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Skip to comments.Will Obama Allow Americans to Practice Catholicism? No!
Posted on 11/21/2012 9:49:48 AM PST by rhema
"Catholicism teaches that it is a sin to use, provide, or otherwise support contraception."
These words are not from the Catholic Catechism or a sermon by a Catholic bishop. They are excerpted from the preliminary injunction U.S. District Judge Robert H. Cleland issued last month temporarily stopping the Obama administration from forcing a family-owned outdoor-power-equipment company to comply with an Obamacare regulation that requires virtually all health care plans to provide women (but not men) with co-pay-free coverage for sterilizations, contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs.
The judge stated the Catholic teaching on contraception as an undisputed fact of the case. He could have made similar statements about sterilization and abortion.
The Obama administration is not arguing that the Catholic Church does not actually teach that artificial contraception, sterilization and abortion violate the natural law and are intrinsically immoral, and that Catholics cannot be involved in them.
What the Obama administration argues is that it has the authority to tell Americans they can no longer practice Catholicism. What the Obama administration argues is that it can order Catholics to act against their faith.
In the case of Daniel Weingartz v. Sebelius, the administration specifically argues it can order a Catholic business owner to provide his employees with coverage for contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs -- and thus act against the teachings of his faith on a matter that involves the destruction of innocent human life.
Elsewhere, the administration argues it can order Catholic institutions -- such as the University of Notre Dame -- to provide its employees and students with coverage for contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs.
Still elsewhere, by mandating that all individuals must buy government-approved health-care plans (whether through an employer or a government health-insurance exchange), the Obama administration argues that it can order all Catholic laypersons in the United States to act against the teachings of their faith.
The Catholic bishops of the United States have unanimously declared that the Obama administration's contraception-sterilization-abortifacient regulation is "an unjust and illegal mandate" that violates the freedom of conscience not just of Catholic institutions and Catholic business owners, but also of individual Catholic laypersons who do not own businesses or manage Catholic institutions.
The regulation, the bishops said, is a "violation of personal civil rights."
The regulation, they said, creates a class of Americans "with no conscience protection at all: individuals who, in their daily lives, strive constantly to act in accordance with their faith and moral values. They, too, face a government mandate to aid in providing 'services' contrary to those values -- whether in their sponsoring of, and payment for, insurance as employers; their payment of insurance premiums as employees; or as insurers themselves -- without even the semblance of an exemption."
How does the Obama administration justify ordering Catholics to act against their faith?
First, it argues that Catholics lose the right to live according to the moral teachings of their church when they start a business. "Weingartz Supply Company is a for-profit, secular employer, and a secular entity by definition does not exercise religion," Acting Assistant Attorney General Stuart F. Delery argued in a submission to Judge Cleland.
Well, what about a nonprofit institution such as a Catholic university? What about an individual Catholic layperson? How can the administration justify ordering them to act against their faith? The First Amendment says Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion. Isn't the administration prohibiting the free exercise of religion when it orders Catholics to act against Catholic teachings?
"The Free Exercise Clause does not prohibit a law that is neutral and generally applicable even if the law prescribes conduct that an individual's religion proscribes," Assistant Attorney General Delery told the court. "The preventive services coverage regulations fall within this rubric because they do not target, or selectively burden, religiously motivated conduct."
In plain English: As the Obama administration interprets the First Amendment, it cannot order only Catholics to pay for the administration of a drug that kills an unborn child, but it can order all Americans -- including Catholics -- to pay for the administration of a drug that kills an unborn child.
Many bishops have spoken out clearly and courageously against President Obama's attack on religious freedom.
Bishop David Zubik of Pittsburgh wrote in his diocesan newspaper: "The Obama administration has just told the Catholics of the United States, 'To Hell with you!'"
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who leads the Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services, wrote a letter to be read by chaplains serving Sunday masses attended by U.S. military forces. Obama's mandate, the archbishop said, is "a blow to a freedom that you have fought to defend and for which you have seen your buddies fall in battle."
Broglio and many other bishops declared: "We cannot -- we will not -- comply with this unjust law."
In his encyclical letter Evangelium Vitae, Pope John Paul II cited St. Thomas Aquinas in explaining the Catholic teaching on unjust laws.
"This is the clear teaching of Saint Thomas Aquinas, who writes that 'human law is law inasmuch as it is in conformity with right reason and thus derives from the eternal law," said the pope. "'But when a law is contrary to reason, it is called an unjust law; but in this case it ceases to be a law and becomes instead an act of violence.'"
"To refuse to take part in committing an injustice is not only a moral duty," said the pope, "it is also a basic human right."
President Obama has launched the greatest attack on religious liberty in the history of the United States. He hopes to divide Catholics from their church and American law from truth and justice.
There is no middle ground here. The church is right, the bishops are right, freedom of conscience is an alienable right, and Obama is more wrong about the meaning of liberty than any American president has ever been.
Right. But wanna bet the 0bamites let their favorite cult practice their barbaric rituals?
This anvil has worn out every hammer. Bring it, Bambi.
What I find absolutely delicious about the Left's embrace of Islam is how absolutely counter it is to everything they preach. If they allow Sharia law in our courts, women will suddenly become property and treated like a rental car and gays will be hung by their genitals.
I can "hide" in plain sight with my religion, but I'm a man. Women, just by virtue of having breasts and long hair, will become subject to medieval requirements to cover up and obey overnight.
We will fight.
Post of the day!
The list of lawsuits -- more than 40, with more than 110 plaintiffs -- includes Christian colleges and organizations like Wheaton College, Colorado Christian College, and Tyndale House Publishers.
I would hate to be standing around them when God conducts His wrath.
"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness. . ." [Isaiah 5:20]
"Their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their highways." [Isaiah 59:7]
Opening the OT as we write.
Obama will burn in hell
They should start calling their churches "mosques" and they will be able to do whatever they want.
I don't give a rats a@@ what the administration will allow. I agree, Bring it, Bambi !!!!!!
Do not obey the ruling, pure and simple.
"Catholic Bishops: We Will Not Obey Immoral HHS-Abortion Mandate"
Sure, we can practice it . . . in our jail cells.
Must remember to make a little "widow's mite" contribution to the ADF, Becket, and other do-the-right-thing law firms. They desperately need it.
Jay Sekulow notes, "The ACLJ has not only filed three direct challenges to the HHS mandate, we have also filed amicus briefs in over a dozen other cases."
Not really. They are very much alike. There thought process is the same(Leftist in flavor), and they believe in two sets of rules. One set (i.e. they can do what they want, when they want to and change the rules to there favor when ever they want even within there upper ranks) is for them, the other set is for everyone else. They are revolutionary in style. The liberal really does treat women in general as objects, if you doubt that look at all the sex scandals and how they handle them, look at the birth control abortion debate as if woman care only about these issues(not family, not jobs, etc). To liberals, women in general are there at their service even top liberal women act like that toward other woman.
Very good -— thanks for that info. ACLJ rocks!
Will Catholics allow fellow Catholics or even themselves to Practice Catholicism? NO.
Most of them voted for Obama. 'Nuff said.
If we must suffer, so be it.
No, most of them voted for Romney.
There are many good and wise non-Catholics supporting the Church in this. God bless them!
[CatholicVote.org] The Catholic vote cannot be understood correctly without defining what we mean by Catholic. And since 2000, intelligent political observers agree that the best way to measure the Catholic vote is to break up the generic Catholic vote into those that regularly attend Mass (active Catholics) and those that do not regularly attend Mass (inactive Catholics).
So what happened in 2012? Here are the facts: Active Catholics accounted for 11% of the electorate in 2012 and voted 57-42 for Mitt Romney over President Obama. This represents a 14-point swing from 2008.
Inactive Catholics represented 13% of the electorate and voted 56-42 for President Obama.
See post 26 re the votes of faithful Catholics vs. CINOs.
"Sure, we can practice it . . . in our jail cells."
Then we will have fine company.
RE: Here are the facts: Active Catholics accounted for 11% of the electorate in 2012 and voted 57-42 for Mitt Romney over President Obama. This represents a 14-point swing from 2008.
We have about 120 Million people who voted in 2012.
If Active Catholics are 11% of this, that would make 13 Million Active Catholics who voted.
42% of 13 million is 5.5 Million VOTES !! Obama won by just over 3 million votes.
5.5. million votes would have been more than enough to defeat Obama.
That also means enough ACTIVE Catholics voted for a baby-killing supporting, gay marriage supporting, contraceptive and abotificent supporting President, who wants a law to force Catholics to PAY for these, to give him a second term.
How many of these active Catholics are going to repent in ragged clothes and ashes for what they are doing to the church?
Sorry but...
The Catholics should have voted against Obama.
The idea went back further into antiquity, but 800 years ago it was reintroduced to the western mind.
By the era of our founding, "natural rights" were an established principle of political science. It achieved its pinnacle in our Declaration of Independence.
Today, the popular, barbaric culture would have us believe there is no such thing as natural rights, or that the purpose of government is to secure them for the people.
Evangelical turnout A national post-election survey commissioned by the Faith and Freedom Coalition last night found that the evangelical vote increased in 2012 to a record 27% of the electorate and that white evangelicals voted roughly 78% for Mitt Romney to 21% for Barack Obama. This was the highest share of the vote in modern political history for evangelicals, Reed said.
Evangelicals turned out in record numbers and voted as heavily for Mitt Romney yesterday as they did for George W. Bush in 2004, Reed observed. That is an astonishing outcome that few would have predicted even a few months ago. But Romney underperformed with younger voters and minorities and that in the end made the difference for Obama.
Catholic voters who regularly attend Mass broke 67% for Romney to 32% for Obama. This represented a swing of 35% in the direction of the GOP since 2008. Romney also won white Catholics by a margin of 59% to 40%, a margin of 19 points among a group that historically has voted for the winner. Nevertheless, Obama narrowly won the Catholic vote driven largely by over-performing among Hispanic Catholics.
This poll shows faithful Catholics breaking 67-32 for Romney.
If I'm doing the math right, 21 percent of the evangelical vote (which was 27 percent of all voters) is 6.8 million. Those defectors also more than supplied Obama with his margin of victory.
Sorry but...
The Catholics should have voted against Obama.
RE: A national post-election survey commissioned by the Faith and Freedom Coalition last night found that the evangelical vote increased in 2012 to a record 27% of the electorate and that white evangelicals voted roughly 78% for Mitt Romney to 21% for Barack Obama. This was the highest share of the vote in modern political history for evangelicals, Reed said.
OK, let's do some calculations.
27% of the approximately 120 million votes is 32.4 million votes !!
21% of 32.4 million (that's the percentage of Evangelicals who voted Obama ) is : 6.8 Million votes !!
Obama won by just over 3 million votes !!.
That means a lot of evangelicals (nearly 7 million ) voted for a president who supports gay marriage and refuses to protect babies born alive.
How can they live with themselves and their votes?
Perhaps if we informed Obama and his MSM cheerleaders, that Islam opposes abortion, they'd be forced to stop and reconsider?
They're not only quislings on moral issues, they're lamentably ignorant. If those so-called evangelicals thought economic issues or national defense issues weighed in Obama's favor (and outweighed moral issues), they must be getting their news from NBC.
See post 32. The faithful Catholics did vote for Romney, albeit in not as high a margin (67-32) as white evangelical voters (78-21). The poseur "Catholics" and the Hispanic Catholics (for whom immigration apparently trumped life and religious freedom) provided the Obama edge among everyone who's lumped under the "Catholic" rubric.
If liberal Democrats can legally obfuscate over what the meaning of "is" is, then the Catholic Church can certainly practice what they preach while calling it something else.
Precisely. Remember the same voice that called the universe into creation in the first place, the voice from the one who can neither deceive nor be deceived, this same voice, the voice of Jesus Christ said of the Church, the gates of hell shall not prevail against it'.
We may be facing a trial or persecution, but looking at our history, we should be used to that. We know how this all ends. Take comfort, keep the faith, fight the good fight. In the end, whenver that is; We Win. They don't call it the Church Militant for nothing.
Keep in mind Muslims are exempt from Obamacare because paying for health insurance is against their religion. However- there are Muslims who work for their employer and they pay a portion towards their health insurance, like at my work. How is payment of that portion not against their religion?
Better men than you have tried and failed, Junior. Good luck with that.
How about if all Christian faiths declare that 0bamacare violates their religion? I'm quite confident there are some Protestant groups who would do this. Would that immediately give them an exemption?
What about conservative atheists? (Yes, they exist. I know some.) If I were an atheist, I'd be inclined to make up a religion which forbade 0bamacare and then I would claim an exemption. I've known people who got themselves "ordained" by various fringe groups and this was enough in the eyes of the law for them to perform marriages.
There is already a movement in the christian community to address this problem.
Churches must understand that the HHS mandate is not just a Catholic issue. While the Catholic Church is particularly in the crosshairs because of its religious beliefs against contraception, the HHS mandate specifically requires coverage of more than just contraceptive drugs. It also requires coverage of abortion-inducing drugs that every evangelical Christian should oppose.
What Does The Obamacare Ruling Mean For Churches?
From the Catholic Church perspective:
More Background
On January 20, 2012, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reaffirmed a rule forcing virtually all private health care plans to cover sterilization, abortion-inducing drugs, and contraception. These are listed among "preventive services for women" that all health plans will have to cover without co-pays or other cost-sharing -- regardless of whether the insurer, the employer or other plan sponsor, or even the woman herself objects to such coverage.
The exemption provided for "religious employers" was so narrow that it failed to cover the vast majority of faith-based organizationsincluding Catholic hospitals, universities, and charitiesthat help millions every year. Ironically, not even Jesus and his disciples would have qualified for the exemption, because it excludes those who mainly serve people of another faith.
Conscience Protection
It's a complex issue.
Catholics (like me) believe that an unborn child has a life and a soul in the same sense that every human being has life and a soul. Consequently, the Catholic Church can no more condone abortion than it could The Holocaust. Is there a middle ground? Was there a middle ground wherein one can condone the killing of only, say, three million Jews?
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A really beautiful sunrise over the island Colomer as seen from Talayot de Almallutx which is part of Mallorcas Formentor peninsula.
It was a calm morning, great light and nobody there except Matthias and me. Pretty awesome!
Getting up really early once again payed off.
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2012-08-18: Microcar Museum, Madison, GA | http://microcarmuseum.com/
Jennifer's Mom grumbles: The car is too small :-)
A Berlin license plate!
Plywood body and imitation leather hood (the "band-aid bomber").
Note the door handle.
Regensburg's "Tiger". Top-speed: 130kmh.
The Maico, built in Pfaffingen-Tuebingen.
Front-door entry.
Note the back-door entry handle and the reversed back seat.
Stingy Germans: 2-for-1 parking.
The "Ossi" Trabant with caravan.
Body made from Duroplast (a fire hazard).
"Our new home!"
Steel body, chain-driven, room for 1 person.
100mph and 5 people in a 4-passenger car.
The license plate says "motorcycle."
A beautiful French fashion model.
Double wheels in the back.
A row of BMWs, the front one has room for kids in the back!
Motorized bicycle by the founder of the Sinclair computer (1970s!).
Fuji from Japan.
French commercial vans.
French, with real wood side panels.
Motobecane: Every age has its own ugliness :-)
Italian multi-use vehicle. Seats 6.
The blue one in the middle is a Benelli (distinguished Italian).
Great color scheme. (The "David": see next picture.)
French, with bucket seats that look like garden patio chairs.
Mercedes-Benz: Smart. EUR21,000 (production run: 2,000).
A row of British cars.
Bonds! (Really!)
The tachometer goes to 70, but 70 WHAT?
Gogomobil-based delivery van.
The blue one was developed for the German postal service.
This Gogomobil model's production run: 260,000!
No kidding!
"Will the microcars come back?" "Don't know: I was looking for railroads here." :-)
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I have this line in my votes controller:
before_filter :authenticate
So when I vote while logged out, it should fail this filter.
My authenticate method in my application controller looks like this:
def authenticate
logged_in? ? true : access_denied
So it returns
access_denied which looks like this:
def access_denied
redirect_to login_path, :notice => "You must log in to perform this action." and return false
Therefore, I should be redirected to my login page, right?
I have this in my routes.rb file:
match '/login' => "sessions#new", :as => "login"
and I have a
new view with a login form that I should be redirected to when I vote and I'm not logged in. I also have this code in the
create method of my votes controller:
if @vote.save
respond_to do |format|
format.html { redirect_to @video }
respond_to do |format|
But when I vote, I am not redirected, and I get this error message in my logs:
Started GET "/login" for 127.0.0.1 at Thu Mar 24 21:18:08 -0700 2011
Processing by SessionsController#new as JS
Completed in 17ms
ActionView::MissingTemplate (Missing template sessions/new with {:locale=>[:en, :en], :formats=>[:js, "*/*"], :handlers=>[:rhtml, :rxml, :erb, :builder, :rjs]} in view paths "/rubyprograms/dreamstill/app/views"):
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âThunderstrikeâ was a 24-issue series that lasted from 1993 to 1995, starring Eric Masterson, the human architect that was once Thor, as a âstreet levelâ Thor hero, named after the mace that grants him power. At the end of his series, he died, sacrificing himself to stop the curse of Bloodaxe, leaving behind a son, Kevin. The new five-issue mini-series picks up years later in contemporary Marvel continuity with Kevin a teenage bully and thug, full of rage, especially when it comes to superheroes. When his fatherâs mace is found by Steve Rogers, Kevin has to deal with his fatherâs world again in an unexpected way.
The approach to this mini-series is clever and well thought out, building on the effect that Kevin Mastersonâs death would have had on his son. DeFalco contrasts the character between how he loved and admired superheroes until his dad died and, since then, heâs seen them either as the failures that didnât save his dad or as idiots who hurt those around them. Heâs so full of anger still that heâs a complete jerk with a sarcastic or crude comment for every occasion and a history of âanger managementâ problems. DeFalco also picks up on the idea that, even after all these years, Kevin still resents his parentsâ divorce and doesnât like his stepdad.
The problem is that the execution of this solid foundation is grating. Everything is so spelled out, every piece of dialogue so on the nose that the comic doesnât present characters, it presents these ideas said by human-looking things that are supposed to be characters. Thereâs no subtlety or confidence in the reader to understand whatâs happening without every single line shoving Kevinâs thoughts, motivations, and past down our throats. A mini-series following up on a short-lived comic from 15 years ago does require some exposition, but everything in this comic is meant to tell the reader what is happening rather than showing or letting the reader figure anything out for him or herself. Itâs the worst tendencies of a writing style, thankfully, not practiced much anymore.
Joining DeFalco is the co-creator of the character, Ron Frenz, who brings a classic look to the book that visually cues the reader into where itâs coming from. Like DeFalcoâs writing, Frenzâs art is sometimes too on the nose with the obvious manner in which characters look and act. But, that also makes for a comic where the art is rarely confusing or leaves anyoneâs head scratching. Thereâs a very strong foundation to the art, like the way that Frenz builds up to the reveal of Kevin over the first two pages, drawing the reader in before showing just how wild and out of control our protagonist it.
Sal Buscema does the finishes, and he and Frenz add some nice touches throughout the issue. When Steve Rogers shows up, for example, heâs done in an obvious Kirby style that other characters arenât. Itâs like heâs stepped out of another comic for a quick cameo, looking as bold and heroic as he possibly can. Given Kevinâs dislike of superheroes, this adds to that feeling he canât help have of awe.
âThunderstrikeâ #1 manages to continue on from where the original left off and merge with the current Marvel universe. Kevinâs personality isnât what youâd immediately expect, but makes for a good conflict, especially with the surprise end to the issue. If youâve seen the previews that show Thunderstrike returning, he does, just not the way you think. Itâs a strong cliffhanger that will have me back next issue to see what DeFalco, Frenz, and Buscema do with it.


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In this paper, the authors present an interactive visual technique for analyzing and understanding hierarchical data, which they have applied to analyzing a corpus of technical reports produced by a corporate research laboratory. The analysis begins by selecting a known entity, such as a topic, a report, or a person, and then incrementally adds other entities to the graph based on known relations. As this bottom-up knowledge building process proceeds, meaningful graph structure may appear and reveal previously unknown relations. The ontology of the data, which represents the types of entities in the data and all possible relations among them, is displayed as a guide to the analyst in the process.


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What a coincidence, but it has been almost five years, so, moving on.
I'll be flying Norfolk->Seattle on September 11. I figure the airports will be less crowded that day.
Israel killed a lot of terrorists and their children in Lebanon so many people are a moving on with their lives. We must not change our way of living or the terrorists will have won.
Sure, we should all move on with our lives, yeah.
And we also shouldn't just forget the date entirely, y'know?
And if we run businesses, maybe we should try not to be jaw-droppingly tone-deaf in our advertising, if not our scheduling, right?
Ominously, the school does not offer classes in how to land.
I'm not advocating we forget the day it happened. How can we, when we have a president who brings it up all of the time? It is one of those days of infamy, or whatever, but I don't think that the flight school was being insensitive, that's all.
Insensitive? Who said anything about insensitive? The charge is "jaw-droppingly tone-deaf," not "insensitive." I'm talking about simple business sense here, not social decorum.
The discourse we label "History" is an unfolding process, one date is no more important than any other. A new Simpson's episode has the same weight as 9/11. Let go and move on.
Okay, it's "jaw-droppingly ton-deaf". I get the irony of it. I'm sure jaws dropped on campus.
irony/coincidence pfft
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I assumed white was the easiest to see, but I've seen/heard/read a lot of people getting black because it stays the cleanest (or looks the cleanest at least). I guess I've never actually been at a barn with black fencing. Are there any problems with them seeing it? We'll be doing a 4 or 5" centaur board on the top with 4 or 5 strands of coated wire underneath. We're in Indiana so I'm not sure if moisture or mildew would be a problem on the vinyl. What do you have and why?


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Although I totally support the discussion of sets and usage in this metagame, I feel the discussion should more be geared toward an ultimate question: does Lileep have what it takes to be used in a Sandstorm team? Stats and Movepool (Move your mouse to reveal the content) Stats and Movepool (open) Stats and Movepool (close) HP: 66 Attack: 41 Defense: 77 Special Attack: 61 Special Defense: 87 Speed: 23 Important moves in bold Level-up: 1 Astonish 1 Constrict 8 Acid 15 Ingrain 22 Confuse Ray 29 Amnesia 36 Gastro Acid 43 Ancientpower 50 Energy Ball 57 Stockpile 57 Spit Up 57 Swallow 64 Wring Out TM/HM: 06 Toxic 10 Hidden Power 11 Sunny Day 17 Protect 21 Frustration 22 Solarbeam 23 Smack Down 27 Return 32 Double Team 36 Sludge Bomb 37 Sandstorm 39 Rock Tomb 42 Facade 44 Rest 45 Attract 48 Round 53 Energy Ball 69 Rock Polish 70 Flash 75 Swords Dance 80 Rock Slide 86 Grass Knot 87 Swagger 90 Substitute Egg Moves: Barrier Recover Mirror Coat Wring Out Tickle Curse Mega Drain Endure Stealth Rock Dream World: Giga Drain Gen III and Gen IV only: Bullet Seed Giga Drain Secret Power Captivate Sleep Talk Natural Gift Snore Synthesis Earth Power Mud-slap Seed Bomb Pain Split String Shot Worry Seed Headbutt Psych Up Body Slam Sets (Move your mouse to reveal the content) Sets (open) Sets (close) [SET] name: Special Sponge move 1: Recover move 2: Energy Ball move 3: Toxic/Stealth Rock move 4: Hidden Power Fire item: Eviolite ability: Storm Drain nature: Calm ev's: 228 HP|140 Def|140 SpD Lileep works wonderfully as a special sponge, dealing with some of the more notorious special attackers in the metagame, such as Chinchou or Staryu. His base SpD is already high, and Eviolite increases this by 50%. Recover works really well in conjunction with Toxic or Toxic Spikes, and Eviolite lets it comfortably tank some special and physical hits and Recover off most of the damage. Energy Ball works very well when you switch into a Hydro Pump from Chinchou or Staryu, gaining +1 Special Attack, while letting you get good coverage on Waters, Rocks, and Grounds, which in conjunction with Toxic can wear the opposing Pokemon down. This set can act as a Stealth Rock layer, but Toxic in general helps this set a lot, wearing down anything that you hit; Toxic Spikes works well with this set too and lets Lileep comfortably use Stealth Rock, plus Lileep beats the best Rapid Spinner in the metagame 1 on 1, Staryu thanks to Storm Drain. Hidden Power Fire is mainly for coverage, as Energy Ball and Toxic are both resisted by steel types. Although this set can function quite well without Sandstorm, Hippopotas is a great partner with Lileep. He has great synergy with Storm Drain and sandstorm extremely raises Lileep's Special Defense. Lileep struggles to beat Snover, who gets rid of sandstorm and has a STAB Blizzard, but is hard pressed to switch in because of Stealth Rocks and Hidden Power Fire. Larvesta makes a great partner with Lileep, too, who resists all of Lileep's weakness: Ice, Fighting, and Steel, and Lileep is immune to water-type attacks. -- [SET] name: Stockpile move 1: Stockpile move 2: Energy Ball move 3: Hidden Power Fire/Toxic move 4: Recover/Rest item: Eviolite ability: Storm Drain nature: Bold ev's: 228 HP|220 Def|60 SpD This set's main priority is to set up Stockpile and wall anything in its path. Energy Ball + Storm Drain greatly helps this set, letting Lileep beat bulky waters with relative ease, including Frillish and Chinchou. The choice between Hidden Power Fire and Toxic is difficult. Hidden Power Fire lets Lileep take on the main walls to this set, Ferroseed and Snover, although Lileep will need some boosts to take on the latter. Lileep really appreciates Toxic, though, which is his main way to stall an opposing Pokemon in conjunction with Stockpile. Therefore, Lileep loves Toxic Spikes support, and Tentacool makes a wonderful partner, sponging two of Lileep's 3 weaknesses. Recover is generally the superior recovery option since you don't have to wait two turns to start attacking again, but Rest can be used as an alternative because Lileep generally gets screwed by Toxic itself. Although incredibly defensive already with Eviolite, Stockpile heightens this to a point where Lileep is basically non-afraid of most moves, and in some cases even weaker super effective moves, such as Drain Punch and Flash Cannon. This set loves the help that Sandstorm brings, and Hippopotas is always a good partner for Lileep, setting up Stealth Rocks and luring in water-types for free setups and boosts from Storm Drain. Toxic Spikes, as said before, makes the set highly more efficient then normal, allowing you to not run Toxic and waste turns Toxicing, although this should be considered in great deal since Croagunk, the most used poision type, shuts down this set completely and hits back with STAB SE Drain Punch while absorbing Toxic Spikes.


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This question is solely about getting a client requesting a domain:
example.com to one of the two available servers. How it is handled from there on, is another problem to solve and should therefore not be mentioned in an answer.
Available tools
My available tools are two dedicated servers (
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data center A and
data center B) located in another physical location. The purely fictional IP address of
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Since I want to take things in my own control, I do not wish to use any 3rd party services (managed DNS, CDN etc). Thus these are my only tools.
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The disaster I am counting on is a hydrogen bomb annihilating one of the two data centers used a week after I setup things correctly on both servers.
I want my domain
example.com to be available at all times, although I wouldn't bother for a few seconds or perhaps even a few minutes downtime since the servers are so reliable that they might not even crash more than once a year. Also a simple page displaying that "we are busy solving the problem" could extend this acceptable downtime to an hour or so.
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It has been a while since I asked this question, and now I have a reasonable redundant setup. Since it is closed, I cannot post this as an answer :(
Both servers turn out to have equal DNS records for the
example.com domain:
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example.com. NS ns1a.example.com.
example.com. NS ns1b.example.com.
example.com. NS ns2a.example.com.
example.com. NS ns2b.example.com.
ns1a.example.com. A a.a.a.a
ns2a.example.com. A a.a.a.a
ns1b.example.com. A b.b.b.b
ns2b.example.com. A b.b.b.b
www.example.com. CNAME example.com.
example.com. A a.a.a.a
example.com. A b.b.b.b
Both servers got scripts running checking eachother for availability every minute. Both servers are name-servers of the example.com domain, so they can both change the DNS records. In case of trouble, the server which is still online will detect this, and remove the other server from the DNS records. Next to this, while the other server is still in the DNS records, browsers will automatically fallback to the other server within 2 seconds (tested with Mozilla Firefox)! Which is a really useful feature.
server A had 'authority' over
example.com I did not know how to add
server B as being able to control the DNS. Turns out that you can just add records for any domain, but they are only respected if the one who registered the domain first with DNS records adds this server as a nameserver with 'NS' in the DNS records.
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A 130-year-old photograph resulted in a tidy windfall for a Valencia man this week — fetching more than $7,000 at auction.
Valencia resident Charles Allen's photograph, taken in Dodge City, Kansas, circa 1884, was bought Thursday for $7,500 by a phone bidder from Oregon, according to Scottsdale-based J. Levine Auction & Appraisal, which handled the sale.
Allen's photograph also contained the signatures of a collection of Western contemporaries such as William Matthew Tilghman Jr., W. F. Petillon, Neal Brown, Luke Short and Bill Doolin.
It was also signed by Wyatt Earp, who worked as a lawman in Dodge City before moving onto other exploits, including his well-publicized time in Tombstone, Ariz.
Josh Levine, an auctioneer with J. Levine Auction & Appraisal, told The Signal last week that the photograph is so valuable because of the time period it captures and the signatures it contains. Its size and condition also make it a rare example of photography from that era, he added.
The same bidder that purchased Allen's photograph also purchased Earp's 1877 Colt Lightning Pocket Revolver for $20,000, according to a news release from J. Levine Auction & Appraisal.
Though $7,500 is no small sum, the estimated value of the photograph had been placed between $10,000 and $15,000, according to Levine.
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A landmark Shakespeare exhibition on the performances that made an icon, charting Shakespeare's constant reinvention across the centuries
Visit our exhibition in London to share in the journey through 400 years of history – from the first productions of Hamlet and The Tempest – to understand how Shakespeare's plays have been transformed for new generations of theatre-goers.
Imagine how audiences reacted to ground-breaking moments like the first stage appearance by a female actor in 1660 and the first British performance of Othello by a black actor in 1825.
Experience the glamour of Vivien Leigh's Lady Macbeth costume, the surprising circus prop from Peter Brook's radical 1970s A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the stunning detail of the award-winning costumes from Twelfth Night starring Mark Rylance, as performed at Shakespeare's Globe.
Shakespeare in Ten Acts showcases over 200 unique and rare items such as the only surviving literary manuscript in Shakespeare's hand, the earliest printed edition of Hamlet from 1603 and Shakespeare's First Folio.
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By Jody Record, Campus Journal EditorJanuary 19, 2011
A former white supremacist and a Civil Rights activist will come together on campus Thursday, Feb. 3, for the conversation "Unlearning Hate: Turning Corrosive Powers into Positive Action." The discussion, one of several events celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., takes place from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Granite State Room of the MUB. All events are free and open to the public but tickets are required for this and for the commemorative address.
Tom Martinez, once a member of the Klu Klux Klan and the hate group The Order, joins Morris Dees, Civil Rights speaker and one of the founders of the Southern Poverty Law Center, to explore how prejudice and hate are learned and how they can be unlearned.
The talk will be moderated by former president of the New Hampshire Women's Bar Association Katherine Brown and introduced by sociology and justice studies student Chaquanzah Stephenson.
Dees will give the commemorative address "With Justice For All" the same day, Feb. 3, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Granite State Room. The activist will address the historical and current social, cultural, political and economic circumstances that have given rise to increases in hate crimes, participation in hate groups, and the current political climate that fosters and empowers intolerance and hate in plain view in today's political discourse. He will also focus on how young people are being creatively recruited into a wide variety of sophisticated hate groups and the long term implications this may have, as well as the need for teaching deeper understanding, love and respect for one another.
Senior Kenlyne Exume will be the host. Performers include the UNH spoken word group "Owr Wirdz" and the UNH department of theatre and dance troupe performing "Seasons of Love" from their recent production of the hit musical "Rent."
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Professionally, I had a pretty good 2010. Among my good calls for '10 were my poster boy Jamaal Charles, Mike Wallace, Johnny Knox, Steve Johnson and Chris Ivory, plus I recommended you draft Adrian Peterson No. 1 overall when conventional wisdom said Chris Johnson. But I'm not here to pat my own back.
Indeed, I'm here to do quite the opposite: relive some of my most painful recommendations leading into the '10 season, ones that absolutely did not pan out. To paraphrase Ol' Blue Eyes: Regrets? I have a few. And not too few to mention.
Why do this? Well, besides the masochistic "fun" of trying to figure out what the heck I was thinking, I hope we can learn a few lessons. There will eventually be NFL football in 2011, and we all will finally get down to drafting our teams. If I can pick apart the dunderheaded assertions I made last year, maybe I can avoid making them again this year. So let's get out the shovels and exhume a few rotten, smelly corpses, shall we?
Beanie Wells is ready to break out.
Here's what I wrote last Aug. 18:
"Wells made it through (his rookie) season unscathed, which obviously is no guarantee that he can't get hurt, but I don't view him as an above-average injury risk."
Goody for me. However, Beanie's right knee begged to differ. He tore a meniscus in Arizona's final preseason game and needed arthroscopic surgery; when he returned, the knee continued to swell and Wells also had an allergic reaction to an injection in November. The contrast between his first- and second-year numbers illustrates the damage the injury did.
Beanie Wells, 2009 versus 2010
Last season, Wells took exactly one of his 116 carries for more than 16 yards and rarely broke tackles. All this would be borderline forgivable because of his injury, except Wells also spent much of the season making mental mistakes, including poor pass protection and blitz pickup. And it's not fair for me or anyone else to be surprised Wells got hurt: In his final two seasons at Ohio St., he suffered a left ankle sprain, a right wrist sprain, a thumb fracture, a right foot sprain, turf toe, a hamstring strain and a concussion. To Beanie's credit, he missed only three games out of 26 in those years, but it's no longer wise to ignore his reputation for being brittle.
Nor do the Cardinals seem convinced they can count on Wells to be their full-time rusher, as they drafted Virginia Tech RB Ryan Williams early in the second round of April's draft. Team officials can say they were merely "taking the best available player," but it's difficult not to read Williams' presence in the desert as a shot across Beanie's bow.
2011 Forecast: A frustrating platoon looks to be in the offing. Williams has every-down size and speed and better hands than Beanie. I don't imagine the Cardinals have completely given up on Wells, but if I had to pick one guy to draft right now, it'd be Williams. And remember, Tim Hightower is also still in the mix.
Lesson Learned: One season of NFL health shouldn't erase concerns that a player is injury prone, especially a running back. I rated Wells 15th among fantasy rushers before last season and he finished 57th. This is perhaps a reason to cast a continued skeptical eye on a guy such as Jahvid Best, who's undeniably talented but has rarely stayed healthy in his football career.
Dwayne Bowe will just never get it.
I insisted on leaving Bowe out of my top 20 fantasy receivers last year, after putting him at No. 10 for 2009. I wasn't getting burned again, darn it, and I wasn't buying the puff pieces coming out of Kansas City about how Bowe finally was acting like a professional. After all, this is a player who reported to training camp overweight in '09, led the NFL in drops, didn't catch a TD after Week 7 and earned a four-week suspension for using a banned substance.
Bowe finished '10 as fantasy's No. 2 wideout while lapping the field in TD receptions with 15. He also tied all receivers for the most scores caught from inside an opponent's 10-yard line. In short, in his fourth pro season, Bowe finally lived up to his potential as a crazy leaper and a bully in the open field. It took longer than it does for most high draft picks these days, but the light most definitely went on.
Dwayne Bowe 2010
Points based on ESPN standard scoring.
Now, I wasn't the only fantasy football writer to be "down" on Bowe last summer. But in retrospect I was crushingly slow to admit how wrong my opinion was. See the accompanying chart for a look at where I ranked Bowe on a weekly basis during last season, along with the fantasy points he subsequently scored each week.
When Bowe started terribly, I presumably felt smug. When he went wild in October and November, I held back my praise. Only by Week 12 was I truly a believer, then it was too late: Bowe had just 14 catches in his final five regular-season games, at least in part because Matt Cassel's magic went away. True, Bowe was massively disappointing in the fantasy playoffs, but a heck of a lot of teams made the fantasy playoffs because of his tremendous year.
2011 Forecast: I'm not particularly worried about the Chiefs drafting Pitt wide receiver Jonathan Baldwin in the first round of April's draft; Baldwin jumps to the NFL with many of the same "character" concerns of formerly dogged Bowe. No, it's Cassel who concerns me. I see what the QB's performances looked like when he finally started facing legit defenses later in the year, and I can't picture Bowe duplicating his insane '10. Plus, this is the NFL's run-heaviest attack. I have Bowe rated a respectable 13th among receivers right now.
Lesson Learned: Don't be such a cynic, Harris. Sure, we could line all the birdcages in North America with newsprint dedicated to how this or that knuckleheaded player is ready to "turn a corner" and "straighten up and fly right." But that doesn't mean they're all wrong. And consider the source: Chiefs coach Todd Haley throws around praise like manhole covers, so when it's someone like him who says a player finally "gets it," maybe invest in a little more belief.
Donald Brown has a great shot to take over the Colts No. 1 gig and run with it.
I was half right. I've never been a big Joseph Addai proponent; despite that he scored 13 TDs in '09, I advised not to consider him a fantasy starter for '10. He's a steady player near the goal line and a rock-solid pass-blocker, but that's it. He has no explosiveness to his game and is a big injury risk. Considering the Colts used a first-round draft pick on Brown two years ago, and considering Addai was entering the final year of his rookie contract, I figured Brown would get every chance to win the top job outright.
He did. He just played worse than anyone could've imagined:
Donald Brown, 2010
He missed three games with a bad hamstring, but the larger concern was his lack of decisiveness as a runner. Time and again, Brown tried a spin move that didn't work at the line of scrimmage and rarely hit the hole hard. He also continues to struggle in pass protection (hence Peyton Manning's legendary in-game "Dammit Donald" a couple years ago), and when Addai missed much of the season with a shoulder problem, the Colts felt they had to use such luminaries as Javarris James and Dominic Rhodes. In Indy's home playoff loss to the Jets, Brown didn't play a single snap.
What happened? This kid got a first-round grade from plenty of teams coming out of UConn, and indeed when the Cardinals drafted Wells two seasons ago, it was reported they had Brown rated ahead of Beanie and would've taken him if Indy hadn't. What's strange about Brown's effort last year is it's the exact opposite of what the NFL cognoscenti expected of him. In part, here's what Scouts Inc. said about him as a collegiate:
"Patient, lets blockers get into position and can bounce runs outside when defense is too quick to collapse inside. Excellent instincts and senses backside defenders closing in on him. ... Shows good lateral mobility when looking for a seam between the tackles and can cut back against the grain. ... (H)as adequate height and he's built well but he lacks elite size and breakaway speed."
In other words, while Brown wasn't going to be a game-breaker, you could rely on him to be a solid, grind-it-out back who usually gave you consistent strong runs. Except last year he appeared to be the exact opposite. He found a lot of defensive contact and tried -- often ineffectually -- to spin away from it.
2011 Forecast: My opinion is that Brown's best chance with the Colts has come and gone. True, the Indy running back depth chart is in flux: Addai might be a free agent, rookie Delone Carter is a fourth-round short-yardage specialist and everyone else (James, Rhodes, Mike Hart) is at least as shaky as Brown. I suppose I wouldn't begrudge spending a (very) late-round pick on Brown in the hopes that he's young enough to figure it out. But I'm not holding my breath.
Lesson Learned: I'll write at greater length about this later in the summer, but it's a mistake to assume that a first-round pick will automatically get playing time simply because he was a first-round pick and that he'll do anything with that playing time even if it comes. Brown's play was borderline terrible in his rookie year, and assuming he was going to make a jump in Year 2 turned out to be flawed logic indeed. Those ready to believe in C.J. Spiller this year should perhaps heed those words.
Worry not! The Bengals running game will keep producing.
In '09, Cincinnati featured a top-10 rushing attack. It was fourth in rush attempts and ninth in rush yardage. After running on 45 percent of their plays in '08, the Bengals ran on 52 percent in '09, and their young offensive line looked stacked. Carson Palmer was on the decline and the Bengals seemed to know it and looked (to me) prepared to make Cedric Benson a true fantasy star, with the proviso that if Benson couldn't do it, Bernard Scott would step into the void and produce. All this led me to rank Benson as my No. 10 running back for the '10 season and to put Scott squarely on my sleeper list (though I did rate him only No. 53 among running backs).
The full and true story of the Bengals 2010 season has yet to be written, but it certainly didn't include a dominant running game. My theory is that the apple cart got tipped when Terrell Owens came to town and started playing better than expected. Palmer tried partying like it was 2005, and Cincy threw on a gaudy 58 percent of its plays. That O-line turned out to be sufficiently young but not particularly great (though left tackle Andrew Whitworth is still a favorite). And frankly, it turns out Benson and Scott just aren't as good as I hoped.
Benson, of course, is another guy with that first-round pedigree, but he's really only ever played like it once in his six pro seasons. Take a look at his per-carry average:
Cedric Benson, 2005-2010
At some point, your career 3.7 yards per carry is your own responsibility, y'know? He's not the breakaway runner the Bears envisioned they were getting back in the '05 draft, and now he's coming off back-to-back seasons of 300-plus carries. Sure, he did manage to finish 16th among fantasy rushers last year, but anyone who drafted him to be a borderline No. 1 fantasy back was disappointed.
Meanwhile, while I continue to be intrigued by what I see from Scott when he gets carries, there can be no question that the Bengals remain thoroughly unconvinced. While he's turned into an above-average kick returner, Scott only got 61 carries and 11 receptions from scrimmage all season. I suspect Cincy doesn't like Scott as a pass-blocker and doesn't think he'd hold up to between-the-tackles pounding because he does have every-down size and speed. Anyway, he couldn't beat out Brian Leonard for third-down duties last year, and that speaks volumes.
2011 Forecast: The only rusher Cincy drafted this April was Baylor's Jay Finley in the seventh round, leading observers to believe the team will try to re-sign Benson, who's an unrestricted free agent. But this is a guy who took exactly two of his 321 carries for more than 20 yards last year. I won't be shocked if the Bengals go heavier on the run if indeed they start Andy Dalton Week 1. I will be shocked if Benson makes it through the season as a no-brainer fantasy starter.
Lesson Learned: A Bengal never changes its stripes? In retrospect, I was flat wrong when I kept writing that Cincy would stay "committed to the run" because of their '09 play-calling. In the six seasons in which Palmer was mostly under center for them, the Bengals ran on 45, 46, 45, 42, 52 and 42 percent of their offensive snaps. One of these things is not like the other, right? In the future I'll be a little more skeptical about an offense that's supposedly changed course, and this year that may include the Patriots. They were last season's No. 7 run-heaviest offense, but were 21st in '09 and 19th in '07 (Tom Brady missed '08). BenJarvus Green-Ellis gets no love from me this year.
Don't bother investing in that Buccaneers passing game.
Last August, my final preseason player ranks included Josh Freeman at No. 28 among fantasy quarterbacks and Mike Williams at No. 57 among fantasy wideouts. In his rookie season of '09, Freeman got eight starts and proved he had the raw physical skills and charisma to be an NFL starter, but the harsh truth was that he threw 18 interceptions in 10 games and had a 54.6 completion percentage, doing nothing to alleviate accuracy concerns that dogged him as a pro prospect. Meanwhile, Antonio Bryant had left Tampa, and only Kellen Winslow appeared a viable target for Freeman. Sure, Williams had shined during minicamp and training camp, and by August it had become clear he was the Bucs' No. 1 receiver. But how the heck much was that going to be worth?
Turns out it was worth a whole lot. Williams produced the best fantasy season by a rookie receiver since Randy Moss, and Freeman's accuracy underwent an astonishing transformation:
Josh Freeman, 2009-2010
Mike Williams, 2010
Now, it's not fair to flagellate myself over not seeing Williams' awesome season coming, and I'm proud that after watching the Buccaneers' first five games last year and seeing how polished Williams looked I started ranking him as a fantasy starter. But in retrospect, I'm mighty displeased with how I treated Freeman.
Not only was I slow to recognize how well he was playing and what a fantasy asset he could be (I didn't rank him as a top-10 fantasy QB until Week 15, and he finished the year as fantasy's No. 7 signal-caller), but I ignored my own instincts before the season even started. I watched every snap he took as a rookie, and while the results were often mixed, I saw something. Looking back at my notes, I regularly wrote comments such as "sloppy footwork, but good decision-making" or "made throws only a handful of guys can make," and I regularly regaled my ESPN cohorts at lunch with stories about how good I thought Freeman might eventually be. Yet when it came time to rank him for '10, I put Freeman behind low-upside players such as Jason Campbell, Alex Smith, Derek Anderson and Matt Hasselbeck.
2011 Forecast: I make Freeman my No. 10 fantasy QB for '11, with the upside to be even better than that. Last season, he finished second in rush yards by a quarterback but didn't have a single rushing TD, which was almost certainly bad luck. Even if his TD/INT ratio regresses a bit, I think Freeman makes up for it with points on the hoof. As for Williams, opposing defenses will key on him, and perhaps double-digit TDs isn't repeatable. Provided his occasional off-field behavior problems don't persist, there's no reason to think he can't be a fantasy starter again this year.
Lesson Learned: No, we can't nail every breakout payer. But when a young guy such as Freeman pops off the screen, try to believe, even when the results aren't there yet. Certainly, there's good reason to put a player such as Freeman circa '10 ahead of the "usual suspect" scrubs, if only for the possibility of a breakout. Sam Bradford won't be as disrespected in advance of this season as Freeman was headed into '10, but he fits a similar mold. And you know what else? Freeman's rapid progression gives me hope for Jake Locker, whose biggest bugaboo is accuracy. I expect the Titans to sign a bridge QB for the first few months of this season, but I give Locker a chance to be Freeman-esque by 2012.
Christopher Harris is a fantasy analyst for ESPN.com. He is a six-time Fantasy Sports Writers Association award winner. You can ask him questions at www.facebook.com/writerboy, and follow him on Twitter at @writerboyESPN.


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Will Victoria Azarenka Wake Up From Her Nightmare At The US Open?
Victoria Azarenka is cranky, has been for a while now, and it's difficult to blame her.
Since she fell in a three-set classic to Serena Williams in the US Open final a year ago, things have been particularly unpleasant for the former No. 1 player in the world.
"This has been a nightmare for her," four-time US Open champion and ESPN analyst John McEnroe said.
Azarenka injured her left foot during her run to the Australian Open quarterfinals, where she lost to Agnieszka Radwanska. Between Australia and Wimbledon, Azarenka played a grand total of two matches in two tournaments, losing both.
But coming in fresh on the Wimbledon grass, Azarenka said she felt good and looked as though she was on the road to recovery during her first-round victory over Mirjana Lucic-Baroni.
Still, Azarenka knew better. After losing a three-setter in the second round to 45th-ranked Bojana Jovanovski, one of the most mentally tough players on the WTA Tour, Azarenka berated herself for not being sharp enough.
"There are a lot of things that still has to be tuned and has to be practiced," she said. "It basically goes down to back to work."
Azarenka had hurt her right knee in her first-round match, but there were no excuses, she said.
"I have to be [hard on myself]. I have to be realistic. I cannot sit here and say it's all great because there's no moving forward from there. I'm going to be hard on myself just because I want to be better. ... I want to go back to practice, like, tomorrow, maybe even today. That's it."
When asked what she expected of herself, Azarenka snapped at the reporter.
"Do I ever expect anything from myself?" she said. "Did you ever hear me [say], 'I expect that?' I don't think so. I'm going to work hard. What I expect from myself is to work hard and give my best every single day."
Back in the U.S. for the summer hard-court season, Azarenka lost in straight sets to Venus Williams at Stanford but looked as though she might be coming back again with victories over Alize Cornet and Heather Watson in Montreal before losing again to Radwanska. She withdrew in Cincinnati last week, citing the injured right knee.
"I never expect much," she said. "I just go with what it is and try to improve on that. ... I'm just trying to progress, go day by day, stay in the moment and really take advantage of every day."
Women's tennis has missed Azarenka, for a while one of the few players seemingly unfazed by Serena Williams.
"Everyone is intimidated by Serena, especially when she's playing her A-game," McEnroe said. "If she doesn't play well, that opens the door for a lot of people. She becomes human. Azarenka was a player that seemed to believe as much or more than anyone else that she could do some damage. [But] her confidence is nowhere near what it was a year ago.
"I don't think she has been able to train as hard as she wanted. I don't think she's played nearly as many matches as she would've liked to. But as far as whether or not she could be a factor, the mere fact that she's won some majors and she's still young and obviously wants to ... I think she does have an opportunity to do something. I'm not 100 percent sure where she is physically, if she's healthy and whether she just needs match play. She may potentially go a long way. Obviously right now she's not playing with a lot of confidence."
The pressure of trying to return to full strength, Azarenka said, is nothing new.
"I think the most important [thing] is knowing what you want to achieve and knowing yourself and what you want to do and what you expect from yourself," she said. "You set yourself goals, and you try to reach your goals. Everything that comes from outside is not possible to control. The best you can do is focus on what you can do."


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Boys Swim: 200 meter relay finished 4th. Estes is currently 6th as a team. @EPNews @EPTrailGazette @CHSAA
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Boys diving: Jacob, Luke, and Colin all finish in the top 5. Jacob sets new school record with 501 points. Great job boys! @CHSAA
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- No. 2 seed Marat Safin was beaten 7-6, 6-4 by Germany's Nicolas Kiefer in the opening round of the Dubai Championships on Tuesday.
Playing his first match since winning the Australian Open,
the Russian Safin never found his rhythm against an opponent who also
won their previous meeting at the Toronto Masters last year.
Kiefer, who often came to the net, mixed aggression and a
deft touch to frustrate his opponent and although Safin served
well at times it was not enough to give him any advantage.
Neither player managed to earn a break point as the first
set went to a tiebreak, which Kiefer dominated.
The German Kiefer then maintained his momentum as the second set
got underway, breaking to love as Safin struck his first
double-fault of the match to fall behind 1-0.
A second double-fault allowed Kiefer to break again to lead
5-2 but he failed to serve out the match, putting a forehand
wide down the line on break point.
When the German served for the match a second time he was
able to seal victory with his eighth ace of the match.
"I couldn't get comfortable on the court," said Safin, who
refused to blame his defeat on the 10-day break he took after
claiming his second grand slam title last month.
"I found the court was a little bit too fast so I couldn't
really time the ball. I was missing a lot and wasn't comfortable
at any moment," added the Russian.
"He's a tough one. All of a sudden he makes a couple of
mistakes and he plays again and there is no rhythm at all. It's
very difficult to find your game against him."
Wind had covered the court with a fine layer of sand and
Kiefer said that made the surface faster, to his liking.
"I didn't expect to play this good," he said. "I've been
here since Wednesday and was playing well but the last two days
I lost a little bit of my concentration, my focus.
"But I'm very happy with the way I played. I was fighting.
It's all about confidence, and this win was pretty important for
me. I've had tough draws the last few weeks and I was close but
I never made it."
Kiefer said nerves also played a part as he struggled to
close out the match.
"I think it's quite normal that you get a little nervous,"
he said. "I just tried to focus on my game. I didn't serve so
well in the beginning but I could get through the games and that
is very important, especially against these players."
Third seed Tim Henman survived a match point before
overcoming fellow Briton Greg Rusedski 4-6, 7-6, 6-4.
Henman, who went into the match with just four wins in his
previous six visits to Dubai, dropped the first set and faced
four break points at 5-5 in the second.
But in a high-quality battle between two serve and
volleyers, Henman played his way out of trouble. He held off a
match point at 6-5 in the tiebreak before claiming it 9-7.
A single break of serve then decided the third set, as
Henman broke to lead 4-3 and a frustrated Rusedski received a
warning for hurling his racket to the ground.
Spain's Feliciano Lopez lined up a second round clash with
Andre Agassi by beating Thailand's Paradorn Srichaphan.
Lopez, who took Roger Federer to three sets in the 2004
Dubai final, often looked the more eager competitor as he
claimed a 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 victory.
He discouraged Paradorn from the start, breaking to lead 1-0
after the Thai had led 40-0 and held four game points. Paradorn
then failed to convert two more game points in the fifth as the
left-handed Spaniard broke again to lead 4-1.
Lopez paid the price for failing to take advantage of a
break point at the beginning of the second set, however.
Paradorn held and his aggressive serve and volley tactics
paid off when he earned the only break of the set to lead 5-3
with a crosscourt forehand that clipped the net cord.
Lopez now faces Agassi remembering that when they last met
in 2002, the Spaniard played the match of his life in front of
an ecstatic home crowd before losing 7-6, 6-7, 7-5 in Madrid.
"I'm really looking forward to the match because the stadium
will be full of people," said Lopez. "It's one of the matches
that you always wanted to play.
"I'll have to serve very good, and he's always fighting for
every point so I have to be there concentrating on every point.
That is the most important thing."
In other early matches, former champion Fabrice Santoro of
France was beaten 6-3, 6-0 by sixth seeded Russian Nikolay
Davydenko, and Igor Andreev, also of Russia, defeated Swiss
qualifier Marco Chiudinelli 6-3, 7-5.
A third Russian, seventh seed Mikhail Youzhny, overcame
Thomas Johansson of Sweden 7-6, 6-1.


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Trans Fat Substitutes
If a label says trans-fat-free, what else might the food item have in it? Food chemists are experimenting with different fats and oils that are suitable replacements and don't alter taste or texture.
"Most of the fast-food restaurants have done a very good job switching to a vegetable oil like soybean oil to deep-fry their foods," says Jacobson.
Using heart-healthier monounsaturated or polyunsaturated oils, such as olive, canola, or corn oil, is a great option for some products, but doesn't work when you need a solid fat to make a food. Replacing trans fat with saturated fat is better, but not ideal.
"Trans fats are worse than any other fat, including butter or lard, so look for foods that use the least amount of trans fats," says Jacobson. "Even if it contains a little saturated fat, it is better than consuming the trans fat."
Adds Ward: "Tropical oils such as palm, palm kernel, and coconut may not contain trans fats, but they contain unhealthy saturated fats that are almost as bad for you as partially hydrogenated fats."
Trans Fats When You're Eating Out
But what about foods in restaurants, or from outside the U.S. where trans fat labeling may not be required? When restaurants and state fairs boast that their oils are trans-fat-free, some consumers may be misled into believing fried foods are good for them.
"Using trans-fat-free cooking oil to fry foods is certainly better," says Ward. "But the food is still fried, and fried food is high in fat and calories and generally not recommended for the heart or the waistline."
Wendy's, Taco Bell, Dunkin' Donuts, Baskin Robbins, Denny's, IHOP, KFC, Pizza Hut, and Starbucks are among the food companies that have replaced trans fats or are committed to doing so. Yet plenty of restaurants still use them.
"Avoiding fried foods and cakes, cookies, and pastries is the easiest way to reduce trans fat consumption when you eat out," says Jacobsen.
You can also ask about the type of fat used for frying, baking, and in salad dressings. Even if the menu boasts that items are "cooked in vegetable oil," that doesn't necessarily mean they're trans- fat-free foods. They may contain some partially hydrogenated vegetable oil.


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Noise pollution is a major problem for Europe's environment. Transport and industry are the main sources of concern and prolonged exposure can damage human health and adversely affect ecosystems. European legislation aims to reduce noise pollution and also highlights the need to preserve areas that are currently unaffected. These so called quiet areas are an important component of the European soundscape and may offer havens away from noise pollution. This report sets out to identify where these potential quiet areas might be and offers an insight into how they could benefit the human and wildlife populations that inhabit or benefit from the rural European soundscape that is currently unaffected by noise pollution.
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Noise pollution is a growing environmental concern. It is caused by a varied number of sources and is widely present not only in the busiest urban environments, it is also pervading once natural environments. The adverse effects can be found in the well-being of exposed human populations, in the health and distribution of wildlife on the land and in the sea, in the abilities of our children to learn properly at school and in the high economic price society must pay because of noise pollution. The European soundscape is under threat and this report sets out to quantify the scale of the problem, assess what actions are being taken and to scope those that may need to be considered in the future, in order to redress the problem.
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Noise pollution is a growing problem for Europe's environment. Transport and industry are the main sources of concern and long term exposure can damage human health and adversely affect ecosystems. European legislation aims to reduce noise pollution and also highlights the need to preserve areas that are currently unaffected. These so called quiet areas may be found, not only in rural areas, but also inside our busiest cities. They are not only where people recreate, but also where they live and work, so how can they be identified and preserved in order to protect environmental health and well-being? This report offers a digest of actions from all across Europe to identify and protect environments with good acoustic quality.
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Definición de neuroepithelium en inglés:
1A type of epithelium containing sensory nerve endings and found in certain sense organs (e.g., the retina, the inner ear, the nasal membranes, and the taste buds).
Oraciones de ejemplo
- The free nerve endings of cranial nerve V are located diffusely throughout the nasal respiratory epithelium, including regions of the olfactory neuroepithelium.
- Scanning electron microscopy on neuroepithelium of dissected cochlea, i.e., of the upper surface of the hair cells of the organ of Corti, was used to investigate the cause of deafness.
- Smell receptors are located within the olfactory neuroepithelium, a region of tissue found over the cribiform plate, the superior septum and a segment of the superior turbinate.
2(In embryology) ectoderm that develops into nerve tissue.
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- Immature neural tissue or neuroepithelium is more common than grade 1 but does not exceed an aggregate area of three low-power microscopic fields in any one slide.
- An aggregate area of one low-power microscopic field, even if only in one slide of the tumor, exceeds the minor amount of immature brain or neuroepithelium acceptable for Grade 1.
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- The authors conclude that allergen exposure depletes calcitonin gene-related peptide in neuroepithelial bodies and submucosal nerve fibers, and that replacement of the peptide can reverse the changes in airway responsiveness.
- Note that by definition, neuroepithelial bodies must be innervated and this could not be evaluated on the given slides because pulmonary nerve fibers are negative for BLP immunostaining.
- Unfortunately, insufficient tumor was available to perform additional stains for neuroepithelial or neural crest markers.
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