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Nigerian officials and world leaders offered condemnation on Monday for those responsible for a string of Christmas day bombings across Nigeria that killed at least 40 people and injured dozens. The worst attack occurred at a church near the nation's capital of Abuja.
The attacks were pinned to Boko Haram, a Nigerian Islamic extremist organization that also claimed responsibility for deadly attacks in Nigeria during Christmas Eve last year.
Coming just days after 60 people died in a gun battle between the Islamic insurgents and government forces, the Christmas attack has shone harsh light to mounting tensions in Nigeria and raised concerns that more attacks could be soon to come.
"Nigeria must intensify its efforts in the area of security and guarantee freedom of movement and worship," said the Rev. Isaac Achi, the priest from the bombed church, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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Including the Christmas bombing, Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for attacks that resulted in the death of 504 people in Nigeria this year alone. The group, which has been nicknamed the "Nigerian Taliban," aims to bring the African nation under Islamic law, reports the Daily Telegraph. Africa's biggest oil producer and most populous nation, Nigeria's northern region is predominately Muslim while the southern half of the country is mostly Christian.
Scores killed in months
Though Boko Haram has existed since 2002, Australia's Sky News reports that violence attributed to the group has risen sharply in recent months. In a series of increasingly complex bombings the group has killed more than 280 people since November. The government has made a number of well-publicized arrests of Boko Haram members and raided some of their bomb making factories, but it appears to have had little impact on the group's operational capabilities.
Several prominent Nigerians have openly criticized the government following the Christmas attack, saying it lacks the "competent" leadership required to effectively solve the country's security problems.
"This is clearly a failure of leadership at a time the government needs to assure the people of the capacity to guarantee the safety of lives and property," said Muhammadu Buhari, a former Nigerian presidential candidate in an article by Reuters.
Though Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the attacks and there are many other indications that the group is likely behind them, there remains some speculation that another anti-government group may have carried out the bombings.
"We are looking beyond Boko Haram because other people bent on destabilizing the government might be doing these things in the name of Boko Haram," said Richard Oguche, a Nigerian police spokesman told Agence France-Presse.
Boko Haram's real name
The name of the group Boko Haram roughly translates to "western education is a sin." According to John Campbell, former US ambassador to Nigeria, "they don't call themselves Boko Haram at all. They call themselves roughly, the way of the Sunna and Jihad. Sunna here refers to law."
Boko Haram, explains Mr. Campbell, is a moniker given by the media and government officials, who often reflexively blame the group for violent incidents that happen in the north.
Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan spoke out against the attacks, calling them "an unwarranted affront on our [Nigeria's] collective safety and freedom," reports the BBC. He added, "Nigerians must stand as one to condemn them."
World leaders from the United Nations, the United States, Europe, and the Vatican, among others were quick to offer their support to the Nigerian government. White House officials called the attack "senseless" and pledged to help bring those who perpetrated it to justice, reports Al Jazeera.
"We are close to the suffering of the Nigerian Church and the entire Nigerian people so tried by terrorist violence, even in these days that should be of joy and peace," said Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi.
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Twenty-cap Test batsman Hughes, who hit 112 from 129 deliveries, became the first Australian to notch a hundred on debut in the one-day game as the home side posted 305 for five.
George Bailey added 89 in a 79-ball stay and David Hussey blasted 60 not out from 34 deliveries.
Despite losing two early wickets, Sri Lanka were in the game at 111 for two after 25 overs with Tillakaratne Dilshan, who made 51, and Dinesh Chandimal, the team's top scorer with 73, looking comfortable at the crease.
However a period of madness that saw Australia complete three run outs - two of which were direct hits - in less than five overs effectively ended the contest as Dilshan, Angelo Mathews and Lahiru Thirimanne were sent back.
Pacemen Clint McKay, a standout performer with figures of four for 33, and Mitchell Johnson mopped up the tail as Sri Lanka were eventually dismissed for 198 in front of 27,461 fans in Melbourne, giving Australia a 1-0 lead after the opener in the five-match series.
Needing more than six runs per over, the tourists made a disastrous start to their daunting run chase.
After Dilshan played and missed at three McKay deliveries in the second over - he also edged a boundary through slips in the third - Upul Tharanga was dismissed by Mitchell Starc.
Tharanga was caught by wicket-keeper Brad Haddin and Mahela Jayawardene soon followed when he edged McKay to Aaron Finch at first slip.
Dilshan continued to take risks in trademark fashion while Chandimal started off patiently before displaying his obvious talent with a series of sublime strokes.
Both batsmen jumped on anything short and hit several boundaries through point and gully and they passed 100 in the 23rd over.
Australia's spinners were not looking threatening - Xavier Doherty, Glenn Maxwell and Hussey bowled 17 overs between with them without taking a wicket - and Sri Lanka seemed right in the game.
A brilliant piece of fielding from Khawaja changed that though, as he threw down the stumps at mid-off to remove Dilshan after he risked a quick single in the 26th over.
Just four overs later, Maxwell produced a direct hit from the off side to dismiss Mathews, and from the very next ball a suicidal attempted single saw Thirimanne run out for a diamond duck.
Chandimal continued to play well but he ran out of partners before being dismissed thanks to a sublime one-handed catch from Haddin.
McKay and Johnson finished off the innings with a minimum of fuss as the tourists were bowled out with exactly 10 overs remaining.
Earlier, an Australian side fielding three debutants - Hughes, Finch and Khawaja - made a bright start in their attempt to stop a three-match losing streak against Sri Lanka at the MCG.
Finch and Hughes added 53 for the first wicket before Ajantha Mendis removed the former, caught behind for 16.
Khawaja did not last long, run out for three by Jeevan Mendis when his bat was over the line but not grounded.
Bailey made a positive start to his innings, timing the ball well, and he and Hughes quickly got to work.
They added 140 runs at exactly run-a-ball rate for the third wicket with Hughes typically strong square of the wicket, hitting five fours in his favourite area.
The left-hander slowed up as he approached his century but regular boundaries from Bailey kept the pressure off before Hughes reached the milestone with a quick single off the bowling of Ajantha Mendis.
Hughes added a further 12 runs before he was caught behind off the bowling of Malinga, and Bailey also fell towards the end, just short of a deserved century when he picked out Jeevan Mendis on the mid-wicket fence off the bowling of Mathews.
Maxwell came and went quickly before Hussey's late hitting - he smashed five fours and one six - helped Australia push past 300, a total that proved beyond their opponents.

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When the animals get together in the jungle, they discover that the noise that they have been making is indeed music. Celebrated author and master storyteller, Dylan Pritchett weaves a tale that helps us discover that we all have music inside just waiting to come out when the time is right. This original award winning story is based on the model of traditional African folktales.
In this action packed folktale from Panama, a clever little rabbit and his Ta Mnica find ways to outwit a fox, a tiger, and a lion, all of whom want to eat him for lunch.
Turtle loves to dance and play the flute. But her exuberance puts her at risk when her music attracts the attention of a brave hunter who brings her home to make turtle stew. After she is caught, her only hope for escape is the hunter's children ... and her own wit. This folktale, first told by the indigenous people of Brazil, is now told throughout Latin America. Like the people of Latin America, Turtle always seems to survive any challenge by using her courage and wit. Beautiful watercolors radiant with the dense foliage and hardy wildlife of the Amazon rain forest, guides the reader through this timeless adventure story.
In Mus White's skillful adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's classic folk story, "There Is No Doubt About It", the news that a hen has lost a feather grows into a humorous tale of five chickens engaged in battle as the story spreads from coop to coop and from hen to hen. Stefan Czernecki's bright primary illustrations and panel design reflect the comic boldness as each chicken passes along the story, until it is no longer recognizable to the original hen who started it in the first place.
When a rich man is rescued from thieves by a smelly, slobbery dog, the man offers the dog any treasure is his house as a reward. The treasure that the dog chooses is the rich mans daughter. With great sadness, the daughter honors her fathers promise and goes to live with the dog. Over time, a friendship grows between the girl and the dog, but she still misses her father. In this tale from Great Britain, award winning author, Margaret Read MacDonald puts a new spin on the classic story, Beauty and the Beast, reminding us all that appearances can be deceiving and that compassion can be powerful.
In Nagala, land of faeries and elves, relentless storms and untold menaces threaten to destroy the elemental worlds. As a last resort, Rhiannon, Queen of the Faeries, sends here unicorn Skyla, and three rainbow faeries to the neighboring land of Lugin to discover what has become of Gryphon and to learn what can be done to dispel a time of looming darkness.
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Traditionally seen in green, 4-H'ers from around the state will be sporting the color purple in an effort to show their support to Oklahoma military families.
April marks the nation's Month of the Military Child, and April 15 has been designated as Purple Up! For Military Kids day.
Pat McNally, director of the Oklahoma 4-H Operation: Military Kids (OMK), and Extension specialist in the State 4-H Office at Oklahoma State University, said this will be the second year in a row Oklahoma 4-H'ers have participated in Purple Up! For Military Kids day. OMK, which was initiated in 2005, is part of the Oklahoma 4-H Youth Development Program, which is part of the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service.
"OMK is joining forces with all other Operation: Military Kids programs across the country to raise awareness and show support for these children and their families and let them know how much we appreciate the sacrifices they make when their family members are deployed," McNally said. "Through this effort we encourage groups, organizations and individuals all across Oklahoma to wear purple as a visible way to support and thank military families. A sea of purple in every Oklahoma community would provide a wonderful visual for the thousands of military families."
Purple is the color that symbolizes all branches of the military and combines Army green, Coast Guard blue, Air Force blue, Marine red and Navy blue.
McNally said last year, 4-H Ambassadors and various 4-H clubs around the state worked with local businesses and offered discounts at stores and restaurants. The money raised from those discounts was given to the Oklahoma 4-H Foundation to provide scholarships for military youth to attend Kids Kamp. The camp is located at Camp Gruber near Braggs, Okla., and will take place June 23-29.
"Sometimes these children may feel like they're alone and no one understands what they are going through. We're hoping that various organizations, including 4-H clubs, will host events in their communities that focus on military youth," she said. "We'd like for communities that participate to send us photos to post on the Oklahoma 4-H OMK website and the Oklahoma Operation: Military Kids Facebook page."
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"We're really excited about this opportunity to show support to our military families. Citizenship has long been a part of the Oklahoma 4-H program and this is yet another opportunity for our club members to get involved and help the military families in their communities," McNally said.
Month of the Military Child began in 1986 when then Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger recognized the sacrifices of military personnel and the need to offer greater support to military families.
"There was a time when military families were typically assigned to a post or base and had access to social and other services," McNally said. "Today, however, many military families are living in a community far away from a military post or base. It's vital that we continue to show them support, and participating in Purple Up! For Military Kids day is just one way Oklahoma 4-H'ers are doing their part."
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – One shutout is nice. Two are even nicer. And when four pitchers combine to collect all of those zeroes it just doesn't get any better.
Such was the case for the Lipscomb Lady Bisons softball team Saturday afternoon at Draper Diamond. In the opening doubleheader of the fall exhibition season the Lady Bisons shut down Tennessee State 1-0 in game one and 6-0 in game two.
"I always like shutouts even though they are fall games," said Lipscomb assistant coach Megan Smith, who works primarily with the pitchers.
Game one was a complete eight-inning game. The nightcap was seven innings.
Senior Heather Parker and freshman Taylor Neuhart, both right-handers, each pitched four innings in game one. Senior Ashley Anderson, a left-hander, threw four innings in game two. Freshman McCarley Thomas, a right-hander, closed out the day with three innings of work.
Sophomore Tanner Sanders is sidelined for the fall with an injury.
It was the first time that Smith, in her first year on the Lipscomb staff, had been able to watch the pitchers work in a game setting against another team.
"I think for a first outing they all did a good job," Smith said. "Each one of them has different strengths. They didn't seem to be affected when runners were on base. If there was an error, or anything that could have pulled them off of their game, they worked through it. I especially liked that.
"This was a great chance for me to figure out what pitches are going to work for them, what counts we can use them in and what we need to work on in the future to be ready for the spring."
Parker started off the fall where she left off last season. She and Sanders threw most of the innings last season and both put up solid numbers.
"We were struggling to find the zone at first," Smith said. "So we changed the pitch call to figure out what pitch Heather could throw that would be called a strike.
"Her pitches are good. We have to make her stronger mentally. It's the little things like making fewer mistakes, making her pitches move even more and knowing when to throw a certain kind of strike."
Neuhart's ability to throw a changeup is going to be one of the keys to her success.
"Taylor has a great changeup," Smith said. "We are just trying to solidify some of her pitches. We are making small tweaks to make them even better.
"She is a very well-rounded pitcher. I am pleased with her first outing. I think this gave her some confidence. We will keep working and keep getting better over the next six games this fall."
Anderson showed a great deal of confidence on the mound as well as the ability to throw the ball with increased velocity on a consistent basis.
"I think Ashley is having fun," Smith said. "We have addressed her mentality on the mound. She has really taken to it well and bought in. I give a lot of credit to her.
"She is more relaxed. When you are loosened up you are faster. She is more fluid and that makes her faster."
Thomas had an emotional day. She was a friend of Isaac Phillips, a Lipscomb freshman who passed away suddenly Friday night.
"McCarley came out and went after it," Smith said. "You never know what you are going to get out of freshmen and I think both she and Taylor came out and played the game.
"They didn't look like freshmen. They didn't look scared. They were just glad to play."
Rena' Cothron, making the transition from third base to catcher this season, played all 15 innings behind the plate. Lipscomb head coach Kristin Ryman liked what she saw from Cothron.
"Rena' has come such a long way in her catching in such a short period of time," Ryman said. "She caught in high school a decent amount so it is not like we are throwing something totally new at her.
"But after three years of college ball we are asking her to focus on a new position. That is a lot to throw at somebody. She has handled it extremely well. She brings durability and leadership back there. She is going to be better with experience. She is the only player who played every single inning. I am pretty impressed."


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Cambridge, Mass. – The Northeast Fencing Conference (NFC) has named MIT Engineer Molly Kozminsky their Fencer of the Month. The announcement comes after the first NFC meet of the season, which was hosted by MIT the weekend of November 20th. Kozminsky, a sabre fencer, went a perfect 18-0 at the meet.
Kozminsky, a junior from Port Matilda, Pennsylvania, is a two-time NFC All-Conference honoree. Last month, her perfect score helped MIT win five of its six matches at its host NFC meet. Kozminsky and the sabre team went 49-5, sweeping two schools and averaging 8.2 of the 9 available points per contest.
At a non-conference meet the weekend of December 5th, Kozminsky went 13-2, sweeping four opponents and helping the sabre team amass a 34-11 record. This NCAA meet, held at Brandeis University, was not considered by the NFC in their monthly award procedures.
The NFC also released team and individual standings following the first NFC meet. Kozminsky and sophomore Robin Shin top the women's sabre individual leader board. Shin lost just one bout and sits behind Kozminsky at 17-1 for the year. Kristin Kuhn, who at 13-5 is sixth overall in epee, is the other Engineer on the leader boards.
On the men's side, MIT has athletes in the top six of every discipline. Joseph Rafidi has an 11-2 mark, good for third overall in men's epee, while teammate Jackson Crane is sixth (9-5). Vinayak Ramesh (11-4) is fifth overall in sabre, as is Daniel Levine in men's foil, with an identical record.
The MIT women have a 5-1 season record after the first NFC meet of the year. The Engineer men are 3-2, with the next contest for both of them scheduled for January 22nd at Brown University.


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Mr. Pio Wennubst, Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations highlighted four main reasons for working towards system-wide coherence in the United Nations development machinery: to ensure relevance of the UN operational activities; to achieve the best possible effectiveness of UN development activities; to maximize impacts and results; and, to adequately respond to the challenges emerging from current realities. Mr. Thomas Stelzer, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-agency Affairs, underlined these imperatives and stressed the ultimate motivation behind efforts to improve system-wide coherence: to maximize the UN's impact on the ground and, as a result, to improve the lives of people in need. Mr. Navid Hanif, Director of the ECOSOC Support and Coordination Office, complemented these insights with a comprehensive presentation on the historical roots of today's challenges to UN system-wide coherence. Ms. Deborah Landey, Director of the Development Operations Coordination Office, underscored the importance of effective leadership for driving system-wide coherence.
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I am working on my 2nd board using SOB and on this design the board name needs to be moved. Except I can't figure it out. Smashing the board doesn't let me move the name. How do I move it in eagle?
the board name is fixed and thus sometimes annoying, I can make the board name to be on the bName layer so it can be smashable


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ISM manufacturing index ends 2012 above growth mark
Manufacturing closed out 2012 on the upswing, as the monthly ISM Report showed a growth pattern and a solid increase over November.
After dropping below the 50% mark that indicates growth a month ago, the December ISM report came in at 50.7%. That's a 1.5 percentage point increase from November, and marked the eighth month in 2012 that the index topped the 50% mark. In addition, the index indicated growth in the overall U.S. economy for the 43rd consecutive month.
"This month's PMI reading moved manufacturing off its low point for 2012 in November. The New Orders Index remained at 50.3%, the same rate as in November, indicating growth in new orders for the fourth consecutive month," said Bradley J. Holcomb, chair of the Institute for Supply Management Manufacturing Business Survey Committee. "Comments from the panel this month are mixed, with some indicating a strengthening of demand and others indicating a continuing softness in demand. Additionally, many respondents express uncertainty about government regulations, taxes and global economics in general as we approach 2013."
Among those comments included:
- "Many Chinese sources are coming to us with cost reductions to maintain their current business volumes."
- "We are seeing stabilization of orders and costs as well as production capacity for the first time in months." (Miscellaneous Manufacturing)
- "Black Friday was good, but forward economic visibility is foggy." (Computer & Electronic Products)
- "The election is over; unemployment is dropping; consumer confidence is increasing as are home sales prices. We seem to be turning the corner. New car sales are increasing, which affects our customers." (Fabricated Metal Products)
- "Uncertainty in additional government regulations and tax climate seems to be slowing orders." (Chemical Products)
Other indexes also indicated growth in December. The Production Index registered 52.6%, a decrease of 1.1 percentage points, indicating growth in production for the third consecutive month. The Employment Index registered 52.7%, an increase of 4.3 percentage points, indicating a resumption of growth in employment following only one month of contraction since September 2009. Both the Exports and Imports Indexes registered 51.5%, returning both indexes to growth territory following consecutive periods of contraction of six and four months, respectively.
A PMI in excess of 42.6%, over a period of time, generally indicates an expansion of the overall economy. Over the last six months of 2012, manufacturing registered expansion in three months and contraction in three months, moving back and forth across the 50% mark.
"The past relationship between the PMI and the overall economy indicates that the average PMI for January through December (51.7%) corresponds to a 3.1% increase in real gross domestic product," Holcomb said. "In addition, if the PMI for December is annualized, it corresponds to a 2.7% increase in real GDP annually."


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Princess Diana of Wales died in a tragic car crash in Paris in 1997, just one year after her divorce from Prince Charles. Her companion Dodi Fayed was also killed in the crash, and her relationship with Fayed (an Egyptian billionaire) immediately led to speculation about Diana embracing Islam, as well as numerous conspiracy theories about her death. A tabloid book, The Diana Chronicles,makes an explicit claim that Diana considered marrying a Pakistani heart surgeon named Hasnat Khan. Despite the notroety and various alleged Muslim romantic attachments, there is no reason to suspect that Diana actually converted at any time.


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This series consists of weekly discussion sessions on foundations of quantum Theory and quantum information theory. The sessions start with an informal exposition of an interesting topic, research result or important question in the field. Everyone is strongly encouraged to participate with questions and comments.
We provide a microscopic understanding of the nucleation of topological quantum liquids that arise due to interactions between non-Abelian anyons. With the pairwise anyon interactions typically showing RKKY-type oscillations in sign, but decaying exponentially with distance, we show that the character of the nucleated phase is fully determined by anyon interactions beyond nearest neighbor exchange. We investigate this issue in the context of Kitaev's honeycomb lattice model.
We construct a class of entangled supersymmetric states which is used as a non-local resource in the CHSH game. This class of super entangled states is more non-local then maximally entangled states if the supersymmetric degrees of freedom are accessible to measurement.
Consequently, we show that the winning probability for the CHSH game is greater than cos2(pi/8) corresponding to an expected value greater than Tsirelson's bound.
Continuous-variable SICPOVMS seem unlikely to exist, for a variety of reasons. But that doesn't rule out the possibility of other 2-designs for the continuous-variable Hilbert space L2(R). In particular, it would be nice if the coherent states -- which form a rather nice 1-design -- could be generalized in some way to get a 2-design comprising *Gaussian* states. So the question is: "Can we build a 2-design out of Gaussian states?". The answer is "No, but in a very surprising way!" Like coherent states, Gaussian states have a natural transitive symmetry group.
This talk presents sufficient conditions for equilibration and thermalization of subsystems within closed many body quantum systems. That is, we identify when the local properties of the equilibrium state resemble those of a thermal state. With this aim, the recent progress in this field is reviewed and we introduce a novel perturbation technique for a realistic weak coupling between the subsystem and its environment. Unlike the standard perturbation theory, our technique is robust in the thermodynamic limit.
One of the key features of the quantum Hall effect (QHE) is the fractional charge and statistics of quasiparticles. Fractionally charged anyons accumulate non-trivial phases when they encircle each other. In some QHE systems an unusual type of particles, called non-Abelian anyons, is expected to exist. When one non-Abelian particle makes a circle around another anyon this changes not only the phase but even the direction of the quantum-state vector in the Hilbert space. This property makes non-Abelian anyons promising for fault-tolerant quantum computation.
In many physical scenarios, close relations between the bulk properties of quantum systems and theories associated to their boundaries have been observed. In this work, we provide an exact duality mapping between the bulk of a quantum spin system and its boundary using Projected Entangled Pair States (PEPS). This duality associates to every region a Hamiltonian on its boundary, in such a way that the entanglement spectrum of the bulk corresponds to the excitation spectrum of the boundary Hamiltonian.
Two-party Bell correlation inequalities (that is, inequalities involving only correlations between dichotomic observables at each site, such as the CHSH inequality) are well-understood: Grothendieck's inequality stipulates that the quantum bias can only be a constant factor larger than the classical bias, and the maximally entangled state is always the most nonlocal resource. In part due to the complex nature of multipartite entanglement, tripartite inequalities are much more unwieldy. In a recent breakthrough result, Perez-Garcia et. al.
We propose a mechanism where high entanglement between very distant boundary spins is generated by suddenly connecting two long Kondo spin chains. We show that this procedure provides an efficient way to route entanglement between multiple distant sites useful for quantum computation and multi-party quantum communication. We observe that the key features of the entanglement dynamics of the composite spin chain are remarkably well described using a simple model of two singlets, each formed by two spins.
For quantum fields with m=0, it is pointed out that timelike separated
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It is well known that the ground state energy of many-particle Hamiltonians involving only 2- body interactions can be obtained using constrained optimizations over density matrices which arise from reducing an N-particle state. While determining which 2-particle density matrices are 'N-representable' is a computationally hard problem, all known extreme N-representable 2-particle reduced density matrices arise from a unique N-particle pre-image, satisfying a conjecture established in 1972.


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Pressure mounts to keep California Cardinal away from papal conclave over sex abuse
VATICAN CITY – Popular pressure is mounting in the U.S. and Italy to keep California Cardinal Roger Mahony away from the conclave to elect the next pope because of his role shielding sexually abusive priests, a movement targeting one of the most prominent of a handful of compromised cardinals scheduled to vote next month.
Amid the outcry, Mahony has made clear he is coming, and no one can force him to recuse himself. A Vatican historian also said Wednesday that there is no precedent for a cardinal staying home because of personal scandal. But the growing grass-roots campaign is an indication that ordinary Catholics are increasingly demanding a greater say in who is fit to elect the pope, and casts an ugly shadow over the solemn papal election.
Conclaves always bring out the worst in cardinals' dirty laundry, with past sins and transgressions aired anew in the slow news days preceding the vote. This time is no different -- except that the revelations of Mahony's sins are so fresh and come on the tails of a recent round of sex abuse scandals in the U.S. and Europe.
This week, the influential Italian Catholic affairs magazine Famiglia Cristiana asked its readers if the Los Angeles-based cardinal Mahony should participate in the conclave given the revelations. "Your opinion: Mahony in the conclave: Yes or No?" reads the online survey of one of Italy's most-read magazines.
The overwhelming majority among more than 350 replies have been a clear-cut "No."
That initiative followed a petition by a group in the United States, Catholics United, demanding that Mahony recuse himself.
"It's the right thing to do," Andrea LeDon-Grossman, a Los Angeles member of Catholics United, said in a statement on the group's website. "In the interests of the children who were raped in his diocese, he needs to keep out of the public eye. He has already been stripped of his ministry. If he's truly sorry for what has happened, he would show some humility and opt to stay home."
Mahony, however, has made clear he will vote. "Count-down to the Papal Conclave has begun. Your prayers needed that we elect the best Pope for today and tomorrow's Church," he tweeted earlier this week. He promised daily Twitter updates.
The cardinal has also responded directly and indirectly to the outcry on his blog, writing about the many "humiliations" Jesus endured.
"Given all of the storms that have surrounded me and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles recently, God's grace finally helped me to understand: I am not being called to serve Jesus in humility. Rather, I am being called to something deeper -- to be humiliated, disgraced, and rebuffed by many," he wrote.
He said in recent days he had been confronted by many angry people. "I could understand the depth of their anger and outrage -- at me, at the Church, at about injustices that swirl around us," he wrote. "Thanks to God's special grace, I simply stood there, asking God to bless and forgive them.
Last month, a court in Los Angeles ordered the release of thousands of pages of confidential personnel files of more than 120 priests accused of sex abuse. The files show that Mahony and other top archdiocese officials maneuvered behind the scenes to shield accused priests and protect the church from a growing scandal while keeping parishioners in the dark.
Mahony was stripped of his duties last month by his successor at the largest Catholic diocese in the United States. But the administrative dressing-down by Archbishop Jose Gomez only affected Mahony's work in the archdiocese, not his role as a cardinal.
Historian Ambrogio Piazzoni, the vice prefect of the Vatican library, said there was no precedent for a cardinal staying away from a conclave because of personal scandal, though in the past some have been impeded either by illness or interference by governments.
Regardless, he said, any decision to stay away would have to be approved by the full College of Cardinals given that the main duty of a cardinal is to vote in a conclave.
"The thing that characterizes a cardinal is to be an elector of the pope," he told reporters.
Cardinal Velasio De Paolis, one of the Vatican's top canon lawyers, told The Associated Press that barring any canonical impediments, Mahony has a right and duty to vote in the conclave. At best, he said, someone could persuade him not to come, but De Paolis insisted he wasn't suggesting that someone should.
Italian newspapers have been filled with profiles of the cardinals whose presence at the conclave would be an "embarrassment" to the Vatican. They include Irish Cardinal Sean Brady, accused of covering up sex abuse; Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels, whose offices were searched in 2010 amid a crackdown on pedophile priests by Belgian police; and Cardinal Justin Rigali who retired as archbishop of Philadelphia in disgrace after a grand jury accused him of keeping credibly accused abusers on the job.
Dirty laundry was also aired in the run-up to the 2005 conclave that elected Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as pope.
Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, for example, was cited in a criminal complaint just days before the conclave alleging involvement in the 1976 kidnappings of two fellow Jesuits during Argentina's dark years of military dictatorship. The cardinal's spokesman called the allegation by a human rights lawyer "old slander."
According to the only published account of the 2005 secret balloting, Bergoglio came in second place.


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DeLAND Fla. (May 25, 2013) – The ETSU baseball team returns to action in the Atlantic Sun Championship on Saturday afternoon when the Bucs take on USC Upstate at 1:15 p.m., from Stetson's Melching Field.
ETSU (34-22) has won five straight and 12 of its last 16 after defeating Stetson and most recently No. 23 Mercer in the conference tournament. The Bucs opened the conference tournament with a 4-3 11-inning win over the host Hatters on Wednesday and the Bucs followed that up with a 7-4 10-inning win over the top-seeded Bears on Friday to become the first team to win multiple extra-inning games in A-Sun Championship history.
USC Upstate (28-29) suffered a 12-6 setback to Mercer on Wednesday in its tournament opener, but the Spartans have bounced back to stay alive after winning consecutive elimination games. The Spartans took down Stetson, 6-0, on Thursday and advanced to face ETSU after defeating Mercer, 10-1, late Friday night.
Should the Bucs defeat USC Upstate in the 1:15 game, the Blue and Gold will move on to play for the A-Sun Championship on Sunday afternoon; however, should the Spartans win the first game, both teams will play an elimination game Saturday night at 8:15 p.m.
The Blue and Gold took two of three from USC Upstate earlier this year in Spartanburg, while ETSU has won 11 of the 17 games over the Spartans since playing as conference foes.
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The coming days might Rodney Stuckey Youth Jersey tell us whether FC Barcelona has a further role to play in the dramatic reawakening of old regional tensions and whether the events of Sunday will join the line of football matches that played a part in shaping history, a phenomenon that could be said to have begun in 1969 with a conflict between El Salvador and Honduras that became known as the Football War.Tensions between the two countries had been heightened by the migration to Honduras of hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans, leaving a country one-fifth the size of its neighbour but with a population 40% greater, prompting the Honduran government to enact reforms intended to keep land out of the hands of immigrant farmers while expelling Salvadoran labourers. The fuse for open conflict was lit when the two countries met in the qualifying tournament for the 1970 World Cup.
The first match was held in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, where the visiting players were kept awake by crowds letting off firecrackers and breaking windows in their hotel. The home team won by a single goal, prompting an 18-year-old girl watching at home in El Salvador to take her father's pistol from his desk and shoot herself dead. Amelia Bolianos was given a state funeral, her coffin accompanied by the president http://www.officialpacershop.com/authentic-21-thaddeus-young-jersey.html of the republic and the players of the football team.When Honduras arrived in San Salvador for the return leg a week later, the welcome included rotten eggs and dead rats thrown through their hotel windows. They made their way to the Flor Blanca stadium in armoured cars, passing through angry crowds holding portraits of the dead girl. El Salvador won this one 3-0, which meant that the tie progressed to a play-off on neutral ground in Mexico City. El Salvador won 3-2 with an extra-time goal from their right-winger, "Pipo" Rodríguez, a qualified civil engineer, a few hours after their government had dissolved diplomatic relationships with Honduras in protest against further mass expulsions.


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Nothin' but Net: Looking at 2014 Hall of Fame class
Philadelphia, PA – The 2013 Basketball Hall of Fame Class has been enshrined.
It happened on Sunday, so it's obviously the appropriate time to talk about the 2014 class, a mere four days later.
Let's disqualify, for the moment, those who have been on the ballot and didn't make it last time around. It was a relatively weak class that went in Sunday, so those that didn't make the cut, don't have a great argument for enshrinement a year later.
Also, for the sake of the discussion, we shall focus on the NBA players, not foreigners, women, officials or dignitaries. Honestly, I can't state with any level of expertise why or why not any of them belong in the Hall.
Let's look at the newly eligible.
Any good cook knows you have to trim the fat when you butcher the meat (friendly tip from Iron Chef Brighters: don't always do that because fat can lead to flavor).
The fat, in this case is Damon Stoudamire, Bo Outlaw, P.J. Brown, Eddie Jones, Steve Francis, Shareef Abdur-Rahim and Sam Cassell. Some have better claims than others in that group, some (sorry, Bo) have no claim, but no matter what, none of these players deserves realistic consideration.
That leaves us with four new candidates open for debate.
The man who is still probably most famous for the phantom timeout in the NCAA Championship had an incredibly productive professional career.
Webber's 15-year career may not have put him in a mortal lock category for the Hall of Fame, but he deserves to go.
He averaged 20.7 points, 9.8 rebounds and 4.2 assists per game over his career. Those first two numbers are very good and the assists number for a big man is very, very good.
Webber made five All-Star games and five All-NBA teams, including one first team, and finished in the top 10 in MVP voting five times. In a 15-year career, that doesn't look sterling, but you have to delve a little deeper.
Webber played in the era of Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett and Dirk Nowitzki at the power forward spot. Those three are all-time greats, and, no, Webber is not one for the ages, but to rattle off those accomplishments, five times is not a joke. With incredibly stiff competition, Webber distinguished himself.
He led the renaissance in Sacramento basketball and, sure, those Kings teams probably could've played in at least one NBA Finals to cement Webber's legacy, but the San Antonio Spurs were a dynasty and the Los Angeles Lakers were close to one.
These aren't brought up as excuses to justify Webber's small number of appearances in laudatory devices. Nor is his injury history. It's just to showcase that Webber may not have been immortal, but he was awfully good and made the postseason 10 times. In most of those trips, he was the best player on the team.
Webber had a great amateur career, marred not just by an ill-fated crossing of his hands in a "T" formation, but also by a plea arrangement for lying to a grand jury about taking money while in college.
There are plenty of bad guys in the Hall of Fame.
It all adds up to enough. Webber's the type of guy who voters might make wait a year.
Full disclosure - in researching Mourning's case, early on, it seemed like an easy yes.
For the first eight seasons of his career, Mourning averaged 20.9 ppg, 10.1 rpg and 3.1 blocked shots per game, which is a towering number (his career numbers are lower thanks to stints as a bench player).
During that time, Mourning made five All-Star games (he made two more after he was a freak of nature force), All-NBA twice, including a first-team nod, and All-Defensive first team twice, and won Defensive Player of the Year in back- to-back years. Those two years, Mourning finished second and third in MVP voting.
That's pretty awesome.
Is eight years enough to make the Hall of Fame? Probably not, although his ninth and 10th seasons were strong, just not epic.
Throw in the NBA championship, an Olympic gold medal and being a three-time All-American at Georgetown, it's enough for Mourning.
Again, much like Webber, he's no gimme. He was great, but never dominant short of those two seasons. Mourning might not get first-ballot love, but he's a Hall of Famer.
If you didn't buy Mourning's argument with a small, early sample size, you might as well scroll down now.
After bursting on the NBA scene with comparisons to Magic Johnson in one hand, and Chris Rock commercials in the other, Hardaway played basically nine true full seasons due to a myriad of injuries.
In the first six healthy seasons, Lil Penny had averages of 18.6 ppg, 6.1 apg and 1.9 steals per game. Hardaway made four All-Star teams and three All-NBA teams, including two first-team nods, and had two top-10 finishes in MVP voting.
Hardaway's career flew out of the gate, but his knee halted it quickly.
The body of work just isn't there for Penny to make the Hall of Fame.
He didn't make a single All-Star team. Never got a vote for MVP, nor did he ever sniff an All-NBA team.
So why is Horry under Hall of Fame consideration?
There are six players in the history of the sport who have won more NBA titles than Horry's seven. All six are in the Hall of Fame (to be fair, Tom "Satch" Sanders is in as a contributor, not a player). In fact, Horry and Jim Loscutoff are the only players with at least six titles not in the Hall of Fame.
Horry was a critical member of each of those championship squads. You don't get the moniker "Big Shot" Bob for being a mop-up guy at the end of the bench. Horry hit several humongous 3-point shots during his tenure with the Lakers and Spurs (he was in his first two seasons when the Houston Rockets won, but Horry started for both teams).
Is that enough?
Probably not, but it's a fun debate. If winning is the true barometer of greatness, then Horry merits a conversation. Was he as important as Hakeem Olajuwon, Clyde Drexler, Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal or Tim Duncan? Duh, of course not, but he was a top-five contributor.
Problem for Horry is precedent.
Loscutoff was a member of Bill Russell's 1960s Boston Celtics teams. He was not a huge star and his seven rings weren't enough to warrant selection.
Guys like Michael Cooper and Kurt Rambis from the Showtime Lakers aren't in the Hall. Neither are Ron Harper or Steve Kerr from more modern times. Role players, no matter how many big shots drained, are not welcome.
And Horry was a role player with a knack for the moment. Sorry, Big Shot.
- In my research, here a few names I think are Hall-worthy, remembering the Naismith Hall of Fame is all-encompassing: Toni Kukoc and Vlade Divac (foreign), Christian Laettner (best college player I've ever seen), and Mitch Richmond and Kevin Johnson as NBA players.
- Michael Beasley frustrates me so. He has squandered so much money with his off-court nonsense. This one-year contract with the Miami Heat is wise for the defending champions because the upside is LeBron James and Pat Riley can keep him in check and he scores. The downside is he acts up and gets cut 10 seconds later and his NBA career becomes a punch line.
- I don't care what Dennis Rodman does in North Korea. Stay if you love it so much.
- Movie moment - Looking forward to "The Family" with Robert De Niro. It takes a big man to reinvent himself late in his career and De Niro is doing just that by playing a mobster. I say "Bravo!"
- TV moment - I am no expert on the business of television. Sure, I know a few things about some shows, but have no idea how to improve ratings, especially in morning television as my viewing habits revolve around Sprout. However, if I was attempting to gain viewers for my network's morning show, which was No. 1 in the ratings since the Second Continental Congress and recently passed by another show, I would not bring in Carson Daly. Good Luck, "Today Show."


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Lipscomb men's soccer team began fall camp today in preparation for the 2012 season. After waiting and anticipation coach Charles Morrow was eager to get into practice.
"We are just excited to get started," said Morrow. "We go through a long spring and summer of waiting and anticipating getting the season started. It is good to have everybody in.
"We started off with a fitness test and got out shortly after breakfast to get our first session in. Our first two sessions were seeing where guys are at fitness wise and with 11-side playing having an opportunity in that setting where they are at playing wise and get a better idea where we are playing personalities and attributes."
The Bisons opened camp with 31 student-athletes including 12 returners on the field. Sophomore Omar Djabi returns after starting all 18 games that he played in last season, accumulating one assist and one shot on goal from the defensive line. Senior Jeremy Reid, who started 14 games last season, returns with a goal and two assists to his credit to go along with three shots on goal. Kyle Erickson, a junior midfielder, led the Bisons with four assists last season while starting 10 games. Ethan Summers, who missed last season with an injury, returns as a savvy fifth year veteran after starting all 19 games two years ago for the midfield and defense.
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|2013-02-03, 14:09
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Also, Kud's reaction is a certain hint. Please be aware that Kud was shocked by what she'd -seen- considering the presentation of the scene.
Not the first time I see "might" used as a way to admit a fact, but present another alongside.
Haruka was abused, but so far she is not afflicted by anything, is sitll physically healthy and does manage to go to school. In fact, it is implied by her speech that ever since she is at school, she is no longer gnawed by the abuse of the family, save the spy they have sent so they keep her in check (which is probably the reason why they decided to "teach her a lesson" with the flyers).
But what do you know about Kanata so far? Nothing, except that she was initially harassed by Haruka so the family would criticize her. And for a mere suggestion of "this has been gone too far", she was slapped hard. So anything further would probably lead to harsher punishment, despite being the "heir".
|2013-02-03, 14:10
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You clearly didn't follow her conversation with Riki, did you?
For one, Kanata got slapped just for not agreeing. The slap was hard that left a mark. Imagine what treatment did she get if she failed at something? What treatment did she get when not being able to keep Haruka in check?
Also just as she said people believe that if they are unhappy, then everyone else is happy. That's the exact logic Haruka follows. She believes that her life is horrible while Kanata's is perfect. So called unhappy people don't stop to take a deeper look on so called happy people.
I have same thing going with my sister. No, we are not harrasing each other and do talk normally. However, unlike me she openly shows her emotions and cries easily. She believes that I'm made out of rock because unlike her I don't react same way. But I'm a human being just like her and I get hurt just as much. Just because I don't show it doesn't mean I don't suffer.
Even in medicine there is such thing: Who needs to be treated first from an accident? The one who cries in pain or the one that brushes it off? The answer is the second. If 1st person has enough strength to scream, they should be fine for now while the one who is quiet could slip away any moment and needs to be checked first. Just because they don't express pain doesn't mean they don't feel it. Besides there are those who simply feel it different than others.
One of my friends friends has huge lack in sensitivity. She managed to burn her leg against a hot tube without noticing. She didn't feel pain even though her skin was boiling and falling off!
Emotions are the same. Just because Kanata looks fine and cool doesn't mean that everything is perfect in her life.
She felt awkward when Kanata entered the room but there was no reason to feel awkward after that since she saw Kanata in pajamas after shower many times. She clearly saw something. At first I though that Kanata was crying but it it didn't really add up in my head. Bruises is the only thing I can think off because of the lack of sleeves.
Urd's 2nd reaction also seemed slight different from the 1st.
Besides Urd doesn't look very happy in preview either.
Thank you for clearing up some points in my place!
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|2013-02-03, 14:17
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Except it wasn't a decision of the court. The court had nothing to do with the whole "who is Shou's daughter", exactly because none were involved with his murder. It was only the Saigusa frantically trying to figure out, in order to "weed out" the shame they have got through Shou's actions.
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As interesting as Triple R's statements are, I think we should remember that he does not know the outcome and did not play the game. He is just speculating. Please be gentle with him! He will learn the truth soon enough.
And man Triple_R are you in for an unimaginable surprise. But I will leave it at that. That's the fun for you to discover!
|2013-02-03, 14:33
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As implied so far, the Saigusa does -not- care about the girls one bit. They have that strong family pride that base everything on prestige, bloodline and pedigree. As result, they gave credits to Kanata only because of criteria of success instead for what she and Haruka are.
In such harsh environnment as this one, a family representative must be -shaped- to meet the family name standards. This is especially true for old fashioned asian family regarding their offspring as the family branch future, especially if it is a girl, because it would be the corner stone to make alliance with other families and strengthen their influence (even more evident with their customs of having 2 husbands for a given woman).
Considering they only cared about Haruka and Kanata's genetics, and had to use their scholarship as a method of comparison in a last ditch of effort, you really cannot consider Kanata as cherished at all.
Oh and don't worry. I only use the knowledge I have with usual families such as these... I think I have the knack with that kind of stories (*ahem* Umineko).
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Perhaps I read more into Haruka's flashback sequence than I should have. It certainly seemed to me that Kanata was getting the cherished "Way to go, Champ!" treatment, while Haruka was being crudely cast down.
From my Canadian sensibilities, that makes me think of the classic "good daughter"/"bad daughter" conflict where one gets treated better than the other. But it sounds like something very different is at play here.
My apologies, kitten, if I'm not getting implications/hints that probably resonate loudly to people who played the game.
|2013-02-03, 14:50
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Dude, notice that in the OP Kanata's back is FULL of bruising. Hell, at t he end of the episode, Kud saw Kanata step out of the shower, naked, and was horrified.
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In general sense, "usual" classic asian family push their offspring for both the family members satisfaction and the child's own future. However, those who show no interest to anything but the glory of the family are numerous, even to this day (it sure exist with western family, but this is a cultural element that are much more numerous with eastern cultures, not only asian).
You would be surprised to find out the number of stories, real and fictions, portraying women as literal borrowed wombs, for such objective. Likewise, children are seen as stock to strengthen the bloodline, nothing more.
But back to LB, that point is self evident when they initially wanted to know who is whose daughter, even before trying to educate them. And when they couldn't have what they wanted, they basically used an arbitrary fallacy: Shou = Murderer => shame for the Saigusa => his daughter would be the same kind of people => by default, she should be inferior to the other guy's kid! Ergo, the first one being superior in scholarship would be "obviously" the legitimate child!
Even if education is the predominant factor of an individual growth and personality, they just used that archaic train of thought, so there you have it.
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Never played the game, everything I say is based purely on my speculations and how I see things.
Futaki is the family that abused Haruka so I see nothing in stopping them from abusing Kanata as well. They don't seem like a sane family and care only for their name and status.
Family expects her to be perfect and in order to be perfect in EVERYTHING it demands a lot of time and effort. To be honest it is impossible to be perfect in anything but I don't think they understand that.
And as I said Kanata got slapped for a tiny "slip of a tongue", for tiny imperfection in their eyes.
I never watched Hansaku Iroha so I have no idea who is the character or what her story and family status is. So the point is irrelevant to me.
Besides don't forget that we still have at least 1 more episode. Actually going by preview it seems to be the last one so if my speculations are correct, they'll be confirmed there.
And I would really recommend to re-watch Urd scene. It might not imply what I said but it sure tried to tell us something.
When Kanata entered the room, Urd hid under the covers. A reaction to the reason you give. I agree.
However, what was the purpose of getting surprised the other time? Actually the first time since the other reaction was just being uncomfortable and a bit scared. Second was clear surprise.
Kanata didn't say anything nor did she look at Urd. If Urd was feeling uncomfortable she would just keep observing from the covers with uncertain look. There was no need for her to get surprised unless she saw something. Creators also gave us a shot of what Urd was seeing. It is hard to see anything but I'm sure there are some clues.
My guess are lack of sleeves since I can't spot anything else.
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|2013-02-03, 15:10
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1) in this episode, Haruka herself stated she was no longer subject to abuse when she went to that school.
Also, in her flashbacks, Haruka is only shown as a child, and never as a teenager.
2) The op was showing in an obvious fashion the usual "duality" between twins, by having Haruka and Kanata on screen, but in opposite positions. Then you have Haruka shown lonely, while followed with a untied long haired girl.
|2013-02-03, 15:18
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All we have is to rely on tiny hints like slap and Urd's reaction as well as her Kanata's with Riki.
And just to make it clear again, I never played the game. Everything I said is based on what I saw and my speculations.
The reason as to why we might see things differently could be the following:
1) I duno about you but story and characters are very important factors to me. I take them very seriously especially when it comes to characters I like so I pay more attention to them.
2) Just as I mentioned before, Kanata strongly reminds me of myself. Actually Haruka should probably remind me more of myself since she was hiding all her hurt behind happy smile while Kanata seems to do it behind cold facade. I tend to use both.
This might be why I look into Kanata's character differently than you.
Oh! I only watched OP once and it was back in episode 1
Had to re-watch it and now that I've seen it, I feel like my words are closer to reality.
EDIT: OOOPPPSSSS! It looks like I messed up Kud's name everywhere! My bad!
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Thanks to Madoka Magica's OP and ED, and all of their red herrings that led to pointless speculation, I no longer even try reading anything of plot significance into anime OPs and EDs. Perhaps that creates blind spots with this anime, in fairness.
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For one, wouldn't that mean that when Haruka's acting out, Kanata is the only one that the family can punish for it? Why allow the Unfavorite to have so much freedom? Leading into the question that really bothers me:
Why would the family try to hurt her with the posters? If they were trying to punish her, couldn't they just stop paying for her schooling and residence, forcing her either back under their roof where she can't embarrass them, or else send her somewhere far away? I assume they're still her legal guardians, even if she's physically out of their reach now that she lives in residence, and isn't being groomed as the heiress.
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Paul E. Sax, M.D., is director of the HIV Program and Division of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
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