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Turkey Legs on the BGE
I have been to Disney World Florida more times than I can count when I was a kid and once with my eldest daughter Lexi and my parents. One of my fondest memories besides spending time with family was the Giant Turkey legs. If you ever go make sure to stop and get one. It will be enough to feed at least 2 people. You will feel like a carnivorous Neanderthal while chowing down on one. You won't care. They are that good. Every time I think of juicy delicious turkey legs my memories take me back to Disney World.
I did my best to recreate those turkey legs on the BGE. I used Clubhouse brand Montreal Chicken seasoning with a dash of poultry seasoning as well. I generously seasoned the legs and placed them on the BGE with some pecan wood chips and a drip pan underneath. I kept them low at about 225F and I went back a couple of times and basted them with the juices. They were not exactly as I remembered but they were juicy and delicious. It was really fun to tell my kids I was serving them dinosaur birds. Much more fun than telling them they were eating turkey.
The BGE performed nicely. As it was the first cook I got to experience how little charcoal it takes. Overall the BGE did terrific and I was really pleased with the ease of cooking on it.
You don't have to be an Egghead to appreciate this cookbook
Well I am once again adding to my ever increasing list of BBQ books. The folks at Big Green Egg were kind enough to give me a copy of their latest book. Just for the record. I don't have a Big Green Egg. Yet. I am a firm believer that having multiple types of grills is a good idea. They all have different personalities. I love my Traegers. I compete with my Traegers. I really do believe they are the easiest BBQ to own and to operate. So I am definitely a pellet head. However I love playing with charcoal too. Playing with fire can be a lot of fun and certainly a challenge at times. Some women collect shoes I prefer to collect BBQ's. It makes the whole BBQ experience fun.
So the cookbook is really quite expansive. This is a big cookbook. 320 pages. It is a gorgeous cookbook to own. The pictures are incredible. The recipes many I have tried and would recommend -Smoke Beef Short Ribs done with hickory chips for example. I have found many of the recipes are easily transferable to other BBQ equipment in addition to Eggs.
Some of the recipes also use the stove top (ex Kale on page 307 with the apple wood smoked bacon). It is a delicious recipe.
I like the format of this cookbook. I enjoyed reading the Chef & Pitmaster Biographies. Overall this has to be one of the best laid out cookbooks for BBQ I have ever seen. Plus God bless them they realize there are Canadians and International Folks that BBQ since they even included a Metric Conversion table as well.
From the Gourmet (ex Roasted Fingerling Potatoes with Creme Fraiche & Caviar) to the most basic (ex Italian Sausage subs) this cookbook has it all for anyone who loves to grill & BBQ. I would highly recommend it for the recipes whether you own a Big Green Egg or other grill/bbq.
Interview with Ray Lampe aka Dr. BBQ
Ray (Dr. BBQ) was one of the first successful American Competition BBQ'ers I ever met. It was 2006 and he was the head judge for the Canadian Open. His BBQ class held in Detroit was the very first one I took. He is an extremely candid person. He never minces words. He has no regrets about calling people out on things that are not right in his book. In the years since he has done a heck of a lot. He has 5 cookbooks published, taught multiples of classes, and has been on countless TV programs and is easily recognizable to anyone in competitive BBQ.
Who is Dr. BBQ?
Ray Lampe grew up in Chicago and after high school spent 25 years in the family trucking business. In 2000 the trucking business had run its course, and it was time for Ray to do something different. He had been participating in BBQ cook-offs as a hobby since 1982, so he decided to take a leap and try to turn his hobby into a career. In 2000 Ray moved to Lakeland, Florida and began his career as a BBQ man.
I caught up with Ray while he was prepping his gear for this weekends first KCBS competition of the year in Lakeland FLA. I haven't had much time to catch up with Ray over the last few years. I have been busy and so has he. It certainly hit home that we need to talk a bit more often as the conversation we had ended up being about 2 and a half hours. It wasn't so much of an interview as it was just catching up with a friend.
D- So tell me about your new site Firecooker.com
RL-Well I am the resident Pitmaster of Firecooker.com. I want it to be a comfortable backyard community of grillers and BBQ'ers. I wanted a place to showcase BBQ videos, awesome recipes and a great forum. I think its lots of fun and really informative for anyone out there whether they be a competitive BBQ'er looking for tips or a backyard guy or family that wants to see some great tips. It really is for everyone. Just go on and check it out then upload a video. Its really user friendly.
From the website:
FireCooker is a free service for BBQ and grilling fans. You can use FireCooker to rate and review BBQ and upload your own recipes and videos. You can also keep track of BBQ you'd like to try and buy as well as subscribe to what your buddies have reviewed. The site was built by BBQ fans for BBQ fans. Whether you're grilling or slow-cooking in the backyard, we want FireCooker to be the place where you can learn new grill skills, talk to other backyard chefs and rate their recipes and videos
D- How long have you been a member of KCBS?
RL- I have been a member of KCBS since 1991. I have seen a lot . I know where the bodies are buried. (he chuckles) I was there for a lot of it.
D- You have put out 4 books over the last few years when is the next book coming out?
RL- The next book to come out will be one I did for Williams Sonoma. Ribs Chops Steaks & Wings It will be available in April and is available for pre-order. So now I have done 5 books in 5 years. I am already working on number 6.
D- Recently you made an announcement that you are no longer the Executive Chef for Southern Hospitality. Was the split amicable?
RL- Absolutely it was amicable. Originally the plan was to open additional locations of Southern Hospitality. Unfortunately due to the economy this just didn't end up occurring. As such I want to be able to leave my options open. I know that's probably selfish but I was not a partner. I would like nothing more than to hear that they are expanding the business in the future. They are great guys. Good people to work with. I would certainly like to work with them again in the future. I wish them only the very best.
D- Would you have liked to be on TLC BBQ Pitmasters?
RL- John Markus is a good friend of mine. We were in negotiations for me to do the show. Unfortunately at the time I was already doing Tailgate Warriors. John had such a tight schedule that I just could not be there for them. We just couldn't work it out. Its just business. It hurts me not to be on that show. I would have loved to be there with my good friends. I know Myron, Leeann, Tuffy, and Jamie. Myron is a ball-buster for sure ( he says laughing) he is a great business man. Its all good for BBQ.
D- You have had an agent now for about a year. How has that impacted your BBQ career?
RL- The opportunity came from Southern Hospitality. My agent was at IMG and has now moved on to another agency. Have an agent that represents me works well. I fill a niche. There are more opportunities.
Some of the things this BBQ man does:
* He's an expert judge on the Food Networks "Tailgate Warriors with Guy Fieri"
* He's featured on the Food Network's "Best Thing I Ever Ate"
* He travels the country as the Spokeschef for The Big Green Egg grill and smoker
* He's the featured BBQ Chef at The Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia
* He's a spokesman for The National Pork Board
* He's judged at the Jack Daniel's World Championship BBQ Cookoff
* He's judged at the Terlingua, Texas International Chili Cookoff
* He's judged at The Best of The West Rib Cookoff in Reno
* He served as Executive Chef at Southern Hospitality BBQ in NY 2008-2009
* He writes the "Ask Dr. BBQ Column" for Fiery Foods & BBQ Magazine
* He's been a guest chef at the Club Med Food and Wine Festival
* He's been a guest chef at the Woodford Reserve Distillery
D- Do you have any plans for the Superbowl?
RL- I am doing a corporate Tailgate Party. Ill be working with ribs chicken and all total I will have 4 dishes. I'll even make a Jack Daniels Pie. Whether I get to see the Superbowl live remains up in the air at this moment. I sure hope I get to.
Thanks to Todd at Plowboys BBQ for the use of this photo
D-What TV Projects are you currently involved in?
RL- Tailgate Warriors with Guy Fieri is something I have been involved in as an expert judge on the Food Network. I have to say that working with Guy is something. He is a real TV professional. Nothing with him is scripted. I really can't remember if he ever had to do a retake. He is that good at it.
Also I am featured on Food Networks Best thing I Ever Ate airing this Friday (today January 29) Look for the Meatfest show and me eating a Beef and Sausage Combo in Chicago
Ray Lampe: Dr. BBQ – Italian Beef and Sausage Sandwich – Joe Boston' Italian Beef2932 W. Chicago Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622(773) 486-9536
There are also other great TV programs currently in the works and as they come up Ill let you know
Dr. BBQ has appeared on:
* Food Network
* E! News
* The NFL Network
* The Discovery channel
* The Outdoor Life Network
* Daytime Tampa Bay
* Good Morning Texas
* The Howard Stern Show
* Martha Stewart Living on Sirius
* NASCAR Sirius Radio
D- Will you be appearing on Guy Fieri's new game show Minute to win it?
Minute to Win It, scheduled to debut on NBC on March 14th 2010, at 8pm, challenges contestants to complete ordinary tasks in ten seconds or less. Each completed task earns money, with a maximum payout of $1,000,000 for ten successful completions.
RL- (Laughing) I have not been asked to .
D- Your classes in the past have also included the Greenbriar. Are there plans to continue teaching BBQ there?
RL-The Greenbriar classes we (Ray, Chris Lilly & Myron) did in the past were excellent. I would expect them to continue in the future.
D-Whats on your agenda with Big green Egg?
RL- I'll be in Phoenix for the Eggs in the Desert Eggfest with Big Green Egg. I'll be teaching there and hanging out with other eggheads.
D- What competitions do you plan on attending this year?
RL- I would like to get to more but I just can't anymore. I never have time to practice either. So far this year I will be at Lakeland this weekend, the American Royal, I am trying to get up to New York for the Grilling on the Bay. I will also be attending competitive BBQ'ers first $100,000 event in Little Rock Arkansas, Smoke on the Water. I always knew it would get to $100,000. I am glad I am able to attend the first one. I am trying to put together a schedule that will also allow me to attend some of the other Nascar BBQ events.
D- Where else will you be this year?
RL- I'll be at the Houston livestock Finals show and the Dallas Pro Bowl event. Lots of other things and places as well. As the dates come up ill have them put on the website. Its going to be a really fun and interesting year. Check the website often for updates.
D-Whats the best advice you would give to people wanting to get into the business of BBQ?
RL- Just remember this. Have integrity. Don't screw people over. Don't back stab. If you say you are going to do something then commit to it. Above all BBQ is business. Just like any other business out there. This one just happens to be BBQ. Its not a mystical magical thing. You can help people and that's great however you have to look out for your own business needs. You have to still meet your commitments. At the end of the day you have to understand its a business.
You can find Dr. BBQ on twitter & Facebook
Also you can follow firecooker on twitter .
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For domination games, I see some guys run up to the flag and dive onto it (into a prone position). This is probably really obvious, but I have no idea how they do it...
Black-ops added a really cool animation from going from a sprint to a prone position. In the other call of duty games, this was called a drop shot. Essentially from a sprint, mash the prone key and your character will 'hit the deck' by diving head first. It's important to note that you must previously be running, you can't dive standing still even if you hit the sprint button first.
Its really useful when taking fire, escaping grenades, or when you come face to face with an opponent and want to increase your chance of survival (they will have to aim down to hit you and most players have fairly conservative sensitivity)
Aardvark's answer pretty much explains how to dive. You should also know that while you're in-dive and for about a second or two after hitting the ground (ie. when the animation is playing), you cannot shoot or knife.


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Short links for September 29th, 2008
Some interesting things I found recently:
# Sound Wave – Melted records on wooden armature – Jean Shin's installation at Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York
Records were melted and sculpted to form a cascading wave, dotted with bursts of colorful labels. The resulting structure speaks to the inevitable waves of technology that render each successive generation of recordable media obsolete. The piece also aims to physically manifest the ephemerality of music as well as one man's musical tastes, as represented by his personal record collection.
# GrooveStep – GrooveStep is a portable sample based step sequencer and that allows people to write music anywhere with the Nintendo DS. The first beta is out now!
# I Can Haas Stereo? Lolcat Reaktor Delay FX
Peter Dines writes:
Ladies, Gentlemen and Felines, I have created what is arguably the world's first lolcat-powered Reaktor effect. I beg your forgiveness.
While working in Reaper I noticed it has a handy Haas effect plugin created in its native JS format. I thought I'd edit it to add some enhancements but decided I was too lazy to learn a new language right now, so I did it in Reaktor instead. It took minutes to throw together – the longest chore was finding, trimming and inserting the cheezburger cat graphic.
# FAKE presents: Pass the Dutch – Nice compilation featuring a track by rekkerd.org sample remix contest winner Jonas the Plugexpert.
# Best of Mother Earth: 1996 McDonalds Hamburger – I stopped eating at McDonalds a while ago. Not because I don't like the taste of their food, but because I don't like their business ethics much. This 12 years old burger makes me feel quite good about my decision.
# Mac anyone? New tracker on it's way!
Seth Sandler writes:
For the last few weeks (with the help of my mentor Christian Moore) I've been working on porting over touchlib (the main tracker of the NUIGroup community) to openframeworks. A few reasons we chose to use openframeworks is because it's (1) Cross-platform (it'll work on windows/mac/linux), (2) It's easy to add and develop on (minimal coding experience required).
If you didn't catch that, this means we will have a new, full functional tracker that works on Mac! Many have been waiting for this! =)


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Most first-year students at Rutgers School of Law–Newark spend the summer interning, clerking for a judge, or taking summer courses. Ashley Higginson is not most students. The New Jersey native and second-year law school student spent her summer training to compete in the steeplechase at the IAAF (track and field) World Championships in Moscow.
The steeplechase, celebrated by Wired Magazine in 2005 as "the coolest Olympic event you've never heard of," is a 3,000 meter race in which the runner must clear 28 hurdles and seven water jumps. It is, said Higginson, "so different than normal distance runs, in that every 60 meters there is a more pressing matter than just lap after lap to consider, like a huge barrier that is not going to move out of your way." She was drawn to the steeplechase because of "the athleticism and unique focus it takes to execute the race."
|Ashley Higginson at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow in August where she was the top U.S. finisher in the steeplechase.
Higginson has been applying this unique focus for years and is no stranger to balancing academics and competitive running, winning Academic-All America, Academic All Ivy in Track and Field, and NCAA All-America honors multiple times. While studying politics at Princeton University, she was a rising star on both the cross country and track teams. She contributed to two top five cross country team finishes in the 2007 and 2009 NCAA championship meets and found individual success her freshman year, earning her first Ivy League Conference title at 5000 meters and advancing to the NCAA meet. As an Academic All-American and Academic All Ivy in Cross Country and Track in 2010, she made waves in the steeplechase, winning the conference championship title.
In addition to her academic and athletic pursuits, Higginson has explored opportunities that allowed her to further engage with her two passions, the law and running. Following her sophomore year in college, she worked as a summer intern at Lawyers for Children, a Manhattan organization that advocates for children in foster care. Before starting Rutgers–Newark Law School, she spent several months interning at the law firm Pelletieri, Rabstein, and Altman. And for a number of years she has been a columnist for The Harrier, an annual national newsletter focusing on college and high school cross-country.
After her Princeton graduation in 2011, Higginson knew she wanted to attend law school but took a year off to train for the 2012 Olympics. At the Olympic Trials, she missed a spot on the U.S. team by two seconds, finishing fourth. Her determination to compete in the Summer Olympics did not waiver, and she decided to continue training in the New Jersey area for the 2016 games. The attractions and options of the metropolitan area combined with a top-notch track club and the support of nearby family made Rutgers–Newark an obvious choice. "Both the school and my training group offer the same things I want: my family close by, support, a lot of diversity and exposure to different opportunities, and so much within just a few hours drive."
Higginson realizes that others may see her decision to go to law school while training for the world stage as overly ambitious. Both endeavors, she acknowledges, "take a certain level of preparation and selfishness." She adheres to a strict schedule to maintain her competitive edge on the track and in the classroom. Logging 70-80 miles of running per week in addition to strength training and physical therapy, Higginson quips that the regimen often "involves two runs a day, so if you see me sneaking out of school between classes in athletic clothes, that's why!" Additionally, she is a member of the NJ-NY Track Club and meets with a group in New Brunswick twice a week for morning track workouts before rushing to Newark for classes.
The rigorous training schedule paid off when Higginson was invited to compete in Moscow this past August. Moscow, which she had been warned was "New York City on steroids," was unlike any other foreign city she had ever visited in that the lack of English speakers made navigating the city a real adventure. Luckily, Higginson, who is fluent in Polish, studied Russian for several years and was able to communicate better than most. In Moscow she was the top U.S. finisher and ran a season best time. "It is just awesome to know that this year I trained and went to school and did this whole thing 'my way' and it seems to have paid off."
When reflecting back on her first year as a law student and professional athlete, she is proud of her accomplishments. While the first year doesn't allow much flexibility in course selection, Higginson did enjoy Professor David Troutt's Race, Law and Metropolitan Equity course. "It was the first chance to pick my own elective and start writing about certain areas of the law specifically intriguing and important to me." She was also fascinated by Criminal Law, which is not surprising given her thesis at Princeton was "Reversing the Rise and Reproduction of Female Crime."
Higginson is not certain how she intends to use her law degree but says "as of right now, I like the idea of becoming involved in Urban Law and City Planning or the public interest in some capacity." What she does know is that, with the next Summer Olympics coming just 14 months after her scheduled May 2015 graduation, she has the discipline and competitive drive to successfully juggle both the beginning of her legal career and training for the Rio games.


text: "I'm gonna be a mighty king so enemies beware"! I know plenty of you have heard that song tons of times as did I. It is from one of my favorite songs from Disney's 'The Lion King'. Today I will be showing you all "how to draw Simba easy", step by step. Simba is by far one of Disney's all time popular characters from their collection. Even to this day, there is no other lion cub that can compare to how loved Simba is. Even though Simba is a popular face among all aged folks, the older version of Simba isn't all that popular, or at least to me anyway. I had a lot of fun making this tutorial for you all that will show you that drawing Simba doesn't always have to be complected. You will see that even the novice artist can draw such a lovable lion cub and succeed.


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How can I kill the resize event? I have tried all the following in my onload handler but none seem to work:
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MAC612UT: AP CalcAB (2014-2015)
CURRICULUM PROGRAM: Virtual School Program
COURSE TITLE: AP Calculus AB
COURSE LENGTH: 36 weeks
SUGGESTED PREPARATION: Algebra II, Algebra I, Geometry, Math Analysis
Major Concepts/Content: AP Calculus AB provides an understanding of the fundamental concepts and methods of differential and integral calculus with an emphasis on their application, and the use of multiple representations incorporating graphic, numeric, analytic, algebraic, and verbal and written responses. Topics of study include: functions, limits, derivatives, and the interpretation and application of integrals. An in-depth study of functions occurs in the course. Technology is an integral part of the course and includes the use of graphing calculators, computers, and data analysis software. On a regular basis, graphing calculators are used to explore, discover, and reinforce concepts of calculus.
Major Instructional Activities: Though our system has an open enrollment policy, students should understand that this course is designed to be a fourth-year mathematics course and the equivalent of a year-long, college-level course in single variable calculus. The course requires a solid foundation of advanced topics in algebra, geometry, trigonometry, analytic geometry, and elementary functions. The breadth, pace, and depth of material covered exceeds the standard high school mathematics course, as does the college-level textbook, and time and effort required of students. AP Calculus AB provides the equivalent of the first course in a college calculus sequence, while AP Calculus BC is an extension of AP Calculus AB, and provides the equivalent of a second course in a college calculus sequence. Students are expected to take the AP Calculus AB Exam at the end of this course.
DoDEA Math Standards
AP Calculus AB Topic Outline
AP Calculus AB Syllabus
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of AP Calculus AB, students should be able to:
- Understand the major topics of functions, limits, derivatives, and integrals.
- Incorporate multiple representations of functions using graphic, numeric, analytic, algebraic, and verbal and written responses, and understand the connections among these representations.
- Construct an understanding of derivatives as an instantaneous rate of change, applications of derivatives as functions, and use various techniques to solve problems including local approximations.
- Understand definite integrals as a limit of Riemann sums, and as the net accumulation of sums, and use them to solve a variety of problems.
- Develop an understanding of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus as a relationship between derivatives and definite integrals.
- Use graphing calculators to problem solve, experiment with 'what if' hypotheses, display and interpret results, and justify conclusions.
- Make sense of and determine the reasonableness of solutions including units of measurement.
- Develop an appreciation for an historical perspective of calculus.
Course Outline
I. Functions, Graphs, and Limits
- Limits of functions (including one-sided limits)
- Asymptotic and unbounded behavior
- Continuity as a property of functions I
II. Derivatives
- Concept of the derivative
- Derivative at a point
- Derivative as a function
- Second derivatives
- Applications of derivatives
- Computation of derivatives
III. Integrals
- Interpretations and properties of definite integrals
- Applications of integrals
- Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
- Techniques of antidifferentiation
- Applications of antidifferentiation
- Numerical approximations to definite integrals
Essential Software:
Required Textbooks and Supplemental Readings
Required Textbook
Finney, R. L., Demana, F.D., Waits, B.K., and Kennedy, D. (2003). Calculus: Graphical, numerical, algebraic, AP Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education-Prentice Hall.
Supplemental Textbooks and Readings
- Finney, R. L., Demana, F.D., Waits, B.K., and Kennedy, D. (2003). Technology resources manual for calculus: Graphical, numerical, algebraic. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education-Prentice Hall.
- Hockett, Shirley O., Bock, David (2002). Barron's How to Prepare for the AP Calculus AP Examination, 7th edition. Hauppauge, NY: Barron's Educational Series, Inc.
Other Resources
Computers: Each student has access to a computer with internet access at their local school during their scheduled class period. Most also have use of a computer at home. The entire course is conducted on-line. Most students also have access to a scanner or digital sender for submitting work, but a fax machine can be used if one is not available.
Software: Students use the Microsoft Office programs for projects and for accessing lectures. QuickTime Video is used to run Flash presentations and activities. Jabber is an instant messaging program that we use for real-time communications with the students. Windows Media is required for watching video presentations and demonstrations. Adobe Connect is used for whiteboard presentations with both video and audio real-time collaboration with students.
Graphing calculators are required by the College Board. Students may use any approved model; most use the TI-83+ or TI-89.
Internet access and online resources:
- Math Tools Website: http://www.mathforum.org/mathtools/cell.html?&new_co=c
- Math Archives: Calculus Resources On-Line Website: http://archives.math.utk.edu/calculus/crol
- AP Featured Question: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/courses/teachers_corner/23365.html
- Slope Fields handout: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/slopefieldhandoutapnc_11870.pdf
- Featured videos from http://www.KhanAcademy.org
- Tutoring help from http://www.tutor.com is available free of charge to all of our students
- Online help from former students will be available at the FaceBook calculus page for the class
Course Notes: (Unweighted - Did Not Take AP Exam)


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Howell Ave. resurfacing to begin Monday
is getting resurfaced from Oakwood Road in Oak Creek to Grange Ave. in Milwaukee starting Monday.A six-mile stretch of Highway 38, or Howell Ave.,
The project, which won't finish up until late fall, will add some right and left turn lanes, upgrade traffic signals, and includes a new sidewalk. The pavement's current condition is highly deteriorated, according to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.
During nighttime hours, traffic may be reduced to two lanes.
Man cited for battery after striking man in face with skateboard
A Milwaukee man was cited for battery and criminal damage to property after a confrontation about pedestrians crossing an intersection April 22.
According to the South Milwaukee police report:
The 23-year-old Milwaukee man was one of four pedestrians who crossed the intersection of College and North Chicago avenues against a do-not-walk signal about 3 p.m. April 22.
A 56-year-old South Milwaukee man honked at the group, and the Milwaukee man claimed the driver flipped them off. The Milwaukee man said he cursed the driver, who confronted him in the Taco Bell parking lot, 112 N. Chicago Ave.
The South Milwaukee man "said he only wanted to tell the subject he should not be flipping off people," when the Milwaukee man struck him in the face with a skateboard, breaking his glasses and causing a laceration above his left eye.» Read Full Article
Man cited for battery after argument with his girlfriend turns violent
A Cudahy man was cited for criminal damage to property, battery and disorderly conduct after a fight in which he allegedly choked his girlfriend and threw a sewer grate at her car May 1.
According to the Cudahy police report:
The 20-year-old Cudahy man and his girlfriend were allegedly driving in the woman's car when an argument became violent just past midnight May 1 near the 3500 block of East Barnard Avenue.
The man allegedly choked her, left the car, then smashed windows and threw a sewer grate at the car, which tore off the front bumper.
Police said the incident "caused a huge disturbance and woke numerous residents."
Man says referee punched him during soccer game
A man reported that a referee punched him during a soccer game at the Milwaukee County Indoor Sports Complex on May 10.
According to the Franklin police report:
The man called police and said a referee punched him during a game at the complex, 6000 W. Ryan Road, about 2:15 p.m. May 10.
The responding officer interviewed the caller and several other witnesses, and they said the referee had pushed the coach of the soccer team and struck the caller in the chest with a closed fist.
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2 Oct 2013 6:43 AM #1
Description of setAutoValidate() is that it validate on each key press but I see red mark only once user move out of the datefield cell... Is it a bug? or my assumption is wrong?
void com.sencha.gxt.widget.core.client.form.Field.setAutoValidate(boolean autoValidate)
Sets whether the value is validated on each key press (defaults to false).
OS - Windows XP
GXT - 3.0.1 free
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3 Oct 2013 10:42 AM #2
The design of autovalidate is to not deal with parse errors, but only to look at legal values - for a datefield, this means that it should try to read the text and turn it into a date, then see if that date matches the validation rules (allowblank, min date, max date, etc). If it does not, then it should automatically display the message, etc.
Parse errors are (currently, for better or worse) assumed to be the result of the user not having finished typing - once they leave the field, we know they are done, and can tell them that a mistake was made.
Is this the behavior you are seeing? If not, can you please follow the bug format to give us a test sample that we can reproduce?
3 Oct 2013 1:08 PM #3
Thanks for your reply.
Hello Colin ,
Thanks for your reply.
1) Problem I am facing is that I am not getting error message while typing, even if I type special char like !@#$%.
and see red mark next to box only when mouse is out of the edit cell (lost focus from date cell).
2) I am using Max-length validator for text-box; in that case if length is more than max-length; and on lost focus
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Media bias in abortion doc's trial?
There is a lively debate over whether major national news organizations have ignored or downplayed the trial of a Philadelphia abortion doctor who is charged with murder in the deaths of seven babies allegedly born alive and one mother. It's a case that has already contributed to restrictions on abortion providers and one that pro-lifers argue deserves much more attention.Details in the trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell are certainly sensational enough. For example, one of Gosnell's assistants testified that she "snipped" the necks of at least 10 babies delivered alive. In one case, she testified, the doctor joked that the baby was big enough to have walked to the bus stop. But Gosnell denies that the victims were born alive and also denies what prosecutors say is their late gestational stage -- as much as 30 weeks for the victim the doctor allegedly joked about. (Pennsylvania law bars abortions after 24 weeks, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.) Gosnell's lawyer, meanwhile, charged that his client, who is black, is the victim of racism through a "prosecutorial lynching." He said Gosnell had performed 16,000 abortions in his career, and up to 1,000 a year. Gosnell could be sentenced to death by lethal injection if convicted of murdering the seven babies.With the sensational charges made by both sides, the intense emotions (many of the witnesses are dissolving into tears), the high stakes and the important social issues being raised, the Gosnell trial is clearly a national story. It has received that treatment from the largest U.S. news organization, the Associated Press, which has covered the trial daily and moved lengthy articles not only to regional clients but on the national wire as well. So daily, national coverage is available to those who want it. The New York Times, having done an article in 2011 on how Gosnell's squalid clinic had escaped state oversight, ran a story on the trial's opening arguments. (To review daily coverage of the trial, check the Philadelphia Inquirer.)But there are some major news organizations, especially the television networks, showing no interest in the trial. Is that because of bias? Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple questioned some of the national outlets, including his own. That led Martin Baron, the editor of the Post, to respond: "We believe the story is deserving of coverage by our own staff, and we intend to send a reporter for the resumption of the trial next week. In retrospect, we should have sent a reporter sooner."Yes, the Gosnell trial is news. National news, available from the AP wire.But I would expect to see few news organizations from outside the region staff the trial on a daily basis. The Gosnell trial was projected to last six to eight weeks. It's rare for a trial to receive day-to-day national coverage nowadays. It's expensive, especially for the TV networks, which have to dispatch a crew for an extended period of time. (It's much easier to assail the media for not doing the coverage than it is to report on a two-month trial yourself.)With that said, media bias in coverage of abortion was established long ago when David Shaw delved into it in a 1990 series in the Los Angeles Times. He found that, often subconsciously, news organizations reported on abortion from the pro-choice perspective. This was especially so at the TV networks. It's not hard to make sure an individual story is balanced, and a good copy editor can remove the phrases that give away the reporter's frame of reference. But deciding what's news and what's not is subjective. Nearly a quarter-century later, Shaw's reporting still holds in that regard.
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Paul Moses, a professor of journalism at Brooklyn College/CUNY, is the author of The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam and Francis of Assisi's Mission of Peace (Doubleday, 2009) and An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York's Irish and Italians (NYU Press, 2015).
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David N. --Your last stataement is mainly about the meanings and uses of words and what certain people or groups "believe". I don't think that the Gosnell uproar is about words and beliefs. What do you think is the main point to be made about the Gosness case? is is a moral one? If so, what is that point?
He is, it seems, a serial killer. The details are extremely gory, almost unbelievable. I would like to compare with how serial killers are covered.The Kevorkian trials were covered, although I imagine most media are pro-assisted suicide. Why the difference, I wonder.
I read Friedersdorf's story in The Atlantic about the coverage and was intrigued. Thanks for providing more context and links.FWIW, I went to ABC, NBC, and CBS evening news broadcast sites and plugged "gosnell" into the search engines. My little cursory investigation indicates that each of the networks broadcast a story about the clinic in January, 2011, but since the trial started has updated its Web site frequently (in the case of ABC and NBC, almost daily) since it started.Would the increasing number of Americans know that the trial coverage was ongoing from looking at the home page? Hard to say b/c that content changes so frequently, but as of a few minutes ago, I saw no link to a story about Gosnell on NBC Nightly News, ABC World News, or CBS Evening News home pages.So the networks haven't run updates on the broadcasts, and anybody who wanted info about that story would have to search for it actively. The more interesting question, of course, is whether there is still a pro-choice bias--and whether it is at work in the Gosnell trial coverage. I can think of several reasons why this story would not get as much play as others when weighed on the news values of impact, magnitude, conflict, oddity, proximity, or prominence. Moreover, Shaw's reportage is stellar, but it is 23 years old. Since 1990, many states have imposed stricter abortion laws, a sign that Americans are increasingly uncomfortable with unrestricted abortion. Could it be that the success of stricter abortion legislation has reduced the pro-choice pressures on coverage?
From the little I've read about this, it seems that it's asserted that the reason the trial wasn't being covered was because of a pro-choice bias in the press. But I don't know if that's really accurate - Gosnell's acts and trial are no more a good example of the pro-choice movement than, for instance, the acts and trials of those who murdered abortion providers would be a good example of the pro-life movement.
Rep. Chris Smith (Rep, NJ) gave a speech yesterday on the floor of the House of Representatives. He accused the national news media of a cover-up of the brutality and violence of abortion methods. If Dr. Gosnell had walked into a nursery and shot seven infants with an AR-15, it would be national news and the subject of presidential hand-wringing.What a nasty comment politicizing the horror of Gosnells abortion clinic!
It seems to me that the basic issue about the reporting or non-reporting of the Gosnell case has been articulated best by Gordon Sekulow and Matthew Clark in the Washington Post:"But the question remains: How can killing a newborn infant be illegal and shocking to the collective conscience, yet ending that same life moments, days or weeks before be perfectly legal and socially acceptable as long as the baby is still in the womb?"Yes, Dr. Gosnell seems to be a psychopath -- he kills easily and without concern for the dead. But the question is not "how can a person be such psychopath?", the relevant question is the one that Sekulow and Clark are approaching: what's the difference between ending the life of a child in a womb and ending the child's life outside of a womb? The ending of the child's life is the central moral issue, not the mental health of the person who kills.
Prof. Kaveny,Every abortionist is a serial killer.
Over two years ago over at Slate, Will Saletan and Amanda Marcotte wrote about the grand jury report on the Gosnell case. Saletan took some heat for it from liberal reporters, or so says this article..http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/04/12/kermit_gosnell_the_alleged_... Gosnell is found guilty, it seems to me that this question should be raised: can such a person possibly be sane?By the way, the District Attorney of Philadelphia who persisted in forcing the sexual abuse cases into court, was none other than Seth Williams. I assume he is the same Seth Williams who is behind this prosecution of Gosnell. If he is the same person, I say make that man the Attorney-General of the USA. Also by the way, Williams is African=American, which undercuts Gosnell's claim the case is racially inspired.
Thorin --What you say is true -- all abortionists are serial killers in a literal sense. But if they do not think they are killing human beings, then they are not murderers. It is unjust to call them and other pro-choice people murderers. No, you haven't done that, but the qualification should be made, or it will seal off the minds of such people against persuasion that they are wrong. We don't change minds by calling unjustified names.
A few things ...It is my understanding that the judge in this case long ago put a gag order on attorneys on both sides, presumably to ensure a fair trial for the accused. I suppose it doesn't matter now.When I did a search for this story as conservatives were breaking it earlier this week, I learned the trial has been going on for about 3-4 weeks, and that indeed outlets like The Nation and Slate have been covering it.As for the corporate media, I find it hard to think of them as little more than pawns for the Selling of Product. This case is disgusting, but it doesn't seem to have an attractive set of victims--only poor and desperate women who were preyed upon because a GOP governor thought that abortion clinics didn't need to be bothered with regulations.It seems there's a lot of blame to pass around on this horror, but I'm not sure conservative, corporate Americans are going to want their helping of it.
The Judi Arias murder trial is on 24 /7 on HLN i think for three weeks. ..
From Operation Rescue:"The conclusion drawn by the few media outlets that have bothered to cover the grisly Gosnell case is that this never happens elsewhere. Not according to Alisa LaPolt Snow, a lobbyist representing the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, who made headlines just last week with her testimony in opposition to a bill before the Florida legislature that would protect infants born alive during abortions.Florida State Rep. Jim Boyd, R-Bradenton, had asked Snow, If a baby is born on a table as a result of a botched abortion, what would Planned Parenthood want to have happen to that child that is struggling for life?Snows shocking response was that at Planned Parenthood, We believe that any decision thats made should be left up to the woman, her family, and the physician."http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/exception-or-the-rule-gosnells-house-of...
Every abortionist is a serial killer.Thorin,If this is true, then it makes little sense for pro-lifers to complain that the Gosnell trial should be getting more national coverage (which I think it should be). They should instead be saying, "Why even put Gosnell on trial? He's just doing what other abortionists are doing. Maybe he's doing it a few months later, but they are all serial killers."In a way, those who are anti-abortion are, I think, hurting their own case against abortion, since they believe that an abortion at 9 weeks is just as much murder as abortion at 30 weeks. To make such a fuss about late-term abortions can't help but give the impression that if they are especially heinous, early abortions are not so bad.
The conclusion drawn by the few media outlets that have bothered to cover the grisly Gosnell case is that this never happens elsewhere. Not according to Alisa LaPolt Snow . . . Ann,This is egregiously unfair propaganda. I had an exchange with Charles Camosy about this on Catholic Moral Theology, which I am not going to repeat here. Snow was not there opposing medical care for born-alive infants, but two provisions of the bill that had little or nothing to do with its core provisions. She was asked questions she clearly was not prepared to answer, and even in the video that so many pro-lifers find so damning, she spends most of her time backing away from her initial statement. And finally, Planned Parenthood put out a clarifying statement about their position that made Snow's testimony irrelevant. One of the things that was so frustrating about the alleged reporting of this story was that there was actually no attempt to put the video clip in any kind of context. If you google the story, you see site after site repeating exactly the same thing in exactly the same words.
" But if they do not think they are killing human beings, then they are not murderers."Ann, by that logic Nazis ought not be called murderers, since they were convinced their victims were sub-humans.
If Gosnell is found guilty, it seems to me that this question should be raised: can such a person possibly be sane?
This, of course, gets into the thorny issue of mental illness and what is considered a mental illness, strictly speaking. From a psychiatric point of view, there is no evidence that Gosnell suffers from a psychiatric disorder that would make him not criminally responsible (like for example the young man who shot Giffords in Arizona and quite possibly the young man who shot up the theatre in Colarado).I heard a forensic psychiatrist one time explaining psychopathy and he did lay out the criteria, and it sounds like Gosnell. He may suffer from that clinical syndrome but that does not make him insane the way most people understand that term. FWIW, I think that there is no question that the lack of coverage is because of concern over the implications of this case on the pro-choice side. And, it does therefore raise the question of media bias.
Richard S. --If that were true of any of the Nazis, then they would not be murderers. But is that true -- did they really think they weren't dealing with human beings? I find that difficult to believe. Too many Jews have distinguished themselves in all their intellectual pursuits to think they're an inferior group. But it is also true taht we are sometimes responsible for our ignorance. If we suspect we are wrong about a serious mater, and we don't look into it to try to establish the truth, then we're responsible for our ignorance and at least to some degree we are then responsible for the consequences of our ignorance. If, say, you are hunting and you don't know if that thing ahead is a deer or a human being, but you suspect it is a human, but you don't try to find out. If you then shoot the thing and kill it, then you are responsible for the person's death. But if we don't know we're ignorant,if, say, if from where the hunter stands, the thing doesn't look like a person, and he honestly thinks, "That's a deer!", if he shoots it, he has made a terrible mistake, but he has not sinned.
David N. --That's one way to look at it. Another way is to think that, Yes, she said it because she meant it, and she know what she was talking about. But when she realized that it would shock others, she and Planned Parenthood tried to spin it to.My question is: why would she say such a thing if she didn't mean it? The question was clear, and so was her answer.
Mr. Nickol,No, it's not unfair propaganda. It is a clear expression of the first instincts of the Planned Parenthood representative, an instinct that is perfectly consistent with what Planned Parenthood believes--that babies can be disposed of whenever they are deemed inconvenient.The fact that all abortion is evil does not excuse Gonsell's actions, and no pro-lifer would argue that it does. The reason the Gonsell story should be getting attention, and hasn't been, is that it provides clear proof of what pro-lifers have long argued--that abortion logically leads to infanticide.
I also notice that the liberal press seems to be ignoring the main moral question: why is it wrong to kill a 20 week old fetus in a womb, but not outside of a womb? At least I haven't seen any of the liberal press get into the question. True, the AP reported on the trial daily, the Washington Post did have that one article about it. Slate tried to raise the issue at the beginning of the trial, and there have been a few other reports on the trial. But many of us (including both conservatives and some liberals) think that the *main* moral issue (the morality of choosing to kill and killing 20 week old fetuses) has not been addressed.We can also interpret all this blah-blahing about coverage/non-coverage of the story as a way of distracting the public from the central issue. True, we don't really know the motives of the reporters or the media companies, and not doubt some of the reporters didn't know there was a huge story going on, but surely some of them must have seen the daily AP wire reports. It's quite obvious that an extremely important story has mainly, though not entirely, been ignored by the liberal press. And even Fox picked up on it 3 weeks or so after the trial began.
"what Planned Parenthood believesthat babies can be disposed of whenever they are deemed inconvenient."Really? Why then do they offer pre-natal care? I've known people who worked at a Planned Parenthood - they were nice normal people, not baby-hating monsters.
Thorin, it is homicide under the law of PA to kill babies born alive-that is why Gosnell can be tried. Even people who assume abortion is unjustifiable homicide should not say that all abortionists are serial killers. Not even all mass murderers are serial killers. It is a special category bringing in motive and manner, not just body count. But Gosnell was, it seems to me.He reveled in cruelty, and took souvenirs (baby feet). So the question for me is what sort of attention do the papers give to other serial killers? This thread is about the coverage by the press- and that seems to me to be the salient comparison
" I can think of several reasons why this story would not get as much play as others when weighed on the news values of impact, magnitude, conflict, oddity, proximity, or prominence."Jean - to what extent do business criteria drive editorial decisions?I would think that the arc of the Gosnell story wouldn't be attractive to upscale young women, whom I perceive to be the uber-demographic - They have disposable income! They shop! They're susceptible to advertising! - for newspapers and television networks, and who of course are relatively pro-choice.
Ms. Olivier,You are exactly right about the main moral issue in the Gosnell case, and you are exactly right about why the media has ignored it.Ms. Watson,Planned Parenthood kills hundreds of thousands of unborn children every year, and it lobbies to kill even more around the world. It is a thoroughly evil institution. Prof. Kaveny,Yes, all abortionists are serial killers. That's what they do--they kill large numbers of unborn children for a living. They may not believe they are killing human beings, but they are, whether they believe it or not. Thankfully, the Catholic Church teaches clearly and authoritatively that abortion is the taking of human life, and the Church deserves great credit for its strong and prophetic voice on behalf of the unborn being done to death by the millions by abortionists around the world.
'I also notice that the liberal press seems to be ignoring the main moral question: why is it wrong to kill a 20 week old fetus in a womb, but not outside of a womb??"OOPS -- I must learn to edit better. This should have been:Why is it wrong to kill a 20 week old fetus OUTSIDE a womb, but not wrong to kill it INSIDE a womb?
Ann, it's a good question but you have to add several weeks to your example to make it meaningful. Apparently 20-week old fetuses who are live outside the womb do not exist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preterm_birth
By the way, while we are considering the grisly "details" of the Gosnell case, should we not also consider the grisly details of killing 20 week old fetuses inside the mother by tearing them apart, sucking out their brains, or sort of pickling them with saline solution?Someone also remarked that because we don't like to think about abortion, we don't, and that includes journalists. Hence the Gosnell "boycott".
My question is: why would she say such a thing if she didnt mean it? The question was clear, and so was her answer.Ann,Alisa LaPolt Snow was asked a question about abortion she was unprepared for, and she answered with the mantra of the pro-choice movementdecisions should be left to the mother and her doctor. If it is actually her position, and the position of Planned Parenthood, that an abortionist should have the right to kill an infant born alive as the result of an abortion, why did she back away from it, and why did Planned Parenthood issue a statement saying the opposite? If Snow was there representing the position of Planned Parenthood, do you think as a lobbyist she took it upon herself, or was instructed in advance, to back down if Planned Parenthood's position seemed to trouble the legislators?What kind of abortion advocacy group would Planned Parenthood be if its true position was that born-alive infants could be killed, but it keeps its true position to itself and denies it when there is a controversy? Planned Parenthood clinics don't do late-term abortions, and almost nobody else does, either. It is impossible to find accurate data on how many late-term abortions are performed (and I mean here abortions at the point which an aborted baby would be able to be saved by the best technology), but one estimate from Guttmacher was 0.8%, or a little over a thousand per year. Why would Planned Parenthood even have a policy on what happens if abortionists, outside their own clinics, performing 0.8% of the nations abortions, "botch" the job and the baby is born alive? It's important to remember that Snow was testifying in Florida, and it is already Florida law that if an abortion is performed past the point of viability, the doctor is obliged to use the abortion technique most likely to permit the baby to survive, and is further obliged to give the baby lifesaving care if it is born alive. That is the current law, not the proposed law. So Snow was being asked purely hypothetical questions. Even if she and Planned Parenthood were trying to defeat the new bill, it is already Florida law that doctors are obliged to save viable babies born alive as the result of abortion. Why in the world would Snow have not only opposed the new bill, but testified to the legislature that existing abortion law should be thrown out?
Many pro-lifers want to blur the distinction between abortion and infanticide. If they want to argue that there is no moral difference between killing in the womb and killing outside the womb, then it seems to me that's a perfectly legitimate position. But to argue that abortion is infanticide is to ignore the definitions of the two. I think that perhaps if there is a "political" reason why there is less coverage of the Gosnell trial in many major media outlets than one might expect, it is because there is a fear that pro-lifers will use a trial about infanticide as anti-abortion propaganda. If so, shame on the media. But it is not because the media is pro-infanticide.
"Planned Parenthood ... is a thoroughly evil institution. "I think it's easier for some people to dismiss all those at PP as evil - it's too much effort to try to figure out how normal people might work there. The fact is that just a fraction (3%) of what PP does has to do with abortion, and those abortions would not happen if women did not come there to get them. Maybe you might ask why so many women, about 20% of them Catholic women, decide to get abortions, instead of demonizing the doctors they go to.
"Ive known people who worked at a Planned Parenthood they were nice normal people, not baby-hating monsters."Crystal, this is an interesting distinction. It reminds me of a radio interview I once heard during the waning days of apartheid, in which a veteran South African journalist remarked that it could be difficult for a journalist, or anyone, to reconcile the charming and cultured beneficiaries of apartheid with the gross injustice of the system.We've seen the same sort of reconciliation difficulty (category error?) here on dotCom in the past, when considering how teachers unions subvert school reform in failing school systems, and yet so many teachers we know, including members of our own families, are talented and dedicated professionals who give generously to their children.People who seem normal enough are capable of banding together, organizing, and foisting monstrous injustices on victims. And their participation in these systems of injustice really is culpable to one degree or another.
The fact is that it has not been demonstrated that the fetus is a human person. There is no science to it. Human DNA yes but not a human person. Nor is this de fide. This doctor is being used to paint a broad brush over all abortions. The frequent posts for a weekend show the attraction of this issue---the constant easing of the Catholic conscience while avoiding those live children dying in squalor.
Jean to what extent do business criteria drive editorial decisions?I would think that the arc of the Gosnell story wouldnt be attractive to upscale young women, whom I perceive to be the uber-demographic They have disposable income! They shop! Theyre susceptible to advertising! for newspapers and television networks, and who of course are relatively pro-choice.Jim - Young women are not the demographic for commercial evening news broadcasts, which were the focus of my comment. (The best indicator of audience is the commercials, and evening news broadcasts are rife with ads for arthritis, constipation, ED, and low-T nostrums--things that appeal to folks my age). A North Korea with a nutbar leader and nuclear warhead (maybe); gun violence that continues in the wake of Sandy Hook. and the attendant political debates about gun control roiling in a dysfunctional Congress; the civil war in Syria with hundreds of thousand of people dead or forced into refugee camps and that continues to hold out the possibility of U.S. military intervention--all these stories arguably have more magnitude and impact to demographic of these programs than an abortion clinic in Pennsylvania.I don't want to talk with Catholics on here about abortion per se, though I do follow and think prayerfully about what I read on these threads. So, just sticking to the issue of coverage, I will say that I think it is very easy for news outlets to dismiss Gosnell's operation as a "rogue clinic" and not typical of most clinics that offer a variety of reproductive control services because a) it was run by a black doctor, b) the employees were largely foreign, and c) the clientele was largely poor and non-white. No, that doesn't say anything very flattering about editorial decisions, but I think trying to chalk up lack of coverage to pressure from the pro-choice contingent (which seems to be less able to block abortion restriction laws) fails to look at all the angles and complexities here.Sorry for the length of the post.
Clarification: "variety of reproductive control services" is not meant euphemistically but to acknowledge that most abortion clinics also offer condoms, diaphragm fittings, pelvic examinations, and prescriptions for birth control pills. The fact that Gosnell's clinic seems to have offered only abortions, and many of those to women desperate to circumvent Pennsylvania's 20-week limit, makes it very different from most other clinics of this type.
Crystal, this is an interesting distinction. It reminds me of a radio interview I once heard during the waning days of apartheid . . . Jim, Please note that Crystal was responding to a statement that Planned Parenthood believes "that babies can be disposed of whenever they are deemed inconvenient. First of all, how do we even determine what Planned Parenthood believes? Is there any official document from Planned Parenthood saying that "babies can be disposed of whenever they are deemed inconvenient"? Does anyone suppose there are secret, internal documents that say such a thing? Does Planned Parenthood believe that if parents want to go out for dinner and a movie and can't find a babysitter, they can dispose of their baby?While it's certainly correct that nice people can band together and support evil causes, considering the preposterous statement by Thorin that Crystal was responding to, her response was a reasonable one.
While it seems true that people can self-deceive for various reasons (we pro-lifers are quick to point out the incongruity of PP (for example) "caring" for women, yet ready to steer them to permit greater profitability for the medical and pharmaceutical establishment) the same is also true for many people who oppose abortion, even for very good reasons.The challenge to be able to oppose abortion, yet be willing to work, and yes, even sacrifice, for those people who find their life choices very limited by poverty or any host of issues is a valid one thrown back at the pro-life movement, especially its political arm.People have been accusing pro-lifers, and often wrongly, of not caring for babies after they are born. The way to address this perception is not to stomp our ideological foot and yell, "Do too!" The option is to enter into dialoguye and discussion. Not for the purpose of converting or being converted. But simply to understand.And if one considers pro-life neighbors to be the enemy, it would make more sense to get a better handle on why so many tens of millions of Americans can look the other way while hundreds of thousands of fetuses are being aborted.Playing the Shoah card hasn't worked too well the past forty years. Isn't it time to find another approach?
People have been accusing pro-lifers, and often wrongly, of not caring for babies after they are born. Todd,In my very biased, bleeding-heart liberal opinion, this charge is fair when made against political pro-lifers. We see a lot of emphasis from pro-life politicians on putting roadblocks in the way of women seeking abortions, but we do not see a "fair and balanced" approach from them to helping women with unplanned pregnancies. To be fair, I haven't done a survey of all the anti-abortion bills introduced in states recently, but I would be amazed if a significant number of them on the one hand make abortions harder to get, but on the other hand have provisions to help women with unplanned pregnancies, or to help prevent unplanned pregnancies in the first place.The pro-life movement in general bends over backwards to absolve women who procure abortions of any culpability for their actions. Such women are acknowledged to be "between a rock and a hard place," and absolved (of course) as dupes and victims of the abortion industry. No pro-lifer will suggest a woman who has an abortion should be held legally responsible in any way whatsoever. Such understanding and compassion may be commendable, but when pro-lifers realize what a difficult position women with unplanned pregnancies are in, and then offer no other solution than making it ever more difficult to procure an abortion, one has to question whether what appears to be compassion for women in difficult situations is merely political expediency. The American people simply will not accept holding women legally accountable for procuring abortions, pro-lifers know it, and so they claim sympathy and compassion for women in difficult situations but propose nothing whatsoever to help them.
Mr. Nickol,No, my comment isn't preposterous. Planned Parenthood's slogan is "evey child a wanted child." If you want to figure out what Planned Parenthood thinks should happen to children who aren't wanted, I suggest examining the severed limbs of unborn children that Planned Parenthood consigns to the garbage after it is done killing them. That is what Planned Parenthood does; that is what Planned Parenthood believes. (And, yes, it is appropriate to refer to the human beings killed by Planned Parenthood as "babies" or "children." Normal people refer to an unborn child as a baby unless a decision has been made to kill it; it is only then that it becomes a "fetus" or an "embryo" or a "product of conception" or whatever euphemism will be used to mask reality).
Mr. Mazzella,Pope Francis disagrees with you: "The moral problem of abortion is of a pre-religious nature because the genetic code is written in a person at the moment of conception. A human being is there. I separate the topic of abortion from any specifically religious notions. It is a scientific problem. Not to allow the further development of a being which already has all the genetic code of a human being is not ethical. The right to life is the first among human rights. To abort a child is to kill someone who cannot defend himself."
This is a conflicting subject for me. I don't like killing or suffering. I'm pretty much a pacifist, I'm against the death penalty, I'm a vegetarian, and if I find a bug in the house, I catch it and put it safely outside. I don't like the idea of abortion and I support what I think will keep people from wanting or needing one - contraception and sex ed and prenatal care. But I think PP is a good place - it helps poor women get cancer screenings and birth control and treatment for infections - that's 90+% of what they do. Maybe closing down all the PPs in the country will lessen professionally done legal abortions, but it won't do away with abortion and women will suffer, especially poor women. PP is not the origin of abortion, it's a response to a desire/need that many people just don't seem to want to address straightforwardly.
Thorin,To the extent that it makes sense to say what Planned Parenthood "believes," I have no objection to saying the organization believes in abortion. But in the context of a discussion of the Gosnell trial or any other legal aspect of abortion it is indeed preposterous to say Planned Parenthood believes that babies can be disposed of whenever they are deemed inconvenient. It is to blur, either willfully or through fuzzy thinking, the distinction between abortion and infanticide. As I said above, even if you wish to claim abortion and infanticide are morally equivalent, they are not identical. As much as you may object to the distinction, killing an unborn child is abortion, and killing a child that has been born is infanticide. There is no evidence to claim that Planned Parenthood "believes in" infanticide, and no evidence that the promote or excuse it. If you want to invent your own definition of infanticide, go ahead, but make it clear that it is your own definition and not the definition as understood by the law, by dictionaries, or by the average person. I personally think your rhetoric alienates people who would like to support at least part of the pro-life agenda but who do not want to be seen as aligning themselves with those who make extreme statements and wild accusations.
Ann,It seems to me that the Gosnell case, looked at dispassionatelywhich is admittedly difficult for almost anyone to doshows that just like any other medical providers, abortion clinics need to be watched by state and local health authorities, and when there are complaints about them, those complaints should be investigated. Gosnell's clinic wasn't inspected for 17 years, and complaints against it were ignored. In New York City, 26,000 restaurants and other food establishments are inspected yearly, and each one must display the grade it received prominently in its front window (provided it is not shut down). How hard can it be to inspect abortion clinics?Unquestionably Gosnell was doing ghoulish things that should never happen anywhere. But he was breaking the law. I think many pro-lifers would like to see extensive media coverage so they could say, "See! This is the abortion industry!" But of course Gosnell is in no way representative of abortion providers in the United States. Many pro-lifers, in my opinion, want to make pro-life, anti-abortion propaganda out of the Gosnell case, and there really is no rational basis for doing so. The way people use words is relevant, because abortion is not infanticide. I don't want to get into the debate again about whether or not it is legitimate to call an unborn child a child or a baby. In some cases it is perfectly natural to do so. But I hope think you may agree that when pro-lifers call abortionists "baby killers," they have crossed a line and are no longer engaging in civil, rational discourse. And abortion is not infanticide, no matter how some pro-lifers want to confuse the two. Exactly why Gosnell got away with what he did (or allegedly did, since he has not yet been convicted) is a separate question, I think, than the lessons from the Gosnell trial. If pro-choice officials didn't want to expose abuses in the abortion industry because they were concerned it would hurt their cause, than that is reprehensible. But I do think there is some truth to the idea that the pro-life movement, by demonizing abortionists, caused many doctors to shun abortion not for their own moral reasons, but because they feared the pro-life movement, and that is partly responsible for the fact that women go to "abortion mills" rather than put themselves in the care of their own obstetricians and gynecologists.
In today's NYT Ross Douthat reflects on two conflicting ideals of the American journalism profession: the necessity to remain neutral in presenting stories with more than one side and the necessity to crusade for the truth of one side or another. He thinks that the Gospel reporting/non-reporting brouhaha is a product of this tension.http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/opinion/sunday/douthat-media-balance-a... is it the function of the press, including reporters, to report *both* on the facts of a story and on the purported morality involved in the story? Is the choice whether or not to report on a story *itself* a moral decision?
My first newspaper editor used to say that there are two unheralded editors at every newspaper, Whim and Caprice. Fifty years in the business proved to me he was right. Back at 10:22 Jean Raber noted some decisive factors as far as conscious decision-making is involved in Gosnell coverage. I would add that a long court trial -- which the prestige media think they have to staff with their own people -- is no longer the fun it was during the 1930s. The bean counters mumble about hotel and restaurant bills, and readers no longer have an attention span, so the reporter has to keep repeating herself every day, at the cost of "precious" space.Ann Oliver's 5:57 question about the choice of whether to cover the story is a good one. That (as opposed to how the story is written if it is written) is where unconscious bias will lie. I have never seen either Whim or Caprice spend much time thinking about the morality of that decision.
"The moral problem of abortion is of a pre-religious nature because the genetic code is written in a person at the moment of conception."The genetic code is there, but conception does not automatically produce a single unique human being. Twins and multiples can form after conception. And twins can also fuse back into a single individual."A human being is there. I separate the topic of abortion from any specifically religious notions. It is a scientific problem. Not to allow the further development of a being which already has all the genetic code of a human being is not ethical. The right to life is the first among human rights. To abort a child is to kill someone who cannot defend himself.How do we define "human being"? Does it require brain activity as we might define it at the other end? That's 20-24 weeks. A heartbeat? That's eight to ten weeks. The sad truth of abortion is that people are desperate for many reasons. But abortion is a choice millions of women have made freely. How to persuade them not to in the future? It seems that pro-lifers, especially political pro-lifers may have a choice between being right and imposing that correctness by law, or by helping to create a society where it is easy and desirable to protect the innocent. Do they want to be right, or do they want to be successful?
I think Tom Blackburn raises a good point: The news biz is in a state of flux. Newspapers and news gathering syndicates (e.g., AP, Reuters, anybody remember UPI?) have fewer resources to pay for professional coverage.If you include the blogosphere and citizen journalists, there is far more opinion and analysis of many stories than there is actual reportage.Interesting sidebar: Checked the NCR home page. No links to the Gosnell trial that I saw. When I searched for "Gosnell" using the NCR search engine, I got two hits, one filed in January 2011, and the second one filed Friday (April 12). I don't know anything about NCR's budget resources or staff, but it strikes me as odd that a news outlet that claims it is a "source that stands as one of the few independent journalistic outlets for Catholics and others who struggle with the complex moral and societal issues of the day" would have less coverage than the secular commercial evening news broadcast media.
I think it's true, as Tom Blackburn says, that the cost of dispatching a reporter to Philadelphia for six to eight weeks would discourage some news organizations from covering this case. Also, having covered quite a few trials of national interest back in the 1980s, I think it would be more difficult to hold the public's attention nowadays for a lengthy case. That, too, would make it less likely that any trial will receive daily coverage, whether locally or nationally.Keep in mind, though, that the AP coverage is available to most American news organizations. A check of LexisNexis and Google News showed relatively few news organizations using the AP coverage. Also, Deacon Greg Kandra, an experienced TV newsman, notes that the networks can get footage from their Philadelphia affiliates: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/deaconsbench/2013/04/is-media-bias-tainting... Oliver, I think Ross Douthat misses the mark on this particular column. The tension he describes certainly exists, but it has nothing to do with the coverage of this story. It's a news story, to be covered in an evenhanded way so that readers can reach informed opinions of their own.
A really hot topic this one. Rightly so. I am not convinced it is at all possible to have a rational discussion of this one. Perhaps we can come closer to an understanding the real issues if we replace the terms "pro-life" with "unable to believe abortion is defensible in any circumstance" and"pro-choice" with "able to believe abortion is defensible in some circumstances".By "understanding" I mean we apply a bit more rationalization. Somewhat similar to the rationalizations that have allowed so many of us for more than half a century to defend the mutilation and killing of tens of thousands of utterly defenseless human beings in a matter of moments in the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. It usually goes like this: "Those were awful, tragic events but they saved so many lives".If one truly wishes to be taken seriously as "pro-life" one cannot expect anyone to allow them the luxury of choosing which lives they cherish. I wishI could in all honesty ascribe the term "pro-life" to myself. While I am obviously as capable of as much wishful self-perception as anyone, seeing myself as that remarkable is beyond even my arrogance.As for the fellow on trial, this is yet another media feast. He will be convicted or not.To my often confused mind the primary question this trial raises is how much more can we turn over to our voyeuristic selves the issue of justice. Trial in the public squareseems a reasonable notion. All that is needed is the conviction we are all perfectat all moments and in all places. We'll make up the rules as we go.Is there media bias on this topic? Yes. It is identified by its inconsistency.
"Its a news story, to be covered in an evenhanded way so that readers can reach informed opinions of their own."Paul M. --It is indeed it *is* a story to be covered. And the big question now is: why *hasn't* it been properly? Why have complaints about the clinic gone on for many, many years, but the clinic hasn't been inspected in 16 years. Even tatoo parlors are inspected every year. Hmmmm.Is Seth Williams, the DA who has pushed this case and the abuse case against the Philadelphia Archdiocese, the reason something is finally being done about it? Nobody else seems to have shown any real interest.
This may be slightly off-topic, but I hope Robert P. George's appeal for mercy in the Gosnell case (http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/04/14/a-plea-for-mer...) reaches more people than it is likely to.
New laws regarding, and regulation of, abortion mills in Virginia and other pro-life states has received much more news coverage than this grubby Philadelphia murderer:http://rvanews.com/news/virginia-board-of-health-oks-strict-rules-for-ab... suspect this is because most of the mainstream media is pro-abortion, plain and simple. They much prefer that states (like CA) consider allowing nurses and midwives to perform abortions, mainly beacuase they work cheaper than an abortionist who has graduated medical school.
Very good post, Paul. I suspect there are a number of other prosaic reasons that media have not covered it as much as it should be, though I'm not sure how much more it should be covered. It is not clear that the trial itself is revealing or has a drama worthy of daily coverage. So much of the horrifying details rehash what has already been out there. I think it is the issues raised by the trial -- and ones that will endure after the verdict that should be points of discussion: the regulation of abortion clinics, the desperate recourse for poor women and people of color, the effects of diminishing access to abortion, etc. How coverage of these topics and the trial would play out isnt clear; some say its an argument for a better system of abortion provision and funding while those opposed to abortion seem to presume that coverage of the trail will naturally make people think abortion should be outlawed. One thing I would dispute is the argument out there that the relative lack of coverage is a media "blackout" and liberal conspiracy. Almost all of the conservatives harping on this meme are from outlets that have said nothing about Gosnell, less than the so-called MSM. So the question might be why the "conservative" media ignored Gosnell and why they are on the story now as a media criticism story rather than reporting the story per se and the issues it raised. It's dangerous to presume intentions and motives on either side, as the facts and real reason often tell another story. Here are links to a number of stories that show that there is no media blackout or conspiracy, even if the Gosnell trial should ganrer more coverage. Many of them also speculate on journalistic reasons why the case has not received the coverage that many would like:http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/is-media-bias-to-blame-for... http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/04/kermit-gosnell-trial-abo... http://www.salon.com/2013/04/12/conservatives_should_look_inward_on_gosn... http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2013/04/12/washington... http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/04/kermit-gosnell-media-bias-c... http://www.salon.com/2013/04/12/there_is_no_gosnell_coverup/
Per Might Be: By understanding I mean we apply a bit more rationalization. Somewhat similar to the rationalizations that have allowed so many of us for more than half a century to defend the mutilation and killing of tens of thousands of utterly defenseless human beingsin a matter of moments in the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. . . You are correct in that we should not confuse emoting with reasoning, but somewhat similar to is faulty reasoning as well, in that regarding Japan, we were involved in a world war; we are not at war with babies.
Ken: "most of the mainstream media is pro-abortion, plain and simple"? Plain, maybe; simple, no. Most of the mainstream media are pro what their readers want, pro status quo and pro law in approximately that order. Their readers, by small margins, want abortion; abortion is the status quo, and abortion is legal. All three knees jerk in unison. It could be done, but it would take more than the case of one Philadelphia abortionist to move the media out of the comfortable ruts.
It seems to me that the Gosnell case, looked at dispassionatelywhich is admittedly difficult for almost anyone to doshows that just like any other medical providers, abortion clinics need to be watched by state and local health authorities, and when there are complaints about them, those complaints should be investigated. ... I think many pro-lifers would like to see extensive media coverage so they could say, See! This is the abortion industry! But of course Gosnell is in no way representative of abortion providers in the United States. "FWIW - many abortion advocates believe that the horrors that went on in Gosnell's clinic are anything but unusual - they believe that every clinic has its full share of horror stories, above and beyond the everyday banality of abortions that are done without medical complications (for the mom). What is captivating about the story in their eyes is the apparent regulatory failure (complicity) of the government regulators. And, now, too, the apparent disinterest (complicity) of the mainstream media.David, you state, "of course, Gosnell is in no way representative of abortion providers" - but isn't that "of course" premised on an assumption that there is a regime of regulation and inspection that prevent Gosnells from being replicated throughout the state or the country? Yet we learn in the Gosnell case that regulatory oversight was practically non-existent, even in the face of a number of complaints. I'd think that pro-choice advocates would be just as upset about Gosnell as pro-life advocates, because pro-choice advocates would want a regulatory regime that ensures that clinics are safe (for the mom).
Tom,Not quite, perhaps. "Most of the mainstream media are pro what their readers want ..."Most are what their corporate backers want. A million abortions a year is a rather nice gravy train I'm sure some people would rather see running on the tracks.
if they do not think they are killing human beingsOf course, this begs the question - If they are not human beings, then just what are they? They arent inanimate. They arent plants. They arent other animals. They have to BE something. They can only be human. There really is no other possibility.
Gosnell's nurse's account of digging a live baby out of a toilet and dispatching him or her via stabbing in the back of the neck, pretty much sums up why a "dispassionate" view of the matter is for the most part out of the question.That the people who worked in that place thought what they routinely did was Ok is the problem. The defense that abortionists do not think their victims are human, or have status, has a terrible precedent in that the nazis did not consider their victims worthy of life either -
In my previous comment, from 4/15, 11:39 am, I omitted a double-quote at the beginning of the first paragraph, possibly suggesting to readers that I was the author of that paragraph. I wasn't; I pasted that paragraph from one of David Nickol's thoughtful comments, and the remainder of the comment is my response to the snippet I pasted.
This post is rather disingenuous. It's not that there is no national coverage, it's that the national coverage is so much less than the story seems to demand on its very surface. A mass murderer is on trial, one who based his level of care on his patients' race, one who maintained a squalid medical establishment, one who went un-corrected and even un-inspected by any governmental oversight for decades. And it has gotten less national coverage than a college basketball couch berating his players.There is truly something going on here. The media is failing in its public duty, and it is reasonable to ask whether that failure is error, incompetence, or bias. And pro-choice advocates have great reason to want this story swept under the rug. Gosnell's clinic operated this way for decades without governmental oversight and the pro-choice movement has been pushing back against all legislation meant to ensure safe conditions at clinics (and not just the unreasonable legislation meant to eliminate abortion, but the reasonable legislation). Gosnell's practices offer a shocking view of the realities of late-term abortion. Gosnell's racism reveals the troubling questions of race and abortion rates that the pro-choice movement generally tries to downplay. The pro-choice movement has a lot to lose if this comes to life. As a movement, it depends on information staying out of the public view and sanitizing the realities of abortion. Covering this trial would drag not just Gosnell's abuses, but plain realities of abortion in this country, into the daylight.
Ken == The question of whether the Nazis and the abortionists are guilty of murder (which involves their purported knowledge and intentions) is NOT the same as the question of whether or not the fetuses are persons, especially in the third trimester. The Nazis are irrelevant to the central problem here: do abortions kill innocent people?


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I have got a multivariable function $f$ defined on an open set $V$. Suppose $f$ attains maximum at some point $(x,y)$ inside of $V$. At this point we also have $f_{xx}=f_{yy}=0$. And finally the Laplacian of $f$ on $V$ is greater than or equal to $0$. What can we say? such a point can really exist?
On $\mathbb{R}^n$ with sufficient smoothness assumptions, the second derivative test implies such a scenario is impossible. If we define $M=\det H$ where $H_{ij}=\frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x_i~\partial x_i}$ is the Hessian matrix, then the test is conclusive as long as $M\ne0$. If $M$ is positive/negative definite (at an interior point of the domain), then $f$ has a local extremum (minimum/maximum). If there are eigenvalues of $H$ of each sign, then the point is a saddle point (the restriction of $f$ along eigenlines of opposite-sign eigenvalues has a minimum on one line but a maximum on the other). Otherwise ($M=0$ or there are complex eigenvalues), the test is inconclusive. In two dimensions, this means that $M=f_{xx}f_{yy}-f_{xy}^2 > 0$ is a necessary condition for a point to be a local extremum. But if that holds, then $f_{xx}f_{yy} > f_{xy}^2 \ge 0$, so that $f_{xx}$ & $f_{yy}$ share the same sign and so the sign of the Laplacian determines whether the point is a minimum or maximum (if $\nabla^2f$ is positive or negative respectively). But the Laplacian alone does not determine whether a point is a local extremum. You will find a brief discussion of the above here, with more under the article on Morse theory.
A $C^2$-function $f$ with $\Delta f(x,y)\geq0$ for all $(x,y)$ is subharmonic, see here. A nonconstant subharmonic function cannot have a maximum at an interior point.


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if $X,Y$ are topological spaces and $f: X \rightarrow Y$ is a continuous map then it can be shown that the graph of $f$, $G_{f}$, is homeomorphic to $X$. But is the converse true? that is: if $G_{f} \cong X$ via the map $(x,f(x)) \mapsto x$ is $f$ necessarily a continuous map? I suspect no but haven't had luck with a counterexample. Is this true/false?
This is true. Since $g:X \to G_{f}, \; x \mapsto (x,f(x))$ is in particular continuous and the projection $p: X \times Y \to Y$ is continuous by definition of the product topology, so is the composition $f = p \circ g$.
Added: Concerning the follow-up question whether $f$ is continuous as soon as the graph is homeomorphic to $X$ in some way: The answer is no.
While Brian's construction of a counter-example to this question is very nice and instructive, here's one I find a bit easier to understand. Take $X = \mathbb{Z} \cup \bigcup_{k \in \mathbb{Z}} (k+1/4, k + 3/4)$ with the topology inherited from $\mathbb{R}$. Now define
$$f(x) = \begin{cases}0 & \text{if }x \in \mathbb{Z},\\0 & \text{if }x \in (k+1/4,k+1/2),\\1 & \text{if } x= k + 1/2,\\2 & \text{if }x\in(k+1/2, k+3/4).\end{cases}$$
The graph of $f$ is homeomorphic to a countable union of intervals and countably many points, hence it is homeomorphic to $X$, but $f$ is not continuous, as it fails to be continuous at $x = k + 1/2$.
Let $\hat f:X \to G_f:x \mapsto \langle x,f(x) \rangle$, and assume that $\hat f$ is a homeomorphism. Note that $\hat f^{-1}$ is simply the restriction $p$ of the projection $\pi_X:X \times Y \to X$ to $G_f$, so $p$ is also a homeomorphism. Let $V$ be any open set in $Y$, and let $W = (X \times V) \cap G_f$; $W$ is open in $G_f$, so $p[W]$ is open in $X$. But $p[W] = \hat f^{-1}[W] = f^{-1}[V]$, so $f$ is continuous.
Added: If we do not require that $\hat f$ be the homeomorphism from $X$ to $G_f$, we cannot conclude that $f$ is continuous. Let $X = Y = \mathbb Q$, and enumerate $\mathbb Q = \{q_n:n \in \omega\}$. Let $\mathcal I$ be the set of non-empty open intervals $(p,r)$ in $\mathbb Q$, and enumerate $\mathcal I \times \mathcal I = \{\langle I_0(n),I_1(n) \rangle:n \in \omega \}$. We now recursively construct a function $f:\mathbb Q \to \mathbb Q$ as follows:
To see that $f(q)$ is defined for every $q \in \mathbb Q$, suppose not, and let $m \in \omega$ be minimal s.t. $f(q_m)$ is not defined. Each non-empty rational interval $(p,r)$ occurs as $I_0(n)$ for infinitely many $n \in \omega$, so there are infinitely many $n$ s.t. $q_m \in I_0(n)$. In particular, there is a least $n \in \omega$ s.t. $q_m \in I_0(n)$ and all $f(q_k)$ for $k<m$ have been defined by stage $n$, and at this point the construction defines $f(q_m)$.
The construction of $f$ clearly ensures that the point $\langle q_m,f(q_m) \rangle$ chosen at stage $n$ is in $I_0(n) \times I_1(n)$, so $G_f$ is dense in $\mathbb Q \times \mathbb Q$. Thus, $G_f$ is a countable, metrizable space without isolated points and as such is homeomorphic to $\mathbb Q$ with the usual topology, i.e., to $\text{dom }f$. It's also clear that $f$ cannot be continuous, since by construction $\{q \in \mathbb Q:f(q) \in (0,1)\}$ and $\{q \in \mathbb Q:f(q) \in (2,3)\}$ are both dense in $\mathbb Q$.


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