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Distinguished Co-Chairmen, Commission members, Ladies and Gentlemen,
In the Caucasus region and Turkey today, there are more than 2 million persons forcibly uprooted from their homes by conflict and human rights violations, many for 10 years or more. Most are caught up in what are called "protracted situations of displacement," situations that go on indefinitely without effective solution. The Commission is therefore to be commended for shining a spotlight on this longstanding problem, which has not received the attention it should from the governments concerned or the international community.
My testimony today will focus upon the role that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) can play to more effectively deal with the serious problem of internal displacement in the European region, in particular the Caucasus countries and Turkey. It follows from and complements the testimony of Francis M. Deng, Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons, who described the conditions of internally displaced persons in the relevant areas and the steps their governments and the international community could take.
Together with Dr. Deng, I co-direct the Project on Internal Displacement of The Brookings Institution and the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University. The Project was set up in 1994 to support the work of the Representative and it seeks to promote more effective policies at the national, regional and international levels to assist and protect persons forcibly displaced within their own countries. It accomplishes this goal through the publication of books and reports; the convening of workshops in countries and regions affected by internal displacement; the promotion and dissemination of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement; the integration of internal displacement into the programs and policies of governments, UN agencies, regional bodies and NGOs; the undertaking of collaborative projects with local groups and research institutions in an effort to build local capacities; and the undertaking of research into new and emerging issues.
In the case of Turkey, because of the difficulty of access for many years, our Project initiated and lent support to a mission to that country carried out by the US Committee for Refugees in the fall of 1998, which described and publicized the conditions of internal displacement in that country. It then held a seminar in Washington in 1999 together with the US Committee for Refugees to review the findings of the mission as well as discuss this and other complex situations of internal displacement where international involvement was limited or non-existent. In 2001, we were most pleased that the Government of Turkey decided to invite the Representative of the Secretary-General to pay a visit to the country.
With regard to the Caucasus countries, our Project has published five reports and more recently a book, in collaboration with local partners, and has convened seminars and workshops in all of the countries concerned. Such meetings have brought together government officials, international organizations and civil society to discuss the problem of internal displacement and explore how more effective responses could be developed at the national, regional and international levels. These seminars have included:
A Regional Workshop on Internal Displacement in the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia) held in Georgia (2000), in collaboration with the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the Norwegian Refugee Council;
Three Roundtables--in Armenia (2001), Azerbaijan (2002) and Georgia (2002), convened in collaboration with OSCE/ODIHR and the Georgian Young Lawyers Association (GYLA); and
A Conference on Internal Displacement in the Russian Federation, held in Moscow (2002), organized in cooperation with the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian NGO, Partnership on Migration (its Program of Action is appended).
At all of these seminars, participants expressed strong support for the involvement of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in dealing with the problem of internal displacement. It should be noted, by way of background, that strong sentiment has also been expressed worldwide for a greater role for regional organizations in responding to the global crisis of internal displacement. As a result, regional organizations in many parts of the world have begun to devote increased attention to the problem. In addition to the OSCE, these organizations include the Council of Europe, the European Union, the Organization of American States, the African Union, and the Economic Community of West African States. Their growing involvement is based on several factors. To begin with, the countries affected by internal displacement do not always have the capacity or the will to deal with the problem. Nor can the United Nations be expected to intercede in each and every case. Yet, in the absence of attention, conflict and displacement can become destabilizing to countries and facilitate their becoming breeding grounds for extremism, especially when large numbers of young people have little hope for the future. Moreover, situations of conflict and displacement rarely remain confined within borders. Too often they spill over into neighboring countries and affect regional stability. Regional action also becomes essential because of the influence regional powers can exert to encourage governments in their regions to assume their responsibilities toward their internally displaced populations.
The efforts of regional organizations have been strongly encouraged by the United Nations. Indeed, resolutions of the General Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights have called upon regional bodies, among them the OSCE, to expand their cooperation with the Representative of the Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons and strengthen their activities with regard to internal displacement. In particular, these resolutions have called upon regional organizations and the Representative to convene seminars on the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, the first international standards for the internally displaced, and have expressed appreciation to regional bodies for making use of the Principles.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, more than most regional organizations, has tremendous potential for dealing with the problem of internal displacement. It also has the responsibility: its participating states have committed themselves to the principle that matters related to human rights are of direct and legitimate concern to all the states, and in particular have undertaken to address the problem of internal displacement (see, for example, the CSCE Helsinki Document 1992, the Document of the Stockholm Meeting of the CSCE Council 1992, the Lisbon Document 1996, and the Charter for European Security 1999). Moreover, because the mandate of the OSCE is broad and flexible, it has been able, since the end of the cold war, to evolve into an institution that directly engages in defusing tensions within states, encouraging dialogue and reconciliation among communities, and promoting the development of democratic institutions, human rights and the rule of law.
Indeed, OSCE's engagement with situations of internal displacement has expanded significantly over the past decade. Its conflict prevention machinery, for example, including its High Commissioner for National Minorities, has worked to avert mass displacement. OSCE missions to different countries have begun to make recommendations about internally displaced populations. Its field staff has engaged in monitoring the safety and human rights of displaced persons, especially during returns. Through its election monitoring and technical assistance programs, the OSCE has also promoted attention to internally displaced populations.
It should also be mentioned that in collaboration with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the OSCE co-sponsored in 1996 the Geneva Conference on the Problems of Refugees, Displaced Persons, Migration and Asylum Issues in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) whose program of action called for the establishment of national institutions and laws in the region to deal with displacement and called upon international organizations to provide technical cooperation to reinforce national efforts.
OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has been particularly active in working with the Representative of the Secretary-General in disseminating the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement to member states and staff and has co-sponsored seminars to encourage compliance with their provisions. As earlier noted, OSCE/ODIHR co-hosted the seminar in Tbilisi, Georgia in 2000 that brought together government officials, international organizations and NGOs from Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan to design strategies for dealing with internal displacement, including the wider use of the Guiding Principles.
As a follow up to that meeting, OSCE/ODIHR collaborated with the Brookings Project and the Georgian Young Lawyers Association in organizing reviews of national legislation in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan in light of the Guiding Principles. Teams of lawyers from the three countries undertook analyses of their laws and presented their findings and recommendations to their governments at seminars held in the three countries. Their studies not only made their governments and civil society aware of gaps in the law and obstacles to its implementation but appear also to have had an important impact in stimulating legislative reform (see below).
All of the above steps taken by OSCE to improve the plight of the internally displaced are to be commended and encouraged, but it is also evident that these steps are largely ad hoc and often minimal to the situation. Indeed, because of the ad hoc nature of the OSCE response and the need to enhance its activities, in September 2000, the OSCE/ODIHR Office took the important step of convening in Vienna a Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting on Migration and Internal Displacement. It was the first OSCE human dimension meeting in which an in-depth discussion of the problem of internal displacement took place, and it produced a number of concrete proposals with regard to the role the OSCE participating states, institutions and field missions could take in meeting the protection and assistance needs of the internally displaced. Most importantly, it called upon the OSCE to systematically integrate the issue of internal displacement into all the activities of the organization and to use the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement as the framework for so doing.
Two months following this meeting, the OSCE Chair in Office, the Foreign Minister of Austria, at a Ministerial Council meeting in Vienna, issued a closing statement that reinforced the conclusions of the Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting and outlined the areas in which the OSCE could make a contribution to situations of internal displacement. These included the political solution of conflicts; the protection of the rights of internally displaced persons; monitoring and reporting on affected populations; facilitating durable solutions for refugees and internally displaced persons; providing advice to governments on national laws and best practices; and disseminating the Guiding Principles within OSCE and using them in the activities of the organization.
Again in 2001, at the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw, participants made recommendations to integrate the issue of internal displacement into the activities of the OSCE and emphasized that the problem of refugees and internally displaced persons had become one of the most urgent humanitarian issues in the OSCE region, presenting serious risks to stability in the OSCE area. The Consolidated Summary of the Meeting included a list of thirteen recommendations to expand the involvement of the OSCE in situations of internal displacement.
Despite all of these statements and recommendations, the OSCE has still not formally moved to make internal displacement a priority issue of direct concern to the organization and to integrate it systematically into the programs and activities of the organization. Recognizing the sensitivity of certain OSCE governments to the subject of internal displacement, in particular the Russian Federation and Turkey, it is nonetheless timely, given the severity of the problem, for the OSCE to take steps to make the recommendations put forward at its meetings a reality. In short, the OSCE must begin to pay systematic and coherent attention to the problem of internal displacement that affects a total of ten countries in its region.
To accomplish this goal, the Brookings-SAIS Project offers herewith ten recommendations. Most build upon the earlier work of the OSCE. If carried out, they will have a direct and positive impact upon the situation in the Caucasus countries and Turkey, the countries of concern in today's hearing.
First, the OSCE should formally recognize internal displacement as a human dimension issue of direct concern to the organization. This would assure a regular and systematic review of situations of internal displacement at Human Dimension Implementation Meetings. The substandard conditions of internally displaced persons, described by the Representative of the Secretary-General in the Caucasus countries and Turkey, speak to the need for such a regularized review. Special attention in such reviews would need to be paid to member states' policies and programs with regard to their internally displaced populations as well as the OSCE's and the international community's role in such situations. Reviews would be particularly important for countries where there are no OSCE missions, as is currently the case with the Russian Federation and Turkey.
Second, the Permanent Council of the OSCE, should, on a systematic basis, discuss situations of internal displacement and develop specific strategies for addressing the problem. Strategies could include preventive action, diplomatic dialogue with the relevant governments, instructing existing field missions, such as those in the South Caucasus, to regularly assess and report on displacement situations, opening or reinstating missions in countries where they do not now exist, such as Turkey and the Russian Federation, and overall reviewing the situation of displacement in the region with a view to Council action.
The importance of Council involvement is underscored by the case of Turkey. During the 1990s, neither the Permanent Council nor the Chair-in-Office were effectively seized of the issue even though Turkey had the largest number of internally displaced persons in the European region and barred international humanitarian organizations from monitoring the situation or providing assistance. As Francis Deng and I point out in our book, Masses in Flight: the Global Crisis of Internal Displacement (Brookings 1998), the OSCE long ignored one of the most pernicious cases of internal displacement in Europe. This could in part be avoided if regular, systematized discussion of situations of internal displacement were part of the Permanent Council's work.
To reinforce the Council's role, the issue of internal displacement should be mainstreamed throughout the organization, in its legal review processes, its election monitoring activities and its gender projects. Field missions should be expected to give increased attention to situations of internal displacement and regularly report on conditions, including the removal of administrative and legal barriers to the return of IDPs, the implementation of property laws, and promoting access to education and pensions for those returning.
In addition, the Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons should be invited on a regular basis to address the Council on internal displacement conditions in countries within the OSCE region. A recommendation to this effect was made at the 2001 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw.
Third, the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement should be formally acknowledged by the OSCE, in particular by the Permanent Council and the Ministerial Council, and used as a framework for policies and activities by the organization. The Principles, it should be recalled, constitute a comprehensive normative framework for the internally displaced, bringing together in one document all the international legal provisions relevant to these populations. In setting forth the rights of the displaced and the obligations of governments and non-state actors toward these populations, they address many issues of direct pertinence to the displaced in the OSCE region, for example, the return of property, access to documentation, minority rights in majority areas, an impartial judiciary, the right to meaningful representation, freedom of movement and the right to choose one's residence.
The Principles have been formally acknowledged by other regional organizations; the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States, for example, has formally endorsed them while the European Union has acknowledged its appreciation and support for them. Unanimously adopted resolutions of the UN General Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights have also acknowledged the Principles as a useful tool and standard and have called for their wide dissemination and application. All of the OSCE participating states have supported these UN resolutions, including the South Caucasus countries, the Russian Federation and Turkey.
It is noteworthy that the Principles correspond with the OSCE's structure and purposes since they cover all phases of displacement--prevention, protection during displacement and protection during return and reintegration. There are a number of specific ways that the Principles could serve the OSCE: as a benchmark for monitoring and evaluating conditions in different countries, as a source of guidance in drafting laws, constitutions and administrative regulations, as a basis for dialogue, as a tool for training staff, and as a means of raising visibility to the plight of internally displaced persons. OSCE/ODIHR has already incorporated the Principles into its projects that review national legislation in the South Caucasus.
Integrating the Principles into the work of the OSCE would mean that its staff at headquarters and in the field would begin more regularly to monitor and review conditions of displacement in affected countries in terms of the Guiding Principles. It would mean that members of the Permanent Council would use them as a framework for OSCE policies and programs in the areas of prevention, protection and return and reintegration.
Fourth, greater support should be given to OSCE/ODIHR to enable it to expand its projects to help improve the legal situation of IDPs in the OSCE region. As earlier noted, OSCE/ODIHR over the past two years co-sponsored a project with the Brookings-SAIS Project and the Georgian Young Lawyers Association enabling teams of lawyers from Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan to analyze the laws and administrative regulations in their respective countries in terms of the Guiding Principles. Their studies found noticeable gaps in the laws, and in some cases, discriminatory provisions. For example, the legal team from Georgia found restrictions in the law with regard to political participation and voting rights; the Armenian team argued that internally displaced persons would fare better with the adoption of a special law on the question of internal displacement; the Azerbaijani lawyers proposed that two separate laws be created for refugees and IDPs and that special legislation be adopted to cover return and property compensation. Overall the studies made governments, international organizations and civil society aware of gaps in the law and obstacles to its implementation and had an important impact in stimulating legislative reform. In at least one of the countries, Georgia, even before the research was completed, changes began to be made in the law to improve the political participation of the internally displaced. The three reports have now been published by the American Society of International Law in a book entitled The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and the Law of the South Caucasus: Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan (2003, see attached announcement).
To ensure that needed legal reform is undertaken in the three South Caucasus countries, follow up will be needed by OSCE/ODIHR. In addition, it should undertake comparable projects in other OSCE countries. For example, in the Russian Federation, the legacy of the "propiska" system continues to restrict internally displaced persons in exercising their right to free choice of place of residence. A lack of clarity also exists in the 1993 Law on Forced Migrants when it comes to internally displaced persons. Indeed, the Program of Action of the Conference on Internal Displacement in the Russian Federation, mentioned earlier, specifically calls upon the Russian Government to address the question of whether dealing with all forced migrants uniformly is the most effective way of managing the problem, or whether internally displaced persons would be better protected if there were special legislation which distinguished them from other groups of forced migrants and in particular separated them out from those comparable to refugees. The OSCE/ODIHR Migration Adviser at the Conference pointed out that it would be far more beneficial for IDPs if the Russian Government were to clarify and amend existing legislation, so as to separate internally displaced persons from other categories of forced migrants.
OSCE/ODIHR technical assistance projects in the legal area should in particular encourage governments to revise discriminatory laws and draft and adopt new legislation and administrative regulations that accord with regional and international standards for the protection of internally displaced persons. For example, laws providing for material assistance, health services, education and employment should be reviewed to ensure that these services are made available on a non-discriminatory basis. Laws on the exercise of political rights, in particular with regard to freedom of movement and voting rights, should be scrutinized, given their importance to IDPs in the OSCE region, as should laws on returns to ensure their voluntary nature and that compensation can be awarded for property lost as a result of displacement.
Fifth, OSCE technical assistance programs should promote the creation of national institutions to address the needs of the internally displaced, including monitoring bodies to assure the implementation of national laws on displacement. To this end, the OSCE, in collaboration with the international organizations that undertook the 1996 CIS migration conference, should consider undertaking a review of the extent to which existing government offices and institutions in countries suffering internal displacement effectively address the needs of the displaced and identify, where appropriate, the gaps and how best to remedy them. It could then work with the governments to help them better assume their national responsibilities.
Sixth, in carrying out its election monitoring functions, the OSCE should ensure that the internally displaced are able to freely exercise their right to vote and do not face discrimination with regard to political participation. A report issued by the Brookings Project in September 2000 on Internally Displaced Persons and Political Participation: The OSCE Region, concluded that internally displaced persons "may be unable to vote on a par with their follow citizens as a result of various obstacles which, to a greater or lesser extent, may reflect not only practical difficulties posed by situations of displacement but also deliberate policy choices by the local or national authorities." It called upon the OSCE to better ensure that elections held in the OSCE region accord with OSCE commitments and with relevant international standards, such as the Guiding Principles, in the case of internally displaced persons.
Seventh, the scope of action of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities should be expanded to enable more regularized focus on the situation of internally displaced persons who are members of racial, ethnic, or religious minorities and who are often marginalized by systems of inequitable and discriminatory governance. In the case of Turkey, a dialogue between the High Commissioner and the Turkish Government concerning the situation of ethnic Kurds is long overdue. Given the changed political climate in Turkey, such dialogue should be initiated and pursued without delay. The High Commissioner has long avoided involvement in the Kurdish situation because his mandate is supposed to deal with situations in their "earliest possible stage" and because it is precluded from dealing with situations "involving organized acts of terrorism." However, as the Norwegian Refugee Council told the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in 2001, it is time for the High Commissioner to "ensure that his mandate includes all minorities that have been displaced in the region.... Reported terrorist activities by individuals or groups of individuals should not preclude the High Commissioner from being engaged on behalf of entire minority groups."
Eighth, to promote the integration of the internal displacement issue into the activities of the organization, the OSCE should systematically train its staff, both at headquarters and in the field, in the subject of internal displacement. Training should include basic instruction in how to evaluate and report on situations of displacement, how to monitor situations in terms of the Guiding Principles, how to undertake specific steps to enhance practical protection in the field and how to facilitate returns of displaced persons, including enhancing their protection and assuring their property rights. This would accord with OSCE commitments to facilitate the voluntary return of refugees and internally displaced persons in dignity and safety and their reintegration without discrimination.
Ninth, OSCE/ODIHR's migration unit should be reinforced so that it will be effectively able to serve as focal point for internal displacement within the OSCE. ODIHR's current Migration Adviser has been doing an energetic and excellent job of trying to integrate internal displacement into the work of the OSCE, but given the magnitude of the problem, it would be useful to add additional staff to the unit. Additional resources would also make it possible for OSCE/ODIHR to carry out national seminars and workshops on internal displacement issues.
Tenth, the OSCE should develop strategies for promoting greater responsibility and accountability toward displaced populations by non-state actors. The Guiding Principles, it should be emphasized, apply both to states and non-state actors and the Brookings-SAIS Project has been encouraging appropriate non-state actors in different parts of the world to comply with the Principles in dealing with displaced populations under their control. In the case of the South Caucasus, I would note that the Abkhaz government in exile participated in one of the abovementioned seminars the Project organized in Tbilisi, which discussed the laws of Georgia in terms of the Guiding Principles. Moreover, during his mission to Georgia in 2000, the Representative of the Secretary-General visited Abkhazia as well as South Ossetia and met with the de facto authorities, engaging in dialogue on the basis of the Guiding Principles. OSCE field missions, in reporting on the situation of internally displaced persons, could review how the Guiding Principles are implemented by both states and non-state actors.
Finally, it should be underscored that in engaging more fully with the problem of internal displacement, the OSCE should build on its close collaboration with the international organizations and offices already active in this area, including the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons, the IDP Unit in the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights as well as regional bodies such as the European Union and Council of Europe. Such coordination should ensure that OSCE activities effectively reinforce and complement those of the other organizations and offices and are based on areas in which the OSCE has a comparative advantage.
In conclusion, the OSCE's effective integration of internal displacement in its programs and activities will enable it to better contribute to protecting the rights of IDPs in the countries affected in the European region. Most challenging will be securing a commitment from participating states to recognize and treat the issue as a priority one. The voice of the United States, in particular the US Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, could be important here. Internal displacement after all is a serious humanitarian and human rights issue affecting the lives of millions of people in the OSCE region; it is also an issue that can affect security and long-term stability in the region. The OSCE should be encouraged to develop a strong and influential voice on the subject with the aim of prompting participating states to fulfill their commitments to internally displaced populations and to avoid policies that directly and deliberately lead to mass displacement. The scale and severity of this problem in the OSCE region make it imperative that more systematic attention be given to the millions of internally displaced persons in Europe in need of support.


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Rockin' in the rest home
By Jo McCormick
As I was sorting through some "stuff" of mine I discovered notes for a manuscript I had planned to use to end my "Golden Ours" activity story. So, a brief deviation from my last two columns—and back to G.O.C.H.—the 1990s. Keep in mind I can blame my, at times, spasmodic mind control on aging. The writings will be like briefs of actual events that were crowd-pleasers.

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Baltimore, MD (Sports Network) - Dylon Cormier put in 19 points to lead the
Loyola-Maryland Greyhounds to a 65-53 win over the Towson Tigers at Reitz
Cormier also brought down eight rebounds and handed out four assists for
Loyola-Maryland (6-1). Robert Olson added 15 points on a 5-of-9 showing
from 3-point range. The Greyhounds have won five straight.
Jerome Hairston paced Towson (3-3) with 13 points. No other player was in
double figures.
In the first half Loyola-Maryland shot just 35.9 percent but hit on 4-of-11
shots from beyond the arc. With Towson shooting just 26.7 percent and missing
on all six of its 3-point attempts, the Greyhounds led 36-26 at the break.
Loyola-Maryland led by as many as 17 points in the second half despite
knocking down only 10-of-30 shots.
Towson had more than twice as many turnovers as Loyola-Maryland (15-7).
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I like to snag the mississippi below the dam in Alton, IL during the spring. It was flooded almost the entire season this year so didn't do so well. So many of those damn asian carp its really had to snag a spoony. I bet I snag 1 spoony to 15 asian carp. I usually give the carp away, usually there are folks down there to take them.
Those are some really nice spoonbills.
I would love to go fishing for sturgeon. That is a very nice fish. I bet your son was very excited.
That is the same fish in both pics buckbull.
Sounds Great!!!
Any Snaggin Fans Out There?
Always wanted to try that, but never had the chance.
Patron Life Member, NRA; Life Member RMEF, SCI, NAHHC, NSRPA
Thanks BobT. What part of the Ozarks are you from?
Uncle Ted for President!!!


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OPD: VHS clerk admits sending naked photos to teens
Published: Friday, March 8, 2013 at 8:48 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, March 8, 2013 at 8:48 p.m.
A high school employee accused of sending more than two dozen naked pictures of herself to two teenagers — one a high schooler, the other a graduate of the school — was arrested by Ocala police on Friday and charged with two counts of transmitting harmful material to a minor, according to officials.
Led to an awaiting Ocala Police Department squad car by Detective Jorge Fernandez, Jody Teressa Onorato turned her head away from a Star-Banner reporter who was asking her questions about the incident.
Dressed in a long-sleeve black top, jeans and flip-flops, the 43-year-old Silver Springs divorcee said nothing.
Up until Sunday, Onorato was an attendance clerk at Vanguard High School. Officials said she resigned before an investigation into the case had concluded.
On Friday, Fernandez went to the high school located on Northeast 28th Street and met with both teenagers, ages 17 and 19.
The 17-year-old said sometime in January he had received what he believed to be 26 naked pictures from Onorato on his cellphone. Prior to receiving the pictures, the teenager said they had texted each other several times and the messages were sexual. He said they never had sex.
The 19-year-old said he had several naked pictures of Onorato on his phone but that he had deleted them. The 19-year-old was still 18 and a minor when the photos were sent to him, police said.
Authorities said the teens didn't report the incident because they were embarrassed.
The detective then met with Onorato at the OPD, where he interviewed her. She reportedly admitted to sending naked pictures of herself to both the 17-year-old and the 19-year-old.
Onorato said she used her cellphone to take and send the pictures to the teens, according to reports.
The detective showed her a naked photo and she confirmed the photo was her, according to reports.
Onorato told the detective she had no desire to have sex with either of the teens and had sent them the photographs for attention.
She apologized to the teens' mothers for her actions and added that she needed help, according to reports.
Locally, Onorato doesn't have a criminal record.
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Aupaka - Offering spectacular pool and ocean views from above, Aupaka Terrace serves Continental breakfast and espresso in the morning and sushi and tropical drinks in the evening.
Toro-Tei Sushi Bar - Sleek and modern beachfront sushi restaurant.
Café Portofino - Northern Italian alfresco dining.
Kalapaki Grill - This spot serves sandwiches, ice cream, snacks, and drinks to sunbathers beside the pool and on the beach.
Duke's Canoe Club & Barefoot Bar - An offshoot of Honolulu's favorite Waikiki gathering spot, this casual oceanside place serves light fare at lunch, and local fish, steaks, and tropical drinks at dinner.
The nearby Kauai Lagoons Golf Club offers two Jack Nicklaus-designed golf courses, the Kiele and Mokihana, with 18 holes of championship play in a picturesque setting. Guests can bike down Waimea Canyon Road, hike the breathtaking Na Pali Coast, or take a helicopter ride to the peak of Mount Waialeale, the wettest spot on Earth.
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The Kauai Marriott Resort provides two beach volleyball courts. The clubhouse for Kauai Lagoon's two golf courses, Kiele and Mokihana, is a quarter-mile away. The Spa & Tennis Club next door, reachable by elevator, includes 4 tennis courts. Snorkeling, scuba diving, surfing, boogie boarding, sailing, and kayaking are available in Kalapaki Bay, with gear available for rent at the resort. The Wailua River, 15 minutes north, is the longest navigable river in Hawaii and a popular boating and kayaking site.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
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To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
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Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
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Check-out time is noon
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Dafny is a programming language with built-in specification constructs. The Dafny static program verifier can be used to verify the functional correctness of programs.
The Dafny programming language is designed to support the static verification of programs. It is imperative, sequential, supports generic classes, dynamic allocation, and inductive datatypes, and builds in specification constructs. The specifications include pre- and postconditions, frame specifications (read and write sets), and termination metrics. To further support specifications, the language also offers updatable ghost variables, recursive functions, and types like sets and sequences. Specifications and ghost constructs are used only during verification; the compiler omits them from the executable code.
The Dafny verifier is run as part of the compiler. As such, a programmer interacts with it much in the same way as with the static type checker—when the tool produces errors, the programmer responds by changing the program's type declarations, specifications, and statements.
The easiest way to try out Dafny is in your web browser at rise4fun. Once you get a bit more serious, you may prefer to download to run it on your machine. Although Dafny can be run from the command line (on Windows or other platforms), the preferred way to run it is in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, where the Dafny verifier runs in the background while the programmer is editing the program.
The Dafny verifier is powered by Boogie and Z3.
From verified programs, the Dafny compiler produces code (.dll or .exe) for the .NET platform. However, the facilities for interfacing with other .NET code are minimal.
The source code for Dafny is available.
Learn more
To become a user of Dafny, follow the Dafny tutorial online. Or, if you prefer it in a printed format:
Jason Koenig and K. Rustan M. Leino. Getting started with Dafny: a guide. In Marktoberdorf 2011 lecture notes. To appear, 2012. [PDF]
You can also see Dafny in action in some episodes of Verification Corner.
To learn more about the features of Dafny, the Dafny Quick Reference may be for you.
The following paper presents the salient features of Dafny, along with the Schorr-Waite algorithm written in Dafny. If you're scientifically or technically inclined, this is the one to read and cite:
K. Rustan M. Leino. Dafny: An Automatic Program Verifier for Functional Correctness. In LPAR-16, volume 6355 of LNCS, pages 348-370. Springer, 2010. [PDF] [slides from the conference presentation]
To dig deeper into the technology behind Dafny, the following lecture notes from the Marktoberdorf 2008 summer school describe the encoding of Dafny into Boogie 2:
K. Rustan M. Leino. Specification and verification of object-oriented software. In Engineering Methods and Tools for Software Safety and Security, volume 22 of NATO Science for Peace and Security Series D: Information and Communication Security, pages 231-266. IOS Press, 2009. [PDF] [slides from the lectures]
Benchmarks and competitions
Dafny was a popular tool among the teams at the VSTTE 2012 program verification competition. It was also used at the COST Verification Competition 2011, as part of the FoVeOOS conference. And it was used in the VSComp 2010 competition at VSTTE 2010, from which a report was published:
Vladimir Klebanov, Peter Müller, Natarajan Shankar, Gary T. Leavens, Valentin Wüstholz, Eyad Alkassar, Rob Arthan, Derek Bronish, Rod Chapman, Ernie Cohen, Mark Hillebrand, Bart Jacobs, K. Rustan M. Leino, Rosemary Monahan, Frank Piessens, Nadia Polikarpova, Tom Ridge, Jan Smans, Stephan Tobies, Thomas Tuerk, Mattias Ulbrich, and Benjamin Weiss. The 1st Verified Software Competition: Experience Report. In FM 2011: Formal Methods - 17th International Symposium on Formal Methods, volume 6664 of LNCS, pages 154-168. Springer, 2011. [PDF]
(which won Best Paper Award at FM 2011). You can find Dafny solutions to the problem sets of these competitions under the Test directory of the Dafny sources.
Dafny has also been used to solve various verification benchmark challenges. At the Verified Software: Tools, Techniques, and Experiments (VSTTE 2008) conference, Weide et al. presented some verification benchmarks to facilitate the comparison between different specification languages and verifiers. This paper describes Dafny programs for those benchmarks:
K. Rustan M. Leino and Rosemary Monahan. Dafny meets the Verification Benchmarks Challenge. In VSTTE 2010, volume 6217 of LNCS, pages 112-126. Springer, 2010. [PDF]
Dafny has also been used to solve some of the VACID-0 verification benchmarks:
K. Rustan M. Leino and Michał Moskal. VACID-0: Verification of Ample Correctness of Invariants of Data-structures, Edition 0. Tools and Experiments workshop at VSTTE 2010. [PDF]
Dafny is being used in teaching. Here's a partial list of universities that are or have been using Dafny in some capacity in lectures and class work:
Caltech, Rajeev Joshi (CS 116)
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Eugene Kornykhin
Kansas State University, Torben Amtoft
Imperial College London, Sophia Drossopoulou and Will Sonnex
NUI Maynooth, Rosemary Monahan
ETH Zurich, Peter Müller
University of Washington, Ethan Jackson; Emina Torlak
University of Iowa, Cesare Tinelli
Koç University, Serdar Taşıran
Rice University, Swarat Chaudhuri (COMP 507)
UNSW, Carroll Morgan
University of Toronto, Azadeh Farzan
Princeton, Andrew Appel
CMU, Jonathan Aldrich
Chalmers Technical University, Moa Johansson
Eindhoven Technical University, Kees Huizing
Ohio State University, Bruce Weide
Clemson University, Murali Sitaraman
FCT Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Luis Caires
University of the Basque Country, Paqui Lucio
University of Southampton, Michael Butler
- University of Twente, Marieke Huisman
- Yale, Ruzica Piskac
- SUNY Stony Brook, Annie Liu
- University of Edinburgh, Ian Stark (APL14)
- Lübeck University of Applied Sciences, Andreas Schaefer
- UniBw München, Birgit Elbl and Lothar Schmitz
- IIT Madras, Ganesan Ramalingam
- Clarkson University, Christopher Lynch
- Tel Aviv University, Mooly Sagiv
- University of Utah, Zvonimir Rakamaric
- University of California, Santa Cruz, Cormac Flanagan and Christopher Schuster
- University of Marburg, H. Peter Gumm
- University of Bamberg, Alexander Heußner
and tutorials and summer schools:
- Summer School Marktoberdorf, 2008 and 2011
- LASER Summer School, 2011
- Summer School on Logic and Theorem-Proving in Programming Languages, Eugene, OR, 2008
- Tutorial, KTH, Stockholm, 2012
- Invited tutorial, VSTTE 2012
- Tutorial, HILT 2012
- Tutorial, ICSE 2013
If you are, or have been, teaching using Dafny, Rustan Leino would love to know of your experience. And if you want a mention on these lists, please let him know.
- K. Rustan M. Leino and Michał Moskal, Co-induction Simply: Automatic Co-inductive Proofs in a Program Verifier, no. MSR-TR-2013-49, 12 July 2013.
- K. Rustan M. Leino, This is Boogie 2, no. MSR-TR-2008-194, 24 June 2008.
- Try Dafny in your browser!
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Tropical storms generally require three components to develop, warm sea surface temperatures, low wind shear, and Corriolis driven rotation. The last requirement explains why tropical storms do not form at the equator. The combined influences of temperature and wind shear, make these storms much more common in some ocean basins, such as the western Pacific, than in others. While tropical storm systems do occasionally form in both the South Atlantic and Southeast Pacific, they are not routinely tracked because they are very rare and almost never affect land. Consequently, only South Atlantic Hurricane Catarina is represented from these areas. (See also: South Atlantic tropical cyclones).
Models suggest that global warming will lead to an increase in the maximum intensity of tropical storms[1]. Some studies report a recent increase in the percentage of storms reaching major status (Category 3+) across various basins[2] and associate this to increased sea surface temperatures[3]. However, due to the limitations of the available data and the large inter-decadal fluctuations in storm intensity and frequency, there remains at present no agreement as to whether or not tropical storms have already been influenced by global warming [1].
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Though the North Atlantic has a reasonably complete record of ship based encounters since ~1860, for most regions reliable information on storm tracks and intensity are not available before the satellite era of the 1960s. Further, only in the North Atlantic do planes routinely fly into hurricanes to measure their intensity. In all other regions, the intensity of the storms while far from land must be inferred from less accurate satellite observations. As a result, our understanding of tropical storms in the North Atlantic is much more complete than those over any other ocean basin, and the resulting portion of the image is more detailed.
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Politics | The known costs plus the unknowns put clinics in jeopardy in the communities Obamacare was supposed to help
"Politics of health" Continued...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D.-Charles Shafer is used to distractions. As the medical director for the Falls Community Health Center, Shafer's day consists of juggling constant demands and questions from patients, nurses, and medical interns at this government-funded clinic in downtown Sioux Falls, S.D.
With flecks of gray in his dark beard, Shafer acts as the clinic sage-patiently enduring interruptions in his own work to parcel out advice to the clinic's 18 medical residents. In one afternoon he helps a young doctor select the right prescription. Then he guides another resident trying to decide if a patient needs a mental evaluation. It's been that way for most of Shafer's two-decade career helping the medically underserved.
With the daily demands of being a frontline doctor, Shafer admits he has had little time to reflect on the looming transformation of his profession under the new healthcare law. "The big picture is going to be-who knows?" he said. It was the only time during my afternoon visit that he didn't have an answer. "I mean, it's a little frightening. . . . I'm fearful that the whole system could come crashing down potentially."
Six months after President Barack Obama signed the healthcare bill into law, Americans-including the professionals most affected-are still trying to understand what impact it will have on families and businesses. Doctors like Shafer are only certain of one thing: Expect a lot of unintended consequences.
Obamacare for many is a far-off reality, and I found on my cross-country trip that the healthcare debate has taken a back seat to voter angst over the economy. But a recent Rasmussen poll shows that 57 percent of voters now favor repealing the law while 59 percent expect the law will lead to higher healthcare costs. Some Republicans have made healthcare repeal the centerpiece of their campaign rhetoric.
Some Democrats have been touting the reforms that have already kicked in: Dependents can now stay on their parents' policies until the age of 26 while insurers can no longer set lifetime coverage limits. But South Dakota's Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin just wants the healthcare issue to go away. Sandlin, the state's sole House member, has received more than 70 percent of the vote in past elections, and she went against her party to vote against the healthcare overhaul. That hasn't helped her avoid a serious threat this November from Republican challenger Kristi Noem.
Sandlin, 39, comes from political stock: Her grandfather served as South Dakota's governor. Noem, 38, grew up on farms, likes to hunt, and is often compared to Sarah Palin.
Sandlin does not favor repealing the law. But at a debate in Mitchell, Noem said that if repeal fails, she would fight to defund an overhaul she called "too extreme, too expensive."
At Destiny Family Medical Clinic in Sioux Falls, physician Brian Kidman says sorting out the law is "kind of like asking me what I like and don't like about the dictionary."
Before the healthcare law, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services projected an average annual increase of 6.1 percent in national healthcare spending over the next decade; now the Centers predict an annual spending increase of 6.3 percent. The group also found that annual healthcare spending per person will increase by $265 when all the law's provisions are in effect. Another government report, this one by the Congressional Research Service, found that states would face higher costs in light of the law.
Millions of Americans are expected to get their insurance through government-run programs under the new overhaul. Individuals whose income falls between 133 percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty level (currently $10,830 for an individual) will be eligible for subsidized health insurance beginning in 2014. Those making less than 133 percent of the poverty line will receive Medicaid.
In lightly populated states like South Dakota-with a population just over 812,000 and median household income of about $46,000, or slightly more than 400 percent of the poverty level-that means many South Dakotans will likely wind up as patients at places like Shafer's community healthcare center in Sioux Falls.
But already there can be up to a two-month wait to see a doctor here. Since more new doctors are rejecting careers in primary care in favor of lucrative specialties whose higher salaries help pay for medical school debt, Shafer may wind up calling his current workload light compared with what's coming.
"I question if we have the manpower to double the amount of patients we might see," Shafer said. "We already can't get new patients in here. We don't have the slots to do it."
In anticipation of overload, the new law pumps $1.1 billion into community health centers. But that leads to another concern: To receive federal funds the clinic already has to jump through regulatory hoops, and it's a constant temptation to put meeting those requirements ahead of meeting the needs of patients. "As a physician that doesn't feel right," Shafer said, and he is apprehensive about more strings attached to new federal healthcare coverage.
Robert Moffit, a healthcare expert with the Heritage Foundation, expects a blizzard of regulations: "It is almost as if Congress said, 'This is very complicated stuff, we will turn it over to [Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen] Sebelius and the very smart people she has hired. They will figure it out and tell us what to do.' Unelected bureaucrats are going to determine how our lives are going to be affected."
More rules will put added stress on doctors in rural communities, such as Mitchell, S.D.-a town of about 15,000 located on Interstate 90 between Sioux Falls and Rapid City. There a group of medical professionals told me that small clinics lack the resources to navigate this federal maze. The very kinds of communities Democrats said they wanted to help with the reform may end up being suffocated by it.
It is not just doctors who should be skeptical about Obamacare: Studies are revealing that the law's provisions make it attractive for employers to drop their insurance plans and dump their workers onto new government-run insurance exchanges. An American Action Forum report predicts that the number of employees who enlist in the exchanges could be three times as high as original estimates.
Why? Private insurance premiums will rise because more healthy Americans likely will forgo insurance. Penalties for not buying insurance under the mandate are cheaper than the cost of an annual premium. Plus, the young and healthy can wait until they get sick to sign up thanks to the law's ban on preexisting condition exclusions. With fewer customers and demands under the new law to provide greater coverage, insurance companies in September filed requests with state legislators asking for between 1 percent to 9 percent rate increases on insurance plans.
Already cash-strapped small businesses will have difficulty affording the new costlier private insurance plans for their employees. One of the first regulations released under the law even makes this scenario more likely.
Obama said during the healthcare debate, "If you like what you have, you can keep it." But the very regulation designed to grandfather in already existing plans and to help businesses avoid the law's often-onerous requirements is riddled with red tape. Its own authors estimate that between 39 percent and 69 percent of businesses will not qualify. By 2013, based on the Department of Health and Human Services predictions, as many as 80 percent of small businesses will lose their grandfathered status.
"The reality for many, under this new regulation, is that if you like what you have, you can't keep it," said Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo. The Senate on Sept. 29 defeated along party lines Enzi's amendment to overturn this regulation, highlighting the triumph of administrative law over elected law. "The final result of this new regulation will be that all Americans will eventually be forced to buy the kind of health insurance the federal government thinks you should have."
But it is not only small businesses that feel pinched. McDonald's Corp. told federal regulators in late September that new mandates might make it "economically prohibitive" to continue offering health insurance for nearly 30,000 hourly workers.
Jay Tolsma is a 48-year-old accountant from Mitchell, S.D., who says the new law provides economic incentives for businesses to avoid hiring more workers and to keep wages low. For his accounting firm of about 20 employees, the average wage is about $50,000. Healthcare costs run about $4,000 per employee for an annual total of $100,000. But under the new law the government will provide a tax credit of 35 percent of total premiums, or $35,000 in Tolsma's case, if the average wages are below $50,000.
"This is not a bill to contain healthcare costs, it is a bill to control healthcare," he says.
Obamacare will not be fully implemented until 2014, but the professionals I met in South Dakota already see a gathering storm. Federal regulation could further reduce the autonomy given to doctors and drive students away from pursuing medical careers. The new healthcare landscape, herding people onto government plans, threatens to overrun already burdened community health centers. And businesses will look at their bottom line in the face of rising healthcare costs and decide to keep their staff small and their wages low in order to qualify for federal assistance.
With these risks a part of increased federal regulations, nonprofit clinics, like Kidman's family center in Sioux Falls, may end up being the best option to fill the medical void in some communities.
Bible verses decorate Destiny's waiting room as Christian music fills the air. Two churches support the clinic, which provides for the area's poor on a sliding scale based on how much each patient can afford. In five years, the clinic has treated 5,000 patients. Kidman says donations keep the place afloat. They don't accept federal funds: Too many strings are attached, he says.
Kidman, who has made numerous trips to other countries for medical missions, says countries with state-sponsored healthcare systems often lack the resources and personnel to provide needed care. But the people there eventually become used to long waits and substandard care where not much is expected but the very basics. When those behind Destiny prepared to open its doors, locals initially gave the team a lukewarm reception. "The community said they didn't think we were necessary," Kidman recalled. "Certainly we must already be taking care of the poor somehow," they assumed. Destiny's success demonstrates that those needs were not being met, and the question now is whether they will continue to be under the new law.


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I thought it was going to be the UK versions with Midwives and was was kind of bummed to see that we have our own version. Because I don't think we are going to see "natural childbirth friendly". First just the start of the show...can we say DRAMA? the sound of the heartbeat, the sirens, the women screaming and in immense pain. Way to start off Lifetime....I could already tell this is like the rest of them...Baby Story, Birthday... Honestly I found the show more disturbing...I was so happy for the "natural" couple to have that doula their with them, and the husband was attending to his wife, standing up for her....The nurse seemed to very nice, but while she was complaining that it was her job to ensure a "safe baby..safe outcome", she displayed negative tones throughout their room, and if she was more in tuned to mom and baby and be such a "colaborator" that she said she is...get the fetal doppler out, get your butt in the bathroom with her and check for fetal heartones manually. Every LDRP has them. I did not like how this couple was dipicted to be "out of the ordinary" for vocalizing and strange for wanting to birth without harassment. While it is so true to see nurses and OB's, the OB staff...cringe or make faces or laugh..or I've even heard "Oh, I just wish she would shut up"!, it's a shame.. What's wrong with a woman vocalizing during labor or giving birth. Is she suppose to be quiet? For whom?
Also..Tasha..the woman who had the emergency C/S..I found that to be very sad..She labored all the way....and was even given a birth ball to sit on..but...I think it's kind of embarrasing that they do not show her getting the support that she needed, from the staff. It wasn't a surprise that the birth was by C/S. Wish I could hug her for being so brave.
I won't be watching this show again...along with Baby Story and birth Day..this show is the typical crap that feeds self doubt and does nothing to encourage positive change among the medical community for women and their babies.
I completely agree with you Sara and Trish! It's really unfortunate that so many are uneducated about one of the most important moments in ones life. The OB staff were making faces and cringing at the woman's labor sounds because they rarely hear them! Why would they when so many go for the pain meds. I don't know why I watch these shows when I know I'm just going to yell at the tv (while husband gives funny looks).
Although I have not had the pleasure of giving birth yet, the show reinforced my uneasiness over hospitals. There is a fantastic OB in my area that's all about empowered birthing and has a birthing tub, can't wait to meet her.
Trish, you feel the exact same way as I do! So you saved me some typing! lol
And yes, I yell at the TV too.
I could not stand the hospitals entire attitude towards birth (and not just the natural kind!) The one who got the C/S... did you here him say congratulations in that monotone "I don't care" voice?? She was like "Thanks" with tears streaming down her face. I felt so sad for her :(
I was so mad about how much the husband had to defend his wife who was laboring naturally. That midwife was driving me nuts! But I also agree that they maybe should have labored at home. I hated the way the show made them seem so "stupid" for doing this. Even after they had the baby and everything was fine... the show still made it seems like there effort was pointless.
And what was with all the L&D nurses making faces and laughing when they heard birth noises? They work on the L&D floor!! You would think that they have never been around it before!...maybe they haven't
I watched the show and I thought it was very interesting. I assisted my sister in law to have a natural child birth in the hospital and she had the same issues as this laboring mother did. Now from the other perspective I kind of felt for the nurse as well (as a current BSN nursing student). Although I believe that she could have handled the situation better, health care today forces nurses to follow certain protocol or else we could lose our jobs or even our licenses. Furthermore, I felt as if the doula was doing a fantastic job supporting the mom, but forgot at times that the nurse was just trying to do her job according to hospital policy. I think there was miscommunication on both ends which caused for an unpleasant experience for everyone.
Jenn, the Doula featured on this show, explained what really happened on thefeministbreeder blog. Check it out: http://thefeministbreeder.com/lifetime-tv-shows-theres-one-unnecess...
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After reading this I went to the website and watched it. The hospital that it was filmed at reminded me a lot of where my son was born. A hospital that touts a high epidural rate and claims that they are there for the comfort of the moms and protecting the babies. Watching the women one it, I organized them into each little niche in birthing.
First: there was the Doctor Favorite, the mom who comes in, her labor is progressing normal, she doesn't put up a fight over interventions and has her baby within the allotted "Time Slot" that birth is supposed to take place in. I know many moms like her, who just go in and go along with whatever the nurses and doctors say to do. They have a "happy" birth experience and think nothing else of it. They also go about recommending epidurals and interventions.
Second: the medical emergency (the reason not every women needs intervention). I felt sooooooooooo bad for this poor woman. She was progressing fine naturally and was in severe need of a Doula, nurse, or family member to step up and help her through the final stage of her labor. From how her legs were twitching and dancing, I personally think she was having back labor and it was completely disorienting her and making her lose her focus. Of course the staff recommended the epidural and pit to help with the end of her labor. After that, it just snowballed. The pit made the contractions too much for her baby, his heart rate dropped and she had to have an emergency c-section. I felt so so so so sad for her. This is a mom who didn't want a c-section, who had to have one because she didn't have good support during her birth. Just because her mom and husband were there, doesn't mean they were supportive. (STOP EATING YOUR FRIGGIN' CHEESE DOODLES AND HELP YOUR DAUGHTER!!!")
Third: the natural couple, forced into an almost unnatural ending: I say Kudos to them. Her husband and Doula were doing everything right. Helping her vocalize, moving her around and being completely active participates in her labor. Yes, it's not comfortable for others to listen to a woman in labor vocalize, but oh well, they aren't in labor. The nurse in charge was nice, but not open at all anything not in the procedure handbook. I felt bad that they ended up having the pit in order to finish birthing, but that's what happens at a un-natural birth hospital. I do however understand why they were birthing in a hospital and not at home. The same reason I did with my son, first child, just in case something does go wrong, never done this before, etc. Her being in her thirties and him in his forties, may also have had something to do with it. I don't know, just going on what I saw.
What really really irritated me was the music. They had calm, normal music playing with the doctors favorite, dramatic music playing with the emergency intervention, and that 'bum bum' corny music playing with the natural couple. They TOTALLY used that to help avert the feelings of the viewer emotionally to go along with the commentary. Very irritating. Hence the reason why I never watch these shows.
I watched that too and was also disappointed at the protrayal of that couple. I no longer tune in, it does not give me anything but more worries that my wishes will not be supported! The last thing I need to be worrying about is if the nursing staff is laughing at me when they leave the room.
It was bad enough that I heard the nurses were placing bets on my failure during my son's birth due to it being my first and being induced. Guess I showed them.....
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Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - Tyrone Garland erupted for a career-high
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Gaels, 88-74, in non-conference action at Tom Gola Arena.
Garland was 10-of-22 from the field as the Explorers (7-2) earned their sixth
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HANNIBAL - River boys' basketball coach Mark Romick is in the exact opposite position he was entering last season.
Following a Division IV sectional title in 2010-11, the veteran Pilots' court boss found himself with only one returning starter for the 2011-12 campaign.
No problem as River flowed to a second straight sectional crown behind a superb junior class.
Now, with those juniors being seniors, Romick has all kind of returnees - seven to be exact - back for another season on the hardwood.
"It's a different season with different expectations," the 15th year head coach said. "You set your goals according to what you have coming back and everything like that."
With that said, the Pilots should have some lofty goals in store for the 2012-13 season, which gets under way Saturday at Frontier.
In addition to capturing back-to-back sectional crowns, the Pilots also advanced to the OVAC/Wheeling Hospital Class AA championship game where they dropped a heartbreaker in overtime to a talented Linsly squad inside Ohio University Eastern's Health and Physical Education Building.
"Last year we kind of snuck up on some people," Romick admitted. "I told people that we were going to be pretty decent, and I knew we would be decent."
Leading the Pilots is a talented senior class that has really meshed together as a unit, on and off the court.
"This is a great class. Great kids who work really hard, and they like each other. That is really important. That's the biggest thing. There are no 'I's' on the team. No head cases. It's a joy to be around them."
Those seniors are Brett Price (6-3), Jordan Indermuhle (6-6), Cody Caldwell (6-2), Kam Brown (5-10), Chad Isaly (5-10), Matt Marconi (5-9) and Evan Eggleston (6-5).
Price is the team's leading scorer as he averaged 17 points a game last winter. He's a deadly outside shooter and a very good free throw shooter.
"Brett really honed his skills over the summer. He snuck up on some teams last year, but he's a known commodity this season," Romick allowed. "He's getting some interest from some different colleges. He has developed himself into a big-time scorer. He has a good all-around game and does a lot of little things well."
Indermuhle is the veteran of the squad as he will be starting his third season in the paint. He netted 11.4 points and just under 11 rebounds an outing last year.
Rounding out the varsity roster are junior Eric Dierkes (6-0), and sophomores Ryan Indermuhle (6-3) and Matt Gauding (6-4).
"Eric has looked really good in the early going," Romick noted. "He fits several roles for us off the bench.
"Matt and Ryan will see mostly junior varsity action, but can spell the big guys, as well."
Romick is a firm believer in the fact that to be the best, you've got to play the best. The Pilots' schedule has been vastly upgraded with the addition of Division IV perennial state powerhouse Berlin Hiland and D-2 Athens High.
"We always play them in the district tournament, so why not play them in the regular season," Romick said of the Berlin Hiland addition on Dec. 22. "They are a good team year-in and year-out. It's better to go out and play good teams if you want to be successful. I think we've definitely upgraded our schedule this year."
The Pilots and Athens will meet in an event in Marietta on Dec. 28.
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"As far as the post-season, the kids want to win the sectional again and then set our sights on the district. They want to go further than last year."
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Howdy Folks,
I want to translate three of my books into other languages. These will be abridged versions of these books (plus a one paragraph description):
- Cue Ball Control Cheat Sheets (150 words)
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- Drills & Exercises (600 words)
Please forward this to anyone you might think would be interested.
I tried to use Google Translate (http://translate.google.com) for an initial pass and placed the results into place. That tool, as cool as it is, for getting the idea across; does work when trying to get the right word for cue ball, object ball, cue, draw, stun, follow, etc. The translation tool doesn't have a sub-dictionary for pool and billiards terms.
The number of languages prevents any type of commercial recompense.
I can offer your name listed as "Translated by (name)" on the book cover, plus your pool biography on the inside page of the book. (It can provide some near-immortality since ebooks never go out of print.) Ill also give you copies of my pool books (8 books).
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Here is the 41 languages I would like to translate to: (If your language is not listed, I'll create a translation).
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Albanian (Gjuha Shqipe)
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Chinese (中国语言)
Croatian (Hrvatski jezik)
Czech (český jazyk)
Danish (Dansk sprog)
Dutch (Nederlandse taal)
Estonian (Eesti keeles)
Filipino (Tagalog wika)
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German (Deutsch Sprache)
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Indonesian (bahasa Indonesia bahasa)
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AAR says weekly volumes show slight gains
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Rail traffic was up slightly for the week ending July 23, according to data released by the Association of American Railroads (AAR).
Carload volume—at 291,909—was up 01.4 percent annually and ahead of the week ending July 16 at 281,389 and the week ending July 9 at 245,574. It was also behind the week ending April 2, which hit 305,905 carloads, marking the highest weekly carload tally since the end of 2008.
Carload volume was up 0.7 percent in the East and up 1.8 percent out West. Carloads on a year-to-date basis are at 8,358,097 for a 2.4 percent annual increase.
Intermodal came in at 232,181 trailers and containers, ahead of the week ending July 16 at 230,324 and the week ending July 9 at 192,619.The two highest weeks of the year were the weeks ending June 17 and June 10 reaching 237,682 and 237,422, respectively.
Intermodal volumes on a year-to-date basis at 6,511,257 are up 7 percent compared to 2010.
Of the 20 commodity groups tracked by the AAR, 12 were up annually. Iron and steel scrap was up 24.5 percent, and metallic ores were up 53.2 percent.
Estimated ton-miles for the week were 33.5 billion for a 1.5 percent annual increase, and
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