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Elm Grove to have Labor Day weekend fireworks, celebration
After initially considering a winter holiday firework display, Elm Grove officials have decided to reschedule the Fourth of July Fireworks for Sept. 2. The Independence Day show was canceled due to extreme heat and dry conditions.
Elm Grove officials and the Fourth of July Committee had bounced around the idea of pairing the rescheduled fireworks with Christmas in the Grove. That plan was apparently rejected by the Parks and Recreation Committee because shortly after its meeting, a news release was sent out by the village detailing the Labor Day festivities.
There will be soda, beer and other refreshment sold, as well as extended pool hours from 1 to 8 p.m.
A DJ will play and food will be sold from 6:30 until 8 p.m. with the fireworks to follow.
According to the release, if the village's burn ban remains in effect, the fireworks will again be canceled.
Lancers win sectional title, first trip to state since 2001
Brookfield Central seniors Elijah Goodman and Luke Sommerfeld stepped up big time and pitched the Lancers to wins over Pewaukee and Sussex Hamilton on Monday at the WIAA Sectional at Waukesha West.
Luke Sommerfeld tossed a 1-hitter and defeated the Chargers, 4-0, while Matt Ausloos had an RBI single in the first, Jerrad Shipman and Riley Richarz added RBI singles in the fourth and Josh Peltier had a beautiful hit and run RBI single in the sixth.
Sommerfeld retired the final 14 batters in the game, walked on and fanned six.
Goodman beat Pewaukee, 6-1, in the semifinal win, as Sommerfeld stroked a 3-run homer in the first. Riley Keays and Aaron Hammond added RBI singles to key a 3-run fifth.
Goodman pitched a 3-hitter and fanned 12 batters, while walking three.
Menomonee Falls baseball team beats BC in GMC third place game
Back on June 13, Brookfield Central pitcher Luke Sommerfeld and the Lancer bats dominated an inexperienced Menomonee Falls baseball team that was still trying to figure things out by a 12-2 count.
What a difference a month makes.
On Thursday, with the same line-up they had in that June contest, the Indians got off to a 3-0 lead in the first inning and never trailed, beating Sommerfeld and the Lancers by a 7-5 count in the Greater Metro Conference Tournament third place game.
"This is huge for our confidence," said Indian coach Pat Hansen. "The last time we played them at their place (the June 13 game), they just beat us up.
"...This shows we've come quite a long ways."» Read Full Article
Lancers late rally falls short; drop 4-2 decision to Hamilton
Brookfield Central dropped a 4-2 decision to Sussex Hamilton today and Brookfield East beat West Allis Hale, 6-4, and both teams will finish up tomorrow in the Greater Metro Conference's third and final day.
The Spartans, who are 2-0 in two 7:30 am games this week, will meet Oak Creek (1-1) at 10 am. The Lancers (1-1) will face the loser of today's semi-final game between MUHS and Menomonee Falls.
Sophomore Jake Smith and junior Alex McGuire stopped Hale, 6-2, holding the Huskies to seven hits, three by Mials McMurray. McGuire came on in the sixth and worked 1 2/3 shutout innings.
Junior Andrew Holmes smashed a two-run single and scored on the shortstop's error as East scored three runs in the fourth.» Read Full Article
Light industrial development in works for Brookfield
A light industrial development could be coming to a Town of Brookfield site that is the target of a possible annexation by the City of Brookfield.
The 27 acres is located north of Gumina Road and west of the intersection of Capitol Drive and Gumina Road. The city Plan Commission recommended establishing a temporary light industrial/commercial mixed-use district zoning for the site at its Monday night meeting.
Developer Chris Leffler said he doesn't yet have specific plans for the site. Property owners BLR Inc., which Leffler operates, and Ursula Willkomm want the site annexed by the city in otder to provide municipal sewer and water lines for future development, Leffler said.
The Common Council could consider the annexation request at either its July 15 or Aug.19 meeting, said Dan Ertl, community development director.
Blood donations: Mosquitoes are feasting on Milwaukee-area residents
Wisconsin's state bird is back.
With apologies to the robin, which happens to be the actual state bird, Wisconsin seems to grow its mosquitoes big, fat and nasty. The mosquitoes now showing up like paparazzi at picnics are inland water mosquitoes known as aedes vexans.
Which is Latin, more or less, for "super annoying."
"For us it's been a bad mosquito year," said P.J. Liesch, manager of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab. "The mosquitoes are pretty happy, they're doing well."
Creatures with warm blood coursing through their veins already know that.» Read Full Article
Sustachek's no-hitter lifts Oak Creek baseball team to GMC title
He never threw anything close to a no-hitter before, not even in grade school but give Oak Creek senior pitcher Jesse Sustachek credit for having good timing.
Make that magnificent timing.
In the game of his young life, the Knight hurler guided his team to a share of the Greater Metro Conference regular season baseball title with a one-walk, 3-0 no-hitter over powerful Brookfield Central Thursday night.
"Jesse is rapidly turning into one of the best big game pitchers we've ever had," said coach Scott Holler. "He's not going to blow you away with his velocity. ...but he was able to get ahead in the count with off-speed stuff. He got ahead with the curve and the slider and then he was able to spot his fastball on one and two-strike counts."
With the win, the defending GMC champion Knights, who were scuffling last week with three losses in six tries behind a myriad number of errors and walks, launched themselves into a tie for the title with Marquette at 15-3 (18-6 overall), while the Lancers, who had controlled the league race for much of the season, fell into third at 14-4.» Read Full Article
Brookfield to pick up tree damage
Beginning July 7, city of Brookfield crews will start to pick up tree damage from the recent wind storm from residential properties.
If you have tree damage and want the City to pick up this material, call the City Highway Division, (262) 782-5029, or send an email to email@example.com by July 15.
Provide your address and the date you will have all tree damage material set out for pick up. Crews will coordinate pick up of material by neighborhood for efficiency.
This work will continue through July 18.
Property owners will be required to cut up the tree damage and place it at the edge of the road for city crews to pick up. Follow the guidelines below for proper length of material and where to place it so city crews can pick it up. If the material does not meet criteria below, crews will not be able to pick it up.» Read Full Article
Falls complicates GMC race with 5-2 win over Brookfield Central
No longer a young team, though the talented battery on display tonight was all-sophomore, the still youthful Menomonee Falls baseball team threw a big monkey wrench into the Greater Metro Conference race tonight with an efficient and stunning 5-2 win over league leader Brookfield Central.
Sophomore ace pitcher Ty Weber held in check his second strong line-up in a row (after defeating Oak Creek last week) using a change of speed to strike out six and induce lazy flyball after flyball.
Meanwhile, his catcher, fellow sophomore Josh Schwechel hit a two-run double to right-center off Lancer ace Elijah Goodman in the second inning to give the Indians a 2-1 lead they would not surrender.
"We feel now that in the second round of (the conference season) we're working together better," said Schwechel. "We know what everything is all about now."
And Schwechel also liked what he saw out of his pitcher, who he has been catching since they were about 10 years old.» Read Full Article
Judge drops complaint against woman who left gun in Brookfield church
A Waukesha County judge has dismissed charges against an Oconomowoc woman who left her handgun in a church restroom.
Susan Hitchler, 66, was charged in April with negligent handling of a weapon, a misdemeanor. The complaint indicated that on March 19 she had left her handgun in a stall of the women's restroom at Elmbrook Church. A church employee found the gun within a few minutes and turned it over to security.
At a hearing late last week, Circuit Judge Lloyd V. Carter ruled on a defense motion to dismiss the case based on a lack of evidence that a crime had been committed. The motion had been argued in May.
"The bottom line, in my view, was the state must show a crime was probably committed," said Hitchler's attorney, Tom Grieve of Brookfield. "An element of the charged crime is that the defendant's conduct must have directly endangered the safety of another."
Grieve said that while initial rumors suggested there were children around, the weapon was seen only by someone doing janitorial service at Elmbrook. At the time, the church was playing host to a women's Bible study group, and that same bathroom was accessible to girls in first through fifth grades who also were in the church. But the complaint does not indicate any girls entered the bathroom before the loaded Ruger .380-caliber pistol was discovered.» Read Full Article
Milwaukee suburbs Fourth of July 2014 celebrations
- Parade: 9 a.m. July 4, the annual parade begins at Standish Place entrance to Bayside Middle School.
City of Brookfield
- Parade: 10 a.m. July 4. Starting at Gebhardt Rd. to Calhoun Rd. onto North Ave. The parade will be followed by an ice cream social at the Civic Plaza, 2000 North Calhoun Rd.
- Family Fest: 6 to 9 p.m. July 4, family fun with live entertainment, inflatables and food for all to enjoy at Mitchell Park, 19900 River Rd.
- Fireworks: 9:15 p.m. July 4 at Mitchell Park.
Lancers' Sommerfeld no-hits Spartans, 4-0
Brookfield Central's Luke Sommerfeld threw a no-hitter against crosstown Brookfield East tonight at East and came away with a 4-0 victory.
Central (17-1) broke a scoreless tie in the fourth inning when Elijah Goodman was safe on an error, pinch-runner Matt Liewen stole second, went to third on a ground out and scored on a clutch 2-out single by Aaron Hammond.
Riley Richarz singled to left to lead-off the fifth inning and stole second, went to third on a ground out and scored on Goodman's sacrifice fly.
Leading 2-0, Central added single runs in the sixth and seventh inning to put the game away.
Hammond singled and stole second with one out in the sixth. After a flyout to center, Matt Hodges had a big 2-out single to score Hammond for a 3-0 lead.» Read Full Article
Social media photos of the June 18 storms around Southeast Wisconsin
Severe weather, from rain to hail to flooding, arrived in southeastern Wisconsin on Tuesday morning.
Residents shared their views of the storms on social media, and we compiled some of the best photos for you.
View them in the June 18 storms around Southeast Wisconsin Storify story.
World War II military medals taken in home burglary in Brookfield
Four to six World War II military medals were taken from a City of Brookfield home in a burglary June 8.
According to the Brookfield police report:
A home in the 12700 block of Cardinal Crest Drive was broken into between 9:40 a.m. and 1:58 p.m. June 8.
Forced entry was detected via a broken latch on the back door, and a screen was removed from a window on the back porch.
Two upstairs bedrooms were rummaged through and three rings, about 20 silver dollars, and four to six World War II military medals were taken.
Germantown nips Lancers, 1-0, off to state tournament
Two seniors stepped up for Germantown and sparked the Warhawks to a 1-0 win over Brookfield Central to earn the WIAA Sectional Championship on Thursday night at Germantown.
Senior shortstop Erika Berry had three of the Warhawks' five hits off Central's hard-luck loser Crystal Sicard and senior pitcher Kim Soderberg stopped the Lancers on three hits to send the Warhawks softball team to state for the third year in a row.
"That's a first in school history for the softball team," Germantown co-coach Kurt Raguse said. "We've never done that before."
The difference in the game was a home run by Berry in the third inning as Sicard walked two and struck out nine batters.
Soderberg, who recovered from a broken bone on the bottom of her right ring finger four weeks ago, was outstanding pitching to contact, changing speeds and moving the ball around.» Read Full Article
Ruby Farm site pitched for stores, offices, housing
Brookfield's 66-acre Ruby Farm site, north of I-94 and west of Calhoun Road, would be developed into office buildings, stores, restaurants, housing and other commercial buildings under a new proposal.
Developer Mark Irgens has filed plans with city officials that call for developing the site over five to 10 years, creating projects that would amount to around $150 million in new property value, said Dan Ertl, Brookfield community development director.
Those plans will need city approval, and the proposal is tentatively scheduled to undergo initial review at the July 7 Plan Commission meeting, Ertl said Thursday.
Irgens also is in negotiations with city officials about obtaining financing assistance for the project, Ertl said. He declined further comment, since those negotiations are not yet final.
Any city funds would be repaid through the new property taxes generated by the development. That would involve creating a tax incremental financing district, which would require Common Council approval.» Read Full Article


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Watch the entire public discussion between Krista and her two guests at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs on the campus of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. And see what people were seeing in our interactive chat as the event unfolded.
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This show is part of The Civil Conversations Project, a series of four public discussions offering ideas and tools for healing our fractured civic spaces. Listen to our other CCP dialogues:
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» Political Bridge People
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Posing this as a legal thing
Posing this as a legal thing is unhelpful and posing it as related to women's bodily autonomy is unhelpful. I have to do things with my body that I don't want to do, and I luckily don't have to struggle with killing a being or prebeing. Why does absolute autonomy have to be maintained in this question but exists in no other sphere? I can't drive through red lights because it endangers others. I can't kill other people if i thought it'd be in my best interest for the rest of my life, like killing abusive partners. Why is abortion different? Let's say we agree 12 weeks is the cutoff. Why would abortion prohibited after this point be any more threatening to women's autonomy than prohibiting homicide in general would be to either gender's autonomy?
It's a moral and social question. The legality is transient, like the voting rights act ruling.
I've had an awful illegal
I've had an awful illegal abortion pre Roe V Wade.. No one should go through that. Why haven't you even spoken on the harm to women's bodies by illegal abortion? I agree with David Foster Wallace. I'm pro life and pro choice. It's wrong and I'm for it 100%. In the seventies, when feminism began, women would angry with me for telling them i felt guilt. I'd do it again. The man proposed to me, not really wanting to. I turned him down, not wanting to marry or have a child. Frankly, I wouldn't want a child to grow up in a fundamentalist family. Christian, Jewish, or Muslim. I was raised a third generation atheist, though I prefer my grandfather's term, "free thinker". I'm also a mystic. not only should contraception be taught but condoms should be free in boy's and girl's restrooms, where no one can see them pick them up. Often people have a hard time imagining their daughters having sex. Once I sent a box of condoms to a friend's child was to be visited by her Facebook boyfriend. With illustrations on how to double bag and leave room at the front of the penis. A week later the girl's mother called to say they'd asked for another box. My mother, a liberal, taught me how to have children, but not how not to. She was jealous of my freedom as a good looking young woman. When my brother left for college, she fiiled his closet with Kotex, saying, "That will last until you get pregnant and married." A curse I overcame with an abortion. There's a correlation between alcoholic mothers and pregnant teen daughter. Among other impacts of alcoholism on children of alcoholic. If I described my abortion you'd throw up. (And I'd already met his Catholic family with eight children, one having had two kids out of marriage, given away.) Pro Life people, especially men it seems, don't realize how cruel they are. Some "pro life" women and men would say, "She deserved her suffering." Interview someone who has had an illegal abortion. I've written a piece on mine. Am trying to decide where to send it. If you have any ideas please email me.
I am a pro-life democrat
I am a pro-life democrat (there are many of us but we are largely quiet about it). I am also a Christian. I would like to see this discussion material made available to more college campuses, perhaps in critical thinking classes or reading materials. There is so much political correctness, polarizing debate without the openness we saw here. The discussion could be expanded to include support for women after they've had an abortion, and not minimizing the traumatic effects it has for a great many women. The discussion could also include the expanded adoption world now, with more choices and supports offered. I think both sides were presented in an open way and I would like to see this continue. To those who are bothered by the notion that a pro-abortion person could have doubts about her side's black and white view of it, or that the pro-life voice here is calling for more sex education and contraception: only respectful dialogue, validating some of the views of the other side (without necessarily agreeing to them) will lead to less abortions and better lives for women and their unborn or born children. Lighten up, people!
The people who feel as I do may be getting their kids ready for church, and perhaps do not usually listen to NPR talk shows. I do not represent the typical demographic of an NPR devotee. If my comments upset anyone, consider listening to the show again. It is an example of effective dialogue. but I would like to see more coverage of the atmosphere on university campuses (what could be done to help students see the gray areas). And what about parental notification? I have to give permission for my teenager's school to administer cough syrup or tylenol for cramps, but not for something as life-altering as an abortion? "A man convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still...." I live in an area where the most vocal, default position is staunchly, unequivocally pro-abortion. Thanks for giving us all things to think about, and for showing me that NPR does not assume that ALL of their listeners are of the same mindset.
David Gushee's belief that
David Gushee's belief that abortion is more a societal issue than a legislative (or political) one is completely on target. You can't legislate a profound appreciation for life - it has to be ingrained in our moral consciousness. It's something we have to teach our children from the start. The day a pregnant woman and those around her believe that finding a means to accommodate the yet to be born child is more important than finding a means to eliminate it we will finally see an end to "expedient" abortions. That will take not only a personal commitment to the preservation of life but a societal willingness and capability to care for the life brought forth. It really will take a village to solve this particular problem - and what a marvelous village that will be.
Sometimes the sides in a
Sometimes the sides in a debate are not as opposite as they assume. Sometimes, working together, sides find a better and more profound solution to their dilemma than either could have uncovered alone. Go to this link: http://www.universalist.org/archives/000547july_2009_anchor_newsletter.html. Then click on the words in the box: "July 2009 Anchor newsletter." Read "The Sureness of Heaven." What do you think?
There is a third term that
There is a third term that was not used but was what this conversation ended up being about and there was much middle ground of agreement. The term is PRO Birth. The definition in my understanding is this group believes there will not be any abortions but they also don't provide any support for the child except legal before or after the birth.
Will someone please tell me
Will someone please tell me how the anti-abortion folks managed to become labeled "pro-life"? This is the greatest public relations coup ever. People who oppose a woman's access to abortion are anti-abortion, not necessarily pro-life. In the discussion of abortion, the term used is inevitably "pro-life" , which sounds so much more positive than what is really is, which is anti-abortion. Many of the so-called pro-life group support the death penalty, own guns, hunt animals, eat meat, and are themselves, or support, the armed forces. There isn't much "pro-life" about any of these things. In the discussion of the complex subject of abortion, much greater clarity is obtained by using the correct term of "anti-abortion" or "anti-choice" instead of the emotionally charged term "pro-life".
Dear Cynthia, I really hope
Dear Cynthia, I really hope you're joking. Sorry I can't resist. Come on Cynthia, you have to admit, it's one sandwich short of a lunchbox, logically speaking :) Umm....BECAUSE ABORTION TAKES AWAY LIFE might be the simplest answer. Out of almost 7 billion people on this planet, please tell me of one that was not at one time a fetus. Studies have shown that there is a direct relationship between fetuses and people ;) Therefore if you 'terminate' a fetus you are ending a life. Even a child can work this out. According to your one side 'logic' of challenging positive spin, one would have to also term the 'Pro-Choice' lobby: 'Anti-Life'. That would be fair, and more accurate. Especially since the 'Pro-Choice' cause is dependent on preventing women from receiving the information they need to make informed choices such as sonograms (note the opposition to the kind of legislation that would provide more information like this to mothers). Let's try 'Pro- Abortion' to keep with the positive spin. Everyone likes that one. You bring in irrelevant arguments about the death penalty / guns / animal rights because you simplistically lump people in the same box because of narrow-minded party politics. We're not talking about those issues. This cold & soulless bluster about emotionally charged arguments is the quintessence of human self deception.
Please think with me for a minute along the lines of worst case scenarios. Imagine with me that the 'Pro-life' position is shown to be terribly mistaken, beyond a shadow of doubt, actually completely groundless and yet they have their way and repeal on-demand abortion. The result: we have tragically restricted women in their reproductive rights and they will have to raise children that they did not wish to have or give them away for adoption. That's a painful and often bitter scenario (but life can always surprise us) and not one enfranchised women, or the multi billion dollar abortion industry are likely to opt for. Now imagine with me that the 'Pro-Choice' position is actually mistaken. Instead of 'blobs of cells' fetuses are shown in reality to actually be children (over half of which will be women) with precious potential and 'the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' like all other members of society, and yet are the most vulnerable sector of society and unprotected by the very parent who is supposed to provide that protection and who is actually the cause of their dismemberment and brutal murder. What do we have? We have the violation of the rights of the weakest of human lives, but much more than that, we have the silent massacre of 40 million children (7 times the size of the Jewish Holocaust). Judge for yourself which is the worst. Please don't talk about emotional charge. Human beings are masters of self deception where guilt is concerned, because we don't want to even open our minds to the possibility that we are guilty of such despicable barbarity being committed in the name of 'civilization'. This is the real emotional charge in this debate: guilt. Hopefully one day society will look on this evil stench in it's cold light of reality as we now do the Slave Trade, but I believe that day will never come, because our society might be very smart but it's morally dumber than a box of rocks, just like your posting.
this show was such a delight!
this show was such a delight! At last a thoughtful and humane discussion of this issue. Having worked in maternal-child health all my life the complexities and the realities of life for mothers and their children are critical to our future and yet they get hijacked by arguments that take us nowhere. At last a chance to think about them in all their soul searing reality. thank you
Until there is science to
Until there is science to support where the line of viability is, I think the decision is that of the woman. Any other view is an imposition of morality on another person. I doubt that there is a person in the world that "likes" abortion; but, there are a lot of people that think they should be allowed to make decisions about other persons ability to decide what should be done.
David Gushee's,"We are
David Gushee's,"We are becoming dumber as a society...civilizational significance" didn't say what I have been feeling since I listened this morning. I think what I have been feeling is not less intelligence but less virtue, less striving for wisdom, less appreciation for wisdom, happiness and virtue. When were these given as the real reason for spending money on an education? Money has become our god. We need to ponder the fate of Midas.
It seems we have more abused children, more abused women, more economic slavery, more suicides, more mental illness, more abuse of natural resources than ever before, more expensive but poorer health care, poorer education and the Ogllala aquifer on its last twenty years. Making abortion illegal will only compound the problems.
I had a very wise and loving old uncle who never seemed to have a bad day or thought, who in his very alert ninties almost knocked me off my chair when he declared, "Only after half the people starve to death will the rest come to their senses." That sentence has been haunting me ever since. We are in desperate times. When will virile mean virtuous? When will virtue become valued? When will we become aware that happiness takes its life from virtue?
What about the mentally ill
What about the mentally ill who become pregnant? How do we deal with those that want abortion? Can we force them to have children? We have a large number and am not sure they would be adopted.
Still love the episode.
Still love the episode. About my 3rd listening.
I appreciate your find of David.G (he was new to me) he's a great thinker.
How about building an entire show around that gem at the end - that modern media is making us dumber. Aim high - I don't want to remember your enterprise as all just TED talks on the radio.
I found this program to be
I found this program to be very profound. Having been part of the debate for many years I found it refreshing to listen to the topic discussed open and honestly. I appreciated both Gushee's and Kissling's views and their thought provoking questions they had for the other.
I believe there is no clear answer to the issue, nevertheless I think David brought up the fact that we need to honestly address the taboo topic of "sex" with young people and help them to become aware of the consequences of their actions.
I also agreed with David when he mentioned that if Row v Wade is overturned and we haven't dealt with the underlining issues, the fallout will be great.
Since you were willing to address the topic of abortion in an open an honest forum, maybe it's time to deal honestly with the topic of how our society is the most sexualized and conversely the most puritanical. This issue impacts our society; morally, ethically and religiously.
Thank you again for a truly stimulating program
Leslie Dixon, Executive Director/Founder Birds & Bees Connection
What a breath of fresh air as
What a breath of fresh air as far as a conversation, Both parties displayed abundant respect, intelligence, curiosity.. I was also struck by the civil, nuanced, and meaningful conversation, usually in very short supply when there are disputes on this kind of magnitude. With these kinds of seemingly unresolvable differences, with people firmly entrenched on their respective polarized sides, the best that can be hoped for may be this type of compassionate dialog, where people really try to listen to and hear each other, and try to empathize with each other's perspectives. And to acknowledge there may be some validity to what the other side is saying. It's an interesting mental exercise to pose a hypothetical thought problem, as if your life depended on you standing up and defending one aspect of the other side, which you respect and admire
If some kind of creator exists, I imagine that he/she/it created men and women so that they could procreate. I believe in the biological imperative. However, I feel it also takes an extraordinary act of courage, to bring a measure of thought and free will into the picture and recognize that one may be an exception to the rule. Perhaps one does not feel that one has the instincts or the capacity to be a good nurturing mother, or perhaps one has not met the person one feels would be a good father and husband. Or perhaps the whole world is just such a rotten place that one wonders why anyone in their right mind would want to subject a new being to the torture that is life on this earth, filled with so much pain and suffering. It then is a act of responsibility and courage, even kindness, on a woman's part, to recognize and accept that the biological imperative is not destined to be her experience. I respect a person's decision to choose not to procreate if they choose not to. In this dialogue, I was really struck by Ms. Kissling's life story, and her pointing out that the other side would seem to want and expect her be a virgin all her life, if indeed the sex act is, or should be, so intrinsically linked to the act of procreation. Dr. Gushee totally avoided answering this one, as if it really was too hot to field. There is no answer that I see as workable here, coming from his perspective. But on the other extreme, one can see all around us in this society promiscuity raised to an art form, people indulging their physical urges with no self-restraint or self-control, like dogs, just for pure physical pleasure and fleeting gratification, with no thought to the possible consequences of creating a life, bringing a baby into the world, and having to care for it long-term. It is the loss of personal responsibility in all this that I bemoan and find most dreadful. Actions have consequences - period. Any such simple and natural cause-and-effect relationship like this should offer up teaching moments. To engineer, manipulate and alter this with contraception and other modern technology may be doing a grave disservice to the long-term common decency and integrity of human beings. It's almost like some universal of fundamental law may be being tampered with and broken. Sex just feels so good. If there is a creator I imagine he/she/it would have wanted us to feel such soaring heights of pleasure in physical intercourse, uniting as one in love-making, and making babies as the ultimately beautiful result of this expression of combined passion. But looking at the animal kingdom and extrapolating to man from that, if men's and women's physical needs would really be met, it seems like women would be popping out a baby every year they are fertile. The big question is, what is the "morality" of contraception? If having sex is what some creator intended to combine pleasure with making babies happen, can one simply undo this by some creative means, to eliminate the "danger" of making a baby, so that the sex act can be used ONLY for pleasure when one wants, without fear of any such "grave consequences", i.e. exactly those same consequences as some all-knowing creator had intended. Sound a bit similar to pick-and-choose cafeteria Catholicism. I'm generally more sympathetically "pro-choice" if we are talking about an individual who is basically a fairly responsible person and puts sex in some greater context, where there is some greater emotional depth to the relationship. I get increasingly less sympathetic with people who have no sense of the risk they are taking, have no respect for the sanctity of the potential life they are creating, who don't recognize any "sacredness" in the fundamental linkage of sex with making babies, and who use abortion merely as a routine procedure to reverse any unintended and unwanted "accidents". It seems that what separates us from the other "beasts" in the animal kingdom is that only we humans have the "higher" consciousness to understand the emotional component of the sex act, whether or not you specifically call it "love".
All this completely changes after menopause, which is a creator's natural contraceptive technique, which neatly resolves all these nasty and tricky dilemmas. Then people can be free to have ecstatic glorious carnal pleasure all the time with no risk of any "bad" consequences. Hoorah.
I enjoyed your interview on
I enjoyed your interview on public radio. We need more open dialogue on
polarized issues such as abortion. I'm a physician who has intimate contact
with life and death daily. Raised in a morgue, I examined miscarriage specimens
as a child alongside my father, a hospital pathologist. With the wonder of young
girl and the wisdom of a woman physician, I've investigated the destiny of these
discarded embryos and fetuses. My philosophy is apolitical and offers a fresh
angle on a topic that deserves public discourse. I have been pro-choice in the past
though have been considering the sanctity of life and wondering why we consider
miscarriages medical waste. While pro-choice and pro-life groups remain polarized on elective
abortions, there are far more spontaneous abortions (miscarriages) in America.
What happens to all of these miscarriages? I answer this question in my essay,
The Life of a Miscarriage: http://blog.oregonlive.com/health-care/2013/07/the_life_of_a_miscarriage...
No man can understand how it
No man can understand how it would feel to have his body and his future co-opted by someone else's desires. If an easy modification of a man's body were available, would David always choose to take inside his body, nourish and support the lives of each unplanned pregnancy? At fifteen, I was betrayed by my mother who invited the man who had just attempted to rape me to live in my home. He raped me in my home. I was forced to marry him because otherwise my child would be a bastard. 54 years later my son has suffered because he never had a father. David, how many children would you carry and support? That is a real question for every woman.
An interesting and
An interesting and refreshingly un-polarized discussion. While David Gushee seemed generous and conciliatory, I couldn't help feeling that any minute Frances Kissling was going to burst out of her rather contrived tone of generosity and burst forth with "Let me tell you somethin' ! ", like she knows the absolute truth of the matter and anyone who dissents from her viewpoint is automatically misinformed.
The picture seen here demonstrates this difference in attitude wonderfully.
Thank you, thank you, thank
Thank you, thank you, thank you. This conversation is excellent on so many levels. Most especially as a model of Dialogue. I was thrilled to be able to listen to civil conversation on the abortion issue after a lifetime of having had to listen to propaganda and invective in shouted volleys. Very encouraging.
I am not a regular listener,
I am not a regular listener, and seldom write comments on any radio or TV program, but I enjoyed this program so much I am doing so now. It was good to set aside the stock arguments, and the sense of alienation, and have two thoughtful persons with different points of view have a civil dialogue. There was no meeting of the minds but I learned a great deal about perspectives in this brief program. Maybe there is a place - a small spot of common ground - where we can meet.
David Gushee and Frances
David Gushee and Frances Kissling interview was such a great discussion,I found this discussion very timely and well thought out, hitting hard on a very passionate issue. I can see both sides of the issue and have open discussion like this could bridge the gap of what people believe; I have very strong beliefs about this subject , but was able to see both sides of this discussion. Really thought provoking. "Making babies is serious business and sex is a pleasurable and meaningful activity with social consequences." Heavy so on point.
Voices on the Radio
is Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics and Director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. His books include A New Evangelical Manifesto and The Sacredness of Human Life.
is president of the Center for Health and Social Policy. She was President of Catholics for Choice from 1982 until 2007.
Production Credits
Host/Producer: Krista Tippett
Senior Editor: Trent Gilliss
Technical Director/Producer: Chris Heagle
Coordinating Producer: Stefni Bell
Like-Minded Conversations
Frances Kissling is known for her longtime activism on the abortion issue but has devoted her energy more in recent years to real relationship and new conversations across that bitter divide. She's learned, she's written, about the courage to be vulnerable in front of those with whom we passionately disagree.
How can unimaginable social change happen in a world of strangers? Kwame Anthony Appiah is a philosopher who studies ethics and his parents' marriage helped inspire the movie Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. In a tense moment in American life, he has refreshing advice on simply living with difference.
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- Test your software applications with Visual Studio Team System 2008 and rest assured of its quality
- Create a structured testing environment for your applications to produce reliable products
- Comprehensive yet concise guide with a lot of examples and clear explanations
- No knowledge of software testing is required, only basic knowledge of Visual Studio 2008 operation is expected
Book DetailsLanguage : English
Paperback : 356 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : December 2008
Author(s) : N Satheesh Kumar, Subashni. S
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Application Development, Microsoft Development , Enterprise, Microsoft, .NET
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Types
Chapter 2: Unit Testing
Chapter 3: Web Testing
Chapter 4: Advanced Web Testing
Chapter 5: Load Testing
Chapter 6: Manual, Generic, and Ordered Tests
Chapter 7: Managing and Configuring the Test
Chapter 8: Deploying and Running Tests
Chapter 9: Command Line
Chapter 10: Working with Test Results
Chapter 11: Reporting
I would recommend this book for those who have heard of the testing capabilities of Visual Studio 2008, yet haven't been able to squeeze in the time to take the plunge.
I think this book really covers all aspects of testing in Visual Studio 2008, making it an ideal reference for any development team working with VSTS.
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Errata- 5 submitted: last submission 07 Aug 2012
Errata type: Typo | Page number: 15
Second paragraph under the heading "Team explorer":
Team Explorer is a client of TSF and is integrated with the VSTS. should be
Team Explorer is a client of TFS and is integrated with the VSTS.
Errata type: Typo | Page number: 27
The last sentence,
Now when we select the newly created Manual Tests list, we can both the manual tests listed on the right-side pane.
Should be
Now when we select the newly created Manual Tests list, we can see both the manual
Errata type: Typo | Page number: 52
Under the heading "Assert.AreNotEqual"
the first line of code "Assert.AreNotEqual(String, String, Booelan, String, Object[])"
Booelan should be Boolean
Errata type: Technical | Page number: 85
the first bullet point
TestMethod—attribute to identify the whether a method is a unit test method.
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TestMethod—attribute to identify whether a method is a unit test method.
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in the part where it reads '...including a fields to show...'
it should say
'...including a field to show...'
Sample chapters
You can view our sample chapters and prefaces of this title on PacktLib or download sample chapters in PDF format.
What you will learn from this book
- Explore the testing types offered by Visual Studio Team system 2008 Test Edition
- Convert your existing Visual Studio 2005 testing application to Visual Studio Team system 2008
- Unit-test your class library application, ASP.NET web application and the services created using Visual Studio 2008
- Test your website before going live and rest assured of its performance; customize the test to meet your requirements
- Load-test your applications to check application performance under various conditions
- Collect and analyze the test results to improve the quality of your applications
- Master various formats of manual testing to help test without automation tools
- Manage, filter, and configure the test to control the execution of your application
- Deploy your tests using local as well as remote deployment and run them
- Run your tests and publish the results from a command line using MSTest tool
- Create and utilize reports to see the progress and quality of your project
Chapter 1: Software Testing and Visual Studio Team System 2008
This chapter gives an overall introduction to software testing and the types of testing involved in the software development life cycle (SDLC) and an introduction to the different tools available in Visual Studio team system 2008 to support different testing types for the SDLC.
Chapter 2: Unit Testing
This chapter explains the testing tool used by developers to make sure the code produces the expected result. Creating unit tests, generating code and different assert statements and types used for testing are explained in detail in this chapter. Various attributes used for differentiating the classes with test classes and method with test methods, and the initializing and cleaning methods are also explained in detail in this chapter.
Chapter 3: Web Testing
This chapter walks us through the tool used for testing web applications developed using .NET. This tool is used for recording a test scenario and then testing it with sample data from different data sources. Applying validation and extraction rules, adding data sources, and adding transactions are explained in detail using a sample application in Visual Studio Team System 2008. Some of the features like adding Plug-ins, parameterizing the web server, and running and debugging the web test are covered in this chapter.
Chapter 4: Advanced Web Testing
Generating coded web tests from recorded web tests and creating coded web tests using the Visual Studio team System 2008 tool are explained in detail with examples. Some of the other advanced topics covered are adding dynamic parameters, adding rules to the coded web test, creating custom rules, and running the coded web test.
Chapter 5: Load Testing
This chapter explains using unit testing or web testing and simulating a realistic scenario like a number of concurrent users with different browsers and different network speed from multiple locations accessing the system. This testing collects the application performance and stability in different scenarios and is used for analyzing the result to scale the application for better performance.
Chapter 6: Manual, Generic, Ordered, and Smoke Test
This chapter explains different tools that support testing an application manually without using any automated testing tool. In the case of multiple interdependent tests, we can easily order the tests to run in a specific order so that the dependent tests don't fail the test. Visual studio supports all of these including Generic and Smoke tests which are explained here.
Chapter 7: Managing and Configuring Tests
Even though we have lot of testing types and tools, sometime managing these tests would be a very difficult task. This chapter explains the easy ways of organizing the tests into lists, enabling and disabling the tests, configuring the tests and test runs, viewing the tests using the Test view window and test list editor and running the tests in Visual studio Team System 2008.
Chapter 8: Deploying and Running the tests
Once we are ready with the required type of test for the application, we have to deploy that on the test machines and run the test application and collect the result for analysis. There are multiple ways of deploying the application and running the application using some of the advanced features provided by Visual Studio Team system 2008, which are explained in detail in this chapter.
Chapter 9: Command Line
There are different ways of running a test based on the environment and requirements. In some situations we may need a test to be run from the command line without using the user interface. It works the same way but the test runs without any user interaction. This chapter explains different command-line options and parameters used for running a test using command-line commands.
Chapter 10: Working with Test Results
The main objective of running the tests is to collect the results and analyze them to correct any application errors and make sure it is producing the expected result and to increase the performance and stability of the application. This chapter explains in detail how to look at the test results and code coverage and publish the test results.
Chapter 11: Reporting
Reporting is one of the main areas of software development where the software quality is reported and monitored. Visual Studio Team System 2008 supported by Team Foundation Server provides lot of reporting templates and features to upload the test result and publish it to the management and the team to monitor the project quality and performance. This chapter explains the detailed steps involved in publishing the results and creating and customizing the report using the available reporting templates in Visual Studio 2008 Team system and Team Foundation Server.
In Detail
We all know that software testing is the most important part of the Software development life cycle and the quality of the end product is mostly dependent on how well we test our products. But, testing is neither an easy process nor remotely exciting for all the developers.
For testing your applications on the Microsoft platform, Visual Studio Team System 2008 offers you a range of powerful tools for different types of testing. This Microsoft product makes the testing process easier as well as more exciting, not boring anymore.
This concise guide will lead you through the bewildering range of features offered by Visual Studio Team System 2008 to test your software applications before going live. It is packed with simple examples and screenshots to get you comfortable with the VS Team System 2008 testing environment.
The book introduces you to the main types of testing available in VS Team System 2008 for both desktop and web applications, and then walks you through deploying, running, and interpreting the results of tests. If you've been testing applications in Visual Studio 2005, the book will show you how you can move this easily to Visual Studio 2008.
You will learn about the Unit test, Manual test, Web test, Load test, Ordered test, and Generic test, and the support for them in VS Team System 2008. By the end of the book you will be using the tools to manage and run your tests, collect and analyze your test results, and improve the reliability of your software applications.
Later, you will prepare reports to monitor the quality of your software applications, using the available reporting templates in Visual Studio 2008 Team system and Team Foundation Server.
Get comfortable with the Visual Studio 2008 testing environment and produce reliable software products.
An example testing scenario is set up, and used as reference for exploring the testing features available in Visual Studio Team System 2008.
This is a concise practical guide that will help you learn testing your software applications using Visual Studio Team System 2008 quickly, with lot of examples and clear explanations. It is packed with screenshots to aid your understanding of the process.
Who this book is for
This book is for Microsoft developers working with Visual Studio 2008 who need to create a structured testing environment for their applications. No prior knowledge of testing is expected. The reader will need to be familiar with the standard Visual Studio 2008 environment, but anyone who has entered and compiled code in this environment before will easily follow what goes on.


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Bliss out on world-class beaches in exotic southern Thailand before cooling off in the Cameron Highlands of Malaysia. This 2-week tour will introduce you to three diverse nations—and three of the region's most vibrant cities. Sample street food or hit Bangkok's clubs with other travellers your own age—so you can be sure to get down with those that'll keep up. With your hotel and transport arranged by our CEOs, you can concentrate on choosing your own adventure: pack your trip with everything you want and nothing you don't.
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Slurp down rice noodles under the streetlights of Bangkok and wander the paddies and temples of Java—this epic adventure covers the best of Southeast Asia. Party in chaotic Bangkok, bliss out on stunning beaches and gaze out across the 'sea of sand' from Mt Bromo's summit at sunrise. While this tour includes a knowledgeable CEO, accommodation and a variety of local transport, it also leaves plenty of free time for you to do what you want.
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