaching assistants (TA) to top faculty instructors. Our aim is to have students gain quality teaching experience while having ample time to focus on research.
The Graduate School limits transfer credits to six course hours.
The general objective of the marketing Ph.D. program is to prepare you for an academic career at a leading university. Each course of study is designed to accommodate an individual's educational background, experience and career goals. Obtaining a doctoral degree in marketing requires mastery of fundamental business and research-related concepts, competency in core marketing subjects, demonstrated expertise in a marketing specialty and successful defense of a dissertation. Due to this, the doctoral program requires a robust combination of formal coursework and independent study.
A score of 550 (paper test), 213 (computer-based test), or 79 (internet-based test) on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or an overall band of 6.5 on the Academic Examination of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) is considered the minimum acceptable for admission to The University of Texas at Austin.
If you hold a bachelor's degree from a U.S. institution or from an institution in another English-only speaking country, you will receive a waiver of the TOEFL or IELTS. We will not waive the requirement for the TOEFL or IELTS scores if you earned only a master's degree from a U.S institution or from an institution in another English-only speaking country.
No, spring enrollment is not permitted. We only enroll new students for the fall semesters.
Because the tuition, fees and other program cost vary based on several factors, we cannot provide you with an exact number. For an estimate please review the Graduate School's Tuition, Fees and Other Costs webpage.
The Educational Testing Service (ETS) code for the University of Texas at Austin is 6882. Test scores sent to this code are made available to all graduate departments. The GMAT code is 396-44-45.
Once you have completed your online application you can upload application material and monitor your application status using the University's My Status webpage.
No. You only need to have a Bachelor degree (or be expected to have one) by the start of your entry year.
Yes. As long as you put the date that you are taking the exam in your application and the date is December 15th or prior, that is fine. We will get the test scores within a few weeks of your exam date and they will go in your file.
Your recommenders will be contacted directly by email by UT when you submit your application. They will be sent information how to complete the recommendation. To ensure the recommendations are considered, please ask that your recommendations be completed by December 31st.
The Marketing Department at the McCombs School of Business offers competitive financial merit-based fellowships to students that gain admission. Contingent on satisfactory progress, resident Ph.D. students in good standing generally continue to receive financial support throughout the program for up to five years. Before accepting an offer of admission, each prospective student receives a detailed description of the financial aid package for the first year of the program and in subsequent years.
Most students receive a 20 hour/ week appointment with 10 hours as a Graduate Research Assistant (GRA) to a faculty member in the student's area of interest and 10 hours as a Teaching Assistant (TA) to a faculty member to assist with grading. In order to gain teaching experience, most students teach one semester of an undergraduate Principles of Marketing course as an Assistant Instructor (AI) in their third or fourth year.
Applicants wishing to be recommended for a financial award by the Department of Marketing Administration must complete the Supplemental information/Financial statement application, in addition to the all other required application materials, to be considered for monetary awards. In addition, information about loans, work-study programs or other financial assistance based on need, can be obtained from the Office of Student Financial Services.
The first stage of the program consists of successfully completing required courses in marketing, research methods, and area of specialization as well as initiating research projects. The Marketing Department offers six doctoral seminars.
Students may specialize in Consumer Behavior, Marketing Strategy or Quantitative Marketing Models. Five of the six seminar courses are required for each specialty. However, students are encouraged to take all seminars.
Students are also required to complete a minimum of 9 hours of research methods and statistics and 12 hours of electives in their area of specialization. Read more about program course requirements.
The second stage is coursework, research papers and exams required for admittance to candidacy. To be admitted to candidacy for the doctoral degree, the student must:
Fulfill the core course requirements in marketing and research methods
Students are also required to complete a minimum of 9 hours of research methods and statistics and 12 hours of electives in their area of specialization. Read more about program milestones.
The third stage of the doctoral program involves taking additional specialization coursework, research paper and completion of dissertation coursework and dissertation. Students also have the opportunity to teach an undergraduate Principles of Marketing course.
Professor Raji Srinivasan was the recipient of the Marketing Strategy SIG, AMA Varadarajan Award for Early Career Contributions to Marketing Strategy Research, among other research honors.
At the end of the first year in the program, each student writes an original research paper that is due by the end of the second summer session. The paper is formally evaluated by the student's adviser and one other faculty member and presented to the entire faculty.
Every August each doctoral student will submit a progress report and plan to the Graduate Advisor. This annual report and plan will serve in part as the basis of an evaluation by the Doctoral Advisory Committee (DAC). The evaluation will also take into account performance in all formal coursework, the first year summer paper and/or Comprehensive Examination, as well as satisfactory involvement in seminars and research activities. The evaluation will be based in part on input from the student's area committee.
Students take a comprehensive exam in their Area of Specialization in the second year. Most students elect to take the exam at the end of the academic year in June. This examination, which will be prepared, administered, and evaluated by the DAC (Doctoral Advisory Committee), in conjunction with a student's area committee, is eight hours in length. The examination is designed to test a student's knowledge of marketing and related disciplines as they pertain to his or her area of specialization.
The third year paper would be due on the first day of November of the third year in program. Two research options would be: 1) a completed manuscript ready for submission or 2) research proposal with literature review, hypotheses, model development, and some initial data that holds high publication promise (in all cases, the students must be either the sole or lead author). The student would present in January at the first Brown Bag of the Spring semester after committee evaluation. After passing the GSC would recommend for advancement to candidacy, if passed the paper requirement.
To be admitted to candidacy for the doctoral degree, the student must:
To fulfill requirements for the Ph.D. degree in Business Administration, students must conduct appropriate research and present an acceptable dissertation under the supervision of a Dissertation committee. Independent and original research that makes a contribution to marketing knowledge is required for an acceptable dissertation.
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Among the achievements that wasn't given much limelight in Mrs. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's recently concluded State of the Nation Address (SONA) was the success story of Philippine tourism.
Arroyo mentioned it briefly yet powerfully:
"In the last four years tourism almost doubled. It is now a $5 billion industry."
Many critics of Arroyo are still in doubt over the accuracy of the economic figures she mentioned in her SONA. But observers, especially in the travel and tourism sector, could never deny the sudden growth and liveliness of Philippine Tourism these past few years. This is due to an aggressive and relentless advertising campaign by the Department of Tourism, led by Tourism Secretary Joseph Ace Durano, to promote the country not only to foreigners but to Filipinos as well. It is because the DOT is knowledgeable of the fact that thousands of Filipinos are themselves foreigners in their own country.
Many years ago, it was the dream of countless Filipinos to travel abroad not really for work but just for the sake of traveling. Nowadays, however, Filipinos have already set their eyes at home. Why travel to other parts of the world when there are as many breathtaking sights to discover as there are in other countries? Besides, there are still many scenic spots left unphotographed nor visited by the mainstream public.
Take the Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park in Palawan or the white coastlines of Caramóan, Camarines Sur, for instance. These two, now a favorite of many locals as well as foreigners, were virtual unknowns as compared to the mammoth popularity of, say, Mayón Volcano of Albay and the Chocolate Hills of Bohol. The previous decade, Palawan's underground river and Caramóan's beaches were almost unknown. But now both places are in the mainstream of public consciousness.
Aside from the laudable projects of the Mr. Durano and the Department of Tourism, the local tourism sector has several anonymous people to thank for. And these are the online advocates of tourism (not to mention patriotism), the webloggers!
Travel writer and heritage advocate Ivan Henares and his hugely popular website IVAN ABOUT TOWN leads this online group of travel freaks who relentessly walk the endless mile of Philippine paradise. The website won The Best Travel Blog for 2007 in the inaugural The Philippine Blog Awards which I and my daughter were fortunate enough to witness. But unfortunately, Ivan wasn't there to collect his trophy (he was out traveling! LOL!).
There's no need for further introductions for Mr. Henares (he is also a member of the Heritage Conservation Society); all he needs to do is to take a bow and do some more traveling here in the Philippines because recently, I began to notice that he has included foreign trips in his blog as well. In my point of view, I don't find it appropriate for a Philippine travel blog (especially since a rabid nationalism has been rubbed off on me by works of nationalist writers I follow). But of course, it's his prerogative to do that and I have no right to meddle. He's still doing a fantastic job for the local tourism sector as well as heritage conservation.
Next is PINOY TRAVEL BLOG, another popular travel blog which also focuses on local travel and tourism destinations. It is maintained by some of the best young writers/bloggers in the country today: Palanca Awardee and netrepreneur Abe Olandrés (popularly known as "Yuga" in the local internet scene), Marc "Hoop" Avellana, Arnold Zafra, and a host of others.
PHILIPPINE TRAVEL BLOG, much like PINOY TRAVEL BLOG, is also maintained by a host of contributors who have made traveling the archipelago their passion. Some of the contributors are Melo Villareal (travel photojournalist and online publisher), Jocelyn Dimaculangan, and Enrico Dee (who also contributes for PINOY TRAVEL BLOG).
We also have TRAVELER ON FOOT which also has a strong following. I had the pleasure of meeting this rather "mysterious traveler" last year. I said mysterious because, up to now, he still refuses to show himself up in his website! Instead, Mr. Traveler usually brings his son along with him and takes pictures of the latter in front of any scenic spot on hand. Quite unique and intriguing.
And of course, there's WITH ONE'S PAST by my dear friend and fellow hispanista Arnold Arnáiz. Although his blog deals mainly with Philippine history and occasional socio-political commentary, "Arnaldo" is also using it as a platform to familiarize his readers with a rich historico-travel information on Philippine provinces. He's currently based in Cebú and has already traveled to many Visayan provinces.
One of my favorites is PINOY MOUNTAINEER (especially since I'm a mountaineer myself). Although not exactly a travel blog, it somehow falls under this category because it's proprietor, Gideon Lasco, travels, climbs, and documents almost every mountain there is in the Philippines. As of this writing, he has climbed over 50 mountains in the Philippines. This website (launched with the help of Ivan Henares) is a gold mine of information about Philippine mountains, popular or not, as well as a rich source of mountaineering knowledge.
LAKWATSERA DE PRIMERA (and it's true… it's not just another travel blog!) is another interesting online travel diary. This one is highly recommended since it contains awesome and much larger photographs of the places featured in it. You'll also enjoy reading this particular blog post taken from the said travel blog: 100 THINGS I AM PROUD ABOUT THE PHILIPPINES.
My own, ALAS FILIPINAS, tries to become a travel blog, too. But due to time constraints, it remains mainly as my angst bin, hahaha! But seriously speaking, whenever I have time, I travel to different places and blog about it for the reading consumption of the Spanish-speaking netizens. Try this link, for instance.
I am sure there are still lots of local travel blogs around. And there will be many more to come. Wittingly or unwittingly, they should now be cognizant of the fact that they have made themselves Philippine online heroes because they have featured many places, cultures, and other aspects about the Philippines that have never been shown to the world before. Furthermore, travel advocacy promotes ecotourism and environmentalism, two very important attributes in Philippine tourism.
To all of you out there, thank you very much your travel advocacies and for patronizing our own. Helping out Philippine tourism is tantamount to saving the country as well.


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It's time for a Catholic culture wars flashback. Let's set the way-back machine for last summer, when the Womenpriests movement held one of its ordination rites in Baltimore. As one would expect, this event was glowingly covered -- sort of -- by The Baltimore Sun. I focused, in posts at the time, on this particular passage:
Andrea Johnson, presiding as bishop, ordained two women from Maryland, Ann Penick and Marellen Mayers, one from Pennsylvania and one from New York in the sanctuary of St. John's United Church of Christ. The church was filled with family members -- including husbands of three of the ordinands -- and friends, including some who are employed by the Archdiocese of Baltimore but who support the ordination of women. Photography was limited to protect the privacy of those attending the ceremony.
I noted, with two clicks in Google, that one of the ordinands was a former faculty member/campus minister at one of most powerful Catholic schools in our region -- Archbishop Spalding High School. This fact was not included in the news story. And what about the fact that the Sun agreed to abide by the instructions not to photograph the audience. In mean, who would be present who needed the safety of anonymity? I wrote at that time:
... (I)t sounds like the Sun agreed not to photograph the congregation in order to protect the privacy of Catholics -- Catholic educational leaders or diocesan staff, perhaps -- who could not afford to make public their support of the Womenpriests movement. I don't know about you, but that seems strange -- unless editors had decided to protect those individuals as sources for the story. If that's the case, perhaps that should be stated?
I bring this up because of some of the reactions I have heard -- in or comments pages and through private emails -- to my post that ran with the headline, "New York Times scoop! Catholic same-sex unions!" The post focused on a story that included lots of clearly attributed quotes and information from religious leaders in quite a few churches that are being rocked or even divided by conflicts over homosexuality and the definition of marriage.
That's good. Journalists like clearly attributed information.
But then there was this passage in the Times report:
The dividing lines are often unpredictable. There are black churches that welcome openly gay couples, and white churches that do not. Some Presbyterian churches hire openly gay clergy members, while others will not. The Roman Catholic Church teaches that homosexual behavior is a sin, but there are Catholic priests who secretly bless gay unions.
The story offers no attribution for the final claim, which is an A1 story in the making if I have ever seen one. The story also, and this is the key, does not offer any context for this claim or information about its source, including why the source of needs to remain anonymous -- or in this case, not even mentioned. The information simply shows up.
Does this matter? Well, I noted that this would appear to violate a New York Times editorial policy document that states, in part:
Readers of The New York Times demand to know as much as possible about where we obtain our information and why it merits their trust. For that reason, we have long observed the principle of identifying our sources by name and title or, when that is not possible, explaining why we consider them authoritative, why they are speaking to us and why they have demanded confidentiality. Guidance on limiting the use of unidentified sources, and on informative description of those we do use, has appeared in several editions of our stylebook, including the current one, and in our Integrity Statement, dating from 1999.
As you would imagine, conservative Catholics were not amused by this episode.
Over at the CatholicCulture.org website, Phil Lawler made the following observations:
It is, regrettably, easy to believe that some Catholic priests are giving their blessing to homosexual unions. But if that is the case, these priests are clearly acting in defiance of the Church: the institution they claim to serve. That defiance would constitute a major news story, not merely an observation to be made in passing. ... The Times appears to be protecting dissenting priests from ecclesiastical discipline.
Any Times reporter who actually witnessed a Catholic priest blessing a homosexual union, or heard a credible first-hand report of such an event, should have written a news story about it, and that story should have appeared on the front page. That didn't happen. Why not? I can think of only three possible explanations:
The Times reported something as fact when it had no solid evidence. Terry Mattingly and I agree that's unlikely.
The Times had solid evidence of priests blessing gay unions, but withheld that evidence because the priests demanded anonymity. That's possible. But as Mattingly points out, the Times ordinarily informs readers when a report is based on information from someone who requests anonymity.
The Times knows of priests who have blessed same-sex unions, and those priests have not requested anonymity, but the Times has decided not to identify them anyway. This seems to me the most likely explanation.
My assumption is that the second option is closest to the mark, in a scenario that resembles the Sun Womenpriests story mentioned earlier. In other words, the newspaper is actively participating in the story and shaping information in a way that protects one side of the debate from retaliation by the other.
Yes, I know that this happens in political stories all the time. My office is on Capitol Hill. However, this is precisely the scenario that the Times ethics policy addresses -- which is why, in order to build and retain trust -- the policy requires reporters and editors to give readers as much information about confidential sources as possible (short of a clear, named attribution). Yet that did not happen in this case.
GetReligion readers have, in comments or privately, offered another interesting explanation.
The Times report clearly implies that the Catholic priests performing these same-sex union blessings are, in fact, Catholic priests in good standing. However, perhaps this is not accurate, and the priests in question are either ex-Catholic priests or members of movements (think Womenpriests) that claim to be Catholic, yet the final doctrinal authorities on this issue (as in Catholic bishops) disagree. Yet, why wouldn't the newspaper simply state that this is the case. Why not give credit to, so to speak, this Rebel Alliance?
I want to propose another scenario, one based on my own experiences in newsrooms and past conversations with liberal Catholics, including journalists. What if the source or sources for this information are, in reality, liberal Catholics and ex-Catholics IN THE TIMES NEWSROOM? They know about these rites or have participated in them, yet they do not want to betray their own liberal priests? Thus, the reference is simply stated as fact, because the people in the know are actually involved in the news process.
Surely the Times staff includes more than its share of ex-Catholics and liberal Catholics. What was the label that former editor Bill Keller pinned on himself in his infamous post-Sept. 11 column (the one that compared the Vatican with Al Qaeda) that ran under the headline, "Is the Pope Catholic?" He said, "I am what a friend calls a 'collapsed Catholic' -- well beyond lapsed." I would be shocked if Keller was alone in his own newsroom.
How would a reporter include that information in a story, in an attempt to honor the Times policy?


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