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A brief period of wintry weather Friday led to dozens of accidents on icy roads throughout Davidson County.
A brief period of wintry weather Friday led to dozens of accidents on icy roads throughout Davidson County.
A winter weather advisory has been extended to 11 a.m. Saturday, though there is no precipitation in the forecast, according to the National Weather Service. The high Saturday is expected to reach degrees; the low 21 degrees.
Light snow and sleet began accumulating on most secondary roads and some major highways by noon Friday, leading to slippery roads and numerous reports of wrecks, including overturned vehicles.
The N.C. Highway Patrol responded to more than 50 accidents throughout the day Friday, said Pam Kearns, spokeswoman for the N.C. Highway Patrol office in Lexington. There were no major injuries reported as of about 3 p.m. Friday, Kearns said.
Accidents were occurring throughout the county.
A school bus from Stoner-Thomas School was involved in a minor accident on Becks Church Road when a vehicle slid into a mail carrier's vehicle, which then hit the bus, but only property damage was reported and no injuries, said Dr. Fred Mock, Davidson County Schools superintendent.
Most of the accidents occurred on rural roads, Kearns said. Most accidents were also attributed to drivers traveling too fast, she added.
The National Weather Service issued a winter weather advisory all day Friday for much of central North Carolina, including Davidson County. About 0.08 inches of rain was recorded at the Davidson County Airport by Friday afternoon.
The precipitation started about 9 a.m., mostly tapered off by about 9:45 then resumed with some light sleet. Frozen precipitation started again about 1:20 p.m. and ended by about 4 p.m.
Mark Crook, Davidson County's maintenance engineer with the N.C. Department of Transportation, said crews started seeing accumulations on the highways about 1:30 p.m.
Crews were on hand all day and night to deal with any accumulation on the roadways.
Crook said the DOT was able to apply more brine treatment near a construction zone on Interstate 85 Friday morning, one of the key areas it was worried about.
The DOT had about 56 department and contract trucks on the roadways, Crook said. At least some of the trucks worked through the night and into the morning Saturday, he said.
Officials with the City of Lexington's Street Department said brine treatment was very effective on main roads Friday morning and into the afternoon. Thomasville Street Superintendent Jay Weaver also said the brine treatment did its job.
The wintry weather forced the three school systems to dismiss by 11 a.m.
Davidson County Schools released elementary students on buses and high school student drivers at 9:45 a.m., said Dr. Fred Mock, Davidson County Schools superintendent. Administrators authorized high school and middle school principals to release students at 10:15 a.m., Mock said.
Lexington City Schools released elementary school students at 10 a.m. and middle school and high school students at 11 a.m., said Earl Kendall, assistant system superintendent. All afterschool activities were canceled.
Thomasville City Schools released primary and elementary school students at 10:30 a.m. Middle and high school students were released at 11 a.m., according to a system administrator.
The school systems had previously planned to close three hours early.
Davidson County Government and the court system closed at noon.
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Fun with breastfeeding
Last night the family and a friend took the Gavinator to the fair for his birthday (tons of pictures to come very soon) and on our way home we stopped to get ice cream. I got kiddie cones for the kids and my friend got a giant, chocolate-y waffle cone. The Goose finished her kid cone in a nano-second and turned her eyes (and stomach) on her new best friend- the person with giant, chocolate-y waffle cone.
Goose leaned in for a giant bite out of the cone and put her entire face from nose to chin inside the waffle and right as she was was pulling her face out of the cone I was all "dude, her mouth was totally on my boob earlier. You know what's on your ice cream now? My boob."
Good times.
p.s. tons of Firm, preschool, and NYC trip updates to come!!!!
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C. Milton Wright
Bailey anchored theMustangs' run to the Class 4Astate championship.
The senior was consistent allseason, running especially well inthe state championship race, asher seventh-place effort helpedC.M.Wright edge Eleanor Roosevelt of Prince George'sCounty by one point.
Borisko just missed winning anindividual state title this year,losing to Hereford's KristenMalloy in the final .1 of a mile in theClass 3A state meet. She finishedthird in last year's Class 2A staterace and kept improving this year.
The junior helped the Lionstake this fall's Class 3A state title.She also ran well in several bigmeets, winning the Class 3A Eastregional, taking second in theHoward County championshipsand third at Bull Run.
River Hill
She had to battle some injuryproblems midway through theseason but bounced back to finishstrongly, sweeping the HowardCounty,Class 2A South regionaland state championships.
The junior edged Howard'sElyse Borisko on a cold, rainy dayat the Howard County meet androlled from there. Harman playeda huge role in River Hill's girlscapturing the Class 2A state title.
Severna Park
The senior ended her highschool cross country career on abit of a down note with a15th-place finish in the Class 4Astate meet one week afterwinning the East regional. Shefinished second at the AnneArundel County championships.
Kasimova also took second inthe Knights Invitational andDisney Invitational and was fifth inthe Bull Run at Hereford.
Larkin came back strong aftermissing much of last fall with injuryproblems. The senior anchoredthe Dulaney lineup and played abig role in the Lions winning theBaltimore County championshipand finishing third in the Class 4Astate meet.
She was second in both thecounty and North regional racesbefore her 10th-place finish in thetough Class 4A state race.
South River
Lee followed up a fine debutas a freshman with another strongseason.Her best effort mighthave been at the Anne ArundelCounty championships, whichshe won in 19 minutes, 36seconds.
The sophomore followed thatwith a second-place effort at theClass 4A East regional and an11th-place finish in the state meet.
Linde began her varsity careerin style. The freshman ran wellearly in the season, then took offin the second half.
She placed 29th in theHoward County Invitational and59th in Bull Run. Later in theseason, she finished third in theMonocacy Valley Athletic Leaguechampionships and won theCarroll County title and the Class2A West regional crown. Lindethen ran a strong race in badweather at states, finishing secondin 19 minutes, 59 seconds.
John Carroll
The senior developed into oneof the area's top runners duringher career at John Carroll andmade her final season amemorable one. Stasakovaposted a string of victories at bigmeets (Bobcat Invitational, DisneyInvitational, private schools statechampionship, InterscholasticAthletic Association of MarylandA Conference championship).She finished second in the IAAMoverall championship.
Glenelg Country School
Ricaurte was a strong runnerall season but turned in her bestperformance in the IAAMchampionship race. That's whenthe B Conference runner finishedfirst overall in 19 minutes, 1 second,beating A Conference rival ErikaStasakova of John Carroll by nineseconds. Ricaurte, a junior, thentook third at the private schoolsstate championships. She played amajor role in the Dragons goingundefeated to take theB Conference regular-season title.
Name, School, Year
Jo Baird McDonogh Sophomore
Nicole Clarke John Carroll Senior
Anjelica DiNucci Dulaney Senior
Samantha Matthews Glenelg Country Senior
Marta Randall Hereford Senior
Shannon Rafferty C.M.Wright Sophomore
Kelly Rush Dulaney Senior
Emma Rybczynski IND Senior
Lindsay Smith C.M. Wright Junior
Rachel Sykes South Carroll Junior
Honorable mention: Chelsey Bush, Dulaney; Cori Dimes, Hereford; Caitlyn Fuller,Howard; Mary Fromme, South River; Olivia Joseph, Centennial; Peyton Lawrence,River Hill; Meredith Mill, Howard; Jasmine Savage, Meade; Erica Scripa, C. MiltonWright; Rebecca Yep, Mount Hebron.
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During both my pregnancies, I found it hard enough to climb a flight of stairs with the extra weight I was carrying. So I can't even imagine hoisting myself up a climbing wall with an in-utero passenger aboard.
However, should you get the urge, pregnancy activewear company Mountain Mama will soon offer the first-ever maternity rock climbing harness, which is designed with straps around but not pressing on the belly, and less compression on your breasts, which can be sore during pregnancy.
Plus: Pregnant Woman Finishes Marathon, Gives Birth
Experienced rock climbers who want to continue the sport in pregnancy often turn to bouldering (climbing without a harness and ropes), says company founder Teresa Delfin, which is more dangerous than rope climbing. The harness is an attempt to make rock-climbing safer and more comfortable, and will hit the market some time in 2013 and retail for $120.
Generally, OB/GYNs say that you can continue with the same level of physical activity you were at before pregnancy, as long as you are still comfortable. However, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) says to avoid sports where there's a danger of falling.
Would you ever rock-climb while pregnant? How active were you while pregnant? Leave a comment.


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A Chinese industry supply chain source claims that HTC is looking to reduce the prices on its upcoming lineup of Android and Windows Phone 8 powered devices. HTC has struggled to keep up with Samsung and Apple and compete directly on features, and the company believes that reducing the price point of upcoming handsets may give the company a competitive edge which could help recapture market share and increase revenue.
It's not exactly clear if HTC will be doing anything on the hardware side to keep the cost of their phones down, but the source claims that HTC will be dropping Beats Audio technology from the mix. While HTC does own a 25 percent share of Beats Audio and has exclusive rights to use their technology in mobile devices, HTC is most likely paying a small licensing fee for every device with the technology enabled.
A more competitive HTC is something we would all like to see, as long as new devices don't skimp on build quality and internal components. We're not sure how much cheaper HTC phones will actually be once they arrive in stores, but consumers are always looking for the best value for their hard-earned dollar.
How much of a price cut will HTC need to offer to gain back some market share from Apple and Samsung?
Update: In an odd twist to this story, HTC has issued a statement regarding the rumor that Beats Audio support would be dropped from its upcoming lineup. While we're greatful that HTC's PR team has cleared the air, we're a little baffled why they would respond so quickly to this rumor while letting others run wild.
HTC remains strongly committed to Beats Audio and including their innovation in our devices. Any rumor of HTC no longer integrating Beats Audio into our devices is categorically false.HTC


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Jeff Trainer, one of the owners of Sands Bethlehem Event Center, has always loved movies and always loved zombies — long before, he says, the hit TV show "The Walking Dead."
Trainer even at one point had a Los Angeles screenwriter pen a script for him. But like characters in zombie movies, the movie died.
Now, also like the walking dead, Trainer's zombie movie has come back to life, stronger than ever.
"Zombie Killers: Elephant's Graveyard," a thriller starring "Titanic" alum Billy Zane, "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" star Dee Wallace and "The O.C." star Mischa Barton, was shot in the Poconos this summer and is set for...


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How to sound like Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood
Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood is a BAFTA and Grammy-nominated musician and composer-in-residence for the BBC, best known as a member of English alternative rock group Radiohead.
Greenwood is a multi-instrumentalist, but serves mainly as a guitarist and keyboard player. He is the younger brother of fellow Radiohead member Colin Greenwood. In addition to guitar and keyboard instruments he plays viola, xylophone, glockenspiel, ondes Martenot (see below) , banjo, harmonica and drums. He also does work on the electronic side of Radiohead, working on computer-generated sounds and sampling. He was ranked number 59 on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
Jonny playing a tele [sunburst] using a lace sensor at the neck and two sensors as a humbucker, with pedal board [from left to right [visible: yellow Boss SD-1, white Boss LS-2, red Digitech Whammy(original), note the arm brace
Here is jonny's Core Rig. Jonny tends to experiment with alot of other instuments and peices of sotware also. He has been quoted saying "he doesn't really care about the equipment he uses, and said he'd just as much like to be behind a keyboard than playing guitar. However its hard not to be impressed with the versatility of his rig.
Radiohead Pyramid Song Live
Electric Guitars
* Fender Telecaster Plus, with a custom cut-off switch and special rewirings made by Greenwood and Plank (Radiohead's Guitar Technician). This guitar is equipped with Lace Sensor pickups.
* Fender Telecaster Standard converted into a Plus which also has a custom cut-off switch and Lace Sensor pickups
* 1975 Fender Starcaster, with Fender Wide Range pickups, can be heard predominantly on Kid A and Amnesiac, it is used for most Kid A and Amnesiac he plays guitar on live, and a few songs from OK Computer.
* A Gretsch G6119-1962HT Tennessee Rose HT.
* Gibson Les Paul HD.6X-Pro Digital
* Gibson ES-335 (used on the acoustic Tour 2003)
After the release of The Bends, Jonny, went to a doctor because of pain in his arm. His aggressive playing style resulted in him wearing a brace on his arm. It has become a sort of trademark since. He says it doesn't bother him, "it's like taping your fingers before a boxing match".
Jonny currently uses Dean Markley Signature Series 10-46 strings.
Acoustic Guitars
* Martin D-35
* Taylor Big Baby (played by both Jonny Greenwood and Thom Yorke in pictures from Dead Air Space)
* Vox AC30 used for clean tones.
* Fender Eighty-Five , solid state amp, used for distorted tones.
In the earlier years he used a Fender Twin Reverb for clean tones. He recently replaced the Deluxe 85 with an Eighty-Five.
Current Effects Pedals
* Marshall ShredMaster
* Digitech WH-1 Whammy
* Demeter "The Tremulator", older version of the Demeter TRM-1 Tremulator
* DOD 440 Envelope Filter
* Electro-Harmonix Small Stone
* Electro-Harmonix Poly Chorus
* BOSS SD-1 Super Overdrive
* BOSS RV3 Digital Reverb/Delay
* BOSS FV-300H Volume Pedal
* BOSS TU-12H Chromatic Tuner
* BOSS LS2 Line Selectors (3)
* Roland Space Echo RE-201 (Activated via Vox Egg Footswitch) Long discontinued, the Space Echo 201 has been recreated by Boss, in the shape of a twin pedal, the RE-20 Space Echo, which even purists say sounds very close to the original! For Jonny Greenwood fans, an essential - and a new classic in its own right!
* Mutronics Mutator (Primarily for studio use)
* Akai Headrush E2
* BOSS RE-20 Space Echo
* Analogue Systems RS8000 Integrator
* Analogue Systems RS8500X
* Analogue Systems French Connection
* Ondes Martenot
* Sequential Circuits Prophet 5
* Korg Prophecy
* Hammond XB2 Digital Organ
* Moog Rogue
* Mellotron M400
* Rhodes Suitcase Piano Mark I 73
* Fatar Keys CMS-161
* Upright Piano
* Celeste
Try the Arturia Analog Experience Laboratory for a range of great synth sounds.
Keyboard Effects
* BOSS RV-3 Digital Reverb/Delay
* Electro-Harmonix Small Stone Phase Shifter
* BOSS LS-2 Line Selector
* Akai Headrush E1 or E2
* Jonny uses a portable radio, specifically during the songs "Climbing Up the Walls" and "The National Anthem"
* Laptop Computer running Max/MSP (Used to process his guitar sound, such as in the guitar solo at the end of "Go to Sleep". Also used to control electronic parts in live versions of songs such as "The Gloaming" and "15 Step")
* Korg Kaoss Pad (for sampling, such as Thom Yorke's voice in the song "Everything in Its Right Place")
* Harmonica (for the song "I Am A Wicked Child" and on the Pavement songs "Platform Blues" and "Billie" from their final album Terror Twilight)
* Glockenspiel (for "No Surprises", "Morning Bell/Amnesiac", "Sit Down. Stand Up" and "All I Need")
* Toms (he uses a pair of identical toms with two drum sticks for each hand. These are featured in "There There", where most members of the band play percussion)
* He has recently been spotted with a banjo. The band played a sound check on their recent tour where Greenwood played the banjo on Radiohead song "I Am A Wicked Child". Although other members of the band have said that banjos are "banned", and despite Jonny's constant attempts to include them with songs, they will not feature.
* Voodoo Labs Pedal Power units power all pedals.


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The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
(MALDEF) is a national Latino civil rights advocacy organization
dedicated to preserving and expanding civil rights in employment,
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LPGA Qualifying Tournament, Moriya Jutanugarn wins Stage 1 September 08 2012
Moriya Jutanugarn/ zimbio.com Moriya Jutanugarn of Thailand has won stage one of the LPGA qualifying Tournament by one shot on the Champions Course at LPGA International in Florida. She had to recover from a wet tee shot on the par 5, 18th hole to save her par, at the end of her final round. Moriya completed the tournament at -15 under-par, one shot better than Garrett Phillips, who finished at -14 under par and alone in second place. Moriya said she had been nervous all week; " Each time I played this week I was a little nervous, getting to the LPGA is my goal. I really want to get to that final stage. I play golf because I want to play on the LPGA. It will get harder and harder, the second stage will be harder and the last will be tough. Everyone has to work so hard, and I try to really put a lot of work into my game and hopefully it will let me reach my goal." Jaye Marie Green, was among the three players who tied for third at 10-under. Spain's Marta Silva and Chattanooga's Brooke Pancake were also at 10 under.


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Forever Altered
The St. Petersburg diocese has been mostly insulated
from the scandal enveloping the Catholic church. Until now. With
Father Bob scheduled for trial next week, the story emerges of a
diocese coming to terms with ugliness long avoided.
By STEPHEN NOHLGREN, Times Staff Writer
© St. Petersburg Times, published March 22,
They called him Father Bob, an amiable bear of a man
who never put on airs. With his scraggly beard and wayward shirttail,
no one ever mistook him for bishop material.
Older parishioners adored him. They say he was direct
and kind, you could talk to him.
Young men of the church describe a different Father
Bob, whose video games and outings exacted a terrible price. Lost
innocence still evokes shame and anger.
Allegations span two decades, at six churches, in
three counties. Boys in the rectory. Boys staying overnight. Chance
after chance for somebody, anybody, to blow the whistle.
Finally, it came down to a decades-old birthday spanking.
In April, a mother and father reported that Father Bob had taken
their son behind closed doors and paddled his bare bottom.
Such incidents raised nary an eyebrow back then. But
by last year, Catholics all over the country were challenging their
The era of trust was over. It was time to bring Father
Bob in for a chat.
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Robert Schaeufele goes on trial Tuesday, accused of capital sexual
battery of a minor. Thousands of Catholic priests have worked in
the Tampa Bay area and none ever faced a jury on such charges, which
speaks well for a diocese of 350,000 parishioners.
Yet these wounds run deep.
The diocese now knows of 22 men who say Schaeufele
molested them. How could this have gone on so long? Did church leaders
turn a blind eye? Or were they so unskilled and skittish about sex
that they just didn't look hard enough?
In places such as Louisville and Boston, lawsuits
and prosecutions have forced church leaders to expose their inner
workings. Not so in St. Petersburg. The church here remains mostly
This case breaches that.
Schaeufele's career began when people trusted their
priests without reservation. Church leaders rarely discussed sex
or, heaven forbid, questioned troubled children. Even the No. 2
man in the diocese could harbor abusive secrets of his own.
Schaeufele's downfall came as church leaders suspended
priests, offered counseling to victims and informed the faithful.
It has been a painful awakening.
In the rectory
Schaeufele, 55, was ordained in 1975 and assigned to St. Petersburg's
Cathedral of St. Jude. It wasn't until 27 years later that the church
hierarchy questioned him about inappropriate conduct with boys.
Chancellor Robert Gibbons took notes of their conversation.
Schaeufele (pronounced SHOY-flee) told Gibbons that
"a couple of things had happened" over the years. After
he had moved from St. Jude's to St. Vincent de Paul in Holiday,
the priest brought a 12-year-old from St. Jude's up for a visit
and fondled him.
"I was trying to show I cared for him. (He came)
from a terrible family."
At his third assignment, Epiphany of Venice, he fondled
a 15-year-old during an overnight visit. "I could see there
was a deep emptiness in the boy. I just didn't know how to fulfill
Such rationalizations are common, say therapists who
treat priest molesters. Many were abused as minors, their sexuality
stunted, and they turn to children for friendship.
An Epiphany boy, identified as John Doe in a 2002
lawsuit, says Father Bob lived in an apartment on school grounds.
Doe and other boys hung around after school, playing basketball
and the priest's Odyssey system, an early video game.
When he was 11 or 12, Doe says, Father Bob took him
and another boy to church property on the Myakka River. The priest
gave them beer, and they stripped to their underwear and went swimming.
Nobody touched anybody, says Doe, now in his 30s.
"I think he was testing us. He was seeing if we would drink
and tell something that was bad."
Doe kept mum about the Myakka trip. Before long, he
says, he found himself naked on Father Bob's bed, with the priest
trying to give him an enema. "He said, 'This will make you
feel better.' "
Barbara Zucco, Epiphany's youth director, says Father
Bob would volunteer for youth group activities, like saying Mass
during weekend sleep-overs at the church. "Not all priests
would spend that much time with teenagers."
She appreciated that, but not his immaturity. He once
ordered in pepperoni pizza on Good Friday, a no-no for Catholics
who didn't eat meat on that day. Kids threw pizza slices against
a bathroom wall.
"I wanted to pull my hair out," Zucco says.
"It was like I had another kid."
If anyone should have been attuned to Schaeufele,
it would have been Richard Allen, another priest who lived at Epiphany
while working off church grounds. Earlier in his career, Allen molested
an adolescent. Before going to Venice, he says, he studied mental
health at Loyola University in Chicago, where he got counseling
that helped him understand himself and prevent further problems.
Allen says Schaeufele constantly had boys in the Epiphany
rectory. "I yelled at him to get them out of there. I was losing
my stuff."
D'Angelo and McLoughlin
Former Bishop Thomas Larkin, in charge during Schaeufele's early
years, remembers no complaints. Schaeufele's personnel file was
run of the mill.
Little wonder. The church's handling of two other
cases suggests minimal insight into pedophilia, and a distaste for
In 1976, Father Rocco D'Angelo applied for formal
acceptance into the St. Petersburg diocese. Because he had transferred
from the Miami diocese eight years earlier, St. Petersburg asked
Miami for a background report.
The answer was grim: D'Angelo had molested four boys,
ages 9-15. Miami sent him to a Maryland treatment center, which
pronounced him cured. He was back doing parish work when parents
of his victims complained. Miami shipped him off to St. Petersburg.
After receiving Miami's letter, a St. Petersburg diocese
spokeswoman says, church leaders paid "special attention"
to D'Angelo's conduct. But that monitoring apparently was closely
guarded. Monsignor Laurence Higgins, a vicar general and chairman
of the personnel board in the early 1980s, says nobody clued him
"I never had any knowledge at all" about
D'Angelo's problems until 1996, Higgins says. That's when four more
men sued the diocese, saying D'Angelo molested them at Tampa's St.
Peter Claver and Good Shepherd parishes, where his conduct was being
Then there was Father Ed McLoughlin. He came to Venice
Epiphany just as Schaeufele was leaving. Church documents released
in a lawsuit show that McLoughlin quickly became "overly attached"
to a young parishioner.
The boy's sister said McLoughlin kept her brother
in the rectory overnight about once a week and once took him on
a long vacation.
In 1983, the diocese sent McLoughlin away for treatment
for depression and "inappropriate conduct with youngsters."
But no one from the church ever questioned the boy or his family,
his sister says.
Therapists said McLoughlin had trouble controlling
his sexual impulses and he needed to separate from the young parishioner.
Having been through treatment, the therapists said, McLoughlin could
teach high school.
Instead, the diocese transferred him to St. Charles
Borromeo in Port Charlotte, under the supervision of his brother,
pastor Nicholas McLoughlin. Nicholas put Ed in charge of the youth
What followed was a decade of complaints and suspicions.
One assistant priest at St. Charles said he complained
that Ed kept a boy overnight in the rectory, but Nicholas did nothing.
Another priest testified that priests at St. Charles commonly referred
to Ed McLoughlin as a pedophile.
In 1997, a former parishioner identified as J.S. filed
a lawsuit that accused a music director of molesting him. J.S. said
he confided in his priest, Ed McLoughlin, who spanked him and began
molesting him as well. J.S. won a $500,000 settlement from the Venice
diocese, which by then had split off from St. Petersburg.
Sheldon Stevens, the attorney who won the settlement,
notes that Vicar General J. Keith Symons was second in command when
decisions were made on D'Angelo, McLoughlin and Schaeufele. Symons
left in 1983 and became bishop in Palm Beach, where he later admitted
that he molested adolescents early in his career, including at least
two boys in the Tampa Bay area.
"That's why Symons could never really be tough
on it," Stevens says. "There were people who knew about
his background."
Chester Gillis, theology professor at Georgetown University,
says "a culture of denial" about sexuality hampered the
church's capacity to halt abuse. "The assumption was that the
priest did not have a sexual life."
The church is like a family, Gillis says. "There
are certain things families don't talk about. It's like enablers
in an alcoholic situation. Nobody says Dad is drinking too much."
Witness Father Esteban Soy. As parish priest, he supervised
Schaeufele and McLoughlin in Venice. Several people saw boys in
the rectory and the on-grounds apartment. Not Father Soy. In a deposition,
he swore he never saw any such thing.
Why did the diocese send his assistant, McLoughlin,
away for treatment? Soy said he did not know. No one told him, and
he never asked.
The Atari priest
Early in the 1980s, Schaeufele spent 18 months at Sacred Heart in
Pinellas Park. Nine men, now in their late 20s and 30s, accuse him
of molesting them there. A few remember fondling, but their anger
centers on dildos and enemas, which Father Bob called "cleansing."
They say he received as well as gave.
Abuse often occurred in the rectory, they say, where
Father Bob kept pornographic magazines and let them play Atari,
his latest video game set.
He took them ice skating, to Chuck E. Cheese's and
to Bally's, where racquetball was followed by showers and hot tubs.
For his generosity, they say, Father Bob wanted to paddle their
bare bottoms.
Former altar boy Brian Gruber recalls when Father
Bob taught him to scuba dive.
"He helped me take off my shorts and pulled down
my underwear. He commented that I was going to be a lady killer.
I was embarrassed, but he said, 'You don't have to be embarrassed
by the human body. It's something God gave you.' "
A few days after Gruber turned 12, he says, Father
Bob "told me to come over. He had a gift. He owed me birthday
When Gruber bent over the bed, he says, Father Bob
sodomized him with the handle of a hairbrush. Gruber remembers the
pain, then a trip to get an ice cream cone. "He was talking
about how this was our secret."
St. Petersburg attorney Joseph Saunders represents
12 of Schaeufele's accusers. One said Father Bob arranged a signal
after Sacred Heart's parish priest, Alexander Rinaldo, yelled at
him for bringing boys into the rectory.
"The boys would knock a code on the door,"
Saunders says. "(Schaeufele) would answer the door if he was
alone. If Rinaldo was there, he wouldn't."
Rinaldo has since died.
One accuser told Pinellas Park police that even the
confessional was tainted. Outside the booth was a nameplate, advising
which priest was inside. Schaeufele often would sit behind the wrong
nameplate. Boys troubled by their treatment in the rectory couldn't
unburden themselves in the confessional.
"I think Father Bob may have known that would
be one area that he could become exposed in," the man told
police. "We would always joke in the school: You never know
if you're going to get Father Bob in there. Well, I realize today
that he took our ability away to confess."
Why didn't the boys tell their parents, their teachers,
Some were just entering puberty, with only vague notions
that the overtures were wrong. They just wanted to play Atari and
go to Chuck E. Cheese's. They thought no one would believe them.
"You were always taught to trust in priests,"
says Chris McCafferty, another former altar boy who says Father
Bob gave him enemas. "Your uncle is a priest. Your aunt or
cousin is a nun. How can you tell somebody that?"
After Sacred Heart, Schaeufele moved to St. Rita's
in Pasco County, then Holy Cross in St. Petersburg, where a red
flag went up in 1994.
A young priest complained that Father Bob, the parish
pastor, had children in his room with no other adults present. Church
officials say the young priest alleged no wrongdoing -- just that
rectories were off-limits to lay people.
But sex clearly was on the hierarchy's mind.
"I am confident you did nothing immoral or illegal,
but this action was very imprudent and potentially dangerous for
your reputation, that of the other priests in the rectory, and all
of us," Monsignor John Neff, vicar for clergy, wrote to Schaeufele,
with copies to church leaders.
Again, no one in the church sought out the children
involved, nor their parents, to see what they might have to say.
"We had to assume nothing immoral or illegal
had happened," Neff said recently. "We certainly would
question more things now."
A cracked pot
St. Jude's, St. Vincent de Paul, Epiphany, Sacred Heart, St. Rita's,
Holy Cross -- hundreds of altar boys and dozens of fellow priests
passed through Schaeufele's orbit before the old birthday spanking
finally brought him to diocese headquarters.
By then, Bishop Robert N. Lynch was alert. More than
a dozen priests have been accused during his tenure. Though a few
were exonerated, Lynch says, many were burdened by their secrets
and confessed.
Schaeufele's interview with Chancellor Gibbons had
barely begun when the discussion shifted far beyond the birthday
spanking. Schaeufele revealed he had touched the 12-year-old from
St. Jude's and the 15-year-old from Epiphany.
"I've been praying over it," he said. "I
need to go for evaluation and treatment."
Lynch suspended him and distributed a letter to his
former parishes, inviting other victims to come forward.
Schaeufele had just left Holy Cross after 10 years
as pastor. The current pastor, Tom Anastasia, says parishioners
were heartsick.
"All the good things that Father Bob did when
he was here are not eliminated because of this sickness, or whatever
you call it," Anastasia says. "But people felt betrayed.
When you trust someone, and that person serves you, and you find
out later about a dark side, the stars are knocked out of your eyes."
Lynch visited the church soon after he suspended the
"One lady was crying," Anastasia said. "The
bishop was so good. He said, 'I'm very happy you have good memories
of Father Bob. Treasure them. Pray for him. But also remember there
are people out there who don't have good memories. Remember to pray
for them, too.' "
McCafferty, the former altar boy, says Father Bob's
downfall is no happy ending. It "made me remember things I
never wanted to remember again in my life. I cut those things out,
now it is coming back. These aren't things I want to remember."
Schaeufele has pleaded not guilty to five counts of
capital sexual battery on four boys who were under 12 at the time.
Tuesday's trial involves a 28-year-old who belonged to the Sacred
Heart youth group, run by Father Bob. The man says he was 10 when
the priest sodomized him with his thumb and made him bleed.
In a letter to the Times from jail, Schaeufele says
he first heard callings from God in the second or third grade and
entered seminary after high school.
"I wanted to be a servant for the Lord,"
he says. "That was, and still is, my goal in life."
He recounted a fable he says "may help to understand
me a little." A servant carried two water pots every day from
a well to his master's house. Water leaked from a crack in one of
the pots. That pot tried to apologize to the servant.
"The water-bearer showed the clay pot how he
used the pot's crack to water the flowers on one side of the path
and thereby provide flowers for the master's table."
Schaeufele says he has comforted people in death and
sickness, fed the hungry, ministered in jail and counseled women
who had abortions.
"God is still using me and I am still learning
how to listen to him and trust him," he says. "I still
want to be an instrument for his use."
At the Pinellas County Jail, he is allowed one visitor
a day. Richard Yentzer, a Holy Cross parishioner, tries to go once
a week. Schaeufele "is human," Yentzer says. "Whereas
some of the priests seem more like watchdogs, he was a shepherd."
Schaeufele, 6-feet-3 and 380 pounds at his arrest,
has lost 100 pounds and trimmed his beard. Women from Holy Cross
have measured him so they can get him a new suit for trial.
He is kept in solitary, says Yentzer. Two or three
times a week, he plays basketball by himself on the jail court.
"He said, 'This is my monastery. I'm content
with that.' "
When people address him as Father Bob, Schaeufele
cautions them to stop. Church policy forbids him from holding himself
out as a priest.
-- Researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.
-- Stephen Nohlgren can be reached at 727-893-8442
or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Classic Blueberry Cobbler
**Quick Announcement: After many requests, I've finally conceded and created a Facebook page for Mel's Kitchen Cafe. I'm a leeetle behind the times when it comes to Facebook (personally and food blog related) but hopefully this will be a way for those connected on Facebook (and who don't use a RSS reader program) to see updates when new recipes are posted here. I'll also be posting other photos there and using it as an informal, personal way to talk food. Over to the right there is a handy-dandy Facebook button (blue circle) that will take you to The Page. Here's to becoming part of the 21st century! (Um, who would like to volunteer to provide me with unlimited Facebook technical support…anyone? anyone?)
Now on to the recipe for today…
This cobbler is so good, it's unreal. Unreal, I tell you!
Until now, I had yet to actually make a cobbler with real, live homemade biscuits. Cobblers have been lacking from our dessert repertoire, to say the least. Now, however, I am questioning why on earth I waited so long to attempt the real thing?
There's no intense cobbler science here – if you can stir wet ingredients into dry ingredients and handle a blueberry or two, this impressive, beyond delicious dessert is for you!
Tender, sweet, cornmeal biscuits top a thick, syrupy filling loaded with plump blueberries. The beautifully textured biscuits (thanks to the slightly crunchy cornmeal) pair perfectly with the sweet blueberry filling that has just a hint of cinnamon and lemon zest.
The culmination of the warm cobbler served with a scoop of melty, creamy vanilla ice cream means cobbler is definitely here to stay (I have to make up for lost time and all!).
P.S. I've been updating some recipes in the archives with new pictures/recipe details. Cilantro Lime Rice, Skillet Chicken Pasta with Broccoli and Sun-Dried Tomatoes, and Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies. Love ya!
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Three Years Ago: Cream Cheese Chicken and Vegetable Soup – Reposted
Classic Blueberry Cobbler
Blueberry Filling:
- 1/2 cup (3 1/2 ounces) sugar
- 1 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch
- Pinch ground cinnamon
- Pinch table salt
- 48 ounces (about 6 cups) frozen blueberries, thawed in the bag (or use 6 cups fresh blueberries)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons grated zest plus 1 tablespoon juice from 1 lemon
Biscuit Topping:
- 1 cup (5 ounces) all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup (1 3/4 ounces) plus 2 teaspoons granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons yellow cornmeal
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon table salt
- 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) butter, melted
- 1/3 cup buttermilk
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees, making sure an oven rack is placed in the center of the oven.
- If using frozen blueberries, drain the thawed blueberries in a colander set over a bowl to catch the juice. Pour the reserved juice (about 1/2 cup) into a small saucepan and simmer over medium heat. Cook the juice until it has slightly thickened, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat and let it cool slightly.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the ingredients for the filling: the sugar, cornstarch, cinnamon, and salt. Add the berries (fresh blueberries or the drained frozen berries) and the simmered syrup (if using the frozen berries) and mix gently with a rubber spatula until the berries are evenly coated. Mix in the lemon zest and juice. Transfer the berry mixture to a 9-inch glass pie plate (or a glass baking dish of equivalent size, like a 9-inch square pan) and place the baking dish on a rimmed baking sheet that has been lined with foil. Bake the filling until it is hot and bubbling, about 25 minutes.
- While the filling cooks, in a large bowl whisk together the flour, 1/4 cup of the sugar, the cornmeal, baking powder, baking soda and salt. In a small bowl, whisk together the melted butter, buttermilk and vanilla. In a second small bowl (I know, I know! I wish I could be there to wash your dishes for you), mix the remaining 2 teaspoons sugar and cinnamon. Right before the berries come out of the oven, add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir with a rubber spatula until just combined (don't overmix!) and there are no dry pockets.
- Remove the berries from the oven and increase the oven temperature to 400 degrees. Portion the biscuit dough into 8 equal pieces and gently place the biscuits on top of the hot filling, evenly spacing them to about 1/2-inch apart. They shouldn't be touching. Sprinkle each mount of biscuit dough evenly with the cinnamon and sugar. Bake the cobbler until the filling is bubbling again and the biscuits are golden brown on top and cooked through, about 14-16 minutes.
- Remove the cobbler from the oven and let it rest/cool for 20 minutes before serving. Serve with vanilla ice cream or lightly sweetened whipped cream.
If using frozen blueberries, make sure to thaw them in the bag ahead of time. You will drain them, reserving the juice, while following the recipe. Also, you can prepare the biscuit topping while the filling cooks – although make sure not to stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until just before the berries come out of the oven.
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School Drink Vending Packages Have a Whole New Look
Aseptic processing and packaging helps milk replace soda in vending machines ... and is getting a lot of interest from other applications.
Diverse trends, ranging from on-the-go consumption to healthy eating to rising distribution costs, are making waves in aseptic packaging. With more types of products being filled into aseptic packs, and with a greater variety of aseptic package types available, processors that might not have considered aseptic in the past are diving in.
Much of the recent action has been in low-acid products, particularly milk-based offerings, and at the other end of the spectrum, in wine.
The emphasis on healthier dietary choices for children and teenagers is certainly reshaping the market for aseptic milk-based products. In particular, the American Beverage Assn. (ABA) and the Alliance for a Healthier Generation last year published new School Beverage Guidelines designed to provide America's 35 million students with a range of nutritious, lower-calorie, smaller-portion beverage choices. The guidelines ask elementary and middle schools to provide only bottled water, low-fat/non-fat milk (regular and flavored) and 100 percent juice. In addition to those products, high schools may sell no- or low-calorie beverages, light juice and sports drinks.
Bravo Foods' Slammers, HDPE bottles filled with flavored fat-free milks, fit the same vending machine slots formerly occupied by 12-oz. soft drink cans.
The guidelines apply to all beverages sold at school during the regular and extended school day. They build on the beverage industry's health-oriented school vending policy and provide a golden opportunity for milk-based beverages.
The guidelines don't prescribe aseptic packaging, but this type of packaging is appealing to schools for reasons that include food safety and ease of storage. Because aseptically filled milk-based products are shelf stable for up to a year, they can be stored on the cafeteria's kitchen shelves until it's time to chill them for serving.
Aseptic packaging is desirable for school vending machines, as well. "Most schools maintain vending machines that store drinks that include milk products," says Balaji Capaloor, industry manager in the chemicals, materials and food group of market research and consulting firm Frost & Sullivan (www.frost.com), Palo Alto, Calif. "Unfortunately, this is very dangerous as the [traditionally packaged] milk may deteriorate during a power failure and ultimately affect the children. Therefore, it is much safer to utilize aseptically packaged drinks." He adds that the storage and safety aspects of aseptic packages "are fueling the growth of the market."
Vendible aseptic bottles
This past September, Bravo! Foods International Corp. (www.bravobrands.com), North Palm Beach, Fla., debuted its Slammers milk-based drinks in an aseptic packaging format to help schools meet the new ABA guidelines. All Bravo! products are aseptically filled into single-serve plastic bottles.
The Slammers school package is an 8-oz., snowman-shaped, high-density polyethylene (HDPE) bottle filled with fat-free milk in assorted flavors: 3 Musketeers, Cocoa Puffs and Trix Slammers, and Pro Slammers in Vanilla Rush, Hard Chocolate and Scorchin' Strawberry.
The 8-oz. Slammers are distributed by Coca-Cola Enterprises and can fill vending machine slots traditionally occupied by 12-oz. soft drink cans. Because the products require no refrigeration, they can be distributed on ambient-temperature Coca-Cola trucks.
"We've completed the reformulation of all our products that go into schools to be ABA-compliant," says Ben Patipa, Bravo's chief operating officer. "The 8-oz. [Slammers] package is the first plastic, aseptic, vendible bottle in the marketplace. It can repatriate all those dormant vending machines" in schools.
He adds that Bravo! will launch a milk-based, aseptically filled product for distribution in high schools in time for the 2007-2008 school year. That package will be a 12-oz. HDPE bottle.
Bravo! also distributes its single-serve aseptic products to the various channels of trade serving on-the-go consumers, such as delicatessens, convenience stores and supermarket chains.
As a U.S. pioneer in aseptic filling of low-acid products, Bravo! has contracted with H.P. Hood LLC (www.hphood.com), Chelsea, Mass., a dairy operator that fills and markets its own brands and also acts as a co-packer. The first of the Slammers bottles filled by Hood were to appear on store shelves in February. The dairy's annual production on behalf of Bravo! is expected to be 70 million bottles.
In 2005, H.P. Hood became the first U.S. plant to receive a Letter of Non-Objection (LONO) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to bottle low-acid beverages aseptically on a rotary filler. The dairy uses a high-speed filler from Shibuya International (www.shibuya-int.com), Modesto, Calif.
A low-acid 'tsunami'
More processors and co-packers are angling to get a LONO from the FDA so they too can use rotary aseptic equipment for low-acid filling. Line speeds, and therefore packaging economies, are much greater with rotary fillers than with in-line machines.
A note to marketing
Marketing splash was instrumental in the choice of a recloseable aseptic carton for Nestea products in Germany. For the products, The Coca-Cola Co. (www.thecoca-colacompany.com), Atlanta, chose the combifitMagnum carton from SIG Combibloc Inc. (www.sig.biz), with U.S. offices in Chester, Pa.
The carton's billboard potential, with four large display surfaces, was one of the main reasons the company switched from PET bottles to the carton pack. The 1.5-liter carton is used for the lemon, peach and forest berries flavors of Nestea and for a seasonal product, Nestea Snowy Orange. The carton also incorporates a screw cap.
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I believe that the function of education is to provide an opportunity for the potential of each student to be discovered and developed. The function of an institution of learning is to provide a stimulating and supportive environment for personal growth while promoting the highest standards of individual and professional conduct. As a teacher, I believe it is my responsibility to identify, develop and nurture the innate talents of each of my students. Ultimately, what I hope to impart is a love for the subject, a passion for learning, and an awareness of the societal responsibilities that accompany creative work.
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- Principal, Mark Brus Architect, Arlington, MA
- 2012: Dimensions of Light, Exhibition & Gallery Talk, School of Art & Design at Suffolk University
- 2011: Sabbatical research trip to France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Germany to study examples of architectural daylighting.
- 2011: Archival research at Barragan Foundation, Birsfelden, Germany and Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris, France.
- 2010: Instruments of Creation, Exhibition & Gallery Talk, School of Art & Design at Suffolk University
- 2009: Residential design for Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman and Robin Wells published in Design New Jersey, June/July issue.
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The best of both worlds?
Plus points
Call quality is fine once you're connected but it's a frustrating wait for the keypad to appear and for the 'end call' option to materialise once you've finished. Movies look small on its display, quite literally, since the option to stretch them doesn't necessarily allow them to fill the screen, so you still get the intrusive letterbox bars at top and bottom. Some prefer to know that bits haven't been cropped from view, but on a smallish screen like this, displaying the full Monty can be a bit of an eyestrain.
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Quickoffice is here, allowing you to create and view Word, Excel and PowerPoint docs, and there's 4GB of memory on board, which would have seemed generous, except the original Pro had 8GB, though you can add up to 32GB with a microSD card. The 1550mAh battery held up fairly well, at least with the auto brightness activated, delivering a bit more than a day and a half of fairly heavy use.
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Chicago, IL – Jimmy Butler scored 19 points and Nate Robinson added 15 points, as the Chicago Bulls beat the Charlotte Bobcats, 93-85, on Monday at United Center.
Joakim Noah scored 13 points, pulled down 18 rebounds, dished out seven assists and blocked five shots, while Carlos Boozer chipped in with 13 points for the Bulls, winners in four of their last five games.
"I think that we have been playing good basketball, but we have to keep improving," Noah said. "We have a good mindset right now. Charlotte is a team with a lot of talent so you have to come ready to play."
Luol Deng, who had missed the last five games with a hamstring injury, added 12 points in the triumph.
Kemba Walker and Ben Gordon each scored 18 points and Jeff Adrien added 14 points and 10 rebounds for the Bobcats, who have dropped nine of their last 11 games.
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A pair of Ramon Sessions free throws with just under two minutes left brought the Bobcats within 86-80, but they never came closer the rest of the way.
Game Notes
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Hair show.
"Make some noise for Halle Berry in The Call!" yelled last night's male radio personality at the promotional screening I attended. Halle Berry wasn't in the room, obviously, so the few people who obeyed him were making some noise about the idea of Halle Berry, which is good enough for a multiplex inside a shopping mall on a Wednesday night, I guess.
The radio guy's female co-host joined in, changing the tone a little with a clever, "Who loves Halle Berry's hair in this movie?!" No response from the crowd. And it's probably not because people hate Berry's choice of extremely strange wig to play a 911 operator, a double clump of curls on top tapering down to a wedge in back, forming a sort of heart-shaped weirdness mop. It's because they just mentally erased it from their field of vision and it doesn't exist. This was the wig that won what was almost certainly a very long hair screen test and it was designed to make the flabbergastingly beautiful Berry seem more everyday, more like the average bad-hair-having audience member instead of like a movie star who's accidentally found herself working a regular job answering 911 calls. But it's no use. As a device it fails. You can't unshine the sun.
The wig matters, too, symbolically, because it represents at least some sort of stab at reality on the part of the filmmakers. But it's a stab with a cardboard knife, as almost nothing else happening here is going to allow genuine human responses, much less the logical protocols of real-life first responders, to get in the way of the film's suspense-building strategy. A young girl (Abigail Breslin) is kidnapped and marked for death by a serial killer (Michael Eklund) and Berry has to talk her through it as the terrified victim is locked in a car trunk, speaking on a pre-paid, untraceable cell phone. Through a series of missed opportunities to save herself -- the kind that inspire audiences to yell at the screen -- Breslin is suitably frightened and squirmy, hysterically sure of her own imminent demise and able to the convince viewers she's in real danger. The movie works with her paralyzed fear and Berry, too, gives more of herself than the story really demands. For the most part a firm grip holds the action tightly together as she tries to track the killer.
And then off the rails it flies in a final act that throws everything these characters should know out the window, grabbing at chunks of Silence of the Lambs, Taken, I Spit on Your Grave and anything else it can get its suddenly-dumb little hands on. Tension turns to incredulous giggling and closeup shots suggesting torture turn it trashy (unless, you know, seeing the kid from Little Miss Sunshine on a chop-and-rape table with her blouse ripped off is your idea of fun). All prior notions of reason or good sense are dispensed with so that Berry can turn calm, heroic words into vengeful deeds. The wig, previously only marginally reliable as a keeping-it-semi-real signifier, unravels fully, both figuratively and literally, when the star experiences an abrupt, head-first dunking. Full on goofiness is all that's left after that. It's enough to make you wish this action hero would just change into her Oscar night ball gown to finish the job.
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Pros: Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive standard; named IIHS Top Safety Pick
Cons: Small rear seat; lagging audio and communication technology; poor fuel economy; bland styling
In the universe of seven-passenger vans and SUVs, the 2012 Subaru Tribeca is a bit of a mystery. Its outward appearance is more minivan than rugged SUV, yet it doesn't have the convenience of sliding side doors. Its third-row seat seems like an afterthought, crammed into the vehicle where it is difficult to access, doesn't provide much legroom and basically eats up the entire cargo bay. Despite these shortcomings, the Tribeca still sells, although not in great numbers, mainly to Subaru loyalists looking for something that can better accommodate their growing families.
Like all Subaru products, the Tribeca is equipped with Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive, a big selling point for those who regularly cope with winter's worst. There is plenty of room for adults in the front- and second-row seats, and the cabin is filled with nice amenities, such as rear seat A/C and an available DVD entertainment system. The Tribeca also rides and handles better than most of its competitors, chiefly because of its low-sitting boxer engine that helps reduce its high center of gravity.
Still, we wonder what would compel us to purchase a Tribeca over something like a GMC Acadia or a Toyota Highlander? It's certainly not the styling or the fuel economy, or even the price.
Comfort & Utility
Five people can fit comfortably into the Tribeca, but to squeeze in seven requires the added two persons to be either very small or very limber. The Tribeca's third-row seat is a cramped affair and not terribly comfortable or supportive. Fold it down, and you have much more usable space for luggage or groceries. You'll likely find the front seats comfortable. Lumbar support and heating elements are standard for both driver and passenger. The Tribeca's second row features a 40/20/40 folding seat and reclining backrest, while the 60/40 seat cushions have eight inches of fore and aft travel. There is also a fold and tumble feature to help make accessing the third row a bit easier.
We like the look of the Tribeca's curvaceous dash but find that some of the buttons and knobs are difficult for the driver to see at a glance. The culprit is a curving center console that makes it impossible to create a flat surface for the various controls. We also found that some of the LCD readouts would wash out when viewed through polarized sunglasses.
Although the Tribeca seems sufficiently wide from the outside, the opening at the rear hatch is rather narrow, particularly near the bottom half, making it more challenging to load in large or bulky items.
Although you won't find anything like Ford's SYNC communication system in the Tribeca, Subaru's largest vehicle still delivers a number of the cool electronic features that many modern drivers can't seem to do without. Bluetooth is standard on the Limited and Touring trims, and a navigation package with rear-vision camera is optional. You can also get a rear-vision camera with its monitor built into the rear-view mirror (standard on the Tribeca Touring) when ordering the Limited's moonroof package. We don't understand why something as important as a backup camera isn't standard or a least offered as a standalone option on every model, but Subaru feels compelled to bundle it with the pricey moonroof package, so that's the only way customers can get it.
We aren't big fans of Subaru's navigation unit. The system isn't very intuitive, and its map storage and feature content are somewhat dated. The Limited's 385-watt Harman Kardon audio system is a vast improvement over the Premium's 100-watt radio, but it still lacks a USB hookup for control of an iPod or other portable music device, although there is an AUX input jack.
Performance & Fuel Economy
No matter whether you choose the Premium, Limited or Touring version, your Tribeca will be powered by the same 3.6-liter 6-cylinder boxer engine. With 256 horsepower and 247 lb-ft of torque, the Tribeca has more than enough power to manage quick sprints up an on ramp or to rapidly overtake slower moving traffic. Fuel economy will likely suffer as you lead-foot it around town, since the Tribeca can only manage a mere 16 mpg city/21 mpg highway, and that's under ideal driving situations. While you may not be happy with the Tribeca's thirst for fuel, at least it happily runs on the cheap 87 octane stuff.
Power from the 3.6-liter engine is distributed evenly to all four wheels via Subaru's Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive with Variable Torque Distribution (VTD), which delivers power to the wheels with the best traction.
The Tribeca garnered a Top Safety Pick award from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. It scored well in the institute's frontal offset, side impact and roof strength testing. Standard airbags include side thorax front seat airbags and side curtain airbags. Oddly, the side curtain airbags do not fully extend to the third-row passenger area, a pretty big "oops" in our book.
Other standard safety equipment includes electronic traction and electronic stability control, which Subaru dubs VDC (Vehicle Dynamic Control). Stability control monitors the direction a vehicle is heading. Should the car begin to skid out of control, the system selectively applies the brakes while cutting the throttle to bring the car back in line.
Driving Impressions
Despite its nearly 8.5 inches of ground clearance, the Tribeca is remarkably stable and well balanced. The steering feels tight with good feedback, and the Tribeca tracks straight and true at highway speeds. Under normal driving conditions, the VDC distributes more torque to the rear wheels, which helps improve cornering when the Tribeca accelerates out of a curve. The Tribeca's five-speed Sportshift automatic transmission does a good job of finding and holding the right gear. For those so inclined, the Sportshift can be manually shifted by tapping the gearshift. This feature comes in quite handy when you need extra passing power, or to use engine braking to slow the vehicle during a steep descent.
Other Cars to Consider
GMC Acadia - The Acadia is larger than the Tribeca both inside and out, and its third-row seat has more room both in front of it and behind it. But the Tribeca's AWD system is more advanced than the Acadia's, and it holds its value a bit better.
Ford Explorer - The Explorer offers a selectable AWD system that is every bit the Tribeca's equal, plus it offers better styling, more advanced audio and communication systems, better fuel economy and more engine choices.
Dodge Durango - The Durango is more accommodating than the Tribeca and offers the option of a V8 engine, higher tow ratings and airbag protection for all three rows (as do also the Ford Explorer and GMC Acadia).
AutoTrader Recommends
Even though the base Tribeca Premium starts at just over $30,000, we can't say you'd be getting much of deal by going that route. For only $2,500 more, we'd go for the Limited. It offers the most features for the money and can be additionally equipped with navigation and a power moonroof. The Limited also offers more color choices than the Premium, which is limited to just two paint colors.


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* Q2 net profit at 16.11 bln rupees vs 15.37 bln estimates
* Sees Q3 IT services sales growing 1.3-3.2 percent from Q2
* Shares rise as much as 3.2 pct, extend Thursday's gain (Adds CEO and analyst comments, share movement)
By Harichandan Arakali
BANGALORE, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Wipro Ltd, India's No. 3 software services provider, topped quarterly profit estimates and forecast modest growth, sending its shares up more than 3 percent and easing fears that global economic woes will curb outsourcing spending.
India's $100 billion IT services sector has seen a sharp slowdown in growth in recent quarters as western clients hold back on spending amid Europe's economic struggles and sluggish corporate earnings growth in the United States.
Wipro, which has invested in sales and marketing to boost orders, posted better-than-expected margins and its revenue forecast for the current quarter met market estimates, a relief to investors worried that its growth has lagged rivals in recent quarters.
"Growth is slightly subdued in comparison with peers, but they are taking all the steps in the right directions," said ICICI Securities analyst Kuldeep Koul, who has an "add" rating on the stock.
Profit for the three months ended September rose 24 percent to 16.11 billion rupees ($286 million) from 13.01 billion rupees in the year-ago period, well above analysts' estimates of 15.37 billion rupees, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
The company forecast IT services revenue for the three months ending December would rise 1.3-3.2 percent from the September quarter to $1.56-$1.59 billion, in line with analysts' expectations of 1 to 4 percent growth.
Operating margins at its IT services business fell by a smaller-than-expected 30 basis points to 20.7 percent from the previous quarter.
"Margins coming down by not even 100 basis points is definitely a positive," said Ankita Somani, an analyst with Angel Broking in Mumbai. She had expected operating margins of 19.3 percent due to wage hikes in June.
For a graphic on Wipro results, click: link.reuters.com/bek73t
Shares in Wipro, which has a market value of $16.5 billion, rose as much as 3.2 percent after the earnings announcement, before paring gains to trade up 1.0 percent. The benchmark Mumbai market index was up 0.8 percent.
The result follows a move early last year by the company's billionaire chairman Azim Premji to replace the two co-CEOs of its IT business with another company veteran, T.K. Kurien.
"We expect the second half to be better in terms of growth rate, we are already seeing some momentum," Chief Financial Officer Suresh Senapaty said.
Total revenue for July-September rose 17 percent on a year earlier to 106.57 billion rupees, while Wipro added 53 clients for its IT services during its fiscal second quarter.
"I think the pipeline has remained more or less the same. It has gone up a bit, but what we're hoping for is that after the (U.S.) elections, closures (of deals or orders) will start," Kurien told reporters.
India's IT sector index has lagged the broader market this year but has rallied more than 12 percent since a July low as investors became more optimistic for stability in the global economic environment.
India's outsourcing sector generates more than 90 percent of its sales from providing services, including setting up IT networks and developing software applications, for overseas clients and counts the United States and Europe as its biggest markets.
Wipro said on Thursday it will fold all its non-IT services including consumer care and medical diagnostics into a new firm to focus on outsourcing, which accounted for 86 percent of its revenue in the fiscal year that ended in March.
The move was seen as an effort to boost growth amid cutthroat competition from local rivals Infosys Ltd and Tata Consultancy Services as well as global majors such as IBM and Accenture.
Last month, India's top IT services company Tata Consultancy and fourth-ranked HCL Technologies beat expectations for their second-quarter earnings, while No. 2 player Infosys posted profit that was in line with forecasts. ($1 = 53.7600 Indian rupees) (Reporting By Harichandan Arakali; Additional reporting by Sumeet Chatterjee; Writing by Aradhana Aravindan; Editing by Richard Pullin)


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Appeal court won't unblock Florida gay marriage
MIAMI (AP) — Gay couples in the Florida Keys remain unable to legally marry after a state appeals court declined to intervene in their case.
The Miami-based 3rd District Court of Appeal refused to invalidate a Monroe County judge's decision temporarily preventing a wedding for Aaron Huntsman and William Lee Jones and other gay couples.
Circuit Judge Luis Garcia last week ruled that Florida's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional because it discriminates against gay couples and violates the federal 14th Amendment's guarantee of due process and equal protection under the law. Garcia's initial order said marriage licenses could be issued to gays in Monroe County beginning Tuesday.
Attorney General Pam Bondi immediately filed notice of appeal, triggering an automatic stay that prevents any gay marriages until a potentially months-long appeals process is sorted out. Garcia on Monday declined to lift the stay because of the state's appeal, leading to Wednesday's action by the gay couple's lawyers.
The appeals court issued a one-sentence ruling that keeps the stay in place.
Bernadette Restivo, attorney for Huntsman and Jones, said she will file a motion soon asking the 3rd District Court of Appeal to certify the overall same-sex case as one of great public importance and allow it to go directly to the Florida Supreme Court for a ruling that would affect the entire state rather than just Monroe County.
"We're not going to let the opposition dictate the pace. They could drag it out for months," Restivo said. "We're doing everything we can to move it along."
No wedding date for Huntsman and Jones had been scheduled.
Voters added the same-sex marriage ban to Florida's constitution is 2008, defining marriage only as a union between one man and one woman. Legal challenges to the amendment are also pending in Miami-Dade County and in federal court in Tallahassee, and supporters of gay marriage have won more than 20 legal decisions around the country in similar cases during the past year.
Currently, 19 states and the District of Columbia permit gay marriages. The remaining state bans are all under legal challenge.
Bondi said in appealing the Monroe County ruling that the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately will decide the gay marriage question for states with bans such as Florida.
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Hi, posted below is a revised use case for creating and governing JBOSS ESB based web service (EBWS). What I have to confess is that I do not have a lot experiences on using JBOSS products to develop real projects in a real production environment. The use case I posted below can be very wrong. That is reason why I asked for everyone's input. These use cases will be served as a PRD to decide what features we want to include for our first release of SOA Repo. So please, your comments and suggestions will be highly appreciated.
Use Case : Creating And Governing JBOSS ESB Based Web Service (EBWS)
Step 1: Creating a service.
Repository Explorer -> Services -> Create New Service -> Add JBOSS ESB based Web Services
For version 1, we provide options of creating following service types:
a. SOAP service(=EBWS)
b. JBOSS ESB service
c. Generic service.
In this use case, we create a JBOSS ESB based Web Service(EBWS) named AirlineBookingService.
Step 2: Viewing and editing the service from Service Editor.
Once the service is created successfully, double click the AirlineBookingService icon from Repository Explorer -> Services -> AirlineBookingService. This will bring out a service editor for AirlineBookingService. The service editor is consisted with following sections:
a. "Artifact Summary" section
b. "Artifact MetaData" section
c. "Artifact LifeCycle" section
d. "Artifact Dependencies" section.
e. "WhatDependsOnMe" section.
f. "Comments" section.
g. "History" section.
At the very top of Service editor is the "Artifact Summary" section, it contains information as below:
a. The feed: The feed icon provides an Atom/Pub subscription to this artifact's version tree.
b. Description: click the "edit" icon, you will be able to edit the description field.
c. Type: For this use case, the type is JBWS.
d. Version: Every change to the artifact will make a new version.
e. Perm link: This link is a permanent link to this particular version of service. For example, a Perm link to version 3 of test.wsdl is "http://localhost:8080/guvnor-web/repository/jbossesb/test.wsdl?version=3". A Perm link to the latest version of test.wsdl is "http://localhost:8080/guvnor-web/repository/jbossesb/test.wsdl". Clicking the Perm link will download the actual artifact (through HTTP Get, served by Atom/Pub server).
f. "New Version" button: Clicking the "New version" button will bring up a wizard to upload a new version of artifact.
g. "Delete" button: Clicking the "delete" button will delete the current version of artifact from the version history tree.
NOTE: The downloading function (Perm link) and New version function can only apply to these artifacts that have concrete representation formats, for example a xsd file or .esb file. Not sure what should return if a user click the Perm link of AirlineBookingService as its just a container or holder, there is nothing concrete to download.
Step 3: Add artifacts that the service may depend on – Add XSDs
Repository Explorer -> Schemas -> Create New Schema -> Add New XSD
In this use case, we upload three XSD files called AirlineBookingInMessage.xsd, AirlineBookingOutMessage.xsd and AirlineBookingFaultMessage.xsd.
Step 4: Add artifacts that the service may depend on – Add WSDL file
Repository Explorer -> Contract -> Create New Contract -> Add New WSDL
When a JBOSS ESB based Web Service gets deployed, a WSDL file is generated. Save the WSDL file on local disk (name this file AirlineBookingService .wsdl) then upload AirlineBookingService .wsdl into the repository.
NOTE. For known artifact types, we can extract metadata automatically during the uploading process. For example, when AirlineBookingService .wsdl gets added into repository, its port name, service name, port type etc will be extracted from the WSDL file and added as metadata automatically.
Step 5: Add artifacts that the service may depend on – Add a document.
Repository Explorer -> Document -> Create New Document -> Add New Document
User can attach a document to the service at any stage.
In this use case, we upload a Word file called AirlineBookingMessagePRD.odt.
Step 6: Add artifacts that the service may depend on – Add arbitrary files.
Repository Explorer -> Generic artifacts -> Create New Artifact -> Add New Artifact
User can add any arbitrary type files into the repository.
Step 7: Add dependencies.
7.1 Add AirlineBookingInMessage.xsd as AirlineBookingService's dependency: Open AirlineBookingMessage.xsd editor, copy the URL from perm link. Open AirlineBookingService editor, add a new dependency whose URL is the perm link of AirlineBookingMessage.xsd
7.2 Add AirlineBookingService .wsdl as dependency
7.3. Add AirlineBookingMessagePRD.odt as dependency
Step 8: Add MetaData
8.1 From Repository Explorer -> Administration -> MetaData Types, add a new Metadata type called ReleaseForVersion whose type is metadata_type_multi_value.
8.2 From Repository Explorer -> Services -> AirlineBookingService, add a new metadata type named ReleaseForVersion which we created in step 8.1 to AirlineBookingService.
8.3 Edit the value of ReleaseForVersion metadata from AirlineBookingService Service editor.
Step 9: Manage the lifecycle.
9.1 From Repository Explorer -> Administration -> Life Cycles, add a new lifecycle type called MyLifeCycle. MyLifeCycle will have three phases: "ServiceOrientiedDesign; ServiceOrientiedTest; ServiceOrientiedProduction"
9.2 From AirlineBookingService service editor, choose the lifecycle type MyLifeCycle which we created in step 9.1 as the lifecycle type for AirlineBookingService.
9.3 Move the lifecycle phase forward from ServiceOrientiedDesign to ServiceOrientiedTest.
Step 10: Add a comment
The comments section is a JIRA comment like area.
Step 11: Versioning/History
Evey change to AirlineBookingService will make a new version on its version tree. This History section lists all available version names, checkin comments and the link for this specific version. Click the version link, will bring out a service editor for that specific version (though all the information on that service editor will be read only)
Step 12: Search/Query
Step 13: Atom/Pub support.
REST support has been built into the core of SOA Repository. For every feature that is available from GWT GUI, it is also available from Atom/Pub and JAX-RS (JSR-311) interface. For example, the perm Link on Service editor ( eg, http://localhost:8080/guvnor-web/repository/jbossesb/test.wsdl?version=3)
is actually served by the atom/pub server over Http transport instead of using GWT RPC.
Step 14: Deploy AirlineBookingService to a testing or production environment.
SOA Repository does not provide any tools or helps to actually develop a JBWS, and it is not designed to do this. A service developer can always develop and build the service from command line using whatever editor and building tool or from an IDE eg JBOSS Eclipse developer studio. Lets take JBOSS Eclipse studio as an example, the interactions between Eclipse and SOA Repository is as below:
1.Java source code of AirlineBookingService is created and developed through Eclipse.
2.Jboss-esb.xml file and other configuration files that are needed by JBOSS ESB service are also generated and updated through Eclipse.
3.AirlineBookingInMessage.xsd and other xsd files are created by service developers.
4.AirlineBookingMessage.wsdl file is generated by ESB server during the deployment process. This wsdl file is saved to local file system manually by developers.
5.All other files that are needed by JBOSS ESB service are also maintained from Eclipse.
6.A service called AirlineBookingService is created in SOA Repo. Its nothing but an empty holder.
7.Jboss-esb.xml, AirlineBookingInMessage.xsd, wsdl files etc are added into SOA Repo from Eclipse project (or from the local file system). In SOA Repo, these files are called service artifacts, and they are associated with AirlineBookingService. From this point on, the SOA Repo is the "single source of truth" for these artifacts (eg, Jboss-esb.xml, AirlineBookingInMessage.xsd etc). Of course, it is possible that these files are also stored in a source control system like SVN. But the SOA Repo is the only authority for publishing the actual content of these files as well as any other information associated with these files.
8.If the AirlineBookingInMessage.xsd file is updated later on by developers using Eclipse, the developer need to upload the new version of AirlineBookingInMessage.xsd file to SOA repository. This will create a new version of AirlineBookingInMessage.xsd in SOA Repo.
9.Other developers can download AirlineBookingInMessage.xsd from SOA repository to their Eclipse project or local file system. If they change the xsd file, they need to upload it back to SOA Repo as well.
10.So the most common interaction between SOA Repo and Eclipse (or the local file sytem where the service project stays) is the sync of files between SOA Repo and Eclipse.
11.When the service project is ready for testing or production, developer generates a .esb deployment bundle using ant or from Eclipse.
NOTE: once .esb file is generated, I am not sure if we want to add this .esb file to the repository. The .esb file can be one of artifacts that the service depends on.
12.At the moment, there is no function offered in SOA Repo to do the deployment and un-deployment.


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Asus P6X58D Premium Review
Following right on the toes of the LGA 1156 boards OCC just reviewed from Asus, the P7P55D Premium and the P7P55D-E Pro, we now take a look at what seems to be yet another powerful contender from Asus on the socket 1366 front; the P6X58D Premium. This board bundles powerhouse features with proven hardware to create one of the most compelling boards for the price available. Some notable enthusiast-oriented features are the excellent Xtreme phase power system, the gigantic heatpipe-connected cooling, and the TurboV chip included standard.
The major feature here is one of the first TRUE integrations of both USB 3.0 technology and SATA Gb/s ports all based on the X58 chipset. What does that mean? It means that any device integrating the technology has just opened up an entire portal of bandwidth. USB 3.0 shatters even the old SATA speeds, clocking in at 4.8 Gb/s! Not to be outdone, of course, the new SATA standard has been raised to 6 GB/s speeds, properly accommodating the new breakneck SSD speeds. Sure, other boards have been released that have these ports as well, but that utilized an additional chip to do so, which equates to more latency. Whether or not we'll see an increase in performance using current-gen hardware remains to be seen, but with a full feature set accompanying this board, I think that we'll have a strong competitor either way. Without further ado, the Asus P6X58D Premium!
Closer Look:
The design of the P6X58D Premium's packaging unabashedly touts this board's true USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gb/s support. The design team did an outstanding job on the packaging overall, going with a rich blue base and white text. The front of the box flips up to reveal all the special features this board brings to the table, including its enthusiast design orientation, which I will go into detail on later. On the back, you have three distinct sections; one half is dominated by text, in multiple languages, saying that this board supports true USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gb/s, while the other half is divided in two, with a picture of the board in the top right corner and a huge area for various spec icons.
When you open up the box, the P6X58D Premium is front and center, protected by a durable plastic cover and enveloped by an anti-static bag. Once the motherboard and its packaging is removed, you come upon the accessories box, which is well stocked and secured.
Okay, the packaging looks good, so let's see how the accessory bundle looks!


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Anyone use this fly on the Guadalupe?
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Have never used it on the Guadalupe, but it should work fine if tied in the right sizes (would likely go with 16, 18, and even 20). Also might consider it as an emerger pattern, just lighten up on the elk, shorten the elk to one-quarter or one-half the body length, and might also tie in a tidbit of CDC as an underwing.
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In which we investigate the ethical implications of cloning and question the nature of identity
Time for another MLP:FiM review, everypony! Today we learn the dangers of "too much of a good thing." Or, more accurately, what it's like to have an existential crisis and access to a magical cloning device. A valuable lesson for any budding supervillain.
Pinkie interrupts Twilight's Transfiguration homework, resulting in the creation of a horribly fruit-animal hybrid. Ten points from Ravenclaw! (TwiSparks is totally in Ravenclaw.) Rarity stops by to brag about the fun she had making a new ensemble – who knew that ponies like to wear elbow-length gloves? Or whatever the equine equivalent of elbow is. Pinkie suffers from a small aneurysm, worried that fun is occurring without her. The horror!
After a quick recoup in a chez lounge conveniently supplied by Fluttershy, Pinkie is invited to two different "fun" activities by Apple Jack and Rainbow Dash – a barn raising and catching some rays. One might argue that "barn raising" might not fall in the category of "fun" for all but a very select group of people. Also, AJ is definitely Amish, y'all. She attempts to ferry herself back and forth between activities, but can't seem to make it work. If you've ever been to multiple high school graduation parties in one weekend, you too know her pain. Twilight plants a horrible idea in Pinkie's head- that there needs to be more of her if she's going to maximise the fun. Pinkie recalls a legend of a magic cloning mirror, and sets out to make this dream a horrifying, horrifying reality. You know, most magic mirrors just serve as windows to the soul and aren't magic at all. Kudos to the fantastic MLP writers for making this as terrifying as possible. Could you guys maybe stop in on the set of Once Upon a Time and explain to their writers how to be creative? Just so The Resident's reviews don't have to be so angry.
Pinkie effectively clones herself by reciting a rhyme to her reflection (Doc confirms, that's totally how cloning works). Once the fun has been doubled (see what they did there??) She splits her time between relaxing at Ponyville's watering hole with Dash and barn raising with AJ. Pinkie off-handedly explains the cloning process to Dash, who decides napping is more important than the impending horror. The Resident decides that the remaining events of the episode are completely Dash's fault.
Everything is going swimmingly (pun completely intended) until Fluttershy invites her to a woodland creature tea party. In all fairness, you could NOT say no to that party – there was a bear sipping tea with his pinkie finger out and mice offering cheese! The Doc worries about The Resident's fondness for animals that think they're people. Pinkie decides there needs to be even more Pinkies. This sends her and her double back to Clone Lake. (Just think how terrifying that ballet would be.) They make doubles, who make doubles, who make doubles…everything gets a little out of control. Remember the Futurama episode where Bender did this too? It's like that, but with less booze and no robot floozies in sight. (They're off camera.)
Zerg rush! (Doc, zergs are not a thing. Starcraft is an elaborate joke being played on the world by the state of South Korea.) (Res- the twist is that it's actually North Korea!) The Pinkies invade Ponyville, much to the dismay of all the sane
people ponies who live there. Twilight does some investigation into the spell that allowed the cloning process when Spike finds a secret book hidden in the library. The Resident now has a mission: find the secret book in ALL libraries! Turns out, there's a spell that will banish the clones back to the lake- however, there's no magical way to determine which one is the real (i.e. original) Pinkie. But they have to find her fast, because all of these Pinkies defying the laws of physics are maybe seconds away from opening a black hole in the center of Ponyville. (Doc, that's how physics works right? I'm just guessing. -The Resident) (Res, I already told you that since I see no indication that the same matter is occupying two different parts of space, there's no reason to suspect any undue quantum effects from this process. Just the terrifying, terrifying psychological ones. )
Twilight tries to ascertain which one is the real one in the easiest way possible: by asking the Pinkie horde. Of course, they all say they're there real one. This brings up a real moral quandary- who can say who is "real" once you make a clone? Though in this case the clones aren't made with the memories of the originals (Pinkie had to explain who her friends were to each of them), they still have hopes and dreams. Okay, well mostly they just want to "have fun," which is for them apparently interpreted as "overrunning the city with a swarm of pink madness," but you get the idea. At the moment of cloning, they ceased to be the same person because they had completely different perceptions of the world from then on. How can TwiSparks condone this mass Pinkiecide, as a member of the Imperial government? This is a dark day for Equestria indeed.
Anyway, Twilight misses the obvious (that the sad, stressed out Pinkie, who is regretting their actions is the real Pinkie) but devises a test. She reckons the real Pinkie would be so determined not to be banished to a lake that she would do something incredibly boring, just so she can stay with her friends. Thus, Twilight's plan: have the horde watch paint dry. And it's going to take a while, because they really globbed it on there.
After Apple Jack's family hilariously herds the Pinkies to their testing location (Apple Bloom sighting!), the test begins. Twilight weeds out the falsies in a terrifying fashion- exploding them and sending the shimmering pink goo that was once a living, breathing, feeling pony back to the depths of the cloning lake from whence it came. The real Pinkie is revealed, and writes a letter to ODL to explain that budgeting your time is a more practical solution to having fun than cloning yourself. I have a feeling ODL was the one who ordered Twilight to block the path to the magical lake, which we see in montage. Is, is that rock Tom?
Instead of partying with her friends, Pinkie then takes a nap. Fin.
Resident: Ya know, Doc, I really think Pinkie has turned a corner here, in terms of personal growth. She will no longer be the out of control party pony of seasons past – maybe she will be a role model to exuberant young women everywhere (and men, based on what the internet tells me) about the necessity of choice. The implications for Andrew W.K. are astounding. Also I think her path to supervillainy is blocked as completely as the path to the lake.
Doc: I'm less concerned about anyone's moral growth and more upset that I can't make clones by simply reciting a poem. Do you have any idea how much it would expedite my progress if I didn't have to send stuff off for DNA sequencing all the time?!
Next week: The return of the Cutie Mark Crusaders! Will they find their cutie marks? Probably not.