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Welcome to the three hundredth and ninety-third in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, it is a rare DOUBLE theme week! First off, this week will be the first of two weeks celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Death of Superman with a legend relating to Superman and Doomsday. Plus, all three legends this week involve comics and mental health! Did DC Comics change Doomsday's origins after protests from mental health organizations? Did Zartan's G.I. Joe profile card change after protests from mental health organizations? And was there a Blondie comic book made specifically for a mental health group?
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Let's begin!
COMIC LEGEND: DC changed Doomsday's origins after protests from mental health organizations.
STATUS: False
I often speak in this column about the power of the game of "telephone," where people mishear/misread something and then pass that misheard/misread story along and it eventually gets warped from its original intent into a whole other story.
In the case of Doomsday and Superman editor Mike Carlin, it came down to the word "like" being dropped.
In the weeks leading up to the introduction of Doomsday, the alien monster who killed Superman in the Death of Superman, Doomsday's reveal was handled the same way that Walter Simonson slowly revealed the villainy of Surtur during his run on Thor (Simonson's wife, Louise, was one of the four main Superman writers at the time). We first just heard noises coming from an underground bunker and we eventually saw a fist punching the wall…
This repeated a few times until Doomsday was free!
Once loose, Doomsday was just a rampaging monster, laughing as he/it caused destruction…
Superman stopped it, but at the cost of his own life.
As you all recall, this was a really big news story back in 1992. When asked to describe Doomsday, Superman editor Mike Carlin described Doomsday as being "LIKE an escapee from a cosmic lunatic asylum."
Well, that line was picked up a LOT, only the "like" was dropped and instead it was that Doomsday WAS an escapee from a cosmic lunatic asylum. Many articles and editorials were written about how offensive DC was being by portraying a mentally ill alien in such a fashion.
The protests seemed to originate from Rhode Island, where Daniel J. McCarthy, one of two Division of Mental Health administrators for Rhode Island was quoted at the time as saying, "This is stereotyping at its worst, pitting the ultimate evil against the ultimate good – and promising to make life difficult for the mentally ill into the next generation."
A spokesperson for another Rhode Island group, the Coalition of Consumer Self Advocates in Rhode Island, quipped, "If someone who is ill is going to kill Superman, how about an escapee from a cosmic cancer ward?"
So when the whole "intergalactic insane asylum" thing did not end up being part of Doomsday's origin, the story was changed now to "DC CHANGED Doomsday's origin in response to the protests."
Carlin assured me that nothing was changed, and I believe him, not just because I trust him, but just because of how comics work. The publicity behind the Death of Superman happened after the issues were already written and it was clear Doomsday's origins were not going to be explored in the comic. For the sake of the storyline, he was just a monster. it was clear nothing was actually changed in the story.
Dan Jurgens eventually came up with an origin for Doomsday a couple of years later, and no asylum was used.
Thanks a lot to Mike Carlin for the information!
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COMIC LEGEND: Hasbro changed Zartan's profile after complaints from mental health organizations.
STATUS: True
This is a bit tricky as far as counting it as a "comic book" legend, but the way I see it, the profiles for all of the G.I. Joe characters were written by Larry Hama, the writer for the comic book series, so I say it counts.
Anyhow, unlike the above case involving Doomsday, mental health groups actually DID lead to a change in the original description of the G.I. Joe character Zartan.
Here is his original profile…
Comic books have long had a history of not exactly getting "schizophrenia" correct. For instance, for years Two-Face was described as a schizophrenic, while obviously he is not. So after some protests, Hasbro had the above profile edited in later editions of the figure to remove the mention of his mental issues period.
Thanks to yojoe.com (and Corey Stinson in particular) for the scan of the unedited card!
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COMIC LEGEND: A special Blondie comic book was produced for a New York mental health group.
STATUS: True
While the idea seems practically obvious now, when Newton Bigelow decided to begin using Blondie comics in his therapy in the 1950s, it was seen as a radical idea. Comic books, as you might recall, were coming under fire from people arguing that they were a negative influence. In addition, when it came to therapy, they were seen as being "just for kids," so they were not taken seriously as a therapeutic tool.
Bigelow, though, who also innovated the use of group therapy to treat patients, felt that they got across issues in such a fashion that other forms just couldn't do.
Initially, he used strips from Chic Young's comic strip Blondie as examples of family interactions with his patients. He put together a calendar with examples of the strip and gave them out to patients. Later, when he became the head of New York's Department of Mental Hygiene, he actually commissioned a special Blondie comic book just for this purpose!
Fascinating, no?
Major props to Bigelow (and other mental health experts of the time who bucked the anti-comics trend, including the Mental Health Association) for seeing the power of comic books to teach people of ALL ages.
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"Many articles and editorials were written about how offensive DC was being by portraying a mentally ill alien in such a fashion." – Yes, I'm sure aliens throughout the universe were very upset and concerned over this fictional characters portrayal. Geeze, some media people have too much time on their hands…
Seems kind of funny that Larry Hama wrote that Zartan filecard, yet never portrayed him that way in the comic. Zartan often seemed like the sanest guy in Cobra. When Josh Blaylock did write him as crazy and often forgetting who he was during the Devil's Due run, it stood out like a sore thumb and felt wrong. It never actually occurred to me he was writing him closer to his description on the Hama-penned filecard than Hama himself did!
These legends are crazy.
Those Blondie strips really are fascinating. They need to give those out in schools and as part of premarital counseling.
This column is not only entertaining but educational as well.
For example, who knew that "BLORCH!" is the sound you make when you crush a bird in your hand?
Interesting mix, even given the common theme.
I heard of another special Blondie mental hygiene comic book that I saw the cover of it in a 1963 Mad magazine story (By Wally Wood) about other comic book pamphlets.
@Bill,,,because mental illness is such a trivial thing? There is a boatload of misunderstanding about mental illness in our society so the fact that someone might talk to an example of that misunderstanding seems like an appropriate and even honorable thing to do.
…that a little bird would land on ANYBODY's hand, much less a huge hulking stone-like creature like Doomsday…. I mean, I'll believe a man can fly, but seriously comic books, come ON (but then again, maybe Doomsday smells like corn?)
Funny thing is it's only gotten worse over the years, as people seem to go out of their way to either try and be offended by any- and everything, or go and be offended on behalf of others who may or may not be offended in the first place!
Anyone remember the albino group that protested the second Matrix movie, not because it was bad, but because they felt the two characters with dreads were unfairly stereotyping people with pigmentation deficiencies? Or the mental health groups protesting the XFL team name of the Memphis Maniax?
Eventually, jokes in the future are going to be: "A man/woman/transgender walked/moved a wheelchair/utilized crutches into a building/open space and ordered a drink/some food. The end."
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Charles you are so sensitive! relax.
Shamus, lol. I know, right!
I just always have to shake my head at the people who get all bent because someone said something completely innocent that suddenly becomes the worst thing imaginable. lol
And lest it be said that I'm making light of mental illness, as opposed to those who try and go out of their way to be offended, I've been VERY open about my own mental illness and have encouraged understanding of it myself: http://www.nerdtopiacast.com/2012/09/10/bipolar-express-how-comics-rails/
I've always liked that page with Doomsday and the tweety like bird. It shows the innocence of the bird and the evil of Doomsday. I call the page, "Doomsday gets the Boid"
Speaking as someone with a diagnosed mental illness, I'm quite capable of telling the difference between "this dangerous person is mentally ill" and "all mentally ill people are dangerous." I dearly wish privileged, guilty pseudo-liberals would learn that and stop rushing to a defense that I didn't ask for, don't want, and don't need.
What people with mental illnesses were they targeting with the talking dogs? David Berkowitz?
Has anyone ever thought to complain that Batman's entire rogue's gallery suffers from mental disorders?
@MIchael P: THANK YOU. That's exactly my feelings on so many people these days when it comes to things like this.
In any case, the Doomsday pages take me back to 8th grade and remembering the absolute hype around that storyline, it was insane. I even had a newspaper clipping on my wall. I've got the armband somewhere from Superman #75.
Has anyone ever thought to complain that Batman's entire rogue's gallery suffers from mental disorders?
Yes, actually. Awhile back a mental health group was in the news with their complaints over the depiction of mental illness in comics, Batman villains in particular.
Actually, Black Cesar, if that bird had lived he would have enslaved the whole human race. Doomsday really did us a favour there.
But seriously: I can't source this right now, but I recall reading at the time that one of the mental health professionals who had complained was given an advance look at the rest of the Doomsday story and withdrew his complaints. Anyone else remember this?
Yeah, Matthew, there were definitely a few "don't worry, the story is actually not offensive" stories after the fact (much fewer of them, of course), but those follow up stories led to the legend that DC changed the story because of the protests instead of "Oops, there was nothing wrong with the story to begin with."
MAD Magazine did a parody of these educational comics (like the BLONDIE one) sometime in the 60s, that I read when it was re-printed in a paperback (I think Wally Wood was the artist). They featured a number of reproductions of covers of the actual comics as a header, and I think one of them was a Walt Kelly Pogo comic on family planning!
The albino objections aren't as unreasonable as they sound (I'll make the caveat here that I don't remember the Matrix villains, specificially). When albinos show up, they're almost always murderous (Tobias Whale, the albino in the movie Foul Play to name two). Nor does anyone consider that real albinos are legally blind (as I understand it) so their ability to be fiendish killers is limited).
I think there was an albino assassin on Babylon 5 as well. And come to think of it, a Star Trek DS9 villain who I believe was only described as "The Albino."
Years (10?) after the Doomsday story, Dan Jurgens did an anniversary story called "Day of Doom" in which at one point the protagonist (a reporter) calls Superman out on his attitudes toward the mentally ill for referring to some the villain "a diseased maniac". I'm pretty sure that's what he said – also referencing what Superman calls Lex Luthor in the first Christopher Reeve movie. Do you think that is connected to the story behind this legend?
Here's the thing with the "albinos" in the Matrix, though: They WEREN'T albinos. They were GHOSTS, or as close an analog as the Matrix allows. They were twins and weren't supposed to be albinos at all. They were in all white and made to look undead. They were white with white dusty hair, and dressed in all white for that reason alone. The albino groups MISINTERPRETED them as supposed to be albinos and missed the whole turning intangible undead ninja assassin angle that WAS the intention, that's what was completely unreasonable. lol
Ah, got it
And of course there's the fact that in certain parts of Africa albinos are actually hunted and killed. Because apparently they're magical. But like "Charles" and "Michael" there pointed out, only pseudo-liberals (whatever those are) care, so keep on mocking them.
(Seriously, I'm well aware that comic fans tend to be a bit on the right-wing side of the world view spectrum, but this is just absurd. It's okay to mock and demonize a group that's persecuted even in real lfe, and if someone complains they are "pseudo-liberals" or whatever? Grow up, people.)
I saw a reference to the Blondie book in a MAD reprint magazine back in the early '80s (I think). I had no idea it was real. By the way, the idea of having Dagwood beat the rug to 'get it out of his system' is discouraged nowadays. The current theory is that this sort of thing causes a positive feedback and leads to higher levels of aggression.
It is true that albinos tend to suffer from vision problems, but I don't think most of them actually qualify as legally blind.
Wasn't the henchman in the Davinci Code albino and mentally I'll?
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I just remembered today that it's almost the 20th anniversary of the Death of Superman (11/18!), so that means I've been going to my LCS for 20 years now! Oy, I'm old.
Dagwood's anger at his family and his job is his suppressed rage at having given up his swanky aristocratic beginnings in order to settle down with Blondie and live in the suburbs and work in an office. Rage, rage, grey flannel suit man!!!
I've nothing against albinos or mentally ill people, it's all the goddamn mutants around that tick me off!
Unfortunately it's all too common to have villains ugly, disfigured or unpleasantly different looking in some way. It helps us in demonizing them so we can feel better than them, and makes the hero look better in comparison. Bad lion in Lion King? Scar. Caliban in Shakespeare? Disfigured and dark skinned. Luthor? Bald. JokerPenguinKillerCrocClayface? Hideous freaks all. There are no nice people in comics who look like Two-Face.
For Death of Superman, I always thought it was a shame that they created such a one-note new character to kill Superman. It would have been much more interesting if they finally gave the win to Lex Luthor after his decades of trying. He could have been on the run all through Supe's death with a manhunt getting closer all the time until S's return and a dropped murder charge. It would be fun for Lex to be able to say he killed him once! "yeah but it didn't stick."
From now on only completely sane, mass murderers,
"I've got this idea for a new Batman foe. A dangerous killer, or maybe just a criminal in some other way, but is willing to kill at the drop of a hat, because he needs to be dangerous, and he uses some weird gimmick…… But don't worry, he's completely sane and well adjusted"
I remember the media storm surrounding the Death of Superman, but I have no memory of the "mental illness" protest. Interesting.
@Michael P: Yes! That's exactly what bothers me about all of these "I'm offended!" people. They're the ones doing the ridiculous generalization and try to blame it on someone else. Bunch of hypocrites.
Mary, one of the most interesting bits of the original Omac comic is when they show Buddy's office has a set of rooms downstairs where you can stab mannikins or set them on fire to relieve your stress (or lock yourself in for a good cry). This kind of idea was actually tossed around back then–though as you say, it's no longer considered a good solution to workplace stress.
Weirdest thing with Zartan is Hama really never even gave him an origin in the Marvel series. The sword smith aspect always seemed out of place. His full Origin in the later Dreadnoks Classified series was complicated to the point of absurdity.
Walt Simonson said he gave Beta Ray Bill a horse face to counteract the stereotypical good and evil portrayals.
And speaking personally as someone who works with the mentally ill, has loved ones with mental illness, as well as my own mental illness, I find that most people can't tell the difference between "this dangerous person is mentally ill" and "all mentally ill people are dangerous". And pop cultural portrayals are a large part of that misconception.
Hi Brian. You refer to Dagwood's psychiatric proponent as "Nelson" Bigelow whilst on the 1950 Blondie comic book page immediately following he is identified as Newton Bigelow, MD.
It is admiitedly a minor gaffe but for years I have admired your attention to detail. I am actually surprised nobody else has mentioned it yet.
Thanks, it is fixed!
Unfortunately it's all too common to have villains ugly, disfigured or unpleasantly different looking in some way. It helps us in demonizing them so we can feel better than them, and makes the hero look better in comparison. Bad lion in Lion King? Scar. Caliban in Shakespeare? Disfigured and dark skinned. Luthor? Bald. JokerPenguinKillerCrocClayface? Hideous freaks all. There are no nice people in comics who look like Two-Face.
That's a good point. Offhand I've got:
Beta Ray Bill (barely counts because he's an alien – but he is a really ugly one)
Orion (of The New Gods) – in the original comics was really ugly in his natural form, but could change to not be. I haven't seen that used since though.
I have always said it … if there is a person with their hair up their @$$ for some stupid reason … they have to be from Rhode Island … worst state in the nation.
That Blondie comic was sublime. I don't know why, but it made me feel better and I wasn't even feeling BAD.
Every bit as problematic as the depiction of the mentally ill in the Batman comics is the depiction of mental health professionals – Amadeus and Jeremiah Arkham*, Harleen Quinzell, and Jonathan Crane, all go insane themselves (or are unhinged to begin with), Alyce Sinner is unrepentingly evil, and pretty much every other mental health professional shown in the books who isn't a generic walk-on is born to die.
* Author's saving throw of the mask being a possessing entity notwithstanding. Also he still comes across as a little sinister.
I don't think that's as problematic, though, as mental health professionals don't face the kind of discrimination and stereotyping mentally ill people do.
Not the same kind, no, but being treated as coddling criminals or enabling bad behaviours by saying the person is say, depressed, not just shirking is a very real meme – it makes life hard for both MHPs and the mentally ill.
Calling Luthor hideously deformed because he's bald is more than a little bit of a stretch, Ganky. In fact Lex is pretty consistently portrayed as handsome and suave.
Bats saving grace is that he's hardly less crazy then his rogues gallery… sane people don't deal with their grief by dressing up as a giant bat and beating up people.
I think it was Alan Brennert who said that in a super-hero universe, dressing like a giant bat to fight crime because your parents were murdered is no weirder than founding MADD because your daughter was killed by a drunk driver.
@cool arrow: I did.*
Getting upset over an offhand comment about a character in the same universe as Arkham Asylum just seems like piggybacking on publicity. The Joker must be giving someone fits.
And I think I had that original Zartan card. I remember the addendum. Back before he was yet another jealous ninja. (Who knew ninjas could be so catty?)
(*Is three weeks too past the expiration date for this joke?)
This is a fascinating discussion, and I wish it would continue somewhere. I especially wish it would continue into the world of comics writing. In my life I have had friends and family with mental illness, but for these purposes I'll only mention two, both of whom were bipolar. One I had to work hard to get others to accept and understand that he is a good person and that that condition doesn't require rejecting him or thinking of him as "scary" or "evil" (as comics too often do), and this happened heartbreakingly often. The other person is truly scary and evil. She has beaten the shit out of people, like her boyfriend, and threatened to murder a friend and myself as well at different points. Yet in her case, people kept giving her chances saying that "Oh, she's just bipolar," as if that excuses unrepentant and evil behavior. Thankfully, after too many terrible and terrifying incidents, she appears to have carried her behavior out of that sphere and into another.
Mental illness does not define people. Mental illness has no defining qualities on individual's personality or "soul." Mental illness has no defining virtues in and of itself on what we like to view as "good" or "evil" (especially in comics).
Of the two bipolar people aforementioned, the first is now dead at too young an age because most people assumed he was dangerous and stupid and not worth their while. He sure as hell was. The second is ties for the most evil, destructive and dangerous person I have ever met. The fact that both were bipolar indicates absolutely nothing about the goodness in either of their hearts or their actions.
This topic needs to be extended, and in all media, the pervasive issue of mental illness really needs to be fleshed out both intelligently and with professional research in order to help educate the many, I'd say majority, of people who essentially depend on mass media to define how they view mental illness in daily life.
Sure, but it isn't the job of superhero adventure comix to educate anyone.
Nor to coddle the most easily-offended (as was mentioned, usually on someone else's behalf) among us.
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From How are Value Objects stored in the database? :
Assume that a Company and Person both have the same mail Address. Which of these statements do consider valid?
1."If I modify Company.Address, I want Person.Address to automatically get those changes"
2."If I modify Company.Address, it must not affect Person.Address"
If 1 is true, Address should be an Entity
If 2 is true, Address should be a Value Object.
Shouldn't in the above model the mail
Address be a Value Object, since even if
Company and
Person have same mail, this mail still doesn't have a conceptual identity?
In other words, if initially
Company and
Person share email@example.com, but then get new mail email@example.com, then we can argue that mail address email@example.com itself didn't changed, instead
Company and
Person replaced it by email@example.com ?
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Reading the comments it appears that there are some people that will not be satisfied whatever the IE team does. The vast majority of web developers that I have talked to are very happy with the work we are doing in IE7 and are even more pleased to hear our commitment to continued improvements in regular and frequent releases of future versions of IE. Of course we'd all like to get there sooner but anyone who has worked on a software product like this knows these things take time.


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To do so, the Clough's asked the Kinmundy City Council for an expansion on the lake property they had leased three years ago. The council gave preliminary approval to move the lease expansion forward in a special session on August 22nd. This means that the Clough's will have room to add several new features to the park.
"We're trying to meet all of our customers needs, and a lot of them want a reception hall where they could have a company party or a reunion--and then everyone always wants to find somewhere to eat, so we thought we would put a real unique restaurant in." Kurt said.
In addition to the proposed restaurant and reception hall, the Clough's also want to make use of the expanded space to put in storefronts that could be leased by business owners that would be open year round, as well as expanding their ziplining attractions to include a zipline that would take people flying across the lake.
The Clough's claim the expansion would bring in hundreds of jobs to the area, including an estimated 88 full-time positions. They presented their information and made their arguments during a special informational meeting held at Kinmundy City Hall, where citizens that both supported the new lease and those that opposed it gathered together to debate the particulars of the expansion. There were times emotions ran high, with some citizens protesting the loss of land they've been fishing on since they were kids.
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can amnio be wrong
Oh, I totally think people misunderstand the difference between diagnostic testing and a screening. The new blood tests (MaterniT21, Verify, Harmony) are new so I guess there could be some very small room for error but on CVS and amnio the margin for error is slim to none.
And, just speaking for me, when people say things like that I feel totally unvalidated. Like they just can't conceive of such a thing so they just force their denial on me so they don't have to join in my pain. People want to be "happy" and they want you to help them maintain their "happy" regardless of factual evidence.
Congratulations on your pregnancy!!!
Many people do not understand the test, or they want to make you feel better and not to worry about the dx. My family and friends do the same. Many are praying and telling me that God is the only one who knows for sure, after all, they say, it is just a blood test. It is healthy to have some hope, but just prepare yourself so you can take care of your lo.
I still have my moments when I beleive my test is wrong or that i am that one percent.
Things will be ok for all of us, and beleive me, I know it is hard to believe right now, but i am hanging to the faith that whatever is going to happen, it is for a reason!
For me personally I won't allow myself to hold on to false hope. I don't think it would be healthy for me or the baby. If I convince myself that the test is possibly wrong, then when she's born and has Down syndrome I'm going to feel disappointment rather than just pure joy that she is finally here. I would make sure my friends understood that the diagnosis is legitimate and real, and ask that they support me through my pregnancy as unknown challenges lie ahead.
Good luck with the remainder of your pregnancy, and congratulations. :)
Ditto above. Plan on the baby having Down syndrome. COULD you be in the 0.1% group whose test was wrong? Of course, but you have a 99.9% chance that instead, you are having a baby who happens to have an extra chromosome.
I would "fake it until you make it" with certain people, and constantly remind them how happy you are to be welcoming this baby. The sensitive ones will "get it" and back off. The rest? Let them be,most will change their tune when they meet your baby.
Amy, Mom to Emily (2000) and Abigail (2003 wiT21, partial AV canal, repaired)
People always say that. It's not the case. There is a very, very minor chance it could be wrong, but it's not because the test is wrong... it would be because of human error. It was very frustrating to me when people said that. I also felt like they weren't willing to accept the diagnosis when they said things like that. I just told them that no, the test is accurate and my son has Down syndrome, and it's perfectly fine that he does.
Proud Wife Of A United States Marine! Benjamin born March 29th 2011. Wyatt born June 5th 2012 (prenatal dx of T21). Ivy born December 2nd 2013.
I had to distance myself from the people who couldn't accept it and were constantly trying to "reassure" me that she would be "normal"'.
Ryan 12-18-09
Lauren 2-12-12 with T21 and complete AV canal (repaired 3/29/12)
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shema4t4 is correct. There is a difference between screenings and true test results.
A screening is the chance of you having a child w/DS or whatever...and if you choose to continue to testing for accurate results...that's up to you. With the testing that you did...MT21...that is like 99% accurate and amnio is 100% accurate b/c they do a karyotype which is how they look at his/her chromosones.
I hate that your friends are doing this to you...it drags out the hurt that you are trying to get passed. I was told everything was fine when I was pregnant and when my baby was born...I was so hurt and torn. The worst part of all of it was my friends and family would say that the docs were wrong....that the baby "looked" normal. And that hurt me more than anything b/c I was fighting to accept the truth while not one person supported me. It's like having a baby with DS is bad in their eyes...idk...but it hurt like hell and I cried and began to become with drawn from everyone...when I needed a friend the most.
I would be good to tell your friends that this behavior is hurtful...they need to understand.
It's so comforting to know I'm not alone on how I'm feeling. I went through this when I told my family 15 weeks ago about her Dx. but since then I feel they have excepted the Dx now and we all moved on and are excited to meet her. I can already feel the love everyone has for her and she's not even here yet I cant imagine when she is here. She is my 4th baby. My oldest is a boy who is 9 and my oldest daughter is 6 and my middle daughter is 13 months. baby girl will have some great siblings who love unconditionally.


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In honor of Bob Dylan's birthday, we're sharing with you seventy comic book references to Bob Dylan, whether it is a story named after a song of his, him appearing in the actual comic (or the cover) or him being mentioned in the comic itself, here are the next 14 of 70 Bob Dylan comic book references! Here is Part 1.
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From a poster by Jaime Hernandez (not technically a comic, but it totally counts)…
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From Superman #279….
From later in Superman #279….
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Not only is Dylan not Dylan, he's apparently the Fourth Doctor.
I barely recognised the Monkees in that Not Brand Echh panel; if I hadn't been so certain about Nesmith and Davy Jones, I never would've guessed the identities of the other two.
I think I've been able to identitfy most of the people in that panel, but there's a few I'm unclear about.
The Star Wars one might be more likely to be an Alphaville reference than a Dylan one, but it's true that Dylan also had a tune by that name somewhere in his back pages.
I know a Madness song called "Forever Young" but that's only a couple of years old. If that "Forever Young" title is the reference then I think it's a bit of a gamble. The phrase is quite common.
Is the singer in the Batman one supposed to be Bob Dylan?
@ DanCJ: It seems that way, and "Joanie" would be Joan Baez.
Ah – I guessed that if I'd known more (or anything) about Dylan's personal life her name might have been the clincher.
I don't remember Bob Dylan (with straight hair!) doing gigs in a green pantsuit ala Davy Jones. But kudos to the writer for picking a song (Visions of Johanna, no less! And with wrong lyrics!) that isn't 'Times They Are A Changin', 'All Along the Watchtower' etc. (Though I guess this was before 'Watchtower???)
I suppose Dylan was a bit glam circa 'Rolling Thunder Revue' – did he go as far as straighten his hair? More info about Superman #279 please, Brian; writer, year etc. (I know I could google it but I'm lazy!!!) And great stuff as yoosh – keep flying the freak flag!
The best part about Superman #279, is that the concert is MC'd by Batman.
Well, actually, it's Superman, wearing Batmans outfit, because he's pretending to be him – the audience thinks they are treated to a spectacular athletics show by Batman, but really, it w as pretty lame one from Superman.
(Batman wanted the crooks to be unaware he was looking for them, hence Superman appearing as him ina public place.
Ah – I guessed that if I'd known more (or anything) about Dylan's personal life her name might have been the clincher.
It's made pretty clear in the book by the captions that it's meant to be Bob Dylan – lines about the most imporant folk singer of his generation and such.
More info about Superman #279 please, Brian; writer, year etc. (I know I could google it but I'm lazy!!!)
Elliot S! Maggin wrote it, Curt Swan drew it, Nick Cardy did the awesome cover, and both Batman and Batgirl guest star in it.
Also has a totally hilarious looking sequence where Superman sucks up oil/sludge from the ocean with his mouth (it gets compressed into his lungs or something), then spits it back out into a tanker – might not sound odd, but it's a weird image.
I think it's from 1972 or 1974 – I've been getting older Maggin-era Superman comics lately, and as soon as I saw the cover and creative team, I knew it would be a winner.
There's some top reads to be had in the Superman comics of that time.
Thanks FGJ! And Nick Cardy rarely did less-than awesome covers!
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There are 12 achievements with a total of 200 points.
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|Clear the game in 60 minutes or less.
After you've beaten the game once or twice, this is not a particularly difficult achievement to obtain. Make ample use of your special weapons to finish stages quicker, particularly Black Hole Bomb and Jewel Satellite. The former will kill enemies that are otherwise unkillable (i.e. underwater mines, ground sliders) and the latter will make quick work of weaker enemies while you focus on platforming.
If you feel you've taken too long on a stage, reload your previous save and try again. Keep in mind you will need to play through Wily's castle in one sitting though. If you are around the 30 minute mark after beating all 8 stages, you're in good shape with plenty of leeway.
|Clear the game without dying.
|This achievement isn't as hard as it looks. Simply play through a stage without dying and save. If you die on the next stage, reload your previous save and try again.
The only real challenge comes from beating Wily's castle due to not being able to save between levels. Stock up on as many E-tanks, shock guards, and Beat calls as you can afford before you make the trek. Save your 1/2 damage power-up until Wily Stage 4.
|Almost Invincible
|Clear the game without continuing.
|See 'Invincible.'
|No Coffee Break
|Clear the game without using any Energy or Mystery Tanks.
Also not as hard as it sounds. Stock up on plenty of lives as well as an Eddie power-up. Eddie helps because he will most likely drop an energy pellet/ball or two when you're in a pinch; think makeshift E-tank. If you're low on life during a boss fight with no way out, just die and you will respawn outside the boss door. If you lose all your lives, you can just continue and replay the stage until you beat it.
For the Robot Master weakness list, refer to this thread: here
Also these seem to be the most effective weapons against the bosses in Wily Castle:
Stage 1 Boss -> Plug Ball or Mega Buster
Stage 2 Boss -> Tail: Laser Trident or Mega Buster, Belly: Laser Trident or Tornado Blow, Head: Laser Trident or Black Hole Bomb
Stage 3 Boss -> Black Hole Bomb
Wily Machine -> First form: Mega Buster, Second form: Concrete Shot or Mega Buster, Final Form: Plug Ball or Hornet Chaser
|Clear the game by defeating the fewest number of enemies possible.
The only enemies you can kill are bosses and mini-bosses (the dragon on Magma Man's stage, the elephant on Concrete Man's stage, the Boulder on Jewel Man's stage, and the Flower Clock on Hornet Man's stage). You can kill enemies that a boss releases such as flames, hornets, and missiles. You will need to utilize the brief moments of invincibility after you get hit to progress in the game.
Stock up on shock guards, E-tanks, and Beat calls to make your life a little easier. The 1/2 damage power-up should also be used when necessary (Jewel Man's stage or Wily Stage 3 are good examples). Utilize Rush Jet and Rush Coil to bypass some of the more difficult areas.
During the gravity sections in Wily 3, stay mostly to the left of the screen and use Plug ball to navigate. This way you don't accidentally kill something (like the last grabber in the final gravity section with the M tank). For the area with the green turrets, you can purposefully fall down the chasms to force Beat into carrying you around. Use this opportunity to soar over the turret but be quick about it as it doesn't last long. You can also purposefully get hit by the cannon shot and use the invincibility to progress.
Personally, I did this section using mostly the Rush Jet to navigate between the turrets, the spikes, and the lone sniper joe.
|Clear the game by using the least amount of Weapon Energy possible.
First, go through all 8 stages without using ANY special weapons. This includes Rush Coil and Rush Jet (they count as weapons). You must only use the Mega Buster.
When you get to Wily's Castle, follow this simple outline:
Remember, try not to use the weapons required to progress more than once on each screen unless I say otherwise or you risk not unlocking the achievement.
Stage 1 - Use Tornado Blow to pass the first lift and the lifts in the room after it, then use Rush Jet once to clear the next section. Later, clear the first magma fountain with Rush Coil. On the next screen, use Rush Coil as soon as you leave the ladder, aim Mega Man onto the 2nd ladder from the left when you catapult off Rush. Use Rush Jet in the room with the bed of spikes after the pink teleporter room.
Stage 2 - Use Laser Trident to destroy the first block at the beginning of the stage and the next block near the spikes. Use Rush Coil or Concrete Shot to get up to the ledge with the Sniper Joe in the first room with the projectors. In the underwater portion, take the upper path and use Laser Trident 3 times to break the 3 blocks along the path to the next ladder.
Stage 3 - You won't need any special weapons on this stage.
Stage 4 - Use Concrete Shot to block the only impassable laser and utilize it as a stepping stone to continue.
|Gamer's Day
|Clear the game 5 times in 1 day.
You don't actually need to beat the entire game five times from start to finish. You can load up a save right before Wily's Castle and finish the game 5 times this way to unlock the achievement.
|Whomp Wily!
|Clear the game once.
|Doesn't get much more straightforward than this. Beat the game once to unlock this.
|Defeat your 1000th enemy.
You will obtain this simply by playing the game. If you're in a hurry to get it, go to Plug Man's stage and activate Jewel Satellite in an area with the respawning cylinder enemies and leave it until the achievement unlocks.
|World Warrior
|Defeat every type of enemy.
This achievement requires you to be thorough. Some enemies must be killed with special weapons which you may not have the first time yougo through a stage. Nearly everything can be killed with either a Black Hole Bomb or Tornado Blow. In particular, don't forget to kill:
In Hornet Man's stage, the flower pots that shoot out different types of floral missiles are worthy of mentioning. Make sure you destroy each type of missile. I'm not sure if these count, but better safe than sorry.
|Trusty Sidearm
|Defeat the 8 Bosses with the Mega Buster.
|Stock up on E-tanks and lay waste to the robot masters. It should be a cakewalk with your E-tank supply. This achievement can also be obtained in Wily Stage 4.
|Blue Bomber
|Defeat a Boss without getting damaged.
To me, the easiest boss to do this on is Hornet Man with the Magma Bazooka equipped. When he launches 3 hornets, aim the bazooka to hit them all in a single shot then simply jump over him as he runs across the screen wihle unloading charged shots at him. Rinse and repeat. Other easy bosses include: Splash Woman, Galaxy Man, and the first Wily Castle boss.
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I have a Windows Azure application that is using Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) with the Access Control Service (ACS) as its Identity Provider.
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Shaw, Washington, D.C.
|Shaw, Washington, D.C.
|Neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
The Phillis Wheatley YWCA, built in 1920, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Shaw within the District of Columbia
|United States
|Washington, D.C.
|Wards 1, 2, and 6
|Named for
|Robert Gould Shaw
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|Brianne Nadeau (Ward 1)
Jack Evans (Ward 2)
Charles Allen (Ward 6)
|• Total
|.73 sq mi (1.9 km2)
|Population (2010)
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Shaw is a neighborhood located in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C., named after Union Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the commander of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War.
Shaw is roughly bounded by M Street, NW or Massachusetts Avenue NW to the south; New Jersey Avenue, NW to the east; Florida Avenue, NW to the north; and 11th Street, NW to the west. The area also includes the U Street Corridor, which is the commercial hub of the Shaw area, extending westward to 16th Street NW.
Florida Avenue marks the northern boundary with the adjacent neighborhoods of Columbia Heights and LeDroit Park. The area consists of gridded streets lined with small Victorian rowhouses. It is dominated by Howard University--technically just north of Shaw in the Pleasant Plains neighborhood--and the shops and theatres along U Street and centered along 7th Street NW, the original commercial hub of the area prior to redevelopment in the wake of the 1968 riots and Green Line Metrorail construction.
Shaw is sometimes considered to include Logan Circle, Truxton Circle, Randolph Square and other neighborhoods east of 16th Street and north of Downtown Washington, D.C., but in recent years those neighborhoods have become seen as separate entities.
Shaw grew out of freed slave encampments in the rural outskirts of Washington City. Originally called "Uptown," in an era when the city's boundary ended at "Boundary Street" (now Florida Avenue), in the Urban Renewal Era the neighborhood began to be referred to as Shaw because of the neighborhood Junior High School named after Civil War Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the commander of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.
The neighborhood thrived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as the pre-Harlem center of African American intellectual and cultural life. Howard Theological Seminary received its first matriculates in 1866; by 1925, Professor Alain LeRoy Locke was advancing the idea of "The New Negro", and Langston Hughes was descending from LeDroit Park to hear the "sad songs" of 7th Street. The most famous Shaw native to emerge from this period—sometimes called the Harlem Renaissance—was Duke Ellington.
Following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968, riots erupted in many D.C. neighborhoods, including Shaw, Columbia Heights, and the H Street, NE corridor. The 1968 Washington, D.C. riots marked the beginning of a decline in population and development that would condemn much of the inner city to a generation of economic decay. Following the riots, Shaw civic leaders Walter Fauntroy and Watha T. Daniel led grassroots community renewal projects with the Model Inner City Community Organization (MICCO) .
Shaw is a mostly residential neighborhood of 19th century Victorian row houses. The architecture of these houses, Shaw's central location, and the stability of D.C.'s housing market have transformed the neighborhood through gentrification.[1] Shaw's notable place in African American history has made the recent influx of affluent professionals particularly controversial.[citation needed]
Gentrification in the 2010s is transforming the neighborhood into an upscale retail hub.[2] But the mix of upscale newcomers and very poor long-time residents may contributed to a persistent high crime rate.[3]
Infrastructure and landmarks[edit]
Public transportation[edit]
Shaw is served by the Mt. Vernon Square Metro, Shaw – Howard University and U Street Green Line Metro stations.
Cultural institutions[edit]
Among Shaw's many landmarks are Ben's Chili Bowl, the Lincoln Theatre, the Howard Theatre, O Street Market, Shiloh Baptist Church, The Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Neighborhood Library, the Twelfth Street YMCA Building, and the north portion of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
|Historical population
Shaw has grown dramatically since the mid-to-late 20th century, with a 2010 population of 17,639. In 1950, the area's population had reached over 34,000 people, around double its current level.[4] Like many neighborhoods throughout Washington, D.C., Shaw hit a population low point in the 1980s and 1990s, rebounding considerably at the turn of the 21st century.[5]
Little Ethiopia[edit]
Since 2001, a number of Ethiopian restaurants and retail businesses have either opened or moved from nearby Adams Morgan into Shaw, settling in particular on the once desolate block of 9th Street NW between T and U streets. This influx of Ethiopians has revitalized the corridor, prompting members of the Ethiopian American community to lobby the city government to officially designate the block as "Little Ethiopia". Although no formal legislation was proposed, Shaw residents have expressed opposition to the idea, feeling that such a designation would unfairly isolate that area from the historically African American Shaw.[6]
District of Columbia Public Schools operates public schools.
District of Columbia Public Library operates the Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Community Library.[7]
- ^ A Bittersweet Renaissance, Paul Schwartzman, The Washington Post. February 23, 2006
- ^ Halzack, Sarah (14 August 2014). "What a new shopping hub in D.C. shows us about the future of retail". Washington Post. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
- ^ Schwartzman, Paul (30 August 2015). "Amid glittering renewal, violence evokes a neighborhood's bloody past". Washington Post. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
- ^ 1950 Census of Population and Housing
- ^ 1970 Census of Population and Housing US Census Bureau Retrieved 2012-04-23
- ^ Shaw Shuns 'Little Ethiopia', Paul Schwartzman, The Washington Post. July 25, 2005
- ^ "Hours & Locations." District of Columbia Public Library. Retrieved on October 21, 2009.
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- Washington, D.C./Shaw travel guide from Wikivoyage
- Shaw DC
- Shaw Main Streets
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- Cardozo-Shaw Neighborhood Association
- Washington, D.C. Beyond the Monuments: U Street/Shaw
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XD omg
Funny, but is there any reason the non-white nun has to be the one who slept with the padre?
I really must say! It's always best to use CONDOM sense! ;D
ayos pre. kaya pala nagka DD. ang husay ng execution.
Ay Haha salamat. pero hindi akin yung Joke.xD Bali written words lang sila tapos naisip ko lang na gawing comics depende sa naimagine ko.xD
Being Catholic makes this absolutely hilarious.
Oh SH*T!
I just showed this to my teacher... She laughed (And she's a nun at a catholic school)
OMG I was not expecting that. Thanks! though the real credit is from the author of the book where I got these jokes from. I merely illustrated them to enhance my comic strip skills, plus I was bored.xD I think I have mentioned who the author was from my descriptions and comments if I remember correctly. Thanks for dropping by!
This is pure genius. I laughed so hard XD
This XD
The third nun and the Father have been 'involved'?
the last comic just killed me great job!!!
Hilarious strip.
I'm a woman, and I did laugh!
I'm a woman and I Guffaw'd
lol I used to tell the same joke to my friends when we were young.
ah damn, i like that
HA-HA-HA-HA! i love this joke!
Well... I am a woman and I did laugh...
Lol, well that's what you get when you have such stupid super imposed rules in religion.
The 3rd nun fainted because she had sex with the priest, and since there were holes poked in the condoms....you do the math.
wrong! im still laughing XD
An old joke, but a classic all the same!
Who knew a Nun had it in her?
Ima girl and i laughed.
Oh no!
i laughed at this a lot
HA! And some people say God has no sense of humor.
Omg you're sig... i don't know if it's from something, but it's pretty amazing.
You totally said this two years ago, but I'll answer anyway.
I made it up... on the spot... yeah.
Wow, this really does put in the way of being a "Naughty Nun!"
Thank you TVtropes! XD
Thank you TVtropes! XD
i'm female and i was laughing
hehehe...Did she pass out because she was having sex with the father, and now she finds out that she might be pregnant?
I'm a woman and this cracked me up! I'm pretty sure all of my female friends will also find this hilarious!


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The Mapping of Love and Death: A Maisie Dobbs Novel (Paperback)
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"To open a new Maisie Dobbs mystery is like checking in with an old friend. In this sixth book, Maisie has been asked to discover what really happened to World War I cartographer Michael, listed as missing in the trenches in France. The closer she gets to answers for Michael's family, the more she must deal with personal issues that will change her life. I can't wait to read the next installment!"
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August 1914. As Michael Clifton is mapping land he has just purchased in California's beautiful Santa Ynez Valley, war is declared in Europe and duty-bound to his father's native country, the young cartographer soon sets sail for England to serve in the British army. Three years later, he is listed as missing in action.
April 1932. After Michael's remains are unearthed in France, his parents retain London psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs, hoping she can find the unnamed nurse whose love letters were among their late son's belongings. It is a quest that leads Maisie back to her own bittersweet wartime love and to the stunning discovery that Michael Clifton was murdered in his dugout. Suddenly an exposed web of intrigue and violence threatens to ensnare the dead soldier's family and even Maisie herself as she attempts to cope with the impending loss of her mentor and the unsettling awareness that she is once again falling in love.
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Jaye mentors Bianca, a young run-away who finds a job at Wonderfalls, but before Jaye knows it, Bianca has taken over Jaye's life a la "Single white female"
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Jaye and Eric set out to find a woman who had been living in the barrel, they discover that she is a nun who has run away from the convent and Jaye is instructed by the talking animals to "Bring her back to him."
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27 Oct. 2004Barrel Bear
Jaye and Mahandra end up on opposite sides of a battle between two older women both claiming to be the first woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
3 Nov. 2004Lovesick Ass
Jaye and Eric start to get closer while helping a Russian woman who came to America to meet her on-line fiancé, Peter, who turns out to be less that she expected. Meanwhile, Peter falls hard for Jaye and will do anything to keep Eric away from her.
17 Nov. 2004Safety Canary
Jaye and Eric's first date goes awry when Jaye, upon a muse's instruction, causes a rare bird to go wild and gets the bird keeper fired. Jaye, Eric, and the bird keeper then go on a mission to "save the lovebirds" while Mahandra tries to warn Jaye against getting too close to Eric.
25 Jul. 2004Lying Pig
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25 Jul. 2004Cocktail Bunny
When the muses tell her to "save him from her" Jaye becomes convinced that Eric's life is in danger and begins investigating Heidi. Meanwhile, Jaye is coerced by her parents into returning to therapy with Dr. Ron.
8 Dec. 2004Totem Mole
Jaye, Mahandra, and Sharon visit a Native American reservation where Sharon sparks up an old college rivalry with a local catching Mahandra in the crossfire. Jaye, meanwhile, has a conversation with the deceased seer and tries to get the woman's accountant grandson to find his spiritual gift, despite the signs saying that Jaye is, in fact, the chosen one.
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They show a positive P/E and the airplane wheel motor idea looks solid.
Less than a year to approval.
Interesting play here if they have than manufacturing to produce motors in quantity and at reasonable cost.
Blue flame
They have a Private Placement Memorandum
I am not sure what it is for. They had one for the factory to build them, so I believe this is for the money to build them and install WheelTug in the planes. As the air transport companies do not put up any money up front the factory has to build them install them and wont collect a dime for the first month or two. so they need money to start training people. make test models production and to tide them over until the money coming in equals the money going out. probably 3-4 months as a guess. no more than 6.
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Parents need to know that you'll recognize some of the tunes on the Fresh Beat Band's Hits from the Hit TV Show, Vol. 2, because they cover favorites from both the past and present. As always, the songs are clean and appropriate for preschoolers, with positive messages about friendship and not being afraid to sing and dance.
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Although fans of the show will love the music here, it seems that the songs aren't as catchy as the first batch of tunes from the show. But that's a small quibble; all the songs have positive messages and are guaranteed to get preschoolers moving and grooving. The covers of songs like "We Got the Beat," "Twist and Shout," "I'm Yours," and "Holiday" are solid remakes, and the acoustic version of the popular "Great Day" is a breath of fresh air. "Dance Club Superhero" brings a refreshing funky-pop sound, and Yo Gabba Gabba! fans will like the mixes "Keep Trying" and "Silly Bananas."
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I have a hardware mp3 player which seems to play the tracks in the order they were stored in the file system of the player. Hence, if i copy the files 01.mp3, 03.mp3 and 02.mp3 to the player in that order, they will be played in that very same order.
Which is annoying.
If copy a whole directory containing mp3-files to the player from a computer of mine running UNIX, the cp program will copy the files in whatever order the filenames are stored in that directory. My solution to this is to either copy the files of the directory one by one in the desired order, or by "sorting" the directory by creating new links to the files in the desired order, removing the old links and then renaming. This leaves me with a new set of links that are sorted.
I am aware of the fact that this "method of sorting" is highly unreliable as the only thing it relies on is the way the OS of my very computer manages directories. But, it does work.
Now, i have noticed that Windows seems to treat the files in directories in the same way as cp does. If i drag and drop a directory from a harddisk to my mp3 player, the files will be copied in the order they were created on the disk.
Of course, i am not able to port the program that sorts directories as Windows does not comply with POSIX (and a lot of other reasons), and even if it would be possible, i am not sure that i could exploit NTFS in the way i would like. Before i dig into this, i would like to ask if it is possible to fiddle with NTFS like i have been doing. I would also like to know if there are any better ways to accomplish my goal, which simply is to have the mp3 tracks played in the right order.
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Norcross, Georgia, (AllPayNews.com) – S1 Corporation (Nasdaq: SONE), a leading global provider of customer interaction software solutions for financial and payment services, today announced a partnership agreement with Epson, a leading supplier of value-added banking and payment hardware solutions. Under the new agreement, S1 joins a prestigious group of participants in Epson's Envisionsm Partner Program.
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So my DS was 9.12 when he was born and we tried bfing for a few days but decided to use formula and was using the newborn kind the hospital gave us. When we were discharged from hospital 4 days after delivery he was down to 9 lbs even. Didn't think anything about it since he didn't eat much while we were there but was eating great by the time we got home and settled. At his 1 week check up he was down to 8.14 so the doc suggested to feed him every 2 hours even if he was still sleeping and set us up for another appointment 3 days later. Well we did what doc said and at the appointment he went to 8.13 so the doc did a poop culture and come to find out there was microscopic traces of blood in it. The doc decided that he was allergic to the formula we were using and gave us some samples of a lactose to cows milk formula. DS seems to really enjoy this formula so I hope for a weight gain Tuesday at his next check up. Has anybody else or is anybody else going threw this?
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While we didnt deal with any allergies with Miranda, she just plain didnt like certain formula...she would refuse to eat. Now we have found the right one and she is gaining like a piggy! :-) Its sometimes hard to figure out which works best, but hoping your LO has found what agrees with him! Hoping for ozs up on tuesday!!
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My oldest son was allergic to milk based formula. Dr did the culture and he had blood in his stool too. They put him on the similac alimentum for a month, then switched to soy and he did fine.
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My DS had a milk protein allergy. I was EBF so I had to go dairy free until 6 months and slowly reintroduced it into my diet. Hang in there....
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Thanks ladies I really hope this works I've been so worried about him but one plus to the situation is that he can actually wear all the newborn clothes and diapers he got lol
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Black Hole, by Charles Burns, is a comic book series release between 1995 and 2005. It was bound and released as a graphic novel in 2005. After it was published, Burns won the Harvey Award for Best Graphic Album of Previously Published Work in 2006 for Black Hole.
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