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Peacemaking on Contraception
America's Big Religious War ended on Friday. Or at least it ought to.
A little more than a year ago, the Obama administration set off a bitter and unnecessary clash with the Roman Catholic Church over rules mandating broad contraception coverage under the Affordable Care Act. The Department of Health and Human Services' announcement of new regulations is a clear statement that President Obama never wanted this fight.
The decision ought to be taken by the nation's Catholic bishops as a victory, because it is. Many in their ranks, including some of the country's most prominent prelates, are inclined to do just that -- even if the most conservative bishops seem to want to keep the battle raging.
But more importantly, the final HHS rules are the product of a genuine and heartfelt struggle over the meaning of religious liberty in a pluralistic society. The contraception dispute was difficult because legitimate claims and interests were in conflict.
The vast majority of Americans believe that health insurance should cover contraception. At the same time, the Catholic Church has a theological objection to contraception, even if most Catholics (including regular churchgoers) disagree with its position. The church insisted that its vast array of charitable, educational, and medical institutions should be exempt from the contraception requirement.
The church made a mistake in arguing its case on the grounds of "religious liberty." By inflating their legitimate desire for accommodation into a liberty claim, the bishops implied that the freedom not to pay for birth control rose to the same level, as say, the freedoms to worship or to preach the faith. This led to wild rhetorical excesses, including a comparison of Obama to Hitler and Stalin by one bishop, and an analogy between the president's approach and the Soviet constitution by another.
But the church had good reason to object to the narrowness of the HHS' original definition of what constituted a religious organization entitled to exemptions from the contraception requirement. If a religious organization did not have "the inculcation of religious values" as its purpose and did not primarily employ or serve those who shared the faith, it got no exclusion at all.
The problem is that the vast charitable work done by religious organizations to help millions, regardless of their faith, is manifestly inspired by religion. The church could not abide the implicit reduction of its role merely to private expressions of faith. Don't most Americans devoutly wish that religious people will be moved by their beliefs to works of charity and justice?
The HHS rules announced Friday scrapped this offensive definition in favor of long-established language in the IRS code. In an interview, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius showed a becoming humility, and it would be nice if this encouraged the same among her critics. However defensible the original rules might have been, she said, "they really caused more anxiety and conflict than was appropriate."
"What we've learned," she said, "is that there are issues to balance in this area. There were issues of religious freedom on two sides of the ledger" -- the freedom of the religious institutions and the freedom of their employees who might not share their objections to contraception.
This is where the other accommodation kicked in: Many Catholic institutions self-insure. While the administration wants hospital workers, teachers, and others to have full access to contraception, it also seeks to keep religious organizations from having "to contract, arrange, pay or refer for any contraception coverage to which they object on religious grounds."
Under the new rules, employees who want it will be able to get stand-alone coverage from a third party. Some of the costs will be covered by small offsets in the fees insurers will have to pay to participate in the new exchanges where their policies will be on sale. It's an elegant fix.
There are two reasons for hope here, particularly for Catholic progressives. First, the administration recognized the problem it had created and resolved it. Vice President Biden, among others, kept lines of communication with the church open.
Second, many bishops have come to realize that the appearance of a state of war with Obama not only troubled many of the faithful -- Obama, after all, narrowly carried the Catholic vote -- but also threatened to cast a church with strong commitments to immigrants, social justice, and nonviolence as a partisan, even right-wing organization.
This war has been bad for everyone involved. Obama has moved to end it. Here's a prayer the bishops will also be instruments of peace.
(c) 2013, Washington Post Writers Group
About the Author
E. J. Dionne Jr. is a syndicated columnist, professor of government at Georgetown University, and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. His most recent book is Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent (Bloomsbury Press).
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" threatened to cast a church with strong commitments to immigrants, social justice, and nonviolence as a partisan, even right-wing organization."
But it has become that, Blanche .. it has become that!
Actually, the Administration revisions have changed nothing of substance as argued in the two essays below:http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/339562/hhs-mandate-isn-t-fixed-grace-marie-turnerANDhttp://www.nationalreview.com/corner/290763/compromise-yuval-levinHere are other criticisms as well: http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pro-life-leaders-slam-hhs-mandate-revisions-as-unacceptable
I would not expect National Review or Lifesite to say anything positive about this latest overture by the Obama administration.
The source of information does not determine its validity.
JH ... but the source DOES reflect in innate bias as to what is said and how it is said.
I still maintain as a Catholic University educated Catholic Lawyer: that the gist of the Churches position unduley impacts the poor and deprives them of the "religious" freedom to use or not to use artificial contraceptives as their "free religious consiences" may dictate. AMEN
Can't we guess how this is going to go over? I'd like to hear of a creative "overture" from the bishops to the HHS for a change.
Dionne consistently assumes that the Democratic Party, overall, is more consistent with Catholicism than the Republican party, despite Democratic advocacy of abortion and a fiscal policy and monetary policy that threatens to make the welfare state he wants insupportable. It isn't just the inconsistency of this that bothers me, but the intellectual dishonesty of refusing to address the inconsistencies. I'm not advocating a Republican position. What I don't see is a Catholic position or the commonsense understanding that optimal politcal solutions may be less than ideal, and that the attempt to realize the ideal may result in less than the optimal.
I do think that the new accommodation is a very good sign. And I think Mr. Dionne's call to opponents of the mandate, even the revised mandate, to be more temperate in their response is valid (although fairness requires an admission that most of the intemperate response has not been from the bishops as intimated, that the response from most bishops and from the USCCB have been fairly measured, and that the "Hitler" comparisons are the exception not the norm).
However, I think it a mistake to say that this shouldn't be couched in terms of religious freedom. What kind of religious freedom do we have if the government can force us to participate in something that goes against our religious beliefs? It is good to see that Sabellius is starting to see that rights must be balanced, but that balance has not been struck. It is debateable whether access to free contraception it is even a right, it is unbelievable that such a right would outweigh the right to religious freedom. And the right to religious freedom is not a right only guaranteed to the institutions large enough to fight back against governmental intrusion, it is an individual right. The current accommodation does not respect religious liberty, it only respects the power of institutions large enough to give the administration trouble. The government has many other paths to expand contraceptive coverage that don't directly impinge on religious freedom. The government uses tax dollars to do all sorts of things that go against my religious beliefs (such as the Adminstration's assassination of American citizens without due process of law but with substantial civilian casualties), that is truly remote cooperation with evil. If the expansion of contraception access is really important, then why not do it that way .. a way that is far more straight-forward and well-tested way. The reason that a way has been chosen that disproportionately impacts the opponents of the policy reveals that impinging on religious liberty is not a bug, it's a feature.
Hi Craig,
Statements like the following go beyond the insulting to rise to the level of the incendiary:
"...Democratic advocacy of abortion..."
Do you have any idea at all how hurtful such a statement is to those of us who tend to find ourselves supporting Democratic Party positions? Why must you put it in such terms? How many Democrats "advocate abortion?" Does Biden? Does Pelosi? Do I? Well, you just said that I do, and I react viscerally and personally to such an accusation.
What it really comes down to is whether or not one supports the criminalization of abortion, not whether one "advocates" abortion.
Catholics have a certain definition of life. Life begins at conception. A fertilized egg is a baby. An embryo is a baby. A fetus is a baby. Ensoulment begins at the moment of conception. It's an entirely valid point of view. Joe Biden says that he accepts this point of view, as a matter of personal morality, informed by his Church.
But other people, of different faiths, hold different points of view, defendable by their own scripture, religious teachings, science, culture, and history. These people do not define babyhood in the same terms as those accepted by Catholics.
Anti-abortion laws are enforced by punishment -- formerly harsh punishment, in the days prior to Roe v Wade.
It's not accurate and it's a finger in the eye to accuse Joe Biden and all other Democrats of being advocates of abortion. Rather, it's Biden's (other others') position that they cannot support turning individual women and their doctors into criminals, enforced at the point of a gun, ultimately, as is the case with all criminal law, because the women and doctors do not accept the Catholic definition of babyhood, based up their own personal belief systems, which are, again, every bit as defensible on the basis of their scripture, religious teachings, science, culture, and history as is the Catholic belief system.
Religious freedom is a meaningless term if it is reserved only for one's own personal creed.
- Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach CA


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According to an incident report, officers found numerous components of a meth lab, including plastic bottles, coffee filters, acid, lithium batteries and a glass jar containing white residue. The officers also found two guns hidden under a mattress in the building, which had been converted to a residence, the report states.
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Hi, How to prove that the two definitions of the complexity class NL are equivalent. 1st definition is with a non deterministic logspace TM, and the second is with a deterministic logspace verifier who uses a readonce witness tape?
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FDA Requires Lower Doses for Certain Insomnia Drugs
WASHINGTON—The Food and Drug Administration is requiring the makers of certain sleep-inducing drugs, including Ambien, to lower doses of the medicines because they have been shown to impair activities—such as driving—the morning after the drugs have been taken.
The FDA said current recommended doses of Ambien and similar drugs should be cut in half for women and that the labeling should recommend doctors consider a lower dose for men.
The new requirement applies to sleep-inducing drugs that contain the active ingredient zolpidem, which is found in drugs such as Ambien, Ambien CR, Edluar and Zolpimist. Sanofi SA SNY 0.07 % markets Ambien, but the products are also available in generic versions, the FDA said.
In a statement, Sanofi said it has been in contact with the FDA about the new dosing recommendations and would continue talking to the agency. "Sanofi stands behind the significant clinical data demonstrating the safety and efficacy of Ambien, which was FDA approved in the U.S. in 1992," the company said.
The sleeping drugs are widely prescribed, with almost 40 million prescriptions written in the U.S. in 2011, according to information provider IMS Health.
The FDA said new data have shown that levels of the drugs in the blood of some patients—particularly women—may be high enough the morning after use to impair driving and other tasks that require alertness. Women eliminate zolpidem from their bodies more slowly than men.
Ambien and other drugs containing zolpidem are considered sedative-hypnotic drugs and are designed to treat insomnia by helping people fall and stay asleep. The drugs are meant for short-term use, although the exact length of treatment isn't defined in the drugs' labels.
The agency said doses for the immediate-release versions of zolpidem for women should be lowered to five milligrams from 10 milligrams. The extended-release versions—or Ambien CR—should be cut to 6.25 milligrams from 12.5 milligrams. The FDA said doctors should consider putting patients on the lowest possible dose for all types of sleep-inducing medicines. Doctors usually follow the FDA's recommendations on the use of drugs.
Ellis Unger, a director in the FDA's drug division, said the risks of things such as car accidents are highest for patients taking the extended-release versions of Ambien and generics because the products are designed to stay in the bloodstream longer. Immediate-release versions include regular Ambien and generics, along with Edluar, a tablet placed under the tongue and sold by a unit of Meda MEDAA 0.50 % AB, as well as Zolpimist, an oral spray marketed by a Hi-Tech Pharmacal Co. subsidiary.
Dr. Unger said patients who are currently taking the higher doses of the drugs shouldn't make any adjustments on their own and should talk to their doctors.
The dosage reductions aren't being required for a drug called Intermezzo, a zolpidem-containing drug meant to counter middle-of-the-night waking, because it was approved in November 2011 with lower doses for women. Intermezzo is marketed by Transcept Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Purdue Pharma LP.
Although the FDA has received reports for years about car crashes possibly associated with sleep-inducing drugs, it wasn't until recently that clinical data became available showing how some products could impair driving several hours after being taken.
Dr. Unger said some of the new clinical information came from driving tests that were conducted as part of the development program for Intermezzo. The FDA combined those data with other blood-level data from other drug makers to show that some people kept high levels of the medications in their blood for more than eight hours after taking the drugs.
Patients who are taking Ambien and similar drugs are instructed to take it only if they plan to get a full night's sleep of seven to eight hours.
The FDA said it has received more than 700 reports involving zolpidem and impaired driving, with an increase in 2007 after the FDA updated drug labels to warn of sleep-driving, or patients getting out of bed and driving while they aren't fully awake. However, the reports alone aren't enough to link a drug with an accident, Dr. Unger said.
Dr. Unger said the FDA didn't have information about the role of other drugs, alcohol or the time when drugs were taken before the accident. He explained that the agency needed to wait for scientific evidence linking zolpidem and next-morning impairment affecting driving and other tasks.
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New York University will host "Climate Ethics," a roundtable discussion that will consider the emerging area of ethics and climate change, on Thursday, October 28, 4:30 p.m. at 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor (on Bowery at 5th St.). The event is free and open to the public. Subways: 6 (Astor Place), R (8th Street). For more information call 212.992.7999.
The discussion will cover a range of topics in the area of climate ethics: human rights, international justice, intergenerational ethics, individual responsibility, climate economics, and the ethics of geoengineering.
Participants include: Dale Jamieson, a professor in the Departments of Environmental Studies and Philosophy at NYU; Simon Caney, a professor in Political Theory and Tutorial Fellow in Politics at Oxford University; Stephen Gardiner, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington; and Henry Shue, a senior research fellow at Oxford University's Centre for International Studies. Richard Stewart, the John Edward Sexton Professor of Law at NYU School of Law and director of its Center for Environmental and Land Use Law, will moderate the session.
The discussion marks the launch of Climate Ethics: Essential Readings (Oxford), a volume co-edited by Jamieson, Gardiner, Caney, and Shue.
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Charlotte, N.C.- With rain coming down, the Niners picked up a shutout victory over the Pirates to avoid the series sweep on Sunday morning. Charlotte picked up its second Conference USA win with a 4-0 performance.
Courtney Carroll was the hero in the series finale belting her first career home run for her only hit of the day. Chelsea Ingersoll picked up two hits in the win going 2-3 from the plate.
Charlotte (10-12, 2-4 C-USA) and East Carolina (15-8, 4-2 C-USA) tallied one hit apiece in through the first four innings. ECU's Jordan Lewis picked up the Pirates' first hit in the top of the second with a base knock up the middle.
Charlotte had a big inning go to waste in the bottom of the second inning. Jessica Plemmons led off the inning with a walk for the first Niner base runner of the game. Chelsea Ingersoll picked up the first 49er hit with a single through the left side of the infield. Plemmons and Ingersoll moved up 60 feet on the wild pitch with two outs. Jessie Fennell loaded the bases with a four pitch walk. Lexi Betancourt roped a full count pitch towards the right side of the infield but caught Fennell on the helmet for the final out.
Lexi Betancourt (9-6) retired 12 straight Pirates after the single in the second inning before ECU's Chelsea K.-Glackin singled up the middle to lead off the sixth inning. K.-Glackin was thrown out at second to end the threat.
Samantha Slade started the Niner rally in the bottom of the sixth inning with a double to deep left field over the outstretched glove of the Pirate outfielder. Jackie Kleinsmith did her job at the plate giving herself up on the sacrifice bunt to move Slade to third. Jes Plemmons singled up the middle off the second basemen's glove for the RBI to give the Niners the lead at 1-0. Chelsea Lisikatos sent the first pitch she saw up the middle as well with only one out. Courtney Carroll delivered the final blow the Niners need for the win. Carroll sent a 2-2 pitch over the left field wall for her first career home run and gave the Niners a 4-0 lead.
Lexi Betancourt picked up her ninth win of the season tossing a complete game shutout allowing two hits and striking out a career high nine batters. ECU's starter Sarah Christian (11-3) took the loss allowing four runs off six hits through six innings.
Charlotte will host USC Upstate on Wednesday, March 19 at 4pm. USC Upstate (25-4) fell out of the top 25 last week picking up its first losses of the season.


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In the answer to this question about comments in shell scripting, it is indicated that the
: is a null command that explicitly does nothing (but is not to be used for comments).
What would be the utility of a command that does absolutely nothing?
In the answer to this question about comments in shell scripting, it is indicated that the
What would be the utility of a command that does absolutely nothing?
I typically use
The one place I've found that
Originally, it was used to determine that it was a Bourne shell program, as opposed to C compiled program. This was before shebang and multiple scripting languages (csh, perl). You can still run a script starting with just
It will generally run the script against
Since then, the main use is to evaluate the arguments. I still use:
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This will run forever unless
When you want an "unless" statement in shell scripting, you either use a "not" condition, which can look goofy for some of the tests, or you use ':' in the true-clause, with real code in the false-clause.
The "exotic condition" could be something you don't want to negate, or that's just a lot clearer if you don't use "negative logic".
I've only ever used this in addition to the # character for temporarily commenting out a line, in a situation in which commenting out the line produces a syntax error, due to a defect in the shell grammar of not allowing an empty sequence of commands:
Without the : we have a missing command sequence, which is a syntax error.
There are two cases where I find
Default variable assignments
This is a convenient way to allow users of your shell script to override a setting without editing the script. (However, command-line arguments are better because you don't run the risk of unexpected behavior if the user coincidentally has the variable you use in their exported environment.) Here's how the user would override the setting:
Even though
It would also be acceptable to use
The following script would also work:
But the above is much harder to maintain. If a line using
Something to put in an empty conditional block
Empty conditional blocks should generally be avoided, but they're sometimes useful:
Some people argue that having an empty true
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However I believe there are a few alternative approaches that are better than an empty true block:
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), informally known as the Soviet Union or Soviet Russia, was a constitutionally socialist state that existed on the territory of most of the former Russian Empire in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991.
The Soviet Union had a single-party political system dominated by the Communist Party. Although the USSR was nominally a union of Soviet republics (of which there were 15 after 1956) with the capital in Moscow, it was in actuality a highly centralized state with a planned economy. Much of Soviet society was overseen by national security agencies such as the KGB (which was active from 1954).
This is the story of fourteen young footballers competing in the former Soviet Union states, the story of their careers and history as they move through the world hoping to bring glory to the Disunion that now exists in their homelands. One player will be representing each nation and will start out at the club closest to his home town. As they grow they will hope to become great worldwide superstars and bring some glory back to their home nations. The path is bound to be different depending on which former Soviet Republic you start in, but the questions stands, who will be victorious?
I am going to run a game with all 15 of the former Soviet Leagues as playable, and the main other leagues around the world, somewhere around my recommended player limit of 175,000. I will be adding the 14 players to clubs in the lowest playable leagues of their nations, and as they would probably have an unfair advantage no-one can choose to be Russian. The scoring for each season will be based on a Calendar Year as I will run it alongside the March to October seasons of much of the Former Soviet States. The scoring will be following the Premier League Fantasy System (Link), and as some players will play in more matches, the score will be divided by the number of possible games your player could have played in. So the total of matches played by your club in the season.
The Sign-up Form
Place of Birth: (Must be in Nation)
Date of Birth: DD/MM/92
Foot: (Left/Right)
PPM: (Just One)
Attribute at 20: (Just One)
Liked Club: (Just One)
Disliked Club: (Just One)
My List
I will update this as we get people signing up, please remember just one player per nationality.
Armenia: Shavo Odadjian (Almondo)
Azerbaijan: Khalid Sultanzagdhe (5ergio)
Belarus: Whoopski Deevski (Whoopy D)
Kyrgyzstan: Kasym Tynystanov (Quackje)
Latvia: Ihsaan Ahmed (Ihsaan)
Tajikstan: Dami (Dami)
Turkmenistan: Sergey Izzat (Welsh Wizard)
Uzbekistan: Ravshan Ahmedov (DSYoungEsq)
Estonia: NFski Fatboysk (Nottingham Forest)
Georgia: Jano Inchcomidze (JEinchy)
Kazakhstan: Christopski Hattonyi (Hatton90)
Lithuania: Vinas Pilibaitis (Fergysafc)
Moldova: Maksim Pisotskiy (Charlesbeams)
Ukraine: Sergiy Klaschenko (GreenWhiteArmy)
I am looking for 13 sign-ups, and I shall be taking the final slot in the competition. Good luck and I am really looking forward to this competition.


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Basically its similar to Ri916's thread but you have a choice of country where you start in and not just England. so here is a list of League's Available to you
League Reset Brazil January 2nd Indonesia June 1st S.Korea December 27th South Africa Not Sure on this one China Jnauary 20th Malaysia December 14th Mexico 20th july Chile 1st january Argentina 1st August Colombia 10th January Uruguay 1st August
But which ever Country you start in you have to start at the very last Division
Welcome to what is probably one of the hardest challenges in FM. Clubs such as Arsenal, Manchester United and Barcelona have a reputation of bringing through youth. But their filthy rich and have a massive reputation, of course they can bring good players through, right. My question is can a small club bring through youth that has sufficient quality to play for the first team. The only person that can answer that is YOU.Thats the Aim of this challenge. And it can be donePersonally, I'm sceptical as to whether it's possible. Prove me Wrong. Ri916's words
What You have to do
- This challenge will take place in around the globe apart from Europe. To start, you have to create a Holiday manager and holiday for a season. I dont want you to download a save already holidayed as general Ca and Pa's of players will already be set (minus Pa's) and will make other peoples games ununique. Similar to dafauge's challenge, you will be taking over a club promoted to the last division in any of the chosen countrys . reputation should be sunday league footballer.
- With no transfers, you must first stabilise, and then guide you team up the leagues. It will be hard, some might say impossible, but with your managerial brilliance you may stand a chance.
- National Title [/B]and Continental Champions League and the World Club Cup with your club. any achievement will be recorded although there will not be any points scoring.
- Save as Much money as possible and try to get facilities improved regulary
- Dont make it to hard for yourself. pick a team that has a decent squad to give yourself a chance of staying up in the first few seasons.
- start by using a compact formation that is hard to break down. take care with team talks and dont rush through the game, as you will be relegated.
- choose a team with decent youth facilities.
The Database
- You can load any other league or players from top clubs ect. but you must load the things above.
- you should also tick add players to playable teams so your promoted team should have a full squad to start with.
- No loans or transfers in are allowed but you can sell and loan players out.
- If you are sacked, you can start with a newly promoted club on the next reset date.
- No savegame editors are allowed. only cosmetic database edits are allowed. (team/competition names/logos)
- No international management until completion of challenge.
- Signing backroom staff is allowed
- signing players on trial or signing grey players isnt allowed.
Rules for this Thread
Player naming is allowed.
General discussion on tactics is allowed, although people should not refer to downloaded tactics. They are not banned, but I would expect the majority of people to avoid them.
Screenshots for anything are encouraged but please post links to your pictures, don't post them as images as it makes the pages slower to load. Posts included embedded images may be deleted without warning.
When you join the challenge, could you post a screenshot of your manager's profile on the 24th June.
Progress of your club should be documented using this thread, I want to hear the story of your club all the way through. Please keep me updated, even if you are doing really badly.
Posts should be seasonal and include screenshots of : Transfers (to prove you aint cheating ),League table, Squad (at end) and of your Youth Intake. Anything else is optional but I would appreciate a screen of the best player in your intake's stats. Also, I would like you to nickname your best player/s of each youth intake in chronological order. for example, nickname your best player in the intake in season 1 as *their name* YP01
How to Post a Screenshot
- While in FM, press Alt and F9
- A picture will be saved to a screenshots folder, in the FM12 folder in your documents
- Upload the image to an image hosting website such as Photobucket
- Post the direct Url to the image here.
How to Add Links
At the top of the forum, go to 'Settings' then 'General Settings' (on the left). At the bottom, select 'enhanced interface' and save the changes. This will give you access to the extra posting tools that make it easier to post links. Once you've done this, highlight the word you wish to turn into a link, then use the link button (looks like a little globe) to paste in the direct Url to your screenshot.
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5 Historic Sex Scandals That Put Bill Clinton to Shame
#2. Ingrid Bergman's Sex Scandal Draws Fire from the U.S. Government
Remember When ...
... every single magazine at the checkout stand of the grocery store had a picture of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, because it was rumored Pitt was banging Jolie on the set of a movie while he was still married to Jennifer Aniston? Isn't it silly how obsessed we get with this celebrity relationship bullshit?
Well, Back in the 1940s ...
... a similar scandal caused the U.S. Senate to actually go on record denouncing the affair.
They were all like, "We'll have NUN of that!" And then they cried, because jokes kind of sucked in the '40s.
Back in those days, Humphrey Bogart's Casablanca costar Ingrid Bergman found herself as typecast as Zooey Deschanel is today. Hollywood sold her as a pure, untouchable virgin, and she pulled it off, spending her whole career playing roles like nuns and Joan of Arc. America loved her so much that, when she broke the illusion by boning a sleazy director, the entire nation flipped their shit.
Said director was Roberto Rossellini, a notorious womanizer who cast her in one of his films and reportedly bet a friend that he could bed her in two weeks. Nine months later, her fans raised their eyebrows when Bergman gave birth to a baby with the suspiciously Italian name Renato Roberto Giusto Giuseppe Rossellini, which was peculiar considering her husband's name was Lingstrom and he was Swedish.
Via Thehairpin.com
Oh, Ingrid, no. He wore a beret, for Christ's sake.
So people were momentarily saddened, but quickly moved on with their lives, right? Hell no.
Ed Sullivan, the Jay Leno of the era, refused to have her on his show. People freaking picketed Bergman's films, and Hollywood moralists like gossip columnist Louella Parsons publicly condemned her.
Even more bizarrely, Senator Edwin Johnson took control of the entire Senate floor just to deliver a speech that condemned Bergman and called her things like "a powerful influence for evil."
That's a bullet-ridden bust of Hitler's head. That's not a joke. The man knew his evil.
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Remember When ...
... Bill Clinton was impeached over an affair he had with an intern? One who impressed him with her ability to light and smoke a cigar using only her vagina? We think we're remembering that right ...
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Unlike most presidential sex scandals, JFK's many affairs didn't really harm his image. Even his wife seemed not to mind where Kennedy was hiding the presidential rod. So how far did JFK have to go to wind up on this list? According to one of his lovers, Judith Exner, Kennedy had her delivering messages to the Mafia for him for over a year.
Exner was a L.A. socialite first involved with Frank Sinatra before he introduced her to Kennedy, who was then running for the Democratic presidential nomination. As with most women who managed to maintain eye contact with Kennedy for over a minute, they wound up screwing like barnyard animals.
As with most pictures of smiling women during the '60s, JFK's penis is immediately out of frame.
Shortly after, Sinatra introduced Exner to another one of his friends, Sam Flood. What Exner was not aware of at the time was that Sam Flood was actually Sam Giancana, the big time Chicago mob boss. Kennedy seemed to know, however, because after he got into the White House, Exner spent 18 months delivering mysterious envelopes back and forth between the Mafia and the president.
Exner never knew exactly what was in the envelopes, but as she would later testify to the CIA, she believed some of them involved a plot between the president and the mob to kill Fidel Castro, one of JFK's favorite yet least productive hobbies. Apparently, the Mafia shared America's hatred of Castro for damages to their profits.
And for smoking a cigar with his face instead of his asshole, like normal people.
After two years of an affair with JFK, months of the FBI trailing her and the general fear one feels when dealing with the mob, Exner's Catholic conscience finally caught up with her, and she knew it was wrong to continue her affair with JFK. What wasn't wrong in her eyes was getting an abortion and immediately sleeping with the mob boss, Giancana.
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FORT WORTH, Texas (January 29, 2013)—A TCU student who was a grandson of oil Tycoon T. Boone Pickens, 21, was found dead Tuesday.
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Crohn's Disease in Children and Teens
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Crohn's disease is a serious, chronic disease affecting the digestive system. Chronic means that the disease is long-term and persistent, usually lifelong. Crohn's disease causes inflammation, most often in the small intestine (which has three parts: duodenum, jejunum, and ileum). The walls and lining of the affected areas become red and inflamed, leading to ulcers and bleeding. Crohn's disease sometimes is named by referring to inflammation in the part of the intestine affected, such as jejunoileitis, ileitis, ileocolitis, or colitis (when it involves the large intestine, also called the colon).
Crohn's disease can appear at any age, but it is most often diagnosed in people between 13 and 30 years of age.
Along with ulcerative colitis, a similar illness, Crohn's disease is also called inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD. Ulcerative colitis attacks only the large intestine in a continuous manner and does not affect the entire thickness of the bowel wall. Crohn's disease, on the other hand, can occur anywhere in the digestive tract, from mouth to the anus, attacks different sites in the intestine with areas of normal intestine in between ("skip lesions"), and affects the full thickness of the intestinal wall. Both conditions wax and wane: there are times when symptoms reappear or get worse (exacerbations or "flares") and other periods when symptoms get better or go away altogether ("remission").
While Crohn's disease causes many problems for people of all ages, it can present special challenges for children and teens. In addition to bothersome and often painful symptoms, the disease can stunt growth, delay puberty, and weaken the bones. Crohn's disease symptoms may sometimes prevent a child from participating in enjoyable activities. The emotional and psychological issues of living with chronic disease can be especially difficult for young people.
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Training Spring 2014
The new spring training schedule is available. We now offer two new training workshops: 1) iMovie: Video Editing Software (Mac) and 2) iPad and AppleTV for Wireless Presentations. We also regularly offer Bb Learn training including advanced topics (Groups, Wikis, and Rubrics). Other popular training workshops are SafeAssign (plagiarism checking), Collaborate Web Conferencing, and Camtasia Studio (Audio ScreenCasting).
Bb Learn to Managed Hosting
ost of Academic Affairs is hosting the Educause Virtual Conference Wednesday, Oct. 16- Friday, Oct. 18.
Sessions will be available two ways for NAU Staff and Faculty
· Real-time airing in University Services Building Conference Room 102 (in the event of concurrent sessions- the session with the most 'conference room' votes will be shown)
o Group viewing facilitates on-campus discussions and allows for interactivity in designated online sessions
· On-demand viewing of recorded sessions at the close of the conference
Blended Learning at NAU
Blended Learning at NAU
You may know that President Haeger announced The President's Technology Initiative in Spring 2012. There are about a dozen projects underway with more to come. We are currently editing the Blended Learning web page and polishing new calls for faculty who would like help to redesign their courses. Another announcement will be forthcoming when the RFPs are complete.
University of Central Florida's Blended Learning Toolkit
Dr. Denise Helm appointed Special Assistant to the Provost
During the Academic Year 13-14, Denise will be working the expand the use of Blended techniques on the Flagstaff Mountain Campus. One group assisting is the Blended Learning Leadership Team (BLLT). Very soon the BLLT will launch the Blended Learning Website which will present resources, examples, contacts, definitions, and general practices for designing blended courses.
Coming in November we will again be offering the Blended Learning Workshop. When the schedule is set there will be an announcement.
If you are interested in both experiencing a MOOC and learning more about Blended(Hybrid) Learning you might like to take this MOOC on Hybrid Learning.
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Additional information about Blackboard Learn is available from the following places.
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|Getting Started, Quick Reference, Tutorials, Manuals
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|Blackboard Resources
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|Help available directly in Blackboard Learn
|Online discussion forum
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If you would like to see changes in the way Blackboard Learn works, or have suggestions for new features, in addition to telling us, please submit your ideas directly to Blackboard. The more people they hear from, the more likely they are to incorporate your ideas!
You may submit enhancement requests directly at their website: Suggestions for Blackboard.
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Bb Learn Update
Note: Our technical best practices change when we switch to new tools. Unfortunately, our old content creation methods for Vista are not the best practives for Bb Learn
For current Best Practices for creating and editing content in Bb Learn see Creating Content in Bb Learn.
The recent upgrade on 9/26 was done to allow the beginning phases of implementing Bb Outcomes that will replace TaskStream.
Though some new features were added and some bugs were fixed, there were some new issues introduced. See New Issues!
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Inline Assignment Grading
Instructors may now view assignments and provide feedback – including comments, highlighting, etc. – right within the web browser, instead of having to download attachments and open them in Microsoft Word, for instance. Do keep in mind this will not have the same detail level editing that Track Changes in Word has, but allows you to markup and give feedback of a higher level nature.
See http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Learn/Products/Blackboard-Learn/Features.aspx#inline-grading
Discussion Board Enhancements
Improvements to the Discussion Board tool include the ability to set a forum so that a student cannot see other students' threads until he posts his own thread; and conditional highlighting, making it easier for students to find posts from their instructor. http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Learn/Products/Blackboard-Learn/Features.aspx#discussions
Calendar Enhancements
Now when you create an activity with a due date, a corresponding calendar item can be created automatically. Want to quickly change the date? Simply drag-and-drop the calendar item… and the activity due date will be updated as well! Coming soon will be the ability to map dates in your course in a global way where you can see all your dated items such as assignments and quizzes that have adaptive release.
See http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Learn/Products/Blackboard-Learn/Features.aspx#calendar
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Learners and instructors may now connect with others more easily – in their courses, at the University, and even at other institutions. With individual privacy settings, you may choose whether or not you can be "found." Students and educators can even set up their own Spaces to share common interests, do group work, etc. http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Learn/Products/Blackboard-Learn/Features.aspx#social-learning
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The new Retention Center quickly alerts faculty, at a glance, about students who may be at risk, who may not be engaging with the course, or who may just need a little nudge in order to be successful. The Retention Center replaces the Early Warning System in the previous version of Bb Learn. http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Learn/Products/Blackboard-Learn/Features.aspx#retention-center
Item Analysis
Much more robust item analysis will allow instructors to improve assessments by providing more detailed reports that will help identify problematic test questions and correct them easily. http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Learn/Products/Blackboard-Learn/Features.aspx#item-analysis
Content Editor
The new Content Editor makes it easier to create and update items in your course with handy WYSIWYG tools – and now, if you paste from Word, the content editor will automatically strip out that nasty HTML code that can cause so many problems! http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Learn/Products/Blackboard-Learn/Features.aspx#simple-content-creation
This upgrade, from Service Pack 9 to Service Pack 12, will occur Thursday, May 23, 2013 during the weekly Bb Learn maintenance window, 2am – 6am. After the upgrade, these new features will be available to all, though you are not required to use any of them.
Don't Forget -- Request Course Copies!
Remember to request copies of your course content into your Summer and/or Fall 2013 course shells at least 2 weeks before your courses begin! Course copy and other information is available at this "Getting Started" page: http://tinyurl.com/BBL-Get-Started.
Other NAU features or procedures:
- Course Roster email Listserve: Each class section at NAU has an email listserve that lives outside of Blackboard and outside of LOUIE. Messages sent to this list will be sent to all students enrolled in the class and to new students as they add the class. This is an effective way to communicate to students prior to the start of the semester and during the semester if you want to or need to communicate to their NAU email rather than through the Bb's messaging within a course shell. This is more effective than the LOUIE email function as in LOUIE only currently enrolled students get a message sent, where as, the list serve will send old messages to students who enroll after a message is sent. See classlist.nau.edu
- As of Grades: NAU's ePlanning team has built a system that displays students' current course grades ("As Of" Grades) throughout the semester in external systems such as the MyNAU Portal and Grade Performance Status (GPS) application, which is NAU's Academic Feedback System. For details on how Blackboard Learn interacts with these other systems, see As of Grades.
- Grade Upload to LOUIE (PeopleSoft): If you are using the Grade Center in Bb Learn as a place to record student grades, you can easily upload mid-semester or semester grades to LOUIE without having to enter them again. Once the grades are uploaded and approved in LOUIE, they are considered "official." For details see Grade Upload.
Other Blackboard features:
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- NBC Learn News and Archives: NAU has licensed the NBC Learn archives and their repurposed resources for all NAU faculty and student use. See NBC Learn.
- Test Student (reminder): Each instructor now has a Test Student account to allow one to really check how the course looks and operates for students. See Test Student.
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Tripod + RD4 + R10. Lens ring mount clamp
Monopod + R10 + lens ring mount clamp or monopod + arca base clamp. Swap out the R10 or arca clamp as needed. If using a lens that has a tripod mount, unscrew the arca clamp or R10 and screw the monopod directly into the lens.
Putting an arca clamp between the RD4 and the R10 just violates the laws of photography!


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9 Jan 2013 11:34 AM #1
Missing source code from architect
For example: we added a "tap event" on a button and we edit the code in that event. When we look on the code generated with Architect (JavaScript File) and we review the same event we can see the event has nothing of code in it.
If we look back on Architect and we go on the same event we can see our code still there...
Obviously when we save the project and use the application the code is not there and the program fails...
We are very concern on this type of problems because it is VERY difficult to detect where some code will be missing...
Please advice
9 Jan 2013 12:26 PM #2
did you publish your app? if you did not publish your app then the files wont get updated. if you did publish and changes did not come, try closing the architect and then once open hit publish, you should see your changes. I ran into this once.
9 Jan 2013 12:51 PM #3
If you guys are able to reproduce this issue please let us know. We will also be on the lookout to see if we see any problems.Aaron Conran
12 Feb 2013 5:22 AM #4
I am currently evaluating architect, having downloaded it a couple of weeks age, and I have to say I seem to be running into several bugs, this being one of them.
I am running under linux publishing to apache. There are several occasions where code edits have not been reflected on the server. It seems to happen more often if code is edited (rather than properties). Although I save and publish I have noticed that the rsync does not see that the file has differed. If it is code, changing something else will usually "force" it to publish.
However I have tried for some time this morning to publish some changes but no matter what I cannot get it to reflect the code being shown in the editor. Even after a restart, the internal editor shows changes that do not seem to be present in the underlying js files.
Is this a known issue? It is definitely making the product unusable.
12 Feb 2013 2:57 PM #5
No, we have had no such reports.
Could you please isolate the issue and see if you can reproduce it reliably so that we could take a look into it?Aaron Conran


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Project Number: 8042-31000-101-06
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Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) effects estimated independently in the Italian and U.S. Brown Swiss cattle populations by Cooperator and ARS, respectively, will be used to develop methods for comparing genetic (co)variance matrices for various traits of economic importance in those breeds. Methods developed will be reported in the scientific literature. ARS and Cooperator will jointly develop the statistical methods using a shared set of simulated data. The methods will be applied by ARS to U.S. data and by the Cooperator to Italian data. Results will be used to compare the two populations.


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For the Data Frame Properties on a map in ArcMap, what is the difference between selecting a new coordinate system and using a Transformation?
A transformation should be used to "transform" between two systems such as geographic coordinate system (GCS) and Projected Coordinate System (PCS). There are other instances for it's use also. Link #3 is the ESRI 9.3 help page that is pretty good about describing the difference.
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Any Projected Coordinate System has a Datum. If you are converting in between two different Coordinate systems, with different datums, you will need to use a transformation.
If the two coordinate systems are based on the same Datum, then a datum transformation is not needed.
In the ArcGIS world, a 'projection' converts between a geographic coordinate system (GCS) and a projected coordinate system (PCS). A geographic transformation, aka datum transformation, aka transformation, converts between two geographic coordinate systems.
When you set the data frame's coordinate system, you are defining the coordinate system (including the unit of measure) that you'll be working in. Any layers that are in a different coordinate system will be automatically projected (or 'unprojected') to this coordinate system. If a layer's coordinate system uses a different GCS, then you may see a warning that they're different. Whether you see the warning or not, you should decide whether you need to set a geographic transformation. Neglecting to do so when it's necessary can lead to data being up to a few hundred meters offset.
ArcMap only sets one automatically: NAD_1927_To_NAD_1983_NADCON, which transforms between NAD27 and NAD83 in the lower 48 states.
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A Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) is a legal entity that is created by a municipality or county after a determination that "slum and blight" criteria, established in Chapter 163 Part III of the Florida Statutes, have been met.
The process for designating a community redevelopment area is to demonstrate the "need" for redevelopment in the area. A "Finding of Necessity/Slum and Blight Study" for the area is approved by resolution of the local government, and, in a home rule charter county such as Broward, the "Finding of Necessity/Slum and Blight Study" is presented to the County for review and approval.
The County Commission by resolution approves the "Finding of Necessity/Slum and Blight Study," and delegates authority to the municipality to create a Community Redevelopment Agency and prepare a Community Redevelopment Plan. Other powers may also be delegated. Upon County Commission approval of a community redevelopment plan, additional powers are granted. Such powers generally include authority to condemn property for a public purpose, establishment of a Redevelopment Trust Fund, and authority to issue bonds.
Tax Increment Financing (TIF) is the traditional funding mechanism for CRAs. In accordance with Chapter 163 Part III of the Florida Statutes, TIF payments are equal to 95% of the increase in tax revenue generated by the increase in property values in the redevelopment area and are used within the redevelopment area to finance additional projects.
Thirteen municipalities in Broward County have CRAs. Three cities – Hollywood, Lauderhill, and Pompano Beach – have two Redevelopment Areas under one CRA and Fort Lauderdale has three Redevelopment Areas under one CRA.
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Briefly, if an attack that can slide a creature knocks said creature unconscious, and then attempts to slide him over the edge of a cliff... does that creature get a save vs falling/hindering terrain?
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Monday, President Obama rejected a proposal from congressional Republicans to prevent the federal government from going off the so-called fiscal cliff. (So who is saying "no" now?) According to CNN, the GOP plan "promises $2.2 trillion in deficit savings over the next decade." The president said the GOP proposal is not serious because it would not increase taxes on high-income earners.


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My graphics designer has made graphics in separate PNG files. Is there a clever tool/script that mashes them into a spritesheet?
I could probably code something myself, but why re-invent the wheel :)
My graphics designer has made graphics in separate PNG files. Is there a clever tool/script that mashes them into a spritesheet?
I could probably code something myself, but why re-invent the wheel :)
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Am I the only one who uses SpriteSheetPacker? It's free and open source so you can modify it and learn how it works.
I've been using TexturePacker to create sprites from a folder of PNG images. I'm porting a game originally developed in Flash, so I'm simply exporting each frame of the MovieClip to png and then importing those images in Texture Packer.
Another similar tool is Zwoptex
(The latter is Mac software, but TP has a version for Windows too.)
There's a tool called Atlas Image Packer. It'll do as you want, take a number of images and produce a single large image that contains all the other images.
Also, I wish I had your problem. A graphics designer producing images for me.
I really like libgdx's (game framework) packer. Maybe a bit cumbersome to set up the framework just for the packer, though.
The packer works great. Read the libgdx texturepacker doc here, and see for yourself. My favourite feature is that is also saves a document with info about all the textures in the big spritesheet/atlas, so you can easily make a script that gets them for you. Libgdx also has this build in, so I can load/display any texture by it's original filename, even though it's in a big atlas. There also exists a GUI for the packer.
Excerpt from a pack-file with info about some textures:
ImageMagick has a command line utility that can join images into what it calls a "montage." It can be tiring getting the right command line parameters to do what you want, but it's a very powerful and flexible tool. I use it very frequently for building spritesheets.
I have decided to open source my 2D spritesheet and animation tool. It supports automatic sprite selection, combining images, sprite grouping, and multi-sprite animation with rotation.
It is written in Java, the github repo is here: https://github.com/darkFunction/darkFunction-Editor
Website for the project is: http://darkfunction.com/editor
I ended up using this Processing script. You can download Processing for free at Processing.org. All files need to be in the same folder, and have a filename ending in a 4 digit number.
I use a photoshop script to make spritesheets: http://richardjdare.com/blog/2012/11/atlasmaker-0-7-make-texture-atlases-in-photoshop/
It can make oldskool tile grids as well as texture atlases, and can export a custom text file containing image size and position info. It works on PC and Mac, it's open source and written to be extensible.
I don't know if I understood question correcttly but I know the software that operates with textures and makes animation, sprite sheets anf .gif animations. see http://www.spritetools.com/
The Compass framework has a sprite generation tool.


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Cesarean Sections
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What to expect
Giving your consent
The doctor will need your consent prior to doing a cesarean. He should tell you why the procedure is being proposed, and what its benefits and risks are. Ideally, you should have plenty of time to decide whether you want the surgery or not, although with an emergency cesarean, the time to think things over may be limited. Even so, you are always within your rights to say no to a cesarean, even if this means that your life or that of your baby is at risk.
Your anesthesia
Before the surgery, you will meet an anesthesiologist, who will make sure that you have no pain during your surgery and will help you with pain control afterward. Most women are awake during a cesarean. An injection of medication into the spinal fluid in your back, called a spinal block, numbs any sensation of pain (see Spinal block). Or, if you've been using an epidural for pain relief in labor (see Epidurals), this can be used for the surgery. After your anesthetic has been given, the anesthesiologist will check that it is working properly.
Being awake usually means that your birthing partner can stay with you and it's also a little safer for you and for your baby than a general anesthetic. Very occasionally a general anesthetic is needed (see General anesthesia).
The surgery
Before the surgery, an IV line will be put in your hand or your arm so that fluids or medications can be given intraveneously if necessary. Also, the pubic hair on your belly may be shaved downward by about 1 in (3 cm) to clear the way for the cut. Both of these may be done before you go to the operation room or after you arrive there.
Once the anesthesiologist is assured you're pain free, a catheter will be inserted into your bladder and will stay in until the next day while your sensation recovers. Your abdomen will be cleaned with an antiseptic solution and sterile drapes will be placed over you, which prevent you and your partner from seeing the surgery.
During the surgery, a 4 in (10 cm) long cut will be made, usually horizontally, on the abdomen wall, across the bikini line, although occasionally an up-and-down cut below the belly button is done. Your bladder will be pushed down and the front of the uterus opened so that the doctor can access the baby. If your water hasn't already broken, this will be done now before the baby and placenta are delivered. The surgeon will release the baby's head from the pelvic brim and lift the baby out. Sometimes, another member of the team needs to put pressure on the uterus to assist this. You'll be able to see your baby when the cord has been cut, and once initial checkups have been done on your baby, either you or your partner should be able to hold him while the surgery is completed. After the umbilical cord is cut, your doctor will remove the placenta.
To finish the cesarean, the uterus will be closed up with one or two layers of stitches, then the abdomen wall will be stitched in separate layers. This takes about half an hour, although it can take longer, especially if you've had previous surgeries. You may have dissolvable stitches, or stitches that have to be taken out after four or five days; less commonly, small staples may be used. The choice is usually made by the doctor, but if you have a preference, make this known to the team caring for you before the surgery starts.
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STEUBENVILLE - The message Sunday from Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine was clear - it's not over.
"I have reached the conclusion that this investigation cannot be completed - that we cannot bring finality to this matter -without the convening of a grand jury," DeWine said at a press conference Sunday at the Jefferson County Justice Center following the conviction of two juveniles of rape.
The main part of the case, which brought national and international scrutiny and was played out in social media, ended Sunday when Trent Mays, 17, and Ma'Lik Richmond, 16, were found delinquent on rape charges, and Mays found delinquent on an additional charge of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material.
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SEEKING JUSTICE — Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, right, answers questions about the successful prosecution of two juveniles in a rape case during a news conference Sunday at the Jefferson County Justice Center in Steubenville. He was joined by prosecutors Brian Deckert and Marianne Hemmeter. -- Michael D. McElwain
Visiting Juvenile Judge Thomas Lipps announced his decision in the nonjury trial in an upstairs courtroom while DeWine watched it unfold in an adjacent media room.
Questions have swirled for months regarding the possible involvement of other juveniles and the culpability of adults who may have supplied alcohol for juveniles, provided a place for alcohol-fueled parties and may have known about the possible crime but didn't report it.
"I am asking the Jefferson County Common Pleas Court to convene a grand jury to meet on or about April 15. My prosecutors will present evidence to this grand jury for it to determine if other crimes have been committed," DeWine said.
When pressed during the news conference, DeWine would not identify specific people or specific charges, but he did paint with a broad brush about what is to come.
"As part of our investigation, BCI agents identified 43 individuals who attended at least one of the two parties," DeWine said. "Investigators interviewed 27 of these individuals, while 16 refused to cooperate."
The attorney general added that investigators also interviewed the owners of the residence where one of the two parties occurred.
The investigation was not contained to the incidents and individuals involved in events on Aug. 11-12 and the immediate days after, DeWine noted.
"Our investigators further interviewed the principal, superintendent and 27 football coaches from Steubenville High School," DeWine said.
A total of 56 interviews have been conducted, and specialists at Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification analyzed 13 phones containing 396,270 text messages, 308,586 photos or pictures, 940 video clips, 3,188 phone calls and 16,422 contacts listed in the cell phones.
A total of 16 people have refused to cooperate with investigators for various reasons and have not been interviewed.
"A grand jury is an investigative tool that is uniquely suited to ensure fairness and to complete this investigation," DeWine said. "And this community needs assurance that no stone has been left unturned in our search for the truth."
A team of 15 special agents with BCI is, under DeWine's direction, is working to determine if any other crimes were possibly committed. Greene County Prosecutor William Schenck also is a part of that team.
Schenck is a senior adviser to DeWine and assistant attorney general.
DeWine said expectations should not be raised just because a grand jury will consider some matters.
"The convening of a grand jury does not necessarily mean that indictments will be returned or that charges will be filed," DeWine said. "However, indictments could be returned and charges could be filed."
Jefferson County Prosecutor Jane Hanlin said Sunday night that she would have no role in the grand jury investigation.
"This matter (the grand jury) still deals with the original motion to appoint a special prosecutor in the case," Hanlin said.
Under the original request when Hanlin formally stepped aside Aug. 24, the special prosecutor and state were "assigned full authority to investigate and evaluate all facts, circumstances and chains of events leading to, related to, connected to and or subsequent to an alleged rape and or kidnapping," according to the petition.
"I see this (the pending grand jury request) as operating under the same order," Hanlin said.
During his press conference, DeWine also had some personal views on what transpired on Aug. 11-12, calling the court evidence and testimony "shocking" and "appalling."
"What's even more shocking and appalling is that crimes of sexual assault are occurring every Friday night and every Saturday night in big and small communities all across this country. And there comes a point, where we must say, 'Enough. This has to stop,'" DeWine said.
He referred to Steubenville as a "good community with good people," and acknowledged it has "suffered and been through a lot."
"I personally feel for this community and what the citizens have been through," DeWine said. "I know that it desperately needs to be able to put this matter behind it and begin to move forward."
He believes the grand jury will help in that process.
"Rape is not a recreational activity," the state's top law enforcement officer said. "We, as a society, have an obligation to do more to educate our young people about rape. They need to know it is a horrible crime of violence, and it is simply not OK."
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Let $X$ be a projective variety embedded in a projective space, over a field of arbitrary characteristic.
What is a good reference for a nice proof of the classic fact that degree of $X$ is well-defined, that is, a "general" plane of complementary dimension intersects $X$ in a fixed number of points? (assuming Bertini's theorem). A proof which requires less amount of background is preferable.


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Regarding subjective questions, if you post an answer and get a lot of downvotes, your reputation take a hit, right? Well, what if you want to stand by your answer? It's not offensive because it isn't flagged as such, but for whatever reason it just rubs some people the wrong way, and they downvote it.
If you've got the cojones to stand behind your answer regardless of how it effects your rep, how about a badge for that? Maybe something like, being downvoted 5 times but leaving your answer up for a certain period of time after the 5th downvote.


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Will regular polarized sunglasses protect me against snow blindness? And if not what type of glasses/goggles will protect me?
Regular polarized sunglasses are usually meant for drivers of cars, as these glasses, in addition to darkening the sky, also suppress glare/reflections.
If you travel in snow, light will come from all different angles and directions and will therefore be polarized in all kinds of directions, so a mere polarizer will not filter a sufficient amount of light. I learned this the hard way...
So in addition to a polarizer, any goggles you use in the outdoors should have something that darkens independent of orientation. How much depends on where you want to go. Just in the mountains where there is some snow, or onto glaciers and ice fields where you'll see nothing but snow for days. I don't know the numbers off the top of my head, but I know that the goggles I use for trekking are so dark that I'm not allowed to wear them while driving (some 99% reduction, I believe). This is something people in an outdoors store should be able to explain to you.
Another very important thing to watch out for is stray light. What I also learned the hard way is that clip-on sunshades for your regular glasses let too much light in from the sides. You want to make sure that once you wear your goggles, any light that reaches your eyes must travel through the glasses. Again, on a glacier or in snow, light comes from all directions. Serious expedition-style goggles therefore look a bit like old pilot's goggles, with leather at the sides preventing any stray light from sneaking in.
Regular sunglasses should give you protection from snow blindness, so long as they protect against UV radiation. How well they protect you is dependent on how well the lenses cover your eyes, and how well the lenses or coatings filter or deflect UV radiation.
One of the classic applications of polarized sunglasses is to skiing. Light from the sun is unpolarized, but when it is reflected from a surface at a glancing angle, it becomes highly polarized. When you're on a snow field, a lot of the bright light getting into your eyes is light reflected from the snow, and when the sun is low in the sky, this glare is coming from glancing reflection, so it's highly polarized. If you wear polarized sunglasses, they will help to cut out this glare disproportionately, making it easier to see other stuff without having your view interfered with by the intense glare.
This is all about comfort and ease of seeing, but doesn't necessarily tell you anything about snow blindness. Snow blindness is mainly caused by UV, which you can't perceive and which doesn't cause immediate pain or discomfort. In addition to snow blindness, UVB (and possibly UVA, although the evidence is not as strong) can cause long-terms problems with vision.
So then the question is whether polarizing lenses are or are not effective against UV. We have a separate question about that, but basically the answer is that they're probably pretty darn effective, but probably not as effective as you'd ideally like.
Any sunglasses or will help protect against snow blindness. UV protection is highly recommended.
There are actual standards for this. If you are going somewhere where snow blindness is a real possibility, you should have sunglasses that meet the standard. The most common standard used in outdoor sunglasses is the Category standard based on the european CE standards. There are 5 categories 0-4
This page has a good overview:
An Explication of Sunglasses Lens Categories.
Basically, general purpose outdoor sunglasses should be in Category 3, which is appropriate for skiing in the winter when the sun is generally at a low angle. If you are climbing a glacier in the summer, you want category 4 level glasses.
Polarized lens can certainly help, but ultimately it's the reduction in UV light levels that prevents snow blindness.
Contrary to what some may feel is a limited use for polarization the sole purpose of this filtering is to minimize glare directly and indirectly caused by but not limited to bright sunlight. By doing so your visual acuity is increased in any bright light environment. Keep in mind light itself travels so it will bounce off any reflective surface. The more reflective your environment is the more intensive the glare will be.
The most effective way to protect your eyes from harsh reflection is polarization. There are several levels of quality to this filter so dont be to surprised if cheap (low end) protection doesn't do the job. In addition to a higher quality filter, choose a color that best suits the environment you are in most often, the amount of allowable light transmission is critical to expected performance. The frame you select is just as important as color, wrapped coverage for the sportsman will help maximize your vision by blocking the amount of light coming in from the sides as where the casual activity sunglass wearer will be just fine with a fashion style frame.
I wear polarized lenses in snow, even at night; and when I come back indoors I can see everything just fine. If I spend significant time outdoors in blanketed snow, even at night, without my polarized glasses on, when I come back indoors I am basically blind or searching for focus until a number of minutes have passed.


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'No certainty'
Published: Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 8:11 a.m.
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Vic Urbaitis of Hendersonville scolds Dick Roberts for his "unjustified excoriation of Rep. Carolyn McCarthy's support of common-sense gun control." Mr. Roberts asserted that if there had been an armed citizen on the Long Island Railroad train in 1993, perhaps her husband and others would still be alive. "Perhaps," says Mr. Urbaitis, "but it's no certainty. Indeed, others could have been killed in crossfire as well. The only certainty — not a perhaps — is that if the angry rider didn't have a gun nobody could have been shot to death. Removing all guns from the public sector prompts the insistence that guns are needed for protection against government tyranny. David Koresh's Waco supporters were heavily armed. But the government has tanks, against which guns are no match. The argument is a flimsy red herring perpetuated by hunters. Those who mistakenly consider themselves tough guys for gunning down God's defenseless innocents lack even the courage to admit they killed a living being, saying instead that they took it. Unless Jesus lied in his sermon on the mount, these hypocrites will, when judged, weep and gnash their teeth. When the rabid Mr. Roberts says, 'You can't fix stupid,' pointing such a finger at others is pointing four fingers back at himself."
Stump Parrish says it is amazing how so many people in the Bible Belt love to cherry-pick the Constitution in the same manner they cherry-pick the Bible. "If they don't like what it actually says, they change or simply ignore those parts and carry on in the same holier-than-thou manner as before," he observes. "And I doubt many have bothered to read the Constitution. Most simply prefer to have someone else do their thinking about the Constitution, the same way they do for the Bible."
'AS FAST AS I COULD': Chris Burleson of Columbus tells that a girl late one night was driving at a high rate of speed down a lonely country road, where a police officer had been waiting for speeding cars but with no luck for many hours. The officer pulled the girl over and said to her, "I've been waiting for you all night." The girl replied, "I got here as fast as I could." No ticket for her, figures Mr. Burleson.
THE FOLLOWING tale making the Internet rounds is sure to have sides splitting from too much laughter: For several years, a man was having an affair with an Italian woman. One night, she confided in him that she was pregnant. Not wanting to ruin his reputation or his marriage, he said he would pay her a large sum of money if she would go to Italy to secretly have the child. If she stayed in Italy to raise the child, he would also provide child support until the child turned 18. She agreed but asked how he would know when the baby was born. To keep it discreet, he told her to simply mail him a postcard, and write 'Spaghetti' on the back. He would then arrange for the child support to begin. About nine months later, he came home to his confused wife. "Honey," she said, "you received a very strange postcard today." "Oh, just give it to me, and I'll explain it later," he said. She watched as he read the postcard and fainted. On the card, it was written, "Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti. Two with and three without. Send extra sauce."
LAST BUT NOT LEAST: World War II history buffs will want to be at the Hub City Bookshop in Spartanburg, S.C., at 7 p.m. Thursday for a book event with Paul Reid, author of "The Last Lion: William Spencer Churchill." Mr. Reid, who lives in Tryon, completed the third volume of the epic three-book Churchill biography when historian William Manchester passed away. The author will discuss Churchill's role in the war and sign copies of his new book. The event is free.
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UConn football picked to finish 7th in the AAC
|Connecticut head coach Paul Pasqualoni, left, talks to his team after UConn's Blue-White spring NCAA college football game at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Conn., Saturday, April 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
The UConn football team was picked to finish seventh in the American Athletic Conference this fall in the preseason media poll released on Tuesday. Louisville, which could be a national title contender, was the runaway choice to win the league, with Cincinnati in second position.
Here is how the media poll ranked the teams:
1. Louisville; 2. Cincinnati; 3. Rutgers; 4. Central Florida; 5. South Florida; 6. Houston; 7. UConn; 8. SMU; 9. Temple; 10. Memphis
Here is how the media poll ranked the teams:
1. Louisville; 2. Cincinnati; 3. Rutgers; 4. Central Florida; 5. South Florida; 6. Houston; 7. UConn; 8. SMU; 9. Temple; 10. Memphis
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Edison changes are troubling
June 16, 2013
To the editor: Several weeks before the end of the Edison Local district school year, letters were sent home informing the high school students that there would not be bus transportation for the......
What you folks should do is hire a good attorney and have the portion of your property taxes spent on education refunded or credited to you. Next, homeschool your children. If you have enough concerned parents, you can have one parent teach mathematics, another teach science, another can do history on this and that day. FYI, this is your penalty for not submitting to the will of the teachers union. They will continue to cut and penalize until they get what they want.
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There are four ways to go about solving this problem.
1. You can submit and fall in line like good little sheep. They in turn will use the same tactics every time they want a pay raise; and they will rob you blind in the years to come.
2. You refuse to give in!!! You go to the polls, and to the courts, and to the board meetings and get rid of the members of the school board, the superintendent, the greedy teachers that just want three months off and a luxurious guranteed retirement.
3. You go to a board meeting as a group and hammer out a written agreement between the taxpayer and the school district. Such a deal should be accountability based, and fair to those that pay the taxes.
4. Partially dissolve the district with the outlying areas distributing students to schools closer to the student's home.
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Many people wrote letters to the editor warning folks of what was to come if they did not take up the fight or if they give in. Here are some really important thoughts.
1. Why should property owners be the only people to foot the bill for this?
2. Why are you the taxpayer being punished for your vote at the polls?
3. When a vote can be influenced by threat of penalty is that how our system of government is to work?
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1. How much is the district going to save by not busing the 9-12 students?
2. How much is the district going to lose in ODE Pupil Transportation funding when the 9-12 students are not bused?
3. Why did we hire a assistant principal at the High School?
4. Why is the Pleasant Hill Principal going o be the Stanton Principal.
5. Why is the old Stanton Principal/ Assistant Sup. going to be the Assistant Sup.?
6. Is the new levy really any different that the last levy request? Old Levy Request 9.4 Mils less the non-renewal less 2.0 mills emergency levy -------------------------------- 7.4 Mills what they wanted you to pay. 5.9 Mills
New Levy Request
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New Levy Request 5.9 Mills 2.0 Mills emergency levy ---------------- 7.9 mils is what the want
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When are they going to get it through their heads that bussing and play to pay is not what the tax payers want. They want NO assistant principles or superintendents and for them to take a cut in pay and pay more for their benefits. No double dipping. Substitute teachers should be young teachers starting out not retired teachers. Teachers should be judged on a merit system not a seniority and tenure system.
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Then maybe when they do some of this taxpayers may vote for their levies.
Oh and the school board should go after Wal Mart DS to pay it's taxes to the schools. Demand it of the Commissioners. You command 5000 votes in the county enough to vote in or vote out the commissioners you want.
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According to the ODE (state)website, there are a little more than 8,900 students K-12 in Jefferson county. Grades 9-12 make up about 3,000 of that total. There is no reason to have 5 high schools with this number. One school district, two High schools. Edison only has only 600 students in its high school, Toronto 263. One school district for the county = one super, one treasurer, on assistant super, one BOE. Not five of each. We the people need to demand consolidation.
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I agree that they need to cut down on administration. As for taxing solutions, I'd like to see everyone pay their fair share regardless of if they own property or not. My gripe is from the standpoint of the taxpayer. The burden of levies are incredibly heavy to those that own property or own businesses, yet anyone of age can vote in them regardless of if it affects them or not.
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How about a "non-property owner child tax" proportionately based upon how many school age children are utilizing the public school system in a family.
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My father is giving me his old weight machine. He has not used it in quite a few years (10+) and it has been outside (we get winter 4-5 months of the year, with 3-4 feet of snow on average) for the past 3 years. The weights themselves were protected from the elements, but everything else (cables, chair cushions) were uncovered.
Once I get it, what parts of it should I be looking at for wear and tear (and what should I be looking for) with an eye to replacing so that once I start using it, it will be safe.
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