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Just a few months ago, offshore drilling was poised to play a greater role meeting in the nation's energy needs. But the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has brought an abrupt reversal to that policy and ushered in more restrictions on new exploration, tighter controls of existing wells and higher costs for oil companies.
"I continue to believe that domestic oil production is important," President Barack Obama told reporters at a Thursday news conference. "But I also believe we can't do this stuff if we don't have confidence that we can prevent crises like this from happening again."
Some have likened the spill to the 1979 partial meltdown of a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island — a turning point in U.S. energy policy that would effectively cap expansion of nuclear power for decades.
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Just as Three Mile Island didn't put an end to nuclear power production, the BP disaster won't put a stop to deep water drilling in the Gulf. For at least the next decade, the need for oil is just too great.
But the future of U.S. offshore drilling has suddenly become as murky as the oily Gulf waters fouled by BP's runaway wellhead a mile underwater. Even if the ongoing "topkill" effort to cap the leaking well is successful, the legacy of the disaster — and the final tally of the environmental and financial damage — won't be known for years.
"There is a long term study needed — I'm talking decades — to really fully understand the consequences of this spill," said John Stegeman, a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. "So that when the next one comes along — and there will be others, whether they're this big our not — we can enhance our ability to understand and deal with and predict consequences of future spills."
For now, the spill has brought new offshore drilling to a virtual standstill. On Thursday, the Obama administration announced a six-month moratorium on deep water oil and gas drilling and ordered the shutdown of offshore exploratory wells already operating until they meet new safety requirements.
Public outrage over BP's inability to stop the runway well has created a political firestorm. Congress has held a blizzard of hearings on the cause of the accident and the implications for future drilling.
Pictures of tarred beaches and oil-fouled pelicans in the Gulf Coast have intensified a decades-long debate weighing the need to expand domestic oil supplies against the risk of environmental damage. Supporters of expanded drilling argue the country can't afford to stop looking for new domestic oil supplies.
"If the delay is for a season to ensure we have the highest levels of protection in place, that's one thing," said Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, the ranking member the Senate's Energy and Natural Resources Committee, on Thursday. "But if it means that existing permits are allowed to lapse … that's not acceptable to me or Alaska."
The political battle lines over U.S. energy policy are complex. Over the past decade, multiple skirmishes have been fought between bipartisan alliances of energy-producing and energy-consuming states. The divisions are further complicated by the often conflicting goals of energy policy related to oil natural gas, coal, wind, solar, etc.
The war over offshore drilling has been underway for over two decades since President George H.W. Bush signed an executive order in 1990, imposing a moratorium on new offshore drilling a year after the Exxon Valdez spilled 11 million barrels of oil in Alaska's Prince William Sound. In 2008, with the U.S. increasingly dependent on foreign sources of oil, George W. Bush signed an executive order lifting the moratorium, part of a policy to encourage more drilling that included tax breaks for deepwater projects. But local opposition from state officials and Congressional delegations, together with a federal lawsuit seeking to block the expansion, effectively stalled the approval of new areas for drilling.
In March, as part of a push for support in Congress for a broader climate and energy policy, the Obama administration offered up a new five-year plan that opened up new areas for possible development. Those included allowing exploration in two new areas in Alaska and the first sale of exploration leases in the Atlantic off the coast of Virginia. The move was just the first step in a lengthy review process required before any new drilling could began.
"I think (the decision to expand drilling) continues to be the right one," Obama told reporters Thursday. "Where I was wrong was in my belief that the oil companies had their act together when it came to worst case scenarios."
Support for expanded offshore drilling was dealt a further setback last week by reports of widespread abuses at the government's primary oil industry overseers, the Minerals Management service. The Obama administration has decried what it calls a "cozy relationship" between regulators and oil producers. Some MMS employees have been fired and other referred for prosecution as part of an effort to "clean house" at the agency move its functions to other departments. On Thursday, The White House announced that the head of the agency had resigned.
The debate over expanding drilling is further clouded by the lack of hard data over just how much oil may lie under the seabed of U.S. coastal waters. When the 1990 moratorium stopped new exploration, it also put a halt to the collection of seismic data that would help petroleum geologist determine how much oil may be available. Since then, the technology available to seismologists has made enormous strides, allowing them to assemble 3-D maps of oil formations miles underground. Much of the Outer Continental Shelf targeted for expanded drilling is largely terra incognita.
"The information on what is out in the Atlantic is very old, more than 30 years old," Salazar said at a hearing last week. "So this Congress may have been waging a war about Atlantic resources without knowing at all what it is that we are waging a war about."
One thing is all but certain: the catastrophe will bring tighter regulation of the oil industry and new operational procedures, including more detailed plans to cope with blowouts and other spill disasters. Rig inspections will be more frequent. Permits will be subject to more thorough review.
That will likely create a longer timeline for future exploration projects. With deep water operating costs approaching $1 million a day to operate, the new procedures will also raise the cost of finding and producing more oil.
"In the past you might have a made decision — well, this hasn't caused us a problem in the past, so we're going to press on," said Phil Weiss, an oil industry analyst with Argus Research. "Now it's not going to be as easy to do that."
The industry faces other higher costs, including a proposed an increase in the per barrel tax that would go to boost reserves of a federal oil spill cleanup fund. Insurance premiums for rig operators are also expected to rise.
Higher costs and tighter regulations may deter some smaller players from the high stakes game of deep-water drilling. Major oil producers, though, aren't likely to retreat - for the simple reason deep sea exploration it represents the best prospects for producing oil in sufficient quantities to fuel a fossil-based economy.
Those costs could be dwarfed by ultimate cost of paying for the cleanup and damage claims related to BP spill. Dozens of claims have already been filed by fishermen and property owners along the Gulf and dozens more are expected. Those damages could escalate if Gulf currents carry continues to carry oil slick toward the heavily-developed Florida coast and its multi-billion tourist industry. Until the well is capped, it's impossible to estimate the full environmental impact or total cost.
"We've had numerous cancellations," said Carol Dover, president of the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association. "Unfortunately for the panhandle, it is peak season. Memorial Day, Labor Day (is when) our panhandle beaches do about 70 per cent of their annual business."
The open-ended cost estimate has also questions about BP's ability to sustain what is expected to be a multi-billion-dollar hit. But the company should have little trouble picking up the tab. Last year, BP generated operating profits of $13.78 billion; its cash flow from operations was $27.7 billion. In its latest financial filings, the company reported more than $12 billion cash on its balance sheet.
No one doubts that drilling at sea depths that would crush a submarine presents huge costs, risks and technical hurdles. At every disappointing turn, BP has been quick to note that the spill is occurring at unprecedented depths and pressure in the murky waters of an ocean canyon 5,000 feet below the sea surface. But deep water exploration offers the greatest potential to continue to meet the growing global demands for oil.
Most of the world's onshore oil has already been tapped; many of the vast onshore "super major" fields that have fueled the carbon economy for a century are in decline Deep water discoveries in the Gulf have been matched with promising finds offshore Brazil and West Africa.
As a result, global offshore oil output has tripled over the past decade — and it is forecast to double in the next five years.
That has only raised the stakes of continuing to rely on oil as an energy source.
"The easily accessible oil has already been sucked up out of the ground," Obama said Thursday. "And as we are moving forward, the technology gets more complicated, the oil sources are more remote. And that means that there's probably going to end up being more risk. And we as a society are going to have to make some very serious determinations in terms of what risks are we willing to accept."


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Yesterday, we reported that G.I. Joe: Retaliation would be moving all the way back to March 29, 2013 so the film could undergo a 3D post-conversion. The news came as a shock considering the film was only a month away, and Paramount had already sunk millions of dollars into marketing the blockbuster. So will it be worth it? According to Dwayne Johnson, who plays Roadblock, "It will be." Responding on Twitter follower @JimmyinGA, Johnson said the production was "Designing new scenes to enhance 3D." Translation: re-shoots.
Hit the jump for more. The film also stars Adrianne Palicki, Channing Tatum, Walton Goggins, Ray Park, Byung-hun Lee, Elodie Yung, RZA, Ray Stevenson, D.J. Cotrona, and Bruce Willis.
I know plenty of people who were excited for G.I. Joe: Retaliation, but it was mainly from a dumb-fun standpoint. No one was expecting a genuinely great film like The Avengers, but there was the potential for a damn enjoyable time with the Joe sequel. However, the "need" for a 3D post-conversion is deeply troubling because it feels like a smoke-screen for extensive re-shoots.
The potential financial benefit of 3D will be negated by the need to re-market the movie, and convince confused audiences to come to a film that was supposed to be released the previous summer. One could argue that Paramount saw the massive box office The Hunger Games garnered this past March, but The Hunger Games' gross had barely anything to do with the month or the lack of competition. It mostly had to do with the movie being called "The Hunger Games", and the sequel to G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is no Hunger Games.
Perhaps these re-shoots will make for a better movie, but the post-conversion and new scenes now carry the burden of delivering a great film where a simply good one would have likely sufficed.
Here's the synopsis for G.I. Joe: Retaliation:
A follow-up to the 2009 release of G.I. JOE: RISE OF THE COBRA, which grossed over $300M worldwide, Paramount Pictures, MGM and Skydance Productions, in association with HASBRO and di Bonaventura Pictures, commences production on G.I. JOE: RETALIATION. In this sequel, the G.I. Joes are not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence.

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Tom Gervasi fought with the government over disability payments after being exposed to contaminated water in the 1950s.
Tom Gervasi, a veteran who won his protracted disability claim fight with the government over the rare cancer he contracted during his service, died Tuesday at home in Sarasota.
He was 77.
While serving in the Marines at Camp Lejeune, N.C., in 1956, Gervasi was exposed to contaminated water that caused breast cancer, which rarely affects men. For the last decade, he fought with the government over medical coverage for him and other veterans.
After repeated denials, he finally received a letter from the Department of Veterans Affairs in April confirming that the contaminated water had in fact caused his cancer.
The Rochester, N.Y. native, a former police officer and homicide investigator, is survived by his wife Elaine, four children and seven grandchildren.
"He was a fighter, I'm telling you, you wouldn't believe it," Elaine Gervasi said Wednesday. "He was concerned about other people who had the same affliction. He was fighting to help them."
Mike Partain, of Winter Haven, has worked for years on behalf of veterans and family members who were exposed to carcinogenic water in North Carolina. Many were reluctant to come forward with a "woman's disease" like breast cancer.
Not Tom Gervasi.
"What he did, what he meant, was extremely important," said Partain, who was born at Camp Lejeune and later developed male breast cancer. "The issues with Camp Lejeune, they affect not just a few people, but all Marines and their families.
"Tom, even though he was terminal, went out of his way to help other people. That's what made him special. To me, he was a consummate Marine."
A stubborn character Gervasi was with his family when he died Tuesday in Sarasota.
"He was declining, but we didn't know it would be so soon," said his widow. "He was talking, he was nodding his head. He was happy to know we weren't sending him to a facility, that we were keeping him at home."
Lori Keenan, one of four children who live near Rochester, N.Y., was visiting Sarasota this week.
"My father was a tough Marine," she said. "He had a stubbornness about him — everybody said he was a character. He was opinionated, but he was loving, too. My mom says he was tough on the outside, soft on the inside."
Tom and Elaine Gervasi retired to Sarasota in 2001. He remodeled their home and did light maintenance and gardening at the Wedgewood Condominiums in The Meadows.
As a lifelong Yankees fan, he enjoyed working security for the visitors dugout at spring training baseball games in Sarasota.
"That was his favorite thing," Keenan said. "He got to meet all of these guys he idolized."
Gervasi found he had breast cancer in 2003. It later spread to his bones. He was initially excluded from compensation under a federal bill signed last year, the Honoring America's Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act. That law provided medical care for ex-Marines and their families stationed at the base from 1957 to 1987. He was there in 1956.
The Herald-Tribune reported on his case last November, and he and other veterans affected received national news coverage earlier this year. Still, the government did not approve his claim until the spring.
Tom joined the Marines at age 17, just out of high school. He and Elaine later married at the Camp Lejeune base chapel.
There will be a funeral Mass for Gervasi at 9:30 a.m. Friday at St. Martha Church, 200 N. Orange Ave., Sarasota. There also will be a memorial service in New York.
"He was the one who always arranged the funerals for veterans in Rochester," said Elaine Gervasi. "He did such a beautiful job. He'd have the bagpipes come in and the officers all in uniform."


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DUBAI/KHOBAR (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia may as early as next year do something it has resisted for decades: raise what is currently the world's lowest price for natural gas, in order to reduce expensive subsidies and curb energy waste.
A price hike would be an important economic shift for the country but a difficult one, since it would risk hurting the competitiveness of industries such as petrochemicals.
Energy-hungry industries have boomed in Saudi Arabia over the last decade, thanks largely to the cheap gas, priced for domestic industrial users at just $0.75 per million British thermal units (mmbtu) - a small fraction of prices paid by competitors around the globe.
The Saudi price, unchanged for decades, was set when gas was a plentiful by-product of the country's giant oil fields.
Since then, Riyadh has shied away from raising the price, despite escalating production costs, for fear of hurting companies which provide jobs for a young and growing population.
But sources of gas that can be tapped cheaply have now run low, a shortage intensified by waste. So Saudi Arabia is increasingly having to look at costly offshore or unconventional sources of gas to meet soaring demand.
The government has had some success reducing waste by demanding that petrochemical projects, which use natural gas as a raw material, introduce more efficient technologies before allocating them any gas.
Raising the domestic selling price could do more to discourage waste, while saving the government billions of dollars in gas subsidies.
"There are plans to increase the gas price, and this will happen because Saudi Arabia wants to eliminate inefficient use of gas, because it's running out," said a Saudi industry source familiar with government discussions on the issue.
The source, who declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the subject, said a decision on concrete action had not yet been made, but that a price hike might occur by the end of 2013.
Top government officials have declined to comment publicly on the issue. But over the past year, Saudi Arabia has shown increasing willingness to grapple with economic reforms, introducing a law covering home mortgage lending, for example.
Reform of gas pricing may follow as soon as next year, many industry participants and analysts believe.
Kamel al-Harami, an independent Kuwaiti oil analyst, said that after years of debate among government officials, the gas price might be lifted next year - but that any hike would be small and calculated to avoid harming the petrochemical sector.
Saudi Arabia keeps its domestic gas selling price down with huge government subsidies paid out of the hundreds of billions of dollars which the kingdom makes from exporting crude oil.
The subsidies have drawn complaints to the World Trade Organisation WTO.L by China and India, whose own petrochemical companies compete with Saudi firms.
But the Saudi petrochemical industry has gained great political weight because it generates thousands of jobs in a country whose leaders are keen to avoid the kind of youth unrest that fueled the region's Arab Spring uprisings of 2011.
So the government has so far resisted outside pressure to cut the subsidies, arguing that since none of the gas is exported, it is not breaking WTO trade rules.
Some Saudi petrochemical executives have warned higher gas prices would make them less competitive in the global market. They point out that Chinese competitors pay lower wages to their workers, while North American rivals are starting to benefit from low energy prices thanks to the proliferation of shale gas.
"The decision on the Saudi gas price is now even more important in light of the U.S. shale gas revolution," said Aman Amanpour, an independent petrochemicals and energy consultant.
The price of gas for U.S. industrial users tumbled from highs of around $13 per mmbtu in 2008 to a record low of about $3 per mmbtu in April 2012, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration EIA.L.
The U.S. price has rebounded somewhat since then, however, with the EIA expecting industrial consumers next year to pay well over $4 per mmbtu and often more than $5.
So Riyadh could double or triple its gas price for Saudi industrial consumers without coming close to the prices faced by U.S. competitors.
Also, analysts expect U.S. gas exports to rise over the next few years, which would keep upward pressure on U.S. domestic prices and therefore help safeguard the big price advantage enjoyed by Saudi firms.
The result of such calculations, industry participants and analysts believe, may be that Saudi Arabia raises its domestic gas selling price to around $1.50 per mmbtu - a level high enough to make firms think harder about conserving gas, but not so high as to make a big dent in their earnings.
"The increase in price will not eat too much into the profitability of petchem companies, because right now the price is very, very low," said the Saudi industry source.
"I don't necessarily think that the Middle Eastern producers will be less competitive," said David Seaton, chief executive of U.S. engineering firm Fluor Corp, which is active in Saudi Arabia's downstream petrochemical sector.
Yet a natural gas selling price of $1.50 per mmbtu might still not be high enough to resolve Saudi Arabia's looming supply problems.
State-owned oil and gas monopoly Saudi Aramco has the fourth largest conventional gas reserves in the world and aims to increase its production from 10.2 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) in 2010 to over 15 bcfd by 2015.
But with most of its easily exploited gas deposits associated with oil fields already developed, Aramco is being forced to map out its "unconventional" gas reserves, such as those trapped in heavy formations of rock and sand, which will be much more expensive to exploit.
If the domestic selling price remains far lower than global levels, there will be scant incentive for foreign companies to explore for gas in the vast deserts of the Arabian Peninsula, leaving the Saudi state to foot the bill.
"In order to enhance the growth of petrochemicals in Saudi Arabia you need two things: you need innovation, and you need more searching for future gas," said Mohamed al-Mady, chief executive of the country's largest petrochemical producer, Saudi Basic Industries Corp (2010.SE). (Additional reporting, writing and editing by Daniel Fineren; Editing by Andrew Torchia and Jason Neely)


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Just four days into the new year, two of Ustream's animal broadcasters welcomed three new additions. Southwest Florida Eagle Cam welcome two eaglets on January 1 and 3 (see blog post here), and early this morning, Hummingbird Nest Cam welcomed egg #1 into the world. The baby hummingbird was named Sandy in honor of the victims of Hurricane Sandy and the Sandy Hook shootings.
Sandy's mom, Phoebe Allens, is a non-migratory Channel Islands Allens Hummingbird from Orange County, California. This stunning HD cam has been on Ustream since 2009 and has seen Phoebe give life to dozens of new hummingbirds. Hatch watch continues on Sandy's sibling, egg #2.
Below, watch Phoebe feed Sandy her first meal and join Hummingbird Nest Cam live for hatch watch on egg #2. Learn more about Phoebe on her website here.


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1. Mark your confusion. 2. Show evidence of a close reading. 3. Write a 1+ page reflection Note: This week's AoW is two different articles, both addressing the world's problems. Bill Gates: The world is better than ever He wants Americans to know that investing in optimism works. Source: Doyle McManus/ Los Angeles Times 2/8/14 Bill Gates wants you to feel much better about the future of mankind. Things are looking up, he says, way up. "By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been," Gates wrote in his annual letter chronicling the work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, through which he plans to give away most of the fortune he made from Microsoft. "People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that were aid recipients are now selfsufficient," he wrote. "By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world." By then, he added, the child mortality rate in the world's poorest countries should be as low as the U.S. child mortality was in 1980. And the world's population will soon stop growing too, his wife, Melinda Gates, wrote in the letter. Once parents no longer fear losing children to starvation or disease, she explained, they'll choose to have fewer babies. Does the Gates' letter do a little bit of overselling in the service of their optimism? Probably. On health, for example, where Gates has spent billions, he cites a study by Gates-funded scholars suggesting that child mortality in the developing world could fall to the 1980 U.S. rate by 2035 — "with the right investments and changes in policies." But the same study also warns that the goal can't be reached without those investments and policy changes. On population, Melinda Gates quotes Swedish statistician Hans Rosling, who has ebulliently declared that the number of children alive in the world today "is probably the most there will ever be." Plenty of population experts think that's premature. And, in any case, the Gates Foundation is still working to make contraception more available, including sponsoring a global competition to invent a more user-friendly condom (to borrow terminology from the software industry). But these are quibbles, because Gates' letter wasn't meant as a sober, scholarly forecast. It was intended to puncture the widespread belief that the world's deepest problems can't be solved. And many development experts agree with Gates that the primary momentum in most of the developing world today is one of progress on poverty and health. Last year, for example, the United Nations announced that the global rate of extreme poverty, defined as less than $1.25 per person per day, has been cut in half since 1990, far faster than expected. "The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful," Gates writes. "It can stall progress. It makes efforts to solve these problems seem pointless." In particular, Gates is worried that too many people believe that foreign aid is a waste of taxpayers' money. "Aid is a fantastic investment, and we should be doing more," writes the man who made his name as a cutthroat software entrepreneur. As Gates put it to me in an interview several years ago, "If voters understood it, they'd be for it." Public opinion polls suggest that he's right about Americans not understanding. Polling has found that most voters think foreign aid accounts for anywhere from 10% to half of the federal budget; the actual figure is about 1%. And yet, many of the same voters say they're willing to support foreign aid, as long as they can be convinced that it's effective. In Gates' view, there's plenty of evidence that it is. "The increase in farming productivity, like the green revolution, that's aid; billions would have starved without aid," he told the Washington Post recently. "Measles deaths are down; that's all aid. Smallpox eradication, that's aid. Capitalism did not eradicate smallpox; it just doesn't know how." And Gates presents evidence that his efforts too have had results. Fewer children are dying from preventable diseases, thanks partly to the large-scale vaccination programs Gates has helped build. There's even been progress in the global campaign to eradicate polio, although last year saw new outbreaks of the disease in Syria, Somalia and Kenya. There are even signs that Gates' message is getting through on Capitol Hill. Last month, even as it was cutting federal spending for most discretionary programs, Congress actually approved the Obama administration's full request for international health programs — and, after lobbying by Gates, actually increased U.S. funding for polio eradication. The goal, the Republican-led House Appropriations Committee said, was to "fulfill the nation's moral obligation to those in dire need." Reducing childhood disease and closing in on the elimination of polio are historic achievements, to be sure. But persuading Congress to increase funding for foreign aid? Now that's a miracle. The W orld's Biggest Problems Source: The Arlington Institute The World's Biggest Problems portal has a simple, clear mission: educating people all around the world about the biggest problems facing humanity. These problems have two criteria, they must be global in scope, and have the potential to rapidly escalate into severe crises. • • • • • Economic Collapse : Fragilities in the current global economy could tip the developed world into conditions not seen since the 1920s. Peak Oil : Petroleum has powered the modern world for almost 100 years; today, many industry insiders say that we may be reaching a permanent peak in oil production. Global Water Crisis : Over the last 50 years the human population has nearly tripled, while industrial pollution, unsustainable agriculture, and poor civic planning have decreased the overall water supply. Species Extinction : Certain species that human beings depend upon for our food supply are going extinct; if their numbers fall too low we may face extinction ourselves. Rapid Climate Change : While the debate rages on about the causes of climate change, global warming is an empirical fact. The problem is both a curse and blessing, in that people from different cultures will either have to work together or face mutual destruction. For more details on the world's biggest problems, go to: http://www.arlingtoninstitute.org/wbp Possible Response Questions: • Do you agree or disagree with Gates? Where? Why? Be specific. • Reflect on one of the world's biggest problems. How can it be solved? • Select any passage and respond to it.
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The military judge hearing the court-martial of US soldier Bradley Manning has refused to dismiss the most severe charge against him, aiding the enemy.
That is just one of the 21 counts Manning faces as he is accused of the biggest leak of classified material in US history.
"He was knowingly providing intelligence to the enemy," said judge Colonel Denise Lind in rejecting Manning's lawyer's motion to dismiss that charge.
Manning, 25, is charged with sharing more than 700,000 classified files, combat videos and State Department cables with the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks while serving as a low-level intelligence analyst in Iraq in 2009 and 2010.
Defence lawyer David Coombs had argued Manning was guilty of negligence but not the "general evil intent" standard required to justify the heavy charge which carries a possible life sentence.
Over the course of the trial, defence lawyers have sought to show that the slightly built Manning was naive but well-intentioned in seeking to inform Americans about the reality of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The trial will also hear from prosecution witnesses in a rebuttal phase following the close of the defence phase last week.


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Blessed with the kind of softly expressive, androgynous-veering-towards-very-feminine voice that effortlessly captivates, Joel Thibodeau's second album as Death Vessel certainly makes for an enticing prospect. A quick run-through of his touring compatriots is indicative of what we're dealing with here (Iron & Wine, Low, José Gonzalez), though the trick and strength of Nothing Is Precious Enough For Us is how it reveals its charms gradually. Certainly, on a cursory listen there's nothing here likely to stop you in your tracks – aforementioned voice aside – but through its sweet, dusty tone and lilting, unhurried sway, it sneaks under the skin; growing irrevocably in stature in the space between listens.
There's plenty here to shout about – even (particularly?) if it's not immediately apparent. 'The Widening' for example, replete with languorous brass, finger-clickin' beats and shuffling drums – though still effectively steered by Thibodeau's adept finger-picking – marvellously evokes a smoky bar-room vibe; likewise the crashing, incongruous electric guitars threatening throughout 'Peninsula' that finally make their entrance two-thirds in, subverting expectation and adding to the record a new dimension hitherto unforeseen. Well, okay – glimpsed at in the suitably bruising 'Exploded View', where picked banjo notes rest easy against waves of amplified chords.
On 'Circa' Thibodeau comes across almost pre-pubescent as opposed to feminine, thus reinforcing the expansive notion of innocence its interlocking melodies sketch out masterfully – as the song draws to its close these spiral towards a glorious jubilance. 'Bruno's Torso' is one of the slightly more muscular cuts, where moments of gentle beauty abound and resonate through the emphatic chorus; 'Obadiah In Oblivion' sees a doom-mongering chronicle of the Old Testament referenced (its author recast as "a cripple and a crumb") in a deceptively chirpy number.
Americana influences loom strongest on the banjo-led, slide-featuring shimmy of the exceptionally pretty 'Fences Around Field', which upon its halfway point transmogrifies into a hoe-down ditty evidencing Thibodeau's intonation at its finest, as he seems to repeat the word (or not, as he often exhibits inclination towards words which aren't actually words) "majorly". Lyrically, Nothing Is Precious Enough For Us remains steadfastly oblique – snatches of verse describing first encounters with others marked by "bite marks and teeth" and being "perfectly none," suggesting an underlying darkness. It's fair to say though, that to analyse and deconstruct these songs too rigorously would be to miss the point, and potentially break the unique, beguiling spell they cast.
Make no mistake – from its initially unassuming opener (where Thibodeau tellingly declares his voice hurts "not from yelling, but from holding back") through to the instrumental exeunt of hidden track 'Taken Up Again' – this is a blissful, radiant, rewarding listen; one recommended without hesitation.
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I am currently using the I830. The battery life with the extended is decent, about 2 too 3 days before recharge. Reception is good in the Toronto, phone doesn't get warm after a lengthy conversation about 40 min.
The buttons are ok, although i suspect winter and cold fingers might make use of key pad a little difficult.
Generally after all the bad press I have heard, this phone has been a overall pleasant experience.
This phone is ok
I own the new i835 from Boost. It is just like the i830, just different colors. I think overall this is a good phone. It is really small and compact. Its got a nice color screen to it which i wish it was a little bit bigger, its got a speakerphone, you can download music ringtones to it, its got an external caller ID, and it gets really good reception. The bad things about it is that the buttons are too small for my fingers, im using my fingertips to punch the buttons. My thumb is at a complete 90 degree angle when you press a button. The battery life on the phone is fair. The battery shows that is is fully charged throughout an entire day, but after you use the wireless web or text message somebody for 15 minutes, the battery life starts to shrink. But overall i think its a good phone.
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Overall it's just not the best phone a person can own. Lousy reception with the antenna down, and little to no cosmetic options, camera large screen color caller ID etc etc.
But the flip side is it's very small, but that also has it's faults. Recently i brought this phone in to get it swapped, they said it couldn't be done considering the boards had been smooshed. And on a closer look they were. The rep said that was the biggest problem with this phone, which i had no problem believing. Since it is so small and "Fragile" the housing is thin, and everything is smooshed into the phone.
Overall i give it a 2.5 out of 5. Why? Because it is just not Nextel's best, they can do better...they know they can. But they also know that the Direct connect options is saving them from going down the tubes, which is almost happening at a slow and gradual rate. The phones Nextel produces just cant compete with neighboring carriers.
If you are planning to get Nextel, get either an i730, its some-what solid or an i860. The BlackBerry is more toward's business. And it is bulky.
i830...Great Size....LOUSY RECEPTION!!
I purchased the i830 in February 2005. I've previously owned an i90 & i730. The i830 has been a major disappointment. Even with the current software update which was supposed to remedy the problem, the reception on this phone is more poor than usefull. NEXTEL is aware of this problem...according to the service center I went to, but won't do anything nor care about it. When you pay $200 for a phone, you expect it to work! Not the i830. Several of my co-workers have this phone with the same problems. I'm ready to toss it!
Pros: Compact, Lightweight
Decent clarity when the volume isn't turned up to 7
Cons: Reception is less than mediocre
Battery Life is less than average
NEXTEL is aware of flaws but doesn't back up the product, they just try to mask it with a "Quick Fix"
This Phone is Terrible
I upgraded to this phone after using the i205 for a year. It has had problems from the first day I bought it. When I got it the speakerphone made loud beep's when talking. So I returned it and they gave me a new phone. this phone was ok for about a month then the external display just stopped working. Then the internal speaker just fell off. Then when i would open the flip the screen would just stay blank. I finally threw this phone away and bought a new i275 which has been great for me.
i830 phone piece of junk
This phone is a piece of junk!. Absolutely the worst cell phone I've ever owned. I had to have the flip replaced after the first month and a half - it lost it's outside display. Next it started shutting off in the middle of a phone call. Then one time it cut me off and showed "Insert SIM" on the screen. I turned it off and back on and it worked again. It then started showing "Insert SIM" once or twice a week but I could shut it off and turn it on and it worked again. Now it only shows insert sim and nothing works to change it. I took it to a service center and they said that I have to wait for them to get some replacement innards in the store and they'll call me. They are used as soon as they come in which was a problem that i had when the flip needed replacing. Sound is poor, reception is poor and Nextel does nothing about it. I hate it! The only thing I like about it is the size.
Nothing else left
Well, since switching to nextel from verizon (one of the most horrible decisions I have ever made...don't do it) I have gone through oh i dunno around 20 phones...I have both insurances merely because I was told it would be a good idea, and the sales rep was definitely right. First I had the i860 and had it replaced 8 times...the phone just had too many glitches ranging fizzing noises coming from the phone (not other speakers around me) shutting off randomly, no service, no reception and not recieving calls. Then I bought an i830 from ebay and had it switched out...had 4 different ones of those...the i830 had problems too...(extended battery makes the phone better) the phone didn't receive calls, the vibrate went out on one of the phone and bad reception...then i used the i530 and the little cheapo straight phone and found better reception in those, although they were both replaced...all in all, the i530 had the best reception and reliability, but it was too big for my taste (plus no color screen) so now I am left with the i530 and i830 to switch between when one starts pissing me off...the moral? Don't switch to nextel. Their phones (all motorola) are ridiculously high maitenance...its not worth your time.
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If You like small phones this the one for you but my saggestion is getting boost mobile if your a teen or younger because boost gets better service
Very nice, sturdy phone... short battery life
I love the design and form factor. The screen is very crisp and colorful. It is easily viewable in sunlight and from nearly any angle. The stainless steel exterior feels really good in my hands. It adds a touch of class when compared to cheap plastic phones.
I wish this phone supported Bluetooth; oh well... maybe they will get it right next time. The battery life could be better... And, why the extendable antenna? I have never noticed any better reception when I extend the antenna. It seems like more of a fragile, breakable, liability. It should just be a stub.
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I've finally seen the i830 in both its silver and bronze appearances. This is a really nice phone. Honest opinion time. The "bronze" looks like copper. I would have to liken it to a shiny penny. As bad as it may look to some in the picture, I stress that all should go into your local NexTel or Southern LINC stores and actually look at it. It is quite odd, but cool in the sense that no one else has ever gone that route in relation to a phone's color. My favorite appearance is the silver though.
As far as features go, it is a smaller i730 with one exception, it has MMS. I am not sure about the other provider, but NexTel has yet to launch this feature. There are some cool features to MMS, so this is a great phone to get in preparation for the launch.
There are a couple reasons I gave this phone a 4.5 instead of a 5. First of which is battery life. The battery that it comes with is motorola's current slim battery which makes for a smaller, lighter phone, but less talk time. Second, the speaker on the back is not as loud as the i730. Third, it's not for contractors as it is not very durable. I don't mean it's flimsy (Old Handspring Treos), but it is not the i530 or i305. Finally, one of the banes of a small phone is a small keypad. The keypad on the i830 could be a little bit bigger. I found myself mistyping on it during messaging. Also the keypad doesn't click. I like the click. It's just like a computer keyboard, you want to feel a click as you type.
All in all I feel this is one of the best iDEN's to come out thus far. I am getting it. Still can't decide on which color to get. :-) Till the next review.


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Marmi Lanza Verona, including U.S. middle blocker Theo Brunner (Ridgefield, Conn.) and outside hitter Paul Lotman (Lakewood, Calif.), took a major victory on March 6 when it beat league-leading Itas Diatec Trentino, 3-1 (26-24, 25-20, 20-25, 25-17), ending Trentino's 21-match winning streak.
Brunner started all four sets of the Italian Serie A league match and scored 10 points on eight kills (0.73 hitting percentage) and two blocks. Lotman started the first and fourth sets while substituting in the third and scored six points on five kills and one ace.
To view video highlights from the match, click here.
To view photos from the match, click here.
U.S. outside hitter Matt Anderson (West Seneca, N.Y.) and Tonno Callipo Vibo Valentia defeated RPA-LuigiBacchi.It San Giustino, 3-1 (21-25, 25-14, 25-23, 25-23) on March 6.
Anderson scored 17 points on 14 kills (0.30 hitting percentage), two blocks and one ace. He was also credited with 35 receptions, 83 percent positive and 60 percent excellent.
U.S. middle blocker Max Holt (Cincinnati, Ohio) and his Italian team Copra Morpho Piacenza fell to Lube Banca Marche Macerata, 3-2 (25-23, 25-15, 25-27, 23-25, 15-12) on March 6.
Holt scored nine points on five kills and four blocks.
U.S. outside hitter Sean Rooney (Wheaton, Ill.) and his team Acqua Paradiso Monza Brianza fell to Yoga Forlì, 3-2 (25-21, 25-21, 23-25, 21-25, 15-7) on March 6. Rooney finished with 12 points on 11 kills and one block (0.43 hitting percentage).
U.S. opposite Gabe Gardner (San Clemente, Calif.) and his Italian Serie A2 league team Sir Safety Perugia fell to Geotec Isernia, 25-23, 25-22, 26-24 on March 6. Gardner led his team with 13 points on eight kills and five blocks.
Although Zenit Kazan, the Russian Super League team of U.S. setter Lloy Ball (Fort Wayne, Ind.) and outside hitter Reid Priddy (Richmond, Va.), lost its second CEV Champions League playoff match of the six-team round against Poland's Skra Belchatow, it will advance to the semifinals thanks to winning the "golden set."
Belchatow defeated host Kazan 3-1 (25-22, 17-25, 25-23, 25-19) on March 9. Priddy finished with 14 points on 10 kills (0.48 hitting percentage), three blocks and one ace. Ball did not score and set the team to a 0.36 hitting percentage.
Because the two teams had split the two matches, they played a golden set at the end of the second match, which Kazan won 15-11.
Italy's Trentino BetClic and Jastrzebski Wegiel of Poland have also advanced to the semifinals, scheduled for March 26-27 in Bolzano, Italy.
To view video of the match between Kazan and Belchatow, click here.
Clay Stanley led all scorers with 19 points as his Russian Super League team Ural Ufa defeated Dynamo-Yantar Kaliningrad, 25-10, 25-15, 25-21 on March 5.
Stanley scored on 12 kills (0.40 hitting percentage), two blocks and five aces.
U.S. middle blocker David Lee (Alpine, Calif.) and his team Kuzbass Kemerovo fell to Lokomotiv-Belogorie Belgorod, 25-15, 25-20, 25-23 on March 5. Lee started the first set and scored one point on an ace.
Iraklis, including U.S. opposite Brook Billings (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and outside hitter Ryan Owens (Evanston, Ill.), moved back into first place in the Hellenic league after defeating ESOP Epikouros, 3-1 (21-25, 25-20, 25-18, 25-20) on March 6.
Billings led all scorers with 23 points on 20 kills (0.57 hitting percentage), two blocks and one ace. He was named one of the most valuable players of the 18th round. Owens added 14 points on 11 kills (0.33 hitting percentage), two blocks and one ace. Owens was credited with 13 receptions, 46 percent positive and 31 percent excellent.
To read Billings' blog about the match, click here.
To view video of the unruly PAOK fans following last week's Greek Cup match between PAOK and Iraklis, click here.
U.S. setter Jonathan Winder (Irvine, Calif.) and PAOK are in third place in the Hellenic league after defeating Panathinaikos, 25-20, 25-17, 25-20, on March 7.
Winder finished with two points on two kills and set his team to a 0.42 hitting percentage.
U.S. outside hitter Jayson Jablonsky (Yorba Linda, Calif.) and Olympiacos is in fourth place and fell to EA Patron Lux, 29-27, 26-24, 26-24 on March 5. Jablonsky started the first two sets and scored six points on five kills and one block. He was credited with 18 receptions, 67 percent positive and 33 percent excellent.
U.S. opposite Will Price (Gaithersburg, Md.) and GS Lamia fell to Apollon Kalamarias, 3-1 (25-21, 23-25, 25-19, 25-22) on March 5. Price led his team with 21 points on 19 kills (0.27 hitting percentage), one block and one ace.
In the battle for seventh-10th place in the Polish league, Fart Kielce, including U.S. libero Rich Lambourne (Tustin, Calif.) defeated Indykpol AZS UWM Olsztyn, 3-1 (25-17, 23-25, 25-19, 27-25) on March 5.
Lambourne played all four sets and was credited with 16 receptions, 69 percent positive and 25 percent excellent. To view photos from the match, click here.
Unicaja Almeria, the Spanish league team of U.S. middle blocker David Smith (Saugus, Calif.) and outside hitter Riley Salmon (League City, Texas), swept Uorsa Vigo, 25-20, 25-15, 25-19 on March 5.
Smith started all four sets and scored 14 points on nine kills (0.53 hitting percentage) and five blocks. Salmon started the third set and scored three points on three kills (0.43 hitting percentage). He was also credited with eight receptions, 50 percent positive and 38 percent excellent.
U.S. opposite Evan Patak (Pleasanton, Calif.) led his Korean league team Korean Air to a sweep of LIG, 25-19, 25-21, 25-23 on March 6.
Patak led all scorers with 22 points on 21 kills and one block. KAL continues to lead the league.
U.S. setter Brian Thornton (San Clemente, Calif.) and outside hitter Eric Vance (Camarillo, Calif.) led their French B league team Chaumont to a 3-2 (24-26, 23-25, 25-23, 25-22, 15-12) win over Cambrai on March 5.
Vance led all scorers with 35 points on a match-high 34 kills (0.68 kill percentage) and one ace. Thornton added two points, including an ace, and set the team to a 0.40 kill percentage.


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Stop Citing "All Things Are Lawful" in Cultural Arguments
Justin Taylor, quoting from Denny Burk's excellent What Is the Meaning of Sex?:
. . . [T]he Corinthians had twisted Paul's law-free gospel into a justification for bad behavior. Thus the phrase "all things are lawful" is not an expression of Christian freedom from the apostle Paul but rather an expression of antinomianism from fornicators! Paul's aim in 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 is to correct the Corinthians' misunderstanding. One of the reasons for the Corinthian error was the fact that they viewed the physical body as inconsequential in God's moral economy (see 1 Cor. 6:13b). Yet Paul refutes the Corinthians on this point and gives them an ultimate ethical norm with respect to their bodies: "You have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body" (1 Cor. 6:20). . . . Paul's question is not "Is it lawful?" but "Does it glorify God with my body?"
The False Teachers: Ellen G. White
Tim Challies on the founder of Seventh-Day Adventism:
In many respects Ellen G. White appeared to hold to the historic Christian faith. She believed in Christ's imminent bodily return, she held to the inspiration and authority of the Bible, and she taught that we are saved by Christ's righteousness rather than our own. But amid that truth were some dangerous false teachings. I will focus on only two.
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Why we argue like jerks
Bradford Davis:
Diving headfirst into an endless vortex of insults and insinuations is incredibly tempting in the heat of the moment. I have felt the tug and I have regrettably given in many times to coarse tweets and ad hominems. Maybe considering the why behind our inability to argue well will help us move forward.
Off to the pub to pray
Mitch Smart:
Emerging communities are provocatively calling us to be part of a radical change in the Christian faith. Almost everything they write sounds like a revolutionary movement in the manner of the Reformation that we should join before we get left behind. There are books like Neil Cole's Church 3.0 and Brian McLaren's Church on the Other Side. If we were to have them over for a barbeque, it wouldn't be out of place for them to speak of themselves as agents of a brand new type of church in a new type of world. It's all very urgent.


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Tagged: Miami Marlins
Will the Sox Be Pulling From the Same Rope?
I'm a week away from my annual trip to White Sox spring training to watch the Sox with my own eyes, but I like what I'm hearing from Camelback Ranch.
While Ozzie (Remember him?) is on the cover of Sports Illustrated representing the circus that will personify the Miami Marlins, our new low-key skipper is talking about "effort," giving positive feedback to his players and acting like this club is going to confound the so-called experts and be a major surprise in the A.L. Central. And to that point it seems the troops are responding by saying all the right things with a sense of renewed camaraderie.
I wasn't born yesterday. I know that every team thinks they have a chance in February and March. I'm just saying that after the Ozzie years Robin Ventura's approach is a breath of fresh air. As big a fan I was of Ozzie's, it's just time for a change.
The Sox marketing slogan this year is "Appreciate the Game," low-key like the new skipper. I have no quarrel with that, but I could have been just as satisfied with something like, "No More Drama."


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I have been mulling over my word for this New Year, waiting for an epiphany. Last year it was Faith, the year before Mercy. Those words chose me.
And so I've waited and pondered. Do I choose what I hope to see or do or what I am or was? Or maybe I just skip it this year… Can my word be Tired?
But then in a dark, unlikely place, my word for 2013 found me.
I sat in the movie theater, my sister on one side, my husband on the other. I held my breath at the beauty of Les Miserables on the screen. I've heard about this musical my entire life, whispers from Broadway and floating notes from memorable music, but I wasn't expecting to feel this remarkable story of redemption, grace, adoption so deeply.
I'm not the typical fan of musicals. I prefer talking to singing any day. I also rarely recommend movies.
This epic love story is my redemption story, It's for every broken person. And whether you read it, see it, or sing it, it's a story for you.
As I watched a criminal find healing and hope by loving an orphaned child, and as he gave selflessly to her his entire life, I gripped my seat. And then these words found me:
"To Love Another Person is to See the Face of God" – Les Miserables
The truth pierced my heart and in that dark theater with buttered popcorn abounding, I cried.
Because I realized this: The greatest moments in my life have come from loving others. It's tenderly caring my sick child, selflessly giving to my husband, sponsoring one more child, giving one more dollar to help, making one more meal for another, befriending one more lonely person…
This is when I have seen God.
But I don't always choose love. Some days I ignore the prodding and I push away the appeal to love. I am selfish and lazy and more human than I want to admit.
I long to see Him, to know Him and loving others is the pathway to God.
My word for 2013 is love.
It's perhaps the most common word, confused with lust, tangled with like. But to love , to sell your hair or a tooth to feed your hungry child, to take a dying mother's baby as your own, to offer grace to someone who deserves condemning, to hold your tongue with your spouse, offer grace to your wayward child, to give away money to support someone in need, to love another more than you love yourself, this will lead you to God every time.
I often ignore opportunities to love, to speak softly to my kids, listen closer to my husband, reach out to a hurting friend.
But I'm choosing Love more often.
It's how we will find God in this New Year.


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Not to date ourselves or anything, but if we'd had Dormify around when we were decking out our college-era digs, our after-class lives would have been a lot cooler. The Rockville-based online outfitter stocks graphic posters, chic bedding, a selection of high-design accessories, and more stuff you never knew you needed. Bonus? You can shop the full range in person tonight at a holiday party and trunk show. Expect to find plenty of last-minute gifts at sample-sale prices and get a first look at the brand's launches for spring — specifically a Greek-life line that encompasses eight national sororities. Throw in some door prizes and discounts, and it probably goes without saying that you should clear your calendar tonight.
When: Tonight, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Where: Dormify, 10101 Molecular Drive, Suite 300, Rockville; 413-367-6439. RSVP here.
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I have always wanted to try making homemade marshmallows. So this year, as a gift for all the teachers at my kids' preschool, I decided to pack up some peppermint marshmallows with cocoa.
I used this recipe.
They are very easy to make and are really yummy in a cup of cocoa.
I swirled in some red food coloring just after pouring the mix into the pan.
I may have gone a little overboard on my packaging, but it was so fun!
Fluffy, minty, yumminess. These chocolate marshmallows are next.


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The Payroll Department strives to pay all internal and external customers (students, faculty, staff and governmental agencies) in an accurate and timely manner and to treat each pay check as if it were our own.
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- ITV System approval of all ITV's (Income Tuition Vouchers) for stipends; printout of approved vouchers and calculation of per pay period payment amounts.
- Input all pay information from ITVs into BannerHR.
- Set up time sheet approvers in BannerHR.
- Input of hours worked into BannerHR from Timesheet Adjustment Form.
- Contact Departments for approval of electronic time sheets not in "completed" status prior to finalization of payroll.
- Input of Direct Deposit Authorization Forms into BannerHR.
- Input of all W-4 info into BannerHR.
- Update employee addresses.
- Print paychecks; send Direct Deposit file to Finance.
- Stop pay and reissue lost pay checks.
- Prepare CDV for employees' closed bank accounts when needed.
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- Produce Supplemental Payrolls upon requests.
- Completion of Employment Verification Forms (VOEs).
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A number of Audi fan forums across the internet have a spreadsheet showing up that purportedly shows a list of each and every product launch in Germany for 2008 (high-res shot here). Included in the spreadsheet are such noted notables as the Q5 and Q7 V12 TDI at the end of the third quarter, the Audi TT-S listed in the second quarter and the A4 Avant is listed with a spring 2008 reveal. But, what's most interesting is the power number revealed by the document for the Audi TT-S.
The document claims the new S-uperpowered TT is rated at a mere 269 HP, much lower than the predicted 280 horses sources claimed the new up-powered TT would achieve with the 2.0-liter TFSI engine found in the S3. Will TT-heads still buy it? Our bet is yes — but it surely disappoints given the previous conjecture. Well, who knows — maybe it's just Audi low-balling their HP numbers again.


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The Accomplishments of Pope John Paul II - 3rd Longest Papacy in History
VATICAN, April 4, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Vatican Information Service has made available the following impressive summary of the accomplishments of Pope John Paul II.
At 4:45 in the afternoon of October 14, 1978, ten days after the funeral of Pope John Paul I, 110 cardinal electors, and 88 persons selected to assist them, entered into conclave, sealed off from the world, to elect his successor.
At 6:18 p.m., on October 16, white smoke appeared from the small chimney of the Sistine Chapel, thus signaling that the cardinal electors had chosen a new Roman Pontiff. Twenty-seven minutes later, Cardinal Pericle Felici appeared on the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica and announced the election of Pope John Paul II to the See of Peter with the words: "Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum Habemus Papam Carolum Wojtyla, qui sibi nomen imposuit Ioannem Paulum II."
At 7:15 p.m. the new pontiff, clad in the traditional papal white, appeared on the same balcony and spoke in Italian the words now familiar to tens of millions of people around the world: "Praised be Jesus Christ!"
"Dear brothers and sisters," he continued, "we are still all very saddened by the death of the very dear Pope John Paul I. And now the most eminent cardinals have called a new bishop of Rome. They called him from a far-away country, ... far, but always near in the communion of faith and the Christian tradition. I was afraid in receiving this nomination, but I did it in the spirit of obedience to Our Lord and with total trust in his Mother, the Most Holy Madonna.
"I don't know if I can express myself well in your - in our - Italian language. But if I make a mistake, you will correct me. And so I introduce myself to you all, to confess our common faith, our hope, our trust in the mother of Christ and of the Church, and also to begin again on this path of history and of the Church with the help of God and with that of men."
John Paul II, Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, was elected as the 264th Pope on the second ballot of the second day of the second conclave of 1978, just five months after his 58th birthday. Six days later, on October 22, 1978, his pastoral ministry was inaugurated.
Today, April 2, 2005, marked the 9,664th day of his pontificate, calculating from October 22, 1978.
His is the 3rd longest pontificate in the history of the papacy. The longest was that of St. Peter (precise dates unknown), followed by Pope Pius IX (1846-78: 31 years, 7 months, 17 days).
In his 26 and a half years as Pope, John Paul II held nine consistories in which he has created 232 cardinals, of whom one is "in pectore." He has created all but three of the 117 cardinal electors who will enter into conclave.
From the start of his pontificate, the Holy Father named over 3,500 of the world's nearly 4,200 bishops. He met each of them a number of times over the years, particularly when they fulfill their quinquennial obligation of a visit "ad limina Apostolorum."
He has written 14 encyclicals, 14 apostolic exhortations, 11 apostolic constitutions, 42 apostolic letters and 28 Motu proprio in addition to hundreds of other messages and letters. In preparation for the Jubilee Year 2000, Pope John Paul wrote the Apostolic Letter "Tertio Millennio Adveniente," dated November 10, 1994, and published four days later. He also created the Committee for the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000.
He wrote five books: Crossing the Threshold of Hope (1994), Gift and Mystery (1996), Roman Triptych (poetry, 2003), Arise, Let us Be Going (2004) and Memory and Identity (2005).
The 84 year-old Pope presided over 15 synods of bishops: six ordinary (1980, 1983, 1987, 1990, 1994, 2001), one extraordinary (1985) and eight special assemblies (1980, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998 (two synods) and 1999).
Over the years, the Holy Father undertook 104 pastoral visits outside Italy, the last of which was to Lourdes in August 2004. He made 143 trips within Italy and nearly 700 within the city and diocese of Rome, including visits to 301 of the 325 parishes of the diocese of which he is bishop, in addition to religious institutes, universities, seminaries, hospitals, rest homes, prisons and schools.
With his 247 foreign and Italian pastoral visits, Pope John Paul II reached the 1,167,295 kilometer mark (700,380 miles), that is, over 28 times the earth's circumference or 3 times the distance between the earth and moon.
While in Rome, the Pope welcomed an average of one million people per year, including between 400,000-500,000 who attended the weekly general audiences in addition to those who came for special liturgical functions such as Christmas and Easter Masses, beatifications and canonizations. He also received approximately 150,000-180,000 people per year in audiences granted to particular groups, heads of state and governments.
At the start of John Paul's pontificate the Holy See had diplomatic relations with 85 countries. It now has relations with 174 countries, as well as with the European Union and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. It has relations of a special nature with the Russian Federation and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
According to the Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff, over the past 26 years the Pope has proclaimed 1,339 Blesseds in 143 ceremonies and 483 Saints in 52 ceremonies.
He founded the John Paul II Institute for the Sahel in February of 1984, and the "Populorum Progressio" Foundation for the Indigenous Peoples of Latin America in February of 1992. He also founded the Pontifical Academies for Life and for Social Sciences. In addition, he instituted the World Day of the Sick (celebrated annually on February 11) and World Youth Day (WYD). The 20th youth day will be celebrated this August in Cologne, Germany. The Pope himself chose the themes and developed its contents in an annual Message to the Youth of the World.
Karol Jozef Wojtyla, known as Pope John Paul II since his election over 26 years ago, was born in Wadowice, a small city 50 kilometers from Krakow, on May 18, 1920. He was the second of two sons born to Karol Wojtyla and Emilia Kaczorowska. His mother died giving birth to a third child - stillborn - in 1929. His eldest brother Edmund, a doctor, died in 1932 and his father, a non-commissioned army officer, died in 1941.
He made his First Holy Communion at age 9 and was confirmed at age 17. Upon graduation from Martin Wadowita high school in Wadowice, he enrolled in Krakow's Jagiellonian University in 1938 and in a school for drama.
The Nazi occupation forces closed the university in 1939 and young Karol had to work in a quarry and then in a chemical factory in Solvay to earn his living and to avoid being deported to Germany.
In 1942, aware of his call to the priesthood, he began courses in the clandestine seminary of Krakow, run by Cardinal Adam Stefan Sapieha, archbishop of Krakow. At the same time, Karol Wojtyla was one of the pioneers of the "Rhapsodic Theater," also clandestine.
After the Second World War, he continued his studies in the major seminary of Krakow, once it had re-opened, and in the faculty of theology of the Jagiellonian University, until his priestly ordination in Krakow on November 1, 1946.
Soon after, Cardinal Sapieha sent him to Rome where he worked under the guidance of the French Dominican, Garrigou-Lagrange. He finished his doctorate in theology in 1948 with a thesis on the topic of faith in the works of St. John of the Cross. At that time, during his vacations, he exercised his pastoral ministry among the Polish immigrants of France, Belgium and Holland.
In 1948 he returned to Poland and was vicar of various parishes in Krakow as well as chaplain for the university students until 1951, when he took up again his studies on philosophy and theology. In 1953 he defended a thesis on "Evaluation of the Possibility of Founding a Catholic Ethic on the Ethical System of Max Scheler" at Lublin Catholic University. Later he became professor of moral theology and social ethics in the major seminary of Krakow and in the Faculty of Theology of Lublin.
On July 4, 1958, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Krakow by Pope Pius XII, and was consecrated September 28, 1958, in Wawel Cathedral, Krakow, by Archbishop Baziak.
On January 13, 1964, he was named archbishop of Krakow by Pope Paul VI, who elevated him to the cardinalate on June 26, 1967.
Besides taking part in Vatican Council II with an important contribution to the elaboration of the Constitution "Gaudium et Spes," Cardinal Wojtyla participated in every assembly of the Synod of Bishops since it was created by Paul VI in 1967.