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This production of mine was inspired by what I read from "Pregnancy termination" of W. Bank. It will be good to read her own and the reactions before this one, though it is not indispensable.
I marveled at the discussion between W. Bank and Sara. I appreciated the "advanced Islam" of Sara and her arguments, as well as the wonderful site she advised to visit; but I also appreciated the practical way by which W. Bank puts the problem of abortion, we can see a real dilemma: on one hand, as a woman (and a mother), she fills that she has to defend life, but on the other hand, she fills that as a woman she has to defend the dignity of women. It seems that it is a dilemma between to defend the life in general and the rights of women. This is how I feel the problem, and this will be the main line of this "article"; hoping that it will have some repercussions on some people and that they will react for or against it. I'm opened to all critics.
Since I am not a native English-speaking man, I present my excuses for some mistakes and some misunderstandings.
As a human being, we are endowed with reason. The specificity of our humanity confers us a dignity which is unique. This is undeniable for all of us. Moreover, for those who believe in God, especially for those who share the "Abrahamic" religions' perspective of the creation, we can go further. "God created man in his image and likeness", is it said. This likeness, which is not a physical reality, but a spiritual one, is the foundation of the dignity of all men. Being the likeness of God is the base of our dignity. And the fact that God created them male and female is for us an invitation to interpersonal communion. Love is therefore the fundamental an innate vocation of every human being.
From all these, we can affirm that freedom, which is a characteristic of our dignity as human being, should not be a freedom from (which could wrongly lead to indifference), but a freedom for, which is a community-creating force. Thus, our freedom should be for the promotion of Love, of the building up of a truly human community, a community that doesn't put aside its weak, innocent and defenseless members. It is our human dignity which is questioned when we put aside fetus. In fact, whether we call them unborn or whatever, this is the necessary condition, the necessary step through which you and I have passed to be what we are. Can we be truly worthy of our humanity when we set others aside because we want to live a more comfortable – obviously materialistic – life? For me, the dignity of women that we fight for implies also this: the defense of life, especially of defenseless life such as fetus and babies. For me, it is truly the dignity of us all, and so of women, to be supporters of life in all its stages. Our sense of freedom cannot involve choices to kill innocent or not.
Of course, when abortion is for therapeutic reasons, as the only solution to save the mother's life, there is no doubt about what to do. But, as Sara has said, the statistics proved that the percentage of people involved in this is few. In this article, we speak of the "90%" remaining who go for abortion because of social issues or whatever reason different from therapeutic. But, as W. Bank underlined it, we have to be truthful to ourselves, and not deny that it isn't always easy not to think about abortion, especially in some situations such as rape, extreme poverty… Nonetheless, it is not because it is difficult that it is morally right.
I want to end this article by congratulating all the women and mothers who fight daily, and surely more than I do in this article, so that live may be protected. Thanks to you, our dear mothers and sisters, who have assured for nine months our right to life and have protected all through this life. Thanks to you!
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By Bravhart
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I am using this for early morning prayer and Bible study because it keeps me from turning on the room light and disturbing my family. The adjustment to light level and orientation are very convenient. It is a good value.
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from Fort Worth, TX
Like the touch capability for 'High-Medium-Low-OFF'
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The lamp lights up the entire work area, making it unnecessary to turn on any other lights in the room. Yet it doesn't take up much space. And it turns on with a feathery touch of a finger. I'm finding it a real pleasure to use.
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It works as advertised but looks a bit lame with the lamp sagging so far. I'll keep using it for the good light coverage.
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This lamp illuminates a desk top with a variable brightness white light. There is no blue in the lamp like most white LEDs have. After working 2-3 hours there is no eye strain and the bar of LEDs provides light evenly across the desk top. Well worth the money
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Excellent quality product, very well pleased! The base is very stable and the arms hold their position when set. I use it over my computer which has a Black keyboard.
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Yes, the NSVRC maintains a national calendar of events online. Events posted on the calendar include those sponsored by local, state, territory, tribal, and college sexual assault programs and conferences, meetings, and workshops. Anyone may search events by category or state/territory. NSVRC encourages you to share your events throughout April. Event information can be posted online by opening the Events Calendar and clicking on "SUBMIT A CALENDAR EVENT" (bottom of the page).
Does the NSVRC issue awards for SAAM?
Yes. The NSVRC presents the Visionary Voice Awards. These awards, offered in conjunction with Sexual Assault Awareness Month each April, recognize the creativity and hard work of individuals around the country who have demonstrated outstanding advocacy and community work to end or prevent sexual violence. The NSVRC relies on each state, territory, and tribal coalition to select one outstanding individual deserving of this honor (only coalitions may make selections). While we encourage coalitions to look to their local community partners for outstanding individuals, coalitions may select the person to receive the award on whatever basis they wish.
For more information, visit the Visionary Voice Award section of the SAAM website.
Who do I contact for more information?
Contact the National Sexual Violence Resource Center at 877-739-3895 or via email.


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November 28, 2014. Pope Francis signed the so-called Golden Book at Ataturk's Mausoleum in Ankara. There he wrote this message: "I express my sincerest good wishes so that Turkey, the natural bridge between two Continents, may not only be a crossroad, but also a place of encounter, dialogue and peaceful coexistence among men and women of good will of every culture, ethnicity and religion."
Pope on Haiti
November 25, 2014. Five years have passed since the deadly earthquake devastated the island of Haiti. In light of this anniversary, Pope Francis has called for a Vatican meeting to take place. The goal is for the Church to look into what can be done to help out victims and the country as it tries to re-build itself.
Cardinal Robert Sarah, new prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship
November 24, 2014. Pope Francis has named Cardinal Robert Sarah as new prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship. Up until recently, he served as the President of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum.
Sarah, 69, a native of Conakry, Guinea, also held a prominent role in the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
He is taking over the post previously held by Cardinal Antonio Cañizares, who was recently named Archbishop of Valencia, Spain.
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November 21, 2014. The following Cardinals will be delegate presidents during the second part of the Synod on the Family, from October 4th to the 24th, 2015. The Archbishop of Paris, Cardinal André Vingt-Trois. From the Philippines, Luis Antonio Tagle. From Aparecida Brazil, Cardinal Raymundo Damasceno Assis. From Durban, South Africa, Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier.
The Relator General will be Cardinal Peter Erdo, who serves as the Archbishop of Budapest. The Secretary General, will be Italian Msgr, Bruno Forte.
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November 20, 2014. Pope Francis has appointed Peter Andrew Comensoli as the New Bishop of Broken Bay, Australia. Up until now, he served as the auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of Sydney.
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November 19, 2014. Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Msgr. Ramon Calderon Batres, Bishop of Linares (Mexico). His successor will be Hilario Gonzalez Garcia, current rector of the Major Seminary of Monterrey.
New Bishops in Mexico and Argentina
November 17, 2014. The Pope has accepted the resignation of Bishop Miguel Romano Gómez, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Guadalajara (Mexico). He also accepted the resignation of the bishop of Apatzingán (Mexico), Bishop Miguel Patiño Velázquez, who will be succeeded by Cristóbal Ascencio García.
In Argentina, the Pope has named Bishop Juan Carlos Ares as auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires and has also named Bishop Martín Fassi as auxiliary bishop of San Isidro (Argentina).
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November 12, 2014. The bishops of Paraguay have announced a possible visit by Pope Francis to their country at the end of 2015 or during 2016. As of now, the Vatican has not confirmed the visit.
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November 11, 2014. Seven cardinals and bishops will take charge of all appeals lodged by priests condemned in their dioceses for abuses and crimes against the Sacraments and the Faith.
The Vatican explained the Pope took this decision "due to the number of appeals and the need to guarantee that they are resolved quickly."
This "special college" will fall under the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. This Congregation will continue to supervise any appeal presented by a bishop and all cases forwarded by this new college.
As for now, the name of only one of the seven members was revealed. It is Archbishop Jose Luis Mollaghan, the former Archbishop of Rosario (Argentina).
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Pope Names New Bishop for Digne (France)
November 7th, 2014. Bishop François-Xavier Loizeau, until now served as the Bishop of Digne (France) presented this morning his resignation to the Pope. The Holy Father has named Fr. Jean-Philippe Nault as his successor. The Holy Father also appointed two new auxiliary bishops for the diocese of Melbourne (Australia): Msgr. Terence Robert Curtin and Fr. Mark S. Edwards.
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November 5, 2014.
On Wednesday, Pope Francis met with the president of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, Estela de Carlotto. Her grandson, Ignacio Guido Montoya Carlotto, also attended the meeting. He was reunited with his family in August, after a 36 year search. The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo is an Argentinian group of women, who for years have protested the disappearance of family members during Argentina's dictatorship.
Pope Francis on Resignation Rules
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November 4th, 2014. Pope Francis has nominated Msgr. Peter Forsyth Christensen as the new Bishop of Boise City. Christopher Kakooza has been nominated as the Bishop of Lugazi, Uganda. Msgr. Carlos Enrique Trinidad Gomez has been appointed as the new Bishop of San Marcos, Guatemala, while Msgr. Adolfo Armando Uriona has been nominated as the new Bishop of Villa de la Concepcion del Rio Cuatro in Argentina.
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Pope Francis was very clear on the importance of women in the Church during the return flight from WYD in Rio: Women, he then said, are key.
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"Our Lady, Mary, was more important than the Apostles, than bishops and deacons and priests. Women, in the Church, are more important than bishops and priests; how, this is something we have to try to explain better".
He also expressed his concern in promoting the role of women in the Church during the 25 anniversary of the Apostolic Letter Mulieris Dignitatem. He recognized it was painful to see how sometimes the women's call to service is turned into "servitude."
For the Pope, the presence of the "feminine genius" is important in society as well as in the public sphere. In an audience with the women of the Centro Italiano Femminile he asserted the "indispensable" role of women.
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"Over the span of these decades, alongside other cultural and social transformations, the identity and role of the woman in the family, in society and in the Church, has seen notable changes, and over all, the participation and responsibility of women has continued to grow."
Francis wants the Church to have a "more incisive feminine presence," as he declared on his interview to Civiltà Cattólica magazine. The Pope argued that reducing the debate to female priests means clericalizing women.
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As a data-access technology designed to meet the needs of a variety of development styles, the Microsoft Entity Framework presents developers with a lot of options. Some of these choices need to be made early on in your development cycle and will impact what options you'll have further along in your development process. In my next three columns, I'll provide high-level guidance for some of the biggest decisions you'll need to make with the Entity Framework:
There are many more design decisions to be made throughout your application, but these questions are the most frequently asked—and often debated—by developers as they begin to implement the Entity Framework into existing or new applications.
I'll attack the conceptual model creation workflow here and cover the other three topics in the next two columns. My goal is to provide a high-level overview.
The Entity Framework relies on a conceptual model of your domain entities, called an Entity Data Model (EDM), and choosing how to create that model is the first decision you'll need to make. There are three separate workflows to choose from:
In the first iteration of the Entity Framework, we didn't have all of the options mentioned. The only way to create a model was to reverse-engineer an existing database into an EDM, which we refer to as Database First modeling (see Figure 1).
Figure 1 With Database First, You Reverse-Engineer a Model from a Legacy Database
You've probably seen this demonstrated many times, in fact. You open the EDM Wizard, point to an existing database, select which tables, views, stored procedures and user-defined functions you'd like to be represented in the model and click the finish button. Instantly, a model is born. The Database First model starts its life as a virtual reflection of the database (or that subset of the database you selected). With no more effort, developers will already benefit from the Entity Framework. You can write strongly typed queries against this model, and the Entity Framework will execute those queries for you and materialize strongly typed objects from the results. Then, as you work with the results, the Entity Framework tracks the changes and allows you to persist them back to the database simply by calling its SaveChanges command.
That's going to be all that some developers need from the Entity Framework, but they're missing out on one of the great benefits of having the model, which is that you can make it look more like your domain—the classes and relationships that define your application—than the database, and then not have to worry about how to get from there back to your database (which the Entity Framework will continue to take care of for you). Model customization is a critical feature of the EDM that many developers overlook and don't benefit from. You can introduce inheritance hierarchies into the model, reshape entities, combine and split entities, and much more.
With Database First, you can have the best of both of these worlds: leverage the existing database to get a huge head start with creating your model, then customize that model to better reflect your application domain.
You won't always have a legacy database to start with. Model First lets you design the model directly in the designer and create your database schema based on the model. You can build your entities and their properties, define relationships and their constraints, and create inheritance hierarchies right in the designer. You can specify what properties will become identity keys and even if the database should be responsible for generating their values (see Figure 2).
Figure 2 With Model First, You Design a Model that's Used to Generate Database Schema
The EDM Designer "Create Database from Model" feature doesn't actually create a database. What it will do is build SQL that, when executed, will define the schema of a database. This SQL is referred to as Data Definition Language, or DDL.
There are a few non-obvious things to be aware of. Model First was introduced in Visual Studio 2010 and the Microsoft .NET Framework 4. You won't find the Create Database option in Visual Studio 2008. Also, because it's a new feature, you'll need to ensure that the ADO.NET Data provider you're using (for example, System.Data.Sql) has been updated to provide this capability. The Microsoft SQL Server provider was updated for the .NET 4 release; some of the third-party providers have also been updated.
A behavior to be prepared for is that Model First does not, by default, perform incremental schema updates to your database. When you run the feature, it will create a completely new DDL script that will remove and then recreate all of the database objects. External tools are available to help you modify the database schema rather than overwrite it. Otherwise you'll want to either back up your data in advance or write a script to regenerate your test data any time you want to modify the model and recreate the database schema.
Visual Studio does provide an extensibility point in the database generation, which you can leverage with the help of the Entity Designer Database Generation Power Pack from Microsoft. You can download it from the Visual Studio 2010 Extension Manager or from visualstudiogallery.com. This extension not only provides a way for you to make incremental changes to the database with Model First, but it also gives you the ability to change the default Table Per Hierarchy inheritance mapping and even create your own customized DDL generation rules.
With Database First and Model First, you'll end up with a physical representation of your EDM along with additional metadata. The raw format of this model is XML. It's stored in a file with an EDMX extension, and you can work with it in the EDM Designer or the raw XML. At run time, the Entity Framework reads that XML and creates an in-memory representation of the model using specialized classes that represent the metadata—entities, relationships and so on. The Entity Framework runtime works with those objects, not the actual XML file. This metadata is especially critical when the Entity Framework needs to transform model queries into database queries, database results into entity instances, and create database commands for inserts, updates and deletes. Visual Studio will generate your domain classes from the XML to use in your application.
The Entity Framework team has come up with a way to create the needed metadata objects at run time without requiring you to have a physical EDMX file. This is the power behind the third model-creation workflow for the Entity Framework, called Code First. With Code First, rather than creating an EDM, you create your domain classes as you would for any other .NET development. At run time, the Entity Framework will inspect those classes and, using a set of default conventions, build an in-memory model that the Entity Framework runtime can work with. Because your classes won't always naturally provide the information that the Entity Framework needs to create that model, you can provide additional configuration (using declarative attributes/data annotations or in code using a fluent API) to further describe the model, overriding the conventions mentioned earlier. You can use configuration for a wide variety of model tasks, from identifying primary keys that don't match Code First conventions to fine-tuning relationships or even specifying how an inheritance hierarchy should be represented.
Like Model First, Code First defaults to the presumption that you aren't starting with a legacy database, and provides the capability to create that database from the inferred model. Unlike Model First, you can create the database file as well as the schema. With Code First, you still lack a way to persist database data if you modify the model and regenerate the database. However, Code First does have support to detect model and database differences, as well as seed the database with data using database initializers.
You can also use Code First with an existing database. If your class and property names don't match up to the database, you can add data annotations or configuration through the fluent API to overcome that. Figure 3 shows a class with attributes that will force Code First to provide mappings to the correct table and property names even though the class and fields don't match exactly.
Figure 3 A Class with Code First Attributes to Ensure the Class Can Correctly Map to an Existing Table
[Table("SalesOrderDetail", SchemaName="SalesLT")]
public partial class Detail
// Scalar properties
[Column(Name = "SalesOrderID")]
public int OrderId { get; set; }
[Column(Name = "SalesOrderDetailID")]
public int DetailId { get; set; }
public short OrderQty { get; set; }
public int ProductId { get; set; }
public decimal UnitPrice { get; set; }
public decimal UnitPriceDiscount { get; set; }
public decimal LineTotal { get; set; }
public System.DateTime ModifiedDate { get; set; }
// Navigation properties
public virtual Product Product { get; set; }
public virtual Order Order { get; set; }
The Entity Framework has evolved to support a variety of development styles, but this now forces us to be familiar with the options in order to choose the right approach. If you like to use a UI for your model, then you have the EDM Designer available whether you're starting with an existing database or using the Model First option. Even then, you can still use the modeler to help make a stake in the ground and then use a template to create Code First classes and drop the visual model. If you're all about the code and prefer not to be tied to an EDMX file or the visual modeler, Code First will appeal to you (see Figure 4).
Figure 4 The Decision Tree
Whichever modeling technique you choose—Database First, Model First or Code First—once you've created a model, you won't notice any difference when you begin to query, interact with and persist entities using the Entity Framework runtime by way of the model's classes. And it's possible to start with one workflow and switch to another. You can create Code First classes from an EDMX using the DbContext Code Generation template. And, while it's not quite as easy, you can also create an EDMX from Code First classes.
I've provided a high-level view of the choices and what might drive you to choose one over the other, and hopefully I've demystified some of the options for you.
In future columns, I'll talk about other big decisions you'll face in your Entity Framework applications, which I mentioned at the start of this column: choosing a code-generation strategy for EntityObjects or POCOs, loading related data using eager, lazy or explicit loading, and writing queries using LINQ to Entities or Entity SQL.
Julie Lerman is a Microsoft MVP, .NET mentor and consultant who lives in the hills of Vermont. You can find her presenting on data access and other Microsoft .NET topics at user groups and conferences around the world. She blogs at thedatafarm.com/blog and is the author of the highly acclaimed book, "Programming Entity Framework" (O'Reilly Media, 2010). Follow her on Twitter at twitter.com/julielerman.
Thanks to the following technical expert for reviewing this article: Tim Laverty
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so once of your video series mentioned powertools beta with EF6 was giving you ability to choose which tables to reverse engineer from an existing database. I do not see that option when I use it with vs2013, EF6. Any ideas when its coming out? Is this even a good spot to ask?
Revisiting this article I want to point out that it's still quite relevant 2 years later. However three things to be aware of: The VS2012 EF Designer allows you to visually break up the diagram of your model. Also when you create a new EDMX in VS2012, the default code generation template will output POCO classes and a DbContext based context. For VS2013, the Ef designer will no longer be built directly into VS 2013. It will be a separate install (though VS will automatically install it) so that the team can update and deploy the designer without waiting for the next release of Visual Studio.
Thanks for the article. I'd just like to say that although the concept of the Visual Designer (edmx) is great, in practice I have found it to be a big problem with a large model when changes have to be made to the database. Refreshing the data model from the UI often fails and developers have to tinker around with the underlying xml file and/or edmx to get things to work again. Plus the arrangement of the entities and the moving of those entities on the edmx in large scale models creates additional frustration. I wish it weren't true. But I have not met a single developer who did not have this same experience.
Personally, I prefer to _combine_ Model First and Database First. Developers may want to update the model using the designer, while e.g. a DBA will make changes db-side. Here's a short screencast showing how combine both strategies (using additional tooling for EFv4): http://huagati.blogspot.com/2011/05/entity-framework-model-creation-be... / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doqYOlcEAZM
I realized that I left an important factor out of the decision tree: for developers who are starting with existing classes and an existing database. I have written a short blog post to cover that: http://thedatafarm.com/blog/data-access/model-first-database-first-or-...
@NoundaDee... Yes I know that there are developers who really need that capability. Hopefully, there will be more flexibility in a future version of EF to accommodate dynamic class structures.
We are living in a dynamic world, model is dynamic,customer wants the ability to change the model, but still EF doesn't support adding properties at run time. Why it is so hard to treats part of the Entity as a Dictionary?! Or joining an Entity with a TABLE where the dynamic properties are stored?! As long as EF doesn't support dynamic properties, we can't use it with our products So once again I am reading a great and interesting article but we cannot Use the power of EF in our products :( firstname.lastname@example.com
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