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The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 mandated that GAO review whether the transition assistance program (TAP) is meeting the needs of service members leaving the military. GAO (1) assessed TAP administration, including program participation, and (2) identified actions agencies are taking to improve TAP and challenges that remain. TAP serves military personnel with at least 180 days of active duty who separate or retire and members of the Reserves and National Guard who are released from active duty, a process termed demobilization. Recently, the Reserves and National Guard have been called to active duty in greater numbers than at any other time since the Korean War.
Transition assistance is intended to help service members successfully adjust to civilian life after serving in the military. Jointly administered by the Departments of Defense (DOD), Labor (DOL) and Veterans Affairs (VA), the four components of TAP are coordinated through meetings of agency TAP managers and interagency agreements. Both the method of delivery and the level of participation may vary, with participation rates highest for the mandatory preseparation counseling. Because they demobilize within days after they return from overseas, generally members of the Reserves and National Guard may get similar information but not the time to participate fully in TAP. At demobilization they may complete their preseparation counseling forms as a group without individual attention; get 45 minutes of briefing on veterans' benefits rather than a half-day; and receive no employment preparation. Participation of service members in the Disabled TAP component is not known, because VA does not track this information. The federal agencies have taken actions to improve TAP's content and increase participation among full-time active duty military personnel but face challenges serving Reserve and National Guard members because of their rapid demobilization. To improve content, the agencies have updated, or plan to update, their manuals, forms, and other materials, and DOL is assessing its employment workshop curriculum using focus groups and survey data. To increase participation, DOL and VA provide some employment workshops and veterans' benefits briefings overseas, and DOD is considering mandating participation in all components. While the agencies have not assessed when and where to offer TAP for members of the Reserves and National Guard, DOL has pilot programs in three states that will offer employment workshops after the members return home.
Recommendations for Executive Action
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: DOD's May 2006 report to Congress described plans for Web-based transition assistance that were implemented in 2007 for all service members, including National Guard and Reserve. Both the Web and a 24/7 call center can be accessed after demobilization. Also, DOL prepared a 4.5 hour employment training module specifically for the National Guard and Reserves that has been used to train its workshop facilitators since March 2007, and has plans to roll out additional modules in January 2008. VA has provided information on vocational education and rehabilitation opportunities in 78,000 compact discs sent to the services, including the Reserve and Guard. In 2009, VETS reported that all the modules were rolled out in 2008 and 2009.
Recommendation: To ensure that members of the Reserve and National Guard have the opportunity to benefit from transition assistance, DOD, in conjunction with DOL and VA, should determine what demobilizing Reserve and National Guard members need to make a smooth transition and explore the logistical options for providing that assistance, such as opportunities for employment workshops before or after their demobilization and providing timely information about the need to apply for certain benefits while still on active duty.
Agency Affected: Department of Defense
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: In fiscal year 2006, VA implemented a system on its Intranet to track the number and location of sessions held for both the disabled program (DTAP) and VA's briefings for the transition assistance program (TAP). The system also tracks the number of attendees, distinguishing Reserve and National Guard members from other service members. The system is described in VBA Letter 20-05-63 dated November 21, 2005.
Recommendation: To develop more accurate program statistics, VA should keep track of service members who attend the disabled transition assistance program to ensure that adequate follow-up is possible with this population, which may be in particular need of the services.
Agency Affected: Department of Veterans Affairs
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Guests may enter the park at the intersection of Harrell Parkway and Highway 79 and read the boards which are along the park drive near the Lakeview Pavilion. The City has a Christmas light display downtown too with lights all along Main Street on giant Christmas wreaths, lights on the gazebo and the City has lit the famous Round Rock water tower with more than 5000 lights and giant 12 foot stars shine on the tower. The storyboards and lights will be on display until January 1.


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Master Sgt. Derick Heflin, 342nd Recruiting Squadron health professions recruiter, talks an applicant through the paperwork necessary to become a commissioned officer in the Air Force. Heflin was named one of AETC's Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2013. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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-- An Air Force recruiter stationed in Del City, Okla., was recently named as one of Air Education and Training Command's Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2013.
Master Sgt. Derick Heflin, 342nd Recruiting Squadron health professions recruiter, joined the Air Force in 1999 from Albany, Ore. He started his Air Force career as a water and fuels systems maintenance technician before volunteering for recruiting duty in 2007. He was an enlisted accessions recruiter before becoming a health professions recruiter in 2010.
"My proudest moment as a recruiter was when an Airman I recruited came back from technical training and said, 'Thank you for changing my life,'" he said. "Nothing can compare to the power of aiding in the process of transforming a civilian to an American Airman."
Heflin's passion for his job has helped him excel in a competitive career field. That excellence paid off when AETC selected him as the top recruiter.
"It's a difficult job to take a doctor making $400,000 or $500,000 a year and talk them into serving their country for one-third the pay," said Lt. Col. Matthew Sandelier, 342nd Recruiting Squadron commander. "Master Sergeant Heflin has been outrageously successful at this. Last year he took the Surgeon General's No. 1 priority, recruiting a pulmonologist, and succeeded. He was the only guy out there who did that."
According to Master Sgt. Heather Poff, Heflin's former supervisor, Heflin took an outside-of-the-box approach to recruiting. He conferred with several pulmonologists in the field to find out from them where they go to look for jobs. He then advertised on a website popular with pulmonologists and attended a CHEST conference where he hosted a Center of Influence the night before the conference.
"His efforts garnered one very qualified and very motivated pulmonologist who is currently happily practicing medicine on active duty at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev.," said Poff. "He was able to find the needle in the haystack and sell him on the Air Force. Not only did Master Sergeant Heflin sell the Air Force, he was of the epitome of service after the sale. He continued with his first class customer service by setting up a base tour for the pulmonologist to visit his gaining unit. He also facilitated the pulmonologist's house hunting and church selecting at his new assignment."
Instead of focusing on the number of doctors he was required to recruit, Heflin was motivated by the big picture of what he was asked to do.
"This award means the world to me and my family, but it also brings out the humbling reality of teamwork," Heflin said. "My motivation to be an outstanding Airman is to produce the next generation of health professionals who will save the lives of our Airmen on the front lines. Recruiters are in a unique position to be able to help shape the next generation's Air Force. The same doctor that I put in today could be the same person that saves my child's life 10 years down the road. Knowing the vital responsibility we carry compels me to be the best Airman I can possibly be each and every day."
In addition to the pulmonologist, during his time as a health professions recruiter, Heflin has recruited a flight surgeon, three family practice residents, a dentist and 25 future physicians.
"Doing the very best at our job is not directly dropping the bomb, or keeping a plane flying," Heflin said. "Air Force Recruiting Service's capability is to help the Air Force get the doctor that delivers the baby of an Airman or submitting the application of a future doctor that will clear your son or daughter to fly sorties. Seeing this and being recognized among the best in our area humbles and gratifies me."
Before becoming a recruiter, Heflin's uncle, retired Master Sgt. Neil Heflin, loadmaster and Gulf War veteran, guided his career.
"Whenever I need advice, he is my go-to person," Heflin said.
Since becoming a recruiter, Heflin found another mentor is his first flight chief, Chief Master Sgt. Reginald Prothro.
"The advice he has given me throughout my career has molded me into the recruiter that I am today," Heflin said.
In addition to his successful career, Heflin has furthered his education by completing his Community College of the Air Force and bachelor's degrees, and giving back to the community.
"We have done numerous food drives in the area," Heflin said. "Also we take care of the military welcome center for new Army recruits getting ready to arrive and depart basic training. I also organized the adoption of an elementary school by our flight. We go there once a month and provide assistance to the teachers."
Even after a tornado touched down less than a mile from his home May 20, Heflin's spirit of giving back to the community was undeterred. He and his wife, Christine, volunteered about 70 hours of their time to help their neighbors and restore the community.
"We cleaned up insulation and other debris in a farmer's hay fields in order for him t be able to earn a living bailing hay again," Heflin said. "We also helped salvage personal items from two homes, took in thousands of donations from around the country and disbursed them to over 11,000 displaced families and served lunch and dinner to over 700 volunteer relief workers."
"Master Sergeant Heflin is a true ambassador in blue," said Poff.
Heflin and the other AETC Outstanding Airman of the Year winners will go on to compete at the Air Force level.
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My research focuses on issues of global change, specifically invasive species and climate change. Research in my lab includes outdoor field research, indoor growth chamber experiments, and computer modeling. Projects in my lab include (but are not limited to):
1. Ecosystem effects of invasive species.
Invasive plant species alter ecosystems in a variety of ways. Their most obvious impact is to reduce plant diversity. However, they are simultaneously altering below ground chemistry, soil microbial diversity, and the community of above ground animals that depend on native plants for food and shelter. Specifically, I look at how invasive plant species alter decomposition rates and nutrient availability in aquatic and terrestrial environments. In addition, my lab examines how invasive plant species influence both microbial and invertebrate community composition. Field work is primarily focused on the impact of the invasive plant Fallopia japonica (Japanese knotweed). Microbial questions are done in collaboration with a research team at UMass Boston that is currently looking at the genetic basis for variation in soil microbial communities between accessions of both Arabidopsis and Lactuca (Lettuce).
2. Exploring how climate change may influence the spread of the invasive plant, Japanese knotweed: My work with Japanese knotweed also includes questions of how climate change will influence the adaptiveness of different reproductive strategies. Japanese knotweed reproduces primarily vegetatively (from both rhizomes and stem fragments) in it invasive ranges in the US and UK. However, it has been shown to also successfully set seed here in the United States. My work explores these different reproductive strategies and the relative success of each under what climate conditions. In addition, I am working collaboratively with a team from Babson College (Wellesley, MA) to explore how light, climate, and herbivore pressure influence the growth and spread of Japanese knotweed.
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I am also very excited about the upcoming Daylighting of the Muddy River. This project provides us with a very unique opportunity to following riparian succession in an urban environment. As the daylighting continues my lab will be preforming "Rapid Stream Assessments," according to the EPA's standardized methods to see how stream quality changes with time. We will also be making a time series of maps tracking the spread of invasive plant species in the riparian buffer.
Aguilera, Anna G., Adan Colon-Carmona, Rick Kesseli, Jeffrey S. Dukes. 2011. No accession-specific effect of rhizosphere soil communities on the growth and competition of Arabidopsis thaliana accessions. PLoS ONE.
Aguilera, Anna G. 2011. The influence of soil community density on plant-soil feedbacks: an important unknown in plant invasion. Ecological Modeling 222:3413-3420.
Heidrun Huber, Eric J von Wettberrg, Anna Aguilera, Johanna Schmitt. 2011. Testing mechanisms and context dependence of costs of plastic shade avoidance responses in Impatiens capensis (Balsaminaceae). American Journal of Botany 98:1602-1612.
Aguilera, Anna G., Peter Alpert, Jeffrey S. Dukes, and Robin Harrington, 2010. Ecosystem impacts of the invasive plant, Fallopia japonica. Biological Invasions, 12:1243-1252.


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Situated in Flint, this hotel is in the same area as Kettering University and University of Michigan-Flint. Regional attractions also include Baker College - Flint and Auto City Speedway.
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The affluent city of Brentwood can keep homeless salesmen of The Contributor newspaper from doing business with passing cars. The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court decision affirming a city ordinance.
Until Contributor vendors moved in to Brentwood, the city rarely enforced a longstanding prohibition on sidewalk sales. Then two salesmen were cited and fined $125. The city argues it's a matter of safety.
The federal panel ruled that the ordinance is not an unconstitutional restriction on free speech. In a written opinion, the court suggested vendors could still sell to pedestrians or go door-to-door.
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The Contributor – as a newspaper – focuses on homeless issues, but its purpose is primarily to be a source of income for the vendors. There are now so many that some travel as far as Gallatin and Murfreesboro to sell the paper.
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Mayday Parade is getting some attention out there and the Rev got some inside info at their recent House of Blues show in Las Vegas.
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In these uncertain economic times, many private and charter schools are putting off replacing old, worn school furniture because of a lack of sufficient funds. The harsh reality in these schools, is that the practical needs of students and teachers are being neglected in favor of other priorities.
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas - The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi track and field teams faced some tough competition on Saturday at the UTSA Texas Challenge Invitational, helping the Islanders push themselves to two school records and numerous personal records.
"We did some really good things today, and I was happy with the way we competed against some of the best teams in the nation," head coach Shawn Flanagan said. "This meet was about our student-athletes lining up against quality opponents and going out there and competing no matter the name across the other teams' jerseys.
"Furthermore, UTSA did a great job of putting on a terrific meet with their new world-class facilities and it was a very pleasant experience."
One of the best performances in Saturday's action for the Islanders was the 4x400 relay, as three freshmen and a junior combined to run the race in 3:12.92 en route to a fourth-place finish. The group of Jackson Davis, Andrew Salazar, Angelo Garland and lone upperclassman David Carrillo also put themselves atop the Islanders record book with their performance.
The only competitor for A&M - Corpus Christi to participate in both days of the meet was Isabella Baptiste, as she had a great start on Friday in the heptathlon with the second-best score heading into Saturday's events.
She ended up finishing in third place with a personal record 4322 points, while also picking up PRs in six of the seven total events. Baptiste finished second in three of the events while also coming in first in the long jump with a leap of 5.06m (16' 7¼"). Her point total also was the second-best in Islander history.
Someone who was able to set a new school record for the Islanders was Omesha Locke, as she finished eighth in the discus with a throw of 41.61m (136' 6").
Fellow throwers Adrienne Nickleson and Kaelin Simmons also posted solid finishes with their tosses in the shot put. Nickleson came in fourth with her throw of 13.77m (45' 2¼"), while Simmons was right behind her in fifth with a mark of 12.77m (41' 10¾").
On the track, Philipp Baar came away with the best performance by an Islander, as he finished fourth in the 1500m with a time of 3:50.23, which was just a half of a second off of his personal record.
On the women's side in the 1500m, Regina Salinas set her PR for the second consecutive week, as she came in seventh in the event, clocking a 4:37.34.
Joining her with seventh-place finishes on the day were Jasmine Boutte who had a strong open to her season in the 800m with a time of 2:15.82, while Ashley Rosebrough was the other, finishing in 11.98 in the 100m.
Another personal record was set by Ebony Collins, as she finished eighth in the 400m, making her lap around the track in 58.40.
The Islanders will be right back in action against some of the best competition in the nation, as some of the squad will travel to the Texas Relays on March 26-29, while others will go to the Rice Bayou Classic on March 28-29.
For the latest information, follow the teams on Twitter and Instagram (@IslandersTFXC) and Facebook (Texas A&M Corpus Christi Track & Field/Cross Country).
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Hooray For Semantic Tech In The Film Industry
The story below features an interview with Kurt Cagle, Information Architect Avalon Consulting, LLC, who is speaking this week at the Semantic Technology And Business Conference in NYC. You can save $200 when you register for the event before October 2.
New York has a rich history in the film industry. The city was the capital of film production from 1895 to 1910. In fact, a quick trip from Manhattan to Queens will take you to the former home of the Kaufman Astoria Studios, now the site of the American Museum of the Moving Image. Even after the industry moved shop to Hollywood, New York continued to hold its own, as evidenced by this Wikipedia list of films shot in the city.
This week, at the Semantic Technology & Business Conference, a session entitled Semantics Goes Hollywood will offer a perspective on the technology's applicability to the industry for both its East and West Coast practitioners (and anyone in between). For that matter, even people in industries of completely different stripes stand to gain value: As Kurt Cagle, Information Architect at Avalon Consulting, LLC, who works with many companies in the film space, explains, "A lot of what I see is not really a Hollywood-based problem at all – it's a data integration problem."
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- Just like any enterprise, studios that have acquired other film companies face the challenge of ensuring that their systems can understand the information that's stored in the systems of the companies they bought. Semantic technology can come to the fore here as it has for industries that might not have the same aura of glamour surrounding them. "Our data models may not be completely in sync but you can represent both and communicate both into a single composite data system, and a language like SPARQL can query against both sets to provide information without having to do a huge amount of re-engineering," Cagle says.


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Noted producer of gay adult films, Kristen Bjorn has been making some of the hottest man-on-man pornography since 1982 and has been praised by William Higgins (one of Bjorn's acclaimed contemporaries), thusly: [in] the relatively brief history of hardcore gay videos, Kristen Bjorn has emerged unchallenged as the best director to date." Given such lofty accolades, Bjorn's self-titled website can be assumed to host a staggeringly impressive collection of the best all-male hardcore sex videos and photos in the world. Is that the case, though? Does Kristen Bjorn live up to his glowing reputation with this, his official online home? The straight, but definitely not narrow, investigation begins right here at Mr. Pink's!
Next time you hetero dudes stick your dicks through a hole in a public restroom stall wall, you might wanna double and triple check that it's a woman on the other side. If Unglory Hole is in any way an accurate reflection of current sexual trends, there's more likely to be both a woman and a man staring at your bell end, and it ain't the woman doing the sucking. Tricked into homosexual activity by a straight-fancying gay man and his busty, slutty accomplice who's most definitely all woman, the straights walking into Unglory Hole's glory hole have no idea that they're about to turned into an unwitting participant in porn that isn't just hardcore and homo, it's also live online at Unglory Hole, the trickiest, most conniving site on the Big Daddy network.
With one arm deep in another man's rear end and the other stroking his own throbbing member, the typical dominant male in a Club Inferno Dungeon scene is up to his elbow (often literally) in some of the most daring and outrageous all-male hardcore porn the Internet has ever held. Streaming directly to your computer screen in High Definition, you'll stare bug-eyed as kinky guys don leather, wield phalluses bigger than lamp-posts, and teach boys lessons they'll never forget; and it's likely you won't either. Club Inferno Dungeon is now open for the nastiest business in gay porn.
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Largely taking place outdoors, behind factories, next to train tracks, underneath power lines, on abandoned properties, Thug Hunter combines interracial, exhibitionism, mutual masturbation, and straight-up hardcore oral and anal sex with what I hope is a healthy dose of satirical intent and churns out some pretty exciting stuff. And, hey, if it doesn't quite grab you y the throat and shake some sensual arousal into you, there's always the rest of the Big Daddy network at your disposal.
One dick can be satisfying, yes, and two can be even more fulfilling, but what happens when the dicks you've had available to you simply stop being enough? Plenty of Dicks is a four-site network with an almost unlimited supply of hard-ons, boners, stiffies, and chubs and the will to use each and every one in aid of your vicarious sexual satisfaction. TL;DR: Plenty of Dicks has, well, plenty of dicks.
Next time you hop on a bus and prepare to ride through your urban or semi-urban or suburban stomping grounds, you should be very careful where you sit. No, this isn't some stupid 'cool people sit at the back of the bus' bullshit, I'm talking about infectious diseases, impossible-to-remove stains, and the sensation that someone came in the exact spot the back pocket of your Levis now rests. This kind of rampant paranoia and spontaneous erecting of your tightly-packaged member are the kind of results you can expect from a Project City Bus membership. Taking public transport never seemed so rife with carnally homoerotic possibilities as it does once you've seen the wild crosstown romps taking place at Project City Bus.


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Do Not Try to Take a Selfie With Megatron, He Gets Really Angry When You Do [VIDEO]
Preach the truth, yeah you people out there got me on Megatron's side. Something I never thought I would say in my life.
Preach the truth, yeah you people out there got me on Megatron's side. Something I never thought I would say in my life.
This is hands down the coolest Transformer costume that you'll never be able to find, because the guy built it himself.
Since I still have the brain of a seven year old, I now want to go home and bust out my old dinobots.
Yesterday we confirmed that the Dinobots, those transformers that also turned into dinosaurs, would be in 'Transformers 4.' What we didn't know then is how big a role they'd play and with the film's new title, it seems they're going to be a big focal point. 'Transformers 4' is now officially titled 'Transformers: Age of Extinction.'
Looks like Optimus Prime may have a new ally with this real life Transformer who goes by the name of Brave Robot.
Now I'm no friend of the paparazzi, but I also think that if you become famous you A) probably wanted to be famous and B) should expect people to obsess over you.
That being said, it must be annoying to have people follow you around and take pictures of you everywhere you go
This week's installment of games are pretty bad-ass.
Funny… Megan Fox was cut from "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" for saying the same thing. In an interview with Empire magazine, Michael Bay admitted that "Transformers 2: Rise of the Fallen" wasn't as good as it should have been


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Modeling and simulation, for real-time planning, assessment, and selection of courses of action; and
Distributed collaborative planning, for rapid coordination of resupply actions among the supplier, the transporter, and the user.
The Navy and Marine Corps should formulate and commit to a long-term plan—a path of evolution—to guide technology development, investment, and fleet implementation of a standard integrated, information-based process for maintaining weapon system readiness. The process should encompass the entire life cycle of a weapon system, from acquisition to disposal. The plan should give particular attention to current weapon systems, to infrastructure and common support needs, to integration of industry capabilities into the process, and to developing and exploiting the capabilities of the following technologies:
Integrated digital weapon system databases;
Computer-based technical training;
Integrated maintenance information systems that tie together information relevant to a technician's task and present it at the point of use in the most usable form;
Sensor-based diagnostic and prognostic software; and
Automated identification, tracking, and control of parts, supplies, and shipments.


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RockShox's SID RLT 29er is pretty much THE fork for serious cross country 29er riders and racers. It's light, it's stiff and its Solo Air chamber and Motion Control damping are fully tunable for a custom feel and a dialed ride. Featuring an aluminum steerer, magnesium lowers and post mount disc… [more]
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What ever happened to Johnson and Johnson First Aid Cream? It worked well and has been a family favorite for years. I can't find it in stores. Can we buy it on-line? Any recommended substitutes?
By Don
Here are the recent answer to this question.
By Guy S.08/24/2013
I found a great substitute for J&J First Aid cream - a lot cheaper, same basic ingredients (some alternate ingredients, but same effect) thwy have it at http://www.first-aid-product.com/industrial/first-aid-burn-cream.htm it's under $2 and seems to work just the same.
By dvodvo03/07/2013
I called Johnson & Johnson and was told the First Aid cream was discontinued in June, 2009. I was told it was replaced with a more effective product having better healing properties, namely Neosporin. When I mentioned that I liked the old product better because it wasn't greasy, the representative told me to try the Neosporin (+) Pain Relief in the cream variety (not the ointment). So I tried it and this newer product seems just like the old stuff to me.
By cybergrannie [30]12/02/2011
There was also a cream called Vitamins A&D Cream put out by Eckerd drugstores (Florida?) many years ago. I believe it was like the J&J brand and is no longer produced. White House was the manufacturer and are now out of business. I used many tubes of this when raising my children and I felt like it would heal "overnight" and was never greasy.
They try to tell you that A&D Ointment is the same thing - may be - but oh so greasy. Maybe the cream was too good.
The dollar tree now sells a tube of their A&D Cream (1.00) but it is not as good as the other and I have not compared ingredients.
By Anonymous [848]12/01/2011
You're so right that J&J Cream was not as greasy as it's counterparts, Cricket! It's because the cream had beeswax in it to make it creamier and I did like that about the product a lot :-)
By Cricket [201]12/01/2011
Deeli's right. The generic brand of Neosporin (I get mine at Wal Mart, again several dollars cheaper than the brand name) is exactly the same as the Neosporin brand.
I will say tho, Deeli, that it's not the same as the first aid cream that Don was asking about. Neosporin and it's generics are more greasy than the first aid cream was. Altho it does work just as well.
By Cricket [201]12/01/2011
There are several products that used to be readily available and worked amazingly well, but are no longer manufactured. J & J First Aid Cream was one. Anotber was that spray that we used to spray on our pillows at night when we had a cold. It kept my nose clear better than anything available today! Also, Vitapointe hair conditioner. My mother used to put that on my hair and then brush it dry. I did the same for my daughter and my granddaughters and each of us had hair like silk. I just found this at the Sally Beauty Supply web site. Haven't seen it in stores in almost 20 years.
By Anonymous [848]12/01/2011
I am fairly sure that product is no longer manufactured. Neosporin contains the same neccessary ingredients, however, I suggest using the pharmacy brand of Neosporin because it's oodles of dollars cheaper and also contains the same ingredients and ingredient amounts. I use Walgreen's Triple Antibiotic and the last tube I purchased was almost $4.00 less a tube than Neosporin.
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In honor of Memorial Day, the Nixon presidential library, museum and birthplace in Yorba Linda. is scheduled to be free to all on Mon. May 28, 2012.
I would get there when it opens, because I'm sure it will be crowded.
I can definitely recommend a visit any time to this museum and library.
Even kids will enjoy it, since they can walk through a real presidential helicopter and see the presidential limousine that Nixon took to China with him.
Click here to see more about the free Nixon Library admission
There are many interesting exhibits and the Watergate exhibit has been completely revamped, so you can see the changes since the National Archives took over that part of the operation.
You can see the tiny house where Nixon was born and also pay a visit to his grave, along with that of his wife, Pat. Political exhibits describe his career, and there are also other interesting things to see, including a chunk of the Berlin wall. My kids loved the hall with lifesize bronze statues of world leaders Nixon met in his lifetime.
Normally admission is Adults: $11.95; Seniors: $8.50; Students: $6.95; Active Military: $6.95; Children (7-11): $4.75.
Here are the events scheduled for Monday:
Thanks to the Richard Nixon Foundation, the library offers free admission to all on most patriotic holidays, which I thank them for, it's a great service to the county.
Here are some photos I took last time we were there:
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We love the ritual of going to get our nails done, but sometimes we just don't have the time or money to get there, and we wish we could do a better job on our own. For insider tips on how to get great DIY mani results, we checked in with Sally Hansen nail expert Dana Caruso.
If your brush stroke is a little sloppy, Caruso offers this advice: Sit in a comfortable position in a chair that's not restrictive in any way, with your products in front of you on a towel or a few paper towels on a table. Then rest your hand directly in front of you so that your nails are horizontal to you. "Painting verticle lines can be harder, and positioning your hand and nails in this way allows your shoulder to stay steady," she says. And while three strokes of polish is recommended, you can go easy on your first coat. "It's the second coat where you perfect your application."
To prevent your nails from breaking, you need to balance the moisture in them. "The polish will wear better, as they'll have more flexibility," says Caruso. Her number one tip? "Use cuticle oil as much as you can."
If you snip too much and bleed or get redness, pay extra attention to the area, says Caruso. Wash the area and apply an antibiotic ointment to help prevent infection. Once it's healed, you can start applying cuticle oil again to keep the area hydrated.
One of the hottest nail shapes right now is an almond shape. "And this look can be worn at different lengths — shorter even if you don't have a long nail bed, or you can exaggerate it if you have a long nail bed," says Caruso.
Soaking your nails depends on the condition of your cuticles, according to Caruso, who says soaking is a bit of a double-edged sword when it comes to manicures. "If your skin is dry, soaking your nails can help soften skin and make spare bits of skin and cuticle easier to remove," she says. "But your nails absorb water and swell, and if you apply polish, hours later, once your nails dry out, this can cause your polish to chip."
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Kellogg will close a snack plant in Georgia by the end of 2015 as part of its restructuring program, Project K.
The closure will hit around 325 employees at the Columbus plant. The site produces Kellogg's Cheez-It snack, among others.
Kris Charles, vice president of communications, said: "As with any project that impacts people, these are difficult decisions. We are very mindful of the impact these changes will have – particularly to our employees, and we will help those who are impacted through their transitions."
The closure marks part of the cereal giant's four-year efficiency plan – coined Project K – that will slash 7% of its global workforce in total.
The Project has already seen several cut backs, including a cookie plant closure in North Carolina and job cuts at a UK plant .


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Baseball Tigers fall to Waynesville and Rolla
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The St. James Tigers connected with the bat in one game last week, but didn't get enough runners across the plate in a par of games to earn a victory. Waynesville defeated the Tigers 3-0 and Rolla earned a 9-4 win.
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James Gross appointed to Fulbright-McGill University Visiting Research Chair
The Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board has selected Professor James Gross for appointment to the Fulbright-McGill University Visiting Research Chair in Global Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility.
Resident in the Faculty of Management, Professor Gross will conduct research, develop collaborations, and guest lecture at the graduate or undergraduate level. In addition, Professor Gross will have opportunities to deliver public lecturers, give seminar presentations, and otherwise contribute to ongoing research activities at McGill University.
The McGill Faculty of Management has received international recognition for its research and teaching programs related to Corporate Social Responsibility. Its Innovation Consortium sponsors innovation in teaching research with special emphasis on innovation directed at major social problems.


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The traction pad not only provides grip but also orientates your back foot position.
Protect your surf or kitesurf board with a padded board bag. They come in either day or travel bags.
For use behind jetski and other power water craft. Primarily intended for rescue of a swimmer or surfer.


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Add-ins are a feature in Microsoft Excel that provide additional features and commands. Two of the more popular add-ins are the Analysis ToolPak and Solver, both of which provide extended data analysis capability for "what-if" planning. To use these add-ins, you need to install and activate them.
This topic includes procedures that show you how to install and activate the Analysis ToolPak and Solver, and how to get started analyzing your data with each. You can use the same general process for installing and activating many other add-ins. Some other add-ins, such as those created by third parties, may have their own installation program.
Install and activate the Analysis ToolPak and Solver.
Install and activate the Analysis ToolPak and Solver
Click the File tab.
Note In this case, because you are installing two add-ins, Excel prompts you to install an add-in twice; once for the Analysis ToolPak and once for Solver.
On the Data tab, note that an Analysis group has been added. This group contains command buttons for Data Analysis and for Solver.
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A general practitioner (GP) is a medical practitioner who treats acute and chronic illnesses and provides preventive care and health education to patients.
As a difference to medical or surgical specialized doctors they intend to practice a holistic approach that takes into consideration the biological, psychological and social environment in which patients live. Their duties are not confined to specific organs of the body, and they have particular skills in treating people with multiple health issues. They are trained to treat patients of any age and sex to levels of complexity that are defined by each country.
Dietary fiber, dietary fibre, or sometimes roughage and ruffage is the indigestible portion of food derived from plants and waste of animals that eat dietary fiber.
There are two main components:
Bowel management is a medical approach to manage fecal incontinence or constipation. Bowel control is often a challenge for children who are born with anomalies in their anus or rectum, Hirschsprung's disease, and/or spina bifida. Some patients have a poor prognosis and will never be able to control their bowel, and so benefit from bowel management techniques.
Bowel management is mainly achieved through a daily enema which empties the colon to prevent unwanted and uncontrolled bowel movements that day. Some people also use laxatives and a controlled diet as part of their bowel management regimen. Determining the appropriate regimen to achieve successful bowel management is done under medical supervision. Care is tailored to suit each child and often requires a trial and error approach over the course of a week. The patient has an X-ray taken which is reviewed by their doctor. The doctor then recommends a course of action (e.g. enemas, laxative, and/or controlled diet). The next day, the process is repeated with modifications to help the child achieve a completely empty colon. After the course of this week the doctor can determine the precise amount and combination of what the child needs to achieve bowel management. From then on the patient can continue the regimen on their own.
Waterborne diseases are caused by pathogenic microorganisms that most commonly are transmitted in contaminated fresh water. Infection commonly results during bathing, washing, drinking, in the preparation of food, or the consumption of food thus infected. Various forms of waterborne diarrheal disease probably are the most prominent examples, and affect mainly children in developing countries; according to the World Health Organization, such disease account for an estimated 4.1% of the total DALY global burden of disease, and cause about 1.8 million human deaths annually. The World Health Organization estimates that 88% of that burden is attributable to unsafe water supply, sanitation and hygiene.
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Hillary asked the question in 2008 – who should answer the 3 AM phone call in the White House? On September 11, 2012, when our consulate in Benghazi, Libya was under terrorist attack, repeated calls for help were not answered. Our US Diplomats and heros were murdered horribly. This incident is an example of gross failures in leadership and foreign policy by both Oblamer and Shillary.
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Sky Sports understands that Kilmarnock starlet Rory McKenzie has agreed a new contract with the SPL club.
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The 18-year-old striker has emerged as a first-team regular this season and his progress has been rewarded.
Sky Sports understands that McKenzie has penned a two-year deal, committing his future to the club until 2014.
The Scottish youth international, who is also wanted by Trinidad & Tobago, made his debut in 2011 before spending a season on loan at Brechin City.
Now back to Rugby Park, he has opened his SPL account for Killie this season and is now a big part of Kenny Shiels' plans.


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"It's important to be relatable and normal," she says, chasing a hunk of Roquefort across her plate. "And I think that what helps with that, for me, is that I had the rug pulled out from underneath my feet so many times. It was like, `Listen up, bitch, you're not going to get served this on a silver platteryou've got to work for it!' " She laughs. "I don't feel like I can act like an entitled bitch yet! I still have so much to prove." And the more you talk to Perry, the easier it becomes to square how the same young woman who recorded a gospel-rock tune called "Faith Won't Fail" went on to write a controversy-baiting dance-floor filler about same-sex necking. Perry may have banked on rebelling against her Christian-singer past, but her upbringing is undoubtedly responsible in some part for her overwhelming appeal. She approaches her music with earnestness and glee, bringing an unabashed joy to any subject matter; even a song as laden with sexual innuendo as Teenage Dream's "Peacock" ("I want to see your peacock-cock-cock") has a certain gushy innocence to it. Unlike the stone-cold cool divasGaga, Beyoncé, Rihannawho awe us with impervious alter egos, Perry offers a come-one-come-all energy and welcomes everyone in on the joke with a wink, whether she's arriving onstage on a giant piece of fruit or shimmying next to Snoop Dogg in crystal-encrusted Daisy Dukes.
Perry's approach to sexuality is so playful and over-the-top it's practically vaudevillian: When she appears, say, in a bra rigged with exploding whipped-cream canisters in the Candy Landinspired video for "California Gurls," she's cleverly lampooning notions of vulgarity. And when she was bumped from Sesame Street for wearing a body-con Giles Deacon minidress, she made no apologies, later sending the whole thing up in a Saturday Night Live skit and in a spot on The Simpsons. Perry pokes fun at the scantily clad singer cliché even as she capitalizes on it, which is a refreshing change from the days when female artists who played the sex card were roundly accused of selling out. "We're past that, " says Perry, brushing away the suggestion with a wave of her hand. When I ask if she's ever had any reservations, religious or otherwise, about presenting such a provocative image, she guffaws. "I'm a sexy girl, so what? I never claimed I was a nun!" She admits, though, that she wasn't always so comfortable with letting it all hang out. "I was shaped like a square at one time," she says. "I was! I'm generally around 130 pounds, which is totally fine for me. But when I was a kid, I was the same height and weighed more like 145. And I had enormous boobs that I didn't know what to do with, so I wore minimizers, which were not cute. Those thick-ass straps! I got made fun of for the over-the-shoulder boulder holder...and all I wanted was to look like Kate Moss. Little did I know"she casts an exaggerated look of admiration down at her own chest"that these things would come in handy someday."
When Perry first appeared with "I Kissed a Girl," her look was pure camp, but her fashion choices have gradually become more sophisticatedalbeit with a heavy hit of humor. She attributes her sense of style to various stages she went through as an adolescent, starting with the influence of rockabilly girls she saw in the swing-dance classes she attended when she was 13. "I loved the way they commanded attentionthey looked so cute and cool and sophisticated and well manicured." She then went through a brief "punk rock" stage ("I was dating boys in bands, drawing on my jeans, and making my own T-shirts") and a proto-emo phase in the late '90s "with a short black pixie haircut and barrettes and all that," she says. "I loved Shirley Manson and Gwen Stefani and Alanis Morissette. Those were my girls." Right now, she's going with a "Bettie Page meets Wonder Woman meets Doris Day meets Judy Jetson meets Natalie Wood meets Daphne Guinness meets Chloë Sevigny kind of look."
Although Perry is now one of the most sartorially scrutinized stars, she remains unconcerned about ending up on best-dressed lists, wearing whatever she wants, whenever she wants, and she refuses to take the whole fashion-plate parade seriously. Who can forget the light-up LED dress by little-known label CuteCircuit she wore to the 2010 Met Costume Gala? There she was, standing amid the fashion world elite, flashing like a Christmas tree. She's been working with stylist Johnny Wujek for her videos and public appearances since 2008 and, wooed by the outré sexiness of his creations, recently recruited Victoria's Secret Fashion Show creative consultant and designer Todd Thomas ("I want to make him my Bob Mackie!" gushes Perry) to mastermind the costumes for her tour.
"There's a wonderful sense of whimsy to Katy's style," Thomas says. "She takes the idea of glamour being somehow rarefied and makes it approachable. She has a very clear vision of how she wants to portray herself, and the energy surrounding her is very different from anything I've experienced before. It's generous, it's positive, it's happy. People at a certain level tend to be protective and competitive, but that's not the case with her at all. She's like, `Let's do something wonderful. Let's make it bigger, faster, stronger....' That's why I think she's such a raving success right now."
Not long ago, Perry was driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara when she realized that it was the first time she'd been alone in months. "I thought, I've got to do something about this," she recalls. She was also beginning to feel a little worn out, and her nights wereand still areregularly disrupted by "dreams, both good and bad, so vivid they're like movies." Brand, a teetotaling vegetarian and follower of Krishna guru Radhanath Swami, is a devotee of transcendental meditation, so she decided to try it out for herself. "It really helps," she says of the practice. "It's not like nappingyou're totally awakebut you come out of it feeling really fresh." So is it spiritual? She shakes her head. "No. People think that, but it's not. I do still pray, though. I stay connected to religion that way, I guess, even though I don't agree with all of the beliefs I was brought up with."
Brand and Perry are a splashy sort of power couple: both unique thinkers, attention seekers, loudmouths. They first got together at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awardsafter she caught his eye by throwing an empty water bottle at his head. "Everything clicked really fast," she says. "We kind of instantly got past all the surfacey stuff." On their first date, he gave her a necklace with black diamond beads; they were engaged after three months. "And ever since then," she says with a mischievous grin, "there hasn't been a dull moment."
She claims that when they met she was oblivious to Brand's past as a rabble-rousing, womanizing heroin addict. "I guess I had heard faintly of his reputation, and his hairdo, but there's a lot of stuff that goes on in the English press and entertainment world that never makes it to the States," she says with a shrug. Clearly, it wouldn't have mattered anyway. "We both needed balance, and we give that to each other. It wasn't about me taming him, which is what everyone always saysit was about timing."


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Dorothy Marie "Dottie" Metcalf-Lindenburger (born on May 2, 1975 in Colorado Springs, Colorado) is an American astronaut working for NASA.
She married Jason Metcalf-Lindenburger, who was a 7th grade school teacher at the time.
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- Fort Collins High School, Fort Collins, Colorado.
- Bachelor of Arts, Geology with honors and cum laude, Whitman College, Washington, 1997.
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- 1999 Outstanding Teacher Preparation Candidate at Central Washington University.
- 1997 Whitman College Leed's Geology Award
- 1997 Whitman College Order of the Waiilaptu
- 1996 GSA Field Camp Award
- 1995-1996 NAIA Academic All-American in Cross Country and Track
- 1996 NAIA Conference Champion in the 10K.
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Selected by NASA in May 2004, she is now doing training. Astronaut Candidate Training includes tours, many scientific and technical meetings, much learning about the Shuttle and International Space Station systems, physiological training, T-38 flight training, and water and wilderness survival training. Finishing this training will let her do different technical jobs within the Astronaut Office.