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The airport is situated 13km (8 miles) southeast of Birmingham.
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The airport is situated on the A45 Coventry road, close to junction 6 of the M42. There are direct connections from the M1, M5, M6 and M40. The new M6 toll road provides a faster alternative to the M6. The airport is signposted from the motorways.
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The free Air-Rail shuttle service links the airport directly to nearby Birmingham International Train Station in about two minutes. Frequent services connect Birmingham International with New Street station in the city centre train operators include Arriva Trains Wales, CrossCountry, London Midland and Virgin Trains, which offers long distance services between London and Glasgow via Birmingham (tel: 0845 748 4950; www.nationalrail.co.uk).
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Black cabs (tel: 0121 782 3744) carry up to five people with luggage. They are available on a rank outside the terminals.
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The airport information desk (tel: 0121 767 5511) is situated in the Millennium Link; there is also an information point located in the Departures Lounge. British Airways operates a customer service desk (tel: 0121 767 7502/3) in Terminal 2. The Visitor Centre in Terminal 1 provides a reservation and information service.
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One of the challenges of being a competitive BBQ'er is trying to figure out what the heck the judges want. I know I have cursed many a judges score, scratched my head in disbelief and generally been frustrated to no end when on the receiving end of comment cards that say " Chicken was too juicy" " Looks too perfect". ( I won't tell you what I said after reading those cards- lol it would involve a whole lot of bleeps!) Gut instinct takes and you are offended at first but more sensibly its another opportunity to learn. I also have thanked the BBQ Judges on occasions where I thought I literally had turned in crap and gotten calls. I don't think I have ever seen anyone refuse to take an award.
In my never ending quest to improve my BBQ I search out lots of ways to get more information. Whether it be on the net or in person listening to what the judges and other competitors have to say- is important to me. As far as I am concerned I work for them. Everything I do is to get them to give me and my BBQ a better score. A wiser much more experienced BBQ'er once told me never leave any points on the table. I strive for that every time I turn in boxes.
Photo Credit The burger Baroness: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jesswebb/
I am a certified BBQ judge with KCBS and PNWBA. I have not however judged many contests. On various forums ( BBQ Brethren one of my favs!) there are always posts that say rate my box. Feedback in appearance can be really helpful. The posts are usually answered by multiples of people and the answers can vary wildly. While it isn't a slam dunk it can sure help. Thats probably why I like the site BBQ Critic. Lots of boxes posted with commentary from a wide variety of folks.
"I do solemnly swear to objectively and subjectively evaluate each Barbeque meat that is presented to my eyes, my nose, my hands and my palate. I accept my duty to be an Official KCBS Certified Judge, so that truth, justice, excellence in Barbeque and the American Way of Life may be strengthened and preserved forever."
Photo credit http://www.flickr.com/photos/anotherpintplease/
BBQ Critic invites people to come and judge the boxes presented. The teams are kept anonymous. It is really interesting to see the commentary. Teams are invited to submit their boxes to be judged.
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Hey guys- A friend of mine just did an auto-update for the most recent wordpress upgrade. Upon completion, her site began to display her rss feed on the front page instead of well, her front page. the rss feed also appeared to be empty. Upon further inspection, it appears that EVERY page goes to that empty feed page (including the admin panel link). Lastly, it seems that the main url wants to add an additional // at the end of the URL when hitting the root of the domain.
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Arthritis, ADD, or is it just me?
November 20, 2007
It's nearly 1.30 AM right now and for the last 2.5 hours I've been glued to the computer, glassy-eyed and claustrophobic, trying to work on grad school applications (deadlines are coming up way too fast). I really do want to go back to school; I've wanted to go back for three years or so but haven't been able to get my act together to actually do it. I applied to two programs at the University of Minnesota two years ago, in a huge messy rush, and got rejected. I also applied twice to a Master's program in Berlin at Humboldt University; the most recent rejection happened just this May. Throw in an application for a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship too, also denied. I did get accepted to a Master's program at Queen's University in Belfast in 2004, but I had to decline it because of a freak arthritis flare-up with my eyes.
Oh, pity pity woe is me, right? I know, stop being a baby. But as I sit here feeling like someone is digging sharp knives into both ankles and that maybe another evil person just finished smashing every inch of my body with a lead baseball bat – I do wonder sometimes if I would be having such trouble trying to move on with my life and getting my shit together if I were healthy and arthritis-free. Is the RA to blame for any of these frustrations and failures or is it all me?
I don't know. I do know that especially since the situation with my ankles began in April 2005, energy and motivation have been on extra short supply. Today, to my dismay, I slept until noon and then I drove out to Maple Grove to do a few errands. On the way back home I tried doing some work and serving some legal papers, to no avail. When I returned home with throbbing feet, exhausted, I collapsed on my bed for a while. I did manage to change into my pajamas and then hobble back into the living room to watch Dancing With The Stars with my mother (how lame can this story get, you ask?). Ate dinner. Shuffled to bed and read for a bit, then creaked back downstairs to the computer room where I now sit. Good grief, old ladies are more productive in a day. I might as well be comatose.
While it's not manual labor, of course, the admissions requirements and the paperwork and application procedures of these graduate applications are really overwhelming (not to mention the financial expense). The very thought of all of the crazy running around I'll have to do to actually try to do this thing, merely applying, makes my bones ache. Today I could barely handle going to Ulta to exchange a hair straightener. How can I possibly do grad school? The thought of grad school excites me and makes me happy, but the mechanics of getting there and the reality of the work and stress it will have on my mental and physical health is worrying. I know I need to stop whining and just get on with it and do the best I can. Yet I can't help it if I'm tired of the rejection and tired of putting my body and spirit through even more stress and pain. Keep trying is the clichéd, thumbs-up pep-talk thing to think and say, right? Yeah, yeah. I know. I will keep trying because I can't stand the thought of the alternative.
Well, on that happy note – it's time for bed…with dreams of the GRE floating through my head (I hope not). Good night!
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November 20, 2007 at 10:50 am
I think you are justified in not being able to get the things done that you want/need to. Hell, I cannot get those things always done and I am not sick.
I think you have a legitimate handicap and maybe it will help to see it that way when refocusing your goals.
I know you are capable of overcoming these obstacles.
April 16, 2008 at 10:56 pm
I am trying to go back to school as well. I think your pain sounds worse than mine – I am having a terrible flare but usually medication controls my RA well (without meds I'm bedridden). When a hand or foot hurts really bad I feel like I want to cut it off, I read your post about the man with the amputated leg, I wonder if he lost a healthy leg and if it would be better to lose a painful, barely functioning one. Sort of like losing a chain around your ankle.
Some days the pain is better when I'm too busy to stop and feel it – I don't have a choice, the kids need me, I have to do this or that, so I just go even if it hurts. I think there is some emotional benefit to getting things done that has a physical benefit as well.


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According to big bang , the universe is expanding . By this we can say that distance between sun and earth is increasing so it should happen that earth temp. Decrease but in real life what we see is global warming , why?
The Universe has indeed been in the state of global cooling since its very birth. It started very, very hot. Right now, the cosmic microwave radiation that penetrates the space (it is a thermal radiation of a sort, like the red light you get from a heated piece of metal in your oven) has the temperature of 2.7 kelvins (-270 degrees Celsius or so).
Every ten billion years or so (the age of the Universe is 13.8 billion years), this temperature will drop to one-half; the drop is exponential (one-half, then one-quarter, one-eighth, and so on) because the expansion of the Universe is approximately exponential in time due to the positive cosmological constant that accelerates the expansion.
One must correct you: the expansion of the Universe doesn't mean that the Earth-Sun distance is increasing. The Solar System is a gravitationally bound one, by local forces, and those are not affected by the expansion of the Universe. The Earth-Sun distance may be extremely slowly changing due to other effects but the expansion of the Universe isn't one of them. So the expansion of the Universe really means that you may "store" an increasing number of solar systems into the Universe!
At any rate, the temperature 2.7 kelvins of the outer space is very cold and doesn't impact the Earth's temperatures much. The Earth's temperature is much higher than 2.7 kelvins – about 300 kelvins in average (15 Celsius degrees or so in average) – and it is this pleasantly warm because of the equilibrium between the incoming energy and heat from the Sun; and the outgoing thermal radiation emitted by the Earth.
It may be calculated that the equilibrium temperature at which the thermal energy emitted by the Earth is precisely equal to the incoming energy from the Sun is about 300 kelvins. The temperature depends on the place (especially the latitude: warm equator vs cold polar regions), daytime (day vs night), season (summer vs winter), and other factors.
Some of the factors are "systemic" and may change for extended periods of time. The reflectivity of the Earth's surface (albedo) affects the equilibrium temperature (a darker Earth would be warmer, like a dark asphalt in the summer), and so does the amount of "greenhouse gases" (gases that prevent the outgoing thermal radiation of the Earth to escape from its atmosphere). The greenhouse gases act like a "sweater" or a "blanket" that prevents you from freezing in a cold weather by allowing you to "keep" the body heat you produce.
The term "global warming" is a catchword for a nearly negligible expected (and perhaps partially observed, but this is controversial) rise of the temperature caused by the increasing concentration of the minor greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, especially carbon dioxide (CO2). The concentration is rising because people burn coal or oil, so carbon plus oxygen in the air creates carbon dioxide which is still gas that spends a century or so in the atmosphere.
The main greenhouse gas, water vapor (H2O), has concentrations that are almost exactly dictated by the temperature and other "external drivers". The water vapor as a greenhouse gas is responsible for about 30 Celsius degrees of extra warming on the Earth's surface because it prevents some of the outgoing heat from escaping. The Earth would be really cold and inhospitable without water vapor in the atmosphere.
Carbon dioxide (the main plant food - trees are not built out of the "soil" but largely out of the carbon dioxide they catch from the air, so carbon dioxide is, along with oxygen and water, the most important gas/liquid for life) is only causing 10 times less than that, about 3 degrees, and the dependence of the total warming caused by this gas is only increasing logarithmically. The more CO2 we have, the less important the newly added CO2 becomes. Since 1750, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere has increased by 40 percent and this has caused some increase of the average surface temperature on the Earth because the extra CO2 has prevented some heat from escaping from the Earth, too.
The total warming caused by the newly added CO2 since the beginning of the industrial revolution could have been something between 0.2 deg C and 0.8 deg C – the latter is the whole observed or estimated temperature change. The exact value is not known (it is about 1/2 of the so-called climate sensitivity) and the value, with potential political implications, is a highly controversial number.
Regardless of the exact value, this change in 250 years is a small fraction of a percent of the absolute temperature 300 kelvins on Earth and these sub-degree temperature changes cannot be felt by human beings even if they occur immediately. They surely cannot be felt if this change is divided to 100 or 250 years. One may only demonstrate that something about the temperature has been slightly changing if he carefully observes pretty much the whole globe for whole days, whole years, and for 50 years, with very accurate thermometers and evaluate the data with extremely careful and accurate algorithms. If any condition fails to be met, the changes of the temperatures up and down become equally likely.
So global warming is an academic contribution to the time derivative (change in time) of the global mean (average) temperature. Despite what you may hear in the media, it is negligible for practical purposes, there are many other sources with both signs the contribute to the temperature changes (solar activity and sunspots, ocean cycles, El Nino, volcano eruptions, changing composition of plants, and so on), but despite the negligibility of the "global warming", the temperature changes caused by the changing greenhouse gases and other factors are still many orders of magnitude (millions of times) greater than the changes of the Earth's temperature induced by the evolution of the whole cosmos, e.g. by its expansion. The Cosmos is large, heavy, and has many interesting properties, but for practical purposes, it doesn't really matter on the Earth. Only the Sun, the Earth's atmosphere, and oceans (and biosphere etc.) matter for the Earth's surface temperatures.
The distance between the Sun and the Earth isn't increasing. Well, that's not quite true, but it's increasing at only 7m per 100 years, which is far too slow to have any significant effect on the Earth's climate.
While the Earth-Sun distance hasn't changed (much) the Sun has been getting gradually brighter throughout it's life. It's now about 25% brighter than when the Earth was first formed. However although this is a big change it happens on too long a timescale to affect climate over say a hundred years.
So you need to look elsewhere for factors that can change the climate on short timescales.
Yes, the models of how the cosmos came to be have a big bang and various expansions of space until our present time.
No, this is not true. The gravitational force between the earth and the sun is much stronger than the expansion of the underlying spacetime. Think of a balloon on which there are hard spots. When you blow it up the distances between spots becomes large, but not the spots themselves. The spots are clusters of galaxies, and we have observed their spread, but the clusters of galaxies and their galaxies themselves are tightly bound by their gravitational field and are not becoming larger.
The distance with the sun is not changing due to the expansion, the gravitational attraction to the sun does not change because the effect is very very small, so the temperature changes on the earth cannot be attributed to this.
The cooling and warming of the earth has been happening the past millions of years as measured by icecore temperatures. . It is due to the orbit taken by the earth which is not fixed, and sometimes it is closer to the sun and sometimes further away.
The last ice age happened around 10.000 years ago, and our warm time is called the Holocene period. We are due to fall to the next ice age within some hundreds , more or less, years. The recent warming of the world comes after a sharp cooling called "the little ice age" . If you look at the Holocene figure you will see that variations of temperature are the norm, and not the exception.


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Is it "well-known" which odd powers of the theta function are eigenforms for the half-integral weight Hecke operators? If so, what is a good reference? Is there a slick algorithm for proving computationally that a specific weight k/2 non-cusp form is an eigenform?
The case of even powers was (asked and) solved by P. T. Bateman in "Problem E 2051", Amer. Math. Monthly 76 (1969), the solution being that the powers 2, 4, 8 are the only even powers of $\Theta$ that are eigenforms. A similar idea shows that indeed the only odd powers of theta that are eigenforms are 1, 3, 5 and 7:
Proof. The idea is to compute explicit expressions for the first two fourier coefficients of $\Theta^k$ and $T_{3^2} \Theta^k$, depending only on $k$. For a fixed $n$, in order to compute the $n$-th coefficient of $\Theta^k$ we consider "square-partitions" of $n$ - all the ways to write $n$ as a sum of squares of positive numbers, regardless of order.
Each such partition contributes to all large enough powers of $\Theta$, specifically, as soon as the power is greater than the number of summands in the partition. We can calculate exactly how much a square-partition contributes to a coefficient. Namely, the partition: $$n = \alpha_1 \cdot n_1^2 + \alpha_2 \cdot n_2^2 + \ldots + \alpha_r \cdot n_r^2$$
where the $n_i$ are distinct, constributes to the $n$-th coefficient of $\Theta^k$: $$2^{\alpha_1+\ldots+\alpha_r} \binom{k}{\alpha_1} \binom{k-\alpha_1}{\alpha_2}\cdot \ldots\cdot \binom{k-\alpha_1-\ldots-\alpha_{r-1}}{\alpha_r}$$
The power of 2 accounts for different choices of sign, and each binomial coefficient accounts for the number of ways left to choose the positions of $n_i$'s.
If $n$ is fixed, each such expression is a polynomial in $k$. So, we can sum over all square-partitions of $n$ to get the $n$-th coefficient of $\Theta^k$.
Now we need to get the coefficients of $T_{3^2}\Theta^k$. This is well known. We use theorem 1.7 of "On Modular Forms of Half Integral Weight", G. Shimura (1973), which can also be found as proposition 13 of chapter 4 in "Introduction to Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms", N. Koblitz (1984) (I am slightly weakening the theorem to exclude $p=2$):
For $\Theta^k$ we have $N = 4$ and $\chi = 1$. Using the above with $p=3$: $$b_1 = a_9 - (-3)^{\lambda-1}a_1$$ $$b_2 = a_{18} + (-3)^{\lambda-1}a_2$$
And $a_1$, $a_2$, $a_9$, $a_{18}$ are polynomials in $k$, or $\lambda$ (which is more convenient). If $\Theta^k$ is an eigenform for $T_{3^2}$, we must have $\frac{b1}{a1}=\frac{b2}{a2}$. We will show this is doesn't happen for $k\gt 7$.
The idea is simple: writing $b_1a_2-b_2a_1$ out we see a polynomial of $\lambda$ of degree 19, and $(-3)^{\lambda-1}$ times a quadratic polynomial in $\lambda$. As $\lambda \rightarrow \infty$ (so $k\rightarrow \infty$ as well), the exponential factor dominates, and the expression cannot be zero. We compute a lower bound for this, and check remaining cases manually.
The last part isn't very enlightening, but since you expressed keenness for an algorithm (and someone might want to check that I'm not rambling nonsense), I will include the sage computation below.


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GEMINI (May 21-June 21). An ancient Chinese proverb says: When a bird flies too high, his song is lost. People respond to you because you communicate on their level. They can understand you. This talent will be put to excellent use today.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You like it when things are going smoothly, but you don't shy away from difficulties, either. People like you are made stronger by challenge. Trials make you sharper. Tribulation gives you the chance to be heroic.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You're just about finished with a certain role or frame of mind. It is no longer going to work in your life. A master of transformation, you embrace this chance to reinvent yourself and adventure on.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). When you think about it, all self-improvement is a subtle form of self-rejection. Consider giving it up for the time being so you can focus on discovering and enjoying who you already are.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). It's hard to create fire from scratch. But when you already have a fire burning, spreading it to new locations is as easy as passing a torch. You have a fire burning in your belly now and will easily ignite one in others.
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MORGANTOWN - Given the personnel turnover on his offense, West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen figured fans wouldn't recognize who was on the field during Saturday's annual Gold-Blue Game, won by the Blue (defense), 41-33.
His bigger concern was that fans recognize what they saw.
"After 14 practices and going 75 plays of live football," Holgorsen said, "you want it to resemble football, which I think it did resemble football, not at a high level, but at least it did look like football."
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Weirton Madonna graduate Connor Arlia learned Saturday he's no longer a WVU walk-on as he was awarded a scholarship among many other honors. Not only was he bestowed the Nickolich Award, which is given to a walk-on team member who has distinguished himself through his attitude and work ethic, he, along with Will Clarke, and Isaiah Bruce, received the Iron Mountaineer Award, given annually to the players who test the best at the conclusion of winter conditioning. -- Contributed
Using a scoring system consistent with what he's used during his first three springs at WVU (regular points for offense, and six points for a touchdown, three points for a drive stop and/or a turnover on defense), the defense won. But even after an historically bad year of stopping the ball, all eyes were on the WVU offense and the quarterback spot, where redshirt freshman Ford Childress and junior Paul Millard are battling it out for the first-string job.
As has been the case since this competition began, neither player soared ahead, though Millard did put up the better numbers (16 of 27 for 185 yards and three touchdowns, compared to 14 of 21 for 169 yards and one touchdown and one interception for Childress).
"Not only are we not ready to name a starting quarterback," Holgorsen said, "we're not ready to do that at about 20 other positions."
He said that won't likely come until the third week of fall camp, and vowed he would not have a controversy once the season begins. Someone will start. Someone will be the backup.
Others who stood out on offense were receivers Jordan Thompson, who caught six passes for 123 yards for three touchdowns, and Kevin White, a JUCO transfer who caught five passes for 72 yards, including a 46-yard score on a screen.
"(White) is what you'd want a guy to look like," offensive coordinator Shannon Dawson said. "He's a big, fast, physical guy (6-foot-3, 211). His deal, he just needs to be consistent every day. Talented guy, but he needs a lot more reps."
As far as Thompson's day, the WVU coaches aren't reading too much into it. He had a big spring game last season and did little to back that up when the lights came on in the fall.
For that reason, they'd rather not do a lot of commenting on him.
"If I talk about him, he's going to go thinking he's got it figured out like he always does," Dawson said, "I wish everybody would not talk about him and let him be. But he had a good day, I'll give him that."
That came after Holgorsen said Thompson would go down in the history books as the greatest spring-game player of all time. Thompson also had a TD catch last spring.
Junior running back Dustin Garrison, who is back at full strength after tearing up a knee his freshman season, had 51 yards on seven carries. Junior College transfer Dreamius Smith had 38 yards on seven attempts. True freshman Wendell Smallwood had 25 yards on seven carries. Those three, combined with junior Andrew Buie, who sat out with a sore hamstring, give Holgorsen some hope.
"I think we're in pretty good shape there - the best shape we've been since I've been here," he said.
The defense did show signs of improvement, particularly when it came to pressuring the quarterback. Though all that was needed, basically, was to get a hand on the QB to record a sack, the defense had six of them.
"There were some good things, obviously," defensive coordinator Keith Patterson said. "I thought they executed fairly well, especially our first team, because we basically just played our base scheme and tried to emphasize communication, pressure, running to the football, tackling. Overall, from what I thought I saw on the field, I was very pleased."
Sean Walters, a redshirt freshman linebacker, had five solo tackles, including a sack. Steubenville's Shaq Petteway also had five tackles, while Nick Kwiatkoski, and K.J. Dillon had four.
The defense had 11 stops, including a pair of missed field goals and four three-and-outs, and an interception by Travis Bell.
"I've said this all spring," Holgorsen said. "We've got a long way to go. It was nice to see a couple guys step up and make some plays offensively and defensively."
But, he said, and this cautionary comment always comes after the spring game: "The team that we field in September is going to look different. We have so many new guys coming in, and we have so many young guys that are going to continue to develop."
NOTES: Weirton Madonna graduate Connor Arlia learned Saturday he's no longer a walk-on as he was awarded a scholarship among many other honors. Not only was he bestowed the Nickolich Award, which is given to a walk-on team member who has distinguished himself through his attitude and work ethic, he, along with Will Clarke, and Isaiah Bruce, received the Iron Mountaineer Award, given annually to the players who test the best at the conclusion of winter conditioning. The winners are selected from three groups (FB/TE/LB/SP; QB/RB/WR/DB; and OL/DL).


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First Gynecological Exam
Q: What happens during a girl's first visit to a gynecologist?
A: Excellent question! Teens and parents alike often ask pediatricians about this. The gynecologic exam is an important part of health care for all women. Its purpose is to evaluate the size and shape of the uterus (womb) and ovaries, to do a Pap smear to detect early signs of cervical cancer, and to screen for sexually transmitted diseases.
The doctor will start the examination with you resting on your back on an exam table. You'll have you put your feet into footrests at the end of the table, to help you stay comfortable with your legs apart during the exam. The doctor will start by looking at the outside of your genital area and then use a gloved hand to look at the vaginal opening between the labia (folds of tissue around the vagina).
The next step is the speculum exam. A speculum is a plastic or metal object that helps the doctor look inside the vagina. The speculum has two flat blades about the size of a tongue depressor, which are inserted a few inches into the vaginal canal until the doctor can see the cervix (opening of the uterus). Most women say that this feels uncomfortable but not painful, and that it causes a sensation of pressure. The doctor will usually take cell samples for three tests from your cervix; two are with cotton swabs to look for sexually transmitted diseases, and the third is with a brush and a flat blade for the Pap smear. Once these have been taken, the speculum is taken out of the vagina.
The last part is a manual exam with the doctor's hands. The doctor will put a lubricating jelly on her gloved hand and will insert one or two fingers into your vagina. With the other hand, she will push on the lower part of your abdomen (belly). This helps the doctor feel the size of your uterus and ovaries.
The entire exam takes only a few minutes. The doctor explains what she is doing throughout the exam, and you should ask questions at any point. Afterwards, it is normal to have a small amount of blood spotting over the next day or so. Don't forget to check the results of the tests for sexually transmitted diseases and the Pap smear, which take a few days to come back.
Hank Bernstein
Children's Hospital
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Henry Bernstein, M.D., is currently the associate chief of the Division of General Pediatrics and director of Primary Care at Children's Hospital, Boston. He also has an academic appointment at Harvard Medical School.


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ND Faculty vs. Bishop Jenky
Yes, that Bishop Jenky...NCR reports:
Almost 50 University of Notre Dame faculty members have urged Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria, Ill., to "renounce loudly and publicly" his recent comparison of President Barack Obama with Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler.If he does not do so, they said, Notre Dame should seek the bishop's immediate resignation from the university's Board of Fellows.
The Notre Dame professors said Jenky's comparison of the HHS regulation to the attacks on the church by Bismarck, Clemenceau, Stalin and Hitler was "profoundly offensive.""Bishop Jenky's comments demonstrate ignorance of history, insensitivity to victims of genocide, and absence of judgment," they wrote in the letter. "We accept that Bishop Jenky's comments are protected by the First Amendment, but we find it profoundly offensive that a member of our beloved university's highest authority, the Board of Fellows, should compare the president's actions with those whose genocidal policies murdered tens of millions of people, including the specific targeting of Catholics, Jews, and other minorities for their faith."The faculty members' letter, addressed to Notre Dame's president, Holy Cross Fr. John Jenkins and board president Richard Notebaert and released Friday, called for a university statement "that will definitively distance Notre Dame from Bishop Jenky's incendiary statement.""Further, we feel that it would be in the best interest of Notre Dame if Bishop Jenky resigned from the University's Board of Fellows if he is unwilling to renounce loudly and publicly this destructive analogy," the letter states.
Read the letter here.
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"Almost 50 University of Notre Dame faculty members . . . ."That doesn't like very many faculty members. How many tenure-track faculty members does the University of Notre Dame have?
I am glad to see the faculty take aa stand, but what if they are not supported by the Administration and he is a CSC also.Not a public word from fellow bishops -- no surprise there...Besides being dumb, un-historical, and intemperate, he crossed a political and legal line, I think, and where this will go will be intersting.If only he'd had my mother to vet his speech as she always tried - mostly successfully -- to do to mine...
This hierarch is a real "winner".(yes, offered in sarcasm)
" Not a public word from fellow bishops no surprise there "The stupendously loud damnation in that simple statement should make every bishop or bishop's minion who is/are lurking here hid their heads in utter and complete shame.The protection of the egregious and profane by the cowardly and get-along is a far cry from what a "successor to the apostles" should be.If Bishop Jerky had supported same-sex marriage you can believe that the cacophony would have been reverberating from episcopal palace to episcopal palace - and Bill Donahue's crib as well.
The only way this is going anywhere is if among those "50" faculty members there were influential members of the Indiana Province of Holy Cross priests. It is this group that calls the shots at ND.The "South Bend 50" may get Jenky to resign from the ND "Board of Fellows" but my guess is that ruffling ND feathers will only enhance Jenky's standing with his dons in the Vatican.Watch for Cardinal George to enter the fray on Jenky's behalf."Shake down the Thunder from the Sky ..."
I think it's no small accomplishment to make it onto the faculty at Notre Dame, so this is not to belittle any of the 50, but still, there were no "big names" in the list of signers.
In 2000, the university had 729 full-time tenured and tenure track faculty (Notre Dame Fact Book (NDFB), 2000, Table 11.1: 207).
I previously said that it needed more signers there and it's a sad commentray IMO that there aren't!Of course, a few weeks ago we had Melinda Henenerger writing extensively abour sexual assault on the campus there and not a peep pro or con in the major media.I fear institutional protection, enforced from top down, is the rule there and who does that sound like?My guess is that the 50 had enough courage to stand up to an obvious injustice and deserve credit, but ;ike so many things in Holy Mother today it just falls on (for public consumption) deaf ears.
I agree that those faculty who signed the letter deserve credit for signing it.But I am disappointed that more faculty did not sign the letter. (Thanks, Claire, for the information about the number of tenured and tenure-track faculty at Notre Dame.)
"All I could say is what Nicholas Cafardi, a Catholic law expert, said: "I have known many very saintly nuns in my life but very few saints who work in chancery offices!"John Coleman SJ on the America Blog
In fairness to the ND faculty, it is not easy to get signatures on letters, and a lot depends on how the letter was publicized. If the organizers did not have access to email lists they may have had to rely on the help of colleagues to get the word out and that can be a spotty venture.
A quick count says that 18 of the 60 signers are language teachers, and there are a number who teach art. There are 8 philosophy teachers. No science teachers except two in psych. Two math teachers. Hmmm. Where are the hard sciences faculty?
Well, sure, email lists would facilitate contacting the faculty.But I assume that Notre Dame has a printed faculty directory that includes the email address for each individual faculty member. Who organized the letter? The organizer(s) could have sent out an email message to individual faculty members.If I were organizing the letter-signing effort, I would skip over untenured faculty and send a message to tenured faculty, even if there were, say, 400 tenured faculty. It really is not that hard to type in individual email addresses when each one ends @nd.edu.
Where are the hard sciences faculty?
Agreeing with the bishop, perhaps, or rolling their eyeballs at the silliness of the arts people.You can demand the disgrace and ostracism of someone because he's said something you disagree with, but don't expect the wider world to go along with you.
I wondered why no one signed from the theology faculty.
As one of the signers, let me note the following: We became aware of Bishop Jenky's comments on Thursday, April 19. By Friday, April 20, a letter had been drafted and signed by 49 faculty members and sent to Father Jenkins. That letter was published by the Huffington Post. Between Friday and Sunday, an additional 46 faculty asked to have their names added, and the letter with 95 names was printed in Monday's edition of the student newspaper, the Observer. Today, more faculty have signed on, and I believe we have 119 people now. Hopefully the list will keep growing. Most of the signers are tenured and, while I am not terribly afraid of retribution, I think we have made it clear that junior faculty need not feel like they should sign. Personally, I think it is a fairly prestigious group! But you can judge for yourself by looking at the 95 names printed in the Observer. http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/viewpoint/faculty-call-to-distance-notre-da...
Ninety-nine percents arts people, Richard. Why arts people should be conspicuously intolerant, I don't know, but it is a sign of the times.
Perhaps the folks who teach physics, mathematics, chemistry, engineering, did a double take and said to themselves, "Hey, you know, maybe he has something there." What are the similarities between Stalin, Hitler, and Obama? All believe(d) in a very strong centralized government; one that needs to be able to override legislative and judicial entities. All believe(d) that man, as an individual, has no historical significance, that the "traditional" Christian religions are in need of being emptied and refilled with up-to-date notions of moral and ethical conduct. For Hitler this mostly consisted of mythical (not to say mystical) beliefs in "Aryan supremacy" and complete control of industrial production. Stalin was also for the complete control of industrial production, and in addition, the global propagation of Marxist and pseudo-Marxist ideology, as well as the destruction of all Jews and the Hebrew religion; he also attempted to create bogus Catholicism (which mostly amounted to repackaged Marxism). The characteristics of Obama's brand of Christianity may be gleaned from what he absorbed from the good reverend Wright. He understands the grave threat to his agenda that traditional Jews and Christians pose. Remember his statement about "If we are to effect the fundamental transformation of America, etc., etc. This was not idle prattle, but rather the clarion call to all left radicals that he indeed intended this. What are the fundamentals of America? The Constitution, the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative branches, the limitations on the federal government, you all know the list. But I've rattled on too long here; sorry about that.
The hypocrisy of academics rarely ceases to amaze. Were this a leftist professor making similar or more offensive comparisons they'd be lining up to defend him and calling those who seek his ouster a threat to free speech.
And if he were made out of chocolate, maybe they would eat him.But he's not a professor and he's not made of chocolate--he sits on a governing board, and that's something else entirely.
David Smith,I'd suggest charitably that you review the list again to correct your wildly inaccurate statement above. 99% arts? There are historians, philosophers, mathematicians, social sciences and more, all represented amply. Did you even read the list before making your comment?Thank you to Richard for the update on the signatories. This is an excellent initiative and a good example to others. Catholics do not think like Bishop Jenky by and large, and it is to the credit of the ND faculty that they have spoken up against such poisonous views.
How odd, to criticize as "intolerant" those who oppose hate speech. Is Bishop Jenky speaking as an official representative of the Catholic Church? It can't be great for US-Vatican relations if he is. It also won't help the bishops' religious freedom campaign if it becomes identified with Bishop Jenky's remarks.
Catholics do not think like Bishop Jenky by and largeRita,I'd suggest that you correct your unsubstantiated statement.
I applaud the courage and sentiments expressed by the Notre Dame faculty, but have aquibble, a wonder, and a question. The quibble is "we feel"-- seems like it ought to be "we think." we're always mixing up that one, but it is their "thought," surely influenced by their feelings, about this- not a "feeling".The wonderment is if more would sign if that last sentence were not there calling for his "loud [what's that mean?] and public" apology or whatever. Perhaps it is is more inclusive to simply state as a faculty that we disagree and disawow for the reasons stated. Although stronger in calling for him to recant, this is another issue.Finally, the question, as others have asked, is where are some of the more publically known names of facuty -- especially clergy?Just wondering....
Were this a leftist professor making similar or more offensive comparisons theyd be lining up to defend him and calling those who seek his ouster a threat to free speech.Sean,It would be an issue of academic freedom if a professor said something noxious. I think the rules for the Board of Fellows are somewhat different. A professor exercising academic freedom speaks for himself, not for the school. A member of the Board of Fellows is in a somewhat different position.
Bruce,Don't you even know that the opposite of unsubtantiated is substantiated, not incorrect?But I suppose you were just trying to be nasty.Sad.
Hey question: Will Fr, Jenkins respond and if so how?
TANGENT Speaking of talking back, according to LaStampa the priests are stirring in Germany, the U.S., and especially Ireland. Even the head of the Redemptorist order in Ireland is publicly defending a censured pmember of the order. This needs its own thread. http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/homepage/the-vatican/detail/articol...
the question, as others have asked, is where are some of the more publicly known names of faculty especially clergy?If I thought my work conditions or my relations with the higher-ups might be threatened by my thus speaking up, I would hesitate to sign such a petition. Is it worth it? Bp. Jenky used inflammatory rhetoric, but it's just words, not actions. He didn't actually do anything. I'd rather protest something of more import than a preposterous speech. All that that speech does is undermine Jenky's credibility. Other than that, it has no impact. In terms of concrete actions, note that he is not calling for a would-be Catholic martyr to assassinate Hitler=Stalin=Obama, but simply to vote against Obama at the next elections. That's within the bound of democracy. No one's getting hurt.
I just had an idea: what if that speech is a diversionary tactic to distract the media from the trial in Philadelphia? If the media want scandal, then feed them some ridiculous made-up scandal, and thus keep them away from the real scandal!
Rita E. Ferrone 04/24/2012 - 6:40 am SUBSCRIBERDavid Smith,Id suggest charitably that you review the list again to correct your wildly inaccurate statement above. 99% arts? There are historians, philosophers, mathematicians, social sciences and more, all represented amply. Did you even read the list before making your comment?
Arts and sciences, Ruth. Arts college. Yes, of course I read the list.
Rita. Sorry. IPad :0)
BTW, Sean, I'm amazed by the hypocrixy of the right who try to defend the ugly with a "look at the other guy" (real or imaginary.)This just inhibits real solutions to the awfukl rhetoric of Bishop Jenky and how he should be brought up short about it.
Ann O. {12:05pm) -- You're right, the subject needs attention but more than a thread. We are Church Ireland is calling for a vigil next Sunday outside the Papal Nuncio's in Dublin on behalf of priests silenced in Ireland. The Austrian Pastors Initiative has reaffirmed its Appeal to Disobedience after hearing from the Pope on Holy Thursday and Cdl. Schonborn since then. We are Church Germany is preparing an Alternative to the Catholic Day for May 18 for open discussions of topics ranging from "the sexual violence behind Church walls up to the tolerated misery in the Mediterranean from necessary reforms in the Catholic Church". Various groups of priest and laity are communicating online, affirming mutual recognition and common interests, and also are then exchanging speakers in meetings. The Internet is enabling today, globally and near-instantaneously, a challenge for the Church similar to what the printing press did centuries ago, but the sanctions of old are gone, fortunately. http://www.associationofcatholicpriests.ie/2012/04/silent-vigil-outside-... http://www.pfarrer-initiative.at/ http://www.wir-sind-kirche.de/index.php?id=128&id_entry=3958
Claire notes that Bishop Jenky's speech is only speech and that he "only" calls for a vote against Obama. Even though that is questionable with IRS restrictions, I think the rhetoric deserves a very public rebuke and, if his own diocese won't do it, the institutions he is affiliated with should. It is that kind of rhetoric that inflames the unstable to do violent actions -- when you compare someone with Hitler and Stalin, you're only missing Mao and Pol Pot and you've the Mt. Rushmore of dictators that can influence those creazed individuals and groups.I can understand the "prudence" one might show in not putting one's name on such a statement, but I respect greatly those who take that risk and wonder what the rest are thinking! I can't imagine many of teh faculty identifying this as an exercise of responsible speech -- though it is free...
Hate speech? Really? Calling it hate speech is engaging in the same kind of excessive hyperbole that you are criticizing.As for the academic freedom angle, are you trying to tell me that a professor who is payed by a university, often tenured for life, is not "identified" with the university in the same way an unpaid fellow (who, BTW, nearly no one outside the ND community even knew was a fellow until these 50 professors brought it up) on a temporary appointment is?I'm sorry, but when it comes to academic freedom and open debate the left is a fraud. When I was in law school I don't remember the Federalist Society picketing and cat calling when Andrea Dworkin came to speak - Lambda Law et al. didn't have the same scruples when Ken Starr was invited by the FS. The left's approach to speech in and out of the academy is to squelch it when they disagree with it. Label it "outside the pale" or hate speech, or anything else to intimidate and just get them to shut up. I suspect these professors are far less offended by this than they are gleeful at the chance to pillory a man with whom they disagree using his own ill chosen words.And Abe, I'd love a chocolate prelate.
The list now has around 130 names, including 16 endowed chairs from the fields of Physics, Philosophy, Anthropology, English, History, Classics, Art, Theater, and Psychology. http://www.southbendtribune.com/news/sbt-notre-dame-faculty-members-urge...
Catherine --Why talk to Barbara Marx Hubbard? I can think of several reasons off the top of my head. First, there are practical reasons. Her brand of New Age theology promotes peace and the brotherhood of man. We might learn something from each other about how to further those ideals. The nuns especially are interested in ways to help others. Second, such New Age religions are attractive to many, many young people, and if we want to understand what the young long for, such New Agers might help us understand them. (We understand so little about their religious thought and aspirations that they are leaving in droves.) Third, they might learn some valuable theology from us.Yes, her theology sounds partly crazy == she seems to identify all things, as schizophrenics often do. I don't know if she herself has had a crazy schizophrenic "mystical" intuition, but her theology sounds like it is based on such an intuition, at least on somebody else's intuition. Nevertheless, her theology and others similar to hers are highly influential in our culture, so I think that it behooves us to find out just what she is talking about. We don't have to agree with someone to talk with them.What worries me are the people who think that even listening to those with whom we disagree is so dangerous that we should avoid them like sin. That is highly unecumenical. And, yes, I do think that such a religion as Hubbard's New Age one IS a religion, and if you think it's a good thing to dialogue with Buddhists, then why not dialogue with those New Agers? In fact, I see a lot of parallels between Hubbaard and Suzuki. Do you think the Apostles and their disciples should not have dialogued with the Zoraostrians, the Hindus or the Scythians? Of course not. So why the prejudice against New Agers?
The South Bend Tribune has a story on the controversy now. http://www.southbendtribune.com/news/sbt-notre-dame-faculty-demand-apolo...
In the rhetorical line of work, Your Excellency, it's important to husband your resources and to make the expression of your outrage commensurate with the iniquity you are denouncing, mindful that an uncaring future may cast up still greater evils at any moment. Yes, we know that you are mighty upset by this Obama contraception kerfuffle. You consider it an abomination and a desecration, and we stand as always in awe of your judgment.But consider that Obama may very soon order the Department of Homeland Security, which has by now exhausted every other means of safeguarding the nation, to institute the sacrifice of virgins. If you have already used up Hitler and Stalin, who will be left to compare him to? Catiline maybe, or Wile E. Coyote?In profound respect and loving submission, Your Excellency, we urge you to exercise restraint.
Perspective in a nutshell. Thank you, John Prior.Perhaps it is time to examine the minutes of the meetings of the Universitys highest authority, the Board of Fellows. His Eminence is obviously well practiced to orate as he recently did. Such effluvium doesn't come from an untrained mind and tongue. What does the record show?
Love the word -- effluvium-- can't wait to use it in a sentence!It's impressive to see all those names and disciplines and I hope it is not impolite to note in this column and to ask what Cathleen Kaveny thinks about all of this. I respect her and perhaps the deliberation and discernment that is quietly behind the scenes and not ripe for comment. Still, I wonder and hope it not impolitic to respectfully inquuire...
When Leftists proclaimed President Bush a fascist or a murderer, they all patted themselves on the back and chortled that it was all about free speech.
Ken, you cannot compare random ramblings of people on blogs to official speeches of a bishop in his teaching office. You cannot use insults heard on the street as an excuse for effluvium from a bishop in a speech. Let's compare apples to apples. When Bush was President of the United States, which active US bishop said that he was a fascist or a murderer?David P: I agree. That's the first thing I liked about the dotCommonweal blog: a chance to learn new words!
I have heard several people say that Jenky is being taken out of context. Personally I think he sounds even worse if you read the whole thing. Besides Stalin and Hitler, he also draws parallels with the Roman Emperors and Judas Iscariot. He wildly distorts the issue -- he says Catholic Institutions will be forced to pay for abortion. Not so -- we are talking about paying for birth control, not abortion. In other words insurance will be paying for something that many people are going to get anyway, at least those who can afford it. He does this absurd fear mongering, basically saying that if Obama wins all our Catholic schools and hospitals "could easily be shut down" within a year. Does any one really think that Notre Dame and all the other Catholic Schools and hospitals across the country are goners if Obama wins? But yes, go ahead and read the whole thing and judge for yourself. http://www.thecatholicpost.com/post/PostArticle.aspx?ID=2440
The issue again will be what ND leadership (Fr,Jenkins and Board) wil do.My intuition is that little otr nothing wil happen because they don't want to upset the big alumni contributors -some of whom may well lean to the righ tand hate Obama.As i many things in Holy Mother today, i beleive money (and spin to protect it) matters more than justice and honesty.So it goes.....
Speaking as someone who hates new age and non-new age mysticism of all kinds (I loathe the works of Thomas Merton), I think that Ann Olivier identified something that I think is critically, even glaringly absent from all these discussions: If you can't even listen to people like Barbara Marx Hubbard how on God's green earth do you plan to evangelize to the increasing number of people who see spirituality as she does (from what I can tell) as a force that radiates outward from the individual? Your whole vocabulary is going to sound like a foreign language. It already does to an awful lot of people. I also wonder at the struggle it must take to sustain the focus and commitment to a consecrated life, without having the "ordinary" elements of time suck to distract you. Most of us probably feel like we don't have enough time in the day to consider philosophical questions -- we have kids, jobs, etc. What if you had too much time? What if you had already read or heard a lot of authors? Maybe you wouldn't mind hearing from someone whose focus is radically different. If there is anyone I would willingly give the benefit of the doubt to, it's to women who have dedicated their lives however imperfectly to Christ and the Catholic Church. The rest of us are pathetic poseurs in comparison and our judgments should be informed by that recognition at all times.
Actually, I thought the homily started out not to badly - its first section had the makings of a pretty decent homily for Easter season.His initial, and probably fatal, wrong turn was to put Hitler and Stalin, and President Obama, in adjacent paragraphs, with the claim that the President "with his radical, pro-abortion and extreme secularist agenda, now seems intent on following a similar path." (Jean Raber, if you're reading, you once offered to send me a stack of freshman compositions to grade; I'm sorta doing that here).I suppose that, technically, Godwin's Law can't be invoked, because Jenky didn't make the analogy in an on-line discussion. But there should be an extension, or a corollary, or something, to Godwin's Law that would make it applicable to any public-square conversation.FWIW - the following bulletin article will run in our parish bulletin this Sunday or next, and presumably will run in many parish bulletins all over the US. It makes a different, less inflammatory, and more interesting historical reference. There is a call to action at the end, but arguably it is less partisan than Bishop Jenky's. http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/religious-liberty/conscience-prot... just reinforces my opinion that individual bishops would be well-advised to check with the resources provided by their national conference before they start weighing in on issues of national moment. It seems that, almost invariably, the national conference's stuff is more well-considered and temperately expressed.
I will be teaching a 4 session, adult ed (non-credit) course this Fall in '"Faith and Religious Liberty in the Early American Tradition" or some catchier title. I am trying to show the changes from 1607 to 1819 -- colonial, revolution, early national, and issues on the horizon. This kind of NCCB document will be an intersting study in fact and distortion.
"I will be teaching a 4 session, adult ed (non-credit) course this Fall in Faith and Religious Liberty in the Early American Tradition or some catchier title. "You mean like those music appreciation classes that are entitled, "From Bach to Rock"? How about, "From the Stocks to Barack"? :-)http://www.google.com/imgres?q=colonial+america+religious+dissenters+sto...
I like it, but it's far broader than my topic....I could do "Jamestown to James Madison: America's Struggle for 'Religious Liberty'"What think you?
"If you cant even listen to people like Barbara Marx Hubbard how on Gods green earth do you plan to evangelize to the increasing number of people who see spirituality as she does (from what I can tell) as a force that radiates outward from the individual? Your whole vocabulary is going to sound like a foreign language. It already does to an awful lot of people."Barbara --Unfortunately, you are 100% right. Poor Benedict. He strikes me as extremely well-intentioned, but he doesn't realize how dreadfully narrow his perception of the world really is. He saw his "Year of the Priest" fizzle, yet now he hopes for some success with his "New Evangelization"? It's hardly likely. Sad all around.Maybe his Courts of the Gentiles will open up his mind a bit. And maybe not :-(P. S. I'll pray you discover a mystic who speaks to you :-)
Why does the professors' letter not mention Bismarck and Clemenceau?
And what about the barbarians? Jenky also insulted our ancestors by comparing Obama to them. Agree that the professors should have mentioned Bismarck. (The Kulterkampf, after all, had an impact on the Catholic Church in this country. Many nuns, fleeing Prussia, came to America and joined houses of their orders here. Those who didn't go down with the Deutschland. http://www.bartleby.com/122/4.html )The St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran a front-page story Sunday about how those who heard Jenky's Easter rant were delighted with it and with him. Letters to the Editor today include one from a woman who compares Obama to Henry VIII.
Dear Editor,Through good fortune I came across a recent homily by the Most Reverend Daniel R. Jenky, Bishop of Peoria . In it Bishop Jenky reminded me of the miracle of Christianity and how it's fabric is now under attack by Barack Hussein Obama II and his radical appointees. Obama's assault on Christian places of warship, healing and learning are unconscionable. But the truth is that this same president has also placed the homeland of the Jewish people in a desperate situation. It matters not what Obama's motivation is. Regardless of whether his actions are from ignorance, arrogance or part of a sinister agenda, we can't afford 4 more years of this. If America is going to survive economically, or culturally, we must vote with our God given Constitutional rights in mind. We must vote for someone whose parents loved this country.Too many people have died protecting our inalienably , God given rights to let Obama or anyone else ignore them. Despite Obama's statements to the contrary, America is a Judeo-Christian society.
"ND Faculty vs. Bishop Jenky" should read "3.8% of ND Faculty vs. Biship Jenky" and, indeed, Bishop Jenky should be hailed for his bravery in speaking out. Yes, the well-publicized April 22 letter was signed by about 50 ND faculty, which is about 1,250 short of all the faculty. 50/1,300 comes to about 3.8% so we're talking a "roaring mouse" here. ND's faculty has been watered down now to only 50 percent Catholic, and it shows - the Obama love affair just won't stop in South Bend.So, is that abortion-loving, partial-birth abortion-loving Barack Hussein Obama (who's now admitted the girlfriends in his autobiography were all made up) anything like Hitler and Stalin as the Bishop fears might be the case? You bet. Abortion is America's holocaust. 3,000 times per day live, preborn babies are put to death in America's abortuaries for the sake of modernity and convenience. ND would do well to pack its Board of Trustees with men of honor and courage of the likes of Bishop Jenky. He's true to his word and true to the Church.
If anyone is still following this thread here is my op-ed piece that appeared yesterday. http://www.southbendtribune.com/news/opinion/sbt-20120510sbtmicha-05-03-... It starts "Many have claimed that Bishop Daniel Jenky's words were taken out of context when he described President Obama as "seem[ing] intent on following a similar path" to Hitler and Stalin. I have read his entire homily, and I find his words even more disturbing after doing so."


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What's the best font for a data table? Monospace is good but takes up more room, so you can't have as much whitespace between the items. Similarly, what are some good usability principles for data tables? Things like zebra striping, etc. I've tried searching Alertbox but haven't found anything.
MIL-STD 1472F Section 184.108.40.206 has a pretty good section on displaying tables in a user interface, although it could stand some updating for modern GUIs. Here are some of the standards, along with my interpretation marked with a bullet for GUIs:
126.96.36.199.4 Titles. For a table that takes up multiple pages, column headers shall be on every page for table.
188.8.131.52.5 Horizontal extension. Tables shall not be split up horizontally across pages.
188.8.131.52.6 Lists. Items in lists shall be arranged in a recognizable order, such as chronological, alphabetical, sequential, functional, or importance.
220.127.116.11.6.2 Vertical extension. Where lists extend over more than one display page, the last line of one page should be the first line on the succeeding page.
18.104.22.168.6.5 Vertical ordering in multiple columns. Where items in a list are displayed in multiple columns, items shall be ordered vertically within each column.
22.214.171.124.10 Justification of numeric entry. Users shall be allowed to make numeric entries in tables without concern for justification; the computer shall right-justify integers, or justify with respect to a decimal point if present.
188.8.131.52.11 Labeling units of measurement. The units of displayed data shall be consistently included in the displayed column labels.
220.127.116.11.13 Column scanning cues. A column separation not less than three spaces shall be maintained.
188.8.131.52.14 Row scanning cues. In dense tables with many rows, a blank line shall be inserted after a group of rows at regular intervals. No more than five lines should be displayed without a blank line being inserted.
Font readability for a table is pretty much the same as anywhere else, so you probably should use the same font as the rest of your content. Monospace font like Courier New should be avoided: it is slower to read and there's really no reason for it in tables with modern markup. Beyond that, the readability of font is complicated, but if you choose a common "regular" font like Tahoma, you'll probably do okay.
I think Segoe UI is a good font which can be read at a lower size also.
Verdana is good IMO. It is meant to be read on low-resolution screens. It is easy to read, even at small sizes.
It's best to use a sans serif font (such as Helvetica or Verdana) because it's cleaner than a serif font (such as Times New Roman) and therefore doesn't make the table seems cluttered. Why? A serif uses decorative "feets" or curls while sans serif don't. There have been various studies to measure which font type has the highest readability onscreen such as "The Effects of Font Type and Size on the Legibility and Reading Time of Online Text by Older Adults" or "The impact of web page text-background colour combinations on readability, retention, aesthetics and behavioural intention" and sans-serifs are more effective. When the interface gets cluttered it affect our cognitive load which makes it harder for us to understand the table.
Even though I haven't done a statistically significant study about it myself, people I have asked seem to think that sans-serifs in tables are more visually pleasing. (You need to ask (or do a brainscan to be extrasure) your target group to be sure they will have the same experience to.)
If something is visually pleasing it is going to affect the percieved usability of the table. There is also a strong correlation between aesthetics and user's satisfaction and pleasure. This has been studied in for example "A neuropsychological theory of positive affect and its influence on cognition. Psychological Review, 106, 529-550." Why? - Because some of the cognitive influences of positive mood are due to increased levels of dopamin in frontal cortical areas that result from the events eliciting the elevation in mood. You could also check out the study "Assessing dimensions of perceived visual aesthetics of web sites".
I've only found one study that tries to measure the reading speed and accuracy between plain tables and zebra-striped tables and there seems to be almost no difference at all between these two. See the full study here
However people tend to like zebra-striped tables better probably because it looks nicer. (See the paragraphs above for reasons why this is important)
If you are generating very long tables with a lot of columns that people need to scroll - use a fixed table header so that people could see what the numbers means without being dependent on their short (very short) term memory.


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I like to listen to music on my iPhone when running, but it's really annoying for the music to be interrupted by calls/texts/alerts. I know I can put it in airplane mode, but that will keep me from using the GPS to track my mileage through apps like RunKeeper. Is there another way to "silence" calls/texts/alerts and just have them show up as missed when I'm finished listening to music?
Coming in iOS 6, you'll have the option to set "Do Not Disturb" mode in the device's Settings. DND allows you to block out a time window where calls and alerts will be silenced.
You can optionally configure it to allow calls from "favorites" or repeated calls to still come through.
If you have a GSM phone, you can just pop out the SIM card. You've now got a GPS capable iPod touch while you run.
If you normally have notifications coming in over WiFi networks that your phone might join during the run, optionally turn WiFi off to be safe.
If you don't have service through a SIM, getting rid of everything but the voice call interruption is easy. Most carriers will let you forward your voice calls temporarily - say to google voice if you are into a free solution. Combine the two and you have your solution.
All of these work in the Settings App:
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At this point when you have the side switch to silent, only an incoming call should silently pause your music. You can then press any hardware button to get right back to the music. Not exactly what you ask, but the best you can do without modifying the iOS software.
Before iOS6 the short answer is no. The iPhone's and iOS flexibility in certain aspects is really (sometimes for the good) small. iOS doesn't support the old traditional "modes" where you could set your old phone in "meeting" or "some name" and then set the ringtones for each individual mode, and even silence and turn off vibrate. I remember an old Nokia phone almost 10 years ago was capable of doing this :)
Your other bet (albeit an annoying one) would be to setup a "silence" ringtone and turn off vibration, but I believe your music will be "paused" while the phone is ringing while there's a cross fade from your music to the ring tone.
The drawback is that you'll have to put them back after your session.
Your other alternative is to Jailbreak the phone and seek Cydia repositories and other "unknown sources" to find something like this (which I'm sure exists out there).
The easiest solution I can think of is just to forward your calls. On my AT&T phone, I can do this right from the settings app — send them to another number (Google Voice is a good suggestion, though make sure GVoice won't just send the call right back to your iPhone!) I think I remember reading that CDMA phones don't support this automatic forwarding feature because the network doesn't support it. This was pre-Sprint days, so it may have only been a Verizon limitation. At any rate, I'm sure there's some way to turn on call forwarding through the Verizon website or by calling into your non-visual voicemail or something.
In iOS7 You can now use Do Not Disturb mode to both prevent unwanted notifications and calls/alerts etc, and unlike in iOS6 you can choose to have this setting effective whether or not the phone is unlocked, meaning that if a call comes in while you have the Music apps open to select a new playlist etc, you can still avoid the disturbance if you choose.
Note sure why nobody has mentioned this: Just switch your phone to SILENT on the side.
Music and Podcasts will still play, but it will stop your phone from interrupting the music/podcast to alert you about phone calls, texts and emails. I do it all the time and it works a charm.
Just flip the volume switch on the side to off. It works for music and podcast apps. I can now listen to them and not have the volume go down.
I use the do not disturb mode during my workouts. Works also on long road trips or bike rides when I don't want to have my music paused.
Go into settings and switch to aeroplane mode!! No calls or texts what so ever will come through yet you can listen to music.
The only problem is, you can't get Internet using this option so if your using a gps then this option is no good for you.
I recently learned, and personally tested with my iPhone 4, if you go into your Settings, then turn on Airplane Mode, it will stop your phone from receiving phone calls and text messages. You will be able to retrieve voicemails and text messages when you turn the Airplane Mode back to the Off position. If you want to have access to WiFi capabilities like GPS, maps, email, etc. turn your WiFi on in Settings. It's right underneath the Airplane Mode feature. Of course, if you have any APPS that have push notifications on, it will effect the volume of your iPod. To remedy that just change your Notifications to the Off position in Settings. All 3 of these features are in Settings, all next to each other at the very top. So it makes it very easy and convenient.
The RIGHT answer is to flip the silent switch on the side of the phone.
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