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Gil Jourdan - La Voiture Immergée (1958)
Maurice Tillieux was a master in the detective genre. He stood out for his well-conceived plots and exciting or humorous sequences, combined with moody artwork. Either written for others or illustrated by himself, Tillieux's detective stories rank as the best in the genre.
Born into a family of French origins in Huy in the province of Liège, Tillieux began his career way back in 1936, when his first illustration was published in Le Moustique. However, illustrating was not his initial call, so he took navigation courses in Ostende in order to travel later on. He joined the merchant marines, but his plans were cancelled when the harbor of Bordeaux was bombed by the Germans.
Bob Bang
During the War, Tillieux went into hiding to avoid forced labour and he turned to writing detective novels, that were published in the collection Le Sphinx of Éditions Maréchal. During this period, he also did painted advertisements and illustrations for French and Belgian publications.
Tillieux drew his first comics in 1942, but these remained unpublished. By 1944 he was publishing cartoons in Le Moustique on a regular basis, and he joined the studio of Guy Depière in Brussels, who had launched Bimbo in that year, Jeep in 1945 and Blondine in 1946.
illustration for a series about the history of medicine
Using anglisized pseudonyms like John Cliff, James Jhames, Ronald Scott and Jill Morrison, Tillieux drew his first comics for the magazines of Studio Guy (especially Jeep), including 'Bimbo, Romarin et Misky', 'Les Nouvelles Aventures de Bricole', 'Les Débrouillards' and 'Jonas et Zénobie'.
In 1947 he joined Héroïc-Albums, the new comic book launched by his former Studio Guy colleague Fernand Cheneval. He drew the first episodes of 'Bob Bang'. During his period he was also present in Spirou with illustrations, and in L'Explorateur, a magazine edited by another former Studio Guy co-worker, Delwiche, from 1949 to 1950. During the 1947-1949 period Tillieux was also assisting Flemish artist Willy Vandersteen on his realistic comics for Ons Volkske and Overal.
Zappy Max
For L'Explorateur, Tillieux created serials like 'Notre Oncle et Nous', and most notably 'Achille et Boule de Gomme', which was the predecessor of 'Félix'. But it was with Héroïc that Tillieux's star rose. Joined by other Studio Guy artists like Marcel Moniquet and Fred Funcken, he stayed with Cheneval's magazine until 1956. His most notable creation was the detective series 'Félix', but he also made the realistic series 'Bill Sanders' and the Caniff-inspired 'Groupe K', as well as illustrations for novels like 'Nouvelles du Captain Kid'.
Monsieur Balourd
In addition to his work for Héroïc, Tillieux made a great many strips with 'Monsieur Balourd for the National Association for Work Accident Prevention between 1954 and 1964. He also joined Greg in the short-lived magazine Le Journal de Paddy in 1955, for which he drew 'Vervaine et le Mystère' and 'Le Trésor de Zapatec'.
In 1955 he made the transition to the publishing house Dupuis, where his first creation was the adventure series 'Marc Jaguar' in Risque-Tout. When this magazine was cancelled in the following year, he joined Spirou. He changed the names and looks of the main 'Félix' characters and this resulted in 'Gil Jourdan'. Master detective Jourdan, accompanied by Libellule and Crouton, became one of the staples of Spirou magazine. In this series, Tillieux excelled in clever plots with moody semi-realistic artwork.
try-out paper by Tillieux
At the same time, Tillieux produced the humorous gag series 'César', that appeared in Le Moustique between 1959 and 1966 and was reprinted in Spirou in the 1970s. He also made the short-lived series 'Bob Slide' for Spirou, and a comic starring famous French radiostar 'Zappy Max' for Pilote in 1959-60.
Gil Jourdan - Les Moines Rouges (1962)
In 1966, Tillieux's main focus became writing scenarios for other artists. In the years that followed, he took on numerous collaborations, starting with Francis, for whom he created the slapstick serial 'Marc Lebut et son Voisin'. In 1968, Tillieux took over the writing duties of 'Tif et Tondu' from Maurice Rosy and turned the series into a true detective comic together with artist Will. From 1969, he restyled some of his old 'Félix' scenarios and used them for a new realistic detective series drawn by Arthur Piroton, called 'Jess Long'.
Gil Jourdan - La Voiture Immergée (1958)
Other series that Tillieux has written scripts for are 'Alain Brisant' (by René Follet), 'Natacha' (by François Walthéry), 'La Ribambelle' (by Jean Roba), 'Yoko Tsuno' (by Roger Leloup), 'Stany Derval' (by MiTacq) and 'Hultrasson' (by Vittorio Leonardo).
Due to the expansion of his writing activities, he handed over the artwork of 'Gil Jourdan' to Gos in 1970. A tragic car accident abruptly ended the life and successful career of Maurice Tillieux in 1978. One of the classic authors of the so-called "School of Marcinelle", his work has influenced such artists as François Walthéry, Jean Roba, Arthur Piroton and François Dimberton.


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Exactly as the title says. What is the archaeological evidence that Sodom and Gomorrah existed and were destroyed by fire from the heavens (Genesis 19:24)?
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The search for the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah have been a common archaeological pursuit over the years. There have been some proposals, and I do recall seeing a documentary about a couple such sites, near the Dead Sea, which may be very likely the Biblical cities stated. It is difficult to say for absolute certain whether these are the cities mentioned in the Bible or not, but there are some interesting arguments for their identification as such.
The documentary that I saw was on the History Channel, and mentioned the sites named Bab edh-Dhra and Numeira as candidates. They existed near each other and both were destroyed, somehow, around the same time.
There are other cities that have been proposed, however. You can see a quick writeup on Wikipedia here.
It's worth noting that it would appear from the text that the Cities of the Plain (which include Sodom and Gomorrah) were destroyed by some type of meteor impact. If so, it's not likely that there was much left behind for modern archaeologists to find, especially considering the primitive state of construction technology back then.
If a meteor were to wipe out a modern metropolis, full of reinforced concrete and steel, I'd expect to be able to come back a few thousand years later and find evidence that there was once a city there. But a bunch of communities with buildings made of wood and clay wouldn't stand a chance of surviving an impact event with a kinetic yield measured in increments usually reserved only for describing nuclear weapons, even as ruins.

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Health & Pregnancy
Teen Birth Rate at Record Low
Nov. 17, 2011 -- The U.S. teen birth rate is the lowest in nearly seven decades.
Reality TV shows such as 16 and Pregnant and high-profile teen moms have put teen motherhood in the media spotlight lately. Some public health experts worried that this could be glamorizing teen pregnancy and motherhood.
But the rate of teen births in the U.S. has declined for the past three years.
In 2010, there were 34.3 births for every 1,000 teens. That's a 9% drop from 2009. It's the lowest rate recorded in the seven decades that researchers have been tracking teen births.
The new data are based on a preliminary analysis of nearly all U.S. birth certificates from 2010 by the CDC's National Center of Health Statistics.
The study did not look at why these rates may be declining. But experts tell WebMD that it could be the result of better sex education in schools.
C-Section Rates on the Decline
C-sections also seem to be declining -- or at least not increasing for the first time in more than 10 years. In 2010, the C-section rate was 32.8%, down from 32.9% in 2009, the new report shows.
Study researcher Joyce Martin, MPH, says this drop -- while small -- is important. "The rate has been going up strongly and suddenly for some time, so this does suggest that the large increase we have been seeing may be at an end."
Mitchell Maiman, MD, the chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at Staten Island University Hospital in New York, agrees.
"It is encouraging that the trend has been halted," he says. "There needs to be a very strict indication for induction of labor and a C-section delivery, as well as vigorous efforts to support vaginal birth after C-section."
"The risk to the mom is so much higher with C-sections than for vaginal delivery. And the risk is not just seen with the first C-section, but the third or fourth," Maiman tells WebMD.
Many women are told that they can't have a vaginal delivery if they have a history of C-section, but natural delivery is safe in many cases, he says.
"It's buy now, pay later," says Burton Rochelson, MD. He is the chief of maternal/fetal medicine at the North Shore-LIJ Health System in Manhasset, N.Y. "With any measure, the complications related to a C-section compared to vaginal delivery is much higher."
"Unless there is a medical need for C-section, vaginal delivery is safer for the baby," Rochelson says.


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All Things to All People?
If you want to infuriate yourself over your morning coffee, read a couple of pages of Steven Brills article Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us in Time Magazine on the outrageous costs of healthcare in the United States. (h/t to Margaret Steinfels). The article follows the story of seven well and truly screwed Americans who are among the tens of millions who were un or under insured when they faced some kind of medical crisis (real or suspected). It is the story of twenty dollar aspirins and million dollar hospital stays, contrasted to the relatively small amounts that many of these things would have cost when compared to what Medicare pays for them.During the course of Steinfelss discussion of the article, the question came up of whether Obamacare directly addresses this terribly skewed medical pricing situation. The short answer is no. Obamacare is designed to address the problem of the un and under insured. But I will argue that it is nonetheless a significant move in the right direction of controlling health care costs in America.Before I talk about what Obamacare will and will not do, lets review the pricing for medical services. Like any business, a hospital has a cost to itself for anything that it sells or does. It also has a master list of what it charges to perform its services. This list is, naturally enough, called a charge master. The ratio of costs to charges is called the cost to charge ratio. All but the very smallest (like 6 bed) hospitals mark up their charges by several hundred to a thousand percent. The reason that hospitals mark up their charges so high can be ascertained in how medical pricing works.In general, Medicare (which makes up most of a hospitals business) pays about 98 percent of the costs of Medicare services. (The hospital is required to report its true cost structure to Medicare once a year in order to get Medicare funds). Medicare pays less than 100 percent of costs in order to pressure hospitals to become more efficient and to lower its costs year over year. Despite the whining from hospital administrators, this actually works, but what it doesnt do is produce much if any of a profit margin. In addition, Medicaid pays maybe 60 percent of costs per statute. Charity work, which all hospitals including the for-profit ones do, pays nothing. Then there is the amorphous mass of bills that are uncollectible. These primarily come from people like those in Brills article; people who although workers, are uninsured or under insured and who dont have a couple hundred thousand dollars lying around for a sudden medical emergency.As you can see, all of these categories together leave the hospital with a deficit. In sum total they dont cover costs. So how does a hospital cover costs and make a profit? It makes it off the back of commercial insurance, which pays, say 135 to 140 percent of costs on average, subsidizing the rest and providing what Brill discovered are pretty fat profits for many institutions, including the not-for-profit ones.But why do hospitals make their charge masters so high. Its because that commercial insurance, while paying quite a bit more than costs, is in the business of providing discounts to hospital charges. The 140 percent of costs that your insurance company may be paying is expressed as a percentage of charges and as silly as this sounds, the higher the hospital charges the deeper the apparent discount. When an insurance company negotiates a 140 percent of costs deal, it might be getting a 70 percent discount to charges and 70 percent discounts seem like a wonderful thing, especially if your competitor is only getting a 68 percent discount.Now if you are not insured commercially, by Medicare or Medicaid and if you are not one of the rare people eligible for charity care, you will be billed for 100 percent of charges andSteven Brill may write an article about how you had to liquidate everything that you own to pay for the heart attack that Medicare would have covered for a fraction of the price. Why do hospitals charge the uninsured 100 percent of billed costs?Because it is profitable. Yes, one can negotiate with a hospital (usually), but even if the hospital gives in and reduced the charges by 50 percent, one may still be paying a higher percentage of cost than an insurance company that itself is paying 140 percent of costs on average.Regarding Obamacare, when the single payer Medicare for everyone crowd lost the Obamacare vote, Obamacare moved away from a mandate to control costs at a chargemaster level. The country decided to have a universal insurance plan using private insurers (rather like they do in those socialist workers paradises of Switzerland and Holland). What was then needed was to provide the largest number of people with health benefits while keeping costs stable. Once cost controls were put aside politically, the hospitals dropped out of the political equation and the task became getting the largest amount possible of standard commercial discounts for the greatest number of consumers while keeping prices stable andthe insurance companies whole.What were the risks of Obamacare for the insurance companies? First and foremost, to provide universal coverage the government had to eliminate the individual underwriting of members. Whereas one is now deemed worthy of insurance based on gender and (pre-existing) medical conditions, which causes companies to select against anyone who poses any sort of health risk, everyone is now welcome under Obamacare. Individuals will now be aggregated into giant state sized communities and an average premium will be calculated for everyone in the pool. This is acceptable to insurance companies provided that each company gets an identical share of the risk in the pool. But what if all the sick people for whatever reason decide to only buy my insurance? Obamacare deals with this through a risk adjustment: every member gets a risk score which is then aggregated at the company level. Risk scores between companies are compared and the ones with lower risk scores have to subsidize the ones with higher risk scores so that everyone has the same score, which is to say the same proportion of risk.The second thing that insurance companies worry about is pent up demand. We will be seeing something like 35 million previously un and under insured members entering the market. A lot of them need services that they have been holding off on for years. Wont these people cause costs to skyrocket? (Brill thinks yes.) To prevent this, Obamacare sets up a reinsurance fund especially for high claims costs (which are defined as claims totaling more than $60 thousand.) The $60 thousand is called an attachment point and if a claim exceeds it, the insurance company draws on the fund.The third thing the insurance companies worry about is a sort of wild card. Since insurance companies would be insuring a large population for which they have no claims experience, what if they are wildly off in their pricing? This is uncharted territory for them. This can work two ways. There is the potential to be wildly correct and therefore wildly profitable or wildly incorrect with huge losses. For this Obamacare establishes risk corridors where profits and losses are constrained within a band that caps both. People with profits above the band have to subsidize those with losses below the band. This creates an average profit rate for the whole industry (which is targeted at what the average profit rate is now.)These three things (risk adjustment, reinsurance, risk corridors) are referred to in the legislation as the 3Rs and are designed to work with a few other things to keep prices stable.The uninsured and under insured then get access to the same kind of insurance that other commercial customers get. Yes, commercial insurance, at least in the short term, will still be paying an average of 140 percent of costs. But when everyone has insurance, we can then address the cost problem in the way that the free market has been addressing it all along. If the last sentence made you laugh, keep in mind that Medicare and commercial insurance have been successful in controlling costs. The wild card has been all the uninsured in the system and that will be mostly eliminated. The need for the commercial subsidy will begin to disappear.
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Unagidon.. glad you, not me, is in this ins. business.. Send your analysis to all who complain about the 2000+ pages of Obama care.
Many thanks for posting this, the Brill article, and your own comments, which I will read and digest. Just a quick note: for my sins, I have spent some years on the board of a small rural medical center, which includes a hospital and a nursing home. (I'm there more or less ex-officio, NOT because I pretend to understand such things.) Unlike the egregious examples in the Brill article, both our hospital and the nursing home struggle to pay their bills, a situation made no easier by the new insistence on electronic medical records and the enormous expense that their purchase and implementation entails. (A recent article in the NYT suggested that the rush to EMR was in some part orchestrated by the software companies, to which it has proved a bonanza -- don't know how true that is). Thus I hope that not all non-profits are going to be tarred by Brill's brush. I certainly don't know much about the Affordable Care Act, but I believe that since the beginning, a common complaint has been that it does very little to control medical costs.
Thanks U. From the Department of Clarification, a leading non-profit entity:"[W]hen everyone has insurance, we can then address the cost problem in the way that the free market has been addressing it all along. If the last sentence made you laugh, keep in mind that Medicare and commercial insurance have been successful in controlling costs. The wild card has been all the uninsured in the system and that will be mostly eliminated. The need for the commercial subsidy will begin to disappear."I did laugh! My haphazard attention to this subject (apologies) has led me to think that every reform of the system brings on the counter-reformation. The most interested parties (hospitals, medical suppliers, insurance companies, pharma, etc.) manage to mangle the legislation so as to preserve their own interests. Am I wrong? And how will that change? Of course, doctors and the AMA were once a powerful interested party but seemed to have lost their clout to the bigger money interests. Am I right? How did that happen, if it did?
Ms. Steinfels - you state: "The most interested parties (hospitals, medical suppliers, insurance companies, pharma, etc.) manage to mangle the legislation so as to preserve their own interests. Am I wrong? And how will that change?"Yep - how else would the needle of healthcare reform have been able to be moved?As U states - the first decision was to reject universal healthcare. How could the administration move forward - by aligning itself and getting buy in from the capitalists in the room - insurance companies, durg companies; hospital corporations; AMA; etc. Thus, like most congressional actions, it was a process of making sausage. Insurance corporations bought in because PPACA protects their existence and, quite possibly, brings them millions more in membership; same for pharma. Hospitals got buy in because it was an attempt to address populations that they had to provide care for with no hope of reimbursement.It is a positive step forward but not without issues.
Just another example of how the decision to reject single-payer healthcare has been one huge mistake. And will continue to be.
Health care from office visits to tests to hospitalization should be treated as a public utility---a resource neccessary for the common good.
Unagidon, thanks for this primer. I know you've written about it before, and I appreciate the review. Will it work?Jimmy - it may be that this is the path we have to take to get to universal healthcare. This is what could be done.
One rather forceful writer on these matters has been Karl Denninger, see:http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=218233
Thank you for the very informative link, Carlo. I read the WSJ article itself and appreciate the emphasis on cost shifting and the distortions caused by federal and state laws. What a mess.
Thank you. I appreciate going over all of this again. I just left a job as Consumer Health Advocate and tried to explain some of this to the folks I worked with, about 75% of whom were uninsured-- some with big bills and many I'd simply direct to some fine charity clinics.Any thoughts on hiw the new "accomodation" of HHS re: contraception will affect any of this? I know and appreciate what I've read from many in the past and perhaps that's all been said but "jest askin'"ps
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I did laugh! My haphazard attention to this subject (apologies) has led me to think that every reform of the system brings on the counter-reformation. The most interested parties (hospitals, medical suppliers, insurance companies, pharma, etc.) manage to mangle the legislation so as to preserve their own interests. Am I wrong? And how will that change?
You can be completely sure that hundreds and thousands of people have pored over the PPACA Final Rule looking for a way to game it in some way. It's in the nature of our economy (and is why I have so little patience with people who treat capitalists as dainty hot house roses). Since medical care is so close and personal to everyone, we will have to watch every move that any player makes like a hawk and adapt to it. There will be no "final fix" that will mediate all contradictions.Having said that, insurance companies (and the government) have an interest in pushing medical prices down. Insurance companies have an incentive to do this; it's part of the source of their profits. And right now, only the government and insurance companies have the market information needed to even begin to do this. Unlike Brill's unfortunates, insurance companies and the government know how much things cost the hospital (and how much things should cost). Libertarians like the Karl Denninger mentioned by Mr Lancellotti would like the consumer himself to have this market information. I am not sure how possible this is. But in the meantime, it's the government and the insurance companies and this is what we have to work with.
Of course, doctors and the AMA were once a powerful interested party but seemed to have lost their clout to the bigger money interests. Am I right? How did that happen, if it did?
The AMA didn't lose its clout. It lost a lot of its interest in the Obamacare game when it became evident that Obamacare would not be about fixing prices. We heard some braying of gored capitalists when people started talking about Obama "gutting Medicare" to the tune of billions in part to pay for Obamacare. But these price reductions over time would be happening whether Obamacare existed or not. They are part of the cost cuts that Brill mentions as the system moves to paying for things on a case rate rather than breaking each and every item out for its own price. The AMA would rather have us all pay piece rates for every tongue depressor, but the trend is against this (as it should be). So the AMA, which is just as powerful as it has always been, just got out of the way when it appeared that Obamacare wouldn't affect its interests too much.
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Unagidon, thanks for this primer. I know youve written about it before, and I appreciate the review. Will it work?
It will create an new dynamic within which everyone will try to profit, as usual. A side effect will be that tens of millions of people will now have insurance coverage. That's progress. But it will not work to the effect that we consumers can relax our diligence with all the players (and the government for that matter) for a moment.
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One rather forceful writer on these matters has been Karl Denninger, see:http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=218233
A good half-argument well worth the read.Denninger is partially right when he lays out the effect of government intervention in the market. Half right in that he pretty correctly identifies some of the dynamics of our perverse system. But he is a religious believer in the market and I don't think that he quite makes the journey from deregulation to freedom. For example, he points out that EMTALA requires ERs to treat anyone who walks in the door and the effects of this on prices. But to claim that EMTALA somehow led directly to the closing of 600 Catholic charity hospitals is a stretch. What was the mechanism for this? Did they close because they were deprived of a source to whom they could give charity? It doesn't make sense.His whole discussion works the same way. I can argue a particular point with you if you draw one out. But again, he article is definitely worth a read.
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Any thoughts on hiw the new accommodation of HHS re: contraception will affect any of this? I know and appreciate what Ive read from many in the past and perhaps thats all been said but jest askinps
I have stayed entirely out of this discussion because my opinion seems to be so idiosyncratic. But I will lay it out here hoping that this will not derail the general discussion we've started.As a person who believes that we need radical health care reform, I am utterly against the provision of contraception because I think that the system needs to be stabilized around those things that are medically necessary before we start funding stuff that is elective. In other words, I think Jane needs to be sure she can get her chemo before she can start getting her birth control pills. I know that contraception is a tiny thing in the big picture, but nonetheless, first things first.As a rather conservative Catholic I should be opposed to the expansion of contraception in any form. This should be the bishops' approach. But they can't take this approach because they know they can't possibly win; too many Catholics use contraception. So they embrace an alternative approach of "contraception for non-Catholics" and call it a defense of their religion rights, because they believe that they can prevent some of the spread of contraception use if they can deny its coverage to some people. In other words, they have been unable to influence people to make a personal moral choice against contraception, so they want to try to keep people from having to make a moral choice at all.The reason that so many Catholics use contraception is, I believe, because of the perverse way that the Church treats it in the first place. Unlike any other sin, one is allowed to intend to use birth control as long as one uses a particularly inefficient means of birth control (i.e. "natural" family planning). I can't think of another thing called a sin that is laid out like this where one is allowed an intention provided one does not have the means. Since the Church does support family planning, people quite naturally and reasonable prefer to use efficient means to do so. The bishops have no way of mediating this contradiction they have created (except by claiming that "natural family planning" is effective, which only makes the contradiction worse.) Anyway, that's what I have to say about that.
a particularly inefficient meansMy understanding is that, like the pill, it is extremely efficient when used as directed and, like the pill, is not efficient when not used as directed.I cant think of another thing called a sin that is laid out like this where one is allowed an intention provided one does not have the means.Lets say my intention is to feed the hungry. The Church teaches that the natural way to effect that, giving what you have, is good, but the artificial way to effect that, stealing from someone else, is bad.
Thank you for all the explanation....And not to focus too much on doctors, but.... How do you see the news that doctors are increasingly part of group practices bought up by hospitals and/or the move to make doctors salaried affecting the cost question and the political influence of the AMA and physician groups. How will this affect regulations and future legislation?
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My understanding is that, like the pill, it is extremely efficient when used as directed and, like the pill, is not efficient when not used as directed.
It's not efficient, which is why using it leaves one "open to conception".
Lets say my intention is to feed the hungry. The Church teaches that the natural way to effect that, giving what you have, is good, but the artificial way to effect that, stealing from someone else, is bad.
I could agree to this if birth control was considered an act of mercy, which it isn't.
Margaret said: And not to focus too much on doctors, but. How do you see the news that doctors are increasingly part of group practices bought up by hospitals and/or the move to make doctors salaried affecting the cost question and the political influence of the AMA and physician groups. How will this affect regulations and future legislation?
The AMA will still maintain its power at the doctors' labor union and its clout in its role to control the overall supply of doctors. Doctors as a small business will disappear and doctors as corporations will enter the discussion (as they are now) as another kind of large and well organized corporation.
"Its not efficient..."Shut up, he explained?"I could agree to this if birth control was considered an act of mercy..."What does being an act of mercy have to do with it? The counterexample has been given. There are right ways to do things, and there are wrong ways to do things, no? Intention is not all.
Mark, it's not me that's saying that "natural family planning" is inefficient. It's the Church, so take it up with the Church. If "natural family planning" was efficient, then it would not open the couple to conception i.e it would be like any other form of efficient birth control.You gave a counter example, but it doesn't work. If I use "natural family planning" I am intending to use birth control just the same as if I decide to us a piece of latex. What's the difference here? "Natural family planning" is inefficient. Your example doesn't work because if I rob a bank to feed the poor, I am intending to rob the bank. Your example would work better if you said that it's all right to rob banks as long as one used an inefficient means, like taking some of the bullets out of the gun.
...its not me thats saying that natural family planning is inefficient.UnagidonOn the contrary, it is indeed you saying that (see your comment at 9:13 am, today). Perhaps the word you were looking for was foolproof rather than inefficient. If thats the case, I would agree with you, but foolproof and inefficient are worlds apart. The rest of your argument relies on the premise that a necessary condition of the Churchs teaching that NFP is a morally acceptable alternative to artificial contraception is that NFP is inefficient. Can you show me where the Church teaches that inefficiency is a necessary condition? From what Ive seen, the Church teaches that is in fact quite efficient! (Though some people may dispute that its efficient)
If NFP is efficient, then how does it open the couple to conception?
"You can be completely sure that hundreds and thousands of people have pored over the PPACA Final Rule looking for a way to game it in some way."Not exactly along the lines Unagidon had in mind re playing the system, but lots of employers who depend on part-time workers are cutting hours to ensure that they're not going to be liable for shucking out employee benefits. My college administrators very precipitously announced workload cuts last week, and there is a lot of general freaking out right now as administrators hustle to hire more part-timers to cover the hours they've cut from current adjuncts.Article from HuffPo about this trend appeared last fall, and I'm sure it's not just academic adjunct, but all part-timers who will experience work disruptions: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/20/ccac-obamacare_n_2165383.htmlWas this slashing of hours and dumping of workers onto the dole foreseen in the projected costs of ACA?
Every day and in every way I thank my lucky stars to have access to Kaiser Permanente and the VA .... both good single payer plans, and even one a form of socialized medicine.Bring them on to/for the rest of society.And can we finally, finally, FINALLY (please) stop obsessing about insurance-provided/not provided/whatever contraception? It's here to stay. Move on. Get over it!
Uwe Reinhardt points out that New Jersey protects uninsured people earning less than 5 times the federal poverty level by limiting their hospital charges to 15% more than Medicare pays. People earning more are still in he uncontrolled free market. Five times the povert level is currently $117,750 for a family of four.http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/01/shocked-shocked-over-hospit... has another installment to follow.
If NFP is efficient, then how does it open the couple to conception?You are asking how something can be efficient yet not foolproof. I think thats pretty obvious.
"Mark, its not me thats saying that natural family planning is inefficient. Its the Church, so take it up with the Church. If natural family planning was efficient, then it would not open the couple to conception i.e it would be like any other form of efficient birth control."Sorry, I don't wish to derail the on-topic discussion, either. Hopefully this intervention won't do so.The church doesn't look benignly on natural family planning because it is inefficient or ineffective. There are studies that show that, as a way to avoid pregnancy, it's pretty effective - perhaps not fully as effective as chemical contraception (which may have a 99% prevention rate) but still with an efficacy rate well above 90%. The church's view of natural family planning is that it's a non-sinful way to be prudent about family size. The conundrum for the church is that every sex act needs to be open to conception, but it also recognizes that large families can be a burden. Natural family planning balances these sometimes-competing goods in a way that contraception doesn't. Because the church recognizes that not having too large a family can be a good for many people, it approves of effective but non-sinful ways of bringing that about, and natural family planning seems to fit that bill. It doesn't mind at all if couples find natural family planning to be effective - for the right reasons.In Grant's dispute with Matthew Franck on a different-but-related topic (the HHS mandate), Franck made a comment about the intention of an act that may apply here as well. It has been argued that, under the proposed HHS mandate accommodation for religious employers like Catholic hospitals, an accommodated employer is not participating in the distribution of contraceptives because, although the HHS mandate makes it inescapable that providing group health insurance also means making free contraceptives available to employees and dependents, the employer does not intend the distribution of contraceptives, and so the employer is not culpable. Franck's characterization of this definition of "intend" is, what I really subjectively want to accomplish by this act that has its own objective meaning I choose to ignore.One of the things that many folks seem to find hypocritical about natural family planning is that it seems to be employed in such a way that the couple's subjective intention is to avoid pregnancy; and artificial birth control may also be employed to avoid pregnancy; so, from the point of view of the couple's subjective intention, what's the difference? What Franck alludes to, though, is that an act can have its own objective meaning, regardless of the initiator's subjective intention. And the objective meaning of an "unprotected" sex act is different than the objective meaning of a sex act in which contraception is used. This is true of the unprotected sex act, whether the couple is using natural family planning, or is trying to get pregnant.One way to think about this that may help clarify it is to consider a situation that, I expect, nearly all of us can relate to, even if we've never personally experienced it: the situation in which a couple has "unprotected" sex in the heat of spontaneous passion, and hopes (and, perhaps, even fervently prays) that a pregnancy won't result. This situation lacks the "plan-ahead" element both of contraception and natural family planning. The couple's subjective intention in that situation is that a pregnancy won't result, so from a subjective-intention point of view, it doesn't really seem different from any other sex situation (including with contraceptives in effect, or via natural family planning) in which the couple subjectively intends to avoid pregnancy. But the unprotected-in-the-heat-of-the-moment scenario seems to be morally different from sex while a contraceptive is in effect, because the heat-of-the-moment act is itself objectively open to conception.
Jim Pauwels. I disagree with Franck's characterization of the employer's decision but I don't want to divert the discussion here. I'll wait for a new thread on the HHS mandate.
JimThanks for your recent comment. In terms of breadth, depth, clarity, nuance, its one of the best I have read including my own (haha)!
Mark - thanks for your kind words. John - if any of the Grant / Franck topics haven't fallen off of the first page of dotCom posts, and you'd like to pursue the topic there, I'll check there for your comment.
Jim - the last HHS post is onage two and the last couple of posts are "awaiing moderation" so I think it's come to an end.Franck's proposition is that if the employer provides insurance it can only be because it believes its good intentions allow it to ignore the "objective" reality that providing insurance enables the employees to receive free contraception from others.Franck doesn't recognize that the employer may have made a correct analysis that enabling the employees is at most allowable remote cooperation with evil and double-effect permits it to decide that providing insurance to its employees is better than not providing it.
Thank you so much. I now understand something that I never thought I would understand. And so lucidly explained.


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Could this be the best corn on the cob recipe ever?
WOW, I found this today and I am going to make it....
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It would get my vote! I'll try that next time I grill and get back to you.
Yummmm .... got my mouth watering now!
Well....does it live up to itself? Details, please. It does sound good. I might try it with just the bacon and corn.
Grilled corn on the cob is 5 times better than corn cooked with any other cooking method (except maybe deep fried but I've never seen corn on the cob deep fried). That's without butter, salt, or anything else. Add butter and salt and it's more like 10 times better. Then there are a variety of other ways to season the grilled corn that are fantastically delicious as well. I haven't tried this recipe, but I can guarantee you that it will be awesome just because it is corn on the cob that is grilled.
(Corn still in the shuck that is cooked on the grill isn't grilled corn on the cob. It's steamed corn on the cob. If done on a charcoal grill, this can infuse some of the smoky flavor, but otherwise it's just a waste of time. If you are going to use your grill to cook your corn, shuck it.)
@thepenrod: I disagree.
Corn on the cob is easy. Boil water drop corn in take corn out in 5 minutes.
Eat. No salt no pepper just plain ol peaches and cream sweet corn.
Too much extra work to grill for very little pay off. IMHOP
you had me @ Bacon, and then you add Chipotle!
2 flavors that will make me try just about anything!
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In a local blind taste test, corn on the cob done in the microwave was voted the best. That's the only way I fix it now.
@caffeine_dude: I never said it was difficult. And grilling it isn't more work than boiling unless you are only grilling the corn. But grilling just one course is silliness.
Have you actually tried grilled corn where the kernels begin to just barely char on the surface and the insides of the kernels almost caramelize? It is divine.
@thepenrod: I've had a little iron smoking box in the corner of my gas grill for years now. Soak hickory chips, grill as usual so I get the control of gas but everything gets a little smoky.
Personally, the bacon sounds interesting, but I just like grilled corn with a little butter & coarse black or, if it's really sweet corn, a touch of cayenne.
@pooflady: Yes, I use the microwave steamer bags for most of my fresh vegetables, as it cooks them in their own steam and maximizes the flavor. On the grill, I prefer corn cooked in the shuck, as it keeps the kernels tender. Cooked directly n the grill makes it too tough for my tastes.
This sounds delicious. Great find!
I was going to ask if it had bacon before I even looked at it. Since it does, the answer is probably yes.
May have to try this if our local store isn't out of fresh corn (again), but minus the peppers because I'm not allowed to have spicy things just now.
True to my word, we tried it this past weekend and it was awesome! Thanks again for the recipe!


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A meeting is scheduled at 7 p.m. on April 8 at the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center in Nebraska City.
The Missouri River Water Management Division will give a presentation regarding the current status of reservoir operations followed by a question and answer session.
"Flood control remains a primary consideration as we move into 2013 despite the growing concerns about the impacts of the drought on the basin's resources," said Jody Farhat, chief of the water management division.
"In addition, we're starting this year's runoff season with the reservoirs drawn down significantly due to drought and as a result, we are implementing measures to conserve water in the mainstem reservoir system including reduced service to navigation this year," he said.
The Corps continues to work closely with agencies like the National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Geological Survey to communicate on-the-ground conditions and forecasts frequently with the public, said Farhat.
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2012 28th Annual Trans Am NationalsWritten by on January 18, 2014 Big Bad Birds return to Dayton
Trans Ams are timeless. That mantra was repeated in multitude at the 28th Annual Trans Am Nationals held in Dayton, Ohio, August 24-26, 2012. "It's been a decade since the last Trans Ams and Firebirds were produced, but the Firebird hobby is still flying high," says Scott Scheel, judging chairman of the Trans Am Nationals.
Held at the Dayton Marriott hotel, 383 Pontiac F-bodies were officially registered for last year's event, representing every production-year Firebird except '93, and 28 states and Canada.
"The Trans Am Nationals remains a strong summer roost for Pontiac-produced F-bodies," Scheel continues. "As long as that's the case, we will continue to be the pilgrimage site for fans of all Trans Ams, Formulas, and Firebirds."
As in past years, the Trans Am Nationals included the points-judged car show with 32 classes, and trophies going to the winners in First to Third place; a Tipp City cruise; a swap meet; and a charity raffle, with proceeds going to A Special Wish Foundation, Dayton, Ohio Chapter.
The real treat, however, were special appearances by retired Pontiac Styling Studio Chief Bill Porter; Pontiac Head of Product Planning and Information Ben Harrison; automotive author Gary Witzenburg, and his wife, Jill.
Porter is credited with the styling of the 701⁄2 Trans Am and Firebird, and the color Brewster Green, which was available which was available from Pontiac in '73 only.
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Harrison says he was instrumental in adding the F-body, G-body, and X-body to Pontiac's portfolio.
Gary Witzenburg wrote the popular book, Firebird! America's Premier Performance Car, and Jill Witzenburg was the first female professional in Pontiac's in-house public relations department, helping promote the Trans Am Territory events in the late '70s.
The four GM employees treated attendees to a seminar, which included Porter's inspiration for the design of the Honeycomb wheel, the Brewster Green exterior color, and the "bullet" mirror; and Harrison's memories of the standard features shared between the '69 GTO Judge and the '69 Trans Am, and the very popular Formula steering wheel.
The 29th Annual Trans Am Nationals were held August 23-25, 2013. Activities included an informal gathering of Firebird Sky Bird, Red Bird, and Yellow Bird limited editions. For more information, visit www.tanationals.com.
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This '72 Trans Am owned by George Berg drove away with High Performance Pontiac's Editor's Choice Award. It was chosen because it best represented Porter's influence on the Second-Generation Firebird.Cameo Ivory with red interior is a striking color combination, as this '68 Firebird owned by Bob Trimpe of Petersburg, Kentucky, shows.Only 102 '95 Firehawk convertibles were produced, but this one example is even rarer, as it is one of two shod in Medium Red Metallic.Best of Show went to Shane and Melissa Armstrong's black '97 Trans Am WS6, shown on left. Photo by T/A Nationals.
A flock of modified Fourth-Gens show some of the myriad colors available on Trans Ams and Firebirds from '98-'02.This Verdoro Green with Ivy Gold interior '68 Firebird convertible leads off a row of stock '67-'69 Firebirds. "I think there's still a misconception that we welcome only Trans Ams," Judging Chairman Scott Scheel says. "We welcome all '67-'02 Firebird models."Proving how great Second-Generation Screaming Chickens look on Fourth-Generation Trans Ams is Jason German of Frankfurt, Illinois, who owns the red '99 T/A on the right.Carl Hessick took the top podium finish in Winners Circle Best of Best with his Flame Red '87 Trans Am GTA. (Winners in each class the previous year are invited to return and participate in Winners Circle.)


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The beginning of the shabbat evening kiddush (vayehi erev, vayehi boker, yom hashishi...) is from Bereshit, 1:31 ff. Where does the second part (khi hu yom tehilah lemikraei kodesh...) come from? Is it also from the Torah?
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Avudraham cites the following verses for a couple of the lines:
He also gives these non-citation explanations of the sources of the ideas:
The first paragraph of kiddush is Biblical verses. The second paragraph is part of the core text of prayers, which were presumably finalized by Anshei Knesset HaGedolah, "The Men of the Great Assembly", i.e. the rabbinic leaders during the early Second Temple period, about 2300 years ago. (See Rambam Berachot 1:5)
The same goes for something like the Amida prayer on shabbat. The paragraphs yismach moshe and elokeinu veilokei avoteinu, retzei vimnuchateinu were composed by the editors of the core siddur 2300 years ago, while it also contains a paragraph of Bible -- "as it says in the Torah ... veshamru bnei yisrael et hashabat ..."
As referenced in the other answer, it's clear that when the Men of Great Assembly composed the core siddur, they often used Biblical paraphrases and references. But it's not "this whole paragraph comes right out of the Bible."


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MUV303: Show Choir I (2012-2013)
CURRICULUM PROGRAM: Music
COURSE TITLE: Show Choir I
COURSE LENGTH: 36 weeks
Major Concepts/Content: The show choir course is designed to provide students vocal jazz competencies and experiences. The content includes, but is not limited to, the following concepts: sight-reading music notation vocally singing three- and four-part music, practicing and using vocal improvisation, using back-up accompaniment and ensemble tone color/quality, performing in public performances and musical productions, interpreting contemporary vocal music scores, studying of melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic structure in vocal jazz and popular choral music, studying intonation, singing a cappella, singing with instrumental accompaniment, and creating and performing appropriate choreography.
Major Instructional Activities: instructional activities will be provided, in part, through the following choral approaches: hearing and singing musical intervals; using aural dictation and ear-training exercises; completing daily sight-reading exercises during regularly scheduled chorus rehearsals; demonstrating techniques of blend, balance, and vocal jazz timbres; interpreting voice part while observing all critical markings; participating in public performances, singing a cappella; performing a wide variety of vocal jazz and popular arrangements; and staging choreography and establishing a stage presence.
Major Evaluative Techniques: Students will be required to pass periodic sight-reading examinations and to perform successfully, independently and stylistically, in groups by demonstrating all interpretive markings indicated in the score.
Course Objectives: Upon completion of the show choir course, students should be able to: Sight-sing vocal jazz and popular music independently and in ensemble. Produce correct vocal jazz style. Demonstrate correct rehearsal behavior. Perform for school and community Participate in choreography and staging of musical performances.


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STEUBENVILLE - Members of the Steubenville Rotary Club were in for a treat during a meet and greet held Tuesday at Bella Hall.
Five natives of India were on hand to meet members of the local Rotary during the visitors' first leg of a month-long trip to Ohio.
According to Jim Emmerling, Steubenville Rotary president, the group traveled to the area as a part of a Rotary group study exchange program.
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ATTEND PIRATES GAME — A group from India visited Steubenville recently as part of a Rotary group study exchange program. Jim Emmerling, Steubenville Rotary president, held a meet and greet at Bella Hall Tuesday evening for members of the local Rotary to meet the visitors. During their time in Steubenville, the group attended a Pittsburgh Pirates game at PNC Park. On hand for the game were, from left, Dr. Tiny Jain, Dr. Pamil Modo, Dharmendra Joshi, Emmerling, Suril Sarvaiya and Kushagra Rawal. -- Contributed
"I started planning this venture when I first became president in June of 2012," he said. "Cory Wingett is the chairman of this group and he played a big part in making sure the exchange happened."
Dharmendra Joshi, Tiny Jain, Kushagra Rajul Rawal, Pamil Modo and Suril Jayrajsinh Sarvalya arrived in Ohio on Sunday and spent four days in Steubenville, Emmerling said.
During their time in the city, they were housed by local Rotarians, including Emmerling, Paul Rothfuss and Ashley Steele.
"We took them to a Pittsburgh Pirates Game at PNC Park as well as Phipps Conservatory, which just recently opened an Indian exhibit," Emmerling explained. "They also toured Franciscan University and visited with the Rev. Richard Davis as well as received a tour of Trinity Health System thanks to Public Relations Director Keith Murdock."
All five members are Hindu and follow a vegetarian diet so they visited a vegan restaurant in Robinson Township, Pa., during their stay. Christine and Bob Hargrave also hosted the group for dinner.
Emmerling mentioned the five members are from various parts of India and they did not know each other until they were selected to participate in the program.
Joshi serves as the group's team leader and is the only member that serves in a Rotary club in India.
"This group is designed for non-Rotarians to be involved in a cultural and vocational exchange," he explained. "It is meant for them to explore and gain awareness about other cultures."
This was Joshi's first time guiding a group outside of India. He explained the participants went through an interview process at both local and district Rotary clubs.
"Part of the program is that the participants are required to stay at local Rotarians' houses and learn the culture even more," he noted. "This is the first time any of the group has been to the United States, so it is an exciting experience."
Joshi said he is "excited to learn Rotary in this part of the world and how people work in Rotary in the United States."
"There is such a need for community service in India and that need is not as wide in the United States, " he said. "I am intrigued to learn how the Rotarians work to serve their communities here."
He enjoyed touring Franciscan University of Steubenville as well as Trinity Health System.
"Everything was so different, especially the health care facilities," he said. "The facilities are very nice here. The money people put into the hospital systems in this country is very different than in India."
Jain, a dentist from Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India, spent time with Dr. Tom Brown during her stay in Steubenville. She and her husband own their own practice in India.
"I spent two hours with Dr. Brown, and it was a great experience," she explained. "I was excited to come on this trip to learn about the American industry and see how advanced it is. I enjoyed learning that the Indian industry is coming close to that of the United States."
She said that her host home has been very comfortable and she has been able to see how different life is in the United States.
"I noticed that there is a lot of independence amongst families here, as where in Indian we have a precise family time each day from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m.," she stated. "We sleep in later, starting our work days at 9:30 a.m. each day and ending at 8:30 p.m. Everyone has been very warm and welcoming during our stay in Steubenville."
Rawal is from Bhuj, Gujarat, India and is an adviser and faculty member at a secondary school. He also owns a business counseling and mentoring students.
"I decided to pursue this opportunity to learn about the U.S. education system and see what I may be able to implement in my work in India," he explained. "I am planning to meet with some high school principals and college professionals during my stay in Ohio."
He, too, said he enjoyed visiting Franciscan University as well as PNC Park.
"This was my first every experience at a professional baseball game," he said. "I also had a great time with Jim (Emmerling) and his family. He is a great man and has become a good friend."
Modo is a music lecturer and performing artist of Indian classical music from Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. She also teaches children to promote Indian classical music.
She decided to participate in the trip to learn about different cultures and to see how India differs from the United States.
"I especially wanted to see the way music is taught and was interested in learning new techniques to take home with me that will help teach children in India," she noted.
She spent some time with Carolyn Glaub at the Center of Music and Art in Wintersville and she said the teaching style is different.
"The student and teacher relationship, one on one, is the norm here, where as we teach our students in a group so they have a feeling of togetherness," she explained. "Music is very vast in India. The northern and southern parts of the country have absolutely different kinds of music. Those in the north are not able to sing the classical music of the south because it is so different."
Sarvalya is a computer software engineer from Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. His primary reason for joining the group was because his grandfather was a founding president of his Rotary club.
"I was excited at the opportunity to meet and stay with people in the United States and to get to know the culture," he said. "I will visit some IT companies during my stay and hope to learn new technologies to implement in India. I work for a multi-national company and many of my clients are from the U.S. as well as other European countries, so I am excited to be able to learn techniques that may benefit them.
"I really enjoyed PNC Park and the atmosphere of the game," he said. "Baseball is similar to cricket in India and I enjoyed learning the game of baseball because I previously played cricket at the national level in India," he said.
The group will leave Steubenville Thursday morning for their next destination. They are scheduled to visit Rotarians in Alliance, Wooster, Canton and Youngstown.


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27 May 2012 6:30 PM #1
iPad (iOS) hbox layout issue
I have a simple hbox layout containing buttons for a media player.
{ xtype: 'container', layout: 'hbox', ref: 'buttonsSet', items: [ { xtype: 'button', text: '|<<', width: 24, ref: 'prevButton' }, { //spacer width: 2 }, { xtype:'button', text: '|>', width: 24, ref: 'playButton' }, { xtype:'button', text: '||', width: 24, ref: 'pauseButton', hidden: true }, { //spacer width: 2 }, { xtype:'button', text: '>>|', width: 24, ref: 'nextButton', disabled: true }] }
this.buttonsSet.playButton.hide(); this.buttonsSet.pauseButton.show();
This is an iPad issue (works fine everywhere else), but, is there anything I can do on the EXTJS side to force the iPad to re-evaluate the layout without user interaction? Open to any suggestions.
27 May 2012 9:11 PM #2
Rendering properly under iOS
I resolved this issue on iOS by setting the element width after the hide/show.
Setting the width on the element has no effect on the layout itself (except making it compliant)
Please leave a reply if you faced the same issue and if this 'hack' worked for your scenario.


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Your One-Year-Old and Play
In This Article:
- Garage sales are fantastic for picking up toys, even brand-new ones that have never been opened! Just know that the best toys usually sell out by 8:00 a.m. Learn to be an "early bird" and get there first.
- Good old open-ended boxes make great tunnels for busy babies on the go.
- Notice if your baby has a particular character that she likes—for example, Elmo. If she likes Elmo, buy an Elmo book, an Elmo rattle, an Elmo plush toy, an Elmo crib toy, an Elmo stroller toy, and an Elmo car-seat toy. You may notice how the familiar character keeps your baby calmer and less distracted.
- Sometimes baby is more interested in people than in things. During these moments, spend quality time together and remember that less is more.
- This is a great time to start playing homemade games with baby...winking and a kiss, Peek-a-Boo, and Patty Cake. Babies this age usually like to do things with people who follow a specific pattern. This is great when you're stuck in line at the grocery store or someplace else without a toy.
- Babies this age start to really enjoy stacking toys.
- Babies like to imitate you for play. Toys like pretend telephones entertain babies this age because they can act just like you.
- Babies who can stand up in their crib often start hurling their stuffed animals and toys out of their crib. Don't worry, it usually doesn't mean baby is ready to climb out. It's just another activity. If baby does this often, get a few toys that can be secured to the side of the crib (like activity centers), so they can play with them but not throw them overboard. This will buy you a lot of time!
- If you want to experience something natural, watch your baby try to climb up a few stairs. Climbing up is usually fun, but coming down is usually harder and scary to a baby. It takes time and then they usually surf down. What a thrill! It's hilarious!
- New toys and activities may frighten your baby at first because she is unsure of it. Teach your baby to enjoy these things by introducing them at a slow, comfortable pace over and over again.
- It's also common for baby to suddenly develop a fear of her favorite toys. This is normal. It just means she's starting to think more. Give her time and don't push the toy back on her. Let her do it on her own.
- Babies usually enjoy playing with bright objects and things that respond and interact with them. Push and sound toys are great because they teach cause-and-effect lessons. When I push this button, that happens...it's so much fun!
- When you go to another person's home, bring along something your baby is familiar with, such as an activity gym. This way, if she gets cranky, you can give her a familiar, soothing object until she calms down.
- Babies get bored quickly, but there is an upside: you can use the play center for fifteen minutes and then use it again fifteen minutes later, and baby will think it's a new activity!
- You could be better off leaving the first year birthday party gifts wrapped if other children are around. Young babies haven't learned the art of sharing yet.
- If your baby receives two of the same toy for her birthday, thank your lucky stars and treat them like gold. Keep them both and put them away until you have another baby over. This is a perfect solution until baby learns to share.
- Try not to give your baby his first piece of birthday cake on his actual birthday. He could get sick and he probably won't like it. Instead, give him a small piece a week earlier and get him used to it. By the time his party rolls around, he will really enjoy his birthday cake!
- Be sure to get a picture of baby when she tries her first birthday cake, especially if she hasn't tasted anything like it before. Just keep in mind that baby needs to develop a taste for sweets, too.
- If you suspect that a surprise party is planned for you, tell your spouse to make sure you are not carrying a sleeping baby through the door at the moment everyone yells, "SURPRISE!" Otherwise, the party will be fun for everyone else, but not for you.
More on: Babies
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The art of war
Political thriller is a film not to be missed
By Tim Pompey 01/17/2013
Zero Dark Thirty
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Jennifer Ehle
Rated R for strong violence, including brutal disturbing images, and for language
2 hrs. 37 mins.
The hunt for Osama bin Laden haunted the U.S. after the terrible attack on Sept. 11, 2001. And for many of us, despite his death in May 2011, the story of how he eluded capture for a decade still remains a muddy mystery.
Director Kathryn Bigelow's new film Zero Dark Thirty helps shed light on that mystery, and what she unveils is not a pretty picture. When she picks up the story in 2003, the CIA is using torture to gather information and is bogged down by political and bureaucratic infighting. Meanwhile, no one seems able or even willing to connect the dots. The result: Bin Laden remains at large.
What emerges from Bigelow's perspective is this: First, a small group of CIA operatives cajoled and forced the agency to remain engaged in bin Laden's pursuit. Second, the eventual success of bin Laden's assassination was due to some careful planning and an awful lot of sketchy guesswork. It could easily have been a major disaster. The bottom line is, the U.S. government got lucky.
Bigelow and writer Mark Boal, who collaborated on the Oscar-winning film The Hurt Locker, have successfully teamed up again for this film. They make you feel the sheer weight of bin Laden's pursuit and the frustration of CIA operatives who tracked thousands of obscure clues, then had a difficult time convincing higher-ups to believe what they told them.
There's no doubt that most viewers will initially be confused by some of the language and actions that the CIA took as part of this process. The film is heavy on "code speak" and sometimes short on details, but with some patience, you can catch the gist. It gets better as the story unfolds.
What's fascinating is how Bigelow and Boal seem to capture the life of a CIA agent in pursuit of terrorists. There's a sense of authenticity to the acting and the dialogue, as if the director and writer had spent hours sitting in on CIA meetings to catch the finer points of agency operation and politics.
The actors seem to pick up on this and carry the story forward with grit and determination. In particular, Jessica Chastain as Maya gives a bone chilling performance as a woman in a man's world who has to fight for her right to speak. She's tough. She's smart. But she's also haunted by bin Laden's attacks. It becomes personal for her. She wants bin Laden dead.
This film is truly disturbing, not only in the graphic nature of the torture scenes, but in the way that governments carry out dirty secret wars to ensure their own survival. Bigelow seems able to present multiple viewpoints — the good, the bad, the ugly, the gray and the bloody — without surrendering to sentiment or finger pointing. It's the way the world works and she paints a vivid picture of the messy nature of combat and politics.
She's also skillfully pieced together the Seal Team 6 raid on bin Laden's compound and managed to make it hum with military precision. The last 45 minutes of this film will literally have you on the edge of your seat.
Zero Dark Thirty is one of those movies that will probably become a classic, not only because of its controversial material, but because it's a rare moment in filmmaking when talent begets talent and the entire cast and crew seem to rise to the occasion and find the sweet spots.
I don't say this about many films, but this is one pic you should not miss. It may open up some wounds, but so be it. Toughen up, take a deep breath, and focus. This is a great movie, but it's gonna hurt like hell to watch it.
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I'm honestly surprised there wasn't a thread on this already. Do you guys think that the DPRK is actually going to start a war with South Korea and the US? The recent fuss that Kim Jong Un has been making has been getting a lot of media attention, what do you guys think?
Personally, I really hope we don't get into any conflict with them, but I know we've been fully willing to build up our forces on the peninsula in the past couple years. The fact that we've been showing force to shut them up is probably the right decision, but at the same time, who knows what they intend to do?
Anyway, I've also heard that it's a lot of bark without much bite on their end, but you never know. What do you guys think will happen with this?


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10 Apple-Themed Crafts and Activities
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What do apples and bath poofs have in common? They can both make an adorable craft! We love this simple activity suggestion from our Craftivity Corner blog. It's perfect to keep your kids busy on a dreary, rainy day.
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Slow and Crimson Wins the Race
AJ McCarron's Kind of Boring Is What Helps Make Alabama So Devastating
COLLEGE STATION, Texas—Despite No. 6 Texas A&M's 49-42 loss here on Saturday, the Aggies' epic rematch with No. 1 Alabama turned into what most expected it would: an infomercial for Johnny Manziel. The reigning Heisman Trophy winner was mesmerizing, producing another Houdini highlight when he juke-stepped out of the grasp of an Alabama defensive end and heaved a pass 30 yards downfield for a first down. Kyle Field roared and fluttered with its version of the Sham Wow, the white-fringed 12th Man towel.
But here is how that dazzling display culminated: Manziel, for all his school-record 464 passing yards and five touchdowns, threw an interception to end the drive. And who was waiting on the other side of the field to take over? Alabama senior quarterback AJ McCarron.
Last year, the Aggies tormented McCarron into two interceptions and scored an upset for the ages. On Saturday, the 23-year-old signal caller did not throw an interception, was not sacked, and finished with four touchdowns and 334 passing yards. The preseason third-team All-SEC quarterback (Manziel was second team) was completely, utterly reliable. Even downright boring. And McCarron's kind of boring is what helps make Alabama so devastating.
It's not that McCarron has no style. He pulled off a flea-flicker for a 44-yard touchdown to DeAndrew White that tied the game in the second quarter, and, of course, he has channeled another famous Bama passer, Joe Namath, in courting Miss Alabama USA Katherine Webb. But where Manziel has hung out with rappers and appeared in court and thumb-wrestled with the NCAA, McCarron behaves as though he has been sipping on Nick Saban's Error-Free Herbal Tea.
After the game McCarron credited an offensive line that "kept me off the grass." He praised his receivers for devouring yards after they caught the ball and making his work easy. "I just gotta throw it wherever they can catch it," he said.
McCarron was asked whether he feels like he is overshadowed because of his consistency, which does not inspire many YouTube clips. He began shaking his head mid-question. "My job is to go out here and play football," he said. "That's all I want to do. That's all I've wanted to do since I was 4 years old. I don't care about awards and notoriety. I don't need that. As long as our team wins, I'm great."
A noble impulse, but not entirely true. McCarron has said that he dreamed about winning the Heisman Trophy as a kid growing up in Mobile, Ala. It has to bug him, at least a little, that Manziel—who's just a redshirt sophomore—has one and he doesn't.
Despite being the central cog in college football's ruling dynasty, McCarron has managed to become a part of the wallpaper. The world probably never would have known that he attended the Manning Passing Academy over the summer as a counselor. How did they find out? Because his roommate, Manziel, overslept, missed a meeting, and was bounced. At SEC Media Days in July, McCarron was quizzed about Manziel's sleep patterns as though he were the last living panda in the United States.
On Saturday when asked about Manziel's play, McCarron hesitated. "I…," he said. "I just want to talk about our team."
Can you blame him?
In Friday's odds by the online betting site Bovada, McCarron ranked sixth among Heisman Trophy candidates at 10-to-1. No one ahead of him has led his team to a national title, much less the two McCarron has.
McCarron's sheer steadiness has counted against him before. He was skunked in 2012, when he snapped a stretch of 291 pass attempts without an interception and posted the nation's highest efficiency rating. It might count against him again this season. Alabama has superstars at nearly every position, opened as a favorite to repeat as national champion, and doesn't play Georgia or South Carolina in the regular season this year. McCarron is not set up to be anyone's hero.
Yet on Saturday he threw touchdown passes to four different receivers, something he has never done before, and he's on track to become Alabama's career passing leader this season. "I thought AJ played a fantastic game," Saban said, one of the few times Saturday that he or anyone else singled the quarterback out.
McCarron carries the on-field fate of the state's highest-profile corporation on his shoulders. This is a heavy task, no matter how many millions the coach is paid pay or how spangled with stars the offensive linemen were when they came out of high school. No one gives the Tide quarterback a break, and McCarron has handled the situation incredibly well going on three seasons as a starter.
After Saturday's game he appeared calm for a man who escaped the biggest game of the year with a one-score win. After speaking with reporters, he studied a pile of boxed dinners prepared for players to pick up before they boarded one of the team buses. Choices included sandwiches made with chicken, ham or roast beef. The star quarterback for the nation's top team managed to choose the most mundane.
"Do y'all have tuna?" McCarron asked. "Let me get tuna."
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When transferring moderately large files (~500-800 MB) to/from a USB disk in nautilus, or using (s)cp (with progress bar from http://chris-lamb.co.uk/2008/01/24/can-you-get-cp-to-give-a-progress-bar-like-wget/), or when using rsync... the progress reported is far from accurate. Evidently the default file system cache size in ubuntu 11.10 64bit is quite a bit larger than for 32 bit. As a consequence, it appears to nautilus or rsync or whatever is doing the copying that the file has been completely copied, when in fact there is a large portion of the file left to write, but that entire portion is has been cached, so it appears to the program that the file has been written (i.e. because it has, from the perspective of system calls). However, the actual output file takes a good 10-20 seconds more to actually fill up. Is there anyway to tweak any of these pieces of software to report progress in terms of "how much data has been written to the actual output file" instead of "how much data has been written to the operating system".
My particular annoyance is that each of these programs reports that the file has been written, but then just hangs for a while reporting nothing. I suspect this is because the "write" system call has completed, but the "close file" system call is waiting for the cache to flush.


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I very often see comments about a question posted as answers, e.g., "format it this way" or "why don't you post it over here". I think this practice clogs up the answers and the comment feature is for these sorts of remarks. What's the general consensus on etiquette?
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In addition to the basic "Answers should always provide an answer" rule, I also propose
Even if the question is a terrible plz-send-teh-codez question, posting a joke as an answer is blatant rep-whoring, since you will get voted up for being funny rather than for being correct or insightful, which is what your reputation is supposed to describe.
Answers should and will be indexed by google - its what will help future generations find the right answer (via google etc). Comments - they are meta - and essentially messages to the person who wrote the question/answer (which others can view if they want to). Not even sure if the bots will crawl them.
Remarks about the question or answer should be a comment. Answers to the question asked should be answers.
Answers should add to the community knowledge on the subject. I try to keep the "it's like a Wiki" concept in mind. While I agree with you regarding answers that should have been comments, I've also seen the opposite: comments that provided useful information and should have been posted as answers or edited into an existing answer. I tend to gloss over comments most of the time so I hope that I'm not missing anything important by not reading them.
Personal opinion? Answers should be answers, comments should be comments. Generally, things appear to be moderated that way eventually anyway.
When possible comments should not be given as answers. That being said, there are people without enough rep to comment yet (like yours truly for instance :p)
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