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Health care systems across the globe are under enormous strain, as facilities reach capacity and costs continue to rise. M2M and the Internet of Things have the potential to transform the industry through connected health solutions that can make care more efficient while reducing costs. In fact, Vodafone's annual M2M Barometer Report forecasts M2M applications rising to 57 percent in health care and life sciences by 2016. Lively is one of Vodafone's health care partners, whose solutions enable older adults to live independent lives while staying connected to loved ones. M2M will continue to gr...
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Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In this session, James Kirkland, Red Hat's Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems, will describe how to revolutionize your architecture and...
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The 4th International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 17th International Cloud Expo - to be held November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA - announces that its Call for Papers is open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
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The enterprise market will drive IoT device adoption over the next five years. In his session at @ThingsExpo, John Greenough, an analyst at BI Intelligence, division of Business Insider, will analyze how companies will adopt IoT products and the associated cost of adopting those products. John Greenough is the lead analyst covering the Internet of Things for BI Intelligence- Business Insider's paid research service. Numerous IoT companies have cited his analysis of the IoT. Prior to joining BI Intelligence, he worked analyzing bank technology for Corporate Insight and The Clearing House Pay...
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As the Internet of Things unfolds, mobile and wearable devices are blurring the line between physical and digital, integrating ever more closely with our interests, our routines, our daily lives. Contextual computing and smart, sensor-equipped spaces bring the potential to walk through a world that recognizes us and responds accordingly. We become continuous transmitters and receivers of data. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Andrew Bolwell, Director of Innovation for HP's Printing and Personal Systems Group, discussed how key attributes of mobile technology – touch input, sensors, social, and ...
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All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices - computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors - connected to the Internet by 2020. This number will continue to grow at a rapid pace for the next several decades. With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing IoT strategies, now is the perfect time to attend @ThingsExpo, June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City. Learn what is going on, contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is as "IoT-Ready" as it can be
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SYS-CON Events announced today that BMC will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. BMC delivers software solutions that help IT transform digital enterprises for the ultimate competitive business advantage. BMC has worked with thousands of leading companies to create and deliver powerful IT management services. From mainframe to cloud to mobile, BMC pairs high-speed digital innovation with robust IT industrialization – allowing customers to provide amazing user experiences with optimized IT per...
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The world is at a tipping point where the technology, the device and global adoption are converging to such a point that we will see an explosion of a world where smartphone devices not only allow us to talk to each other, but allow for communication between everything – serving as a central hub from which we control our world – MediaTek is at the heart of both driving this and allowing the markets to drive this reality forward themselves. The next wave of consumer gadgets is here – smart, connected, and small. If your ambitions are big, so are ours. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jack Hu, D...
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The multi-trillion economic opportunity around the "Internet of Things" (IoT) is emerging as the hottest topic for investors in 2015. As we connect the physical world with information technology, data from actions, processes and the environment can increase sales, improve efficiencies, automate daily activities and minimize risk. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Ed Maguire, Senior Analyst at CLSA Americas, will describe what is new and different about IoT, explore financial, technological and real-world impact across consumer and business use cases. Why now? Significant corporate and venture...
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Today's enterprise is being driven by disruptive competitive and human capital requirements to provide enterprise application access through not only desktops, but also mobile devices. To retrofit existing programs across all these devices using traditional programming methods is very costly and time consuming – often prohibitively so. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jesse Shiah, CEO, President, and Co-Founder of AgilePoint Inc., discussed how you can create applications that run on all mobile devices as well as laptops and desktops using a visual drag-and-drop application – and eForms-buildi...
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WebRTC defines no default signaling protocol, causing fragmentation between WebRTC silos. SIP and XMPP provide possibilities, but come with considerable complexity and are not designed for use in a web environment. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Matthew Hodgson, technical co-founder of the Matrix.org, discussed how Matrix is a new non-profit Open Source Project that defines both a new HTTP-based standard for VoIP & IM signaling and provides reference implementations.
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There will be 150 billion connected devices by 2020. New digital businesses have already disrupted value chains across every industry. APIs are at the center of the digital business. You need to understand what assets you have that can be exposed digitally, what their digital value chain is, and how to create an effective business model around that value chain to compete in this economy. No enterprise can be complacent and not engage in the digital economy. Learn how to be the disruptor and not the disruptee.
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2015 predictions circa 1970: houses anticipate our needs and adapt, city infrastructure is citizen and situation aware, office buildings identify and preprocess you. Today smart buildings have no such collective conscience, no shared set of fundamental services to identify, predict and synchronize around us. LiveSpace and M2Mi are changing that. LiveSpace Smart Environment devices deliver over the M2Mi IoT Platform real time presence, awareness and intent analytics as a service to local connected devices. In her session at @ThingsExpo, Sarah Cooper, VP Business of Development at M2Mi, will d...
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Thanks to widespread Internet adoption and more than 10 billion connected devices around the world, companies became more excited than ever about the Internet of Things in 2014. Add in the hype around Google Glass and the Nest Thermostat, and nearly every business, including those from traditionally low-tech industries, wanted in. But despite the buzz, some very real business questions emerged – mainly, not if a device can be connected, or even when, but why? Why does connecting to the cloud create greater value for the user? Why do connected features improve the overall experience? And why do...
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James McAvoy on His Way to Stardom With Action Film
By Mal Vincent, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.
Jun. 27–HOLLYWOOD — Even if Romeo turns into Rambo, he still gets kissed by Angelina Jolie.
Ask the Scottish lad James McAvoy. He's been that route — both kisses and bruises. Even though he still lives in a tiny flat in London and drives the same Nissan he's had for 10 years, Hollywood is heralding him as its new promising star on not one, but two fronts. Already entrenched with the "serious" movie fans for his roles in the Oscar-nominated romantic tragedy "Atonement" and the fiery character study "The Last King of Scotland," he's making a crossover this very day into the realm of popcorn movies.
He stars as a professional assassin in "Wanted," a surrealistic action outing.
As he is in real life, his character, Wesley, is reluctant about it all. Wesley is a doormat of a cubicle-trapped office worker who is browbeaten daily by his female boss. His girlfriend is aggressive, and openly sleeping with his best friend. He doesn't sound much like a hero at all.
"I made the movie," McAvoy said, in his thick Scottish burr, "to let all those ordinary guys know that they can be in action situations, too. I was a lot like Wesley in facing all the action stuff in the movie. I had to work out in the gym for months, and, to tell you the truth, I'd rather eat dog poo than go to a gym.
"I had to eat high-protein stuff to the point that it gave me an incredible degree of flatulence, which wasn't popular on the set."
Still, you can't feel too sorry for the guy. He seduced Keira Knightley, in that scene in the library in "Atonement." He kissed Anne Hathaway when she played Jane Austen in "Becoming Jane." He helped poor Christina Ricci get over the fact that she had a pig's snout for a nose in "Penelope." Then, there is that kiss with Angelina Jolie, who plays a tough-girl named Fox, his mentor in the art of killing in "Wanted."
"She's a married woman," he said as we sat for an interview at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles recently. "And I'm a married man. Not that it matters. We're professional actors but, still, those scenes are always awkward. I had been on the movie for two weeks when she arrived. It was her first day. The first time I'd ever met her. Of course, the kissing scene was right off. It was a case of 'Glad to meet you. How are you? We're doing the kissing scene now.' And folks standing around looking.
"I'm really impressed with Angelina's professionalism. As far as action movies go, she was the pro, not me. After all, she was Lara Croft. She's a perfectionist. She taught me how to fall, but she gave me a few punches that left bruises. She wastes no time with foolishness. Every moment is concentrated…
"I'm particularly impressed with how she handles herself with all the press around. She's a nice lady. She knows the difference between reality and fantasy, and she knows how to play the game. She tolerates all that attention with a good deal of humor. Brad came on the set (but not the day of the kissing) and brought the children. She's just as professional a mother as she is an actress."
Yeah, yeah, but how is she as a kisser?
McAvoy's Scottish accent is thicker than the heather on the hill. It makes you wonder how he adapted so well to an American accent for a film that is set in Chicago.
"I come from a country of just 5 million people. I grew up outside Glasgow, but we have no film industry and just a few television productions, so I saw American movies and TV shows every day. When it came to doing the accent, it was easy."
He is not tempted to move to Hollywood. "Actually, I've never made a complete movie here. 'Wanted' was done, mostly, in Prague, and 'Atonement' was in London. If I came to California, it would be just to work. I think I should keep me roots."
He's married to actress Anne-Marie Duff, who will appear with him in his next movie, "The Last Station." He will play the secretary to Russian literary giant Leo Tolstoy ("War and Peace"). All acting. No action stuff.
McAvoy, 29, has given up the gym for the pub.
"I haven't been back in a gym since the day we completed filming for 'Wanted.' I kept telling them that, after all, I wasn't supposed to be Conan the Barbarian. I was playing this little guy, so I kind of thought it would be all right to be skinny. I had my shirt off in 'The Chronicles of Narnia,' and I didn't have to go to the gym for that. But, here, they wanted this transformation." (He played Mr. Tumnus the Faun in "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," and stole every scene he had.)
He's proudest, though, of "Atonement," which he says is difficult to leave behind. "I still feel attached to that character and what happened to him." (He played a housekeeper's son whose life is ruined when a young girl tells a lie about him and he goes away to fight in the war.)
In contrast, he feels that "Wanted" is "something of a comedy, even though my character goes through a big transformation. One moment I'm in tears when I learn that my father was a murderer who was murdered. The next moment, I'm jumping on the bonnet (the hood) of a car going 30 miles an hour. And the next moment I'm kissing Angelina Jolie. They never told me about this kind of thing in acting school."
He is a graduate of the prestigious Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and is the most prominent Scottish export since Ewan McGregor, walking in the footsteps of Sean Connery.
"When I got my first job, at 16, I wasn't really keen on even becoming an actor," he said. "It was just fate that I got that first job. The director asked me if I could cry instantly. I said, 'Yes.' He said, 'Prove it.' I couldn't. He hired me anyway. Then, there was no turning back."
"Wanted" director Timur Bekmambetov, in a separate interview, said he cast Mc-Avoy after he saw him play a paralyzed boy in a British movie called "Inside I'm Dancing" (2004). "He could move only his eyes, but all the young girls fell in love with him. He was ironic. He was sarcastic. I knew he could play Wesley."
It's nice to be "Wanted."
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1948, by Yoram Kaniuk (New York Review Books, 190 pp., e-book, $9.99)
Renowned for his autobiographical novels, 82-year-old Kaniuk offers a dreamlike account of the months he spent as a teenage soldier in Israel's 1948 War of Independence. Fragmented memories—rendered in spare, tumbling prose—depict a tender boy rushing into gritty battles, yet struggling to reconcile bloodshed and cruelty with the Jewish cause. At one point, he tragically fails to prevent a comrade's shocking act of vengeance, and later watches in horror when survivors of Nazi camps purge Arabs from their homes. Smoothly translated from Hebrew, the story leaves you aching. Robert Shuster
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama, by Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 304 pp., $22)
The brilliant follow-up to her 2006 bestselling graphic memoir, Fun Home, which centered on her closeted gay dad, Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother? investigates her mom's depression and emotional absence. With wit, sensitivity, and courage, she mines her childhood diaries, her parents' letters, and her own therapy sessions to better understand how her mom shaped her into the talented but highly anxious artist that she is. Pulling you in with her lovely drawings, she layers her story with insights on the fraught mother-daughter dynamic from writers such as Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf, and the child psychiatrist Donald Winnicott, wisdom that just might resolve some of your own nagging family questions. Angela Ashman
Eat the City, by Robin Shulman (Crown, 352 pp., $26)
This brilliant essay collection was one of the most fascinating food books published this year, and it didn't receive nearly enough attention. Author Robin Shulman is a skilled reporter, and here she takes a very close look at New York's culinary geography—from bee-keeping in Brooklyn to clamming on Staten Island and growing sugar-cane in the Bronx—showing us how food production in NYC has survived over the centuries in the unlikeliest of places. But the elegant book is also a pleasure to read, rich with portraits of the most eccentric and exciting characters in our food industry. Tejal Rao
Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace, by D.T. Max (Viking 368 pp., $27.95.)
In this biography of David Foster Wallace, D.T. Max—a New Yorker staff writer—paints the most complete portrait of the author we've yet seen. Max conducted countless interviews and uncovered over 700 of Wallace's letters to family and friends. With this research, he channels a voice that reads almost like it's DFW himself telling the story—and that story is quite strange. We learn Wallace's upbringing, his college life, his addictions, his depression, his lovers, his obsessiveness, his compulsions. Considering how layered and complicated Wallace's life was, Max's account is quite streamlined, offering a sober perspective on one of the most influential writers of the past few decades. Was the suicide of David Foster Wallace inevitable? Max won't give a firm yes or no, but that might be the answer we need. Eric Sundermann
Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn (Crown, 432 pp., $25)
Flynn's whip-smart psychological thriller is a tale that's enticingly untrustworthy. Here's what happens (or, maybe?): On the day of their fifth wedding anniversary, Nick's wife Amy disappears, and he's immediately the prime subject. As the case evolves, it seems Nick hasn't been too honest with the police about his marriage's history. The tale bounces back and forth from Amy's diary to Nick's perspective from chapter to chapter, but there's no certainty about whom you can really trust. It all may sound like a somewhat clichéd suspense novel, but Flynn's writing uses the characters, not the plot, to tell the story. Imagine a fascinating personality that only gets weirder and weirder (in the best way) each time you hang out. Eric Sundermann
MP3: The Meaning of a Format, by Jonathan Sterne (Duke University Press, 341 pp., $24.95)
As it turned out, the most rewarding music book of 2012 wasn't about an artist, a genre, or (thank the lord) the glory days of punk. Instead, it told the story of MP3, the digital audio standard that author and communications professor Jonathan Sterne traces from early-20th-century telephone research up through contemporary debates over piracy and file-sharing. Along the way, we're taken on fascinating detours through the invention of perceptual coding, the construction (and critique) of the ideal hearing subject, international corporate debates, and an extended discussion over whether or not music should be considered a "thing." All file formats should be so lucky. Nick Murray
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In the increasingly discouraging times UAA continues to endure — a 13-game winless streak, two months without victory — the Seawolves of late have at least received an encouraging boost from the line of center Blake Tatchell and wingers Scott Allen and Jordan Kwas.
Allen's team-high 10th goal in the late going Friday night at Sullivan Arena generated a 2-2 Western Collegiate Hockey Association tie with Colorado College.
All five of the Seawolves goals in the last three games have come from members of the Tatchell line. Friday, Tatchell scored UAA's first goal, and he and Kwas assisted on Allen's game-tying strike.
Since Kwas, a right wing, joined Tatchell and left wing Allen last weekend in Wisconsin, Tatchell has produced 2-2—4 totals, Allen has delivered 2-1—3 totals and Kwas has furnished 1-3—4 totals.
"I don't think it's anything special we're doing,'' Tatchell said. "We're just trying to keep it simple, get pucks in and support each other on the puck, find each other in open ice and make plays.''
Kwas, a junior, said transitioning onto Tatchell's line has been smooth.
"There's just a natural chemistry, playing with two shooters,'' he said. "We're finding each other and we're building on that chemistry.
"Myself, I feel like I've been off my game a lot of the year, whether that's from losing or whatever, but those two guys are skilled and make me look good out there.''
The trio also represents the team's top three scorers. Tatchell checks in with 6-11—17 totals in 25 games, Kwas owns 7-7—14 totals in 24 games and the sophomore Allen follows with 10-4—14 totals in 25 games.
Allen's goal came with less than four minutes to play in regulation and answered Andrew Hamburg's go-ahead, power-play deflection of an Ian Young shot less than three minutes before that.
Allen got the puck below the goal line on right wing, skated behind the net and came out just above the goal line on the left side, with his back to the net. With UAA defenseman Chris Williams busting down the slot, Allen spun to his right and flicked a forehand inside the left post, over the right pad of Tigers senior goaltender Joe Howe (29 saves).
"I saw some pressure on (Williams), so I shielded my body and fired it, and luckily it went in,'' Allen said.
Still, last-place UAA (3-16-6, 1-15-5 WCHA) extended its winless streak to 13 games (0-11-2), the fourth-longest such drought in the program's 34 seasons. Colorado College (10-14-3, 7-10-2) remained in ninth place in the 12-team league.
Tatchell gave UAA a 1-0 lead three minutes into the game when he intercepted a pass by Colorado College sophomore winger Scott Wamsganz of Anchorage between the circles in the Tigers zone, got Howe to bite on a fake and zipped a wrister behind the goalie.
Colorado College answered late in the period with the teams skating 4 on 4. Alex Krishelnyski finished a pretty play — he scored off helpers from defenseman Peter Stoykewych and Hamburg — that began with Stoykewych blocking a shot in his own zone and initiating the counter-attack.
UAA outshot Colorado College 10-6 in the first period and 31-21 for the game — that's the biggest shot advantage the Seawolves have enjoyed this season.
"I thought they came out really, really strong, kind of had us on our heels,'' said Tigers coach Scott Owens. "We were kind of fortunate to get out of the first period 1-1.''
Each team was whistled for a major penalty in the first period. Colorado College's Jeff Collett received a major and game misconduct for checking from behind against UAA defenseman Scott Warner. Less than two minutes later, UAA defenseman Austin Sevalrud was docked for a major and game misconduct for checking from behind against Colorado College defenseman Mike Boivin.
After Krushelnyski's goal created a 1-1 tie, the teams went the equivalent of nearly two full periods without scoring again. Then, Colorado College's second power-play unit got one past UAA junior Chris Kamal (19 saves) and Allen countered for UAA.
While the game was sloppy at times, it did not lack for energy.
"The pace was high, it was a little bit risky at times — there were mistakes made — but it was entertaining,'' Owen said. "For us, it's disappointing we didn't get a win, but it was a good road point and maybe we can build on it.''
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UAA has now been penalized for nine major penalties in 25 games this season. Its opponents have been docked for three.
UAA's six deadlocks tie it for second-most in Division I behind Clarkson's seven ties.
Friday marked just the third time in 25 games this season the Seawolves have fired 30 or more shots on goal — all three games ended in ties. Air Force, North Dakota and Wisconsin each have six ties — Wisconsin tied 1-1 at North Dakota on Friday night. Two of UAA's ties have come against North Dakota and Air Force.
Special teams continue to plague the Seawolves. UAA has surrendered a power-play goal in six of the last seven games and its 73.2-percent penalty-killing efficiency ranks 58th among 59 Division I teams. UAA went 0 for 3 on the power play, and its 9.6-percent efficiency sits 57th in Division I.
UAA senior center Daniel Naslund sat out the game with illness.
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First Period — 1, UAA, Tatchell 6, 3:13; 2, CC, Krushelnyski 10 (Stoykewych, Hamburg), 17:11. Penalties — McDermott, CC (hooking), 10:09; Collett, CC, major-game misconduct, served by Wamsganz (checking from behind), 13:16; Bailey, UAA (hooking), 13:20; Sevalrud, CC, major-game misconduct, served by Pettitt (checking from behind), 14:44.
Second Period — None. Penalties — None.
Third Period — 3, CC, Hamburg 6 (Young, Krushelnyski), 13:27 (pp); 4, UAA, Allen 10 (Kwas, Tatchell), 16:05. Penalties — Murphy, UAA (holding), 5:46; McDermott, CC (hooking), 6:03; Bailey, UAA (slashing), 11:51.
Overtime — None. Penalties — None.
Shots on goal — CC 6-7-6-2—21. UAA 10-6-13-2—31.
Power-play Opportunities — CC 1 of 3. UAA 0 of 3.
Goalies — CC, Howe, 6-7-2 (31 shots-29 saves). UAA, Kamal, 2-9-2 (21 shots-19 saves).
Referees — Craig Welker, Johnathan Morrison. Assistant referees — Travis Jackson, Carl Saden.
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I just dont know what the best way to say it is. I dont want to be rude but the pediatricians arent getting the hint
dr keeps pushing us to almond milk. im going to refuse, whats the best way to start that conversatio
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Why don't you want to do it? are you BFing? have concerns about it? I would flat out say your concerns and why you don't feel comfortable. Or just ignore them. I did that when my pedi said to try milk with her (she stil reacts to milk in my diet).
Just say you are not comfortable giving your LO almond milk. Or do like I did, I just started giving LO whatever you choose (our DS thrived on goats milk) and then say hey,, we've been doing this and it works! Or just don't tell them. At the end of the day it's your LO and you have to do what you think is best and they can deal, IMHO.
Honestly, almond milk is not the most nutricous choice so I am surprised they are pushing it so hard.
The only reason why I didn't use almond was for that fact that I'm allergic to tree nuts (anaphalacic). Otherwise, I would have joyously used it for both LO's. What's the reason you don't like it? Why can't you tell your doc your reasoning, or say that LO refused it?
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Well, he is on neocate infant right now. and theyve repeatedly pushed us to try weaning to nutramigen. it was awful. 6 weeks of pure water diareah. back onto neocate and so much better. ped said at 11 1/2 months to start transitioning to soy...didnt go well. then pediasure. didnt work either. then almond or rice milk and i personally just want him to stay on neocate. well....transition to neocate jr. i would prefer to keep him on there since he does SO well on it. he can eat all other foods just not milk/soy protiens. neocate is the only stuff hes ever been 'normal' on. im tired of trying other stuff and sorry for sounding stubborn but hes been through enough, is there anything truly WRONG with him using neocate jr as a milk alternative?
No, if he isn't overweight from the extra calories, no probelm at all.
Just explain that to the doc. And say you don't want to do it. What can they do?
Maybe it is time to try to find a more supportive doc?
no, hes not overweight at all, infact, hes underweight. hes 30 inches and only 19lbs... we have his 1 yr on the 24th, ill try pushing MY issue again and see what they say
I didnt realize that could be a reason ^ what would insurance be telling them anyways? and no, we are paying out of pocket and id be willing to continue to pay him out of pocket if it kept him comfortable.
when hes not on neocate he has SO much mucus in his diapers. ped has told us that happens because his GI tract is in distress basically.
My best suggestion is to keep pushing. You are your child's advocate because he/she can't speak for himself yet. Doctors can be stubborn sometimes and think that they always know what is best, in my experience. My child is the first child that our pediatrician has seen with milk and soy protein sensitivities or allergies so I have done my own research to make suggestions to him. This month my daughter turned one. The doctor made me try whole milk, lactaid, and soy before he would write a prescription for something else. He was pushing almond as well but when I researched it, I noticed how many nutritional differences there were. I called my WIC nutritionist who recommended Elecare jr or Neocate jr. My daughter was on Nutramagien the first year of her life and the nutritionist recommended against staying on it. She is also tiny for her age according to the growth chart so that is why she recommended the two formulas (extra calories). I went to her pediatrician at her check up yesterday and presented him with all of this and he wrote her a prescription for Elecare Jr, which he had never even heard of prior. The primary reason he did it in my opinion is because the nutritionist recommended it and said to tell him to call her if he needed an explanation of what it was or anything. The nutritionist suggested giving her 3 sippy cups of elecare jr per day at meals and no more. Good luck momma, it's a rough road fighting for the well being of our sensitive babies!


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Gaining Pixar will transform Disney Chief Executive Officer Robert Iger's animation unit, whose recent films such as ``Treasure Planet'' failed to appeal to audiences as much as computer-animated features. The purchase brings Disney the creativity of Jobs, who sparked the boom in personal computers with the Macintosh and media gadgets with the iPod.
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NOLF 2 Co-op Rules!
After just messing around with NOLF 2 co-op for about an hour and a half with my girlfriend, I have to say it rules. It gives you a side story to follow after the main missions with Cate, which is pretty cool. Plus, the co-op feature is one that has been missing in games for a long time now. But it's back. And it's awesome!
Now, I know there's the teams in UT and UT2k3, which both games are awesome in their own right, but they don't have co-op like this.
All I need to do is train my girlfriend so she's not such a newbie. She's funny. :D
Definitely check this one out at a lan party. Great fun!
Sweet! I agree, they should implement co-op modes into games more often. It's so much more fun, if you ask me. And my girlfriend, who doesn't touch video games, just said she'd actually like to play co-op mode with me when I get NOLF2. Woohoo!
Yes, I have always had more fun working with people than shooting them, for some reason. Call me weird, but that's the way I am. Serious Sam did this really well. I WILL buy NOLF2, but when is another matter. I loved the first game. However, I may have to choose between that and Generals, so. . . you NOLF2 players attempt to persuade me:)
NOLF 2 is an awesome game. You play throught the single player missions and get a great story...but then you play through the co-op missions and get a side story that fills all the gaps. The best way to describe it would have to be using MiB. Agents Kay and Jay go in, see an alien, make a mess. That's the story you get in the single player. But then the cleaning crew comes and takes care of everything else. That's the co-op story.
Now that I'm done with horrible analogies, I will say that choosing between this and Generals may be tough. Generals looks awesome, too.
By the way, if anyone can come up with a better analogy, please, feel free to let me know. I know mine is horrible.
I loved the original, and this sequel is even better. It looks and sounds spectacular. Lithtech has never been this good (and I've never liked it until now...hehe). And, of course, the humor is great, which is mostly why I loved the first one, and now NOLF2. :) If you enjoyed the first NOLF, I don't think you'll be disappointed.
Tis indeed a great game, if only my PC hadn't been down for a few days...I'd be much farther in it...grumble....
Some things never change about Lithtech
It was sure nice of Maximum PC to put the NOLF 2 demo onto their Maximum CD for November. Because now I know I'm not going to run out and buy this game. There are several bits I've noticed in this demo that are leftovers from the Shogo days.
1) The annoying little sound effects when you first spawn in a level. Exact same sounds used in Shogo: MAD.
2) Copious (sp?) amounts of AI that are unbelievably accurate even in normal mode. Combine that with the fact that health and ammo packs are virtually non-existent, which leaves you to deal with a horde of ninja *****s with nothing but 2 shuriken and a katana, and you've got yourself a game that reminds me far too much of game that were released 4 years ago.
I'm going to give the demo another chance, but if I don't find some more ammo in that darn trailer park, this game will be removed from my machine and put into my hall of shame.
I remember the demo being a pain, but the full version isn't nearly so bad. In the trailer park, check near...I think it's the club house with the car parked next to it. There should be a case of ammo near the car and another back in behind the building.
I do believe the AI had been tweaked between demo and release.
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The AI was easy enough once you get the hang of the game, iirc, but I no longer have the teaser demo.
Any of you having problems with NOLF2 crashing? It seems whatever driver I use, I can't play for long before the game crashes to a blank screen, forcing a reset. It's rather annoying. I don't know if it's driver related, or if the game needs to be patched. I've tried all drivers from 30.82 and above, and they all cause this to happen, 40.xx being the worst. I don't know what else to do..
By the way, this has been happening ever since the teaser demo. The full demo also, and now the retail version.
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Gardeners who have them in their sheds are required by law to finish using them by December 31. The waste-disposal departments of local councils should have information about safe disposal.
The banned products include such well-known brands such as Vitax House Plant Pest Killer, Murphy Mortegg tar oil wash, the fungicide Spotless, Cutlass, the labour-saving hedge-growth retardant and many types of selective weedkiller for lawns.
Some lawn weedkillers will remain on sale because the active ingredient they contained, dichloroprop, has been reformulated as dichloroprop-p. Other products, such as Jeyes Fluid and Armillatox, both based on tar acids, will remain on the market but will no longer be able to claim control of moss, lichen or liverwort. Again, gardeners cannot legally use them for that purpose after December 31.
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First, the Government called for a reappraisal of some insecticides because of concerns over their effects on human health. Companies marketing such products were required to produce additional data to show that they were safe to use.
Many decided that the income derived from particular sales could not support the cost of additional research. This means that several pesticides are being withdrawn for commercial, not safety, reasons - those containing chlorpyrifos (to control soil pests such as cabbage root-fly), dimethoate (sap-sucking insects like aphids), malathion (various insects and mites), permethrin (various insects) and pirimiphos-methyl (Fumite greenhouse smoke cone).
Secondly, the European Union reviewed pesticides approved for use before 1991. Again, additional testing was called for if they were to be included on the EU list. This process is bringing the safety and environmental information about these products up to the level of more recently introduced pesticides. Again, some pesticides have not been put forward as the additional research was too costly for companies - from pounds 400,000 to pounds 800,000 per chemical in some cases.
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These are not subject to EU review as their active ingredients come from natural substances such as pyrethrum, rotenone/derris, vegetable oils, fatty acids and sulphur. Biological methods, which are outside the review, are also available, mainly in glasshouses.
These use other insects to prey on the pests and can be effective, though they are fairly expensive and timing is crucial.
The fact remains that the range of insecticides, fungicides, herbicides and other preparations available to home gardeners is now more restricted than 10 years ago.
The new situation will demand more work from enthusiasts who wish to maintain an immaculate garden but it may encourage them to turn to more natural garden controls, an important consideration as gardens are becoming more significant as habitats for a wide range of wild creatures.
Purely on practicalities, more gardeners will have to adopt organic gardening principles, especially when dealing with some fruit and vegetable problems. Choice of the most appropriate varieties and good cultivation - sensible planting times, adequate spacing, watering and feeding - will produce more robust plants which will be better able to withstand pest and disease attack. The use of crop covers, such as horticultural fleece, can be effective in keeping pests out.
For some fruits and vegetables there are now no pesticides that can be used, other than the organic types. The insecticide bifenthrin can be used on cabbage and other brassicas against flea beetles, caterpillars, aphids and cabbage whitefly. However, only one application is permitted during the growing season, so a difficult decision has to be made on which pest to target.
Bifenthrin can also be used on apples and pears but not on plums. With the loss of synthetic insecticides for use on plums and the removal of tar oil for winter aphid-egg control, aphids and plum moth could become much worse problems on plums.
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Ricky's run already ended
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It seems like we've been waiting for the inevitable return of Ricky Williams practically from the moment he announced his retirement last July. After all the aborted comeback announcements and the interviews in which he said he is coming back, followed by the interviews in which he said he isn't coming back, it seems as if he really means it this time.
Don't count on Ricky running the Dolphins offense.
This time, reporters actually have spoken to Ricky, and not just his agent, about a comeback. Despite the fact that he hasn't practiced in a year and apparently spent the last 12 months on the Lindsay Lohan Diet Plan, Ricky Williams is coming back to the Miami Dolphins.
To which I say: Who cares?
The new Dolphins general manager probably doesn't care all that much. Randy Mueller, who took the job on Monday, has already traded Williams once, in March of 2002 when Mueller was the GM of the New Orleans Saints. Mueller might not have the final say in Williams' future in Miami new head coach Nick Saban has that power but Mueller won't be laboring under any misconceptions about Ricky as the team's savior. And rightly so.
"My opinion of Williams has not changed since our first encounter in the offseason of 2000," Mueller wrote in a May 23 column for ESPN.com, before he took the Dolphins' job. "He's a good guy. He has a big heart. He's not out to hurt anyone. He is not a problem in the locker room. He just marches to the beat of a different drummer. He has always been very unpredictable, and that will never change."
Williams is not going to save the Miami Dolphins. In fact, Williams isn't going to help Miami win a single game that the Dolphins wouldn't win otherwise. If Miami fans think they will be watching Ricky the super-stud running back this season, I've got some bad news: That guy doesn't exist anymore.
In fact, that guy existed for only one season, 2002. And his 383 carries that year burnt him out for good.
Ricky apparently has told a reporter that he feels he has a couple of 2,000-yard seasons left in him. Which is true, I suppose, if you want to count both rushing and receiving yards. And the pre-season. And scrimmages.
Remember the Ricky Williams of 2003? He suffered through a six-week stretch when he never hit 100 yards. In three different games, he couldn't even gain 40 yards. He dropped from an average of 4.8 yards per carry in 2002 to 3.5 yards per carry in 2003.
The only running back who had at least 250 carries with a worse average was Eddie George.
But the important number in explaining why Ricky won't help the Dolphins is 392, which is how many times Williams carried the ball in 2003. That is the sixth-highest single-season total in NFL history. And it followed his 383-carry season in 2002 the 13th-highest total in NFL history.
Ricky's best days are definitely in his past.
The roll call of running backs atop the all-time single-season carries list reads like a who's who of players whose careers fell off a cliff. These backs basically fall into three categories: guys who got injured the next year, guys who were never as good again, and guys named Eric Dickerson.
The first category includes (among others) Jamal Anderson one year before he blew out his ACL, Terrell Davis one year before his blew out his ACL, Edgerrin James one year before he blew out his ACL, and Barry Foster (who played only 20 more games in his entire career). If a running back is lucky, like James Wilder or LaDainian Tomlinson, he manages to get in an extra season before the overuse leads to injuries.
The second category includes (among others) Eddie George after 2000, Emmitt Smith after 1995, Marcus Allen after 1985 and, possibly, Jamal Lewis (unless he rebounds this season).
The third category includes ... well, Dickerson, who led the league in carries in season after season with no ill effects. Oh, and to a lesser extent, Walter Payton after 1984.
Maybe with a year off, Ricky will be refreshed and just as strong as he was before 2002. But guess what? That running back wasn't so great, either. Beginning in 1999, Williams' rushing yardage totals are 884 in '99, 1,000 in 2000, 1,245 in '01, 1,853 in '02, and 1,352 in '03. His yards-per-carry averages are 3.5, 4.0, 4.0, 4.8 and 3.5, respectively.
Which year stands out there?
Ricky isn't the first running back in NFL history to have one big year and then fall back, and he isn't the last, either. Thirty different backs in NFL history have increased their per-carry averages by at least a half-a-yard from one season to the next (with a minimum of 250 carries in both years); and in year three, the per-carry yardage of those backs dropped on average three-quarters of a yard.
Only two of those running backs improved in year three: Tomlinson in 2003, and Thurman Thomas in 1991. Tomlinson couldn't get away with two straight years of big-time improvement, though. His per-carry average dropped last season from 5.3 to 3.9 yards.
This trend also hit Jamal Lewis and Ahman Green, who dropped from 5.3 yards per carry to 4.5 (Green) and 4.3 (Lewis).
The other excuse made for Williams' poorer 2003 numbers is that he couldn't be held responsible for the Dolphins' weak offensive line. But is Miami's offensive line any better now than it was in 2002? Saban has been snapping up every
lineman on the free agent market in preparation for his revolutionary new 7-0 alignment, but the Dolphins have added just two players Stockar McDougle and Damion Cook to last year's horrible offensive line.
That's right, Cook a backup guard from that legendary blocking juggernaut, the 2004 Cleveland Browns.
Dirt, Ricky -- you better get acquainted, you're going to be spending a lot of time together.
Miami marched a parade of career backups onto the field last year in an ongoing attempt to find some sort of running game. Only two Dolphins backs carried the ball at least 100 times, Travis Minor and Sammy Morris. Together, they managed 911 yards on 241 carries with seven rushing touchdowns. If you're counting at home, that means that Minor and Morris averaged three-tenths of a yard
per carry than Ricky did the year before. They managed a touchdown every 34 carries, while Ricky needed an average of 44 carries for every one of his touchdowns in 2003.
So is Ricky going to be an improvement on last year's Miami running backs? Sure, if you count Brock Forsey.
And knock it off with that "Ricky Williams gets stronger later in games" nonsense. In 2003, Williams averaged 3.7 yards per carry in the first halves of games, and 3.4 yards per carry in the second halves. In his good year, 2002, Ricky averaged 5.0 yards per carry in the first halves of games & and 4.7 yards per carry in the second halves.
The only advantage that Ricky gave to Miami in 2003 was the fear factor. He was considered a serious enough running threat that opposing coaches game-planned against him, which freed things up for the Dolphins' passing game. But after his drop-off in 2003 and no football whatsoever in 2004, do you think Bill Belichick is going to worry about stacking the line to stop Ricky? Will Mike Mularkey worry? Or Herman Edwards?
Comeback Ricky won't even be a good fantasy football player, because he's going to be at best part of a running-back-by-committee situation. Actually, fantasy fans should pray that he stays retired, because he'll only ruin No. 1 draft pick Ronnie Brown's value by cutting into his carries. Trying to play "Guess the Miami back" every week is going to be about as much fun as it was to try to figure out which back the Broncos were going to use during one of Terrell Davis' comeback attempts. To this day, there are fantasy football junkies who can't say the name "Mike Shanahan" without cursing afterward.
"It just might make sense [for the Dolphins] to have Williams now," Mueller wrote last month. "With Brown, they have an option. They have insurance against Williams going AWOL again, and they have peace of mind ... We all saw how risky it is to have Ricky as your only option."
If Ricky comes back, his only value will come in helping to keep Brown fresh. And to be honest, Sammy Morris can do that job just as well. But hey, if Brown is feeling a little bummed out now that the veteran itching for a comeback might be cutting into his playing time, I think I know somebody with whom he can commiserate.
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Thailand, Muslim militants agree to peace talks
The BRN is one of several separatist movements that have made public calls for a separate state in Thailand's Muslim-dominated south. It is unclear how many groups of insurgents the Thai authorities intend to bring in.
"This is a welcome development," said Srisompob Jitpiromsri, a political scientist at Prince of Songkla University in Thailand. "Not only that it is the first time the Thai government recognized the status of a separatist group, but also the process has included Malaysia as the facilitator of the talks, which will likely draw more participants in the peace process."
Other experts argue that bringing more insurgents to the negotiating table will not be easy.
"There are several groups who would like to talk to the Thai authorities, but they won't come out because the Thai government cannot guarantee their safety. What they want is amnesty, which the Thai government can't promise," said Panitan Wattanayagorn of Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok.
"The insurgents, too, will have to talk among themselves before making any decisions," he said. "So it is not clear that we will see a decline in the incidents in the near future."
Other groups fighting in southern Thailand include the Pattani United Liberation Organization, which has made public calls for a separate state.
In the past decade, Malaysia has also brokered negotiations between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the largest Muslim rebel group in the southern Philippines.
That has so far resulted in a preliminary peace pact signed in October to grant minority Muslims in the southern Philippines broad autonomy in exchange for ending more than 40 years of violence that has killed tens of thousands of people and crippled development.
Malaysia's government has repeatedly said it wants to see a peaceful resolution to its neighbors' conflicts and has denied funding, arming or providing any other support to militants.
Doksone reported from Bangkok.
The Associated Press