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Helias girls lose to nationally ranked Incarnate Word
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Update: Incarnate Word beat Helias 66-20 to advance to the girls' Class 4 Final Four.
News Tribune sports reporter Adam Stillman provided updates on Twitter during today's game. Read his Twitter reports now and check out a full game story posted later online and in Sunday's newspaper.
Earlier preview story:
Helias girls basketball coach Doug Light has faced several teams that were nationally ranked throughout his coaching career.
He said it takes a certain mentality to prepare for the challenge.
"You can't go into the game thinking about national rankings," Light said. "You've got to go in and play hard and go in with the will to win. You've got to believe in yourself.
"Everything we've said is predicated around, 'Hey, you've got to go out and go after them. There's nothing to be nervous about. You've reached this point, now go win a basketball game.'"
Helias plans on carrying that mindset into today's Class 4 quarterfinal matchup against nationally ranked Incarnate Word Academy at 1 p.m. at Francis Howell High School.
"We're just going to go in not fearing them and just act like it's any other game," Helias senior Kelsi Bernskoetter said. "We're going to play as hard as we can and just see who comes out on top."
The Lady Crusaders (17-11) know the odds aren't in their favor, but that doesn't matter.
"Nobody expects us to win," Light said. "We know that, we've talked about that. We're just going to go out there and give it our all. We're going there to win a basketball game. We're not going there to roll over."
Incarnate Word (28-1) is the top-ranked team in Class 4 and the second-ranked team in the country according to MaxPreps and USA Today.
The Red Knights' only loss came to Blackman (Murfreesboro, Tenn.), the No. 1 team in the nation, on Jan. 25. But Incarnate Word also claimed a 53-44 win against Blackman on Jan. 1.
"We have nothing to lose," Helias junior Katlyn Cowell said, while also noting the Red Knights' resume. "They have all the pressure on them. Everyone expects them to win. Nobody expects much from us, so I think we can just go out there, have fun with it, and prove everybody wrong."
That's something the Lady Crusaders have taken pride in doing all season.
"Not a lot of people expected us to get this far," Cowell said. "I don't even think people expected us to win a district championship this year. It's something we've believed all along, but not many people behind us have believed in us."
One thing is certain: the Lady Crusaders are confident they're peaking at the right time.
Helias is coming off a 46-34 win against St. Charles West in a sectional game Wednesday to extend its winning streak to three. Before that, the Lady Crusaders knocked off Fulton 43-36 and claimed a 41-31 victory against Kirksville in the district title game.
"This is the best we've played all season," Light said. "We're getting the pieces put together and it's kind of come into fruition for us."
Now, the Lady Crusaders know they'll have to be even better to get past Incarnate Word.
The Red Knights have three players averaging double figures, including Napheesa Collier, who played at Jefferson City High School her freshman year. Collier, regarded as the seventh-highest recruit in the nation in the junior class, leads Incarnate Word with 23.3 points and 10 rebounds per game.
Nakiah Bell, an Iowa State signee, averages 13.6 ppg, while McKenna Treece chips in with 10 ppg to round out the top scorers for the Red Knights.
"We're just going to have to play really solid defense and we've got to keep those kids under control," Light said. "They're a tall order. But what's the alternative? You're sitting in the stands watching that game.
"We're very pleased with what we've accomplished. Now, it's icing on the cake from this point on."
Mai Nienhueser leads Helias with 10.9 points and 7.5 rebounds per game. Meghan Nappier is next in line with 7.2 ppg, while Darcy Baird (6.5 ppg) and Bernskoetter (5.3 ppg) help pace the Lady Crusaders on the offensive end.
"We're going to have to play together," Bernskeotter said. "No one expected us to get where we are. We feed off each other. When we all play well, that's when we do the best."
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It's been a while since I've put up any Prime strips. Well, there's good reason for that, but I expect to have new ones up soon. I've got a few in my head right now. You're probably wondering "What good is that going to do anybody if you don't draw em and post em?" Well, I'll get around to that.
I've finally started college at the Savannah College of Art and Design's Atlanta campus. During the first two quarters we take foundation classes, classes like Life Drawing and Two Dimensional Design, so I haven't done anything Sequential Arts related yet. So far my schedules been kinda hectic (and I'm still working on the weekend) but after I get myself better organized I should have some more Prime posted, I have one that I have to finish coloring and should be up by Friday.
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Is Dallas among U.S. cities where car-free life is easier? Study says yes
Dallas offers its residents an "abundance" of transportation-related technology tools, putting it among 19 American cities that makes it easier to get around without owning a car, according to a study released Wednesday by two consumer rights groups.
The "Innovative Transportation Index" ranked 70 cities based on the the availability of 11 technology-based transportation services. Dallas came in twelfth. Austin bested San Francisco and Washington, D.C. to top the list because it was the only city to have all 11 services available.
"These services make it easier to conveniently get around without owning a car," the study's authors said. "That is increasingly what city dwellers – and Millennials especially – say they want."
The index looked at whether residents in each city could use some sort of technology-based service on their desktops or smartphones to help them move around without a car they owned. Scores were based on several things including the ability to hail taxis, share bikes, find real-time public transit information, buy transit tickets virtually and ride source (think Uber, Lyft, etc.). Scores went up based on the number of options available in each category.
The study was conducted by the Frontier Group and Texas Public Interest Group's Education Fund. It looked at whether particular technology-based tools are available, not at the performance of transportation services or transit agencies.
According to the study, the only service unavailable in Dallas was ridesharing, which connects passengers with drivers who are already headed in the same direction and are willing to give them a lift.
Updated at 10:26 a.m.: Dallas Area Rapid Transit's GoPass app, which allows virtual ticket purchases and real-time arrival estimates, helped the city score as high as it did. And the transit agency today announced that it is teaming up with car-sharing network Zipcar to provide two vehicles at Mockingbird Station.
"Solving the problem of the 'last mile' of a trip – helping travelers reach their destination when it's not adjacent to a transit stop – is a challenge being addressed by transit agencies across the country," says a DART Daily blog post announcing the venture.


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Prius Online players will want to check out the notice of Prius Compensation notice posted on the official site. According to the post, Prius Online will be shutting down on March 27th. gPotato is offering players who have logged in three times in the past ninety days a compensation package as they move to another gPotato title.Reported on Mar 12, 2012
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"Surrogacy doesn't need a celebrity role model," says firstpost in response to the outpouring of support for Aamir Khan after his announcement in December 2011 that he and his wife, Kiran Rao, had been blessed with a baby boy thanks to this procedure. The author of this article continues with the observation that in countries like India and Guatemala--due to well-founded concerns about baby kidnapping and child trafficking--"it is now far easier to rent a womb than adopt a child." It is also far easier, albeit still highly controversial, for eager parents from the Global North with disposable income to place an order for a designer baby, mixing carefully a chosen donor egg and donor sperm, choosing for the child (or children's) sex. This is the phenomenon that documentary filmmaker Zippi Brand Frank captures with the memorable phrase "Google Baby."
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Type: Bug
Status: Closed
Resolution: Fixed
Affects Version/s: 6.1.1 CE GA2, 6.1.20 EE GA2
Fix Version/s: 6.1.2 CE GA3, 6.1.30 EE GA3, 6.2.0 CE M2
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LPS-32482 My Account User Categories won't save or update LPS-22298 When adding a sub category to a category, keep parent category selected after save LPS-19962 DDL: Unable to Save add Option in Radio and Select field
Steps to reproduce
1. Create Asset Vocabulary
2. Create Categories for that Vocabulary
3. Create or update a user and assign categories
4. Save the record and notice the categories were not saved.
Saving Asset Tags works fine.
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The problems seems to be caused by checking the actionRequest for a parameter named assetCategoryNames.
if (actionRequest.getParameter("assetCategoryNames") == null ) {
The actionRequest only contains actionCategoryIds. But changing the assetCategoryNames to assetCategoryIds in the above code is not enough because there may be several actionCategoryId parameters for different vocabularies.
This step seems to be unnecessary because the actionRequestIds will already be in the ServiceContext. Removing the whole block appears to work correctly.
Although the Asset Tags are working, the code checking the ActionRequest for the assetTagNames also seems unnecessary because the Service Context should already have that information.
Sergio, can you please take a look when you get some time. It looks to me like the Service Context will always have the Asset Category Ids and Asset Category Tags so there doesn't seem to be a need to try and get them from the Action Request, which was what was failing for the Asset Categories.
Tested the steps described in
LPS-25410 and verified that the proposed solution works for Categories and Tags.
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Portal 6.2.x GIT ID: b56d564614fd5969f0ffad11e63c2ef03c95795e.
PASSED Manual Testing following the steps in the description.
Reproduced on:
Tomcat 7.0 + MySQL 5. Portal 6.1.20 EE GA2.
When I click save, the category can not be saved.
Fixed on:
Tomcat 7.0 + MySQL 5. Portal 6.1.x EE GIT ID: 7963ca2938e9bcc0167ad92f9c98b90143edccf6.
Tomcat 7.0 + MySQL 5. Portal 6.2.x GIT ID: 9e92fd3ee490fb55da4898292881195ee5f8d5a4.
When I click save, I can save the category successfully.
Peter Mesotten Yes, this fix will be included in the upcoming fixpacks for 6.1 GA2


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Bloomberg to Tap Former Wachovia CEO As Deputy Mayor
Robert Steel will fill Dan Doctoroff's big shoes.
The mayor is set to add another powerhouse to his roster of deputy mayors. According to The Wall Street Journal, he's set to tap Robert Steel as his deputy for economic development. Steel will fill the shoes of Dan Doctoroff, Bloomberg's effective original development guru, who now runs his private Bloomberg LP. Steel has quite the financial résumé: After nearly 30 years at Goldman Sachs, he served not only as an undersecretary in the Bush Treasury, but also as the CEO of Wachovia. He's expected to be named today. (He also executive produced a race-relations movie by the guy who wrote Die Hard.) "Steel is the third high-profile appointment to Mayor Michael Bloomberg's cabinet of deputy mayors this year," writes Michael Saul. "In April, Bloomberg tapped Stephen Goldsmith, a former mayor of Indianapolis, to be deputy mayor for operations, replacing longtime confidante Ed Skyler. In March, the mayor appointed Howard Wolfson as deputy mayor for government affairs, replacing Kevin Sheekey." Though he's lost all but one of his original powerhouse deputy mayors, Bloomberg has resolved to make his third term in office his most effective yet.
Bloomberg to Tap Robert Steel as Deputy Mayor [Metropolis/WSJ]


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Below are some "fun facts" about physical, occupational and speech therapists we thought you'd find of interest.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2010-2011Edition reports that "[p]hysical therapists held about 185,500 jobs in 2008. The number of physical therapist jobs is probably greater than the number of practicing physical therapists, because some physical therapists work part time, holding two or more jobs. For example, some may work in a private practice, but also work part time in another healthcare facility."
Occupational therapists, meanwhile, held 104,500 jobs in 2008. The greatest number (29 percent) of OTs worked in ambulatory healthcare services, with hospitals, public and private educational services, nursing care facilities and offices of other healthcare practitioners (including other OTs), bringing up the rear. However, OTs also worked in home healthcare services, outpatient care centers, physicians' offices, community care facilities for the elderly, and government agencies.
As for speech therapists, the BLS' Handbook reports that they held about 119,000 jobs in 2008, with 48 percent working in educational services. The remainder worked in the "usual" places -- hospitals, offices of other healthcare professionals, nursing homes, home healthcare facilities, child care centers, etc. Nine percent of speech therapists were self-employed, contracting their services to schools, physicians, hospitals and nursing homes.
Who makes the most? Physical therapists. The BLS reported that the median annual salary for PTs in May 2008 was $72,790. Occupational therapists came in second, with a median annual salary of $66,780, while speech therapists made a respectable median annual salary of $62,930.
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What is terroir?
In our recent Winemaker Roundtable, more than one participant named "specific place character," or "terroir," as the most important requirement in the wines they most enjoy drinking. What do they mean by terroir? Terroir (tair-wahr) is a French concept incorporating everything that contributes to the distinctive character of a particular vineyard site: its soil and subsoil; its drainage, slope and elevation; and its microclimate, which in turn includes temperature and precipitation, exposure to the sun, wind and fog, and the like. I'd argue that even the particular strains of wild yeasts that come in on the grape skins and live in the cellars can have a strong effect on the wines themselves. The concept of terroir is essential to understanding a variety like pinot noir, for example, because this grape is hypersensitive to its environment, reflecting the slightest nuances of soil and climate in its aromas, tastes, textures, structure and aging curve.
Whereas the great majority of wines made from cabernet sauvignon, for example, demonstrate that variety's characteristic deep color, blackcurrant flavor, and firmly tannic backbone, with regional variations on this theme, the pinot noir is chameleon-like, and, not surprisingly, a less adaptable international traveler. If the climate is too cool, the wines tend to be weedy and pale; if too warm, they can turn out roasted, even pruney, or overly tannic. Too-rich soils can produce excessive crop loads or ponderous wines devoid of nuance. And even when all other grape-growing and winemaking variables are identical—a state of affairs that's rare in the world of wine—vineyards literally 100 yards apart can yield completely different styles of wine.
The concept of terroir is especially relevant where wines are made from a single variety grown in a highly specific vineyard site, or in a region where vintages vary substantially in quality and style depending on the climate—in other words, in wine-producing areas at the northernmost latitude of where the variety can achieve a slow and steady ripeness (or southernmost, in the case of countries in the Southern Hemisphere.) Some other examples of mono-cépage (single-variety) wines that show uncanny transparency to soil include riesling in Germany and the great nebbiolo wines Barolo and Barbaresco in Italy's Piedmont region. Terroir is less of a factor in very warm regions, where sheer ripeness can overwhelm subtle nuances of site, and in regions in which wines are blends of two or more grape varieties.
Terroir may figuratively be a taste of the soil, but that doesn't meant a wine should literally taste like dirt. Not too many years ago, many wine tasters and even some wine critics often explained away serious wine flaws as expressing the terroir of a wine. To cite just one example: the leathery, barnyard smell that characterized so many examples of Cornas, and in fact was largely responsible for its reputation as a rustic country wine well into the 1980s, was most often due to the spoilage yeast brettanomyces, or to flawed, old barrels, not to the soil. There may well be a wildness to the syrah in this northern Rhône Valley village, but there's a difference between feral and fecal.
Many serious tasters would argue today that the first responsibility of a wine is to be cleanly made, and most commercial wineries know from experience that wine drinkers will not accept dirty wines. Happily, wines today are cleaner than ever before, but this does not translate into a loss of character from the good old days. Most experienced wine lovers are far more interested in the differences between the wines they drink than in what they all have in common. You may prefer one terroir over another; in fact, you almost certainly will. But virtually all winemaking flaws, whether brettanomyces, TCA (2,4,6-trichloranisole, the moldy-smelling compound associated with corked wines but sometimes also afflicting wood surfaces in a winery), dirty barrel notes, or oxidative aromas in young releases, only mask the distinctive character of the site.
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Many times I've thought about where the line between terroir and dirty cellars lies. Many winemakers opt to not inoculate with S. cerevisiae at all or only after their ferments have started. This allows for species like Dekkera/Brettanomyces to leave their mark on a wine. The issue of native yeasts is fodder for a continuous debate because it is not clear just how much S. Cerevisiae comes into the cellar from the vineyard on the fruit. However, where the line between terroir and sloppy winemaking becomes particularly blurred when one considers the fact that a vineyard is a biological microsystem and the properties of one vineyard's soils and microclimate may be conducive to sustaining populations of (some?) fermentative species.
Can microorganisms, in that context, be excluded from the concept of terroir?


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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi NAACP president Derrick Johnson said Wednesday that the group's charity, One Voice, has strengthened its own financial controls since examiners with the secretary of state's office uncovered spending problems.
One Voice board chairwoman Safiya R. Omari signed a consent order Aug. 21, agreeing to fix problems the found by the agency, which regulates charities in Mississippi. The agency posted the document (http://1.usa.gov/15x3NrQ) to its website Wednesday.
One Voice was formed in Mississippi to help "historically disadvantaged communities" after hurricanes struck in 2005, according to the group's website. It also has a chapter in Louisiana.
The consent order in Mississippi says One Voice spent thousands on expenses not related to its stated purpose of "improving the quality of life for African-Americans and other disenfranchised communities," including $2,400 for an NAACP web page. The order says the civil rights group reimbursed One Voice for that expense.
The order also says One Voice spent $9,348 to send eight people to the NAACP Image Awards in Los Angeles. The order says travel expenses to the Image Awards are allowed for the executive director and a board member, but the charity must collect $7,011 to cover expenses of the six other people. The order did not list dates for the expenses.
The order says that since the charities division started its examination of One Voice, the group collected reimbursement from various people for $7,374 it spent for pizza, movie rentals, Broadway tickets, spa treatments and other expenses not related to its charitable work.
The consent order shows One Voice has the same Jackson address as the Mississippi NAACP, and the phone number listed on the "contact us" section of the One Voice website rang to the NAACP office Wednesday.
Johnson issued a statement saying: "In 2010, as One Voice Mississippi was undergoing rapid growth, we needed to strengthen our financial controls. We have long since evaluated our former financial policies and procedures, and in accordance with state and federal laws have made the requisite changes to ensure the highest level of compliance."
Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann declined to comment on the consent order. His spokeswoman, Pamela Weaver, said all the relevant information is in the document.
The secretary of state's office has a charities division that regularly examines finances and other documents of nonprofit groups that raise and spend money in Mississippi. One Voice agreed to correct spending problems without going through an administrative hearing, according to the consent order.
Hosemann, a Republican, is in the process of setting administrative rules for a law that will require Mississippi voters to show photo identification. The NAACP says the law will disproportionately hurt poor and minority residents.
"One Voice is committed to advocating for the rights of all Mississippians to cast a ballot without threat of intimidation or voter suppression," Johnson said Wednesday.
The consent order says the secretary of state's charities division "has concerns" about $4,031 that One Voice paid for training and hotel expenses "as these expenses were billed to the NAACP." However, the order says the charity did not have to seek reimbursement for the money because Johnson, attorney Carroll Rhodes and two other people submitted notarized statements saying that training, lodging and other expenses related to redistricting were included in the $4,031 and the spending was "solely for One Voice's benefit and purpose."
Rhodes represented the state NAACP in a 2012 lawsuit that unsuccessfully challenged Mississippi's legislative redistricting plan.
State law requires charities to register with the secretary of state's office. The consent order says the registration for One Voice expired Nov. 30, and the group filed an incomplete renewal form. The order says One Voice should not be soliciting money, including grant applications, until it is registered.
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Matthew Andrews faces up to six years in prison at Friday's court hearing. He pleaded guilty to a felony charge of attempting to influence a public servant in November.
Prosecutors say he helped Felix Trujillo walk out of jail in a sheriff's deputy's baseball cap and jacket and then drove him away in April.
Investigators say Andrews told co-workers he helped with the escape because he and his family had been threatened.
Trujillo later surrendered. He was sentenced to 34 years in prison after pleading guilty to both the escape and the robbery he was in jail for at the time of his escape.
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With all the interest surrounding the move into primary eye care, including treatment of ocular surface disease, glaucoma and posterior segment diseases such as macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy, many of us are guilty of leaving our "bread and butter" behind. The gains in technology in the diagnosis and treatment of ocular disease have been incredible, resulting in much better access to superior care for most of our patients. I'll bet that just about everyone reading this article has added one or more devices devoted to the treatment of ocular disease in the last 5 years. How many of you have done the same when it comes to the diagnosis and correction of refractive errors?
Because there's only one reimbursement code for refraction, and it's not something that's usually billed to major medical plans, there's no "new revenue" stream to be tapped into when it comes to refraction. That doesn't mean there haven't been any tangibly valuable improvements in the gathering and analysis of refractive error data. Whether you see a direct or indirect return on your investment when upgrading your refractive care technology, your patients all come in contact with your lensometer, autorefractor and phoropter during your eye care cycle. In fact, it's usually the portion of your professional care that has the biggest impact on most of your patients' visual well being.
We've been correcting lower-order refractive errors for so long that as eyecare providers we take them—and their correction—for granted. Not only can we provide a superior measurement and correction of lower-order aberrations than ever before, now we can measure and correct higher-order aberrations, either directly with new technology in eyeglasses and contact lenses, or indirectly by taking these aberrations into account both during and after we complete the refractive data-gathering process.
Until recently, I was a lensometer, retinoscope and manual phoropter practitioner. That changed in 2007 at the AOA meeting in Boston when I personally underwent refraction with a "refracting system." One of the Marco area managers used a 3-D Wave (auto-refractor, topographer, pupillometer and aberrometer combination unit) and an RT-5100 to perform a refraction on my post-RK presbyopic eyes. After seeing how quick and easy the refraction process could be, I looked into the specific capabilities of automated refracting systems.
The programmability of the systems automates the whole refraction process, from lensometry and autorefraction to the subjective testing, and finally the comparison of the current subjective refraction to the habitual prescription from lensometry. With button-pushing sequences, the phoropter is set up for each test in order, the chart is changed to the one desired and the refraction progresses smoothly from start to finish. If other testing is required during the refraction, or if the patient can't undergo one or more tests, you can "freestyle" as needed, abandoning the programmed refraction or continuing as desired.
Within 15 minutes, after discussing the system and all of its capabilities, I was talking about delivery and installation times. The decision was that simple. Let me share some specifics of my decision-making process.
The first consideration I measured was what I call the "Patient Experience." The testing sequence and the tests themselves made the entire refraction process much simpler and easier for me as the patient. First, the accurate autorefraction resulted in a good starting point for the refraction. The second benefit was the ability to make a direct comparison between the "choices" during the cylinder axis and power tests. The TRS-5100 uses a split prism to show the patient both choices at the same time, which is a much easier decision process for the patient. This results in fewer questions and patient responses, and a much faster process. Third, was the ability to show the patient the difference between their habitual prescription and the new subjective prescription. They were able to easily see—and value—the difference between the two prescriptions, making it much simpler because patients can see what the change in prescription will do for them visually.
I chose to use the 3-D Wave as my autorefractor in my refracting system. Even though I already had a stand-alone topographer, the 3-D Wave provides so much additional data in one quick and simple testing stop that I chose it over a traditional AR/keratometer unit. The 3-D Wave provides me with several autorefraction values for each patient, topography, aberrometry, pupillometry and an external eye image in less than 30 seconds per eye. The multiple autorefraction values tell me how the patient's vision changes from the center of the pupil to the periphery of the pupil. Many patients undergo a small to moderate shift in sphere and cylinder power as well as cylinder axis as you move further from the center of the pupil.
I've described one such patient and the impact that this information had on his visual outcome in a sidebar to this article, but suffice it to say that I use the multiple refractions and aberrometry data every day with many patients.
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would you date/sleep with a new person? Say yall broke up 2 months into the pregnancy?
Have you ever dated while pregnant and he was not your child's father? Did you stay with him to raise the baby together?
would you date/sleep with a new person? Say yall broke up 2 months into the pregnancy?
Have you ever dated while pregnant and he was not your child's father? Did you stay with him to raise the baby together?
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I don't think I could sleep with someone who wasn't the father if I was pregnant. It would just be odd to me. However, I would still date him.
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Is your name M******? Did you cheat on your DH, get pregnant by a second guy, then move on to a third, all while claiming to love your DH SOOOOOO much? If so, I know who you are IRL, and I am not impressed.
Oh, sorry, probably not the same person.
I think as long as you are honest with the person you are with, why does it matter?
I don't think I could sleep with someone who was not the baby's father while pregnant. I think I could probably date someone but I would take it very, very slow, and sex would not have to be a part of the picture for a long time.
I was single & pregnant and single to she was 5 years old. There was no way with everythign I was going through I was trying to have another man up in the mix. Sorry. Maybe I am too focused.
It's also skeezy to be pregnant by one dude and boinkin another. Sorry.
~Dawn~ There is no need to talk trash about people whose lives speak for themselves.
I got pregnant within the first couple weeks when I met Josh. (the dad of my twins) we weren't even actually dating at the time. We tried to date for about 3 months, but he just was being a worse and worse tool. We broke up when I was about 13 weeks pregnant. (around the same time we found out its twins, imagine that) I slept with one person twice the duration of the rest of my pregnancy.
and no me and Josh did not and do not live together to raise Conner. in fact we live 500 miles apart. I've gone solo mom since Conner was fresh out of NICU.
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That is disturbing. No. Absolutely not.
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I did.
DS1's father and I were best friends, not a couple, when I got pregnant. While I was pregnant, he was dating many other girls (yes, "girls", not women....ugh). I went on a few dates with someone I met online, and we did have sex when I was about 3 months pregnant. But it didn't last long.
When I was about 5 months pregnant, I was asked out by a really wonderful, older guy. He was well established, very mature, great with kids, handsome....all around great guy!! I just felt weird, though. I originally said yes, but then I backed out. I just couldn't imagine having someone touch me (not even sex, because that was totally off the table at that point). I just felt like my body belonged totally to my baby. I didn't have sex again until DS1 was nearly a year old (and that was with his father.....)!
And potentially catch an STD while pregnant? That sounds like fun!
My Photography * My Etsy * My Sanity
Mom to A and E, and wife to my deployed sailor; 12 years in, only 8 to go!
If I was single and met someone while I was pregnant, started a meaningful relationship and wanted to have sex with that person, I don't know WHY I would stop myself. Whats the issue?
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Game Description: Dead or Alive 2 brings more phenomenal fighting action to the Dreamcast with the gorgeous graphics and incredibly fast gameplay that Sega fans expect. Dead or Alive 2's character-against-character action takes place in gorgeously rendered locations ranging from a cathedral to a moving elevator cage. In a special twist, characters can battle in multiple locations in many of the areas and interact with the environment. This means that the cathedral window is more than just a pretty background—it's just waiting for an opponent to be hurled through it and onto the fighting platform below. Perhaps the coolest feature of all is the Tag Battle mode—available to one-, two-, and four-player games—that enables fighters to summon a teammate into the action. A total of 12 male and female fighters are available, each boasting a slew of basic and special attacks, tag-team combos, reversals, and throws.
When Street Fighter II first debuted in the early 90s, it reintroduced the two-player competitive fighter in a big way and made the genre one of the most popular for years to come. The game was also notable for having only one controllable female character, Chun Li, amidst the cast of testosterone-filled hulking brawlers. Nearly a decade later and dozens of other entries into the genre, things have changed quite a bit. In Tecmo's newest Dreamcast fighting game, Dead Or Alive 2, the gender of playable characters has shifted dramatically to a near equal five to seven ratio; still in favor of males. While the difference is significant, could it also be signaling something more like a rising digital feminist revolution?
On paper, one might actually think that indeed a victory in the gender equality wars has been won, but after actually taking in an eyeful of the ladies that populate the Dead Or Alive 2 universe, you'd think otherwise. Rather than looking like self-empowered and self-assured candidates for N.O.W. (National Organization of Women), the women look more like immature comic book-styled sexual objects of desire. This imagery is only furthered augmented by the Victoria's Secret-type iconography in the form of bold cleavage, mondo bouncing boobs, gratuitous panty flashes and a lingerie-like wardrobe (in other words, the same kind of wet dreaming that gave birth to Lara Croft). Still, these ethical issues won't register with the pubescent and Maxim reading male demographic that Dead Or Alive 2 is targeted for. Nor do those issues detract from what is otherwise a well balanced and finely executed 3D fighting game.
All the sexual innuendo aside, Dead Or Alive 2 still manages to maintain its focus on high intensity one-on-one martial arts matches. Players choose a physical representative from the cast of characters and achieve victory by knocking out the opposing combatant. The simplicity of this goal is furthered emphasized by an extremely responsive and easily comprehensible single directional input (D-pad or joystick) and three-button setup consisting of a punch, kick and a multi-functional 'free' command. Using the D-pad in conjunction with the three buttons, players are able to launch a devastating barrage of combo attacks, throw an opponent off his or her feet, dodge about the three-dimensional arena and, most importantly, counterattack or reverse an opponent's strike. It's really the inclusion of the counterattack feature that deserves the most attention and separates Dead Or Alive 2 from its competitors the most. In most fighting games in the past, blocking meant taking a defensive stance for the duration of an incoming attack no matter how long a string of punches and kicks. Dead Or Alive 2 is different in the fighters can actually intercept certain blows in midstream and counterstrike with a timely press of the 'free' button. Such a feature along with the multi-tiered environments, where fighters can take huge hazardous falls into new zones, can really makes a huge difference in both intensity and the mindset of two competitors. Both participants are kept on edge and need to focus more strategically on offense as well as defense.
All the martial arts mayhem is facilitated into various play modes that Dead Or Alive 2 offers. Long-time fans of the genre will be more then accustomed to the more typical ones like one-player 'Story' mode, the two-player 'Versus' mode and 'Sparring' mode for practice sessions. There are some other modes that are slight variations like the 'Time Attack' mode that has players trying to complete eight rounds in the shortest amount of time possible or 'Team Battle' mode which increases the amount of combatants in a King Of Fighters elimination style tournament. But the one that stands out the most is the 'Tag Battle' mode where up to four human controlled characters can participate. Instead of the regular one-on-one style of match-ups, a pair of fighters can actually 'tag' in and out of an ongoing match pro-wrestling style. There are obvious strategic advantages like one of the two fighter being able to take a breather while the other carries on, but that's not the main sell. What really makes the feature such a standout is the incorporation of 'tag combo' moves. These 'tag combos' range from two fighters stringing together a number of punch and kick attacks to special double team moves reserved for specific pairs of fighters. These reserved moves are usually vicious beat down style of attacks where two fighters will gang up on the other and unleash some serious hurt.
Regardless of whichever mode I personally favored, I found the computer to be a poor challenge even on the highest difficulty settings. This meant that I would need some serious human competitors to match-up against fast if this game was going to hold my interest for long. Luckily, Dale proved to quite the worthy adversary and my favorite character, Jan Lee, against his choice fighter, Helena, were fairly evenly matched (unlike the brutal beatings I use to administer to him in Power Stone). It is worth noting that Dead Or Alive 2 is no different then from so many other fighting games in that its play-life is largely dependent on having some similar minded acquaintances with whom to do battle with.
Moving onto its presentation, almost everything about Dead Or Alive 2 reeks of craftsmanship. Aurally, Dead Or Alive 2 is more than adequate with its abundance of Japanese voice samples and diverse soundtrack; ranging from guitar rifting tunes to orchestra like numbers. But it's really the vibrant visuals in Dead Or Alive 2 that will have even the most jaded non-gamer doing double takes. Speaking of the several arenas where all the hand-to-hand action takes place, I was again amazed at level of detail in the environments which ranged from architectural spaces; indoors and out. The texturing of some particular stages seemed so beautiful and captured the essence of nature so well that I nearly had moments of sublime reflection in between all the punching and kicking. Though I did find the stages to feel a little sparse at times, that's more than understandable when you consider the sheer size of certain stages. I imagine some detail had to be sacrificed in order to facilitate the massive multiple levels by which matches can migrate toward from one area to another.
While I was amazed by the stage designs, I was even more in awe at the incredible amount of detail in the 3D characters and how incredibly smooth they animated. The motion-capture of all the surprisingly original martial arts moves and their seamless transitions during counterattacks are a major accomplishment on the part of the Tecmo's developers. Thankfully, all the technical wonder does not go wasted on poor character designs. The cast of Dead Or Alive 2 is a worthy one and I liked how each fighter not only had a distinctive style of fighting, but they each also had a distinctive look and style (even if their background stories and endings were nonsensical). I'd also be remiss if I didn't admit to not having very conflicting thoughts about the 'enhanced' proportions of the overly sexed-up gals.
It's rather appropriate that I end this review in reference to those mixed emotions. I have no doubt that there are real women like WWF pro-wrestler Chyna or chop-sockie star Cynthia Rothrock who could readily send me to the hospital; begging for mommy. But Dead Or Alive 2 is a case where reality and fantasy are far from matching. As much as I'd like to believe a 110lb, barely-legal babe like Lei-Fang in Dead Or Alive 2 could throw around pro-wrestler sized he-men, I know it simply isn't within the realm of possibility. It's that lack of credibility, along with all the sexual exploitation, that sets the digital women's movement (if you can really call it that) back another 10 years to when it first began with Street Fighter II. Still, there's no denying that amidst all the lusty thoughts and sweaty palms, this is one hell of a competent fighting game. Dead Or Alive 2 may not be revolutionary in its portrayal of empowered women nor even as a fighting game, but it is by far one of the most satisfying one in recent memory.
When I first learned about the Dead Or Alive series, it was while perusing the pages of Electronic Gaming Monthly Magazine; the editors were openly salivating at the overtly 'jiggly' nature of the female fighters in the game. This was a few years back when the first game hit the arcades and was then ported to the Sony PlayStation. Unfortunately, I thought myself too mature and mindful of societies' degradation of women to even look at such a game, let alone play it, so Dead Or Alive 2 is my first real experience with the game. It's amazing how years later and after countless self-proclamations of my maturity, I am kicking myself for not indulging in a Dead Or Alive game sooner. If I had ignored the bouncing breasts back then - although I will admit up front it would have been hard - I could have been having as great a time with an excellent fighting game as I have had the last week while playing Dead Or Alive 2.
On Chi's summation that Dead Or Alive 2 is deficient in challenge for the solitary player and lacks even remotely deep storylines, I must to agree. Dead Or Alive 2 is definitely a game to be played with a friend or two to get the most enjoyment out of it. Another negative that only became apparent after a few hours of playing was the fact that its modes of play begged for more replay value. Granted, Tecmo offers a pretty decent share of modes with the Team Battle Mode (up to four characters are chosen to battle to elimination) and Survival Mode (you take on as many challengers as you can with only one bar of energy), which are in addition to those Chi mentioned. Unfortunately, few of these modes will hold the attention of someone playing at home by him- or herself.
I strongly agree with Chi on the strengths of the game. The characters move about with amazing fluidity and even when I was pulling off the myriad of counters and reversals, everything appeared to be pulled off without a hitch. In fact, the grapple and reversal system is remarkably easy to get into and despite the lightning speed of the action, all the movements merge seamlessly into each other. The backgrounds are also beautiful, although not nearly as detailed as those in Soul Calibur, and the fact that each level is multi-tiered could probably explain the lack of detail. On top of that, the character models are some of the best I've come across while playing. The shapely women are modeled with curves in all the right places and the guys are similarly treated with curved musculature and subtle facial expressions. While playing you will be constantly amazed by the level of polish and effort that obviously went into the game.
In all, I'd have to say that Dead Or Alive 2 has given its core fans what they wanted and, at the same time, provides more than enough to pull some new followers (like myself) into the Dead Or Alive universe. Yes, there are still the jiggling breasts and scantily clad women, but Tecmo was never shy about that being a selling point to grab pubescent boys to their game (since the early days of the original arcade game). And while I can't completely defend the women in the game, unlike other games on the market that feature heroines plucked from old Russ Meyer movies, Tecmo has taken the time to improve on the gameplay, animation, sound and everything else that made the series a cult classic. And I believe the result is deserving of a less critical eye this time around.
According to ESRB, this game contains: Animated Violence, Suggestive Themes
Female gamers could easily be put off by all the immature sexual exploitation and unrealistic portrayal of women in the game. Still, its representation is no more impractical than the well endowed models in a Victoria's Secret catalog (or so I've heard). Plus, chances are if Lara Croft didn't get under your skin, neither will the 'augmented' ladies of Dead Or Alive 2.
A similar warning goes out to parents. If you don't mind your kid gawking at all the bouncing cleavage and glaring panty shots, then by all means purchase Dead Or Alive 2 for your kid. I just hope that any parent of a pubescent teen who does so isn't going to walk in on his or her child while he is stroking more than his controller (American Pie style)! I'm sure parents will also be relieved that Tecmo was so parentally conscious and sensitive that there's even an option to reduce all the bouncing breasts by simply declaring your age to the game. The funny thing is that there's nothing stopping a kid from inputting himself as 99 years old since no fake ID is required!
Hardcore fight fans looking for the next big thing have found it. Though not as complex and deep (which could be a blessing for more casual gamers) as Soul Calibur, Dead Or Alive 2 is convincingly executed, delivers on many levels and is thoroughly satisfying.


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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Sports Network) - Joao Sousa of Portugal earned his
first career ATP title with a three-set victory over France's Julien Benneteau
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) _ Former USC running back Emmanuel Moody
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