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ROCK HILL, S.C. – With the regular season wrapped up and the 2014 Food Lion South Atlantic Conference Championships on the horizon, the conference office announced on Wednesday its all-conference teams and honorable mention award winners on Tuesday, as Anderson's Sierra Simpson, Lesley Woods and Alexis Dillard were named to All-SAC honors.
Simpson headlines the trio being named to the All-SAC Second Team for her second postseason all-conference honor of her career, earning a spot on the SAC All-Freshman Team in her first season with the Black and Gold. The Simpsonville, S.C. native averages a league-leading 4.9 assists per game with a 1.8 assist-to-turnover ratio, which ranks fourth in the conference.
Despite her 5-foot-6 frame, Simpson is 17th in rebounds per game at 5.8 per contests, while ranking eighth in offensive rebounds per game (2.5). Defensively, the guard is slotted fourth in steals per game at 2.2, while averaging 31.9 minutes per game (14th in SAC).
Simpson is currently shooting 38.6 percent from the floor and has totaled three double-doubles this season with two being a combination of points and rebounds and one double-double being in points and assists.
Woods earns her first postseason recognition, being named to the conference's first-ever honorable mention list. The junior ranks first in the conference in 3-point percentage at 36.8, while also earning the top spot in 3-pointers made per game (2.7). Woods is the only player in the SAC with 70 or more made 3-pointers this season with 75, as she is 20th in total points for the year (283).
Currently, the sharpshooter is one trey away from tying former standout Leeann Segers' mark of 144 made 3-pointers in the program's all-time list. Most recently, Woods surpassed Mikala Fogle-Wilson for eighth-place after sinking three 3-pointers against Tusculum on Feb. 26.
The native of Raleigh, N.C. has been a major part to Anderson's offensive success this season, as it closed the season leading the conference in points per game (70.9) and in 3-point percentage (33.2).
Dillard becomes the first Trojan since Simpson and second AU player since joining the conference in 2010 to be named to the all-freshman team. Defensively, Dillard has shined, currently ranking ninth in the league in rebounds per game (6.8) and third in blocks per game (1.8). Dillard posted a season-high six blocks against Wingate earlier this season, the most blocks by a Trojan in a game since 2010.
The Taylors, S.C. native posted two double-doubles this season, highlighted by a 14-point, 11-rebound performance in an 80-57 win over Tusculum in late February.
Anderson looks to continue its conference tournament winning streak as the defending champions begin this year's tournament campaign similar to last season's when the Trojans squared off with Lincoln Memorial in the quarterfinals. This time around, the opening game will be in Harrogate, Tenn., but AU seeks the same results as the Trojans eliminated the Lady Railsplitters 76-46 at the Abney Athletic Center a year ago.
All-SAC First Team
Jazmine Charles, Lenoir-Rhyne
Kayla Harris, Wingate
Haylee Lepaio, Newberry
Aisjah Roan, Lincoln Memorial
Janitsha Williams, Wingate
Jenni Gust, Lenoir-Rhyne
All-SAC Second Team
Shonice Pettaway, Queens
Chloe Bully, Catawba
Tanesha Stenson, Coker
Ansley Ricker, Mars Hill
Sierra Simpson, Anderson
Tasia Holdorf, Newberry
All-SAC Honorable Mention
MaRanda Boddie, Lincoln Memorial
Antionette McPhail, Catawba
Katie Williams, Brevard
Lesley Woods, Anderson
Kristen McMillon, Tusculum
Danielle Bongiorno, Lenoir-Rhyne
All-Freshman Team
Kaitlyn Cupples, Carson-Newman
Madison Lenox, Brevard
Shelby Tricoli, Wingate
Alexis Dillard, Anderson
Jada Huntley, Catawba
Player of the Year: Jazmine Charles, Lenoir-Rhyne
Freshman of the Year: Kaitlyn Cupples, Carson-Newman
Coach of the Year: Todd Starkey, Lenoir-Rhyne


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Fueling Station, Kachirho, Kashyyyk
785 Standard Days (2 Years 49 Days) After the Battle of Geonosis
The thunderous boom of the turret deafened Scorch. He had been shooting at the Separatist cruiser for what seemed like hours, but was only mere minutes. The ship's shields were buckling underneath the suppressive fire that he and his squad had been throwing at it. The ripples of the energy shield began to vanish as the shields were drained and reassuring chunks of metal began falling off and crashing in the circular fueling depot beneath.
"Delta, bombing run commenced, keep firing!" The advisor's voice crackled in over the comm system. His voice was slightly muted by the continuous
of the turret.
Within seconds a squadron of V-19 fighters flew in overhead and fired a volley of proton torpedoes. The cruiser's bow and stern began to separate and dip downward as it began to snap at the middle.
As another bombing run was made, more and more internal detonations could be felt through the air. Chunks of the hull and battle droids that slipped out of breaches in the hull continued to crash in the depot, some landing frightening close to Scorch.
As the explosions became more prominent and more frequent, Boss yelled something over the comm. Scorch didn't understand any bit of it.
The final bombing run was made and the volleys of rockets were shot from the turrets, resulting in a blinding flash that even the polar screen of Scorch's visor couldn't block. The flash subsided and the last bits of metal and fire crashed on the jungle floor beneath and the base of the fueling depot.
"Excellent job, Delta. Regroup at 38's position." The Advisor said. Scorch, Fixer and Sev made their way over to Boss's position, awed by the massacre that he left on his way to his turret.
"BOSS I'VE GOT A PROBLEM HERE!" Sev screamed over the comm. The sound of droidekas deploying themselves and firing echoed in the background.
"Seven? Seven? What's wrong?" Boss asked.
"Signal lost, sir." Fixer informed the rest of the squad.
"Well find it again, damn it!"
"Lead, get out of there. There's no time to search for him. You've got orders to retreat." The Advisor jumped in.
"I don't care if they came from Master Yoda himself."
"As a matter of fact, they did."
"We can't just leave him behind!" Scorch shouted "Forty?"
"He's right, sir. We have to fall back." Fixer said.
Boss didn't say anything, he just jumped into the cargo bay of the LAAT/i and knelt down. Fixer and Scorch followed. Scorch looked out the starboard door and tried to find Sev; there was no sign of Sev or droids.
The larty began to rise toward the treetops. Halfway up, Fixer threw down the holo-projector.
"Pull yourselves together squad. One commando is not worth risking an entire operation." Advisor's hologram said.
"One commando? He's talking about my pod brother!" Scorch yelled.
"Hold on, what do you mean 'an entire operation'?" Boss asked.
Scorch looked away from the hologram a muttered a string of profanity.
"Your team was the advance force for a full-scale Republic invasion. I had strict orders not to tell you. It was
intel that verified the operation. And now the invasion has begun." The hologram faded away as the larty breached the canopy.
Republic Navy operators and pilots threw around coordinates and orders. Above the larty, dozens Republic assault ships and countless squadrons V-19 fighters flew overhead, diving toward the surface of Kashyyyk.
"Look, Boss. It's the invasion force." An awestruck Scorch said. It was as if he had forgotten all his sorrow and anger, although Boss knew that it was only temporary.
"Taking the city was only the beginning." Fixer said.
"I've never seen so many ships before."
"Yes, sir. Yes, I'll patch you through right away," The Advisor flashed up on the holo-projector. "Listen up Deltas."
"All Republic forces establish forward command in Kachirho." The hologram flashed and changed to none other than Jedi Master Yoda.
"Is that really who I think it is?" Scorch said.
"Rendezvous with Delta Squad we must. Upon them we rest much hope. Wookiee freedom must not be sacrificed." Yoda's little image flashed away and reformed into the Advisor.
"Sorry Deltas, looks like it's back to the action. You have your orders."
"Delta Squad, lock and load." Boss said as the larty doors shut and locked.
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NOTICE: ive noticed a few typos as i read through this, some minor, others major. if you do happen to notice any, please email me or leave a comment on my page. thanks for the support
Port Barracks, Liberator, High Orbit, Hypori
3 Standard Weeks after Delta's Mission to Kashyyyk/ 806 Standard Days (2 Years and 70 Days) After the Battle of Geonosis
"Fixer. Wake up, Fixer," A consistent voice said. "Fixer, it's about Scorch. Wake up. That's an order soldier!"
"Yes, sir!" Fixer bolted right up and saluted. He opened his eyes to see Boss right in his face, shaking him wildly. "What is it, Three-Eight?"
"It's Scorch; he's gone!"
"He just got out his bunk, grabbed his kit and left."
"Did you follow him?"
"Yeah, he went to the hangar and began prepping up a shuttle."
"Why didn't you confront him?"
"'Cause we're going to stow away on that shuttle."
"What? We can't do that. You know how many rules and regulations we'll be breaking?" Boss wasn't listening; he was just gearing up. "Lead, Lead? Oh, fierfek." Fixer quietly got up from his bunk and suited up.
"We'll want to travel light. Just grab your deece and pistol." Boss said. The two grabbed their blasters and headed out the door.
"Oh, I just know I'm going to regret this." Fixer muttered as the door closed behind him.
The halls were cluttered with troopers going about on tedious inspections and shift changes. Very few took notice on the commandos' presence. Those that did either saluted or stared.
As they approached the hangar, the sound of a nearly-ready-to-launch shuttle could be heard. They approached that hangar doors and stopped. Boss peered into the shuttle bay. Scorch was making final preparations by loading up extra blaster clips and fuel checks.
"Okay, when he unplugs the fuel pipes and heads up the ramp, we'll make a run for the shuttle and hide in a storage compartment." Boss planned out.
"Respectfully, sir, but we won't fit into those tiny compartments."
"Oh we'll fit. You just have to work it out." Fixer said nothing.
The pipes unplugged and Scorch began to head up the ramp. Boss jumped into a roadie run for the shuttle ramp. Fixer hesitated and closely followed. Inside the shuttle, Boss looked for empty compartments as Fixer kept a look out for Scorch. Boss couldn't find any, forcing him to empty out one for himself and another for Fixer.
"Like I said, I know I'm going to regret this." Fixer mumbled as he crawled into the claustrophobic space.
Sev being was beaten, bruised, burnt and tortured. A small window revealed blue sky and a mountain similar in shape to a Geonosian spire, and the sound of alien songbirds can be heard. This prison, so it appeared to be, was of a very crude design, clearly Trandoshan. The interrogator then showed his face, he was Aqualish. He was handed Sev's cherished DC-17m blaster with the sniper attachment. The interrogator examined the rifle and then aimed at Sev's shaved, bloodied, ragged head and fired. A flash of blue and a spray of red ended it. Sev's headless body then crashed to the floor and-
"NO! SEV!" Scorch awoke, covered in cold sweat and feeling nauseous.
The others wouldn't understand. They were too focused on their orders, not their morals. It was wrong to leave Sev on Kashyyyk. Nobody cared. They were all clones; faceless, mindless, soulless drones of the Republic. They were no better than droids; without a purpose other than personal greed. Sergeant Kal Skirata would have gone after Sev, Walon Vau would have too. But no matter, if Scorch were to find Sev, then maybe his nightmares would end.
Scorch stumbled to the back of the shuttle, he tripped over something. He averted his blurry gaze to the floor. It was a first aid kit. He rubbed his eyes and looked around the deck; ammo crates and grenade packs had been strewn across the shuttle.
Scorch injected himself with nausea meds and then walked over to the storage compartments. A faint thump came from two of the compartments. Scorch opened one and…
"Fixer?" He opened the other. "Boss? What are you doing here?"
"Trying to stop you," Fixer said as he stretched and popped his neck. "Oh that feels good. It's time to go back to the Liberator."
"No, I'm not going back."
"Yes, you are." Boss said.
"No, I'm not."
"Six-two, face it, Oh-seven's dead." Fixer laid his foot down.
"No! He's not! I know what I'm doing!"
"So you're just going to abandon the Republic after everything we've done to protect it? You're going rogue, just like the Alphas? What would Oh-seven do were he in your position?"
"He'd come to my aid. I have to do this. If it's going to end my nightmares, then it's worth it."
"What nightmares?"
Scorch explained his nightmares in full detail as Boss and Fixer listened intently.
"Why didn't you tell us?" Boss asked.
"Because you wouldn't listen to me," Scorch snapped. "It got so bad that I requested a councilor. I ended up being visited by Master Yoda. He told me that that the Force is trying to tell me that Sev is still alive, that I should go to where these nightmares are happening."
"Was that an order or a suggestion?" Fixer interrupted.
"I couldn't tell. You know how the Jedi are; full of mystery and riddles."
"Where is this shuttle heading for?" Boss asked.
"How do you know Seven's there?"
"The songbirds exclusive to the planet, the unusual population of Aqualish. You know, rule number fifty-six: always check your intel. Plus, I just know he's there."
"The first two I understand, Six-two. But that last one is one of the biggest loads of
I have ever heard," Fixer crossed his arms. "But whatever. ETA to Ando?"
"Another hour or two. How about a nice piece of
that the nutritionists call food?"
"I think I'll take a nap."
"A nap for me, too," Boss said. "Enjoy your 'meal,' Six-two." And as he plopped down in a seat, bones cracking and armor clanking, Boss fell asleep.
The vortex of hyperspace always hypnotized Scorch. The beauty of the endless, swirling blue was impossible to describe. The annoying alarm that alerted pilots they were approaching was the only thing that could break Scorch's trance.
Scorch pulled the shuttle out of hyperspace and gasped as the tiny shuttle, undetectable by Separatist sensors, nearly crashed into the bow of a massive Recusant-class light destroyer. The sight of the behemoth forced horrid memories into Scorch's mind; memories of the mission to Kashyyyk, of Sev's disappearance.
As the trauma of the mission began to fade, Scorch realized that he was on the floor, covered in cold sweat. Fixer had pushed Scorch out of the seat and took over the controls.
"What happened?"
"You brought us out of hyperspace not only too close to the planet," Boss said, helping Scorch up. "But too close to a Sep cruiser."
"We missed it by nearly a dozen meters. But we've got worse problems than nearly hitting a Separatist cruiser." Fixer added.
"We're coming in at too steep an angle. It'll take time to fix the angle of the descent, but I can do it."
"Well hurry up. I don't want to become a no man squad."
Scorch finally came out the dizzying trance that he was in and looked out the window. The vast ocean world was slowly being consumed by fire. But it wasn't on fire; the shuttle was entering the planet's atmosphere. Soon green blobs became landmasses with massive volcanoes and dotted with small cities.
The shuttle zoomed past the mountain in Scorch's dream eventually came into view. Scorch pointed it out and Fixer began to circle the mountain. On the northern side of the mountain was a Trandoshan fortress.
Upon seeing the fortress, Fixer looked for a spot to land when an alarm sounded off. Boss looked at a flashing light above the radar screen. A red blip was quickly approaching the center of the screen that symbolized the shuttle.
"Fixer, what is that?"
"It could be anything; an enemy probe, fighter or missile," A loud explosion rumbled through the shuttle. "And it's a missile," Out the viewport the world began spinning in circles. A trail of oily, black smoke followed where the port wing once was. "I've lost control of her. We're going to crash."
"Delta, get your helmets on, brace for impact!" With a thud, and the sound of breaking tree branches and crunching durasteel, Boss was thrown on the floor and everything went dark.
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The rustling of jungle foliage was the first thing Boss heard. Then he heard Fixer's heavy breathing. Boss eventually opened his eyes and saw that he was facing backwards, but moving forwards. His entire body hurt, but his head hurt most. It felt like the worst hangover in galactic history. Then he remembered; stowing away aboard the shuttle, jumping in dangerously close to the planet, and being shot down.
"You can let go of me now, Fixer." Boss said slowly.
Fixer jumped as if Kashyyyk slash-spider had just crawled onto his face and began hacking away with its mandibles. He lowered his blaster aimed a Boss' head, regained his composure, and helped Boss up.
"How long have I been out?"
"One local day, sir," Fixer said quietly. "Which is approximately twenty-six standard hours."
"Damn, it's really been that long?" Fixer slowly nodded. "Where's Scorch?"
"Up here, Boss," Scorch's voice crackled in Boss' ear. "In the tree canopy."
Boss looked up to see a very faint silhouette in the trees. It was covered in mud and moss, holding a sniper rifle. The only thing that could give Scorch's position away was the holographic scope of the rifle.
"Sir, we've been hunted mercilessly by battle droids, Trandoshan mercenaries, and Aqualish Separatists," A loud boom and a flash of blue interrupted Fixer. "And Separatist probe droids have been trying to find us."
"But I find them first." Scorch chuckled.
"What about supplies?" Boss asked.
"We grabbed what we could when the shuttle went down. Between you, and about twenty kilos of ammo, grenades, and medical supplies, it's been one hell of a day. Trandos and clankers have been up our
the whole time. The
-Faces only seem to be scouts, as they're lightly armed and are only in pairs."
"How far are we from the fortress?"
"Several clicks," Fixer said. "We crashed about seven clicks south of the fortress. So far, we've only progressed about two and a half kilometers."
"Then let's get moving. We've got a ways to go."
"Not so fast, Boss. I'm seeing a droid platoon a hundred meters north, headed right for us. About thirty battle droids, nothing big. Should I take them out now, sir?" Scorch reported.
"Hold your fire. Let's ambush them," Boss checked his blaster and vibroknife. "Scorch, you stay up there, provide cover fire. Fixer and I will head south a bit, wait, and then we'll tear them apart. Fixer, while you're at it, set up a little surprise for the droids."
"Right away, sir."
"You got it, Bossman."
Boss and Fixer sprinted to the south, where Boss ducked behind a boulder. Fixer stopped twenty meters from the boulder, quickly laid a proximity mine beneath a pile of dead leaves and ducked behind a massive, fallen tree.
"Six-two here, the droids are right beneath me. It's not just a bunch of standard B1s."
"What else?" Boss groaned.
"A trio of BX-series commando droids. Should I begin the ambush?"
"No. Not yet. Wait for the mine to go off."
Several moments of intense silence, occasionally interrupted by the calls of jungle fauna, and the iconic "Roger, roger" of the battle droids as they received orders. Silence before combat was the time when one's adrenaline level increased severely, often to the point of adrenaline poisoning. Boss' adrenaline level had become so high, he almost didn't hear the mine go off.
The cries of shock, caused only by the droids' emotion simulators, and the sound of shattered durasteel crashing against every surface in the jungle, crackling wires and dirt falling to the ground began the ambush. Scorch began to pick off any droid dumb enough to not take cover. Boss and Fixer jumped out from their cover and began firing. One of the commando droids, a commander, charged at Boss with its vibrosword. As it swung the massive blade, he dodged and quickly jabbed the knuckle plate vibroblade into the droid's cranial unit.
Within seconds, only a commando droid and battle droid remained. Both took off towards the fortress. Scorch jumped from the trees and landed on the battle droid, putting three blaster bolts into its chest before stomping its head off. Scorch aimed his rifle at the fleeing commando droid and fired twice. It's head flew off first, followed by a five centimeter hole in its chest.
As Scorch lowered his rifle, something hit him hard in the back, knocking him on the ground. He looked up to see a Trandoshan mercenary uncloaking, its repeater gun aimed at is head. It snarled behind green, scaly lips, baring razor fangs.
Scorch raised his rifle, squeezed the trigger, and watched as a headless lizard slowly dropped while green ichor gushed from its neck. As the decapitated Trandoshan's body fell, a cloaked foot kicked Scorch's rifle from his hands. A dozen more mercenaries uncloaked, trained on Scorch. He looked behind him to see Boss and Fixer in a similar situation.
"Come with us," One of the mercenaries hissed. "You've been trouble the past few hours."
"Screw you, lizard breath!" The merc growled deep in its throat, and kicked Scorch with a clawed foot in the gut.
"If you do not cooperate, we will kill you right here, right now, feed your entrails to our families, and use your corpses as throw rugs."
Scorch said nothing, slowly got up, and placed his hands behind his head. Boss and Fixer soon joined him. They were then shoved violently forward by their captors.
They walked for several minutes before walking into a clearing. A Trandoshan barked something into its comm in its language. After several moments, a Trandoshan dropship landed in the clearing. The three commandos were thrown on board the dropship, and tied up. As each Trandoshan loaded up on the dropship, they spat on Delta Squad and laughed.
When the last Trandoshan had loaded up, the dropship took off and headed for the fortress. The ride lasted only six minutes. As it began its slow descent into the fortress, shadows swallowed the world. Only a faint glow of light came from the sky. Scorch looked out a port window to see the sky slowly close into a dot as the aperture-shaped hangar door closed. The dot of light was the last thing Scorch remembered seeing before a clawed hand struck the back of his head.
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An election is a good time to toss reason out a window
I say they won't matter a fig.
Andy believes that having two candidates enunciate their beliefs, unmediated by partisan pundits or meddlesome advisers, will give Americans a rational choice.
I say, "That's a nice world, Andy. I'd sure like to live in it."
The fantasy my friend inhabits is what Jonathan Haidt calls the "rationalist delusion."
In his new book, "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion," the University of Virginia psychology professor argues that our decision-making is a function not of reason, but of emotion. He follows the work of other investigators, like Daniel Kahneman ("Thinking, Fast and Slow") and Malcolm Gladwell ("Think") and Charles Duhigg ("The Power of Habit"), all of whom have found that our finest evolutionary achievement — reasoning — goes completely out the window when we need to make up our minds.
As Haidt writes, "Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second."
In other words, our beliefs come before the facts we gather to support them. That tends to be why people supporting candidate "A" will insist their candidate "won" a debate, an assertion the other side roundly rejects, marshaling all manner of evidence to demonstrate that candidate "B" triumphed.
In his fascinating and often disconcerting book, Haidt asserts that reason, the Holy Grail of the Enlightenment, is a bust. Sure, we'd all like to think we're reasonable people, objectively scrutinizing position papers, dispassionately analyzing stump speeches and presidential debates with the detached analytics of a spreadsheet. But the truth is our biases predispose us to cling to facts that support those biases and reject those that challenge them.
Or, as George Washington University political scientist John Sides told NPR this spring, "When voters are confronted with inconvenient facts, it is oftentimes difficult to persuade them that those facts are, in fact, facts. When supporters of President Obama see negative information about Obama, they don't think it is true. To the extent it is true, they find ways to explain it or rationalize it — they discount it."
One of the well-intentioned but least helpful tools in this regard has been the proliferation of "fact checkers," allegedly unbiased policy wonks who troll the literature to verify one assertion or the other, only to be lambasted by supporters who doubt the objectivity of the fact checker, or who, to invoke an infamous newspaper publisher's remark, won't let the facts get in the way of an idée fixe. Perhaps Nietzsche was right: "There are no facts, only interpretations."
That's not to say we don't reason. We do. But our reasoning skills are assembled in support of our moral reasoning, not the other way around. Reasoning did not help us evolve because it enabled us to choose the most rationalist path (Otherwise, we'd never shake hands; we'd bow) but because it allowed us to spin others into our way of thinking.
Last month, a Knights of Columbus-Marist Poll found 78 percent of respondents frustrated by the tone of the campaigns. "The American people," the Knights of Columbus press release stated, "want and deserve civility and a conversation on the issues rather than the personal vilification of political opponents."
Sure they do, as long as the other guy tries it first.
If you are one of that dwindling number of forbearing souls who have friends on both the right and left of the spectrum, as I do, you will find a concert of disturbingly parallel bromides.
"The reason the right thinks like they do is because they don't have all the facts," says my lefty hairdresser. "The problem with the left is that they ingest all that liberal media drivel — and believe it," says my right-wing gym pal. "Can you believe what they're doing to this country?" says my leftist D.C. pal. "They're killing this country," says my right-wing gym mate.
This sort of dialectic can give a moderate whiplash. But one assertion I share in common with my bipartisan circle of friends is that reasoning such ideologues out of their positions is a fool's errand. Rationality will make no inroads in this impasse. The best we can hope for is temperance, a cardinal virtue most partisans have forsaken.
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Aggiornamento and Resourcement in American Democracy?
I thought I'd open an thread on E.J. Dionne's fascinating cover story in the new Commonweal. The last paragraph particularly struck me:"If Pope Benedict, that staunch defender of orthodoxy, is able to acknowledge his own traditions debt to the positive aspects of modernity, it should not be so difficult for other believers to do so. Religion is, necessarily, both conservative and progressive. Religion is rooted in tradition and survives through development and change within tradition. It applies old truths to new circumstances. It also reexamines old truths in light of new circumstances. The conservative insists that the tradition not be distorted merely to accommodate passing fads and fashions. The progressive insists on purifying and clarifying the tradition by freeing it from the cultural encrustations of the past. The conservative keeps the tradition alive by honoring it. The progressive keeps the tradition alive by adapting it, and sometimes by challenging it. The history of American democracy shows that religious conservatives and progressives need each other more than they know. The election of 2008, coming after a long period of profound division in our politics and within our religious communities, will mark the moment when we finally come to understand that truth."
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A lot of people (myself included) who drank even a drop of the "radical orthodoxy" Kool-Aid over the last two decades need to read Dionne's invaluable essay. They've been marvelous on the resourcement end of the continuum, but there's far too much facile modernity- and liberalism-bashing among the RO crowd, and it's dangerous as well as boring. (What does the incisive critic of the Enlightenment do when he has a toothache? Light a votive candle?) As an antidote to the Kool-Aid, I highly recommend Chuck Mathewes' remarkable new book, A Theology of Public Life. Acknowledging his debts to RO, Mathewes stakes out a position that eschews both the old, tiresome "public theology" twaddle (we can translate theological commitment into secular categories) and the new, "ecclesially-based" twaddle (we can only talk about non-Christians, not to them). (In the interests of shameless self-promotion, I'm working on a review of the volume for Commonweal.)
Dionne's essay is indeed, as Eugene Mccarraher say, first-rate. See also the review of Dionne's book in yesterday's NY Times book Review. (I'll look forward to the review of "A Theology of Public Life).Let me underline Dionne's endorsement of Obama's remark "People are tired of seeing faith used as a tool of attack. They don't want faith used to belittle or divide." Whether Obama is factually correct about what "people want," that is certainly what they should want. Those of us who take our religion seriously and see its importance to sensible political life have a duty to reject any suggestion from any person that the very fact of being religious better equips one to be a better citizen than anyone else. It seems to me that, regrettably, some religious people do fall into this error.
Eugene,A Theology of Public Life sounds very interesting, and I look forward to your review. But I just checked Amazon, since it sounded like something I might buy, and the list price is $99, and even with the Amazon discount it's $79.20. I consider myself extravagant when it comes to buying books, but I don't remember ever paying $79 for a 380-page book. I work in the college textbook industry, and we are constantly criticized for book prices, but comparing this to an expensive history text or calculus text, page for page A Theology of Public Life is considerably more expensive. Who buys these books? (Sorry. I know you are only writing the review!)
David: You'll get no argument from me. (In fact, I intend to throw a line in the review about Cambridge University Press' indefensible pricing of this book. I would think they would have offered a paperback version, which wouldn't be unusual.) I didn't even ask Commonweal to supply me with a review copy -- I'm using a volume I obtained through an inter-library loan system.
If it is a book version of a thesis, the press run tends to be quite small and the price quite large. I don't know if that is the case with this book, but it most certainly does price things out of the hands (and wallets) of the average pew potato.
Interesting stuff, but he clearly doesn't get conservatives.In simplest and starkest terms he misses why it is that most conservatives, religious and otherwise, are wary of "progress" and modernity. Some of the very same progressive impulses and ideas that led to and end of slavery, improvement of workers conditions, women's suffrage and the like also gave us the Reign of Terror, the Gulag, and the Great Cultural Revolution.Moreover, he seems to draw seemingly definitive lines of historical descent that simply don't exists.
Cambridge University Press regularly demands exorbitant prices for its books; I pointed this out myself in a review of one of them.I don't like the uses to which "ressourcement" and "aggiornamento" distinctions are commonly put, but that probably is material for another thread.
Sean, surely your use of the phrase "the very same impulses" is hyperbole. If the impulses propelling modernity had been the "very same" ones that resulted in the Cultural Revolution then you would have spent a large portion of your youth being "re-educated" in North Dakota instead of (I'm guessing) debating with your professors. Or, by that kind of analogy, why aren't the very same forces propelling evangelical Christians seeking greater religious input into government the same ones that propelled the Thirty Years War?
One of the things that liberals tend to do (myself included) is not to be aware that criticism must be constructive and be discreetly rendered. When we easily condemn long standing customs we unnerve those who revere such customs and find them necessary. A good example is biblical criticisms. While there is good reason to believe that many stories in the New Testament (as well as the OT) are not factual we have to be careful that we don't slide into the complete denial of the faith as many have. And we have to reassure those who take these stories as fact that we are not abandoning the faith by such criticism. This has always been the force behind fundamentalism. People feel threatened by certain theories and begin to declare a war because they feel their very faith is endangered. This is a good area to start a necessary dialogue.
No Barbara, I do mean the very same impulses. The very idea that there is such a thing as "human progress" writ large is the most dangerous modern idea. By the way, I have never been to North Dakota, but I did argue with my professors. My favorite one being over whether Ronald Reagan, who just became president, might not be right about defeating the Soviet empire - which was, of course a "pipe dream."
One might counter that the very idea of infallible knowledge and possession of divine truth is the most dangerous idea, modern or otherwise, and one shared by the religious and irreligious alike. The former for centuries, the latter for decades . . .
"In simplest and starkest terms he misses why it is that most conservatives, religious and otherwise, are wary of progress and modernity. Some of the very same progressive impulses and ideas that led to and end of slavery, improvement of workers conditions, womens suffrage and the like also gave us the Reign of Terror, the Gulag, and the Great Cultural Revolution."Where does nation building a secular state in Iraq fit in with this do you think?
Sean: I want to follow up on your exchange with Barbara. You wrote,
Some of the very same progressive impulses and ideas that led to an end of slavery, improvement of workers conditions, womens suffrage and the like also gave us the Reign of Terror, the Gulag, and the Great Cultural Revolution.
I dont understand. First, please name at least a few of the very same progressive impulses and ideas which youre referring to. Second, please provide some examples e.g. show us how the very same impulse which led to womens suffrage also led to the Gulag.
Gene,The idea of "progress" implies you are getting to an end state - usually some ideal better world. For example, it is no coinincidence, I think, that many of the leading lights of the women's suffrage movement were also strong proponents of things like "hygenic eugenics," "free love," and the elimination of traditional marriage and family. When you seek to "fix" the world, you often need to "fix" how people perceive it and what they value, you need to destroy the institutions, and possibly the individuals that don't fit the model. The Soviets didn't create the Gulag because they just wanted to imrison and kill people - they were building a better world.This probably doesn't express what I mean very well - Read Chesterton's What's Wrong with the World.


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"The Management Committee decided not to award victories to any other rider or upgrade other placings in any of the affected events," the group said.
The cyclist should return prize money he won in races between 1998 and 2005 because of his doping, the group said. Armstrong has always denied doping allegations.
Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour titles and dropped by high-profile sponsors Nike and Oakley in the wake of a U.S. Anti-Doping Agency decision banning him from organized cycling for life.
In the past, Armstrong has argued that he took more than 500 drug tests and never failed. In its 202-page report, the USADA said it had tested Armstrong less than 60 times and the International Cycling Union conducted about 215 tests.
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Mr. Science, Mother Hen, Intrepid Traveler and a Singing Cockatiel
Here are glimpses of some of the victims of the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center. CONROD COTTOY A Respectful Son When Paula Hayes came to New York from Louisiana in the summer of 1975, she intended only to have a vacation. But she...
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Louisville native Stacey Robinson loves this city.
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Robinson's official role is to oversee event staff for the 70-plus events that will take place between now and Derby, although no job is off-limits. While Robinson has been helping to coordinate everything from Dawn at the Downs to details with the Barnstable Brown Party for the last 26 years, her favorite event is the Pegasus Parade. That's when she sits back and watches the hard work come together.
"The Kentucky Derby excites a lot of out-of-towners, but the Derby Festival is for the locals," she explained.
This year, said Robinson, will be "bigger and better." Among the highlights: the air show will be extended by an hour and the Great Steamboat Race will host the American Queen, the largest steamboat ever built.
Robinson's not-to-miss pick is the Kroger Fest-a-Ville on the Waterfront. This year's event will feature several performers, including headliner George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic. "The Waterfront is a great place to come be with family and friends any time of the year," Robinson said. "It's just an added perk when there's a concert (at Derby)."
At the top of Robinson's list of favorite Derby moments is actress Diane Lane's appearance as grand marshall in the 2010 Republic Bank Pegasus Parade. With the then-fanfare for "Secretariat," the Disney blockbuster, "everyone was excited about the Derby that year," recalled Robinson. "People seemed so proud to be from Louisville."
This year's list of celebrities expected to land in Louisville for Derby will remain secret until May 3, but Robinson promises the Kentucky Derby Festival will once again deliver. "Who (else) can take a two minute horse race and turn it into a two-week party?"
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#6. Ocean's Eleven
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In order to rob a casino, Danny Ocean and his many superfluous accomplices need to bring down its security system. They accomplish this by stealing and using a "pinch," which according to Don Cheadle is a device that "unleashes an electromagnetic pulse which shuts down any power source within its blast radius." It works, they get inside the vault, and everything goes according to their needlessly convoluted plan.
But Wait a Minute ...
The electromagnetic pulse didn't just knock out power in the casino; when they set it off, there's a quick shot of the entire city of Las Vegas going dark. The movie then cuts to the inside of the casino they're robbing, where we see people trying to steal chips at the black jack table, and other fun varieties of chaos they intended. So how did the rest of the city do?
Well, keep in mind that according to our merry band of thieves, the electromagnetic pulse doesn't just turn the lights off -- it shuts down every power source within it's blast radius. When the plan is devised, we're told the city will temporarily be plunged into the 17th Century, which is great if you're stealing money, and bad news if you're, say, on life support in a hospital.
Hospitals have back up systems that come on during a power outage, but so do casinos. The pinch is being used because it takes those out. Hell, if we're talking every power source, everyone with a pacemaker is dead on the spot. But at least they weren't one of the poor bastards in helicopters and passenger planes, now making an increasingly less-than gradual descent into Las Vegas.
According to Ocean's Eleven, the biggest danger is chorus lines veering off course, kicking thousands of audience members to death.
Ocean's Eleven isn't the only movie to gloss over the casualties of a power outage. Live Free or Die Hard features the entire East Coast losing power, but the consequences are magically eliminated when the bad guy gets shot. The remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still also tries to end on a happy note, despite the fact that the entire world gets hit with an electromagnetic pulse. But it's especially noticeable in Ocean's Eleven because the charming heroes are the ones responsible. It's hard to root for the thieves once you realize they won't let innocent lives stand between them and their loot. The sequel to Ocean's Eleven shouldn't have been about the casino owner getting revenge; it should have told the story of the FBI hunting down the people responsible for one of the worst terror attacks in American history.
Which would have been way better than what we actually got.
#5. Iron Man 2
What You See
A presentation at Tony Stark's expo by his arch-rival turns out to be a trap when the packed house is attacked by Mickey Rourke and his small army of killer robots. But Iron Man and his best friend manage to destroy the robots, kill the villain and save the show.
"Turns out stealing your armor was kind of a good thing. Tony?"
But Wait a Minute ...
The robot army split in two; half went after Iron Man, and half went on a murderous rampage in a crowd of panicking civilians. Not a lot of attention was focused on the latter. Stark passed on the more traditional superhero priority, "Stop the threat against innocent people despite great personal risk," and instead opted for the unorthodox "ignore the problem until it goes away" approach.
"You see, killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I let them slaughter wave after wave of civilians until they reached their limit and shut down."
Iron Man does nothing to combat the robots attacking the civilians -- aside from pausing to save one little kid and belatedly suggesting that the drones should be lured to a less crowded area -- before jetting off again: "Lure the drones away! Great idea, Tony! Let's get started on getting these people to safety! You fly around and find us a safe area to evacu- or you could just leave! That's good too!"
Even if we ignore Iron Man's questionable superheroics, a lot of people were implicitly slaughtered. We don't see the bodies, because most of the time the focus is on Iron Man fighting off his attackers, but every second spent watching him spout wry witticisms with his charming smile is a second in which innocent people are being gunned down offscreen. Then, for good measure, the drones all explode at the end of the battle, presumably just to ensure that the wounded don't crawl away to safety. Man, who would have thought that Stark's plan of letting his suspicious archrival make a secret presentation at his deadly robotics expo would backfire?
"We're very sorry for the difficulties with that last presentation, visitors. Next up, Professor Razorface's KillSpider Armada!"
#4. Star Trek
What You See
The Enterprise and her fleet respond to a distress call from the planet Vulcan. Upon arrival, they encounter the film's villain, Nero, who wipes out most of the fleet, destroys the planet and kidnaps the Enterprise's captain. Nero then proceeds to attack Earth, but Kirk and the rest manage to stop him in the nick of time.
But Wait a Minute ...
All right, so Spock and the rest pause to mourn the destruction of Vulcan and the death of billions. Only for like, 30 seconds, but it's an action movie and they still have a bad guy to stop. It's understandable.
But what about the fleet that was sent to help Vulcan? Every ship that wasn't named Enterprise just got blown to pieces, with no word of survivors. And since the fleet was made up primarily of cadets and teachers (the regular fleet was too far away to help), our heroes just lost every single one of their colleagues and friends, yet nobody bats an eye. You can't argue that they were just faceless nobodies, either, because we saw some of them earlier in the movie -- like Uhura's green-skinned roommate that Kirk was having kinky interspecies sex with.
"But I had sex with her before she died, so I don't see what the problem is."
Almost the entire population of Starfleet Academy was wiped out in about a minute. That's going to make Kirk and Co.'s return home after the movie awfully depressing, and it certainly puts a damper on the awards ceremony at the end.
"Gee, where is everyone today? Ooh, right ..."
To make matters worse, Nero didn't exactly go down without a fight. The Enterprise stopped him, but not before he started drilling a massive hole into the ground beneath San Francisco Bay. You don't have to be a geologist to understand that having a giant pit blasted into the Earth is bad for the people living in the area, especially if that area is prone to earthquakes.
Like this, except a lot bigger, a lot deeper, on fire and right next to the Golden Gate Bridge.
Between Starfleet losing all its cadets and the likelihood that its San Francisco academy got sucked down into a portal to hell, the upcoming Star Trek sequel should realistically be about Capt. Kirk manning a recruitment station at his old high school for a few hours between bouts of grief-stricken sobbing.


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Usually, you'll start feeling Braxton Hicks contractions sometime in the second trimester, getting more pronounced the farther along you go in pregnancy. They can feel like a tightening of the stomach, as your abdomen (or rather the uterus) gets hard for no reason. You'll know it when you feel it. If you touch the stomach with your hand while one of these contractions is occurring, it feels like a tight drumhead. There is no way to control the contraction. It will usually pass in a few seconds. In the meantime, just breathe your way through it. Or try changing your activity or drinking some water to alleviate the tightness.
Braxton Hicks contractions can be triggered by something as simple as the baby moving or someone merely touching your stomach. Although they are often called practice contractions, they don't actually play a part in dilating or effacing the cervix, like real contractions do.
Typically, Braxton Hicks contractions are not especially painful, but more uncomfortable than anything. These contractions may vary from a few seconds to half a minute, and you can't predict when they will occur. You may have a run of three or four contractions an hour, and then they will just stop for no reason. They might not come back for weeks, or they could come back an hour later. Go figure.
From the Doctor's Perspective...
Since people have different pain thresholds, some women do describe Braxton Hicks as being very painful. When I ask a first-time mother to rate the pain, she may say it's a "10." Because she hasn't experienced labor yet, that pain is indeed a 10 to her. Usually, when that same woman goes into labor, she'll say that it hurts worse than Braxton Hicks, ergo the pain is now off the charts. Be aware that other factors may contribute to the intensity of your perception of "painful" contractions, anxiety being one of those conditions. Try to rest and minimize the stress in your life.
Having said that, the caveat is to always consult your care provider if you're in extreme pain. The pain could be coming from another source, like the bladder, yet feel as if it's in the same location as the uterus. Or it could be coming from a pulled muscle or a gastrointestinal problem and needs to be investigated further. Don't live with unnecessary pain. Make sure that nothing else is wrong.
Real Contractions
In comparison to Braxton Hicks contractions, real contractions are regular in duration and regular in their interval spacing. As labor progresses, they get more intense and last longer. For example, they may start off lasting a few seconds and occurring 10 minutes apart, but every hour they get closer and closer together and last longer. On average, a real contraction lasts from 30 seconds to one minute each. Typically, you'll start off with four to six contractions in one hour. When you have four to six contractions for two hours in a row, it's time to call the doctor. Chances are good that you're in labor!
Real contractions can be anything from a dull ache and a tightening of the uterus (à la Braxton Hicks) to all-out, excruciating, gut-wrenching, eye-popping pain. Believe me when I say that you'll know it's the real thing when you experience them.
When contractions start, you should time them with a stopwatch to see how long they last. Then time them again to see how far apart they are. The doctors, nurses, and hospital personnel will all ask you these questions. "How far apart are they? How long do they last?" Get your partner to keep a chart of the contractions. This will often help the doctor determine over the phone if you need to get to a hospital, and if you're close to delivery. Nobody wants you to have that baby in the car, least of all your partner.
Be prepared for the contractions to change quickly, meaning that they can go from easy and manageable pain to over-the-top and unremitting, wrenching pain in what seems like an instant. When this happens, it means that the baby is progressing down the birth canal.
When Minutes Count
With my second pregnancy, I decided that I was an expert. After all, my first baby had been born one year earlier so I felt as if I knew everything there was to know. Babies took time to be delivered, didn't they? When the contractions started, I calmly informed my husband that I was going to "get clean" for the baby (and the doctor), so I stepped into the shower, figuring I had hours to go before delivery. Within minutes, I was doubled over in pain. My husband screamed at me to get out of the shower, which I did post haste. We barely made it to the hospital before I delivered a baby boy (thankfully in a room). My husband missed the delivery both he and the doctor were still in the process of walking in from the parking lot. Time from actual first contraction to delivery 47 minutes. Moral of the story: Make sure it's a quickie shower, that is.
Other Symptoms of Impending Birth
Besides the obvious contractions, you may feel increasing pain or pressure on the lower back, as well as the abdomen, as the baby moves down into the birth canal and into position. You might also think you need to have a bowel movement when you don't really have to go to the bathroom, or you could feel like pushing (don't go with that feeling quite yet).
Emotionally and mentally, you may feel distracted or distraught and unable to focus. You might be supersensitive emotionally and feel like crying a lot. You could also experience extreme fatigue, or the opposite, tons of energy. Swings of emotions can be attributed to many reasons. They could be caused by a lack of sleep, your diet not being as good as it is normally, stress, or even the fear of the unknown (for example, a first-time mother might be worried about the upcoming pain of labor and delivery).
You could act differently for any number of reasons or just from the daily problems of living. Most of the time, these feelings are quite normal. Usually, what helps is to have a good conversation with someone whom you trust and love who cares about you. Talk to that person and ask him/her to listen. A sympathetic ear goes a long way.
With questions specific to pain, you should talk to your physician or midwife so that your fears can be allayed. In modern obstetrics, the overwhelming majority of women will receive some form of anesthesia, so the pain of labor and delivery is much less intensified and not a cause for concern.
From a Mother Who Has Been There...
The worst time for me was always right before the baby came. I got tense, irritable, and asked my doctor nonstop when the baby was coming. I worried about everything from whether the house was clean to how I'd handle my in-laws to what to pack for the hospital. I worried about my body would I be "fat" forever, would I still be attractive and normal after the baby was born, would my breasts sag, would I have stretch marks, etc. What I didn't do was stop to take a breath and calm down. I'd strongly advise that. Just an FYI once the baby is born, all those pressures and tension are gone magically and instantly. It's a wonderful thing.
Fetal Kick Count
Important, important, important this can't be stressed enough! Always be aware of that baby inside of you and its movements. One way to keep track of the baby is through the fetal kick count. The fetal kick count is determined by counting how many times the baby kicks in two hours out of the whole day. Here's how it works. Pick a one-hour window, preferably when the baby is active and count how often the baby moves. Once you count 10 fetal kicks, look at your watch, and if it's been less than an hour, you're done for the day.
If you don't get 10 kicks in one hour, you can extend the time period to two hours. If you still don't get 10 kicks, it's probably a good idea to go into your doctor for an evaluation. The fetal kick count is simply a way for you to do a daily check of your baby's well-being in between doctor's visits. Studies have shown that when mothers don't get their kick counts tallied, it could make a difference in the outcome of the baby's welfare. As you get farther into the third trimester, you may feel as if the baby is taking longer to get its kick counts, but you should still be able to get them. At this point, the baby is moving and active, but not as much.
From the Doctor's Perspective...
Having said this, I always advise my patients that even if they get their kick counts, but perceive that something is wrong, they should come see me. I trust my patients' instincts and will have them come in for an evaluation anyway. Hey, it may look as if everything is going well with the pregnancy on paper, but if the mother feels something is wrong, it's worth respecting. A mother's intuition is usually right.
Get Thee to a Hospital
At any time close to your delivery date, if you think you're in labor, call your doctor or midwife. They will give you explicit instructions on what to do. If they tell you to go to the hospital, here is what will happen.
The hospital will be expecting you because the doctor will call ahead to alert them that you are en route. Go straight to the OB/GYN labor and delivery area where you will be evaluated. A labor and delivery nurse will check you first. She'll (or in some cases he'll) check your vital signs (blood pressure, temperature, pulse, and respiratory rate), and she will put external monitors on your abdomen. The monitors consist of a fetal heart monitor (a Doppler monitor), which measures the baby's heart rate, and a uterine contraction monitor (tocometer), which measures the duration and frequency of your contractions.
After about 15-20 minutes, the medical staff will be able to interpret the tracings from the monitor to determine if you are having real contractions, how many, and how closely spaced apart they are. If you're watching the monitor, you can see the needle trace your contraction pattern.
With the record that the fetal heart monitor provides, the caregivers can determine what the baby's condition is and his or her well-being. For example, if they see the baby's heart rate going down, they will want to figure out the cause immediately. All eyes are constantly watching that fetal monitor for signs of stress. If the baby is in distress, it may necessitate an immediate delivery or C-section.
Questions You'll Be Asked
At this point in your labor, the doctor will take over from the nurse and evaluate your condition. You'll be asked a number of questions, including the following: (I've included my thoughts on these questions in parentheses sometimes, you just want to kill the hospital staff when you're in labor.)
Occasionally, if you're just on the verge of going into labor, the doctor may advise you to stay in the hospital and walk for several hours, up and down the hallways, hoping that it will induce labor. Often, physical activity and gravity (and the baby's head bouncing up and down on the cervix) can push a woman over the edge into labor if she is on the verge. After a period of walking, the doctor will recheck your cervix and see if you've made any further progress. If you have, you'll be admitted into the hospital with a diagnosis of labor, and eventually a baby should make its appearance.
If your cervix hasn't changed, then the medical personnel feel more reassured that you won't deliver in the very near future (i.e., on the highway going home), so they'll send you home. Let's face it your doctor would feel pretty bad if she turned on the news and found out you'd delivered on the highway. Other factors that may cause a doctor to follow this "walking" procedure are if the patient lives far away (ergo, might not make it back in time) or if she's had several babies in the past (subsequent births tend to go quickly, leaving no time for the drive back and forth).
If you are sent home, the doctor will advise you to continue monitoring the progress of your labor. Here are a few precautions to watch out for:
From the Doctor's Perspective...
When I asked John how common false labor was? His response was a hearty laugh and this insightful message, "Pretty darn common!" (OK, he used a slightly more forceful expletive.)
From a Frustrated Mother's Perspective...
I walked for hours once in that scary hospital gown and those stupid pieces of cardboard they call slippers. Up and down the hallway, past the women who were having babies, up and down, talking to the relatives, up and down, with nothing ever happening. I felt like some kind of freak who didn't have enough sense to get the labor going. Needless to say, I was pissed when nothing happened, and I was sent home.
The Need to Clean
There's an old myth that if you clean your house or scrub the floors, you'll go into labor. If you feel like cleaning the house and getting it in order, by all means, go ahead and do so. While some people may say it doesn't work, my experience is that it is a great indicator of an impending birth. Hey, if you don't go into labor, you'll still have a clean house and feel better. No loss there! Mr. Clean would be proud.
What to Pack Just in Case
Packing a suitcase for the hospital is not as tricky as you might think. After all, if all goes well, your stay there will be limited to a day or two. You'll probably be wearing those god-awful gowns most of the time, at least during the labor and delivery, which doesn't leave a lot of room for any other clothes. For a detailed list from an experienced mom, watch this video from CloudMom for tips and ideas to make packing easier.
For the Mother
First, pack the amenities: personal soap (if you want it), shampoo, toothpaste, toothbrush, makeup, brush, comb, whatever the things from home that make you feel like yourself. Second, you'll need a gown of some sort, a robe, and slippers (or sandals if you'd prefer) since you will probably be spending one night there, and really, really don't want to wear their version of a nightgown anymore. If you're nursing, make sure that you pack a nursing bra and a gown that is easily opened or accessible to the baby. If you're not nursing, pack a bra that fit you while you were pregnant, making sure that it has lots of support. The milk will still come in, and your breasts will feel very, very heavy.
You'll need some kind of outfit to wear home. Believe it or not, you won't be wearing your favorite prepregnancy clothes when you leave the hospital. Most of that weight will still be with you for a while, so you might want to wear a loose fitting dress or even maternity pants and tops. That will probably rub you the wrong way, because no one wants to wear maternity clothes after delivery; however, ya gotta do what ya gotta do. You need to be clad in something to escape the hospital confines.
For the Baby
Packing for the baby is a lot more fun than packing for you. If you know the sex, you can obviously choose something that is a suitable color (if you put boys in pink, don't be offended when they're mistaken for girls). It's good to have some kind of gown or sleeper set for the baby. The hospital will supply you with diapers until you leave. An undershirt is a necessity, and they're so cute and tiny. Booties are fun. Forget shoes babies at that age don't do shoes. If the weather is bad, make sure you have the appropriate attire to wrap the baby in (what's that bundling thing called?). It's always good to bring some baby blankets to wrap them up like a baked potato.
Most importantly, take a car seat. You can't take the baby from the hospital without one. Oh, and don't forget your camera or video cam. By the way, if your husband or significant other is even marginally competent, he can bring anything you've forgotten to the hospital.
The Absolute Minimum
When your first baby's birth is imminent, every little change in your body becomes a "real" (at least in your mind) symptom of birth to an expectant mother. In truth, there are some pretty decisive ways to tell whether or not you're in labor. If you match any or all of the criteria listed in this chapter, then you should be having a baby fairly soon.
Reproduced from Absolute Beginner's Guide to Pregnancy, by John Adams and Marta Justak, by permission of Pearson Education. Copyright © 2005 by Que Publishing. Please visit Amazon to order your own copy.
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HBO finally gives a tease for "A game of Thrones", a pretty unique take on fantasy based on the novels of George R.R. Martin. The books would be an awesome fit for HBO, being so full of sex and political intrigue and what not as they are. It's like Rome on historical-fantasy acid.
what little is there looks pretty impressive
and here's some Sean Bean as Eddard "Ned" Stark.
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(Note: I asked this question a few days ago on math.stackexchange but didn't get any responses. I've therefore decided to post it here instead.)
I have a problem justifying throwing away the divergent term in order to obtain Hadamard's finite part. I find this step to be highly unusual, and it is not obvious to me how the resulting expression can be valid. I'd appreciate, if possible, intuitive arguments -- I assume there are some. Its not the mathematics that I have problems with at this stage. Its the intuition.
For example (taken from the Wikipedia page) the finite part of the following integral
$$\int_a^b \frac{f(t)}{(t-x)^2}\, dt = \lim_{\varepsilon \to 0} \left[ \int_a^{x-\varepsilon}\frac{f(t)}{(t-x)^2}\,dt + \int_{x+\varepsilon}^b\frac{f(t)}{(t-x)^2}\,dt -\frac{2f(x)}{\varepsilon} \right]$$
involves throwing away the term $\frac{2f(x)}{\varepsilon}$. I find it hard to justify this step especially when the term is neither finite nor negligible.


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quote: "While it's well-known in the security community that slow patching of vulnerabilities on mobile devices is a serious issue, we wanted to bring greater visibility to the problem,"
quote: How can that be? How does the more secure operating system end up being the target of the lion's share of attacks and malware? Symantec merely notes that most mobile attacks don't rely on operating system vulnerabilities, therefore there's no necessary correlation between attacks and exploitable security vulnerabilities.
quote: The problem for the company is that the company made a (bad) decision years ago to cede control over Android to its business partners: the carriers and handset makers that sell mobile phones. That was all in the interest of fostering growth....That has meant putting security in the hands of those same business partners, even though they don't bear any of the costs or reputation damage from hacked or compromised devices. You don't, after all, read headlines saying that "malware spreading on Verizon phones," or "malicious apps targets AT&T phones." You hear about attacks on Android. The carrier and handset maker, except in rare cases, don't warrant mention.Those partners have turned a blind eye to the kind of basic "policing" that needs to be done to keep the mobile ecosystem safe. While Google reliably pushes out operating system updates, handset makers and carriers drag their feet distributing those updates to vulnerable customers – worried, perhaps, about service disruptions or other support issues that might result. The latest data from Google highlights the challenge facing the company, with just over 16% of Android users running Versions 4.1 or 4.2 the latest versions of the OS, dubbed "Jelly Bean" more than six months after its release. In contrast, 44% of Android users are still running the "Gingerbread" release – Versions 2.3.3 through 2.3.7, a two year-old version of the operating system that has known security vulnerabilities. Add to that the proliferation of third party Android application stores, which operate with little or no oversight, and you have a mobile environment with lots of "broken windows."


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So, I get what THAC0 stands for (To Hit Armour Class 0) but it's not something I ever used when playing way back when - we just pored over the to hit tables all the time, manually worked out adjustments and so on.
So is there anything more to THAC0 than looking up what your roll to hit AC 0 in the DMG is? What modifiers would you apply?


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Gilbert Head coach: Patrick Cooke (10th season, 68-111) 2012 record: 15-7 Key players: Sr. 3B Nate Huber (captain); Sr. RF Connor Casey (captain); Jr. P-INF Nate Marshall (captain); Jr. OF Danny LaChance; Jr. INF Pepe Napoleon; Fr. P-1B Tim Smith; Fr. P-OF Cam Goulet; Fr. C Garrett Lombardo.


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The Monterey Peninsula Unified School District's top educator, Marilyn Shepherd, announced on Friday that she left her post.
Shepherd had been MPUSD's superintendent since February 2007.
Last year, Shepherd had announced that she intended to leave her position at the end of the school year. But on Friday Shepherd said she was stepping down immediately because of personal issues related to the health of family members.
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So space is mostly, but not entirely, empty. Every few (dunno the order) cubic metres of space there is some cosmic dust.
Assuming that
- Cosmic dust exerts some friction on passing bodies,
- The Voyager twins are merely coasting along and
- Not subject to capture by any known bodies in their path
How far out before the friction exerted by cosmic dust reduces the velocity of either spaceraft to 0m/s in whatever direction it is headed - dead-in-space so to speak? Will either one even reach the nearest star it is headed towards?


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