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Early, foetal and perinatal development
Within CRDSI, researchers focus on developmental processes such as gametogenesis (production of male and female gametes), gonadogenesis (differentiation of gonads and their specialized cell types), early embryogenesis, foetal and perinatal development and hormonal regulation of puberty.
On the male side,Guylain Boissonneaultis interested in the spermatogenesis process and how extreme DNA compaction can occur while preserving the integrity of the genetic material. Robert Sullivan and Clémence Bellannée demonstrated, amongst others, that following the release of spermatozoa in the lumen of the seminal tubule, gametes undergo various modifications enabling them to acquire their fertilizing power during epididymal transit. In preparation for its meeting with the oocyte, spermatozoa must undergo various important structural changes in order to be able to cross the different protection layers of the oocyte for fertilization. Pierre Leclerc andJanice Bailey study the fundamental mechanisms of the molecular cascade responsible for the fertilizing power of the male gamete. Robert Viger andJacques J Tremblay apply their molecular biology and endocrinology knowledge to study the network of molecular and hormonal factors that control morphogenesis and differentiation of somatic cells (Sertoli, Leydig) of the testis – this expertise is paramount for a better diagnostic of sexual development disorders, developmental abnormalities often found in the human population but remain poorly understood.
On the female side, Marc-André Sirard and François Richard study folliculogenesis, which corresponds to the recruitment and growth of ovarian follicles. The growth of each follicle is supported by the combined effect of many hormones that stimulate the growth of the follicle and of the gamete it contains. Knowledge remains very limited on the sequence of steps and signals leading to the production of a follicle within which the oocyte has acquired the required competencies to sustain post-fertilization development until the embryo takes charge of its own destiny. François Richard studies how follicular cells control oocytematuration while Marc-André Sirard studies how these signals impact on the quality of the oocyte. As mentioned, the quality of the oocyte determines the success of embryogenesis. Claude Robert studies the exchanges between follicular somatic cells and the oocyte and their impact on the future of the embryo.
The research interest of CRDSI researchers do not end with early embryo development but carry on through foetal and perinatal development. Yves Trembay's team is interested in foetal development and the gene expression of steroidogenesis enzymes specialized in the metabolism of sexual steroids in the placenta and foetal lungs. Indeed, the androgen and estradiol synthetized by foetal lungs and the placenta, respectively, control through their specific tissue expression key events of foetal development and in both cases, a spatio-temporal disruption in the metabolism of these steroids during pregnancy is directly linked to developmental pathologies. The innovating work of Emmanuel Bujold and Nils Chaillet, which bridge fundamental and clinical research, tackle the problem of predicting and preventing major obstetrical syndromes (in utero death, preeclampsia, premature labor, premature membrane rupture, intra-uterine growth restriction).
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Opinions expressed on Climate Audit, other than those expressed by Stephen McIntyre personally, are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Climate Audit or myself.
Ken Fritsch makes the following comment that I support:
While your efforts to avoid the implication of censoring of opposing views should be commended, I am not a little distracted by the noise levels that I find come from
(a) personal debates that frequently do not add to the knowledge base of the specific topic at hand,
(b) posters who seem to come to the discussion with the intent of having their feelings hurt or to uncover evidence of a bias towards them and/or people with their points of view,
(c ) posters who raise to the bait of these posters and thus contribute to wasted space (ad hominem ad infinitum),
(d) posters who merely seem to want to let skeptics and agnostics know at every opportunity that the circumstantial case is closed on AGW and only fools would question what they surmise to be an overwhelming and proven consensus from the climate scientists,
(e) those who make their personal cases against AGW with little or no evidence to back it up and
(f) those who seem to want to show that they can turn your efforts as a critic of some sometimes sloppy and vague climate science publishing back on you.
There are lots of places in the world where people can discuss general issues of AGW, but not many places where technical discussions of proxies can take place. I'm getting really tired of technical threads getting hijacked. If there's a thread on Lago Paco Cocha or Quelccaya Plant Deposits or a technical topic, please do not hijack for general fuming. If anyone wants to vent (and I'd prefer that you don't), vent on the Bulletin Board and stay away from the technical threads. In order to encourage this, I am warning that I may start deleting off-topic posts on the technical threads. Yeah, yeah, I'm sure that somebody will claim that they are being censored, but I'm going to try it and see if the noisiness will reduce.
Some Site Rules:
I oppose the censoring of scientific comments at realclimate and do not do that here. Unfortunately, light moderation opens the door for ad homs and taunting, which quickly involves everybody. I don't have time to monitor everything so my handling of taunting has been inconsistent: sometimes I've let it go because the person is just making a fool of himself, sometimes I've got fed up and deleted it. A reader has written with the following suggested ground rules which are hereby adopted:
Blogs like this one provide a wonderful opportunity to people like me (a retired scientist) to get involved in an ongoing debate and it is very disappointing when the debate generates into one of these slanging matches. May I suggest some ground rules for posts:
1. Refrain from personal abuse and swearing,
2. Never attribute ulterior motives to another participant
3. Be patient with people who know less science or maths than you do yourself.
People who consistently break rule 1 and 2 should be issued with a yellow card by the moderator. If they continue they get a red card and are banned from the site.
While there's a little politics from time to time, by and large, I would prefer that you don't talk politics; there are plenty of other perfectly good places to do that.
I don't allow discussion of religion and will mark anything even close as spam. I will not make any effort to snip such posts to recover salient non-offending portions.
New Posters and Auto-Moderation:
New posters sometimes get tripped up in our spam filter. Unfortunately in today's world, a blog like this gets attacked by hundreds of spams a day and they are screened by a computer filter. Some of the things that the spam filter looks for is a sudden burst of activity from an unrecognized address; it may allow some posts through and then get triggered after a while and start rejecting posts. If one of your posts doesn't go through, don't keep sending them in; it just inflames the spam filter. If you have yahoo or hotmail address, the spam filter may also screen you. Any post with multiple links may be auto-screened as well. Sometimes people get filtered for reasons that I don't understand. However, despite this, we are reliant on the spam filter. Contact us by email if you get caught up- see contact category at right.
Site Road Map
The main topic here has been millennial multiproxy climate studies. I've diversified a little, but I want to keep the focus fairly narrow as there are plenty of other places to talk about things and I think that sticking to a niche is a good idea.
Long ago, this site used to be pretty easy to follow through, but it's now sprawled out with lots of little nooks and crannies. Here's a roadmap to the site, which covers quite a bit more than our criticisms of MBH.
The Categories bar at the side is quite useful in reflecting what I think are the main themes here. Most posts that I wrote in the spring are just as topical (or untopical) now as they were then. Feel free to revive any of them. It's also surprising what you can find on google. If you do "climateaudit" and any any other word, you can usually find an old post. (It's surprising how high we get on google even on topics like "briffa climate" or "mann climate" or even other oddities like "preisendorfer".)
Some of our articles are listed in the left frame. A longer list is in the page Hockey Stick Studies. A recent exposition to the NAS panel is here. Obviously, the main calling card is the critique of the Hockey Stick diagram of Mann, Bradley and Hughes (MBH), that was featured in the IPCC Third Assessment Report and many government publications.
My own short-form summary of our views on MBH98 is this. MBH98 made 5 main warranties: statistical skill, robustness, careful proxy selection, appropriate methodology and relatively even geographical balance. These warranties were fundamental to its acceptance. (My background is in business and I think in contract terms.) All their warranties have been breached. Their reconstruction failed critical cross-validation tests (we have publicized the R2 failure, but it fails others as well); it is not robust the presence/absence of bristlecone pines; the supposedly carefully proxies included bristlecone growth, which specialists say is contaminated by 20th century fertilization; their methodology includes a wildly biased "principal components" methodology (which is not actually a principal components method). The hockey stick is an imprint of bristlecone growth rate and reflects a non-temperature proxy from an isolated geographic region of the U.S.A. Again read through the articles and the exact language there should be preferred to this short re-statement.
There has been extensive coverage -see News and Commentary – the most notable of which are the profiles by Natuurwetenschap & Techniek (translated into English) and the front page coverage by the Wall Street Journal – but there has been extensive coverage elsewhere in Science, Nature, The Economist, National Post and European newspapers. Listings here are by no means complete. There have been two published Comments – one by von Storch and Zorita and one by Huybers, both of which we made detailed (and IMHO) complete Replies. realclimate has also criticized our critique on numerous occasions. If you go to the Category – MBH98, you'll see some of our direct responses to realclimate at Errors Matter #1, # 2 and #3. The House Committee on Energy and Commerce (Barton Committee) has taken an interest in these matters and it has a Category as well.
One of the "so what"s sent our way is that the other multiproxy studies show the "same thing" and so, even if MBH is wrong, it "doesn't matter". I'm not convinced that these other studies are much good either. I've posting comments about these studies from time to time. Again go to the category Other Multiproxy Studies and there are subcategories for several of the major studies. There is a fantastic amount of overlap of authors and proxies, so that these other studies are not "independent" as ordinary people understand the term and their findings of the relative position of the Medieval Warm Period and the 20th century are very vulnerable to the bristlecones and Polar Urals series being unusable.
I've collected information on individual proxy series (see Category), which I've posted up from time to time e.g. on bristlecones, on Thompson's ice cores, etc.
I've also started to make posts on statistical topics that I think are relevant: "spurious" regression as this is understood in econometrics (where there is a much more advanced understanding of autocorrelation than exists in paleoclimate); some posts on ARMA time series – I'm interested in ARMA(1,1) processes with AR1 coefficients >0.9, which are characteristic of many processes and have some odd statistical properties.
I have an ongoing campaign to improve standards of data archiving, disclosure and due diligence -(see Category) – which are independent of any particular substantive points on paleoclimate studies. I have no idea why the "Hockey Team", as they styled themselves, have elected to withhold data and methods from scrutiny; it's an unwinnable position, but they've done so and I'll continue to criticize them on this point.
Sometimes I lapse into controversy, mostly after I've been slagged in print somewhere, but I try to stay cheerful.
As to your host, I'm pretty good at answering many questions, but have difficulty answering the question: what am I? No two public descriptions of my occupation are the same. I studied mathematics at university in a fine undergraduate program at the University of Toronto and was very competitive at it. My skills, as refreshed, are more than sufficient for what I'm doing. I've been in business nearly all my working life, most recently in financing and promoting mineral exploration projects. That gives you a lot of experience in the school of hard knocks and that counts for a lot in my opinion. (One of my underlying themes is that disclosure standards for climate scientists should be at least as high as that required of mining promoters.) One public mineral exploration company with which I was involved underwent a reverse takeover and became an oil exploration company (when I ceased to be an officer and director of the company.) I've done a very small amount of business consulting for it, but no energy consultant would call me an "energy consultant", nor would I describe myself as one. In terms of occupation, right now, this is what I'm doing. No one's paying me to do this and there is a substantial opportunity cost for me personally in doing this, but I enjoy it and can afford to do it for a while. (Given that our work has attracted enough interest that public funds have been employed to criticize it, I see no a priori reason why I should do it for nothing and make no long-term commitment to wear a hair shirt.)
I like the feedback. So look at the Categories to crosscut the sprawl here. I'm amazed at the number of hits that the blog receives. It seems to have found a niche and I'm amazed at some of the people who have found it. I particularly welcome the comments and feedback. Lots of hits are for that exchange rather than for me and, if I didn't get the feedback, I wouldn't keep up the blog.
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Law enforcement agents in New Jersey have redoubled efforts to fight what they worry could be one of the biggest menaces to come with next month's Super Bowl: sex trafficking.
Hundreds of thousands of visitors are expected to descend on New Jersey for the Feb. 2 football game. Many believe the state's sprawling highway system, proximity to New York City and diverse population make it an attractive base of operations for traffickers.
"New Jersey has a huge trafficking problem," said U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., who is co-chairman of the House anti-human trafficking caucus. "One Super Bowl after another after another has shown itself to be one of the largest events in the world where the cruelty of human trafficking goes on for several weeks."
Law enforcement in New Jersey has worked for years to battle forced prostitution. The state strengthened its human trafficking law in early 2013, but it hit a roadblock in August when a federal judge ruled that a portion of the law that pertains to commercial sex ads posted online may conflict with federal legislation. The state is appealing.
There are scant statistics and much debate over how much sex trafficking increases during a Super Bowl or other large sporting event, but it's been enough of a concern to prompt New Jersey and previous Super Bowl host cities to pay attention to it.
Danielle Douglas, a speaker and advocate who identifies herself as a sex-trafficking survivor, said any major sporting event attracts sex traffickers looking to make money.
"The Super Bowl is a huge, huge arena for sex trafficking," Douglas said. Some visitors "are coming to the Super Bowl not even to watch football — they are coming to the Super Bowl to have sex with women, and/or men or children."
Soon after the announcement that the 2014 Super Bowl would be held at MetLife Stadium, New Jersey officials set up training for legions of law enforcement personnel, hospitality workers, high school students, airport employees and others on identifying the signs of sex trafficking. Local houses of worship are handing out fliers notifying congregants of warning signs, and truckers are being trained to look for people — mostly women but also men — who may be held against their will. Sex trafficking, to be prosecuted as such, must involve — unlike prostitution — not only a buyer and seller of sex but also a pimp or trafficker controlling the transaction, according to the New Jersey attorney general's office.
Officials are also warning the public to watch for people who are forced into labor and individual pimps exerting control over young women and men who are oftentimes underage.
"We've enlisted, basically, every service provider that people coming to the Super Bowl are going to run into," Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman said. "There are a lot of eyes that are going to be on their activities and going to be on spotting potential victims of this crime."
The Super Bowl task force convened by Hoffman's office is composed of state, local and federal law enforcement officers, community groups, social workers and others. Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli said ads are starting to pop up on Internet sites and law enforcement officials are gleaning information from them.
"When you're about ready to have 400,000 men come to this area of the country," Molinelli said, "you're invariably going to have more people try to take advantage of that by providing prostitutes and prostitution."
Officials in Texas, Louisiana and Indiana strengthened efforts to combat sex trafficking ahead of previous Super Bowls. In Arizona, which will host the 2015 Super Bowl, U.S. Sen. John McCain's wife, Cindy, has been speaking out, calling the Super Bowl the "largest human-trafficking venue on the planet."
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After Rihanna read a text message on [Chris] Brown's phone from a woman, he tried to force Rihanna out of the car, but couldn't because she was wearing her seatbelt. Brown then allegedly slammed Rihanna's head against her window, and when Rihanna turned to face him, he punched her.
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Rihanna, who turned 21 a few weeks after the incident, was beaten severely enough to require hospitalization. Brown, 19, who reportedly had a history of violence toward Rihanna, turned himself in and was charged with two felonies.
[The just-world hypothesis] refers to the tendency for people to want to believe that the world is "just" so strongly that when they witness an otherwise inexplicable injustice they will rationalize it by searching for things that the victim might have done to deserve it. This deflects their anxiety, and lets them continue to believe the world is a just place, but at the expense of blaming victims for things that were not, objectively, their fault.
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In . . . [one] study, subjects were told two versions of a story about an interaction between a woman and a man. Both variations were exactly the same, except at the very end the man raped the woman in one and in the other he proposed marriage. In both conditions, subjects viewed the woman's (identical) actions as inevitably leading to the (very different) results
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A survey conducted by the Boston Public Health Commission on the dating violence incident involving pop music idols Chris Brown and Rihanna revealed that nearly half of Boston youths surveyed said she was "responsible" for what happened while 52 percent said they were both to blame.
"The story of Chris Brown and Rihanna may have happened 3,000 miles away, but it is very much a Boston story," said Casey Corcoran, director of the Public Health Commission's new Start Strong program.
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- 44% said fighting was a normal part of a relationship
- 51% said Chris Brown was responsible for the incident
- 46% said Rihanna was responsible for the incident
- 52% said both individuals were to blame for the incident, despite knowing at the time that
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- 52% said the media were treating Chris Brown unfairly
In addition, a significant number of males and females in the survey said Rihanna was destroying Chris Brown's career, and females were no less likely than males to come to Rihanna's defense.
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Parking at Nationals Park – The Real Tragedy
As the inaugural presidents race at Nationals Park approaches, get ready to hear Stan Kasten shouting "Take Metro!" on every media outlet in town. Parking availability will be slim to none around the new Nationals Park.
As somebody who used to leave his office at 6:30 by car, and be in his seat at RFK in time for the star spangled banner, this won't be an easy transition. But it's a fair enough compromise. RFK Stadium was unusually accessible by car for an inner city ball park, with major highways funneling right into a parking lot. We couldn't expect the same to be true of any other location. The Navy Yard metro stop is close enough to the new Nationals Park, and there are tens of thousands of parking spots at metro stations. In the end, I could cry about parking availability all I want, but I doubt I'd want to be exiting Nationals Park by car, since (unlike RFK) I'll be hitting surface roads with traffic cops and post-game crowds crossing streets. The thought sends shivers of FedEx Field flashbacks up my spine.
No, the scarcity of parking spaces is not the real tragedy here. The real tragedy is taking shape over the left and center field walls, where construction is almost complete on the two above-ground garages that were part of the deal with major league baseball to approve the stadium site. Everybody knew that above-ground garages would be unappealing, but in a classic case of bureaucratic decision making, that's what got approved. Major League Baseball held fast to its deadline, the city and the team held fast to their budget, and the rest of us get stuck with these two ugly behemoths for generations to come.
As unforgivable acts of civic shortsitedness go, this one tops my list as a Washington Nationals fan. When I learned of the plan to build these garages above ground, I was extremely disappointed, but when I saw them for myself on a recent tour of the new stadium, I was positively stunned. If they had to be above ground, did they still have to be right over the outfield walls by the stadium's main entrance? The photo to the right is from the location of the owner's suite behind home plate. Yes, that's the U.S. Capitol dome being blocked by the new garage. Sure, they're going cover the garage with advertising posters and plant cherry trees in front of it, but is this the DC skyline view we were promised?
For everybody's sake, I hope that the team, the city, and major league baseball can start thinking beyond the outfield walls. The new Nationals Park should be a source of civic and fan pride, but that can't come 100% from the amenities within the park. New ballparks should integrate and represent the neighborhood and the city, becoming attractions unto themselves, drawing tourists when they come to town, and driving ticket sales even when the team falls short of expectations. This isn't rocket science. You don't have to have the Rocky Mountains of Denver or the San Francisco Bay to pull it off. New ballparks have taken advantage of the comparatively nondescript skylines of Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Milwaukee. You'd think we could have done better.
With luck, the new Nationals Park will pour in buckets of money for both the city and the Washington Nationals team, and additional parking options will built in the adjacent neighborhood in the next couple of years. Then perhaps we can have some serious discussions about ripping these things down and starting over.
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When Jessica Lange, who plays a 'Supreme' witch on 'American Horror Story: Coven,' butts heads with her estranged daughter (Sarah Paulson), she does what any snarky mom with mystical abilities would do: She issues a threat.
'Don't make me drop a house on you,' she hisses.
Ah, there's nothing like a blast of wry witch humor to keep viewers spellbound.
Get used to it. This fall has become the season of the witch on television, and not just for Halloween. Magical sorceresses and she-devils are everywhere, from the latest version of Ryan Murphy's 'AHS' scarefest on FX, to the new Lifetime series, 'Witches of East End.'
Witches also play prominent roles on 'The Originals,' where they're waging war with vampires. There's a Salem-era witch on the breakout hit 'Sleepy Hollow,' and this weekend, Catherine Bell brings her charm to the latest installment of Hallmark's 'The Good Witch' movie series. There's even a new 'Sabrina' cartoon for the kiddies on the Hub network.
So why the sudden uptick of toil and trouble? These days, viewers are obsessed with supernatural shenanigans in general, explains Julie D. O'Reilly, author of 'Bewitched Again: Supernaturally Powerful Women on Television, 1996-2011.' And it just makes sense that witches get their moment in the spotlight.
'The genre goes through cycles,' she says. 'We've obviously gone through an extensive vampire cycle, and we're not out of it yet. We've had some werewolves and zombies and some reinvention with those characters. Now we're finally getting back around to witches.'
Tim Minear, an executive producer for 'Coven,' thinks audiences are drawn to witches in much the same way they're attracted to superheroes.
'On some level, we wish we had superpowers,' he says. 'And like with, say, 'The X-Men,' everyone can relate to feeling like an outsider, and we all have a longing for a family or a tribe. Add some special power into that mix and you've got something.'
Witches on the small screen are nothing new, of course. Ever since Samantha Stephens began twitching her nose and making life difficult for a couple of mortal Darrins, numerous female spell-casters have come and gone, from the quirky Sabrina Spellman ('Sabrina, the Teenage Witch'), to the increasingly dark and powerful Willow ('Buffy the Vampire Slayer') and the Halliwell sisters of 'Charmed,' right up through the witches who haunt 'True Blood,' 'The Vampire Diaries' and other shows.
For O'Reilly, Elizabeth Montgomery's Samantha of 'Bewitched' fame is still the leader of the pack.
'She was TV's first featured female character with powers, and she remains the archetype for all the witches who have followed,' she says. 'Even though the show was campy and corny, it was ahead of its time in that it depicted her as the strong one and Darrin as the bumbling one. She was the backbone of the family in a lot of ways. She had the power in the relationship and was the one who made things happen.'
With casts dominated by women of various ages, 'Coven' and 'East End' continue that feminist bent, but they do so in dramatically different ways. 'Coven' is intense, scary and occasionally disturbing. 'East End,' based on a best-selling novel by Melissa de la Cruz, is relatively light and romantic, with some occasional shudders tossed in.
Both shows, however, avoid depicting witches as what de la Cruz describes as the 'hag with the poison apple.'
'You don't see any old ladies living alone with cats,' she says. 'These witches are much sexier.'
Set in a secluded Long Island town, 'East End' centers on the adventures of a mother (Julia Ormond) and her two adult daughters (Rachel Boston and Jenna Dewan-Tatum) – both of whom are just discovering they possess witchy powers because mom had chosen to keep that little secret from them. Now that a sinister shape-shifter has arrived to terrorize them, the siblings must band together and learn their craft at a highly accelerated pace.
De la Cruz, who spent much of her career writing about teen characters, says 'East End' represented a chance to combine her love of the supernatural with a desire to focus on strong women in a family setting.
'I wanted to make a statement about female power and sisterhood and motherhood,' she says. 'But then I had to decide what and who they are. Witches, of course. … Broomsticks and potions and curses and magic spells? What's not to like?'
'Coven,' meanwhile, is set in New Orleans and weaves a complex tale about supernaturally gifted debutantes at a finishing school for witches. How gifted? One young student, played by Taissa Farmiga, can actually kill men simply by having sex with them.
In this crazy-scary world, which also features Kathy Bates and Angela Bassett as devilish dames, witches are facing extinction, thanks in part to escalating attacks on their kind. Lange plays Fiona, an all-powerful sorceress who steels her girls for battle.
'When witches don't fight, we burn,' she insists.
'Coven,' explains Minear, represented a chance to take the 'AHS' anthology series in a wildly different direction.
'In the previous two seasons, we were finding a strong, almost feminist, undercurrent to a lot of what we were doing. … (And) going back to even something like the original 'Halloween,' with Jamie Lee Curtis, modern horror is often about female power fighting back. That, along with the astonishing women we'd collected, made it seem perfect.'
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If writing for Lainey Gossip has taught me anything, it's this: always screen cap a celebrity Twitter feed.
Last night, a bizarre spat broke out between CNN anchor Don Lemon and Jonah Hill. Lemon ran into Hill at a hotel, said hello (as people do), and concluded that it was a "lesson to always be kind." Jonah's lesson obviously. Lemon tweeted:
Said hi to @jonahhill in hotel. Think he thought i was bellman. Didn't know his name til bellman told me. A lesson to always be kind.
And if that tweet had gone out without a response, it would have died pretty quickly. But no, a BIG STAR like Jonah Hill can't get pushed around by someone who doesn't even know Brad Pitt. Jonah Hill is FRIENDS with Brad Pitt, ok?
So Jonah responded:
"I said hi what do you want me to do move in with you? I was in a hurry. Didn't realize you were a 12-year-old girl. Peace."
Let's assume he didn't know Don is gay (even though it was a pretty big story when he came out) and Jonah's just trying to quiet Don by saying he gave all the time he could. Stars know when they are being fangirled, and really how long are they supposed to stand there and be told how great/funny/cool they are?
Don answered:
"Hardly. You're not my type. But I know rude."
Jonah then tried to brush it off with a quick explanation that they shook hands and said hello, and sorry if that wasn't enough for Don. This is where it went from funny to pompous: his response is downright passive-aggressive. He's saying that he did his public duty – shook hands and said hello – and there shouldn't be an expectation for more. That "sorry" is condescending. If he had stuck with humour, Jonah would have looked affable and Don would have seemed like a whiner.
Jonah's used a situation like this to his advantage before (except he was on the other end): on the Moneyball circuit, he told a story about overhearing Chace Crawford and Matthew Morrison making fun of him at a party. He got a lot of mileage out of that because he prepared a great story that made his sensitivity funny. (Source). The key there is that he was ready for those talk shows, he had a rehearsed narrative, he wasn't replying impulsively. And now he's inconsistent: you can't set yourself up as the affable everydude and then get pissy when someone says hello. If you want to have your head up your ass, do it consistently (like James Franco – would anyone be surprised if this story was about James Franco?). If you are going to be nice – like Hugh Jackman – you always have to be nice. And if you are going to be precious – like Joseph Gordon-Levitt– then be precious.
But clearly Jonah regretted the exchange because he promptly deleted the tweets. What is the point of this? It just guarantees that assholes like me will proudly show off their screencap.
Don and the bellman then had a laugh at Jonah's expense at how "self-important"ly he behaved. This illustrates a few things, but the first tweet is the one that's nagging me. So what if he thought Don was the bellman? Bellmen say hello (I'm sure they often don't feel like it); shouldn't the bellman get the same hello that another "celebrity" would? Putting that aside, it's not that Jonah didn't say hello, it was that he acted like a jerk when he said it. Meanwhile, Don was hanging with the hotel staff and laughing at the pompous Hollywood star.
Is Don being a sucky baby? Yes, of course. He demonstrated as much on CNN (click here for the clip) this morning when he talked about the incident in detail. Don said hello and claims Jonah treated him like "the help." That's a pretty loaded phrase, but let's say that Don didn't have his CNN desk– Jonah, do you think your good friend Brad Pitt or his good friend George Clooney brush off "the help"? Never. If you want to be a movie star, it's a full-time job (yes, even if you are coming out of the bathroom at a hotel). This is what we should appreciate so much in the George, Tom (Hanks and Cruise), Brad model of fame – they are always "on" in public, ready with a handshake and a smile. OF COURSE they too want to get away from the fangirls as quickly as possible but they are also really, really good at faking otherwise.
Humour has been Jonah's go-to, both in films and in interviews, and he's firmly ensconced in the Apatow crew. Remember when he did the spoof shot with Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen and Jason Segel for Vanity Fair (link)? But now that he's "grown up," he's trying to present himself as a Serious Actor. If Hollywood is high school, he was the class clown who became head quarterback overnight. And he does not want to say hi to his old friends in the hallway.
For an overweight guy in Hollywood, funny was a necessity. Now that he's rolling with the popular kids, with "comma Oscar-nominated" next to his name, he doesn't want to stick a straw up his nose in the cafeteria and he certainly doesn't want to be reminded of it by a stranger stopping him in a lobby to tell him he's "funny." It probably chaps his ass that people still by and large consider him a comedic actor.
Ultimately, this is why celebrities, especially ones with d-ck-like tendencies, should stay far, far away from Twitter. It's like truth serum for them; they can't hide their ridiculousness when they are posting their own tweets. You know what else Jonah puts up? "Throwback" photos of him with Brad and Rooney Mara at award shows and US Weekly PDFs of him on set with Scorsese. Click here to see.
I just want to be clear here:
He posts photos of himself from magazines with famous people to prove-boast that they're tight. Um, it was fine when he first drooled over working with Brad Pitt – who wouldn't? – but now it feels like one giant humblebrag. And it proves…
He is still That Guy.
That Guy who's excited about these people and looking around at what he's accomplished and that's great…
But it's also inconsistent with the prick who can't be bothered with the fawning help at a hotel, right?
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Here in the Ars science section, we cover a lot of interesting research that may eventually lead to the sort of technology discussed in other areas of the site. In many cases, that sort of deployment will be years away (assuming it ever happens). But in a couple of fields, the rapid pace of proof-of-principle demonstrations hints that commercialization isn't too far beyond the horizon.
One of these areas is quantum key distribution between places that aren't in close proximity. Quantum keys hold the promise of creating a unique, disposable key on demand in such a way that any attempts to eavesdrop will quickly become obvious. We know how to do this over relatively short distances using fiber optic cables, so the basic technique is well-established. Throughout the past couple of years, researchers have been getting rid of the cables: first by sending quantum information across a lake, then by exchanging it between two islands.
The latter feat involved a distance of 144km, which is getting closer to the sorts of altitudes occupied by satellites. But exchanging keys with satellites would seem to add a significant challenge—they move. Over the weekend, Nature Photonics published a paper that indicates we shouldn't necessarily view that as an obstacle. The paper describes a team of German researchers who managed to obtain quantum keys transmitted from a moving aircraft.
The aircraft in question was a Dornier 228 turboprop in which the authors set up a shock-protected optical bench to generate the photons they needed for the experiment. Those were sent via a fiber optic cable to a transmitter on the underside of the aircraft. This included tracking equipment that allowed it to keep the transmissions pointed at a specific ground station.
That ground station was a 40cm telescope operated by the German Aerospace Center. It was kept pointed at the aircraft by using GPS coordinates transmitted by the aircraft over classical communications channels. Once it had a fix, a beacon laser was used to illuminate the aircraft, confirming that a directional link had been established. At that point, the plane's hardware could start transmitting bits using the polarization of photons.
Since this was a proof of principle, the authors simply rotated through four potential polarizations in order to ensure that they could tell when the ground station was picking up the appropriate bit. One of the big problems was noise. Each second, the ground station's detectors were picking up background noise at a rate of about 1,000 events per second, while the aircraft was only transmitting 800 bits per second (so there was a lot of noise to filter out). Some of this was actually from the aircraft's blinking anticollision light, which the detector picked up nicely.
By filtering out the noise (and discarding anything from when the anticollision light flashed), the authors were able to achieve a rate of about 145 bits a second. Adding the extra information needed to detect eavesdropping would drop that to eight bits a second. That would be a horrific rate for transmitting data, but remember, these are just the bits of a key. Once the key is established, encrypted communications can take place on much faster channels. If they were willing to gather keys for a while, they could get as many as 80 kilobits in a single passage of the plane.
In the end, the authors say that the hard part was developing the pointing system and developing a system that could account for the rotation of the hardware as it tracked, which can otherwise skew the measurements. But with those developed, it seems that exchanging keys with a free-moving object is relatively straightforward. We may not be ready to put this in orbit yet, but it certainly seems like we're getting very close to being ready to try.
Nature Photonics, 2013. DOI: 10.1038/NPHOTON.2013.46 (About DOIs).


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Treasures: Hamon vase paperweight secures function and beauty
Dear Helaine and Joe:
This solid piece of glass with a slight depression in the neck is signed by Robert L. Hamon and was given to me by my employer, who advised me to "take care of it." The piece is 10 inches tall. Any information you can give me — especially its value — would be appreciated.
Thank you,
A.M.B., The Villages, Fla.
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We agree with your boss — take care of this piece. It is very beautiful and someday may be very valuable.
Looking at the photograph, we feel that this piece should be termed a "paperweight vase." Hamon was famous for his paperweights and this piece combines the paperweight function with the utility of being a vase.
The classical period for glass paperweights began in France about 1845 and their popularity continued through the 1860s. The big three manufacturers in France were Baccarat, Clincy and St. Louis, and in America, the big two were the New England Glass Co. and the Boston and Sandwich Co.
Several companies in England also made handcrafted paperweights, including George Bacchus and Son, and Islington Glass Works. Nineteenth-century paperweights of some note were also made in Venice, on the Italian island of Murano and in Bohemia.
These came in a variety of forms, of which we will mention just three.
First, there is the millefiori weight ("millefiori" is Italian for "thousand flowers"), which are made by creating canes from clusters of various colored rods of glass. The glass canes are cut into thin pieces resembling flower heads, then assembled in patterns and encased in a dome-shaped mass of glass.
Second, there is the lampwork paperweight, which is made by crafting images of flowers, fruit, butterflies or animals from glass using a "lamp" or Bunsen burner. These, too, are incorporated into a pleasing, artistic design inside a glass dome.
Finally, there are sulphide paperweights, which have a cameolike plaque (often a portrait) made of a special ceramic material encased in the glass. There are also swirl paperweights, crown paperweights (made from ribbons of glass) and advertising paperweights (among others).
Paperweights became popular once again in the mid-20th century, and many artists such as Paul Stankard, Charles Kaziun, Paul Ysart, Jim D'Onofrio and Chris Buzzini, plus manufacturers such as Lundberg Studios, Orient & Flume, Charles Lotton, and Correia Glass, expanded and perfected the art form.
Hamon Glass is located in Scott Depot, W.Va., and was founded by Robert L. Hamon's father, O.B. Hamon. Robert Hamon started blowing glass at the age of 10, and in the 1960s he brought his father's company into the forefront of contemporary American art-glass manufacturing with his paperweights and marbles.
The piece in today's question is a prime example of Hamon's work, and its size and intricacy make it something of a rarity. However, since Hamon's death in 2003, the secondary market has been trying to establish the value of his work to collectors.
We checked the auction market and found Hamon paperweights selling for as low as $40 and as high as around $200. In the long run, we think this is much too low a price for a spectacular Hamon paperweight vase such as this one and — in our opinion — it will greatly increase over time.
Helaine Fendelman and Joe Rosson are the authors of "Price It Yourself" (HarperResource, $19.95). Contact them at Treasures in Your Attic, P.O. Box 18350, Knoxville, TN 37928. Email them at email@example.com.


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Today's News: Our Take - Jimmy Kimmel Slams Jay Leno: "He Totally Sold Out"
Despite the fact that he'll be going head-to-head against David Letterman when his late-night talk show moves from midnight to 11:35 p.m. next week, Jimmy Kimmel has nothing but good things to say about his new rival. But Jay Leno, on the other hand? Not so much.
"As a comedian, you can't not have disdain for what he's done: He totally sold out," Kimmel told Rolling Stone, as reported by the New York Daily News. "He was a master chef who opened a Burger King."
This isn't the first time Kimmel has blasted Leno. During the Tonight Show debacle in 2010, Kimmel did a scathing impersonation of Leno on his show (check it out below) and slammed him while appearing on Leno's then-prime-time show. Leno later said he felt "sucker-punched" by Kimmel.
As for Letterman, who recently dissed Leno again, Kimmel says of his idol: "If I beat David Letterman in the ratings, does that mean I'm better than Letterman? No f---ing way."
Kimmel adds that he and fellow late-night host Jimmy Fallon are ready to eventually fill the Leno-Letterman rivalry void after the two retire.
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Women suing an employer for sexual harassment will have to provide a court official with their social media and e-mail passwords. The novel procedure was announced by a Colorado federal magistrate judge earlier this month. Wendy Cabrera is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against the Honeybaked Ham Company. She and about 20 other women charge that company manager James Jackman "frequently" groped women under his supervision and made sexual requests of them. The woman say the corporate office failed to take action to stop his behavior after it was reported.
Honeybaked Ham argues it needs copies of certain Facebook postings, e-mails, text messages, and other private communications of the plaintiffs in order to defend itself. For example, the company says Cabrera discussed "her financial expectations in this lawsuit" on her Facebook page, which the company says could be useful to establish the plaintiff's motive. The firm also said she posted a picture of Cabrera wearing "a shirt with the word 'CUNT' in large letters written across the front." The defense argues this picture is relevant to the case because Cabrera has charged the word was "used pejoratively against her," and caused her offense.
That's not even all of it. Honeybaked Ham says it will need "other writings addressing her positive outlook on how her life was post-termination, her self-described sexual aggressiveness, statements about actions she engaged in as a supervisor with Defendant, sexually amorous communications with other class members, her post-termination employment and income opportunities and financial condition." And it wants similar information from the other women participating as plaintiffs in the lawsuit.
In a November 7 order recently spotted by Venkat Balasubramani, Magistrate Judge Michael E. Hegarty acknowledged much of the information sought by Honeybaked Ham is potentially relevant to the lawsuit. He noted "the whole area of social media presents thorny and novel issues with which courts are only now coming to grips." However, he said "the fact that [information] exists in cyberspace on an electronic device is a logistical and, perhaps, financial problem, but not a circumstance that removes the information from accessibility by a party opponent in litigation."
So Judge Hegarty announced he will appoint a "special master" to oversee the process of producing this evidence. He then ordered all the women who signed onto the lawsuit to give the special master access to their cell phones, "necessary information to access any social media websites used," and "necessary information to access any e-mail account or Web blog or similar/related electronically accessed Internet or remote location used for communication with others or posting communications or pictures" since 2009.
Once the information has been produced, the judge will decide which information is relevant to the lawsuit, give the plaintiffs a chance to object to the disclosures, and then turn over appropriate information to the defendants. The costs of this process will be split between the plaintiffs and defendant.
Balasubramani, an attorney who contributes to Eric Goldman's Technology and Marketing Law Blog, is not a fan of this arrangement. "Requiring disclosure of passwords should be completely off the list" of techniques courts use during the discovery process, he argued. "Apart from the fact that this results in disclosure of or access to the entire contents of the account (including information that is not relevant or information that is covered by the Stored Communications Act) it may result in unwitting changes to the account." Instead, Balasubramani recommends that parties be compelled to export data from sites like Facebook and provide the exported data to the court.


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NCAA Tournament: A roundup of Thursday's Sweet Sixteen games
WASHINGTON — It took winning a national title for Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim to get over a late-shot loss to Indiana the last time the schools played in the NCAA tournament.
This meeting, 26 years later, was never close enough to come down to the final seconds, thanks mostly to Boeheim's trademark 2-3 zone defense. Now he has the Orange one victory from getting back to the Final Four.
Limiting Indiana to its lowest output of the season while forcing 19 turnovers and blocking 10 shots, fourth-seeded Syracuse used Michael Carter-Williams' 24 points to upset the No. 1 seed Hoosiers 61-50 Thursday night and reach the East Regional final.
After getting past preseason No. 1 Indiana, Syracuse (29-9) will face No. 3 seed Marquette on Saturday night in an all-Big East matchup for a berth in the Final Four. Boeheim and the Orange haven't been to the national semifinals since Carmelo Anthony led them to the 2003 title.
Ross, the Buckeyes' remarkable reserve, scored 14 of his 17 points in the second half for second-seeded Ohio State (29-7), which rallied from an early 11-point deficit and weathered the sixth-seeded Wildcats' late charge for its 11th consecutive victory since mid-February.
Deshaun Thomas scored 20 points for Ohio State, and Aaron Craft added 13 before ceding the Buckeyes' final shot to Ross. Craft hit an awfully similar 3-pointer against Iowa State last Sunday to send Ohio State forward.
Mark Lyons' acrobatic three-point play for the Wildcats (27-8) had tied it with 21.8 seconds left.
Craft dribbled down the clock and gave the ball to Ross, who coolly drilled his second 3-pointer and set off a wild celebration in the Ohio State section of the Arizona-dominated crowd.
Ohio State will play Saturday against the winner of the late game between underdogs Wichita State and La Salle.
Wichita State 72, La Salle 58
Wichita State went from sweet to elite, beating La Salle 72-58 on Thursday night to reach the final eight of the NCAA tournament for the first time in 32 years.
Malcolm Armstead scored 18 points, Carl Hall added 16 points and freshman Ron Baker 13 for the ninth-seeded Shockers, who proved their upset of No. 1 seed Gonzaga in the third round was no fluke. They never trailed in this matchup of small schools whose past NCAA tourney success was long buried in the history books.
The Shockers advanced to Saturday's West Regional final against No. 2 seed Ohio State, a 73-70 winner over Arizona in the first semifinal at Staples Center. Their yellow-clad fans, several waving handmade signs, made up nearly all of the smaller crowd that stuck around to see the end.
Marquette 71, Miami 61
After sweating through a pair of edge-of-your-seat comebacks early in the NCAA tournament, Vander Blue and Marquette figured out how to put one away early as the Golden Eagles earned their first trip to the Elite Eight since 2003 with a victory over Miami.
Blue, who spurred the rallies that beat Davidson by one and Butler by two, finished with 14 points. He wasn't Marquette's leading scorer — that was Jamil Wilson with 16 — but it was Blue's offensive and defensive energy that pushed the Golden Eagles to a double-digit lead in the first half, a spread Miami never came close to making up.
The third-seeded Golden Eagles (26-8) will face either top-seeded Indiana or No. 4 seed Syracuse in the East Regional final on Saturday, aiming for a spot in the Final Foul for the first time since Dwyane Wade took them there a decade ago.
Miami (29-7) made only 35 percent of its field goals and missed 18 of 26 3-pointers. Shane Larkin scored 14 points to lead the second-seeded Hurricanes, whose NCAA run to the round of 16 matched the best in school history.
Marquette, meanwhile, shot 54 percent, a stark turnaround from its 38 percent rate from the first two games in the tournament. Davante Gardner added 14 points, with 12 coming in the second half when the Golden Eagles were comfortably ahead.


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As they have done every year since Nationals Park was opened, the Pirates brought their racing pierogie mascots along for the ride to participate in the 4th-inning presidents race.
Teddy, in particular, had some unfinished business with the pierogies, but fans hoping for Teddy to leverage his home field advantage were sorely disappointed.
The four pierogies started the race at the opposite end of the course, running towards the predidents. Pierogies Sauerkraut Saul and Oliver Onion went straight for Thomas Jefferson and Teddy, plowing into them hard enough to knock them into the air.
Cheese Chester broke off and dragged down Lincoln, but Jalapeño Hannah simply missed her assignment, leaving George Washington with a clear path to the finish line.
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|SRC-487HCL Optional Service: Optional requirements on this protein
|Product Overview :
|Human SRC Kinase / Proto-oncogene c-Src derived in Baculovirus-Insect cells. The whole cell lysate is provided in 1X Sample Buffer.Browse all transfected cell lysate positive controls
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|Transfected cells were cultured for 48hrs before collection. The cells were lysed in modified RIPA buffer with cocktail of protease inhibitors. Cell debris was removed by centrifugation and then centrifuged to clarify the lysate. The cell lysate was boiled for 5 minutes in 1 x SDS sample buffer (50 mM Tris-HCl pH 6.8, 12.5% glycerol, 1% sodium dodecylsulfate, 0.01% bromophenol blue) containing 5% b-mercaptoethanol, and lyophilized.
|Lysis buffer :
|Modified RIPA Lysis Buffer: 50 mM Tris-HCl pH 7.4, 150 mM NaCl, 1mM EDTA, 1% Triton X-100, 0.1% SDS, 1% Sodium deoxycholate, 1mM PMSF
|Quality control Testing :
|12.5% SDS-PAGE Stained with Coomassie Blue
|Recommended Usage :
|1. Centrifuge the tube for a few seconds and ensure the pellet at the bottom of the tube.2. Re-dissolve the pellet using 200μL pure water and boiled for 2-5 min.3. Store it at -80°C. Recommend to aliquot the cell lysate into smaller quantities for optimal storage. Avoid repeated freeze-thaw cycles.Notes:The lysate is ready to load on SDS-PAGE for Western blot application. If dissociating conditions are required, add reducing agent prior to heating.
|Stability :
|Samples are stable for up to twelve months from date of receipt at -80°C
|Storage Buffer :
|50 mM Tris-HCl pH 7.4, 150 mM NaCl, 1mM EDTA, 1% Triton X-100, 0.1% SDS, 1% Sodium deoxycholate, 1mM PMSF
|Storage Instruction :
|Lysate samples are stable for 12 months from date of receipt when stored at -80°C. Avoid repeated freeze-thaw cycles. Prior to SDS-PAGE fractionation, boil the lysate for 5 minutes.
|Gene Name :
|SRC v-src sarcoma (Schmidt-Ruppin A-2) viral oncogene homolog (avian) [ Homo sapiens ]
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|Synonyms :
|SRC; v-src sarcoma (Schmidt-Ruppin A-2) viral oncogene homolog (avian); SRC1, v src avian sarcoma (Schmidt Ruppin A 2) viral oncogene homolog; proto-oncogene tyrosine-protein kinase Src; ASV; c src; proto-oncogene c-Src; tyrosine kinase pp60c-src; tyrosine-protein kinase SRC-1; protooncogene SRC, Rous sarcoma; SRC1; c-SRC; p60-Src;
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|ADP signalling through P2Y purinoceptor 1, organism-specific biosystem; Adaptive Immune System, organism-specific biosystem; Adherens junction, organism-specific biosystem; Adherens junction, conserved biosystem; Alpha-synuclein signaling, organism-specific biosystem; Alpha6-Beta4 Integrin Signaling Pathway, organism-specific biosystem; Androgen Receptor Signaling Pathway, organism-specific biosystem;
|Function :
|ATP binding; SH2 domain binding; SH3/SH2 adaptor activity; ephrin receptor binding; heme binding; integrin binding; ion channel binding; kinase activity; non-membrane spanning protein tyrosine kinase activity; nucleotide binding; protein binding; protein kinase activity; protein kinase activity; protein tyrosine kinase activity; receptor binding;
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VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI bid an emotional farewell Wednesday to his flock on the eve of his retirement, recalling in his final speech as pontiff moments of "joy and light" during his papacy but also times of difficulty when "it seemed like the Lord was sleeping."
An estimated 150,000 people flooded St. Peter's Square for Benedict's last general audience, eager to show their support and bear witness to the final hours of a papacy that will go down in history as the first one in 600 years to end in resignation rather than death.
Benedict clearly enjoyed the occasion, taking a long victory lap around the square in an open-sided car and stopping to kiss and bless half a dozen babies handed to him by his secretary. Seventy cardinals, some tearful, sat in solemn attendance – then gave him a standing ovation at the end of his speech.
Benedict then made a quick exit, foregoing the typical meet-and-greet session that follows the audience as if to not prolong the goodbye.
Given the historic moment, Benedict also eschewed his typical professorial Wednesday catechism lesson and instead gave a personal, heartfelt final address, explaining once again why he was retiring but assuring his flock of 1.2 billion that he was not abandoning them.
"To love the church means also to have the courage to take difficult, painful decisions, always keeping the good of the church in mind, not oneself," Benedict said to thundering applause.
He noted that a pontiff has no privacy – neither as pope, nor in his future role as emeritus pope: "He belongs always and forever to everyone, to the whole church."
During his eight years as pope, Benedict said he had had "moments of joy and light, but also moments that haven't been easy … moments of turbulent seas and rough winds, as has occurred in the history of the church when it seemed like the Lord was sleeping."
But he said he never felt alone, that God always guided him, and he thanked his cardinals and colleagues for their support and for "understanding and respecting this important decision."
The pope's tenure has been beset by the clerical sex abuse scandal, discord over everything from priestly celibacy to women's ordination, and most recently the betrayal by his own butler who stole his private papers and leaked them to a journalist.
Under a bright sun and blue skies, the square was overflowing with pilgrims and curiosity-seekers. Those who couldn't get in picked spots along the main boulevard leading to the square to watch the event on giant TV screens. About 50,000 tickets were requested for Benedict's final master class. In the end, the Vatican estimated that 150,000 people flocked to the farewell.
"It's difficult – the emotion is so big," said Jan Marie, a 53-year-old Roman in his first years as a seminarian. "We came to support the pope's decision."
With chants of "Benedetto!" erupting often, the mood was far more buoyant than during the pope's final Sunday blessing. It recalled the jubilant turnouts that often accompanied him at World Youth Days and events involving his predecessor, Pope John Paul II.
Benedict has said he decided to retire after realizing that, at 85, he simply didn't have the "strength of mind or body" to carry on.
"I have taken this step with the full understanding of the seriousness and also novelty of the decision, but with a profound serenity in my soul," Benedict told the crowd.
He will meet Thursday morning with cardinals for a final time, then fly by helicopter to the papal residence at Castel Gandolfo south of Rome.
There, at 8 p.m., the doors of the palazzo will close and the Swiss Guards in attendance will go off duty, their service protecting the head of the Catholic Church over – for now.
Many of the cardinals who will choose Benedict's successor were in St. Peter's Square for his final audience. Those included retired Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony, the object of a grass-roots campaign in the U.S. to persuade him to recuse himself for having covered up for sexually abusive priests. Mahony has said he will be among the 115 cardinals voting for the next pope.
"God bless you," Mahony said when asked by television crews about the campaign.
Also in attendance Wednesday were cardinals over 80, who can't participate in the conclave but will participate in meetings next week to discuss the problems facing the church and the qualities needed in a new pope.
"I am joining the entire church in praying that the cardinal electors will have the help of the Holy Spirit," Spanish Cardinal Julian Herranz, 82, said.
Herranz has been authorized by the pope to brief voting-age cardinals on his investigation into the leaks of papal documents that exposed corruption in the Vatican administration.
Vatican officials say cardinals will begin meeting Monday to decide when to set the date for the conclave.
But the rank-and-file faithful in the crowd weren't so concerned with the future; they wanted to savor the final moments with the pope they have known for years.
"I came to thank him for the testimony that he has given the church," said Maria Cristina Chiarini, a 52-year-old homemaker who traveled by train from Lugo in central Italy with about 60 members of her parish. "There's nostalgia, human nostalgia, but also comfort, because as Christians we have hope. The Lord won't leave us without a guide."


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