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STEUBENVILLE -- Spending more than an hour listening to a prior interview this morning did not help a defense witness in the Steubenville rape case remember incidents that allegedly occurred on a mid-August night.
Gianna Anile said the recording did not refresh her memory of the night in question when testimony resumed in front of visiting Judge Thomas Lipps at the Jefferson County Justice Center. As a result, that interview was not entered into evidence.
Her testimony came in the fourth day of the trial of Trent Mays, 17, of Bloomingdale and Ma'Lik Richmond, 16, of Steubenville, who have been charged with rape in connection with an incident involving a 16-year-old Weirton girl that allegedly occurred on the night of Aug. 11-12. Mays also faces a charge of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material for allegedly having a picture of the alleged victim in an outgoing message on his cell phone. Attorneys for both defendants have denied the charges.
Under a limited cross-examination by the prosecution, Anile, a student at Weirton Madonna High School, testified that she had been around the alleged victim previously when she had passed out from alcohol consumption. When asked by prosecutor Marianne Hemmeter what has happened to the alleged victim when she has passed out before, Anile said, "You can shake her, but she doesn't wake up."
A second witness for the defense, also a Madonna student, was allowed to take the stand. Kelsey Weaver, 17, said she has known the alleged victim for the last 13 years. When asked by defense attorney Walter Madison, who represents Richmond, if the alleged victim was Weaver's best friend, Weaver replied, "She was."
Weaver testified to transporting the alleged victim to a party in Steubenville. She said went to Cammy Belardine's house on Wilma Avenue and then drove Belardine's grandmother from the Wilma Avenue residence to the grandmother's home in Mingo Junction.
Weaver also testified to later being at the party in question and that she knew about Mays from the alleged victim. When at the party, Weaver testified to saying to the alleged victim, "There's your boy," referring to Mays. The alleged victim replied, "Yeah, I know," according to Weaver's testimony.
Weaver then asked, "Have you kissed, yet?" to which the alleged victim reportedly replied, "No, not yet."
Weaver testified to being the "water girl" that evening because she had a cup of water that night and consumed no alcohol.
Later in the evening, Weaver testified she left the party and went to a neighboring home, where she planned to spend the evening. The alleged victim remained behind, she testified, after repeatedly telling Weaver that she did not want to go.
Under examination by Madison, Weaver said at one point the alleged victim was, "All over him, kind of," referring to her interaction with Richmond.
Weaver also testified that she was reluctant to testify or answer questions about the incident, saying, "I didn't want to be involved."
Weaver indicated that she grew upset with the alleged victim because there were two versions from her about what happened that night.
Under cross-examination by Brian Duncan, who is one of two attorneys representing Mays, Weaver described the alleged victim as being very drunk because, "She announced it, was loud and laughing, rolling around on the floor and taking a bunch of pictures with people."
Weaver said she was not present at Mark Cole's house outside Winterville and was a not a witness to any of the incidents that allegedly occurred there.
The third witness for the defense, Kim Fromme, a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, was presented as an expert witness and started testimony concerning the affects of alcohol on the way information is processed in the brain.
Meanwhile, a candlelight vigil in support of the alleged victim has been scheduled for 8 p.m. today in front of the Jefferson County Courthouse.
The trial, which began Wednesday, is scheduled to continue into Sunday and could run into Monday, courtroom observers indicated.


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Safari on iPad now lets you open up to 24 tabs, up from 8 previously. The iPhone is still limited to 8, sadly ;(
Also, the + button for opening a blank tab becomes disabled once you reach the limit on both iPhone and iPad, although you can still lose tabs inadvertently by opening links in new tabs after reaching the limit.
You don't have to enter your password any longer when updating an app you've already bought and installed.
Now we have a better control over application that require personal data!
With the privacy field on "Settings", we can see which application have access to your contacts, your calendar, your photos, your bluetooth, and disable this access directly from "Settings -> Privacy".
(By my point of view this is very important!)
In iOS 5, Apple added a "Store" button to the upper-left of the Music app. It used to drive me nuts because I'd tap it as I was backing out of a long stack of views (for example, traversing back from now playing, to artist's album list, to the artist list).
In iOS 6, a slight delay has been added to that button. If you back up through the stack in 6, the first tap on the Store button no longer activates it.
Opening a new tab in iPad's Safari now focuses the URL Bar instead of the Search bar.
Reference Dictionaries for French, German, and Spanish (in addition to the one for Chinese mentioned in Apple's "new features" list).
These could be downloaded when I tapped the "define" option for a selected word in those languages.
The animation in an app does not stop when double-pressing the home button. For example, go to the messages app, scroll in a long conversation and double-tap the home button.
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Also, Apple added the ability to adjust the speed with which you have to double- or triple- click the home button.
When you are viewing a location's details in Maps the 'distance' ticks up/down as you get closer/further, I really love this.
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In May 2011, The Washington Post's Richard Cohen, a columnist I admire, wrote an opinion piece titled "The Myth of American Exceptionalism." In it, he opined that the "problem of the 21st century is the problem of culture," in particular the "culture of smugness," the emblem of which "is the term 'American exceptionalism.' It has been adopted by the right to mean that America, alone among the nations, is beloved of God."


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What's the cone spanner size for cone nut on Shimano WH-R550 Front wheel ? Is it 17mm or 18mm ? I tried with 16, it seems, need more, 1 or 2mm bigger.
17mm/15mm is usual for Shimano cones.
EDIT: I took a late look at some pictures of the wheel you mentioned (Shimano WH-R550). It looks quite different from the regular mtb shimano hubs, so please consider the following answer as applying to regular mountain-bike shimano hubs.
From my experience with shimano hubs, there are two parts:
Some shimano models have a double-size cone, to allow use of two wrenches of different sizes, so it helps folks who have only one size of cone wrench (Shimano is rarely so considerate).
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- permits to flexibly define further fields describing an issue and filter issues by these fields?
Standard issue trackers like Redmine or Bugzilla appear not to provide support for tagging issues with geo locations. Furthermore, while openstreetbugs (a tool for tracking issues with the geo data of the Openstreetmap project) is centered around the idea of marking issues on a map, it does not permit to freely define the structure of an issue.


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Breaking Bad #516: "Felina"
Yesterday, as the final episode of Breaking Bad approached, Samantha Bee (of The Daily Show) raised a good question:
Now that #BreakingBad is ending, are there any other shows I can make people feel bad about not watching?
— Samantha Bee (@iamsambee) September 29, 2013
I'm sure we'll think of something. If you are among those who never caught up, now you can feel free to do so on your own time. And to help you in your journey I'll keep all the spoilers in our discussion of the finale after the jump...
Following on our discussion of sin and redemption and "cosmic justice" earlier this week, I think it's safe to say that the series ends with Walt in Hell. That was the story Gilligan intended to tell all along -- the story of one person's journey to damnation, with good and not-so-good intentions along the way. It was thought-provoking and morally challenging. This season it has been punishing. But -- to my great surprise -- in the final episode it was actually fun again. Walt hit bottom -- rock bottom, as it were -- in "Granite State," and the outcome was not redemption or remorse or despair, but a full and active embrace of his criminal status. He was a step ahead of us right to the end, and the last episode brought us back what made the show so enjoyable from the beginning, watching Walt use his brain to solve his (self-generated) problems.
And so the final episode was, for me at least, very satisfying, but not necessarily in the ways I expected. Walt told the truth, at last, about his motivations, first to Skyler and then to Jesse. He did it all for himself, because he enjoyed it, because he was "good at it." He manipulated Jesse to serve his own ends, not because he wanted Jesse to be happy. But while Walt admitted his true, base motivations, he did not disown them. He never said he was sorry. He claimed his identity as a criminal and freed himself from any need to be seen as anything else. Maybe that's what truly set him off in Gretchen and Elliott's Charlie Rose interview: he wasn't irate at the way they'd downplayed his contribution to their billion-dollar company. He didn't go back to Albuquerque determined to set the record straight. He heard Gretchen say that the "sweet," nice man she'd once known was no more, and he decided she was right.
Using the Schwartzes as a way to get what remained of his money to his kids seems so obvious in retrospect that I feel foolish for never even considering it. Walt did get his revenge on them in a way, leaving them fearing for their lives (not knowing the "hit men" are just a scam) if they disobey his orders. But he also realized the only way to leave a legacy for his kids was to give up on getting credit for it. He even lied to Skyler, consenting for the second time to let her think that his hard-earned cash is really a gift from Gretchen and Elliott.
Lydia got the ricin after all (sorry Mr. President) -- because she dared to keep distributing Walt's signature blue meth, or because she threatened Skyler and the kids, or both? Walt's phone conversation with Lydia was the one thing in this episode that felt over the top to me. I didn't need him to explain that he had poisoned her; the subtle shot of the tea cup with the Stevia clouding up in it was effective enough. And seeing her ailing, and hearing him tell her that she was dying, was not satisfying for me in any way. It seemed like Walt twisting the knife for the sake of it, as he did with Jesse when he told him about the circumstances of Jane's death.
As for Jesse -- maybe the biggest surprise for me was that they found a way to give Jesse what feels like a real second chance. I presume he went straight to the cops (and directed them back to the compound where they found Walt), and obviously his future won't be a very sunny one. But I didn't expect him to have a future at all. Some tiny scrap of hope lives on with him.
Amends were made where possible: Marie will be able to bury Hank (and Skyler will be able to stay out of jail). The kids will have their nest egg. But Holly will still grow up without a father. Lydia's child now has no mother. And poor Brock has no parents at all. Those details keep this ending from feeling too tidy.
And Walt spent his final moments not struggling with guilt but remembering the good times he'd had as a crystal-meth kingpin. He had a chance to bid farewell to his sleeping daughter, but his last loving caress was for the lab equipment.
Emotionally this episode left me in a pretty good place: remembering how exciting it could be to watch a criminal mastermind at work, and able to say "Good riddance" to said criminal as the credits rolled.
What did you think?
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly is an editor at large and columnist at Commonweal.
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I will never press the button to open the trunk of the car without thinking of the finale.
I may have to give up TV dramas. How could anything top this?
Well, Breaking Bad mayyy be the best drama ever (personally, I still prefer 6 Feet Under and the Wire), but its finale doesn't mean that the best show ever has ended.
I'm talking about Archer, of course.
Six Feet what now? Seriously? But. But. Alan Ball.
OK -- here goes:
I don't think Walt ends up in Hell. Even though he admits he enjoyed his work, he admits explicitly that he has been a "monstrous father", and thus admits he has failed in his most important project. He leaves Vermont to set things as right as he can. He sees to it that his children will be provided for even as he gets no credit for it. And he helps destroys the meth business he participated in as far as he can -- he kills Lydia and slaughters Jack and his gang -- and himself. Finally, knowing that Jesse wants out of the business, he lets Jesse go.
His conscience is a defective one, but according to his new light he puts things in order as best he can. What more can be asked of such a creep?
I should have added that not only does he not kill Jesse, he gives Jesse the opportunity to kill him -- more opening out to justice as his deformed conscience sees it.
Not only does he not kill Jesse, he saves his life by covering him with his own body.
I'm inclined to put Walt in Dante's "Ante-Purgatorio" of the late repentant – if Scott Moringiello permits it.
Do yo think Walt blew up his meth empire in order to spare addicts his super-pure product? I don't. I think he did it because it was his. He made it.
Yes, Walt shields an unsuspecting Jesse from the hail of bullets. But he does more: He gives Jesse the option of killing him. He lets Jesse make a choice that separates him from his past. Not completely--it's not a balm. Andrea is still dead. Brock motherless. Gale buried. But Walt allowed Jesse to choose a new beginning.
"Yo" to you too. Hey, he's not even in Purgatorio yet – there's a long climb ahead!
Grant --
Yes, no doubt Walt blew it up because it was his and he didn't want anyone else to have it, but people often have more than one motive for doing what they/we/I do.
I wish I had seen the whole series so I'd know Walt better. I'm still scratching my head a bit about the motives which enticed a supposedly good man to choose to turn to criminal acts. Yes, he needed money. But that would not have been enough for most good men.
Was Walt something of a psychopath (lacking fellow-feeling for his victims) from the beginning? Or did he become so indifferent to them by degrees? How much did his desire to act creatively (building his empire) have to do with his change? How much did the opportunity to boss other people have to do with it? And sometimes I got the feeling that Skyler really hadn't been very supportive of his dreams whatever they originally were, so he decided to show her he too could be a "success". (I thought that on one level their last phone conversation had the ring of truth.)
I saw only a half-dozen episodes. Great, great TV. It's now on a par with "cinema" and, yes, "the theatuh". But poor Gilligan. How will he top Walt?
Great finale. As for his final state, ditto what Fr. Imbelli and Ann said. Not quite redemption but doing the best he could under the circumstances to make it right. In so many ways, he is actually courageous and resigned to do the best he can but he is under no illusions as to his life.
In one episode a while back he says to Jesse that if there is a hell they are pretty much going there.
But, in the end he saved him. Their relationship is so complex. I loved watching it unfold. It has such an amazing father/son feel to it. It is almost eery.
Emily Nussbaum posted this take today, expressing her disappointment (about which she is fairly apologetic). She tweeted that "the episode felt eerily like a compensatory fantasy from Walt's perspective," and her case is compelling.
I mean, wouldn't this finale have made far more sense had the episode ended on a shot of Walter White dead, frozen to death, behind the wheel of a car he couldn't start? Certainly, everything that came after that moment possessed an eerie, magical feeling—from the instant that key fell from the car's sun visor, inside a car that was snowed in.
I think I like that ending almost as much as what we actually saw. In fact, the final shot of Walter lying on the floor of the meth lab reminded me of Jack Nicholson's frozen, grinning face at the very end of The Shining. Maybe the writers let us eat our cake and have it too -- we saw Walter deserted and (nearly) despairing, brought low by his many sins, and then we saw him go out in a blaze of vengeful glory.
Nussbaum seems not to have connected the flashback we saw of Jesse making a box with the scene when Jesse reminisced about his talent for woodworking back in season 3. That made me go back and look it up -- I'd kind of forgotten about that moment from the finale until she mentioned it -- and the significance is powerful.
Jesse was in a 12-step meeting, answering this question: "If you had the chance to do anything you wanted, what would you do?" (I am relying not only on my memory but also on the transcript some fan posted to IMDB.) Jesse remembered a time in woodworking class when he did a lousy job on an assignment, and the teacher challenged him: "Is that the best you can do?" That motivated Jesse to really give it his all and make something he was proud of. That's the memory he goes to when he thinks about what he would do if he had a second chance. (He also admits that he ended up trading the box for "an ounce of weed.") The box reminded Nussbaum of a coffin, but to me it represents Jesse's potential. It gives some shape to the hope for him now that he has escaped: even in prison, he can probably do some woodworking! But more broadly, he can find some way to value himself again.
"Just get me home. Just get me home. I'll do the rest."
Maybe it's worth noting that the first line of dialogue in Felina was Walt's whispered...prayer?
Considering what "the rest" means, it's a questionable spiritual breakthrough. But it's also the first intimation of real theism since Gretchen proposed the existence of a soul.
Yo, Fr. I!!
Steven - I forgot about that line, but when it aired I had the same thought: "Was that a prayer?" Very very interesting. Perhaps it was his last bargain with the devil?
Embarrassingly the comparison never occurred to me until today, but didn't Goethe have Faust pursuing a maiden named Gretchen?
Still, I'm one of those who prefers to see a little more grace and mercy in Felina than Faust. Peter Gould, who wrote and directed Granite State, said in an interview that Walt left the bar no longer Heisenberg, no longer Mr. White, but something new. I think it must mean Walt recovered enough of himself to try to set things right even if he remained Heisenberg enough to have chosen evil means. Not to excuse poisoning Lydia, mass murder at the compound, etc. But to say something complex happened and, at least, Walt ended his life knowing what he had become, with too little time for real redemption.
I can't decide whether my vague feeling of letdown at the finale is simply a matter of being sad to see such a great show end or disappointment that things got tied up a bit too neatly. I was sorry that Jesse was the one to kill Todd, though I think that was inevitable. I also think that his triumphant cry as he drove out of Uncle Jack's compund seemed to ignore the profound damage he has suffered as a person, and kind of gave the impression that he was headed into the horizon to start over with a clean state. As if. I also feel like Walt got a little too much of what he wanted.
Still, sompared to how awfully some good shows ended (Battlestar Galactica anyone?), I think Gilligan and co. can definitely put this in the "win" column. Mollie's point about his final caress being not of his daughter but of his lab equipment is a great one. And as someone who is firmly committed to the privatio account of evil, I can hardly fault the writers for maintaining some shred of goodness in Walt.
The new website Previously.TV had a couple binge-watch the whole series over the last couple months. It's been interesting to see how watching it all in a row like that affected their take on the last few episodes -- in short, they were especially able to appreciate story continuity and the little details that pay off down the line, and they had less trouble keeping in mind that all of this was unfolding over the course of just two years. They also experienced the final episode as being in continuity with what came before it, whereas I was so swept up in the grimness of the episodes immediately preceding it that its tone took me by surprise.
Anyway, I wanted to bring this, from their response to the finale, over here, because I think it's fascinating -- Breaking Bad as Paradise Lost:
As complicated as it all was on paper, the entire series is a simple caution against the temptations of the devil as he has been known for thousands of years. I mean, several times in the final season, Walt is actually referred to as the devil -- including once in a tossed-off way by Marie (Betsy Brandt), heard partially through a door as Hank (Dean Norris) emerges from the house after finding the Walt Whitman book. And the series is nothing if not a tale of the fall from heaven of one Walter White. Walter falls, Walter begins reaping the souls from all around him, and in the end, Walter returns briefly to the world of God (the Schwartzes house -- c'mon! You have to admit it looked like heaven. And everything in it seemed to operate by magic!) to ask that the world that he cast himself out of at least take pity on his son.
Emily Nussbaum complained that the Schwartzes were portrayed, in this final episode, as "cartoon assholes—monstrous foodies!" as if to justify Walt's actions. But it didn't read that way to me at all. The Charlie Rose interview made them seem like not-cartoonish rich assholes. But watching them return home in "Felina" and make small talk -- albeit rich-person small talk -- as they settled in made them sympathetic, in my view. They represented the life Walt might have had, happy domesticity plus a ton of money plus renown and respectability, if he hadn't...gone another way. And I don't agree, either, that the "Gray Matter backstory, which once seemed ambiguous...shrivels into Walt's version of the story" in that scene. The worse Walt has become (and has he ever seemed as thoroughly evil as he did slipping quietly, casually, into their home and lurking in the shadows, waiting for his chance to terrorize them?), the easier it has been for me to believe he was mostly or entirely at fault for his falling-out with his old business partners.
On another note: watching Talking Bad, listening to the beind-the-scenes podcast, and reading interviews with Gilligan, I have gotten the impression that he felt it was very important that Walt manage to leave a lot of money to his family, which is what he set out to do in the first place. He seemed to feel that, one way or another, that was how the show needed to end, and the biggest puzzle he and the writers had to solve as they approached the ending was how he would manage to do that. It's funny, because I don't think that was important to me at all. I wouldn't have felt like the show let me down if Walt fell short of that goal; I think that is actually what I was expecting. You?


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Steubenville needs God's blessing
March 24, 2013
To the editor: Steubenville is in the middle of a crisis, and the people responsible are doing absolutely nothing. It is time to clean up the town....
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In a letter that Carlton posted in Seattle he said that he is an atheist. His comments were"My rejection of "God" and religions' Three Stooges (Moses, Jesus and Mohammad) did not come lightly.
And he wants God to bless Steubenville?
Did you "evolve" into an atheist and now "revolved" back to Christianity?
No credibility now.
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Mike, sounds like you are one of those awful immoral children involved in this business. Perhaps you are one of the negligent parents. Whoever you are, you need a good slap down.
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Better yet, go back to Seattle. Houston already has enough nuts here. From other forums, this writer has varying opinions from the girl was at fault to fire the entire town. Guess he woke up in another world this day as well.
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I hope God doesn't use the same blessing that he uses for priests, ministers and televangelists that is where the real perverts reside.
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Worst sheriff in the country? I'm guessing you've been in Houston for a long time. The things that have been said about Sheriff Abdalla lately are disgusting and about as far from the truth as you can get. Do you even know the man? I'm guessing no, becuase if you did then you would know what a good man he is. He has worked tirelessly and selflessly to solve murders, sexual abuse cases, and child abuse cases. He has done more for the people of Jefferson County, especially the children, than most people realize. And I'm willing to bet my life on the fact, that he does more good in one year for the community and people in it than most people do in a lifetime. I'm also willing to bet that the majority of people who are saying awful things about him, have at least one family member or friend who has been on the recieving end of Sheriff Abdalla's kindness.
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Mike831 is just showing how stupid he is. You can't defend what happened with trying to point out problems in other places. Steubenville is the problem and the soon to be grand jury needs to clean out all the vermin involved in the rape and coverup. Thank you Mike DeWine - AG for going after all those involved in this horrible crime.
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R. Carlton, Good words. Why have not the school authorities already taken action? Yes. A year of introspection instead of almighty football as usual is a good idea. Yes. Many heads should roll. Will the people of Steubenville awake from their moral slumber?
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Mike, Hateful person for speaking truth?? I don't think so. Shame on you.
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R.Carlton: WELL SAID AND TRUE TO THE POINT. People like Mike831 reflect the deparavity of many of the folks from "Bizzarroville." The school superintendent, McVey, is an old former jock who has nothing between his ears or legs.....he is simply controlled by the coaching staff. The whole program should be shut down for one full year for a season of contrition and introspection.......AND I concur, a clean slate firing is appropriate...THIS would be a great message to the national audience who views Steubenville as a town of adults who turned a blind eye and deaf ear to rape. Unfortunately, the worst is yet to come with the Grand Jury.
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Please stay in Houston, you're the disgrace, not the coach, not the police, not the sheriff, stay in Houston where there is no crime, you're a very hateful person, look in the mirror before you judge others.
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In Adobe Illustrator CS4, when I do
Save for Web & Devices I get to choose explicitly that I want png-24. But when I
export I do not get asked it, is this because it is the default? I need it to make android phone icon buttons. They ask for png-24. I use the export because it will save each artboard automatically and in the
Save for... option I have to go through each artboard manually which is time consuming.
In Adobe Illustrator CS4, when I do
Yes, Export saves as PNG24 with 8bit alpha. So it's actually a 32-bit RGBA PNG, with 8bits for red, green, blue and transparency.
I use the export because it will save each artboard automatically and in the Save for... option I have to go through each artboard manually which is time consuming.
Maybe using one artboard with slices would be a better option? That way everything can be exported all at once.
An Illustrator document with multiple slices selected and PNG output:
File size
Using Export usually produces bigger files than Save for Web. I just tested here and the example document I used ended up with
If you're exporting for use in an app or on the web, you really want to use Save for Web.
I'd be a little careful when using Illustrator for icon or user interface design. There's some significant drawbacks in its rendering quality. Illustrator doesn't dither gradients, has antialiasing issues including stray pixels and a few other problems.
Im pretty sure when you
You can also write your own script for illustrator to do exactly what you want and save the image in the format you need. It will take some effort though (you can ask on stack overflow for help)
Here is a script that will do it for you, just add it to your
Did you try saving the images you
If using export, you do get asked. There's a "formats" menu at the bottom of the dialog box just above the line of buttons saying "save/cancel".
You can select other useful file formats such as DXF from this menu.
Yes, it's exported as PNG-24. The alpha channel would be visibly horrible – no antialiasing – if it was PNG-8.


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Fats, oil and grease should be poured into a lidded container such as a coffee can and when the container is full it should be thrown in the trash.
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I guess your going to have to hire some more testers pretty soon, so please let me know my start date.
I like the thought of working in a potentially dangerous environment, oh what is it you do again ?
Best thread i have read in ages guys....lol, No dont kill any more of your testers miles, Its only 34 days and counting till its meant to be on sale.......
******* Matthew.
At least it's done in a name title that mocks young, immature scoundrels asking about the demo IMO.
I need a beer.
Matt already have the demo !!!
PM him for one. ;p
Nope, I don't have the demo yet - I don't actually think it exists at the moment, they guys are still working on the game. The demo gets made when they're happy with that.
Miles - sorry. I got bored when I shut my 343rd "hey d00dz i can haz d3m0 plsz when is it coming zomg???" thread. So I nicked and twisted your idea and started this one...
I think I'm getting quite good at the textspeak though.
Yes, I did.
Matt is correct - no one has a demo yet, as the demo will only be created once the game is in manufacture.
any ideas on the file size approx for the smaller version?
No, not til it's constructed I guess.
Chuck Norris already tested FM10 demo.
This alarm will sound every 3 seconds, unless something isn't okay!
Rumour has it that the 1000th person to reply to this thread gets the DEMO before it goes gold.
May I ask, is there the risk to have some problem like last year (problems with non-P.S.2 video cards and similar) and have to eventually download external SDK or similar, patch at day 1 and so on...or did you learn the lesson? ^_^
What a stupid OP, how hilarious. ha.
close this topic, or change the title to "spam topic"
Pfft. I don't believe in this so called 'God' or 'QA testers'
I wonder if a tester dies every time someone asks if a new EHM is in the works....
Do SI invite testers in Australia?
If so, i might need to start asking some questions about the demo in order to get in...
This new game best be worth it!
I had to throw my Sony Vaio that has been my trusted companion for many years through my time playing the old championship manager all the way thru to football manager 2008 against the wall, because apparently it was too crap to play 2009. So i had to go out and buy a brand new laptop just so i could play last seasons version! So whilst i would prefer that you guys could refund me the £600 i paid for the laptop, i would appreciate if u could just make sure before you start manufacturing the game that it is the worlds best ever version of football manager there will ever be! Have i got any chance of getting that £600 back, or maybe i could blag a free copy of the game (and dont suggest i download the demo if i want a free version of the game )
Back on track tho, this is the worst part about football manager! Its now the end of september, i am finally fed up of football manager 2009, because my gf doesnt let me play it when im spending time with her (she thinks i should be concentrating on her not playing the game, even though spending time with her, means cuddling up whilst watching eastenders and other crappy stuff. she made me watch 'ghost' the other night.... the things i have to do for the sake of ....... ill let u fill that in with ur own dirty minds). Ive won all i can win on fm2009 cos i only ever seem to manage in the english leagues, and ive won the world cup numerous times, ive earnt a filthy rich amount of money from my career as the manager of man utd. I enjoyed starting a new game, and ruining cristiano ronaldo's career, by using a real time editor, and swapping him with a player from luton, and ensured that he earned a pityful wage, and whenever a top team bid for ronaldo, i added a new manager as manager for that team so that bid would get cancelled. So i enjoyed seeing ronaldo turn 32 and still playing league 2 football
ok, im getting no where with my point now.... i love football manager and when the new game comes out, ill wake up, play football manager, goto work, finish at 1am, and get home an play football manager till 9 in the morning before i goto bed, and repeat the whole process until the weekend when i have my daughter and ill just play football manager all day long because she is only 3 but she loves watching me play the game, i even stupidly ask her if i should sign this player or not (not a good idea if u dont wanna sign a **** player). So i love the game, but i hate waiting till october for it! Its hell! its too long to wait. Football manager gets me thru the summer without any football on the tv, and now im bored of it. and now i have to wait until the end of october for the full game! argh!
The active participation of SI on the forum, before, during and after the game production is always a classy touch, despiting some critics I have moved regarding some aspects of the game , I find myself really an happy customer dealing with SI gorgeous products.
Haha, you just made my day. Thanks!
Is kevin davies gonna be any good on fm10???!! like he really is
Slightly better than Messi.
That would be Fred Messi who turns out for the Dog and Duck?
I think he just means, he'll be able to play a little but still will be pretty messy when it comes down to the elbows, shirt tugging and general footballing ability...It's just that Matt can't spell.
will campbell be at notts county in the demo?
i ment will he have a slight attribute change!! and im guessing no for campbell
The lack of blogs is giving me the urge to emmm.... knock out... one of the testers
Monday FM10 Demo announcement?!
Is the game actually going to be tested this time properly, or will it be another heavily flawed release, unplayable until the first update. Given the previous poor record of Football manager games being worthwhile to play without an update, I'd suggest the testers employed by SI in the past should be die for simply not doing their job.
And let me guess for Football manager 2010, in order to buy other players (even average ones) it will cost 150% over their value but selling your own will be near on impossible unless at value or they being superstars.
it's true, when i beta tested 08 and FML we never really tested, we just had random party's and picked on users who couldn't see the forums
ok we actually just picked on Ter
Wow, that must make you feel so big and cool. <3
eagerly waiting for this fuker.
so... whens the demo out then?
friday 16th october 0:00 hrs
Came to the forums specifically to see if there was a release date on the demo yet, took 2 minutes to find this thread & all the information I wanted, cheers for the update
Anticipating the demo so that i can show Leonardo how to manage AC Milan. I myself will be going on loan to Milan soon.
I think we should have a guessing competition for when the demo is coming out.
My guess is Wednesday 14th October 2009!
Since I can't get an answer anywhere.. (and refuse to give up!) will FM2010 be playable on Mac OSX Tiger (10.4.7 or something..)? Since the problems caused with last version, where it worked, but after a patch
is it out yet?
I just had a look on a torrent site and it was there.... fake?
More than likely. Has the game even reached 'gold' yet?is it out yet?
I just had a look on a torrent site and it was there.... fake?
Last edited by Latimerinho; 05-10-2009 at 11:15.
Going gold is when the game is finished and has gone off to be manufactured. And no, that hasn't happened yet.
So Ter is demo going to be gold?
What a fantastic read.. Haha
Miles explained where the game is at in todays blog. Have a look on there to see when the game could go gold.
Like i said, today the demo announcements. 2 weeks before the game will the demo be released
when is the demo being released?
Fast forward 10 days and yes, yes we are.
I know this is very doubtful, but given the high level of excitement regarding the new data editor will a demo data editor be included with the demo or will all us die hard editors have to wait until the 3oth to release our creative juices?
The new editor will only be released with the game
No, it won't. Someone has already confirmed this. It's because we can't start new games on the demo, so it would be pointless. Also, it would make the file size huge.
Damn. Cheers.
No worries. Just imagine how much you'll be looking forward to using it after you play the demo and get a nibble of it!
To be honest I would rather have the editor than the demo. I could then have everything I want to do ready for the game being released.
Quality thread
Is Skorp dead yet?
i got a feeling its going to be this sunday released with the News of the World......Hopefully!!
i got a feeling jackripper is going to be wrong
But we can dream...
If the blog is on the Mirror website, they wouldn't be giving the demo out with the News Of The World, as they're from different companies. More likely (if they release it at all this way) that it would be with the Sunday Mirror.


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Bad: Deep Blue Sea I will never forget the crowd's reaction in the theater during the famous Samuel Jackson scene. They absolutely lost it & were screaming their lungs out for a minute after it happened. There were some quality shark kills (I admit I love the kitchen stove one) & for once LL Cool J & Michael Rapaport weren't fingernails on the chalkboard unwatchable. I just don't buy Thomas Jane as a badass or the main lead.
Ugly: A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master The sequel that completely turned Freddy from a scary, creepy-as-hell boogeyman into a lame one-liner spewing, third-rate comedian. "You wanna suck face!" "Why don't you reach out and cut someone?" Good Lord!
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Unanswered: Override Proxy's url, how to get original url value?
I'm using Designer.
I need to toggle easily between "http://localhost:8888" and "http://prod.myproduct.com" for all proxies urls.
So I set all proxies url to relatives values eg. "/api/products" and override the proxies urls to prefix
the url with "http://localhost:8888" or "http://prod.myproduct.com"
So in Designer, I click "Create Override" and enter this code:
Ext.define('MyApp.store.override.ProductStore', { requires: 'MyApp.store.ProductStore' }, function() { Ext.override(MyApp.store.ProductStore, { config: { proxy: { // would give "http://prod.myproduct.com/api/products".... url: MyApp.app.application.getGlobalUrlPrefix() + <ORIGINAL_PROXY_URL_VALUE> } } }); });
How can I get that?
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Catholic Schools--The Next Casualty of the Culture Wars?
Professor Robert P. George has responded to this post of mine over at Mirror of Justice.
A couple of points:
1. Professor George made an authoritative pronouncement about how a hypothetical Muslim school should decide an internal personnel matter. But making those sorts of pronouncements really does require the extensive knowledge and training of a mullah—a common term for a Muslim scholar who is an expert in Islamic law and theology, just as making an authoritative pronouncement about an internal personnel matter in a Jewish day school really requires the extensive knowledge and training of a rabbi. My point was that a Catholic really can't be a mullah—or a rabbi—and shouldn't act as though he or she is. One has to wonder why George would automatically conclude that the term "mullah" is itself an insult.
2. Is there a difference between questioning Professor George and attacking him? But let's push through the fulminations and focus on the answer to my question. He writes:
If [the teacher] were repentant, then I, as her fellow sinner, would support keeping her on. I'd even host the baby shower. The example being set for the school children in that case would be one of repentance and forgiveness—loving the sinner, even while rejecting the sin. Of course, if her intention is to flout the Church's teachings, then it's a different story. That's what is going on when a teacher, say, moves in with his or her boyfriend or girlfriend or enters into a civil marriage with a person of his or her own sex—or goes into the strip club business.
So...the baby shower sounds good. (Don't forget the gift.) But let's think about this analysis. How would we know she's repentant? Would she have to publicly repent? (If so, we're getting a little too close to the Scarlet Letter here for my taste.) How would you communicate to the kids that she had sinned? Wouldn't that disclose too much information, at least at the elementary-school level?
George writes: "If her intention is to flout..." But "flouting" generally connotes some form of open and public contempt. Can one disagree with a particular communal norm, not follow it in one's own life, and yet still not be guilty of "flouting" that norm? Looking at the polling data on these matters, we may have a situation where a) the unmarried woman doesn't think the norm about premarital sex holds in her particular case and relationship, but b) has no intention of publicizing her view in any way at work. But she gets pregnant. She's not flouting the norm—but her body is definitely revealing a violation of it. You might say the baby is flouting the norms!
When it comes to Catholic moral teaching, I just don't see "moves in with his or her boyfriend or girlfriend or enters into a civil marriage with a person of his or her own sex" as comparable with "goes into the strip-club business."
In the end, I think there are four points to be considered in this controversy.
1. There have always been, and there are should always be, different kinds of Catholic schools. A school run by Opus Dei isn't going to be the same as a school run by the Jesuits. That type of diversity is all to the good. The key here is to communicate expectations to all stakeholders (teachers, parents, and, if age appropriate, kids). That takes care of some of the controversy, but not all. If Santa Rosa gets great teachers willing to dedicate themselves to their students and live the way the bishop wants them to live for $25,000 a year, then good for them. If not, they can teach at the public school, and make twice as much money. Unhappy parents won't send their kids to either school.
2. As we all know, official Catholic teaching on some matters isn't in sync with the behavior of vast numbers of Catholics. That in itself isn't a problem—after all, we're all sinners. But on some issues, for some people, Catholic teaching does not comport with what they judge to be a true moral analysis in every case. Even that isn't necessarily a problem—I think that for many years now, people who didn't think that all premarital sex was wrong thought that this teaching might be a good corrective for adolencents saturated in the culture's "If if feels good, do it" approach. But what is going on now with same-sex marriage and some other issues now seems to raise matters to a third level. The students in Seattle think the church's teaching is not only wrong, but also unjust—it's harmful. And that is where the heart of the contemporary clash is.
Some conservative Catholics think this is simply unjustifiable dissent. Some progressive Catholics think they are on the front edge of a curve of doctrinal development—they think advocating for change on some issues of sexual morality is like advocating for religious liberty in the decades before the Second Vatican Council. Much of the hierarchy, it seems, fall into the first category, while much of the laity fall into the second.
3. How do most progressive Catholics who want to send their kids to Catholic school deal with the fact that they don't agree with every detail of church teaching but think the fundamental worldview of Catholicism is true and important? How does the hierarchy deal with the fact that many of the people who send their kids to Catholic schools are not in 100 percent agreement on moral matters? How does the church deal with the fact that, especially in the inner cities, many of the kids aren't even Catholic? They may be religious—but all other religious traditions don't all have the same views on sexual matters. Given the connection between marriage and income status, many of their parents may not be married. Archbishop Charles Chaput has one answer—don't let kids whose family structures don't conform to the catechism in the school in the first place. I'm not sure Pope Francis would agree.
It seems to me there was a tacit agreement in place in the past. Schools wouldn't inquire into the home lives of their students, their students' parents, and their teachers. And, in turn, the students, parents and teachers wouldn't push their disagreement or uncoformity in the face of administrators or clergy.
But this tacit agreement is breaking down, on both sides. Where will this leave Catholic schools? Will they be the next casualty of the culture wars?
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Archbishop Charles Chaput has one answer—don't let kids whose family structures don't conform to the catechism in the school in the first place.
He draws a distinction which isn't clear: single parents and divorced parents are OK, but not same-sex parents:
It's also true that some of our schools exist as a service outreach in largely non-Catholic communities. Many of our schools also accept students of other faiths and no faith, and from single parent and divorced parent families. These students are always welcome so long as their parents support the Catholic mission of the school and do not offer a serious counter-witness to that mission in their actions.
Unless he meant to limit that to single [widowed] parents and divorced [but not remarried without an annulment] parents, it's not clear why the children of same-sex parents should be singled out to be excluded from Denver Catholic schools.
He links to a letter from the pastor of the school that excluded the children, who says:
There are so many schools in Boulder that see the meaning of sexuality in an entirely different way than the Catholic Church does. Why not send their child there?
The children should be deprived of learning about the Catholic faith because of what their parents have done? Doesn't sound like Pope Francis.
It's too close to the Scarlet Letter for me, too. Female fornication is unique is that it's the only sin that exposes itself on a regular basis (other than criminal behavior, of course). Sins not involving chastity, and unchastity by males, almost always remain secret. If we demand ceremonies of public repentance from the pregnant teacher, and all the children are told "Ms. Jones did something VERY VERY BAD" but she is VERY VERY SORRY", the children will learn a serious distortion of Catholic moral teaching: they will learn that unchastity by a female is the worst thing ever, and that all other sins including unchastity by males, is mild by comparison. I've certainly known many Catholics (and others) who thought that way.
With middle school students, if the teacher was willing, I'd be more inclined to have the teacher talk to every class along the lines of "I chose life, and here's why". Who knows, it might save another life some day.
It seems to me that children can be taught Catholic norms of chastity in the abstract, without tying it to any particular person, or at least not to a person that they know. By the time that they are old enough to put two-and-two together, they are also old enough to know that everyone does things they aren't supposed to do.
I would like to see Catholic schools make a distinction between private behavior and advocacy. In the Santa Rosa schools, it strikes me as acceptable that Bp. Vasa demand a committment to regular churchgoing- a public act- but not acceptable that he demand that Jewish or Lutheran faculty agree to follow Catholic teaching on contraception. (Although I certainly hope that his definition of "churchgoing" includes attendance at a synagogue or mosque if there are Jewish or Muslim teachers.) Dr. George's post blurs this distinction- if the wicked Mr. Khalil brings the coffee cups that say "Go-Go Girls Lounge" into the Islamic school, he is committing unacceptable advocacy.
There seems to be a growing sense on the religious right that those who have economic power- employers and landlords- should police the private lives of their employees and/or tenants. I think the dangers of this far outweigh any possible benefit. The temptations to unhealthy domination, boundary violation, sexism, and hypocrisy abound. It can even become a cover for sexual harassment- under "Don't Ask Don't Tell" there were numerous complaints from women in the military that they were under pressure to "prove" that they were not lesbians by having sex with men. The actions of Catholic schools, and bishops, seem to be pushing this idea, and I wish that they wouldn't.
As I read George, he took offense when his "old friend" (his term) called him Rambo and more offense when she implied he was a mullah (which is an implication I didn't get from the first piece) and most offense when she called him Robbie. A little earlier in the month I would have suggested this argument could be settled by a Valentine to Prof. George. Alas, it is too late for that.
Instead of pregnant women as examples, I would like to see some of these principles applied to males who drive cars costing more than, say, $60,000, who take their families to the south of France for two months every summer, and who toss $5 into the collection basket while they are in the country. Now, I realize they may have won the car in a raffle, that the pied-a-terre in France may have been in the family for years, and that they may leave the parish a million dollars when they die. But, as for now, they appear to be at least as out of sync with the Church's teaching as the pregnant woman.
Add that the hypothetical males speak out vociferously in the community aganst "illegals" and pay employees less than the minimum wage. And I still don't think there anything likely to arouse the concern of principals, pastors or parents that children are seeing a bad example. It's all sex, all the time. But if this sort of thing doesn't rise to the level of "concern," a pregnancy shouldn't either.
Is there any talk anywhere in those texts about the primacy of conscience, or is that obsolete? It's still in the catechism.
1782 Man has the right to act in conscience and in freedom so as personally to make moral decisions. "He must not be forced to act contrary to his conscience. Nor must he be prevented from acting according to his conscience, especially in religious matters."53 (2106)
1790 A human being must always obey the certain judgment of his conscience. If he were deliberately to act against it, he would condemn himself. Yet it can happen that moral conscience remains in ignorance and makes erroneous judgments about acts to be performed or already committed.
When it comes to Catholic moral teaching, I just don't see "moves in with his or her boyfriend or girlfriend or enters into a civil marriage with a person of his or her own sex" as comparable with "goes into the strip-club business."
It's not a perfect parallel, as the strip-club business exploits and objectifies (not that all instances of moving in with a boyfriend are free of exploitation). Presumably the points of similarity are that all these examples - cohabiting with a boyfriend, marrying a partner of the same sex, investing in a strip club - are intentional acts that set up a stable, permanent, publicly visible social arrangement (a household, a business enterprise) whose end is sinful behavior. Persisting in these social structures has the effect of publicly proclaiming to the faith community, "I don't believe what you believe. I don't value what you value".
The Montana pregnancy case seems quite different to me.
Claire: it can be admirable when those church employees with conscientious objections to Catholic teaching voluntarily resign and seek employment elsewhere. It's not clear to me to what extent the church must accommodate those who have conscientous objections, particularly when those objections are public and persistent. A Catholic school, it seems to me, has a right to pursue its mission and not have to expend a great deal of energy and resources to counteract employees who publicly oppose its mission.
Jim: but when employment in Catholic schools is conditional on respecting the most important parts of Catholic teaching, shouldn't they say that following one's conscience is more important than, you know, following official rules on contraception and all that stuff? I see your point, but isn't what's important that employees believe those rules on contraception etc., and then it follows that by obeying their conscience they will automatically respect those rules? The intermediate step of forming their conscience cannot be short-circuited, it seems to me, so insisting that they obey those rules without talking bout conscience misplaces the emphasis. The insistance should be that they believe those rules in conscience, and, if they do not, that they take some course to get better formed.
I really like this: somehow her body is flouting the norms but she isn't. Cute!
Cathleen and Robert George are asking the important Larger Issues here, and I appreciate the exchange. I was struck by this question though:
How do most progressive Catholics who want to send their kids to Catholic school deal with the fact that they don't agree with every detail of church teaching but think the fundamental worldview of Catholicism is true and important?
I interviewed the principal of my son's Catholic school before I sent him there as well as the kindergarten teacher. I had very specific questions that I won't bore anyone here with, but I presume that most parents, progressive or conservative, who care about religious instruction and quality of education in general, are going to ask some probing questions before they dole out a couple thousand dollars a year for a Catholic education.
If Catholic schools end up get caught up in the cutlure wars, as far as I can tell most of the criticisms directed at these schools seem to come from Catholics on the left.
I pay very close attenion to my children's religious education and yes, there are aspects of Church teaching I disagree with; we don't bump into it with my younger daughter, but some of it comes into play a little with my older one. I tell her honestly that I disagree on a particular issue, but also let her know that her teachers will be teaching what the Church teaches. And I talk to her about what I think she could question in the classroom and what she shouldn't because it might put her teachers in a difficult position. And I tell her that, if she makes her mother happy and goes to a nice Jesuit college someday, she can have at it then with her professors about all of her questions.
If you talk to them, most single mothers value marriage. For myriad reasons, probably falling into a few major themes, they can't succeed at getting or staying married, often for reasons they don't control. So when I learn that someone is about to become a single mother, my first emotion is a kind of regret or sadness for them because one thing is certain, if it's hard to find a husband generally, it's even harder if you are a single mother. Whatever chance they had, henceforth, they are more likely to be cut off from a meaningful relationship that cannot be easily duplicated by friendships or dates or what have you. I keep this to myself, of course, because my guess is that they know that, they just figure the probabilities are so against them they are unwilling to deny themselves the other major life happiness of parenthood.
It used to be, I think, that the urge to ostracize reflected embarrassment or shame at sinful behavior. I doubt if that's really what's going on now because even most observant Catholics come to their wedding nights with previous sexual experience. Now it seems to be more like, "if I keep my kid in the bubble he/she won't be in the same boat 10 or 20 years hence."
To which I say, fat chance. The collapse or more hopefully decline of marriage is a larger socio-economic phenomenon that isn't going to turn around by trying to drum all known single mothers out of your child's orbit. The challenges for sustaining marriage are real and daunting, and so far, the Catholic Church including these Catholic schools are seriously flunking. Most of the focus is on preserving the currently married from divorce, which is important but not sufficient. If it helps, most other institutions are failing at this task as well, so I guess it comes down to how cruel you are willing to be in order to prove a point to yourself.
I also suggest that the Muslim relationship with alcohol is a lot more complex than Professor George understands it to be and that many Muslims would reject the notion that they have a "duty" to similarly ostracize a teacher who imbibes in his free time (among other reasons, because, so do they).
Pretty sure people should just put the kibosh on using other religions as hypothetical examples to talk about their own religion; Catholics are especially bad about it.
Barbara - great comment about single mothers. FWIW, I've known two single men who have married single moms with multiple children (the fathers of whose children were not these men). They became instant dads, in at least one case a dad of teens. It's a very admirable thing to do.
isn't what's important that employees believe those rules on contraception etc., and then it follows that by obeying their conscience they will automatically respect those rules? The intermediate step of forming their conscience cannot be short-circuited, it seems to me, so insisting that they obey those rules without talking about conscience misplaces the emphasis.
Claire - it's an interesting question. I daresay there are teachers in Catholic schools who accept what the church teaches on contraception and don't really accept the church's teaching on freedom of conscience (which, as you know, is so Vatican II; error has no rights, etc.).
What Barbara said. Priests and bishops talk a lot about the sanctity of marriage—repeating the term so often it comes to sound like empty sing-song—but not enough about the feasibility of marriage.
Barbara, your comments always cut to the heart of the matter - thanks. Too many Catholics with the legal authority to fire employees do not get it - they may have the legal authority, but should they always exercise it?
"....so I guess it comes down to how cruel you are willing to be in order to prove a point ..."
Plus I wouldn't necessarily assume that the position they are getting in Catholic schools is actually the Catholic position . For example, I have heard of cases where teachers say contraception is wrong,by which they mean anything done with a contraceptive effect .
Plus I wouldn't necessarily assume that the position they are getting in Catholic schools is actually the Catholic position
Yeah, they don't call them "parochial schools" for nothing. In looking for a Catholic school for our son and, later, a good CCD program, I ran into quite a lot of variety. I felt the personalities of those running these outfits set a particular tone that was going to determine whether the kid was receptive to the presented doctrine more than the actual doctrine itself.
Re marriage and single mothers, there was an interesting piece in the NYT magazine awhile ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/magazine/can-marriage-cure-poverty.htm...
Btw, Greg Kandra at the Deacon's Bench has linked to a news story reporting another Catholic school firing - technically, it appears to be a nonrenewal of a contract - this time, a part-time high school girls baseball coach. Apparently, her offense was that she also worked for Planned Parenthood. The story is here.
Incidentally, even though this story and the pregnant-teacher firing are both out of Montana, they appear to be different dioceses: Butte is in the Helena diocese, while Billings is part of the Great Falls-Billings diocese.
"When it comes to Catholic moral teaching, I just don't see "moves in with his or her boyfriend or girlfriend or enters into a civil marriage with a person of his or her own sex" as comparable with "goes into the strip-club business."
That's not so clear. I will not try and make a comparative study of the sinfulness of taking off one's clothes in a sexually suggestive way vs. others morally dubious activities we can perform with our girlfriends and boyfriends. But you see where that could go.
But in any case, the real serious problem which neither George nor you seem interested in is what message we want to give to the students. Essentially, you don't see any problem in a dicothomy between what the school says in theory and what the educators that teach in the school do in practice. If I were a student, personally I would take conclude that what the schools says should not be taken too seriously.
As I commented earlier, I don't think the teacher should be fired, but she should be given a non-teaching position in the school or helped find a similar job somewhere else.
I wouldnt have much of a problem with a pregnant unmaried teacher, other than trying to figure out what I'm suposed to say to my kids. Explaining the Planned Parenthod thing could be a lot more problematic. It would defintely all be a lot simpler in a public school context- I could just say we all have different values, she has a right to hers, but we don't share them.
I would like to hear from the teacher herself what she would tell her students about her being pregnanat and not married. Does she have a conflict with the Church teaching about pre-marital sex? Was she simply weak? What does she think her students ought to be told and by whom? Or does she perhaps think its a completely private matter? Or what?


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KILLEEN (December 3, 2012) --- A group of national assessors from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies or CALEA arrived at the Killeen Police Department Sunday to begin the process of reaccreditation.
A police statement says the team will look at the department's administration, operations, and support services.
Killeen Police Captain Margaret Young said KPD currently holds the advanced CALEA accreditation and every three years a department has to go through the same process to make sure it is upholding the CALEA standards.
Young said KPD first volunteered for the assessment in December 2009, and should know by March 2013 if the department will be reaccredited.
On Monday there will be a public information session that agency personnel and members of the community are invited to attend at which the assessors from CALEA will be present.
That session will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday in the City Hall Council Chambers at 200 East Ave. D in Killeen.
Comments may also be made through a dedicated phone line between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Dec. 4.
The number is (254) 616-3110.


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CHICAGO — A merged American Airlines and US Airways will carry more passengers around the world than any other, but even the biggest airline flying doesn't need eight hub airports on the ground.
That means amid the hoopla of Thursday's merger announcement, there are a few mayors, a handful of chambers of commerce leaders and lots of frequent flyers worried about what's to come. Expect their sales pitches to start soon about why their city should remain a hub.
"Nobody has that many hubs," said Robert Poole, an aviation expert and director of transportation policy at the Reason Foundation. "Eight hubs for the merged American would just not be sustainable — too complex and not really meeting enough of the travel needs."
Hubs aren't just civic icons — think Chicago's O'Hare or New York's John F. Kennedy Airport — they are also major economic engines. The frequent flights to hundreds of destinations are an attractive enticement for executives deciding where to locate a business.
But while local governments can build airports to support hubs — helping airlines come up with the billions of dollars needed for new terminals, parking garages and runways — it's up to the airlines to set up homes inside. When an airline decides to leave town, the loss of hub status can erase the value of that investment, leaving behind empty terminals.
US Airways CEO Doug Parker says the combined airline will keep all eight hubs, but the results of past mergers suggest that's unlikely in the long run.
Whole terminals at Pittsburgh International Airport have been abandoned since US Airways began winding down its hub there in 2001. Thousands of jobs have vanished, and an airport that once served more than 20 million passengers a year had just 8 million last year.
Also in 2001, American Airlines parent AMR Corp. bought Trans World Airlines out of bankruptcy. It didn't take long for American to shut down TWA's hub in St. Louis, where officials had moved major roads and bulldozed hundreds of homes to build a $1.1 billion runway that's no longer needed.
"These are risks for cities, particularly when they do airport expansions based on having a large transfer hub," Poole said. "You get an airport configured for something that's way more than the size of your community justifies in terms of origin and destination traffic, and then if the hub goes away — Whoops! You are really stuck."
In the shakeout of American's merger with US Airways, experts believe American's hubs in Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, New York, Los Angeles and Miami are likely to emerge as winners, if only because those markets can support a large amount of traffic on their own. That leaves US Airways' facilities in Philadelphia, Phoenix and, most especially, Charlotte, N.C., most at risk.
Roughly 60 percent of the 40 million travelers who pass through Charlotte-Douglas International Airport transfer to another flight, including direct flights to more than 30 destinations in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Airport officials said the city has prospered from hub status, with 8,000 new companies investing more than $5 billion in the area to create more than 78,000 jobs since the current terminal opened in 1982. Among them is Chiquita Brands International, which announced in 2011 it was abandoning Cincinnati in large part because of greater access to foreign flights from Charlotte. Cincinnati's airport had been hit hard by Delta's decision to shift flights to other hubs after merging with Northwest Airlines in 2007.
Charlotte-Douglass also benefits from its location outside of the Northeast Corridor, where congestion in New York and Philadelphia's overlapping airspace is a frequent problem.
But all of that may not be enough to ensure Charlotte's future, said Adie Tomer, an associate fellow at the Brookings Institution. With 1.8 million people, the city just isn't big enough.
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We have a 2003 Honda Oddessy. We had the brakes replaced by a friend of my dad's, but a week after replacing them, they squeaked terribly. They make much less noise now, but they are still pretty squeaky.
Do we have any options?
If they were metallic or semi-metallic pads they could just be squeaky. Also if the installer did not apply grease behind the pads that could cause squeeking. It's not a problem, just really annoying.
If they squeal when you are using the brakes, unfortunately your only option is to take the brake pads back off and apply disk brake quiet to the back of the pads. It's not difficult to do at all, and it's not very expensive ($2 - $3).
You can pick it up at any parts store, or even on Amazon
It basically insulates the back of the pad (metal) from the caliper (metal) and prevents the transmission of vibration between the two, otherwise the caliper works like a tuning fork and amplifies the sound. And irritating the crap of of you
Might want to check and make sure that the proper anti-squeal shims were installed too. It's not uncommon for people to throw them out thinking they were part of the old brakes (and they don't come with the brake pads, you have to buy them separately). If the old ones were reused, they simply could be beyond their service life.


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What free tool can I use to repair an NTFS partition under Lion.
I already have Tuxera NTFS on it and I do not want to install windows for this task.
From the Tuxera for Mac manual:
3.3 Checking and repairing NTFS file systems
There is only limited support for checking and repairing NTFS file systems at this time. The best way to repair a damaged NTFS volume is using chkdsk in Windows.
If you install NTFS-3G for Mac OS X, you will find that it includes a utility called ntfsfix, which can repair some fundamental inconsistencies of NTFS volumes. This utility is currently not integrated with the file system bundle, and thus can't be invoked through Disk Utility, because of reports that it has corrupted some users' NTFS drives.
If you want to try it out despite these warnings, you will have to invoke it manually, from the Terminal. Type "man ntfsfix" for usage info.
There is Disk Drill that can repair FAT, NTFS and HFS on a Mac. http://www.cleverfiles.com/file-system-recovery-mac.html
"best way to repair a damaged NTFS volume is using chkdsk in Windows" Not for a Boot Camp partition that can't boot to Windows. I fail to comprehend how anyone can recommend using a utility in Windows that cannot be asked to even start unless Windows can boot. That's the whole idea, the file system needs repair, so you have to have a utility that can be started in OS X.
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I just used the free and open source TestDisk to recover an NTFS boot sector. While other tools couldn't even find the partition, TestDisk worked like a charm!


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i'm not a huge collector, but there's some pretty cool autographed stuff.
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PPA seems to be constantly offline. Whenever I use
sudo apt-get update, this error is shown:
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/ 404 Not Found
How do I fix these errors?
PPA seems to be constantly offline. Whenever I use
How do I fix these errors?
Automated removal
skip to the bottom of this answer for a scripted way to remove offending software-sources for all ubuntu versions prior to Ubuntu 15.04
What are 404 errors
What are the causes of these errors in update-manager
Typically, three main areas cause these errors in
where are these software-sources
PPAs typically are saved in one of two locations
This list file typically contains:
Note a
How to eliminate these errors
Typically, if you run
If the error is due to a PPA - usually unticking the similarly named PPA with the URL shown in the error message will resolve this.
If the 404 error was due to an additional repository that has been added to
Scripted removal for all ubuntu versions prior to 15.04
I've written a quick script that checks for PPAs and Software-Sources that exhibit the 404 errors. This works for all Ubuntu versions before 15.04. For 15.04 and later perform the manual methods described above.
Its in my PPA:
You can just download the deb package and install that directly:
N.B. its the same deb package for all distributions.
Questions/Comments/Improvement please via Launchpad Contact Me link
How to use:
The script will automatically backup of your sources before modification - to be found in
Here is a bug report on the update manager to solve this problem:
If you are getting these problems without PPAs, check out this question:
Automated Removal of 404 Not found PPA's through script
This is a script to remove automatically all the 404 Not found PPA's.Copy the below code and paste it into a file and name it as
Give execute permission to the script
Copy and paste the
Script Description
Awk searches for the line which consists of
For example:
5th coloumn -
in that 5th column start from 26th character-
This above line was stored into
awk findout out the column1 and column2 with the delimiter
If there are two same lines,
This command changes the colour of terminal text into white.
If no, it means there is no contents.So it says "No PPA's to be removed".
You are getting these errors because your PPA repositories don't provide packages for your distribution of Ubuntu (ie;
Look at the following screenshots:
You can see that the directory for
To get rid of these messages you have to remove these PPA repositories from your system. Follow this question on how to remove PPAs:
How to investigate this and come to this conclusion?
These are the error messages you receive for
Open your browser tab and open the link which gives 404 Not Found Errors. In this case
The most probable that it's happening is that the PPA is not longer maintained and needs to be removed. You can do this just using:
Note that it already happened to me and I was out of these situations. And it also worked for a friend of mine. Even not being able to explain why, there is something that solved that problem:
And suddenly it worked. Do not ask me why.
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Recently I found my estimated 100 desktop symbols re-ordered in 5 bunches: 4 bunches with one in each corner and one bunch in the middle (leaving more space for more crowd between the bunches :). Unfortunately I was not aware how my symbols have been arranged in that way, I cannot find any menu entry nor do I remember the short cut that I might have pressed accidentally. Do you know how to invoke this function? Since I tried out some Apple menu items I found, I now ended up with the desktop arranged by the grid. But I prefer the bunches.
Update: Ops, it happened again. I hardly assume this automatic arranging of my desktop happens when I connect an external display in mirror mode having a smaller resolution. Now it looks as follows:
Notice the stacking of symbols in the top right that is the result of a formerly "Clean up" command in the desktop's context menu. But anyway, Mac OS created these 5 bunches again. As there is obviously a feature like that implemented, I am curious if I can run it also manually without connecting an external display to make it happen.


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Richard Eugene Werner, 77, of Ionia passed away Nov. 25, 2012 at his home. He was born Jan. 4, 1935 in Hubbardston, the son of Albert and Lillian (Bennett) Werner.
Richard married Janice Younger Aug. 15, 1959 in Ionia. He was in the Army Air Corps where he was a Paratrooper from 1954 to 1956, and was a member of local 340 iron workers union. He loved racing as well as welding.
He was an incredible husband and amazing Dad who will be greatly missed by his family.
Richard is survived by his children, Janine (Jeff) Erridge of Muir, Renee (Chris) Cook of Ionia, Susan Gorby and Craig Copeman of Orleans; brother, Bud (Carol) Werner; sister, Wilma Miller of Ionia; and grandchildren, Casey Erridge, Jeffery Erridge, Dylan Erridge, Eric Cook, Melissa Cook, Christian Cook, Cheyenne Gorby and Devin Gorby.
He was preceded in death by his parents, brother, Don Werner and sisters, Irene, Marie, Betty and Virginia.
Funeral Services will be held 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28 at Shiloh Community Church with Rev. Kenneth Harger officiating. Interment Balcom Cemetery. Visitation will be held on Wednesday at 10 a.m. until time of service at the church. Arrangements by Lake Funeral Home of Ionia.
Online condolences may be made at www.lakefuneralhomes.com.
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December 12, 2012
Festive season dining in Cape Town
Nothing says Christmas like a tenderly cooked turkey or ham, sweetly mixed eggnog, or chilled champagne and decadent desserts.
If slaving away in your kitchen to create these mouthwatering delicacies makes you want to run for the hills, fear not – there is a wide range of stellar restaurants in sunny Cape Town, ready to relieve you of your culinary duties.
Enjoy your festive meal at the following establishments:
Christmas Day lunch at La Mouette
Tuck into a delicious five-course lunch at the seaside La Mouette Restaurant in Sea Point this Christmas.
Cheese and truffle croquettes, roasted linefish with potato salad and sauce vierge, lemon meringue pie and more await you for only R350 per person.
Location: La Mouette Restaurant, 78 Regent Road, Sea Point
Contact: +27 (0)21 433 0856
Website: www.lamouette-restaurant.co.za
Christmas Day dinner at Harvey's
Winchester Mansions' delightful Harvey's Restaurant has a mouth-wateringly good five-course dinner waiting for you!
Fill up on such delicacies are stuffed grilled mushrooms, foie gras crème brûlée, pan-fried kingklip and a decadent dessert trio for R325 per person.
Location: Winchester Mansions, 221 Beach Road, Sea Point
Contact: +27 (0)21 434 2351
Website: www.winchester.co.za
Lunch buffet at Nobu
Sit down for a traditional Christmas lunch buffet with your family and friends at the stylish Nobu Restaurant, at the One&Only Cape Town.
Reserve your seats at R795 per person and enjoy your festive meal from 12h30.
Location: Nobu, One&Only Cape Town
Contact: +27 (0)21 431 4511
Website: www.capetown.oneandonlyresorts.com
Christmas at Reuben's
Whether you're savouring the gastronomic delights of either the Christmas Eve buffet or the Christmas lunch at R795 per person, you're sure to have a joyful meal at Reuben's at the One&Only Cape Town.
Location: Reuben's, One&Only Cape Town
Contact: +27 (0)21 431 4511
Website: www.capetown.oneandonlyresorts.com
Christmas Eve dinner at Savoy Cabbage
This City Bowl eatery is serving up a scrumptious meal worthy of Santa this Christmas Eve.
For a variety of prices (R250 to R395), you can indulge in a two- to five-course meal that includes coriander-soaked game loin, Christmas mincemeat tart with eggnog, ice-cream and more.
Location: Savoy Cabbage, 101 Hout Street, Cape Town
Contact: +27 (0)21 424 2626
Website: www.savoycabbage.co.za
Christmas Day dinner at Trees Restaurant
The Trees team will make all of your silly-season dreams come true by serving such dishes as glazed gammon with pineapples and figs, grilled Karoo lamb chops with mint yoghurt and gravy, and delicious Christmas mince pies with spicy orange compôte and cardamom-cinnamon anglaise for only R158 per person.
Location: Trees Restaurant, Townhouse Hotel & Conference Centre, 60 Corporation Street, Cape Town
Contact: +27 (0)21 465 7050
Website: www.townhouse.co.za
Festive season at Signal
The Cape Grace Hotel's Signal Restaurant is decking its halls with cheer, holly and plenty of delectable treats this festive season.
Enjoy the voices of a small choir while biting into fruit mince pies, aubergine caviar, butter-basted turkey and more this Christmas Eve. Make your reservation for R595 per adult and R295 per child.
Location: Signal Restaurant, Cape Grace Hotel, V&A Waterfront
Contact: +27 (0)21 410 7080
Website: www.capegrace.com
Festive favourites at Durbanville Hills Winery
Celebrate the seasonal cheer with a sublime food and wine pairing at the exquisite Durbanville Hills Winery.
For just R95 per person until 24 December, you and your loved ones can feast on glazed gammon, corned beef and mustard, Christmas pudding and more, paired with Durbanville Hills' range of wines.
Location: Durbanville Hills Wine Estate, Durbanville
Contact: +27 (0)21 558 1300
Website: www.durbanvillehills.co.za


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Let AC0 be the set of decision problems solvable by a logspace-uniform family of constant-depth, polynomial-width boolean circuits with unbounded fanin. Let BPAC0 be the modification of AC0 allowing it to use 0-ary random-bool gates, such that the probability of giving the wrong answer is less than 1/3. Is it known whether BPAC0 equals AC0? (This seems like an easier version of BPP =?= P)
If not, is it known for the AC0 analogues of ZPP and RP, or are any implications known either to or from it?


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A game where a player's choice matters.
I want to build an universe, a MMO that is located in outer space. The theme for the first installment will be robots and pirates.
Each game will be connected to the universe as a whole. Every decision you make and every action you take will affect both you and other players in the universe. Think of a game universe built with multiple games. And the game will not be in the same genre. The first pirate robot game will be a exploration pvp game. Second game will be a citybuilding diplomacy game. 3rd will be a first person shooter. etc.
Full disclosure 1: This will be built on the iOS
Full disclosure 2: I'm currently building this game. Feedback and discussion greatly appreciated.